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Poll Question: Xanadu or Hemispheres?
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Direct Link To This Post Topic: Clash of Rush epics: Xanadu or Hemispheres?
    Posted: November 08 2017 at 10:43
Xanadu all the way. It's musically an interesting epic song from beginning to end, while beginning of Hemispheres is great, after first 4 minutes the song goes into repetition and becomes dull. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2017 at 11:02
Hemispheres today but I love both. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2017 at 11:13
Xanadu is very cool but I consider Hemispheres to be Rush's best epic...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2017 at 12:00
Xanadu - in a league of it's own. Prefer Hemispheres to Cygnus X1 - so I treat them as separate entities despite the narrative link and the mid-track reprise in the latter. "...Apollo was astonished..." Not 'arf!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2017 at 12:06
Both again.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2017 at 16:00
XANADU but,... HEMISPHERES is very close !
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2017 at 16:58
I like both. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2017 at 17:03
Hemispheres for me if only for the eerie "ghost" section towards the end.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2017 at 20:36
Hemispheres is lousy. Xanadu is a lot of fun.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 08 2017 at 21:33
Xanadu for me too. Hemisphere is good and all, but I guess in the end it IS too long for it's own good... or at least for my own enjoyment.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2017 at 05:31
Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

Hemispheres today but I love both. 

Xanadu today. What will it be tomorrow? Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2017 at 05:49
Love both, but it is Xanadu hands down.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2017 at 08:16
Love both (especially that outro in Xanadu), but Hemispheres gets the nod.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2017 at 08:31
Xanadu, although I prefer the version on ESL.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2017 at 09:57
Both are awesome...but I prefer Hemispheres
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2017 at 10:43
Xanadu.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2017 at 11:31
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Xanadu, although I prefer the version on ESL.

I used to. I got ESL before I got Kings so the ESL version is the one I cut my teeth on. When I finally got Kings, I thought the studio version sounded odd but it grew on me and now it's the one I prefer
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2017 at 12:33
Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

Xanadu, although I prefer the version on ESL.


I used to. I got ESL before I got Kings so the ESL version is the one I cut my teeth on. When I finally got Kings, I thought the studio version sounded odd but it grew on me and now it's the one I prefer


I heard ESL first too, and the studio version is excellent, but I prefer the production and Geddy's voice on the live version.
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