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Hemispheres (1978) Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - 9/10 Circumstances - 8/10 The Trees - 7/10 La Villa Strangiato - 10/10 Album rating - 8.5/10 Well, it doesn't get much more classic Rush than this. Honestly, this might be the Rushiest Rush has ever Rushed. Book II is an amazing journey...

Test for Echo (1995) Test for Echo - 7/10 Driven - 9/10 Half the World - 6/10 The Color of Right - 5/10 Time and Motion - 7/10 Totem - 6/10 Dog Years - 2/10 Virtuality - 8/10 Resist - 8/10 Limbo - 4/10 Carve Away the Stone - 5/10 Album rating - 6.0/10 This is truly the band coasting. There...

Territories does pick up strongly with that riff. I just don't love the song as a whole. The difference between GUP and both Signals and PW is that GUP has much better songs, regardless of the guitar. Drumming doesn't make a mediocre song great. It makes it better, sure. But my joy is nowhere...

Neil opens and closes the album on absolute fire, yes, I agree with that! Perhaps "laidback" is a poor choice of words. I find the drumming on the album to be anticipatory. It's like Neil is always building up to something (which he is, I get it). There's a lot of burgeoning kick and hi-hat...

I expect you and I get very different things out of Rush. It’s very good, but the lyrics and song don’t ever fully synch up for me. Also, like a lot of Power Windows, the music sometimes feels run-on, as though it lacks strong dynamics.

Fly By Night (1975) Anthem - 8/10 Best I Can - 3/10 Beneath, Between and Behind - 7/10 By-Tor and the Snow Dog - 8/10 Fly By Night - 9/10 Making Memories - 6/10 Rivendell - 4/10 In the End - 5/10 Album rating - 6.2/10 Neil's arrival certainly levels up the instrumentals and the lyrics, but...

Power Windows (1985) The Big Money - 9/10 Grand Designs - 7/10 Manhattan Project - 7/10 Marathon - 9/10 Territories - 7/10 Middletown Dreams - 9/10 Emotion Detector - 8/10 Mystic Rhythms - 7/10 Album rating - 7.8/10 A very glossy, very synth-heavy and yet laidback album that really showcases...

Walk, don't run: it's new Kamelot and yes, you've heard it before.

Bummer for those Texas fans. They've only played 1 of the originally scheduled shows, right? Anyway... Signals (1982) Subdivisions - 10/10 The Analog Kid - 10/10 Chemistry - 8/10 Digital Man - 7/10 The Weapon - 6/10 New World Man - 9/10 Losing It - 10/10 Countdown - 5/10 Album rating - 8.1/10...

Moving my random reviews over to the Rush thread since they're going to be mostly Rush: https://forum.maidenfans.com/threads/rush.24655/post-1123913

Continuing my random Rush album mini-reviews! Clockwork Angels (2012) Caravan - 9/10 BU2B - 10/10 Clockwork Angels - 10/10 The Anarchist - 10/10 Carnies - 6/10 Halo Effect - 7/10 Seven Cities of Gold - 10/10 The Wreckers - 10/10 Headlong Flight - 10/10 BU2B2 - 4/10 Wish Them Well - 7/10 The...

At least we can both agree that In The Mood is hot garbage

I have also started a Rush discography run, but with zero parameters. I'm starting with the debut, but from there I have no listening order that I shall adhere to. My brief take on... Rush (1974) Finding My Way - 6/10 Need Some Love - 5/10 Take a Friend - 6/10 Here Again - 3/10 What You’re...

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It's been 6 years since I last listened through the discography, but I put both Vapor Trails and Snakes + Arrows in the lower middle of the pack. There's definitely far better Rush, but there's worse, too. The original mix on VT is a sin, though.

I absolutely love it on first listen. My constant Evergrey criticisms still remain: not enough riffs, samey sounding, and a bit of a muddy downtuned mix. But honestly all of the songs are good, Tom sounds incredible and all I really need is catchiness anymore from Evergrey. Very happy with...

But Bruce already uses earplugs, so he's already stuffing his ears. I completely get your points and we can chalk it up to a million different things that can be true, but ultimately it's Bruce saying "no, I don't want to learn to do it a different way." And this is my point: they're one of the...

You get to create your own mix. You can hear as much or as little of your own voice as you like. It’s definitely a learning curve, but it would absolutely solve his timing issues. His IEM mix could have crowd sound, reverb, room mics, whatever to sound as “open air” as possible…he’d just...

What exactly do you mean by this? It would be a learning curve, sure, but "not being able to sing with IEM's" doesn't make sense to me.

I'd love a reunion and a deep cut tour, but I think at best we can expect two more tours after this one and they'll either be focused on a new album (though I doubt it) or just general hits tours (that include some reunion tunes).