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    Posted: December 11 2011 at 17:10
^ I'm going to assume that you like Rush?
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I say they are equaly great
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Catcher: A day or two before actually.

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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

No......I like both albums very much and I play them almost weekly
At what point to you stop doing that?
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Points: 17502 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2011 at 09:52
Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Too  bad you don't like the three years before that Wink
 
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Too  bad you don't like the three years before that Wink
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Originally posted by criticdrummer94 criticdrummer94 wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

^ I actually play them back to back all the time.......and I created a separate folder for all the songs as a double album
 
" A Kings Farewell to Hemispheres" is what I call it.......5+ Star dbl album.

How about "A Farewell to Hemispheres"
 
No......I like both albums very much and I play them almost weekly (along with many others in their catalog). Hemisphere is "half of a sphere".......my made up title is just the "King" acknowledging these 2 coming together as they should....in my world LOL
 
I am perfectly fine with what Rush have done over the past 35 yrs.
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Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

How do people rate Hemispheres as better than A Farewell To Kings? AFTK is in my opinion a five star classic. It has cheese prog (Xanadu), cool prog (Cygnus X-1), three shorter but enjoyable pop tunes and one more piece sort of inbetween them all, A Farewell To Kings. Good lyrics too. No fat on that.
 
Hemispheres on the other hand... well... it's not terrible, but it's no five star classic and it's clearly not as good as AFTK imo. The Trees is just about one of the worst lyrics I've ever heard. Cygnus X-1 Book II is mostly good but has some dead air, not dynamic enough and the lyrics are kind of "almost", like there was potential for something great there but they stopped a few revisions short. La Villa Strangiata is nice but not even close to the titanic awesomeness of closing with the original Cygnus X-1.
 
And yet Hemispheres is rated higher than AFTK on PA. Tsk. You people.



Even though I don't fully agree to the text in bold, it probably is the answer to your own question. Albums on this site don't get 5 stars for being cheesy, or for containing pop songs. It wasn't named ProgArchives just because it sounds cool...
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Points: 29625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2011 at 07:57
You know these are the only two Rush albums I have and after reading this thread I have to conclude that they are both crap and I should throw them out and never get any more Rush albums.
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Points: 2449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2011 at 05:10
Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Hem is sublime, Kings is not.

 
Agree. Kings is a bit sh*t, Hemi is great
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Points: 7028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2011 at 04:54
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Points: 3281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 14 2011 at 03:21
I am shocked by the hate for Cygnus X-1 Book 1. It's an obvious classic imo.

As for Signals being a classic, we can all have our own personal favourites (one person, the only female prog junkie I personally know actually, thinks Roll The Bones is their best album) but "officially" I think the Rush canon of classics is pretty much agreed to be 2112 to Moving Pictures and nothing on either side of that.

I will say that since Vapor Trails they seem to be experiencing a thoroughly unexpected late career renaissance. I hope Clockwork Angels continues that.
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AFTK is the one classic Rush album I quite dislike. Give me Signals any day...
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Points: 1281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2011 at 23:51
Have to give it to Hemispheres, mainly due to the fact that it doesn't have a track like Cygnus X-1 Book I.
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Points: 3281 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2011 at 23:14
While we're creating fantasy Rush albums I have always hoped the gang would do a 2112 redux in which the song is expanded to album length as it always should have been. No matter how many times I play 2112, going from that to Passage To Bangkok never feels right.
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Points: 27 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2011 at 21:19
Haven't heard Hemispheres yet, but Farewell To Kings is a favourite out of the albums that Geddy and that do.
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Points: 69 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2011 at 19:24
I think hemispheres is just more consistent than a farewell to kings.  All tracks on Hemispheres are gold.  While A Farewell to kings has Xanadu and Cygnus X1 (some of Rush's best) Cinderella man and Madrigal do nothing to progress the album.  hemispheres sounds more focused and cohesive. 
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Points: 5012 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2011 at 18:29
Well AFTK has Xanadu which is my favourite Rush song but the songwriting on Hemispheres is a lot more cohesive and I find it overall more appealing. I think that the first Book of Cygnus X-1 meanders too much near the middle of the song and I don't really care for Cinderella Man that much.
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Points: 431 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 13 2011 at 17:32
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

^ I actually play them back to back all the time.......and I created a separate folder for all the songs as a double album
 
" A Kings Farewell to Hemispheres" is what I call it.......5+ Star dbl album.

How about "A Farewell to Hemispheres"

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