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THIS IS THEIR BEST SONG! - Music Draft - Saturday Night's Alright for iFighting (2 Viewers)

simsarge said:
Pick #8 Come Sail Away . What else. Everybody has their favorites Turn Me on and Lady for me), but this has to be their "best", I've seen DDY live four times and the Young-less Styx twice. Much prefer the former. 
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Dang it. Waited too long. Woulda gone "Lady", but there are like a dozen good answers.

Hot Take: "Suite Madame Blue" is defensible as their best.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
wow, I have never gotten the Rush hate ...good dudes, great original music

I mean if you were around in the mid 70s - there wasn't a hint of "these guys suck" or "you're uncool if you like them"

please - Rush haters ...is it only Geddy Lee's voice?  (which I love), is it that nerds like Rush?? (which by the way - that was not an issue for years)

these guys just kicked ### for years and I really hate the Rush hate
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Let's forget the past.

You post a link to a good Rush song, and let's see what happens.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
wow, I have never gotten the Rush hate ...good dudes, great original music
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I'm firmly in the neutral camp on Rush.  Geddy's voice is meh, but that's not a dealbreaker.  I really should give them more of a thorough listen.  It doesn't help that I swear the local rock station used to play "Tom Sawyer" every few hours, but nothing else from their catalogue.  The same station seemed to think the "Money" is the only Pink Floyd song that exists, but fortunately I had exposure to their other material elsewhere.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
wow, I have never gotten the Rush hate ...good dudes, great original music

I mean if you were around in the mid 70s - there wasn't a hint of "these guys suck" or "you're uncool if you like them"

please - Rush haters ...is it only Geddy Lee's voice?  (which I love), is it that nerds like Rush?? (which by the way - that was not an issue for years)

these guys just kicked ### for years and I really hate the Rush hate
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We have Canadian content laws here where something like ~30% of all songs played on terrestrial radio have to be Canadian. This has led to many bands, but most irritably Rush being overplayed to an extent you can't begin to imagine. And it's not like they dig deep into the catalogue either, it's the same 5 songs over and over again. So, I can recognize there's maybe something unique or original there but it stopped being so to me by the time I was 10 years old and I never, ever need to hear them again... but I will.

 
Binky The Doormat said:
wow, I have never gotten the Rush hate ...good dudes, great original music

I mean if you were around in the mid 70s - there wasn't a hint of "these guys suck" or "you're uncool if you like them"
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The bolded was definitely still true at least through Exit Stage Left.

I've always kind of thought "Rush hate" was somewhat inorganic. Some early Internet cool kids circa 2000-2005 dumped on Rush and it just kind of snowballed.

 
Doug B said:
The bolded was definitely still true at least through Exit Stage Left.

I've always kind of thought "Rush hate" was somewhat inorganic. Some early Internet cool kids circa 2000-2005 dumped on Rush and it just kind of snowballed.
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Not where I'm from. You had prog and Rush-loving teenage boys, and the boys that didn't care for them at all. It was plenty organic and unscripted. 

I don't hate Rush. I'm ambivalent about them. It's really just schtick on this board. Is cool by me. 

 
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rockaction said:
You had prog and Rush-loving teenage boys, and the boys that didn't care for them at all.
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Back around 1981 ... Rush weren't categorized as "prog" at all by my cohort. Somehow, they were lumped in with the metal bands of the era. Not so much stylistically ... just that if you liked the big early 80s metal acts, you were almost 100% to like Rush, too.

Rush's biggest fans around where/when I grew up were (a) headbangers and (b) guys serious about playing instruments and forming rock bands.

 
Doug B said:
The bolded was definitely still true at least through Exit Stage Left.

I've always kind of thought "Rush hate" was somewhat inorganic. Some early Internet cool kids circa 2000-2005 dumped on Rush and it just kind of snowballed.
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I've always felt that "Rush love" was akin to the emperor's new clothes. 

 
Mister CIA said:
Just one song is all I ask. ONE.
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like any band you love, it's hard to pick one ...but ok ...

2112

You don't like the length ...fine.  This is still way deep into the album era.  You listened to entire sides. 

It came out my senior ...and coincidentally my family's phone ended in 2112 ...so my little pot-filled head was quite pleased with that.  This was also in the time of full "concept" album ...it's not just a song ...you put on the album ...sit back with whatever imbibe you had ...and immersed yourself in the aura.  

 
Doug B said:
Back around 1981 ... Rush weren't categorized as "prog" at all by my cohort. Somehow, they were lumped in with the metal bands of the era. Not so much stylistically ... just that if you liked the big early 80s metal acts, you were almost 100% to like Rush, too.

Rush's biggest fans around where/when I grew up were (a) headbangers and (b) guys serious about playing instruments and forming rock bands.
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Same exact experience. My good friend was a devotee of Rush. He was (a) a headbanger (early Maiden, Priest) and (b) wanted to play drums so badly and form a band. 

He did both eventually and still plays prog in the San Diego area. 

 
Chaos Commish said:
Okay, hard to go with this after Dead Kennedy's, Rush, Beasties, etal, but let's calm down a bit. 

Love London Grammar. Most of their stuff is a stretch for my playlist, but the current release is perfect. They go triphop with a great insipid on vocals. I might have a crush. The title track is very teardroppy. Not tear inducing, Teardrop the Massive Attack bit.

9.7 London Grammar - Californian Soil

I link you to a live version that's better than the studio version. Man, I want to see them live.

Also a strong live performance with an orchestra that may be better to some but not quite the seemless playlist fit of my choice...

Lord

@Dr. Octopus
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Not an artist I expected to see picked this early.  Lovely pick.

 
hey - I came at this with a heavy schtick thing in mind ...

though I am a big Rush fan - and think Doug B nailed it ...some innernet kids came along and decided Rush wasn't cool

and/or "prog" wasn't cool

and I looked up "kayfabe" - it means "if you think prog is pretentious - hold my beer" 

 
Binky The Doormat said:
hey - I came at this with a heavy schtick thing in mind ...

though I am a big Rush fan - and think Doug B nailed it ...some innernet kids came along and decided Rush wasn't cool

and/or "prog" wasn't cool

and I looked up "kayfabe" - it means "if you think prog is pretentious - hold my beer" 
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It may have been an outgrowth of sentiments internalized from reading the rock-critic community, most of whom never cared for prog and Rush. 

 
Eephus said:
I hated them then. My current attitude is mostly kayfabe by comparison.

We called you uncool behind your back.
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In hs I was part of the clique you poked fun of, but we got all the hot chicks, so there's that. 

As soon as I hit Chico Aug. 1980 everything changed. My then best friend and roommate was a sax player, band member, and heavy into jazz though the band was punk. To this day he's never had a real job and we're turning 60. Punk, new wave, alt became my music. I was never pretentious about it like you, haha, but my audio world changed forever and I dismissed the rock of my hs days for the most part until my kid started studying music and asking about journey, styx, zep, rush, reo, van halen and on and on. She loves a bunch of that stuff and curates a playlist for her friends that's very popular at the bar she tends. A 22 yr old. 

 
8.20 - Nicki Minaj - "Moment 4 Life (feat. Drake)"

Not the most exciting pick, but crosses off Trinidad & Tobago on the list.  Prayers up for Nicki's cousin.

I had "Super Bass" in the last draft.  This one is a little more hip-hop than her most recent pop leanings.  Not Drake's finest verse, but it's a fine feature.   This was the first time I realized he could actually transition from being "Jimmy from Degrassi" to legit crossover superstar.  I could go either way on this or "Super Bass", maybe "Fly".

Pretty sure I'm at a point where I won't get sniped for the rest of this draft.

 
Steve Tasker said:
Not an artist I expected to see picked this early.  Lovely pick.
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Thanks, it got lost in the madness of that run and didn't even get a like. I encourage all to give both links a listen. The undrafted one is somn else. If i chose it I was going to call it my obligatory nod to classical music. :)

 
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