Ich wiederhole mich jetzt zum letzten Mal. Die Qualität des Rush Backkataloges drückt sich vor allem darüber aus, welche Songs man nicht in seiner Top 10 hat ohne das die eigene Liste an Schlagkraft verliert.
Rush - Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - Comic book & lyrics, Artwork by Dave Hornsby & Floyd Hughes
The music:Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres from the Rush-album Hemispheres. Released on October 29, 1978. Recorded in June--August 1978 at Rockfield Studios i...www.youtube.com
03. Cygnus x-1 Book II: Hemispheres (113 Punkte, 16 Nennungen)
(Hemispheres, 1978)
"'Book II' is about the same space traveler that appears in 'Book I' on "A Farewell To Kings". After arriving through a black hole, he helps bring into balance the warring followers of Apollo and of Dionysus. The basic idea for the piece came from a book I was reading, Powers of Mind. It was just an incidental thing, but it was something I had read before, so I tied it into a whole lot of things and it’s the basic constant conflict between thoughts and emotions, between your feelings and your rational ideas. Apollo and Dionysus have been used in a lot of books to characterize these two elements, the rational side and the instinctive side. I’ve always been interested in the ways these two themes transmit themselves into people in political life or in social life. All these conflicts—whether the instinctive way is right or the rational way is right—are always going on between people. The basic theme of 'Hemispheres' is that conflict. 'Armageddon' (the fourth section of the piece) is really the focus of that. It’s the climax of that conflict and our hero Cygnus comes in and breaks up the conflict. One of the main points that I wanted to make is that the battle is inside each of us. It’s not some abstract, cosmic battle.
For those who want to dig deeper: The world our protagonist Ieaves is being ruled over by two gods who represent opposing forces—Apollo and Dionysius. Apollo champions the force of reason and rationale and Dionysius champions the force of instinct and intuition. I’m taking the setting back to the dawn of creation when there was just man not knowing who he is or why he’s there. Apollo comes along and gives the people a shot at progress and offers all these benefits and they say ‘sure we’d like fires to warm us in winter. They follow him along and build amazing cities and get involved in science and build beautiful things just for the sake of it. But they’re bored because they don’t have an emotional attachment to the things that they’re making. They lose the knack and the interest in doing them any more. An ennui falls over everybody and they hang out, bored. They go after Dionysius who tells them what he can offer and obviously the instinctive and artistic side of things that he offers them—the music and dancing and love. They say ‘yeah, that sounds great after what we’ve had. Everyone has a wonderful time, they leave the cities and just rave. But when winter comes along they’ve lost the skills that would keep them warm and that whole rational side of them doesn’t function the way it did. So the wolves and cold get to them and at that point they break into total anarchy and chaos. That’s the Armageddon section of the song because both Apollo and Dionysius are fighting for control. Eventually the whole problem is solved by the arrival of Cygnus. He points out the chaos that the struggle between Apollo and Dionysius is causing. So they appoint him as a god—the bringer of balance.” (Neal Peart)
Book 1 ist mein Platz 3
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Da isser ja! Platz 6 in meiner Liste und mein sechster Treffer. Somit schaffen es tatsächlich zwei Longtracks in die Top 3!
Ja, und zwar "Time Stand Still" !Da isser ja! Platz 6 in meiner Liste und mein sechster Treffer. Somit schaffen es tatsächlich zwei Longtracks in die Top 3!
Zwischen diesen beiden erwarte ich noch ein kürzeres Lied aus den 80ern ...
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Rush - Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - Comic book & lyrics, Artwork by Dave Hornsby & Floyd Hughes
The music:Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres from the Rush-album Hemispheres. Released on October 29, 1978. Recorded in June--August 1978 at Rockfield Studios i...
03. Cygnus x-1 Book II: Hemispheres (113 Punkte, 16 Nennungen)
(Hemispheres, 1978)
"'Book II' is about the same space traveler that appears in 'Book I' on "A Farewell To Kings". After arriving through a black hole, he helps bring into balance the warring followers of Apollo and of Dionysus. The basic idea for the piece came from a book I was reading, Powers of Mind. It was just an incidental thing, but it was something I had read before, so I tied it into a whole lot of things and it’s the basic constant conflict between thoughts and emotions, between your feelings and your rational ideas. Apollo and Dionysus have been used in a lot of books to characterize these two elements, the rational side and the instinctive side. I’ve always been interested in the ways these two themes transmit themselves into people in political life or in social life. All these conflicts—whether the instinctive way is right or the rational way is right—are always going on between people. The basic theme of 'Hemispheres' is that conflict. 'Armageddon' (the fourth section of the piece) is really the focus of that. It’s the climax of that conflict and our hero Cygnus comes in and breaks up the conflict. One of the main points that I wanted to make is that the battle is inside each of us. It’s not some abstract, cosmic battle.
For those who want to dig deeper: The world our protagonist Ieaves is being ruled over by two gods who represent opposing forces—Apollo and Dionysius. Apollo champions the force of reason and rationale and Dionysius champions the force of instinct and intuition. I’m taking the setting back to the dawn of creation when there was just man not knowing who he is or why he’s there. Apollo comes along and gives the people a shot at progress and offers all these benefits and they say ‘sure we’d like fires to warm us in winter. They follow him along and build amazing cities and get involved in science and build beautiful things just for the sake of it. But they’re bored because they don’t have an emotional attachment to the things that they’re making. They lose the knack and the interest in doing them any more. An ennui falls over everybody and they hang out, bored. They go after Dionysius who tells them what he can offer and obviously the instinctive and artistic side of things that he offers them—the music and dancing and love. They say ‘yeah, that sounds great after what we’ve had. Everyone has a wonderful time, they leave the cities and just rave. But when winter comes along they’ve lost the skills that would keep them warm and that whole rational side of them doesn’t function the way it did. So the wolves and cold get to them and at that point they break into total anarchy and chaos. That’s the Armageddon section of the song because both Apollo and Dionysius are fighting for control. Eventually the whole problem is solved by the arrival of Cygnus. He points out the chaos that the struggle between Apollo and Dionysius is causing. So they appoint him as a god—the bringer of balance.” (Neal Peart)
Rush - Subdivisions
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02. Subdivisions (130 Punkte, 19 Nennungen)
(Signals, 1982)
“We longed to break out of the boring surrounding of the suburbs, and the endless similarities, the houses after houses after houses that were the same, and no trees and the shopping plazas and all of that stuff. Our way of trying to be different and our way of not wanting to conform was by growing our hair long. This music that we were into spoke to us in a way that was a vehicle for us to speak out against whatever you speak out against when you’re a teenager. That’s part of teenage life is going through all these hormonal and psychological changes that you don’t even know what you’re doing half the time. We were growing our hair, we were playing in a band, we thought we were kind of hip. I guess we thought we were kind of cooler than the next guy, but we probably weren’t.” (Geddy Lee)
"I had been working on some lyrics and had come up with ‘Subdivisions,’ an exploration of the background from which all of us (and probably most of our audience) had come from. I listened closely to the music Alex and Geddy were creating for the song, picking up the variations on 7/8 and the way the guitar adopts the role of rhythm section while the keyboards take the melody, returning to bass with guitar leading in the chorus, then the mini-moog taking over again for the instrumental bridge. This song is hugely autobiographical of course. It was an important step for us, the first song written that was keyboard-based. The upside of that: people don’t realize is that it made Alex and I the rhythm section. So the first time he and I tuned in to each other's parts was when Geddy was playing keyboards. It was a great new way for us to relate. It's also a good example of us learning to go into time signature changes more fluidly, and again, wonderful to play live. It's challenging and always rewarding to play decently." (Neil Peart)
