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Hahahaa, Rush have a massive back catalogue but in my opinion the stuff from Moving Pictures and BEFORE, pisses all over the later stuff.

Cue Levi to argue that ;-)

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Just getting into Cheap Trick recently, they have mnade some cracking stuff

I only stumbled upon them after hearing surrender in a movie pretty recently myself. It's quality when you can stumble upon a a band you haven't really heard of and finding out that half their back catalogue is really good stuff. I may even give that "Rush" lot a try when I get bored of cheap trick. Apparently Rush are actually a real band and were not just made up for the movie "I love you man" :shock:

detroit rock city played it. i've seen them live!!! and rush is AWESOME!

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Ninette - 'Push A Little Button'

Tony Hatchtastic.

A review from the US called Tony Hatch the 'British Bacharach'.

So in the UK that makes Burt Bacharach the American Tony Hatch.

:winkold:

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Ninette - 'Push A Little Button'

Tony Hatchtastic.

A review from the US called Tony Hatch the 'British Bacharach'.

So in the UK that makes Burt Bacharach the American Tony Hatch.

:winkold:

The yoof of VT won't have a clue who either are

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Hahahaa, Rush have a massive back catalogue but in my opinion the stuff from Moving Pictures and BEFORE, pisses all over the later stuff.

Cue Levi to argue that ;-)

I'll bite...

Rush suffers from the syndrome known as "follow-up to their biggest hit record had very little redeeming quality thus making people think that everything after that record sucked." I blame Signals* on the classic mistake by bands of staying with a producer for one album too many (cf. Metallica/Bob Rock/St. Anger).

That said, out of my favorite Rush albums, there's a general bias towards the post Moving Pictures output... the indispensables, IMO:

2112

Permanent Waves

Moving Pictures

Grace Under Pressure

Hold Your Fire

Roll the Bones

Counterparts

Vapor Trails

p/g is the turning point in Rush's sound... the modern Lifeson sound makes its first full appearance as does the modern Peart blended electronic/acoustic percussion style.

I'd recommend Counterparts as the gateway record: it's mostly straightforward hard rock. Cut to the Chase (I suspect that this is the best song inspired by the drummer getting a parasitic infection while cycling in Africa), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6D4mxbUnmg, with a few excursions elsewhere like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_saheuIIjQ, Alien Shore, and the best Journey song EVAR, plus unquestionably, the best rock instrumental http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXLtEQBrW1Q. And the liner notes are excellent (even if they steal some gags from, erm pay homage to, Pink Floyd's A Nice Pair).

As for Cheap Trick, two points:

# There's Gonna Raise Hell and then there's everything else

# Geddy Lee of Rush has commented that if they kept John Rutsey (RIP) in the band, Rush would probably have ended up sounding a lot like Cheap Trick

*: which for all intents and purposes is a pile of shit...

and
rival
and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51LNpkf3Ihc, and

for the title of most embarrassingly bad Rush track; the other tracks are all salvaged a bit by their live forms.

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Jeff Beck and David Gilmour-Jerusalem live instrumental(bootleg)-

A match made in rock n roll heaven , this interlude of flowing guitar utopia between the fantastic yet contrasting styles of Jeff Beck and Floyd's Gilmour is a perfect match- Beck's tehnical maestro style with Gilmour's dreamy hypnotic waves of guitar sounds.

Amazing

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