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Rush: Cygnus part I or Jacob's Ladder? |
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Squonk19 
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 Topic: Rush: Cygnus part I or Jacob's Ladder?Posted: May 06 2018 at 00:09 |
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Cygnus edges Jacob's Ladder. A bit more going on.
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“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”
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Mortte
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Posted: May 05 2018 at 22:41 |
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Jacob´s is the greatest song in Permanent waves, but it´s Cygnus, one of the rare Rush songs I learned to play with bass (another one is Xanadu, also tried Tom Sawyer and YYZ, not even tried that solo part).
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Frenetic Zetetic
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Posted: May 05 2018 at 21:14 |
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Cygnus I
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"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
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Posted: March 14 2017 at 05:02 |
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Two essentials appeal. Jacob today, Cygnus tomorrow.
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Posted: March 03 2017 at 11:24 |
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Cygnus
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Posted: March 02 2017 at 09:52 |
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No brainer (despite the voting results) Ladder is rather boring... It's a crescendoing bolero,but that's about itCygnus has got soo much going on in it.
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Posted: March 02 2017 at 08:19 |
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Both are great but really, c'mon. Cygnus by a mile!!!
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Posted: March 01 2017 at 08:46 |
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Jacob's Ladder. I love it.
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 18:56 |
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Cygnus P.I gets the nod.
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 10:35 |
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Cygnus for sure
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 10:28 |
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Definitely Cygnus.
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 09:18 |
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Cygnus for me
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 09:12 |
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Had to go with Cygnus. 'Ladder had the unfortunate position of being part of a mishmash of songs that uncomfortably saw the band into the '80s. It should have been on a better album as Cygnus certainly was. I do love Natural Science.
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 04:38 |
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Love both songs but Cygnus gets the vote.
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 01:51 |
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Cygnus.
I would have a harder time if the battle was vs Natural Sciencw. |
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 01:39 |
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Jacob's Ladder is one of my favourite Rush songs...
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Posted: February 27 2017 at 01:16 |
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Very close. Both songs would be in my Rush top ten, but today I'll go for Cygnus.
Tomorrow I may vote otherwise.... 
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Posted: February 26 2017 at 22:27 |
I believe it's called science fiction. :)
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Posted: February 26 2017 at 22:26 |
I wouldn't go that far but it's one of the best tracks on that album.
Edited by AFlowerKingCrimson - February 26 2017 at 22:28 |
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Posted: February 26 2017 at 22:23 |
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I chose Jacob's Ladder. I won't say I like it a whole lot better but I find it to be the better song. Cygnus suffers from a few things in my opinion. One is the herky jerky stop start rhythm section and the other is the robot voice(right before it). Fortunately they both occur in the first few minutes of the track and it only gets better after that.
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