Rush VS. Pink Floyd Vs. Queensryche

[qabbaan]

Originally Posted by KC Fish

Pink Floyd, and it's not even close.

It still amazes me how Rush can have the fans they do. It's just awful awful prepubescent high school crap. Never understood that...

It amazes me that three musicians that talented produced such bland fare?.. To me anyway. Nothing ground breaking or inspiring.

[mdstu]

Originally Posted by qabbaan

It amazes me that three musicians that talented produced such bland fare?.. To me anyway. Nothing ground breaking or inspiring.

I'm not a huge Rush fan, but "2112" is about as good as it gets.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by mdstu

I'm not a huge Rush fan, but "2112" is about as good as it gets.

I'm not a big Rush fan either but it will always occupy a special place for me.

When I was in high school, I played with an absolutely awesome drummer. He was truly gifted. Once we were sitting around after jamming and his dad (who was in a bad of course) said "Hey, I wanna show you guys something".

He popped in a home video and there was my drummer, sitting at the kit playing "Tom Sawyer" like a pro. He was 7.

[tecumseh]

Originally Posted by KC Fish

Pink Floyd, and it's not even close.

It still amazes me how Rush can have the fans they do. It's just awful awful prepubescent high school crap. Never understood that...

Do you play a musical instrument? Have you ever attempted to write lyrics and set them to melody? Perhaps you're only familiar with Rush's radio catalog. I'm sure you're probably just joking.

[Frazod]

1. Floyd
2. Queensryche
Distant 3rd. Rush

[MahiMike]

Pink Floyd=NFL

Rush=College

Queensryche=High school flunkies

[KC_Lee]

Rush is my prog rock go to band, burnt out of Floyd. Don't get me wrong, they are an amazing band and are responsible for some of the greatest music ever I just can't hear it anymore.

Love Queensryche, saw them last year (or what's left of the band) live here in Nashville.

[Reaper16]

I'm not clicking on that link because I think it'd piss me off even more than a lot of the posts in this thread have.

Pink Floyd is my favorite of the three prog bands in the thread title, fwiw.

[Lzen]

Originally Posted by Reaper16

I'm not clicking on that link because I think it'd piss me off even more than a lot of the posts in this thread have.

Pink Floyd is my favorite of the three prog bands in the thread title, fwiw.

It's probably best that way. And I think they are using the term 'prog' loosely.

[kc rush]

I don't know. I'll have to think about this for a...

Rush.

[ChiefRocka]

"Hush now don't ya cry..."

[BoneKrusher]

mother

[Frosty]

Rush was my first concert (my sophomore year in HS). It was the Permanent Waves tour and I really liked that album (and still do). I wasn't a huge Rush fan though and only owned PW and 2112. I didn't like Tom Sawyer when it came out and fell away from listening to them after that.

My 18 year old son has really gotten into classic rock and I bought him 2112 and Rush's latest greatest hits CD to give him a taste of what they are like. I like hearing the songs again but I still probably wouldn't seek them out.

Pink Floyd's The Wall came out my soph year and I loved that album and about wore out my record. I still love that album though Wish You Were Here is my favorite PF album. I call myself a Pink Floyd fan but in reality I basically just like Meddle, Animals, Wish, The Wall and Dark Side. The Final Cut sucked, the post Waters stuff is okay but not great and I'm not enough of a prog fan to get into their early stuff (though I know most of the songs).

I didn't like Queensryche when they came out and haven't heard anything to change my mind.

I am not a big prog rock fan (never liked Yes or ELP) but I still have some records of some of the bands on that top 100 list like Uriah Heap and Eloy. Eloy is okay but I mostly bought the record because I liked the album art (the artist did a lot of metal album cover art in the 80's) and it was clear vinyl.

[Frosty]

Originally Posted by Frosty

Eloy is okay but I mostly bought the record because I liked the album art (the artist did a lot of metal album cover art in the 80's) and it was clear vinyl.

I doubt anyone cares but it was bugging me that I couldn't remember the artist's name so I looked it up. It is Rodney Matthews, who did a bunch of album covers for Asia, Tygers of Pan Tang, Praying Mantis, etc.




Whole art here

This is apparently the alternative UK cover.

The band itself is pretty good but are probably more ELP/Yes than Pink Floyd.

[htismaqe]

Originally Posted by Frosty

Eloy is okay but I mostly bought the record because I liked the album art (the artist did a lot of metal album cover art in the 80's) and it was clear vinyl.

My wife makes art/sculpture out of old vinyl records. She goes out of her way to find stuff that isn't the straight black. I might actually have this album in a box somewhere, we have literally hundreds of scratched/warped albums that she's going to eventually melt or cut (or both).

And every once in a while, there's a hidden gem in the boxes full of records she buys for $5, like these:



These aren't the actual albums, I'm too lazy to snap a pic and upload it. Apparently, there were only 2500 of the "Killing the Dragon" discs made, it's probably worth about $75.