Album of The Week #59 - Rush - Moving Pictures

Malice

Here's the latest album of the week. Despite the sad passing of Ronnie James Dio, none of his music was voted to the top. There was a variety of albums voted for again this week but one clear winner emerged pretty quickly.

Here's the breakdown of the votes. As usual, only albums with more than one vote are listed.

Band

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Album

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Vote Count

Cult of Luna|Somewhere Along The Highway|2
Deicide|Once Upon the Cross|3
Opeth|Still Life|3
Dio|Dream Evil|3
Rush|Moving Pictures|6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z31Uk9BQJus

Mr. CooL ICE

First Rush album I listened to and still my favourite. Excellent from start to finish.

galwayrush

One of my earliest Rush memories, my second favourite Rush album of all time after Permanent Waves. Looking forward to experiencing it played in full on the Time Machine Tour.:cool:

GLaDOS

Great album, though I never quite got the mania around Tom Sawyer

Jako8

Love this album.

Gold from start to finish!

damonjewel

Tom Sawyer - The riff, the throbbing bass line "and what you say about his company etc" is sublime

Red Barchetta - The phased out guitar solo is extremely polished. Pearts drumming is beautiful throughout. The little bass solo at the end is up there with Entwistle

YYz - Geddys bass playing is Just wow!

Limelight - The crunchy guitar sound, Liefson's solo again is class

The Camera eye - My personal favourite, I like epic songs, The Bass tone Geddy gets during the solo is so ballsy. The moogy/arp intro is sweet

Witch Hunt - The simple chord structure for "Features distorted in the flickering light" part is great and they milk it when the synths break in. Peart hangs some beautiful rolls over it

Vital Signs - really gives a hint of whats to come from Rush with Signals. Not my most favourite track (Rock/Reggae mix ups dont do much for me). But has its good points

Gaspode

Absolutely fantastic album, trying to get my daughter into Rush at the moment. Think I'm getting there!

RayCon

Without doubt - a masterpiece

peter1892

A masterpiece indeed. Not a bad song - actually not even just an 'OK' song on it, they're all brilliant.

Limelight - that solo is just perfect, especially the way it sustains at the end while the rhythm guitars come back in over it. And Witch Hunt - probably my favourite moment in their live show back in 2007, such a powerful song.

Twilightning

Really goes to exemplify what an amazing drummer Neil Peart is.

PeterIanStaker

Outstanding album not a bad song on it. Limelight & Witch hunt stand out for me.

waltersobchak

Easily in my top 5 favourite albums of all time,.. pure musical perfection:cool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhFDozeUDZQ

galwayrush

:DI was there...

waltersobchak

galwayrush wrote: »

:DI was there...

Ah you totally should've taken a photo of yourselves with some paintings, your halfway there with the red shirts though:pac:

galwayrush

waltersobchak wrote: »

Ah you totally should've taken a photo of yourselves with some paintings, your halfway there with the red shirts though:pac:

We had planned to get some cheap frames and do the walk:D, but a late start after way too much beer the night before put paid to that, also managed to get to the corner of Danforth and Pape , Massey Hall and Lakeside Park while there. We avoided the Orbit Room after the concert as we felt it would be too packed, found a small rock bar and ended up drinking with Alex's business partner in the Orbit Room , 2 of the roadcrew, and Alex's son, who left the Orbit Room as it was too packed:pac: Great night.:cool:

Edit, Although we didn't meet any of the band, how could i forget, had a great chat with the legendary Terry Brown, producer of Moving Pictures.:cool::cool::cool:

Nephilim Wolf

galwayrush wrote: »

:DI was there...

Great picture. Where is it? I never tire of that album, it's just incredible from start to finish. I think that 'Signals' was actually a fantastic follow up album. It's a real pity about the albums that followed though.

galwayrush

The Ontario Legislative Building at Queen's Park Toronto.:cool: