Rush - Grace Under Pressure

[redrumloa]

This is one of the lesser appreciated Rush albums, I always loved. I have it on record and haven't had a record player in over a decade, so I haven't heard it in a decade or more. Listening to it tonight for the first time in so long, wow... Is Rush Canada's best export :?: You gave us Devin Townsend too, but Rush has to top Devin...

 

[FluffyMcDeath]

This is one of the lesser appreciated Rush albums...

Phew. For a second there I was thinking Limbaugh had a new wife (named Grace) and I had an alarming vision of the missionary position.

Rush is currently touring. They'll be down in Fl in Oct 1st (Tampa) and 2nd (West Palm Beach).

 

[redrumloa]

I actually got to see Rush twice in 2009, once in a corporate luxury box for free. As tight as money is this year, i doubt I will get to see Rush unless free tickets come available again. Snakes & Arrows was a pretty good album for such an old, seasoned band.

 

[Glaucus]

Nah, the best Canadian band ever was the Winnipeg based The Guess Who, but they're pretty dated. The Tragically Hip and The Tea Party are pretty good too (well, their older stuff is), but I suspect not as well known outside of Canada.

 

[ilwrath]

Nah, the best Canadian band ever was the Winnipeg based The Guess Who, but they're pretty dated. The Tragically Hip and The Tea Party are pretty good too (well, their older stuff is), but I suspect not as well known outside of Canada.

While I like the Guess Who well enough... Better than Rush? Naw... Rush has to win just on the sheer immense volume of their work, if nothing else. A good 15 years ago or so now, a Detroit rock station had a call-in poll for which performers you'd like to hear the entire body of work from, and they'd play the top 5 performers requested. Rush finished 2nd, and it took the station over 2 days straight to play their entire catalog, and that was back when it ended at Roll the Bones or Counterparts.

Man, I miss when local radio used to do fun stuff like that. That station's callsign still exists, but if you listen to it, you wouldn't know Rush ever wrote anything other than Working Man or Tom Sawyer. Radio has been reduced to stupidly short playlists and commercials every 5 minutes. :evil:

The best rock station heard in Detroit nowadays is an alternative station from Windsor. (So the upside is we do get the Tragically Hip, and I think I've occasionally heard the Tea Party back 5-10 years ago.)

 

[Glaucus]

Don't mind me, Rush is just one of those bands I never got into.