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I just found this very tiresome after a while. Didn't really give me a Rush.
30 albums in and not finding I’m not a fan of prog rock. Tom Sewyer and Limelight we recognizable and fine, but not something I can ever see listening to on my own.
I’m never going to like Rush. World stop trying to guilt me into it. I hope that is the last time I have to suffer through F’ing Tom Sawyer. I’m giving it a 2 only because I don’t want to water down me giving a 1 start for when I inevitably get stuck listening to U2.
No conocía la banda. Me gustaron algunos temas.
Saved Prior: None Off Rip: Tom Sawyer, The Camera Eye Cutting Edge: None Overall Notes: Uh yeah totally man you got it. At least I can thank this for Spinal Tap. Album cover goes hard as hell though.
What punk should have destroyed
This just does not appeal to me. Rush feels kitschy, old-hat, and out of date with very little substance behind it. Aside from a few good solos, I was not into it at all.
Urgh. Rush.
49. Moving Pictures - Rush 7 tracks. The drums, guitars & vocals seemed almost in competition with eachother rather than complimenting. It's the "prog" part of prog rock that I have always had a problem with. Progressive how exactly? It's not awful. Just muddled. 2/5
meh, entirely meh
I guess Rush just isn't for me. They seem like talented musicians, but I'm not sure if what they're doing is always in service to the song. And I just can't get past the singing.
Still not a Rush fan, but I see the appeal.
Not for me. I tried
Didn't do much for me at all - too clean production, didn't enjoy the lyrics or delivery, guitar solo on Tom sawyer good though
Not sure if I’ve heard any Rush before - but I thought I had. Weird.
I don't like rush
Some of it i really like (Tom Sawyer, limelight).. much more than I expected: don't think i've listened to much prog rock before.. some is much too much (YYZ, the camera eye, witch hunt), I think its the more rocky ones I like better.
Hmmm, tricky. Not my kinda thing at all, power rock, no playlist of mine that I could see this being a part of. But still appreciated bits, the guitar riff on one bit was very Thundercat. Wanna say 3 but really prob just a 2.
Great opening 5 seconds - a big synth swoosh with huge drumming. The next 5 seconds are an 80s sci-fi We Will Rock You. Really sets the album up, and it keeps the energy up throughout. However, by the end it had become a little bit samey and lost me somewhat. Generally an enjoyable listen overall, with some of cool moments. 2.5/5.
I liked YYZ's instrumentals. Don't love Lee's voice.
not really my style
I like the instrumental but am not at all a fan of their vocals.
I was really excited to listen to this album because I’ve never really listened to Rush and I’ve always thought there were a band I would like. The openings to Tom Sawyer and Vitals Songs are the most musically interesting features on this album to me. I do not like Geddy Lee’s voice. The album is not bad, but there are not any songs I would seek to play on their own.
Good playing, but not something I would listen to again.
Nope. Life’s too short to listen to this. Big drums, big keyboards, big hair. I guess it would be ok in a stadium on a summers night but doesn’t hold my interest.
I'll admit, when I listened to this it was on bike and I couldn't hear it all that well. But it was pretty much as I'd expect: classic rock. It has a time and a place but I just can't get excited about anything in particular about it.
Didn't hit that hard for me. Maybe isn't was because I had low expectations going in or because of my mood, but it's doesn't have the musicality that Pink Floyd does. Maybe I'll come back late. Favorite song: Red Barchetta
I've tried getting into Rush a few times before but Geddy Lee's voice is just far too annoying to tolerate. Best track: YYZ
Deece. Not my type of music, but good to have on in the background.
Production: 8/20 Songwriting: 7/20 Innovation: 11/20 Bangers: 0/20 Emotional response: 4/20 =30 Sorry Ror
Duidelijk een plaatje waar je jezelf doorheen moet ‘rushen’.
Turned it off
Not for me
Rush has never really been my cup of tea but this has the hits. It's fine if that's your thing.
yoooo this intro is funkyyyyyy, songs are long as fock
Connor: it's okay. the sound is a little dated, some of the guitar work is decent
Theres a YouTube video by Hugh Syme about how he came up with this sleeve, photographed by Deborah Samual, a friend, who also appeared in one of the framed images as Joan of Arc, allegedly the photo session was a druken fun affair. Hugh also won the Juno award for best Album. WTF terrible album wrapped is a silly cover.
Émotions étranges à l'écoute de cet album là. Le rythme est très pesant et pas d'une bonne manière. Seul Limelight a su me séduire.
voice gets annoying after a while
I’ve always disliked Rush, starting with Lee’s whiny, grating vocals and continuing with the pretentious prog rock music. (In my experience fervent prog rock fans are the guys who sat around all night in their dorm, list egg ing to music and never being able to meet girls; you know…nerds. I don’t care that Peart was allegedly a top-level drummer; I’ve never been a fan of a group just because of their drummer. Some guitar riffs here are good, but all in all, there is nothing on this album to change my mind…
Don’t know them
It's like biting into a quorn burger. It looks like meat, it feels like meat in your mouth, and it even kinda tastes like meat but you know something isn't quite right. It's processed through a clever chemical makeup but it can never hide what it isn't. I would rather listen to a bunch of bombed out idiots play 45 minutes of mess with heart and passion than whatever this is.
Nope
I really wasn’t a fan. I understand it was supposed to be a progression from prog towards more pop sensibilities but I couldn’t get much out of it and just not curious enough to go back for another listen. Not sure why it made the 1001 list tbh but each to their own.
Wasn’t for me
Den kanadensiska powerrock-trion med alldeles för hyllad trummis. Det blir en etta Sam Spandex till trots
Rush har lagt alldeles för mycket tid på att öva skalor, trumfills och taktbyten och för lite på att skriva låtar. Kanske borde de också lagt lite tid på att hitta en riktig sångare - så de sluppit ta in Musse Pigg.
Kan någon mer än Sam Spandex gilla det här? Spelar ingen roll hur många pukor å baskaggar Neil Peart har.
Not the album for me and THAT'S OKAY! Listening to this Classic Rock was sooooo on the nose for the era's whole thing that it almost seemed like musical theater....we were verging on camp
Más o menos
Still don’t like Rush.
genuinely makes me feel nothing but boredom and dissociation if the entire album was more like limelight it’d be a much better album. actually a good song
I've managed to completely avoid Rush all my life so far. I've never met anyone who thinks they are just ok - it seems you can only hate them or believe they are the best thing since sliced bread. So on first listen, my take on this is that it has the quality of a small local band cutting a demo in a small local studio. Not a reflection on the material of course, more the sound of the production. Very dry and functional - anyone else hearing that? Maybe all the local demos I heard in the 90s were just trying to sound like Rush. *shrugs* Beyond that, the music pretty much sucks - and that is a reflection on the material. Can't see what the fuss is about, to be frank. Rather uninspiring prog pop metal to my ears. Can't really be doing with that voice either. It's a "no" from me.
Trash
Bon, la note, oui, on commence directement par elle car plus vite elle sera sortie et plus vite je pourrai passer à autre chose. 1 sur 5 car je ne peux pas donner plus à un étron. Oui le mot est lâché c'est une merde sans aucun intérêt. Bon je peux m'arrêter là où je continue ??? Bon ok... On attaque donc le cas Moving Pictures. 1981, c'est l’année où tout aurait dû basculer vers quelque chose de viscéral, de sombre, de vrai. Mais non, au lieu de ça, on se tape l’apothéose du trio canadien qui a décidé que la musique était une branche annexe des mathématiques appliquées. Rush, c'est le groupe qui te fait regretter d'avoir des oreilles quand tu cherches un tant soit peu d'émotion brute. On est ici dans la démonstration de force permanente, dans le « regarde maman, je sais jouer de la basse, du synthé et chanter en même temps avec une voix qui ferait passer une alarme incendie pour une mélodie de chambre ». Parlons-en, de cette voix. Geddy Lee. Est-ce qu'on peut sérieusement passer quarante minutes avec ce hurlement suraigu dans les tympans sans avoir envie de s’ouvrir les veines avec le bord d'un disque de diamant ? C'est insupportable. C'est le genre de timbre qui te vrille le cerveau, une sorte de cri de détresse d'un lutin coincé dans une boîte de conserve. Et derrière, ça tricote. Oh là là, ça tricote sec. On nous vend ça comme du génie parce que c’est complexe. Mais la complexité, quand elle est au service du vide, ça s'appelle juste de l'ennui poli. C'est du prog qui essaie de se racheter une conduite en se frottant au hard rock de stade. C'est du rock pour les types qui portent des chemisettes à manches courtes avec des protège-poches. C'est de la musique d'ingénieur, où tout est à sa place, tout est calibré au millimètre près, il n'y a pas un seul pet de travers, pas une seule once de chaos. Et le rock sans chaos, c'est comme un café sans caféine : ça n'a aucun sens, ça sert juste à faire semblant. Prenez « Tom Sawyer ». Ce morceau est devenu une sorte d’hymne intouchable. Pourquoi ? Parce qu’il y a un gros coup de synthé bien gras au début ? On dirait la bande-son d’un documentaire industriel sur la fabrication des boulons en Ontario. C’est lourd, c'est pataud, et cette batterie de Neil Peart… alors lui, c’est le pompon. Peart, c'est le « professeur ». Le mec qui a plus de fûts et de cymbales autour de lui qu'il n'y a d'étoiles dans la galaxie. Il tape partout, tout le temps. C’est de la polyrythmie de comptoir. On sent qu'il veut montrer qu'il a lu des bouquins de philo entre deux répétitions, mais le résultat, c'est juste un étalage de technique stérile qui étouffe le moindre groove. On ne tape pas du pied sur Rush, on compte les temps en fronçant les sourcils. Rush, c'est du Yes qui aurait troqué ses capes de magicien pour des pantalons moule-bite en cuir synthétique, mais sans jamais réussir à avoir les couilles qui vont avec. Ils essaient d'être nerveux, ils essaient d'être percutants, mais ça reste désespérément propre. C’est de la rébellion de premier de la classe. On nous inflige des pièces instrumentales comme « YYZ » où ils se paluchent mutuellement sur leurs manches de guitare et de basse. C’est le summum de la masturbation sonore. On imagine les mecs en studio, s'auto-congratulant après chaque changement de mesure improbable. « Oh dis donc Geddy, t’as vu, là on est en 7/8, c’est drôlement malin ! ». Non, c’est juste chiant Le pire, c'est que cet album est considéré comme un sommet. Un sommet de quoi ? De la vacuité technique ? De l'esthétique FM la plus dégueulasse des années 80 ? Parce que oui, le son a vieilli d'une manière atroce. Ces nappes de synthétiseurs froids, ces guitares compressées à mort qui n'ont plus aucune morsure... On dirait du plastique fondu. Je ne comprends pas comment on peut inclure ça dans une liste d'albums essentiels. Qu'est-ce que ça apporte à l'histoire de la musique, à part la preuve qu'on peut être extrêmement compétent techniquement et produire une œuvre totalement dépourvue d'âme ? C’est le triomphe de la forme sur le fond, du contenant sur le contenu. Rush, c'est le groupe qui a tué le mystère du rock. Ils ont tout expliqué, tout décortiqué, tout rangé dans des petites boîtes étiquetées. Ils ont transformé le feu sacré en une veilleuse de nuit pour enfants sages. C’est poli, c’est propre, c’est canadien. On est en 1981, je le répète. Le monde est en train de brûler, la guerre froide est à son comble, la musique devrait être un cri, un reflet de cette tension. Et eux, ils nous sortent des histoires de bagnoles rouges (« Red Barchetta ») avec une précision de métronome suisse. C'est d'un décalage total, d'une absence de pertinence qui confine au sublime. Franchement, si c'est ça le « progrès » dans le rock, je préfère rester bloqué à l'âge de pierre. Je préfère un mec qui ne sait pas accorder sa guitare mais qui y met ses tripes plutôt que ces trois-là qui pourraient jouer le bottin de Toronto sans faire une seule fausse note, mais sans nous faire dresser un seul poil sur les bras. Au final, 1 sur 5 c’est cher payé. Passez votre chemin, il n'y a rien à voir, rien à sentir, juste de la poussière d'étoile synthétique et des ego boursouflés par leur propre virtuosité de pacotille.
Nah, Rush is still crap.
At least it isn't a double album.
Silly overblown rock. Unnecessary and unwanted. Made to be discounted and yellow stickered
This voice, man, wtf? I just can't with these guys... This is just not for me, I really wanted to have been wrong about Rush, thought I'd have a moment where I finally "got" them, but i did not "got", Rush is still not got by me. This is a looooong 39 minute album. You know how like if someone tells a racist/sexist joke and then you like call them out and are like "sorry what was that?" or "how is that funny?" and then they sort of have this moment of clarity when they say it again where they're embarrassed and (ideally) look inward and realise they're an idiot? That's what it must be like being a Rush fan and then having to prove it by making other people listen to this music.
It was rock. Sure it rocked. But it didn't do much for me.
Well I managed to live thru listening to this album…I have never enjoyed Rush and unlike some things my taste hasn’t changed…only Tom Sawyer is worth a listen . I know this is horrible for a Canadian to say but …YUK
Boring,yawning,sloppy,lazy
I have a couple of friends who are absolutely adore Rush, unfortunately I didn’t find them so enamouring.
Rush feels like they're rushing you to the end of the album. It feels mechanical, void of any emotions, not a big fan.
Not for me
Awful noise is how I would describe this album
Even the atmosphere of a misty Sunday morning dog walk fails to lift this album. I really dont like the vocals, but YYZ makes it clear that this isn’t the sum of my issues. There are far too many synths for my liking and the whole album is just overblown pap
I tell you what doesn't make me like prog rock more: making it sound like naff 80s rock bands. 1/5
Not my favorite. Think they have better Albums.
sorry to rush ….. not my vibe!!
I felt it was pretty dull and boring. Not much stands out when listening. Fav song on album: Witch Hunt
did not finish, i hate rush
I’ve never listened to a complete Rush album before. I genuinely hope never have to listen to another one.
Lwk good
did not end up finishing the album. one of the reviews i read said "whitest music ever" and i completely agree. it isn't my style of music and i found it to be redundant in my opinion, however the opening track "tom sawyer" i would listen to again
tbh got through half of it, couldnt do it. I like fly by the night or whatever by these guys but this was not my jam.
Not my kinda music I was bored with this and it was kind of annoying sorry
I can’t do Rush
Amazing musicians, terrible music.
It should be noted that I was staring at a growing list of cancelled trains while listening to this album. But the daily grind can only partly account for the frustration and exasperation which characterised this morning. Also to blame was the tuneless, edgeless, pointless, regressive crap that was coming out of my headphones. I don't have any time for cock prog. In a different setting kitschy sci-fi bleeps and bloops can really be my thing. In this one they felt tacked on. An afterthought, hoping to provide some character to the bland soloing. Maybe I'm projecting, as Southwest trains, sadly, cannot be avoided - but Rush, thankfully, can.
Not for me thought it was a poor man’s Pink Floyd
1. tom - 0 2. red - 0 3. y -1 4. Lime -1 5. Camera -0 6. Witch - 1 7. Signs - 1
Not for me
If you had asked me what I think of Rush yesterday I would probably have said something about overblown proggy garbage. In all honesty that was probably coming from a place of ignorance. I have now listened to (nearly all of) this album and can say I was quite correct.
Utter guff. Was expecting some hands in the air soft rock. Not prog rock wank. I thought my musical tastes were maturing but that was a real struggle.
Aware of Rush but not listened to the album before. Maybe I don't like prog rock after all. Alternating between boring and screechy, the synths and guitars seemed to be in a direct fight for supremacy of a load of disjointed noise.
Makes you see why punk came to the forefront
Prog rock is unlistenable IMO
Not fan of the genre and this album did not change that
I can’t tell if his voice is supposed to be satire or not. When I say I don’t want to listen to old music, this is what I mean. Tom Sawyer gives me flashbacks to high school when the annoying sub who was hit by a train called the radio station to have them play the song during class. The only song I liked was the beginning of The Camera Eye because it sounded cool and there was no singing.
Big fat no from me. Silly without giving me any joy. Makes Bubbles happy though, so there’s that.
? = heisst noch nie vorher gehört oder davon gehört. Vieleicht war ich die letzten Beiträge zu kritsch oder das Genre Rock/Gittaren mit allen Facetten ist mir doch, bis auf die absoluten Klassiker, zu langweilig? Vermisse die stilistische Vielfalt der ersten Tage...-> King crimson als prog Rock Verbindung sagt mir was, aber Rush? Komische Stimme. Halt irgendwie so Bombast rock, von mir aus .Höre statddessen King Crimson -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1LofJ21_V0&list=OLAK5uy_ltB-335pMvCfMNuDK0hdd6rdF_HknSFaI&index=10...c (liest du noch mit?)
Rush weren’t “great once” or “important to prog” or any of that revisionist crap. They started shit, stayed shit, and with Moving Pictures they finally codified their shitness into something so polished and empty it became the Ikea flatpack of prog: sterile, cheap-looking, and impossible to enjoy unless you’re already dead inside. “Tom Sawyer” is their so-called “classic.” No, mate it’s a migraine with an intro. That synth stab at the start is literally prog rock’s death rattle. The lyrics? Like fortune cookies written by a 14-year-old who’s just discovered Nietzsche. “His mind is not for rent to any god or government.” Neither’s my attention span, because this is dogshit. Geddy Lee sings like he’s being castrated in slow motion. “Red Barchetta” proves Rush could make even a car chase boring. Imagine Yes doing a track about Tolkien, but all the elves work in a garage and the orcs are MOT testers. That’s what this is. If driving fast in a sports car sounds dull in a song, you’ve failed as musicians. “YYZ” is what happens when nerds discover cocaine. “Oh look, we’ve written a song in 5/4 based on an airport code!” Yeah, brilliant lads, because nothing screams rock and roll like Heathrow departures. It’s not music—it’s a maths exam with distortion pedals. “Limelight.” Christ. Neil Peart, sitting on his drum throne, crying into his Ayn Rand books because fame is soooo hard. Boo-fucking-hoo. It’s like watching a billionaire complain his jacuzzi isn’t bubbly enough. And musically? A half-decent pub band with delusions of grandeur. “The Camera Eye.” Ten minutes of describing cities. TEN. MINUTES. Not exploring alien worlds, not summoning the apocalypse just rambling about New York and London like a geography teacher who’s lost the will to live. “Witch Hunt.” They tried to be “dark” and “atmospheric” and ended up sounding like a Halloween episode of Blue Peter. It’s Poundland King Crimson. “Vital Signs.” Rush do reggae. That’s it. That’s the whole joke. Canadians with mullets trying to skank. It’s like watching your dad at a barbecue saying “yah man” after two beers. If prog wasn’t dead before, this is the shotgun blast to the back of the head. So no, there’s no tragedy here, no “fall from grace.” Rush were never climbing Mount Olympus—they were scraping around in the bin outside Olympus, nicking old fishbones and hoping no one noticed. Moving Pictures didn’t betray prog rock it confirmed prog was already being mugged in a dark alley, and Rush were the ones holding the knife. This isn’t just their shittest album it’s the shittest anyone could manage to churn out while still keeping a straight face. Rush were never kings. They were never visionaries. They were the sound of three IT technicians cosplaying as wizards, and Moving Pictures is their crowning achievement: a monument to how utterly dreadful a band can be and still somehow sell records. This album isn’t a masterpiece—it’s a tombstone. Here lies Prog Rock Rush killed it.
I'm sure it is a great example of this style of prog rock but I just don't get it.
Bjork Chops.
This is what happens when technical proficiency dominates in rock music. Totally devoid of emotion, energy, excitement, swagger, swing, groove, edge, fun, attitude, aggression, subtlety or beauty. And he has a very silly voice. Horrific.
poopy
I’d always only ever heard of rush… i wish it was still heard of…. Instead of hearing this
Nope
Never heard of them
n.l.
Can’t get past the vocals
No, no, no...no. How to write a rush track... 1. Start with a drum beat. 2. Realise that a sick drummer is all you have going for you. 3. Have entirely forgettable guitar parts. 4. Stick some palid vocals over the top. 5. Somehow get very popular with a certain type of music fan.
Nope
The cover captures the ethos of Rush perfectly, placing them on the "clever-clever" end of the line between "clever" and "clever-clever" There are some splendidly propulsive drum parts here, and loads of well-thought out bass and drum parts, but nothing in the way of a song. Everything is bitty - "wait, here's another bit!" - never settling in to a section for any time because the next on-edge staccato section is on its way. Geddy Lee's vocals are one of a kind, and while I can see the effort that has gone into trying to make a pop album on prog-rock principles, it is one star from me. An exhausting listen.
sooo noooo
This is the 128th album I’m rating. I've only listened to Tom Sawyer, and it was pretty good. Adding to my Playlist - YXZ. Not Adding to my Playlist - Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, Limelight, The Camera Eye, Witch Hunt, and Vital Signs. Tom Sawyer- Not as good as I remembered. All in all I liked 1/7. Everybody always talks about how good Rush is and how it is the best band in the world, but this is extremely boring.
Terrible. This is the worst voice ever to grace radio airwaves. At least I know now that the songs I immediately change on the radio are actually the best of what they have to offer.
Yet another slice of pure shite
Too high-pitched and psychedelic for me.
I don't like this song because I don't like the beat. I would not recommend this song. I don't like this song because there are no words. I would not recommend this song. I don't like this song because of how he sings. I would not recommend this song.
I dont like this album because it is kind of weird
i dont like it because i just dont think its a good song. he second song i dont like it the third one i dont like
the first song is so bad like broe if ppl like dis type of music like fr only some songs that have this like idk but like this type of music depends on the person making it. the second song is buns to like I said the way they made it its buns but the only thing good is the beat
More like Pants
I’ve never understood the appeal of this band. So-so songs, don’t like the vocals, musicianship ok but nothing great.
Consistent throughout but nothing really jumped out at me. I think maybe too consistent.
Stop giving me this band.
Just bleh
I dont know what this was meant to be
NO puedo con Rush, me parecen un soberano peñazo. Insoportables de principio a fin. Virtuosismo hueco, rollo intelectualoide sin ningún sentido. Este Moving pictures es un disco muy bien considerado, más de 4 millon es de copias vendidas y en las listas de mejores álbumes de siempre. Sin embargo lo único que agradezco es su corta duración, 20 minutos por cada cara, un alivio. Si Tom Sawyer y YYZ son lo mejor que tienen, no están hechos para mis oidos. NO hace falta escucharlo una vez en la vida, no he llegado a hacerlo, me he ahorrado parte del viaje y no me arrepiento.
This is too much of everything. Show-off musicianship. Mediocre, self-important lyrics. 80s production. 80s song structures and melodies. Wow. This is truly terrible. Truly, truly.
Not my favourite
Forgot to listen
The drummer is good.
prog music < death in pain
Some of the instrumental parts were okay and/or interesting for moments, but fuck me this album sucks and the vocalist is annoying
Mediocre rock that is presented quite simply, it lacks intensity and creativity. The vocals are an imposition.
Utter guff. Was expecting some hands in the air soft rock. Not prog rock wank. I thought my musical tastes were maturing but that was a real struggle.
Absolutely terrible - makes no sense to me at all.
Absolutely no connection.
Kitarasoundi on edelleen loistava, mutta musiikki puhuttelee tällä levyllä vieläkin vähemmän: proge on asia erikseen, mutta että proge yhdistettynä radio-AOR-rokkiin? Hmm...
Rush has turned over-complication into an art form, but here, they take it to new heights. Moving Pictures isn’t music; it’s an endurance test. Geddy Lee’s vocals feel like a fire alarm that just won’t stop, while the guitar and drums seem to be battling each other for who can be more annoying. Each song drones on, like a boring math lecture on “progressive rock.” I get it, you’re smart—but does every song need to be a 7-minute essay on how much you know about time signatures? By the end, I felt like my brain had been rewritten in Morse code.
My expectations weren't *that* low given I found I didn't mind 2112 so I don't know if it's my mood, the shitty weather, or just that this album truly is that bad. Just so much instrumental self-fellating (YYZ), the feeling I was supposed to experience the lyrical story-telling as some kind of epic journey, and more drum fills than I think I'll ever need. Yeesh.
Not a rush fan, so this review is biased.
No me va ese rollo
I understand why people like it but I just have never been able to get into them. Really really do not like his voice either.
Terrible I couldn’t finish it
Yuck
I don't know. Is it his voice? I just never got into them. Have to pass on them ... again.
I cannot support this band
I hate Rush. I can’t stand this guys voice. I have tried to listen to them a number of times. Can’t do it
good music. Hate his voice tho.
Not for me thanks
i know Rush is a great phenomenal band but i do not like this album at all, neither the singing nor the instrument
Couldn’t even finish it
listened to this once and forgot to rate it. I did very much not enjoy listening to it a second time
For the longest time I thought I hated Heart. Eventually I figured out those were actually Rush songs I had heard, so that’s when I learned I hated Rush.
As someone who loves artists with unique voices - I hate Geddy Lee. Also not a big fan of Prog Rock. So those together is not a great combo.
I once read a review that said Geddy Lee’s voice was a cross between Robert Plant and Donald Duck. I don’t think it was a compliment. The instrumental was, however, equally bad.
It all started with Rush. Tenminste dit 1001albums avontuur. Ergens de komende maanden/jaren komt er een dag dat ik mijn vlijmscherpe eerste review over een zeer matig Rush-album opnieuw moet schrijven. De keerzijde van het starten van deze group-review... Nu ben ik niet zo'n prog-rock-versteher. Toch heb ik altijd het idee dat Rush een beetje mosterd naar de hele prog-rock maaltijd is. Phil Collins (Face Value is uit 1981) en Genesis waren al helemaal bekeerd tot popartiesten en Pink Floyd's beste jaren lagen al verder achter zich op het moment dat Rush Moving Pictures uitbrengt. De enorme populariteit op Spotify verbaast me dan ook. Er zijn natuurlijk veel vaders op onze aardkloot, want dit is natuurlijk dadrock pur sang. Los daarvan? Wat vind ik er zelf van? Het bekoord met echt totaal niet. De muziek vind ik niet boeiend en de stem van Geddy Lee is gewoon irritant te noemen. Snel door en hopen dat dat ene Rush album nog lang op zich laat wachten. 4/10
Just no. 1/5
I just do not like Rush.
cool album cover
not great
Basura
Not for me this
I won't be rushing to play this again, and it certainly wasn't moving in a good way. Bailed after the first track. Pompous nonsense.
Bloody awful shit. Bailed less than a minute in.
Nah, not my cup of tea
I thought I'd like this one but it was just meh! I can't remember a single song, it all just blurred into one! There are much better bands in this genre
i will not be rushing to listen to that again. the band got ruined for me by a bf in high school. i feel bad that i can't listen to it objectively.
I don't like the singer's voice and that made me not like the album. I liked "YYZ", though (because there's only music on that one).
Not my cup of tea
Inicio de mis 1001 albumes que debería escuchar. La verdad podía haber seguido mi vida tranquilamente sin escucharlo.
I hate Rush.
Just not my style at all
nicht so meins
Not a fan
Its like rock by the Chipmunks, voice gets on my nerves.
Most overrated band of all time
Verkligen inte för mig, gillade inte sångarens röst, tycker låtar är för långa. Inte för mig
Not my favourite
not my style, sorry but annoying voice and too musical? like the bass and drums, rip Peart
Never really liked prog rock, but tried to listen with an open mind. Nope, still don't like it.
Today’s record was “Moving Pictures”, so I’ve broken my Rush-virginity. Unfortunately, this means I’ve regained my actual virginity. One star!
Annoying. For me, sorry, this is boring. Music from another planet. A planet called air guitar hero? Seriously this was a bit album in 1981? Thin reedy lyrics. Huge drum kit presence.... Big guitars. Droning forever. I can just imagine the long hair. Alas, I have found a new band I don't like. I need an antidote to wash the taste out....
I wanted to run screaming from the room as soon as I saw that drum kit in the first film clip in the snow bunny chalet (perfect setting for all the wrong reasons). If anyone is out there and has seen Freaks and Geeks you'll know what I mean, just think Nick's kit. But I blundered on, my oldest son actually came out to ask what I was listening to, he was utterly bemused. The singer's voice is easily one of the worst I've heard in a long time, and that includes Shaun Ryder. Take a deep breath here, cause I'm wondering again if I've been if I've been too harsh on Stephen Stills....yeah nah! A bass solo, whoa. What about the song that I think is about a red car, big not big? I do have an inkling that the guitarist has some good chops and would probably be ok in another outfit. Seriously, where does this stuff come from, it's like one of those East German bands put together by the Young Pioneers so that they can be wie groovig! And what about the 11 minute epic, I mean I had to listen to it all the way through to fully appreciate just how awful it is, just when you think they might have the balls to put out an 11 minute instrumental that awful singing comes in. And why are these drop kicks writing about burning witches? What sort of rock and roll conversation are they having in the ski bunny chalet to produce that, and the film clip of the fair damsel being burned, heavy man, heavy. Maybe, just maybe, there are you know...witches man... And just while I'm having a conversation with myself, no no no, it is not that I am an aging arsehole who just hates everything, I just know my 22 year old self that hated everything would have hated this as well. Strewth this is shit.
this is the soundtrack to an action bromance film about two LAPD detectives with a really high arrest rate and their mission to take down the kingpin of the gang peddling the new illegal drug that has the streets hooked. i reckon the film is called "High 5" because there is a ridiculous amount of high 5s getting done. its a shit film so it makes sense that the soundtrack would be shit too.
idk it was ok ig. average! i liked vital signs. not really . best of the worst.
Bollox
I don't like Rush
don't like this album.
I just can't get into rush.
Didn't liked it much. Not my kinda genre
Tom Sawyer was a super cool electronic creation in its day. This album 💿 sounds like back ground music for movies, plays and presentation. Talented but not something that I would listen to for entertainment.
Didn't enjoy
listening to this was like watching an episode of the Mighty Boosh. I kept expecting Vince to pop out from behind me and do a little provocative prog rock dance for me. Some of the lyrics were so lame but funny and I'm not entirely sure they were meant to be.
What a load of contrived nonsense. If you'd have told me it was someone trying to be funny, I'd have believed you, except it wasn't even very funny. Lots of crowbared in tempo changes and weird key signatures. Lyrics like a GCSE level spooky story.
Not my thing but I appreciate the effort.
I don’t understand why this album is on the list. Not for me at all.
gefreubel, ik was er al bang voor
Tak zwodnicznego wokalu dawno nie slyszalem, po pierwszym traku przekonany, ze to jakas pani na wokalu gugluje bande, a tam kanadyjskie trio, ktore tworzy muzyke okolo rokowa, dlaczego okolo rokowa, bo niby jeden drumi drugi cos basikuje, gitarkuje, no i bardzo zensko wokaluje, ale cos czym wyroznia stylistyke tego zepspolu sa syntezatory oraz to ze pochodza z kanady, bo jestem przekonany, ze to wlasnie akcent sprawia, ze ten wokal wydaje sie byc damskim, no ale wracajac do muzyki to syntezatory jak przystalo na lata 80, wiec wibujace przez cale traki, zastosowane wszelakie filtry jakie mozna wrzucic na wokal, w skorocie takie zeppeliny remizowe po zastosowaniu efekciarskich syntezatorow, traki ktore sa jeszcze dosc oszczedne co do ich uzycia sa calkiem znosne, ale gdzie te klawiszowanie sntowe jak w vital signs buduje trzon kawalka jest meczace, na plejke wrzuce openingowy trak tom sawyer
Sehr deutlich überhaupt nix für mich.
I had never listened to Rush before this. I now know that I don't like Rush.
It’s got Tom Sawyer
Wat een lekker album blijft dit. Jammer dat MJ zo'n creep was.