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Poll Question: Rush:The Spirit of Radio or Limelight?
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    Posted: May 07 2018 at 10:46
Both are awesome songs.....I love Spirit because of the reggae beat. Limelight has a excellent lyrics, but Spirit is simply a feel good song and a fantastic live song to boot.

I voted to try and even the votes....coin toss.
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Both are great, Limelight gets my vote.
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I love Limelight, but The Spirit of Radio gets my vote as the opening still brings up the hairs on the back of my neck and transports me back to great times as a student. To hear my favourite band at the time on commercial radio alongside those New Wave bands was very satisfying.
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the Spirit of the Radio. From the Limelight Moving Pictures starts to go into Signals direction.
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Limelight

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^Bah!

Keep them coming. Whatever it takes to shove all the annoying "overrated" threads off the first page.

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Originally posted by TexasKing TexasKing wrote:

For me TSoR all the way, because I feel it's a better song. 


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Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

If I never hear either one again (and I will) I will be a happy man.



and I.... will be a happy man if I never see another damned Rush poll by TexasKing. ENOUGH ALREADY!!! LOL

In fact...I hereby unleash a curse upon your keyboard dude...  may it die a horrible death and you are consigned to internet-less and Rush poll-less hell. hahah Evil Smile
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Spirit just ahead of Limelight.
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Voted for Spirit just to even the poll. Two fine numbers indeed.
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Spirit of Radio have one of most incredible overtures of prog rock in all times, Limelight have a very difficult ( for execution) broken beat  after the first verses. My vote is Spirit of Radio by a nail
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Limelight
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Limelight. I wish to be.
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love both but

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The Spirit of Radio
Two random guys agreed to shake hands. Just Because. They felt like it, you know. It was an agreement of sorts...a random agreement.
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"Limelight"...easily. A classic riff, some of Neil's best lyrics, one of Alex's best solos (and his tone has never sounded better), and a truly riveting climactic outro!
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Excellent tracks, but Limelight for me.
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You must be Jone-sing for a thread to drag out that FM whore Limelight.
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I guess Limelight.
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Originally posted by Thatfabulousalien Thatfabulousalien wrote:

Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

If I never hear either one again (and I will) I will be a happy man.

Amen, I hear ya brutha! LOL

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I'm with you guys. Never need to hear either one again
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The Spirit Of Radio is it. For some reason I've always liked it. Permanent Waves was my second LP I heard from Rush after 2112 (it was back in the '80th) and as TSOR is the opening song it was the first taste of this record. And I loved it then. And to some degree this feeling lasts over three decades :-)  Surely it isn't the best song in Rush's career but nevertheless. You can call it nostalgia maybe.
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