下手の横好き世界２

Snakes & Arrows

2007-05-03T04:44:41Z

My first listen of this album ended up being in the bathtub. I had just a bit of spare time left in my day, and I still hadn’t gotten in the bath, so I brought the iPod with me. When I listen to a new album from musicians I have a history with, I...

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Vapor Trails

2007-05-02T04:37:52Z

This is the Rush album that I most strongly associate with a certain time in my life: it came out while I was living in Tokyo. I actually picked it up a couple of days before the official release date; Japan doesn’t seem to care too much for rele...

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Different Stages

2007-05-01T22:52:28Z

This album came out when I was in high school. I was driving by then, so I could hurry to the Best Buy near 135th and Cicero right after class and pick it up on the release day. It was great to buy the CD and immediately stick it in the CD player...

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Test For Echo

2007-05-01T06:07:02Z

This was the first Rush album to come out after I started caring about Rush. Somehow, maybe through the National Midnight Star e-mail list, I found out that they were going to be premeiring the title track on one of the local rock radio stations....

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Counterparts

2007-05-01T01:33:04Z

This was the Rush album that had just come out when I started caring very much about Rush. I still remember being in Texas to visit my sister, and picking it up at the mall, as probably my third or fourth CD ever. The lyrics are some of Neil Pear...

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Presto

2007-04-28T00:01:01Z

I kind of fell off my ritual, there… I assure you it has nothing to do with illegitimate copies of the new Rush album circulating on the webs! >:O Presto is probably my favorite album, by anyone, of all time. Also, probably the Rush album it took...

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A Show of Hands

2007-04-24T05:48:03Z

This is my least listened-to Rush album. I’m not really sure why. At some point I think I got the idea in my head that it didn’t sound that good, and it probably came from a National Midnight Star post made many years ago. Listening to it again n...

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Hold Your Fire

2007-04-24T01:00:16Z

I kind of miss this kind of recording, where weird synthesized noises accentuate each song, songs have intros and outros, and everything is all polished up to perfection. The promise of some mini-instrumentals gives me some hope for such an atmos...

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Power Windows

2007-04-23T04:40:33Z

I tend to group these past three albums together as a kind of trilogy. Signals introduces the new, anti-Terry-Brown Rush sound and examines modern man, Grace Under Pressure brings it to a stark, grim territory, and then Power Windows brings it to...

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Grace Under Pressure

2007-04-21T04:51:18Z

This is probably the best Rush album cover. Hugh Syme has been working with Rush to design their album art since Caress of Steel in 1975. Man, is this album bleak. I think this is the darkest Rush album, which rarely occurs to me because the co...

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