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Welcome to our Rush extravaganza!

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Welcome to Signals from Mars!

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This is Victor, and this is our Rush albums countdown.

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Man, I've already been receiving all types of comments about whether an album should be ranked here or there or someplace else.

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Check out the episode next, see if you agree with the voting.

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I'm ready. Let's do it!

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The Rush fanbase is very passionate. If you've ever listened to this show, and you know our lovely panelist, guest Johan Edström from Sweden, he is very passionate about his Rush.

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He's not the only one. There's plenty of people that have reached out to me or made comments online about, hey, this album should be in the top 10. That's nonsense.

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There's no way that this album shouldn't be this place or the other place.

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So if you're a fan of Rush, if you're checking this episode out for the very first time, how this all goes down is that I ask people to vote. I have them submit their 10 favorite albums, in this case by Rush.

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And then I tally the votes up. And what I do is if an album is number one, it gets 10 points. Number two gets nine points. All the way down to the 10th album on the list, that gets one point.

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For all the jokers that say, well, in no particular order, well, whatever order you sent it in and I see first, whichever album I see first, that's your number one.

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So I compile the list and this is what we have. This episode is what we have. It is us discussing Rush.

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And there's, as I mentioned during the episode, there's a lot of different kind of story arcs, different time periods within the band that make it unique and special.

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And I don't want to give too much more away besides that.

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But this episode was fun, was fun to do. I will confess to not being the hugest Rush fan in the world, but I love talking about music.

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And I loved going back and rediscovering a lot of the music, which made me love this band. Yeah, I'm not the hugest fan, but I still love a lot of their music.

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So it's fun to connect with people and just talk about bands. And I'm the type of person that I can watch a documentary, for example, and not enjoy a band and come out wanting to listen to the band or gain a certain sense of respect for them.

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And with this, it's no different. I mean, I always mention this. These are just discussions about music amongst friends. And it's a lot of fun. It's a lot of fun to go back, rediscover or check out a band for the first time for some people.

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And hopefully this episode does that. And it doesn't mean that everyone has to love them. Doesn't mean that everyone has to enjoy what they've done over the years.

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But it's still a fun, fun discussion. So this episode does contain some of my patrons. It does include Anthony Mackie. It does include Johan, who I mentioned. It includes metal Dan and the Brad doll as well as Mike Jones.

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Outside of them, I do want to say thanks to Sean Richmond, Chris Sinczak, Tony Espin, who was in the chat for a little bit there, Ed Ferguson, who couldn't join us, Jose and Gabriel in Connecticut and New Jersey, respectfully.

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Another person in New Jersey for now, Mr. Chris Vaglio.

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And who else? Jeremy Weltman, who was at a show seeing Livewire and ACDC Tribute Band, which he gave excellent reviews for.

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Steve Hoker and Mr. Steven Saylor. So thank you guys for all of your support. You can become a patron for as little as two bucks a month and appear during these shows if you so choose to.

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You can vote for upcoming episodes, upcoming lists just by following on social media and submitting your list that way.

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That's all, folks. Let's get on with the countdown.

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Welcome one and all to the May 10th edition of Signals from Mars. If you've been under a rock and you haven't been following the show, tonight is our rush countdown.

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Let me go around the horn and introduce our illustrious guests tonight.

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Fresh off of M3.

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We have Mike Jones in New Jersey. How are you, Mike?

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Doing great, Victor. How about yourself?

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Doing excellent.

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Out on the West Coast, we have Metal Dan. Dan, how are you?

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Hello, Victor. Cockroach Angels.

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There you go.

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With his bucket hat and also fresh off of M3.

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Mr. YargMetal, YargMetal.com. Brad Doll. Brad, how are you?

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Fantastic.

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Wow.

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Can I just say something about somebody on this panel? Actually, everybody here is awesome. This guy right here, if you ever need a wingman to go to a show with, that's the guy.

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Okay. I had more fun hanging out with him and yeah, good times.

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It was a great two days.

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It's awesome that you guys had the time to spend together like that and you just didn't bust a quick hello out.

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All right. And last but not least, the Rush Connoisseur, Johan, I dare not pronounce his name from Sweden.

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Please try. Please try.

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I don't have it spelled in front of me. Wait, I can find it. Where is it?

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No, I know. It's okay, Victor. Edestrom in Swedish, Edestrom in English.

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We can mispronounce both of those. Edestrom.

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Why? Oh, excellent, Brad. Excellent.

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Well, that's because he's Norwegian. Yeah, I know.

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He's Norwegian. So he's got, you know, his tongue places itself in the right spots.

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Anyway, all right. So we're here to talk about Rush.

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Rush have 19 studio albums and every album was voted on at least once.

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So what we're going to do is we're going to recap real quickly, 19 through 11.

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And then we'll take our time with 10 through one.

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But at 19, it is more than one little victory.

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It is Vapor Trail.

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Wait, wait, wait, wait. I have a question before we go on.

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Okay. Who here prefers the remixed version of Vapor Trails than the regular one?

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I know what you mean, Brad.

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I heard the album when it was new with the original mix.

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And for me, that's normal.

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I know the mix is bad, but it's like Born Again with Black Sabbath.

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So good songs on that album. Very good songs.

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It's part of the ambiance.

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It's kind of surprised me, but is what it is.

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Hold your fire.

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We need to make a drinking game out of this.

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Every time Johan exclaims, we need to throw one back.

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The one that does not have the man on Mike Jones' t-shirt.

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It is the self-titled debut.

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From Rush.

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My number one and my favorite.

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Great album.

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So any surprises for you guys that any of those did not crack the top 10?

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Johan, obviously, hold your fire.

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That's a really underrated album for me.

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Great songs.

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And I think it's a soundtrack to the 80s as a lot of those albums that they made during that period.

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Hold your fire is, I don't know, it's one of my favorite albums.

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Perhaps it's soft, perhaps it's a little bit not so much rock, but I think there is songs in that album like, I mean, Mission, Prime Mover.

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Greatly underrated album.

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But I think I wasn't a Rush fan back then, but when they toured US, Canada, they had a great big audiences for that album, if I'm not mistaken.

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It was a big album.

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But it has gotten a lot of bad attention after years.

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Yeah, I think more than anything, like with a lot of other bands and just trends that come along, a lot of people say, oh, well, those are the albums where they use keyboards.

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It's like, well, they use keyboards going all the way back to the 70s, all the way up to the end of their career.

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They just kind of pigeonholed them because they were a 70s band and they wanted to bring in bands from the 80s and kind of bring in a fresher.

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Whatever they wanted to give Maiden and Priest and Scorpions and these bands more of a push at the time, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, so on and so forth.

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And they wanted to push Rush out of the way.

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They were still doing good at their shows, as you mentioned, Johan, because people were there for the bread and butter.

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What people had become to love from the band.

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And the band was looking to do different things, I think.

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So, you know, being the band that they are, they were never a band that searched out radio hits.

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I mean, that was till the end. They got on the radio due to the strength of of how good their music was.

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I mean, they weren't selling, as you're saying, they weren't selling anything for some for some of these albums, even the ones that came after this.

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But their shows are packed. They still had a diehard audience that was that was following them.

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And it's funny because a lot of these albums, I remember as they came out, I mentioned the press, though I mentioned Test for Echo and Counterparts and even Vapor Trails.

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When they came out, I remember people being super stoked about them being, oh, this is the old Rush back again and and so on.

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And years later, it's funny how a lot of people with revisionist history don't give you that same kind of opinion on those albums.

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Personally, I do think that probably their last two albums, Clockwork Angels and Snakes and Arrows are two great albums that unfortunately are overlooked by the general public.

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And these albums are probably a lot more solid than some of these other albums that came before it and probably closer to kind of what got the band on a lot of people's radar.

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But a lot of it has to do with what we've talked about in the past.

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The producer was Nick Raska-Linnox, a huge fan of the band, who wanted the band to be Rush.

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He didn't want the band to be Dream Theater, didn't want them to be, you know, he didn't want them to jump on the coattails of another band that was popular, that was influenced by them.

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So he kind of got them back to where they needed to be in a lot of instances.

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But I think that's why, I think like everything else, there's stigmas with people saying, oh, well, you know, Hold Your Fire wasn't a good album because it was the keyboard album, because it was this, because it was that.

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But it really wasn't.

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It's the shit that people were just being fed instead of people sitting down and listening to the album and figuring out if they liked it or not. They kind of went with the flow and decided to pan it.

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Because, I mean, one last thing before we jump into the top ten. I don't see that Hold Your Fire varies that much from some of the other 80s albums that were a lot more popular than what's on that album.

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I mentioned this before, the track that's gotten the most airplay in the US of all time, I would figure is Tom Sawyer. But it's actually New World Man.

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And that's a track straight out of the 80s.

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So, go figure.

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All right. So, anyone else want to touch on any of those albums?

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No, I mean, as far as my personal ranking went, I went ahead and did all 19 because I'm OCD and my wife is a huge Rush fan so I had to satisfy her curiosity as well.

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But of those mentioned, I think Power or Clockwork Angels was the only one that hit my top ten. So, you know, it feels pretty much in line with my view as well.

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Excellent. So, let's jump on into the top ten.

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At ten is Roll the Bones.

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Again, this is an album that when it came out, I remember a lot of people saying, wow, it's them back to their rock roots, it's them being a little heavier.

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This is, I hope I'm not screwing this up, but I believe it's Roll the Bones, then Presto, then Vapor Trails, if I'm not mistaken.

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Presto came before Roll the Bones.

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Presto came before Roll the Bones.

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All right. So, that was kind of the kickoff of them kind of quote unquote becoming rock again.

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I think that the band has kind of gone in cycles where they've had like three or four albums that have, you can kind of interchange them, because it's almost as if they were doing their own story arcs.

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You know, I think Presto, Roll the Bones, Counterparts, and Vapor Trails are kind of like an extended photo album between those four albums.

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They kind of, at least to me, it feels like while they were recording and writing those albums, they were kind of influenced by the same stuff, and those four kind of follow the same flow.

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But anyway, Roll the Bones, who wants to talk about this album?

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I can talk about any album.

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First of all, I like this album. It's well produced as every Rush album is. Great songs.

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The opening track, Dreamline, is an all-time favorite. The lyrics, the music, it's fantastic.

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And Bravado, amazing song, if you haven't heard it, check it out.

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Neil writes great lyrics.

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Easy lyrics, but good. Speaks to you.

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So, this album is great, but not one of my biggest favorites, but the big songs are huge, and perhaps the not so big songs I don't listen to that much anymore.

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Anyone else who has any comments on that album, or perhaps have seen them on this tour?

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On the tour.

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What?

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With Primus' opening act?

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With Clayton.

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That was a big tour.

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Yeah, yeah, I know, I know.

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That was a tour.

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I think that was the last tour I saw them, though. That's where I kind of stopped.

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Did you stop because of this show, or did you say, they can't get better than this, I'm done?

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I think I, yeah, I think I peaked. I'd seen Rush enough times, and then my wife, she was actually liked them more. She would go with her side of the family, and go to the shows, and I'd say, see ya.

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So yeah, I think I, at that point, I had had enough. But that's just, it's nothing against Rush. It's just a kind of a been there, done that, because I'd seen about five of the tours.

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Right? Yeah.

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I think that's fair enough. Yeah.

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I gotta say, I'd kind of drifted from buying their stuff and spent a lot of time listening to them, until this album. When this album came out, it brought me back in.

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I think the quality of the songs is just incredible. I love the way it sounds. I think Getty's singing is, it's in a range that is actually really nice to listen to.

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I mean, even Shelly, my wife, who doesn't really care for early Rush because of his voice, she loves this album. And she'll always be like, yeah, let's listen to that.

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So this album was huge for me. And again, I think just across the board, it's a really, really solid album. I can listen to the whole thing and not skip anything, and have fun with it. It's fun to play bass along with, too.

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We are also joined by Anthony Mackie. Anthony, hope you're doing well today.

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All good.

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Awesome.

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Mike, go ahead. It seems like you've been holding back this whole time. You've been about to talk and then someone else has interjected. So go ahead.

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I mean, it's the Johann show, really. We're all just here to support.

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No, I'm here to hear your memories from Rush, because you have probably more than me. So go ahead.

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I was fortunate enough to see this show live as well. And yeah, it was a great one. I think that was my third in a row. I think it started with Hold Your Fire, so 87, 88, somewhere in there, and then caught most of them from there on out for the rest of their career.

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So it was, you know, love this album myself. You know, all the songs are accessible. None of them are epic 20-minute songs. They're all reasonable length. So good ones to go in various mixes or to listen, start to finish, either way. Big fan.

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And this year, this time period, I was looking back, like, when's the best time of my life? And it was, you know, about 87 through 92. I think those are the best years of concerts coming through constantly. You could see, you know, pretty much any band coming through. There was a show practically every night in the Los Angeles, Orange County area, you know, with the Bon Jovis and I don't know who else and Rat and whatever. You know, it was just there. It was available.

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Queen, you know, whatever. It was great time. Sorry.

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No, that's fine. That, that, I mean, any, any story like that is always cool to throw in there because I mean, it does give you a sense of what was going on at the time and how all this kind of pieces together and fits in.

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So, all right, cool. At number nine.

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We have

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ahead, Johan.

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This is my number one.

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Okay. Yeah, power windows is.

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For me, the soundtrack of the 80s. It's the perfect 80s album. It's very, very much synthesizers. It's very cold. The songs are great.

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Easy to listen to.

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For me, every song is almost a hit. So, if you haven't checked that out, you should. It's so great.

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Get it placed at heavy English base. I don't know how he does it at the same time as it plays keyboard and synthesizer on his feet, but it's it's a masterpiece. I don't I know that Alex Lifesome wasn't that pleased at that time because he wasn't getting enough space.

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But the creativity of the band was not at the top. But to me, at the top, but I think they peaked here. This is the peak from the 80s rush.

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Moving pictures started the 80s movement and power windows is the peak. So, this is.

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I love this album.

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Thank you.

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Okay. Anyone else on power windows.

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Why.

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Because you know, on you, you said it so eloquently.

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I really don't have much to add.

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It's a very good sounding out.

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There you go.

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All right.

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At number eight.

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The Spheres.

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wants to touch upon this one.

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I can talk about any of them.

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That one's too early for me that's 78 that's that's way before I was listening to rush.

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I was almost way before I was born, but I think this is the first song.

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The Cygnus, you know, the song that covers the whole a side. I don't listen to that song a lot. But circumstances, the trees and la via San Gato are three of Russia's most amazing songs ever made.

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I think that's why rush have sold almost 50 million albums.

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Those three songs songs are very important.

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So, yeah.

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It's, it's interesting how I mean with this and with other albums how they would just go ahead and do one long composition for one entire album side.

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And given their popularity.

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I've never heard anyone that's a fan of the band complain about that.

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No, why would you, it's what it's what you want.

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But I mean I think that you have a lot of fickle music fans out there that would come out of the woodworks to say oh well you know this is boring because it's 18 minutes long and it's this or that.

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I mean, there's, there's pieces of what they have what they did here and their complete songs that have been that were staples of theirs up until the end, coming off of here.

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And it was, they did a 40th anniversary reissue not that long ago.

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I think the thing if you look at what came before this I mean I bought this album on vinyl when it first came out.

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And I loved it I mean they pretty much set it up with 20 you know starting with 2112 that hey we're going to have, you know, album sides that are going to be one song and I mean, the precedent was set.

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One with all the previous albums doing four or five minute songs. And that's it and then came to this I could see them losing people, but it is as Anthony so eloquently said that's what you want that's what the people wanted at this time.

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They wanted to hear this I think farewell to Kings wasn't quite as epic.

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As a lot of the fans wanted.

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This album, this album checked all those boxes and again, it's, it's a good lesson.

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Absolutely. Yeah, I mean it's you know it's 18 minutes songs but they're a dynamic 18 minutes it's it's movements it's like, you know, listen to a symphony.

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It's like those waxes and wanes and it takes you up and down with with the changes to the sound it's not a boring 18 minutes it's not just repetition and I think that's the key to, you know, putting out music like that that is still accessible.

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Make sense.

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This is trees was the first song I ever heard.

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Okay.

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Where did you hear it.

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compilation album.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I still love it. I think I think that was a good, a good first song. Yeah.

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It's interesting as well because it isn't, quote unquote a radio hit.

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Whereas, a lot of their.

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Here's the thing, and I think, Johan mentioned it before each album has big songs on it.

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They've, they've been able to.

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And this is why I think as a touring band they've been able to throw in new music was play the classics as well. They have, they never.

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They have a real nostalgia act. I don't think the only time that they really ever did a any nostalgia type.

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Or was when they celebrated their 30th anniversary, where that was just strictly greatest hits.

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But trees has always been a staple in their live show.

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And you get trees or passage to Bangkok stuff like that where a lot of people would consider double that's a B side well to a rush fan that was kind of commonplace that was that would still one of the it's still part of the bread and butter behind the band.

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Cool. All right. So, hemispheres was eight.

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Seven.

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Grace.

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Under pressure.

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Again this this to me is one of those that if we're talking about cycles to me grace on their pressure power windows and hold your fire kind of that are they had the

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you on you were saying that to you it kind of started with moving pictures though.

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Grace under pressure what's what's your take on that album.

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One of the best, of course.

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Surprise.

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That I think I listen to the most together with power windows.

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It's

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great album.

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No weak songs.

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I like the sound of it it's very 80s course, they still have some more early it is of the star movement in it, but

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very, I can't say the English words but it's like it sounds very cold, as most of the band did during the 80s.

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After the war.

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The guys themselves were not happy with this records they thought it was badly produced.

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Absolutely amazing.

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That's, that's funny because they worked with all Northfield on this album I mean he wasn't the producer.

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But he did quite a bit of work with the band over the years.

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So, I guess he's credited for synthesizer programming.

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All right, but he's done. I mean he's engineered and mixed other albums, which is actually done a lot worked on permanent waves as his left moving pictures signals.

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I mentioned the show of hands.

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And I think that maybe with the mix they still worked with somebody repeatedly over the years, who was somewhat involved in it, although yeah for that album it says synthesizer programming.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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I have read a little bit too many rush books.

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Is that possible.

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Yeah.

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It's interesting to note that this is the first album that Terry Brown, you know that they they parted with him on.

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Not, not badly or anything I think they just want to try something different. And they just couldn't find a producer.

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They ended up doing all the pre production, just the band without any outside help.

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So, yeah, it's kind of interesting to hear that they're they're not happy with the way it turned out. No, they weren't.

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So I wonder if that.

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So, well, they were really happy about the music videos though.

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They use the same video producer as Apple did for someone their early computers. So you can tell that if you watch the video.

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Cool.

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The rush books that you're reading are they in Swedish or they in English.

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Okay.

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Do they have lots of pictures for Victor so if he wanted to try to read it.

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No, I have a lot.

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I have all Niels books of course, as well.

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I will profess to not be the greatest reader in the world, although I did read a hundred page book in four days, a few weeks back and I read my very first book in Spanish.

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After that, so there you go.

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While we're talking about other things that are not.

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Oh, this is excellent. So I had this all set up before we started the show and it now disappeared.

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As soon as I saw Mr Mackey.

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I wanted to talk about his great logo.

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So, if you are so inclined to want to support the show, we have some nice merch.

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And we have two new pieces of merch,

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which I mentioned the last time we have.

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Since we have a kind of a great out logo. I've, I've named it the distressed logo and have a distressed woman's premium v-neck shirt.

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And we have a distressed classic pullover hoodie now. When I set this up originally you could see the planet more and for some reason with the screenshot that I took today.

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It's hardly visible, but I'm assuming that that gets printed on as well. So I will see it in a few days.

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That design. It was designed to go on black. So I don't know you're going to see it as much on gray. I'm sure you still will.

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Yeah, but not as much.

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Okay.

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We do have the Brad bucket hat.

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It's it's been concert tested.

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I got I got so many compliments about it.

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I can vouch for its effectiveness.

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It's dirt. It was raining held up in the rain.

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It's still it travel you put it in your suitcase or whatever comes out looking fresh as a daisy.

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And, and yeah, don't go to sleep on the beautiful graphics.

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You can't go wrong with this.

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So, moving on here.

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At number six.

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Let's see.

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buzzing here I gotta mute some of the other stuff here anyway.

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At number six.

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All right.

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All right.

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All right. Who wants to touch on this album.

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Go ahead, Mike.

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That's my number two. So, big, big fan.

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So this hurts a little bit to be as far down a little bit for me personally.

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I think I'm going to say Xanadu, one of the greatest epic rush songs of all time.

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Closer to the heart, Cygnus X, like, just awesome awesome songs.

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I can listen to this song album every day and not get sick of it. Just amazing.

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Okay.

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Anyone else.

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I'll chime in here.

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When this album came out.

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Of course we bought it.

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Listen to it. The production was quite different than the previous albums.

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Everything was kind of on the dry side and I know they recorded this over in England, I believe.

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Where's Jeremy when you need him.

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They recorded in Wales.

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Wales. Oh, I apologize.

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Wales.

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First, this is the first time I saw Rush was on this tour.

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Headlining the Santa Monica Civic.

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Wow.

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And UFO warming up on their, let's see, lights out tour.

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And this is the first time they really, well, they brought the keyboards on stage and the pedals and all that.

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And it was an impressive event to watch them, well, mostly watch Getty do all that stuff.

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But it just didn't, I don't know, at the time it just kind of landed a little soft for me.

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I like it much better now. It's aged very well for me.

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But at the time it wasn't. Yeah, that's the problem when you're young and you're a fan.

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You kind of have an idea of what you want the band to do.

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And when they don't do that, you're like, crap. And I think that's kind of where I was at at the time.

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But I think it's a great album.

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Johan, what do you think of the album?

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Well, obviously I was just close to being born when it was released.

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I think it's great. Good songs.

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It's, for me, it's a part of the journey to become the band that I love.

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It's like the prequel to Hemispheres. So it's good, but not perfection.

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OK, cool. So before we jump on into the top five here, let me just recap 10 through 6.

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At 10 we had Roll the Bones. At 9 we had Power Windows.

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At 8 we had Hemispheres. At 7 we had Grace Under Pressure.

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And at 6 we had a Farewell to Kings.

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Up next, this album has been already mentioned by more than one of you.

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It is 2112.

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Question to Brad. Was there ever anyone saying that they were satanic due to the album cover?

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Oh, hell yeah. Yeah. You've got to remember back in the 70s, I mean, it was hard to go to a rock concert

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and not have a bunch of Bible thumpers out there with megaphones yelling at you

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and telling you you're going to hell and all that kind of stuff, which of course I thrived on.

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I was like, bring it, boys. Bring it.

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Yeah, so there was plenty. Oh, yeah, people went nuts over that album cover.

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So yeah, the answer is yes. OK, definitely Satan. Definitely Satan influenced.

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All right. Who wants to talk about the album itself?

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I will. Everybody's not jumping at this one. This is my number one.

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My address here is 2114 and I was going to try to change it, you know, go to the county.

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But you know what a hassle that is because I thought wouldn't it be cool to live at 2112 something, you know?

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That'd be great to have a street address, but it ain't going to happen.

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So anyway, this is the very first Rush album I ever heard.

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Picked it up based on I'm not sure what it was.

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It certainly wasn't the kimonos on the back. I mean, that looked a little bit squirrely,

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you know, because I was looking for hard rock.

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But I think I heard something somewhere about these guys being a really hard rock band.

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So got it. And yeah, totally, totally blown away.

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Because the first thing you hear is 2112, whole side one of the album.

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And that to me is like one of the greatest songs ever written.

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It's just unbelievable. I feel like the whole side, too, is just B sides.

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I mean, because it's the B side of the album and there's some great, great songs on that side as well.

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And so this album to me, this is what this is what got me into Rush.

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And everything else was measured against it until I got older

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and realized that you should just take each album based on its own merits.

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Yeah, it's interesting how much side one got played on on US radio.

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That is incredible. I mean, because it's how let me see. How long is it?

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Twenty minutes, twenty minutes, thirty four seconds.

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And up until when I lived in the States in the early 2000s, this still got radio play where it was amazing

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how you couldn't get a four minute song on the radio, but Rush was getting a 20 minute plus song on the radio.

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It's the ultimate peace song for the DJ. Actually, this is more probably the poops on.

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Put it on and go. Bingo. That was on my card.

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You're going to have to throw that on a T-shirt to put it on and go.

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There you go. Anyway, all right. 2112. Who else?

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This was the second Rush self I heard not long after Hearing Trees.

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One of my older brothers got I think maybe a real tape or a taped tape of this.

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Oh, wow. And we used to listen to it in my parents' van on long journeys.

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That's my memory of it. Anyway, off of one of those tape recorders that are flat, they lie down.

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Yeah. And it would be played on that. So like mono. Cool.

415
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:32,000
And I just remember being in on long journeys at night and, you know, the whole section where he finds the guitar

416
00:48:32,000 --> 00:48:43,000
just sort of echoing around this transit van driving at night. That's my memory of this.

417
00:48:43,000 --> 00:48:53,000
You know, and when you're probably 13 or something, you know, it's quite impressive.

418
00:48:53,000 --> 00:48:57,000
You know, you feel very grown up listening to something like that.

419
00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:08,000
And yeah, so that's 2112 was basically it for a long time for as far as Rush was concerned.

420
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:13,000
Right. My older brother got ex-says left later on.

421
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:21,000
But yeah, like we were we were happy enough with just that.

422
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:25,000
So wait a second. So Anthony, let me get this right. You're on a trip.

423
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:28,000
Were you playing this out loud or did you have headphones?

424
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:34,000
Oh, no, this is before the days of headphones. Like we'd be in the vehicle.

425
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:36,000
No, they would. They would have been driving it.

426
00:49:36,000 --> 00:49:41,000
But they could hear it. Yeah. They weren't like. No, they were cool.

427
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:48,000
So we had a we used to travel around in a van with the whole family in the back.

428
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:52,000
I think you might have the coolest parents ever then. Well done.

429
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:58,000
Well, they might not be able to hear it because it was just on this little tape recorder.

430
00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:06,000
But OK, you know, I'm a memory and maybe I'm sort of misremembering this, but it was it's a memory that's always stuck with me.

431
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:14,000
It's a great memory. Yeah, that's that's very cool.

432
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:20,000
Anyone else with 2112?

433
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:26,000
Johan, you're saying no. You mean you're turning down the ability to talk about a Rush album?

434
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:39,000
Well, a lot to be said, so I don't have so much memories of that album.

435
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:44,000
I listened to it, of course, a lot afterwards.

436
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:55,000
And I love the Tyler tracks and Side A, but that's not an album that I go back to a lot.

437
00:50:55,000 --> 00:51:01,000
OK. Yeah, that's the way it is.

438
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:14,000
I think it is an interesting contrast to having 2112 on Side One and then a whole bunch of three minute some odd songs on Side Two, you know, just to fill the space.

439
00:51:14,000 --> 00:51:21,000
A passage to Bangkok. Of course, I've seen live, but it's a good song.

440
00:51:21,000 --> 00:51:27,000
Yeah, that's the way it is now.

441
00:51:27,000 --> 00:51:33,000
I like 80s Rush. Yes.

442
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:43,000
All right. Real quick hello to Tony, who is in our chat. Hope you are doing well tonight, sir.

443
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:53,000
All right. So at number four, you find the right album cover.

444
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:58,000
It is fly by night.

445
00:51:58,000 --> 00:52:05,000
How is that number four?

446
00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:11,000
You can't step on over step all over Johan's part.

447
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:14,000
Oh, sorry.

448
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:16,000
I'm not I'm not screaming that it should be higher.

449
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,000
I'm just like, you know, OK, go ahead.

450
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:21,000
You guys talk about this.

451
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,000
This is why it should be number four. Come on, bring it.

452
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:30,000
This is what always happens when we do these lists.

453
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,000
No one is ever 100 percent happy.

454
00:52:33,000 --> 00:52:40,000
And also, we have to take into consideration what lies ahead.

455
00:52:40,000 --> 00:52:49,000
Because of the fact that, you know, we've there's 19 albums we've already discussed what 15 of them.

456
00:52:49,000 --> 00:52:56,000
There has to be something that's, you know, that that.

457
00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:04,000
And I'll say this, the top three albums were clearly ahead of everything else.

458
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:10,000
The number one is a landslide. But anyway, fly by night.

459
00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:13,000
Why do you think it shouldn't be for Brad?

460
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:20,000
Well, I think the quality of the songs is just I mean, I think they were still figuring things out.

461
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:24,000
And so I just don't think the songs are that strong.

462
00:53:24,000 --> 00:53:27,000
I mean, I like the album. OK.

463
00:53:27,000 --> 00:53:36,000
But it's yeah, it's nothing. It's not one I would go. I want to put that album on this and the whole thing.

464
00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:41,000
OK, so I get it. You're saying it's too high as opposed to why isn't it higher?

465
00:53:41,000 --> 00:53:45,000
Correct. Yeah, this is the reverse. You're in effect. All right. All right. All right.

466
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:53,000
I I misunderstood you. I thought you were saying that you wanted this album to be higher.

467
00:53:53,000 --> 00:53:59,000
And now you're saying that it should be lower. OK, gotcha.

468
00:53:59,000 --> 00:54:05,000
And that is interesting because exactly what you said for a lot of people,

469
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:10,000
you know, the first album was them trying to be zeppelin.

470
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:16,000
The second album was kind of a more of them experimenting.

471
00:54:16,000 --> 00:54:25,000
I think for a lot of people, 2112 is probably the first.

472
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:33,000
Authentic Rush album is the album that saved them because I think they were about to get dropped after recording this album.

473
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:38,000
It didn't do very well at all. And 2112 saved the band.

474
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:44,000
So I don't like I said, convince me that it needs that it should be their fourth best album.

475
00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:50,000
Somebody tell me why you think it's that great because somebody had to vote for it higher than four for it to get the four.

476
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:55,000
Yeah, absolutely. Mike, it's a bad album.

477
00:54:55,000 --> 00:55:01,000
I mean, I like it, but I mean, I went by touring the Snow Dog, which I do like now.

478
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:07,000
At first, I was like, this is like a this is like eight minutes of noise.

479
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:19,000
So there's a song in there somewhere now. Now, like I said, I do I do enjoy it, but it's still it's a ridiculous event, in my opinion.

480
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,000
Go ahead, Mike. Yeah, I had this one.

481
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:32,000
You know, my 10 spot just from a nostalgia standpoint, this was actually the first out Rush album that I ever had personally picked it up.

482
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:37,000
Probably that's a that's a great reason to put it up in the top 79.

483
00:55:37,000 --> 00:55:42,000
It means something to you that the factor is is stronger in this one.

484
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:47,000
But to Brad's point, you know, the quality of the songs isn't quite there yet.

485
00:55:47,000 --> 00:56:00,000
So, yeah, it does feel a little high at four. But, you know, like, you know, it's like asking, you know, what's the worst chocolate you've ever had?

486
00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:04,000
You know, all chocolate is good. Come on.

487
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:08,000
It's all good. You know, 19 albums.

488
00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:13,000
They all have their their strong points. So not going to knock it.

489
00:56:13,000 --> 00:56:17,000
Johan, where did this album sit on your list?

490
00:56:17,000 --> 00:56:21,000
I don't think it were on my top 10.

491
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:26,000
But it's good. I like by Thorne the Snow Dog.

492
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:32,000
I'm best I can. But it's good.

493
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:36,000
But not not my rush yet.

494
00:56:36,000 --> 00:56:42,000
OK, Anthony, sum this album up in one sentence.

495
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:47,000
I listened to it the other day and I enjoyed it.

496
00:56:47,000 --> 00:56:56,000
That's perfect. Yeah, we should put that in a review somewhere. That's great.

497
00:56:56,000 --> 00:57:03,000
So let's see.

498
00:57:03,000 --> 00:57:18,000
Seventy five percent of the people that voted voted for this album, whether it was a high it was slotted higher or not. A lot of people voted for it.

499
00:57:18,000 --> 00:57:21,000
So that's ended up at four.

500
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:25,000
OK.

501
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:29,000
All right.

502
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:38,000
Number three.

503
00:57:38,000 --> 00:57:44,000
It is signals.

504
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:52,000
All right. Who wants to take signals on first?

505
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:59,000
I think Mike would agree with me. It should have been a greyhound on the cover, not a Dalmatian.

506
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:04,000
But it would have probably moved faster.

507
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:13,000
Yeah, I think for me, I think all of you wise, great album top to bottom.

508
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:23,000
You know, I mean, you've got subdivisions analog, digital man, New World Man, Countdown, some great, great songs to throw out.

509
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:27,000
Yeah, I think this is a very accessible album.

510
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:30,000
You know, nothing too extreme, nothing too out there.

511
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:35,000
So I can see the popularity of it definitely being out there.

512
00:58:35,000 --> 00:58:47,000
And, you know, no 20 minute epics here. So a little easier to listen.

513
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:53,000
It's Victor. Victor, didn't you say New World Man was the most played song of theirs?

514
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:58,000
Most played song on U.S. radio by the band.

515
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:01,000
Wow, that is unbelievable.

516
00:59:01,000 --> 00:59:06,000
That's cool. But I would not have picked that. I would think subdivisions.

517
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:11,000
I think I've heard that a lot more than New World Man, but maybe it just stood out more.

518
00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:16,000
Subdivisions is that's like one of their top 10 songs.

519
00:59:16,000 --> 00:59:27,000
Yeah, I think New World Man got a lot of airplay at the time when this album came out.

520
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:32,000
I don't recall if there was a video for it or not. I'm assuming that there was.

521
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:40,000
So, I mean, there's that MTV factor.

522
00:59:40,000 --> 00:59:44,000
Yeah, I'm okay. If you got a band, Anthony, back me up on this.

523
00:59:44,000 --> 00:59:48,000
And something's gone wrong with the drums and he's fixing his snare or whatever.

524
00:59:48,000 --> 00:59:49,000
And you got a keyboard up there.

525
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:57,000
If you started playing the keyboard part to subdivisions, everybody in the crowd would go nuts.

526
00:59:57,000 --> 00:59:59,000
It's true.

527
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:07,000
It depends. Are you at a Travis Scott show or what show are you at?

528
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:10,000
I think it would even go over to Travis Scott show.

529
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:13,000
I'm just talking about playing down the pub or something.

530
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:19,000
Yeah, it kind of shows that we do.

531
01:00:19,000 --> 01:00:28,000
I know for a fact because I've been in that position and the guys started playing on the keyboards and everybody in the crowd just like focused all of a sudden.

532
01:00:28,000 --> 01:00:36,000
It's like, yeah, you can play the rest of it. Unfortunately, the rest of us don't know this song, but we got nobody who can sing it.

533
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:52,000
So that's a problem. But I'm just telling you that keyboard riff is it'll it'll bring everybody in the audience on board for a moment.

534
01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:59,000
You know, hopefully that will be an upcoming show.

535
01:00:59,000 --> 01:01:06,000
You want spoilers, though.

536
01:01:06,000 --> 01:01:11,000
All right. Cool. Anyone else on signals?

537
01:01:11,000 --> 01:01:17,000
Yes, of course. It's an amazing album. Mike said it all.

538
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:29,000
Ten out of ten album all strong together. It's fantastic. Very inspired by the police, of course.

539
01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:36,000
But I think this album is amazing.

540
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:39,000
So many hit songs.

541
01:01:39,000 --> 01:01:49,000
I mean, subdivisions, if I listen to that, if I'm there in the right or say wrong mood, it still moves me today.

542
01:01:49,000 --> 01:01:55,000
It's absolutely amazing. I love this album.

543
01:01:55,000 --> 01:02:01,000
What moves you the most of that? Alex's vocals?

544
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:05,000
Alex, he does some vocals.

545
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:09,000
He does on the song subdivisions.

546
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:12,000
Yeah. Yeah.

547
01:02:12,000 --> 01:02:18,000
No, I think he's on the record.

548
01:02:18,000 --> 01:02:21,000
Yeah, that's him saying subdivisions.

549
01:02:21,000 --> 01:02:23,000
Yeah. Yeah.

550
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:25,000
All right. Is that true?

551
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:27,000
Yes, it is. One hundred percent.

552
01:02:27,000 --> 01:02:32,000
Watch it live.

553
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:40,000
Yeah. Rush do a lot of things live that nowadays it's yeah.

554
01:02:40,000 --> 01:02:48,000
But Alex's voice isn't that great in singing.

555
01:02:48,000 --> 01:02:53,000
But yeah, he does subdivisions. That's true.

556
01:02:53,000 --> 01:02:57,000
He no.

557
01:02:57,000 --> 01:03:02,000
What rush has one really good thing they do.

558
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:14,000
I think at Geddy, one of his strengths is to make the vocal lines in the verses.

559
01:03:14,000 --> 01:03:20,000
His melody line is often better than the chorus.

560
01:03:20,000 --> 01:03:28,000
I don't know if you guys have ever thought about it, but that's how I feel about them.

561
01:03:28,000 --> 01:03:36,000
They often do have a strong melody line in the verses.

562
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:40,000
In the vocal harmony.

563
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:42,000
My opinion. Yep.

564
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:44,000
No, no, no, that's fine.

565
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:51,000
Glad you brought it up because I'm sure that there are others that feel that same way.

566
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:57,000
Cool. So two albums left.

567
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:02,000
What order do you guys think this is in?

568
01:04:02,000 --> 01:04:07,000
Metal Dan, if you had to wager a bet.

569
01:04:07,000 --> 01:04:10,000
What do you think? Presto, presto.

570
01:04:10,000 --> 01:04:12,000
Yeah.

571
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:15,000
Okay.

572
01:04:15,000 --> 01:04:17,000
Mike, what do you think?

573
01:04:17,000 --> 01:04:21,000
I'm thinking moving pictures is going to be number one.

574
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:24,000
Okay.

575
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:28,000
Anthony. Yeah, I agree with Mike.

576
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:33,000
I can't actually think what could be number two.

577
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:40,000
I'm not deep in rush, but I'm, you know.

578
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:43,000
Number two is a huge album for them as well.

579
01:04:43,000 --> 01:04:46,000
They'll be permanent waves.

580
01:04:46,000 --> 01:04:50,000
Just by looking at the tracks on it as well.

581
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:58,000
Johan, what do you think? What's two and what's one?

582
01:04:58,000 --> 01:05:02,000
Johan can't hear you.

583
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:05,000
Feminine waves and moving pictures.

584
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:10,000
Okay.

585
01:05:10,000 --> 01:05:13,000
Brad, what do you think is two and one?

586
01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:18,000
It's going to be permanent waves and then, yeah, moving pictures.

587
01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:22,000
Okay. Well, we'll see.

588
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:26,000
We'll see if the voters have been a little strange with number two.

589
01:05:26,000 --> 01:05:31,000
So at number two.

590
01:05:31,000 --> 01:05:35,000
Number two.

591
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:38,000
All right.

592
01:05:38,000 --> 01:05:42,000
Number two.

593
01:05:42,000 --> 01:05:48,000
It is permanent waves.

594
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:50,000
Here's the thing with that.

595
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:54,000
You know, you try to think of.

596
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:58,000
As Anthony said, he couldn't think of what other album.

597
01:05:58,000 --> 01:06:05,000
You have an album that is spirit of radio, free will and Jacob's ladder.

598
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:12,000
Three huge songs for not only the band, but for again, US radio.

599
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:16,000
These at least two of the three got played every single day.

600
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:20,000
And Jacob's ladder got thrown in there every once in a while.

601
01:06:20,000 --> 01:06:27,000
At least in quote unquote modern US radio.

602
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:33,000
Permanent waves. Who wants to talk about this one?

603
01:06:33,000 --> 01:06:35,000
Go ahead, Dan.

604
01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:41,000
Oh, no, you were shutting the mic off. I thought you were turning it on. Okay.

605
01:06:41,000 --> 01:06:45,000
Dan Dan's been a little silent during this show. He needs to jump in there.

606
01:06:45,000 --> 01:06:47,000
Maybe he's waiting for number one.

607
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:52,000
Yeah, you know, I probably got this list all wrong and I don't know.

608
01:06:52,000 --> 01:07:01,000
I know that my most memorable rush moment was probably when Mr. Big actually opened on that Presto tour.

609
01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:04,000
Yeah, I remember that quite well.

610
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:10,000
You know, I saw, like I said, Russia a couple of times, but for some reason, you know, and then now Mr. Big is retiring.

611
01:07:10,000 --> 01:07:15,000
So it was a good connection package there with the bass players on that.

612
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:20,000
But that's nothing to do with moving pictures and these albums.

613
01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:26,000
So you did. You prefer Billy Sheehan to Les Claypool then?

614
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:28,000
Yeah, yeah, totally.

615
01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:33,000
Even though Primus is now going around doing Rush songs.

616
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:36,000
Yeah, that's cool. I wish Rush would do Rush songs.

617
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:42,000
I wish the two could, you know, there's no bad feelings.

618
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:47,000
I wish they could just carry on, you know, but they can't do it.

619
01:07:47,000 --> 01:07:58,000
Well, since I know that you don't read blabbermouth, one of the headlines this week was that they were kind of throwing songs around together

620
01:07:58,000 --> 01:08:03,000
and that they sound about as good as the worst Rush cover band out there.

621
01:08:03,000 --> 01:08:10,000
So the new Guitar World magazine has Alex has a new guitar line coming out.

622
01:08:10,000 --> 01:08:13,000
You know, they're still around. They're still heavy.

623
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:23,000
They're still likable and would sell a lot of tickets and they would do great for a Vegas residency and stuff like that.

624
01:08:23,000 --> 01:08:30,000
And, you know, I don't know. I realized the death of their drummer was a big deal to them.

625
01:08:30,000 --> 01:08:35,000
But carry on, you know, I don't know. That's it.

626
01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,000
OK.

627
01:08:37,000 --> 01:08:43,000
They have their reasons. You know, I can't change it, but I can see it as a fan.

628
01:08:43,000 --> 01:08:48,000
And yeah, you know, I wish I had probably seen a few of those tours that I ignored of theirs.

629
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:55,000
But, you know, like I said, I had my five years or so of shows and I was good and I had moved on.

630
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:59,000
But they're still relevant today. That's the thing I want to key on.

631
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:02,000
So back to you guys and go on mute.

632
01:09:02,000 --> 01:09:07,000
So so just just to play devil's advocate, Dan,

633
01:09:07,000 --> 01:09:15,000
my reason for not wanting them to do anything is all Rogers with Queen.

634
01:09:15,000 --> 01:09:18,000
All I'll say.

635
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:27,000
All right. Permanent Waves, who wants to talk about this one?

636
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:35,000
It's it. I mean, it's a great album, of course.

637
01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:43,000
And Spirit Radio is one of the best rock songs ever made.

638
01:09:43,000 --> 01:09:48,000
I think it's a happy song. I love it.

639
01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:54,000
Of course, you've got the reggae in there, as you mentioned before, which possibly is

640
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:59,000
maybe police influenced, as you mentioned.

641
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:04,000
The thing that I always loved about that song, not only the guitar intro

642
01:10:04,000 --> 01:10:12,000
and not only the reggae part, but coming out of.

643
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:15,000
I mean, how do you even describe that part, that reggae part?

644
01:10:15,000 --> 01:10:24,000
There's and not only that, there's right.

645
01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:34,000
They're like the solo part where everything all of a sudden like kicks into just weird time signatures, where again.

646
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:40,000
Just think of just think of that, how fickle radio is

647
01:10:40,000 --> 01:10:46,000
and how good this song is that today it's still played

648
01:10:46,000 --> 01:10:50,000
on US radio just because of how important a song it is.

649
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:56,000
But yet you'll have pundits tell you, well, you can't mix this style with that style with the other thing.

650
01:10:56,000 --> 01:11:04,000
Yet Russian, this song is mixing progressive reggae rock and whatever else you want to throw in there.

651
01:11:04,000 --> 01:11:08,000
So, yeah. Sorry, Johan, I cut you off.

652
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:11,000
No problem.

653
01:11:11,000 --> 01:11:16,000
Spirit of Radio is just another song that Russia.

654
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:22,000
The melody line in the verse is amazing.

655
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:25,000
Begin the day with a friendly voice.

656
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:29,000
You know, it's wow. It's so good.

657
01:11:29,000 --> 01:11:33,000
It makes you happy.

658
01:11:33,000 --> 01:11:38,000
You said it, the happy song.

659
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:42,000
But I had the opportunity to see Entre Nous.

660
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:52,000
They played it live in Malmö here in Sweden when I saw them, I don't know, 2010 or 11 or 12.

661
01:11:52,000 --> 01:12:00,000
I don't remember, but great that they put back that song.

662
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:06,000
Yeah. Great song. Yeah, really.

663
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:12,000
This album really put them on the map for the world.

664
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:19,000
You got to figure they came out of hemispheres here and they kind of hung on a little bit with natural science to their long song thing.

665
01:12:19,000 --> 01:12:22,000
But the rest of them are all just great songs.

666
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:29,000
I mean, maybe a little bit on the long side, but for radio.

667
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:40,000
Yeah, when I heard this album, I was like, holy crap, this is like they figured it all out how to tie their kind of past with where they're going kind of a thing.

668
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:45,000
I think I think it's a brilliant album definitely deserves to be number two.

669
01:12:45,000 --> 01:12:48,000
Okay.

670
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:54,000
All right, so quickly here, I'll just count down.

671
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:56,000
19 to one.

672
01:12:56,000 --> 01:13:07,000
Okay, before you before you go real quick, I just just a little note when I saw him on this tour, the opening band 38 not so special.

673
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:12,000
Still don't understand why with two drummers there, they're not even doing half of what Neil Peart's doing.

674
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:14,000
Why did they have two drummers?

675
01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:17,000
They play the same thing.

676
01:13:17,000 --> 01:13:20,000
No, they're, they're, they.

677
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:26,000
No, they are playing the same damn thing.

678
01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:37,000
I mean, obviously somebody's got a picture of one of the guys with the goat or something or, or they're related and I don't I don't know what's going on there.

679
01:13:37,000 --> 01:13:43,000
Anyway, I apologize for the tangent so go back to the countdown Victor.

680
01:13:43,000 --> 01:13:48,000
That's fine Brad just hold on loosely.

681
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:50,000
Don't let go.

682
01:13:50,000 --> 01:13:52,000
Oh, there you go.

683
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:53,000
All right.

684
01:13:53,000 --> 01:14:00,000
I think we all talk about how great you on singing was of spirit of radio.

685
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:05,000
Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

686
01:14:05,000 --> 01:14:06,000
School.

687
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:07,000
School.

688
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:10,000
19 vapor trails.

689
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:13,000
18 was number one.

690
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:19,000
Three parts 17 Chris of steel.

691
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:22,000
16 test for echo.

692
01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:25,000
Great.

693
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:26,000
15.

694
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:30,000
Hold your fire.

695
01:14:30,000 --> 01:14:35,000
14 rush.

696
01:14:35,000 --> 01:14:39,000
13 Presto.

697
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:44,000
12 clockwork angels.

698
01:14:44,000 --> 01:14:50,000
11 snakes and arrows.

699
01:14:50,000 --> 01:14:54,000
10 roll the bones.

700
01:14:54,000 --> 01:14:58,000
Nine power windows.

701
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:02,000
Eight hemispheres.

702
01:15:02,000 --> 01:15:07,000
Seven grace under pressure.

703
01:15:07,000 --> 01:15:13,000
Six a farewell to Kings.

704
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:17,000
521 12.

705
01:15:17,000 --> 01:15:21,000
For fly by night.

706
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:27,000
Three signals.

707
01:15:27,000 --> 01:15:31,000
Two permanent waves.

708
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:33,000
And we all know it.

709
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:41,000
Number one by a lot.

710
01:15:41,000 --> 01:15:44,000
Moving pictures.

711
01:15:44,000 --> 01:15:47,000
For me moving pictures.

712
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:54,000
I had a cousin who was kind of a fair weather music fan.

713
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:58,000
But usually when he would bring bands to my attention.

714
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:01,000
There have been a few over the years that I've really gotten into.

715
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:05,000
And he told me that rush was going to be the next big thing.

716
01:16:05,000 --> 01:16:07,000
And I was like, who's rush.

717
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:11,000
You have to hear the song Tom Sawyer.

718
01:16:11,000 --> 01:16:15,000
So it was before it.

719
01:16:15,000 --> 01:16:18,000
Became huge on the radio.

720
01:16:18,000 --> 01:16:20,000
Slightly before that.

721
01:16:20,000 --> 01:16:26,000
But then once it hit radio, I mean, it's never left essentially.

722
01:16:26,000 --> 01:16:31,000
It's always been a big thing.

723
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:34,000
And we've been talking about how.

724
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:38,000
How big some of these albums are.

725
01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:42,000
One through four on side one of, of moving pictures.

726
01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:44,000
Tom Sawyer.

727
01:16:44,000 --> 01:16:45,000
Red bear Cheta.

728
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:46,000
YYZ.

729
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:47,000
And limelight.

730
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:48,000
Again.

731
01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:51,000
Every single day on us radio.

732
01:16:51,000 --> 01:16:55,000
Since the early eighties.

733
01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:59,000
So this album is huge and no surprise to me anyway.

734
01:16:59,000 --> 01:17:04,000
That it was number one.

735
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:11,000
Who wants to talk some moving pictures?

736
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:14,000
Yes. Who wants.

737
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:16,000
Johan is awake.

738
01:17:16,000 --> 01:17:20,000
Yeah, it's I mean, it's all amazing.

739
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:25,000
And I'm not going to lie.

740
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:27,000
My favorite song is right now.

741
01:17:27,000 --> 01:17:29,000
Witch hunt.

742
01:17:29,000 --> 01:17:31,000
And vital signs.

743
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:33,000
Those two are.

744
01:17:33,000 --> 01:17:37,000
Wow.

745
01:17:37,000 --> 01:17:39,000
Especially those two I listened to a lot.

746
01:17:39,000 --> 01:17:42,000
Yeah.

747
01:17:42,000 --> 01:17:45,000
It's worthy of all.

748
01:17:45,000 --> 01:17:47,000
The good comments.

749
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:49,000
Amazing album.

750
01:17:49,000 --> 01:17:51,000
I think it's.

751
01:17:51,000 --> 01:17:53,000
It's so fresh when it came out.

752
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:55,000
And.

753
01:17:55,000 --> 01:17:58,000
And.

754
01:17:58,000 --> 01:18:02,000
I think it's.

755
01:18:02,000 --> 01:18:05,000
It's so far to read about that period of time.

756
01:18:05,000 --> 01:18:07,000
To rush when they played.

757
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:12,000
Because they made from.

758
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:19,000
Yeah.

759
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,000
I think it's.

760
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:24,000
Well worth it.

761
01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:26,000
Mass piece.

762
01:18:26,000 --> 01:18:30,000
As you said, Victor, it's.

763
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:32,000
Big record in the US.

764
01:18:32,000 --> 01:18:33,000
Not here.

765
01:18:33,000 --> 01:18:34,000
Not at all.

766
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:36,000
But.

767
01:18:36,000 --> 01:18:38,000
No.

768
01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:43,000
US UK.

769
01:18:43,000 --> 01:18:45,000
It's big, but not in Sweden.

770
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:46,000
What?

771
01:18:46,000 --> 01:18:48,000
What rush album was big in Sweden?

772
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,000
And.

773
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:52,000
But they have.

774
01:18:52,000 --> 01:18:54,000
You know.

775
01:18:54,000 --> 01:18:56,000
A big following.

776
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:58,000
But.

777
01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:00,000
When they played here the first time.

778
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:02,000
Since the seventies.

779
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:05,000
They sold out the biggest stadiums here.

780
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:06,000
So.

781
01:19:06,000 --> 01:19:08,000
It was.

782
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:10,000
They were well.

783
01:19:10,000 --> 01:19:12,000
We all waited for them.

784
01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:14,000
But.

785
01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:16,000
They all play.

786
01:19:16,000 --> 01:19:18,000
When after that.

787
01:19:18,000 --> 01:19:20,000
They came back for every tour.

788
01:19:20,000 --> 01:19:22,000
And it was sold out.

789
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:24,000
So.

790
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:26,000
Rush was big in Sweden.

791
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:28,000
But they never had any hit.

792
01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:30,000
And I don't think I ever heard.

793
01:19:30,000 --> 01:19:32,000
Thomas Sawyer played on Swedish radio.

794
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:34,000
I can hear Ghost.

795
01:19:34,000 --> 01:19:36,000
One time.

796
01:19:36,000 --> 01:19:38,000
Two times a day on Swedish national radio.

797
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:40,000
But you never hear Rush.

798
01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:42,000
Interesting.

799
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:44,000
Yeah.

800
01:19:44,000 --> 01:19:46,000
This album got up to 32.

801
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:48,000
In Sweden.

802
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:50,000
Which I'm guessing that's not that great.

803
01:19:50,000 --> 01:19:52,000
UK was number three.

804
01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:54,000
At its peak.

805
01:19:54,000 --> 01:19:56,000
And US was number three at its peak.

806
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:58,000
Canada, believe it or not.

807
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:00,000
Number one.

808
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,000
Rishak.

809
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:04,000
Yeah.

810
01:20:04,000 --> 01:20:06,000
I'm finding it very hard.

811
01:20:06,000 --> 01:20:08,000
To imagine.

812
01:20:08,000 --> 01:20:10,000
Any Rush song on the radio.

813
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:12,000
So when I hear you describing.

814
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:14,000
US radio.

815
01:20:14,000 --> 01:20:16,000
I just can't get my head around it.

816
01:20:16,000 --> 01:20:18,000
You know.

817
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:20,000
The thing is back then.

818
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:22,000
Radio was kind of left up to the DJ.

819
01:20:22,000 --> 01:20:24,000
The DJ picked the songs.

820
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:26,000
That's not the case nowadays.

821
01:20:26,000 --> 01:20:28,000
Oh no.

822
01:20:28,000 --> 01:20:30,000
I know.

823
01:20:30,000 --> 01:20:32,000
I know.

824
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:34,000
I'm talking about even.

825
01:20:34,000 --> 01:20:36,000
Ever.

826
01:20:36,000 --> 01:20:38,000
Yeah.

827
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:40,000
But it's amazing.

828
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:42,000
I mean I watch some.

829
01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:44,000
Not a lot.

830
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:46,000
NHL hockey.

831
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:48,000
But you can hear from.

832
01:20:48,000 --> 01:20:50,000
From the arena.

833
01:20:50,000 --> 01:20:52,000
They play Tom Sawyer.

834
01:20:52,000 --> 01:20:54,000
Oh yeah.

835
01:20:54,000 --> 01:20:56,000
At the NHL hockey game.

836
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:58,000
In 2024.

837
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:00,000
Amazing.

838
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:02,000
Any US sport.

839
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:04,000
Has it.

840
01:21:04,000 --> 01:21:06,000
Because I mean that the intro.

841
01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:08,000
Neil Purt's intro to that has been.

842
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:10,000
Sampled a million times.

843
01:21:10,000 --> 01:21:12,000
So.

844
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:14,000
You'll even hear it.

845
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:16,000
With other music.

846
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:18,000
That they'll play in the arenas.

847
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:20,000
Yeah.

848
01:21:20,000 --> 01:21:22,000
Well that's the intro.

849
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:24,000
It's just.

850
01:21:24,000 --> 01:21:26,000
It sounds like it was recorded yesterday.

851
01:21:26,000 --> 01:21:28,000
Yeah.

852
01:21:28,000 --> 01:21:30,000
Yeah.

853
01:21:30,000 --> 01:21:34,000
Just to give you guys an idea.

854
01:21:34,000 --> 01:21:40,000
I'm going to go through their 19 albums real quickly.

855
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:42,000
And not all of them have songs that are.

856
01:21:42,000 --> 01:21:44,000
Still on the radio all the time.

857
01:21:44,000 --> 01:21:46,000
But.

858
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:52,000
Find my way in working man.

859
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:54,000
Get played on US radio.

860
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:56,000
Fly by night.

861
01:21:56,000 --> 01:21:58,000
Anthem.

862
01:21:58,000 --> 01:22:04,000
Bastille day.

863
01:22:04,000 --> 01:22:08,000
That's probably the only one off of that album.

864
01:22:08,000 --> 01:22:10,000
They said 2112.

865
01:22:10,000 --> 01:22:12,000
All of side one.

866
01:22:12,000 --> 01:22:14,000
The poop song.

867
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:16,000
The poop song.

868
01:22:16,000 --> 01:22:18,000
Yeah.

869
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:24,000
Closer to the heart.

870
01:22:24,000 --> 01:22:26,000
Yeah.

871
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:30,000
Let's see.

872
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:34,000
I guess hemispheres is probably the one.

873
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:38,000
Out of these right now.

874
01:22:38,000 --> 01:22:42,000
That one.

875
01:22:42,000 --> 01:22:44,000
Didn't have a song.

876
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:48,000
Made it on the radio.

877
01:22:48,000 --> 01:22:50,000
Yeah.

878
01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:52,000
Then you come back with like I said before.

879
01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:54,000
Spirit of the radio.

880
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:56,000
Free will.

881
01:22:56,000 --> 01:22:58,000
Jacob's ladder every now and then.

882
01:22:58,000 --> 01:23:00,000
Moving pictures.

883
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:04,000
All of side one.

884
01:23:04,000 --> 01:23:08,000
Signals subdivision.

885
01:23:08,000 --> 01:23:12,000
New world man as I mentioned before.

886
01:23:12,000 --> 01:23:14,000
When the album came out.

887
01:23:14,000 --> 01:23:18,000
The analog kid got on radio.

888
01:23:18,000 --> 01:23:20,000
Distant early warning.

889
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:26,000
Red sector A got played when that album came out.

890
01:23:26,000 --> 01:23:28,000
Off of power windows.

891
01:23:28,000 --> 01:23:30,000
Big money.

892
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:34,000
Big money still gets played every now and then.

893
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:36,000
I think Marathon was a single.

894
01:23:36,000 --> 01:23:38,000
I think.

895
01:23:38,000 --> 01:23:40,000
Yes.

896
01:23:40,000 --> 01:23:42,000
I think Manhattan Project too, wasn't it?

897
01:23:42,000 --> 01:23:44,000
Yeah, could be.

898
01:23:44,000 --> 01:23:46,000
I remember there was a few.

899
01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:50,000
They played both Marathon and Manhattan Project.

900
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:52,000
Sweden Rock.

901
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:54,000
I think I was.

902
01:23:54,000 --> 01:23:58,000
The tears were running down my eyes.

903
01:23:58,000 --> 01:24:00,000
So amazing.

904
01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:02,000
Just yeah.

905
01:24:02,000 --> 01:24:04,000
Hold your fire.

906
01:24:04,000 --> 01:24:06,000
So time stands still.

907
01:24:06,000 --> 01:24:08,000
At the time got a lot of airplay because of the

908
01:24:08,000 --> 01:24:10,000
Amy Mann sings on that.

909
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:12,000
Until Tuesday was a big band at that time.

910
01:24:12,000 --> 01:24:14,000
At least.

911
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:16,000
Their one song was big.

912
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:18,000
Yep.

913
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:20,000
I mean, it's saying that Prime Mover was a second single.

914
01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:24,000
I personally don't remember that track.

915
01:24:24,000 --> 01:24:26,000
Show don't tell off of Presto.

916
01:24:26,000 --> 01:24:28,000
Still got played every now and then.

917
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:30,000
Roll the bones surprisingly enough.

918
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:32,000
That song.

919
01:24:32,000 --> 01:24:34,000
I think it was a big hit.

920
01:24:34,000 --> 01:24:38,000
Roll the bones surprisingly enough.

921
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:40,000
That song.

922
01:24:40,000 --> 01:24:46,000
Still got still gets played.

923
01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:48,000
And then after that.

924
01:24:48,000 --> 01:24:50,000
Go ahead.

925
01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:52,000
Who's doing the rapping on that one?

926
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:54,000
On which one?

927
01:24:54,000 --> 01:24:56,000
Roll the bones.

928
01:24:56,000 --> 01:24:58,000
Geddy Lee.

929
01:24:58,000 --> 01:25:00,000
Geddy Lee did that?

930
01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,000
Yeah, they pitched down the vocals.

931
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:04,000
Wow.

932
01:25:04,000 --> 01:25:06,000
Look at Geddy rapping.

933
01:25:06,000 --> 01:25:08,000
That's crazy.

934
01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:10,000
Geddy's jack of all trades.

935
01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:12,000
True.

936
01:25:12,000 --> 01:25:14,000
And then after that.

937
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:18,000
I mean, correct me if I'm wrong guys.

938
01:25:18,000 --> 01:25:26,000
I mean, I've heard Test for Echo and Driven on the radio.

939
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:28,000
But I can't say that.

940
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:30,000
They still get played.

941
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:32,000
One little victory.

942
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:34,000
They played live ever since Vapor Trails came out.

943
01:25:34,000 --> 01:25:38,000
But I don't remember that really getting any airplay.

944
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:40,000
And the last two albums.

945
01:25:40,000 --> 01:25:44,000
A Far Cry got on the radio when that first came out.

946
01:25:44,000 --> 01:25:46,000
Yep.

947
01:25:46,000 --> 01:25:48,000
And Clockwork Angels.

948
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:50,000
I was living over here by then.

949
01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:54,000
But on the look of things, they released five singles off of that album.

950
01:25:54,000 --> 01:25:56,000
So go for it.

951
01:25:56,000 --> 01:26:04,000
Well, while we're still talking about moving pictures, I might have told this story on here before.

952
01:26:04,000 --> 01:26:08,000
Rush have only ever played Ireland once.

953
01:26:08,000 --> 01:26:14,000
And it was on that tour where they were doing moving pictures and 2112.

954
01:26:14,000 --> 01:26:18,000
So that was recent enough.

955
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:20,000
I mean, I think it was a really good time.

956
01:26:20,000 --> 01:26:30,000
It was a big gig and it did really well.

957
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:42,000
I went as a fair weather fan, but it was such an enjoyable concert.

958
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,000
I didn't want it to end.

959
01:26:44,000 --> 01:26:48,000
I'm having such a great time here.

960
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:50,000
That's awesome.

961
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:54,000
Because it was their personalities just coming across.

962
01:26:54,000 --> 01:26:58,000
They were such nice, friendly guys.

963
01:26:58,000 --> 01:27:02,000
And that was pouring out into the arena.

964
01:27:02,000 --> 01:27:04,000
Everyone was having a great time.

965
01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:12,000
Yeah, I think that speaks to them a lot with all the tragedy that they had.

966
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:23,000
And whatever broken personalities they may have had, where you see that probably a lot more with other bands,

967
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:34,000
I think especially after they thought that the band was over when when Neil kind of came back and they kind of circled back again.

968
01:27:34,000 --> 01:27:43,000
It seemed like the band got to a different level where they enjoyed every moment that they could when they were on stage.

969
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:45,000
So I think you see that.

970
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:52,000
I mean, I've never seen them live, but I have several of their live albums on Blu-ray and DVD.

971
01:27:52,000 --> 01:27:58,000
And it always seems like they're having fun when they're playing.

972
01:27:58,000 --> 01:28:04,000
So I think it speaks to that.

973
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:14,000
And I mean, I think for a lot of the fans outside of the music, that's kind of the allure is seeing the specialness, the uniqueness of the band,

974
01:28:14,000 --> 01:28:20,000
the individual parts, but also how they all kind of came together as a band.

975
01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:30,000
Yeah. And amazing for three guys to have been together as long as they have and not had the infighting and the conflict,

976
01:28:30,000 --> 01:28:34,000
to the extent that a lot of other long term bands have.

977
01:28:34,000 --> 01:28:36,000
They all seem to be friends.

978
01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:44,000
And there were times, and mentioned earlier, where Alex was a little upset with his guitars getting pushed back in the mix and things like that.

979
01:28:44,000 --> 01:28:46,000
But they still stuck it out.

980
01:28:46,000 --> 01:28:54,000
They kept putting out quality music for a long, long time.

981
01:28:54,000 --> 01:29:04,000
Yeah, I think a lot of that kind of leans towards and again, I'm not the connoisseur that Johan is.

982
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:18,000
It isn't like in Aerosmith or at Kiss or Black Sabbath, where there were a lot of issues with substance abuse and with personalities where

983
01:29:18,000 --> 01:29:30,000
the issues that you're saying with Alex Lifeson in other bands, people were gone or they would just bring in ghost musicians to just play the parts.

984
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:38,000
Whereas they were able to keep things together for that long of a time.

985
01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:50,000
And let's be honest, there aren't too many bands that went away as gracefully as they did, where they didn't have to say, oh, well, this is us going away.

986
01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:51,000
Please come see us.

987
01:29:51,000 --> 01:30:02,000
Please come check out this nostalgia thing that we're going to stretch out for 15 years.

988
01:30:02,000 --> 01:30:10,000
They didn't need to, because the amazing thing about these guys is that once they hit the point of arenas, they never dipped.

989
01:30:10,000 --> 01:30:16,000
I mean, they kind of just stayed there and they kind of even just kind of nice, steady incline.

990
01:30:16,000 --> 01:30:25,000
They didn't. And what I really loved about them is the last, I don't know how many years, 15, probably plus years that they would do the whole show.

991
01:30:25,000 --> 01:30:32,000
No warm up band. They do three hours plus with an intermission.

992
01:30:32,000 --> 01:30:39,000
And how many don't you wish your favorite band would do that kind of stuff?

993
01:30:39,000 --> 01:30:46,000
No, they're they're they're sloths. Most most other bands, you know, let's let's be honest.

994
01:30:46,000 --> 01:30:56,000
I mean, they were they were switching their set list up every every leg of their tour, every tour.

995
01:30:56,000 --> 01:31:04,000
You know, they were bringing in, like I said, they they vapor trails had zero play on it.

996
01:31:04,000 --> 01:31:11,000
Yet one little one one little victory was was played continuously live.

997
01:31:11,000 --> 01:31:17,000
And that's not an easy song to play either. It's it's a hard song to play.

998
01:31:17,000 --> 01:31:23,000
I mean, that's that's the thing. They they could have easily.

999
01:31:23,000 --> 01:31:27,000
Gone the way that a lot of other bands and they just did it their way.

1000
01:31:27,000 --> 01:31:40,000
And, you know, that kind of what kills me when I see other musicians slag them.

1001
01:31:40,000 --> 01:31:49,000
There's there's there's one famous person that wrote a book about being a junkie in a closet

1002
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:53,000
who continuously complains about their popularity.

1003
01:31:53,000 --> 01:32:00,000
But let's be honest, they never made clowns out of themselves like this person.

1004
01:32:00,000 --> 01:32:09,000
So anyway. Yeah.

1005
01:32:09,000 --> 01:32:12,000
And any any any final words about Rush?

1006
01:32:12,000 --> 01:32:15,000
Anyone want to say anything before we wrap things up here?

1007
01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:18,000
Yes, I would like to say something.

1008
01:32:18,000 --> 01:32:33,000
Rush is for me the best lyrics combined with sometimes strange music.

1009
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:44,000
But it's for me, Lyrk, Niels lyrics are most important.

1010
01:32:44,000 --> 01:32:54,000
He writes words that speaks to me and get he has amazing voice

1011
01:32:54,000 --> 01:33:04,000
and he combines that with the music that's not so I mean, it's not docking.

1012
01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:07,000
It's it's something else.

1013
01:33:07,000 --> 01:33:16,000
It's something that when you like it, you like it and it's for life.

1014
01:33:16,000 --> 01:33:21,000
Yeah. It's for us. Yeah, it's for us.

1015
01:33:21,000 --> 01:33:26,000
It's something else. It's not for everybody.

1016
01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:36,000
But if you like music, I think if you are a true fan of music, you like Rush.

1017
01:33:36,000 --> 01:33:41,000
That's the words for tonight.

1018
01:33:41,000 --> 01:33:44,000
Sorry. Yeah, that's fine.

1019
01:33:44,000 --> 01:33:47,000
And anyone else? Final words?

1020
01:33:47,000 --> 01:33:58,000
Yeah, I had the privilege of seeing what their sixth to the last show in Portland, Oregon on the R40 tour.

1021
01:33:58,000 --> 01:34:07,000
Talk about like the best tour set up to go out on and the you know, just the way that they progressed.

1022
01:34:07,000 --> 01:34:10,000
So it started with full stage, full everything.

1023
01:34:10,000 --> 01:34:17,000
And about every two or three songs, they had guys coming out in coveralls, slowly stripping back the stage.

1024
01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:21,000
And each section of the show was like from a different album.

1025
01:34:21,000 --> 01:34:29,000
And they went back in time with it and were using elements of each stage set from all of their history.

1026
01:34:29,000 --> 01:34:40,000
And when they got to the very end, there were just two little crate camps sitting on fold up chairs and a five piece drum set and just three guys out there.

1027
01:34:40,000 --> 01:34:45,000
And they went out and it was like, wow, we're done.

1028
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:52,000
And one of the one of the greatest visual things and auditory things that I've ever experienced in my life.

1029
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:57,000
That sounds great. Yeah.

1030
01:34:57,000 --> 01:35:07,000
Yeah, a lot of a lot of people that's that's interesting that you bring that up because a lot of people don't realize how into the shows they were as well.

1031
01:35:07,000 --> 01:35:14,000
You wouldn't think of them as a quote unquote theatrical band, but they always had an interesting stage set up.

1032
01:35:14,000 --> 01:35:24,000
They always had something that caught your eye and made the shows worthwhile outside of the music and lyrics and everything else.

1033
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:28,000
So, yeah, that's awesome.

1034
01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:34,000
Anyone else before we wrap it up here? Yeah, I'm going to say this.

1035
01:35:34,000 --> 01:35:45,000
I think they defied all record company logic to being as successful as they were and to being again, being able to maintain that.

1036
01:35:45,000 --> 01:35:48,000
They were always classy.

1037
01:35:48,000 --> 01:35:51,000
They I mean, I'm pretty sure they were just doing what they wanted to do.

1038
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:53,000
They weren't chasing the hit or anything.

1039
01:35:53,000 --> 01:35:56,000
It's just like, man, this is what we want to do.

1040
01:35:56,000 --> 01:36:05,000
And they are the fans that they had were cool enough like Johan to go along for the ride and stick with them.

1041
01:36:05,000 --> 01:36:09,000
And yeah, how many bands can say that?

1042
01:36:09,000 --> 01:36:11,000
That's that's incredible.

1043
01:36:11,000 --> 01:36:15,000
And then the three guys, of course, stuck together.

1044
01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:17,000
Yeah, incredible legacy.

1045
01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:22,000
They're one of the greatest bands ever.

1046
01:36:22,000 --> 01:36:26,000
Hmm.

1047
01:36:26,000 --> 01:36:31,000
Dan, anything you'd like to say on this subject?

1048
01:36:31,000 --> 01:36:37,000
No, but you guys have done great.

1049
01:36:37,000 --> 01:36:41,000
Positive reinforcement from metal, Dan.

1050
01:36:41,000 --> 01:36:47,000
Anthony, any other story you want to tell before we wrap things up here?

1051
01:36:47,000 --> 01:36:52,000
No, no, I, you know, of the 19 albums, is it?

1052
01:36:52,000 --> 01:36:53,000
Yeah, 19.

1053
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:58,000
You know, I'm only really familiar with four or five of them.

1054
01:36:58,000 --> 01:37:09,000
You know, so it's good to hear you guys talk about the likes of Permanent Waves where, you know, I've never actually heard that album.

1055
01:37:09,000 --> 01:37:13,000
So yeah, there's your homework.

1056
01:37:13,000 --> 01:37:18,000
These are these are album covers and albums I've been aware of my whole life.

1057
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:21,000
It feels like.

1058
01:37:21,000 --> 01:37:26,000
It's just, you know, I've got some work to do.

1059
01:37:26,000 --> 01:37:28,000
There you go.

1060
01:37:28,000 --> 01:37:39,000
Yeah, that's a homework assignment for everybody watching this, too, is that if there's an album that was in our top 10 that you haven't heard, listen to it this week.

1061
01:37:39,000 --> 01:37:55,000
Yeah, I, Anthony sent me something else that was pretty cool is that he he sent me as the graphic guru that he is, in his opinion, what his favorite Rush logos were from throughout the years.

1062
01:37:55,000 --> 01:37:59,000
So it's pretty neat.

1063
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:00,000
Cool.

1064
01:38:00,000 --> 01:38:01,000
Go ahead.

1065
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:09,000
Obviously, number one was the first album.

1066
01:38:09,000 --> 01:38:11,000
It is iconic.

1067
01:38:11,000 --> 01:38:17,000
Funny thing we're talking about Russia stage shows that day I saw them.

1068
01:38:17,000 --> 01:38:19,000
Getty was wearing a rash t shirt.

1069
01:38:19,000 --> 01:38:21,000
Yeah.

1070
01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:31,000
You probably know they come out and I can't remember the story, they were going to see a band or something that we call rash that was this.

1071
01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:38,000
The intro was a video piece, and then they ended up once I can't remember it was funny.

1072
01:38:38,000 --> 01:38:39,000
Right.

1073
01:38:39,000 --> 01:38:42,000
Yeah, they've always had a great sense of humor.

1074
01:38:42,000 --> 01:38:52,000
And then they ended up with, you know, the guys from that film I love you man you know but that's all about rush as well so right.

1075
01:38:52,000 --> 01:39:00,000
They had the, the exit piece video screen of that and that's great.

1076
01:39:00,000 --> 01:39:03,000
Cool. That's cool.

1077
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:21,000
Awesome. So on that note, with our super long rush episode here that again, goes, goes to show how much people love this band, and how easy it is to talk about them.

1078
01:39:21,000 --> 01:39:37,000
So, on that note, we will leave you. Thanks to Johan Dan Mike, Anthony and Brad for joining me thank you to Tony for joining us in the chat for a second there.

1079
01:39:37,000 --> 01:39:52,000
And we will see you next time right here on signals from Mars. See ya.

1080
01:39:52,000 --> 01:40:07,000
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1081
01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:22,000
Thank you.