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    Posted: September 09 2014 at 09:07
Rush's most popular albums Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves and Signals, which were released in the eighties, incorporated musical motifs from popular groups at the time from the Police to Ultravox incorporating synths, electronic drums and reggae into thier sound. Why did Rush's music remain so authentic while music produced by Progressive artists at the same time like Yes and Genesis were viewed as commercially compromised?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 09:26
I'm no expert, but I'd have to assume that their early Led Zeppelin-esque hard rock sound coupled with the success of 2112 were effective. 2112 had a 20-minute prog epic, yes, but it also had such radio songs as Passage to Bangkok, Lessons, Tears etc.

Rush also always kept an eye out for recent musical movements and incorporated those into their sound. You can definitely notice some of the reggae influence on the 1980 masterpiece Natural Science.

1981's Moving Pictures was definitely a commercial-friendly prog rock album. Their sound was still hard and heavy, which may have led a lot of teenagers to believe they were a hard rock band. Hell, I never noticed the odd time signatures and the proggy atmosphere in that album back when I was first getting into them; they all sounded like amazing hard rock songs!

Add incredible musicianship and great songwriting to the equation, and voila! A commercially successful prog rock band.

This may be a somewhat shallow view on the topic, but I meant it as a "general elements" list anyway...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 09:27
I think at the time, Rush's embrace of 80s sounds was viewed pretty negatively, at least I was a bit turned off by it (especially when Power Windows came out, I thought they had gone too far with that one).  The difference is really how well it has aged.  With the passage of time, the Rush 80s stuff has held up very well.  I think this may have to do with the the fact that their music, even when heavily synthesized, was not done so in a trivial or superficial way.  The arrangements still had the same depth and sophistication  they had before, maybe even more depth.  In 1985, all I heard was "KEYBOARDS! AAUGH!" but now I hear it as creative orchestration. 

Yes, on the other hand (not to pick on them, but just using your example), used 80s sounds in a much more "novelty" oriented way.  It didn't feel as genuine and as well integrated into the musical ideas like Rush's did.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 09:42
I think Genesis departed more from their 70's roots than Rush did. Loosing two main members, it seems Genesis had to do something to keep going. We all know Phil Collins has a pop side to him (More Fool Me, Mad Man Moon, Follow You Follow Me) and he took over as the flavor of Genesis, but they did it well enough to attract another legion of fans.

To me Yes with 90125 and Big Generator, were closer to what Rush did but Yes were more commercially accepted, by that I mean on the FM radio. Rush still did not dominate the FM radio waves, but only with Tom Sawyer and Spirit of Radio, the rest of the success was still via album sales and droves of under ground fans, mainly the prog community.

Back then it seemed if you dominated the FM dial PLUS music videos on MTV, you were a commercial pop success. Gosh, I remember seeing the Yes videos played over and over and over...Rush not into music videos.

Bottom line I think Rush incorporated the "new wave 80s" sound into their music just enough to keep it fresh but not fall off the edge like people view Genesis and Yes did. Rush lyrics were still based on albums like Hemispheres, AFTK and 2112....whereas Genesis and Yes were writing more about love and feelings, emotions and relationships.

The Police and these other new wave bands had that in their lyrics, but Rush picked up on the music side, the sound that they were making and incorporated that into their 80's albums. The progressive and hard rock/metal fans obviously liked it and made them some of their best selling albums....There is some amazing music on those albums.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 09:50
Speaking of music videos, I fondly recall Rush's video for "Distant Early Warning" - with a kid riding on a cruise missile like it was an amusement park ride.  That was a pretty effective image.  And there was a video for "Big Money" too, but all I remember about that one was seeing a drum stick falling through the air in slow motion.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 12:12
Rush 80's music was great, even if I had discovered them with A Farewell To Kings, then Hemispheres, Caress of Steel etc, I never felt let down by the turn they took at the turn of the 80's, I embraced it quite readily. First of all it was quite gradual, slowly progressing with each album to a more accessible and yet elaborated sound. And yes, they went into a more accessible territory but they never fell into the easy pop-sounding verse-chorus format. Rush was the example of how to get accessible while not compromising the music quality. I also have the impression that they did never seek explicitly for pop-hits, while other bands clearly did. Rush seeked for some airplay and popularity but never at the expense of doing crap.

At the time I really liked much of the 'commercialized' Prog, Genesis Abacab, Yes 90125 (not Owner of a Lonely Heart but I liked a lot all the rest of the album), Asia debut etc, so contemporary Rush were even better than all those.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 14:34
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

I think Genesis departed more from their 70's roots than Rush did. Loosing two main members, it seems Genesis had to do something to keep going. We all know Phil Collins has a pop side to him (More Fool Me, Mad Man Moon, Follow You Follow Me) and he took over as the flavor of Genesis, but they did it well enough to attract another legion of fans.

To me Yes with 90125 and Big Generator, were closer to what Rush did but Yes were more commercially accepted, by that I mean on the FM radio. Rush still did not dominate the FM radio waves, but only with Tom Sawyer and Spirit of Radio, the rest of the success was still via album sales and droves of under ground fans, mainly the prog community.

Back then it seemed if you dominated the FM dial PLUS music videos on MTV, you were a commercial pop success. Gosh, I remember seeing the Yes videos played over and over and over...Rush not into music videos.

Bottom line I think Rush incorporated the "new wave 80s" sound into their music just enough to keep it fresh but not fall off the edge like people view Genesis and Yes did. Rush lyrics were still based on albums like Hemispheres, AFTK and 2112....whereas Genesis and Yes were writing more about love and feelings, emotions and relationships.

The Police and these other new wave bands had that in their lyrics, but Rush picked up on the music side, the sound that they were making and incorporated that into their 80's albums. The progressive and hard rock/metal fans obviously liked it and made them some of their best selling albums....There is some amazing music on those albums.

As for Mad Man Moon reflecting some kind of "pop side," FOOEY! The song is perhaps the proggiest number on A Trick of the Tail, argueably Collins' finest vocal performance on record, and the band's greatest epic since the departure of the Gabe-Meister.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 18:10
The members of Rush have always been savvy enough to connect to the popular trends of music at any one time. This allows them to put a production sheen on their songwriting, which in turn makes the album sound like a product of its times. Since we are talking about popular music, the passages of these times in incredibly fast. Yet, they maintain a sophisticated and skilled approach to songwriting, both in terms of lyrics and music, so the listener hears a nice balance between timelessness and timeliness. The 80s was not the only time they did this. Roll the Bones followed the recent ascendance of rap in popular music, while Test for Echo was grungey. Perhaps the two most egregious examples, but they bring the practice out in the open.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 19:51
Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

 
As for Mad Man Moon reflecting some kind of "pop side," FOOEY! The song is perhaps the proggiest number on A Trick of the Tail, argueably Collins' finest vocal performance on record, and the band's greatest epic since the departure of the Gabe-Meister.

Don't know about proggiest but certainly very prog.  The interlude is incredible, layers and layers of music blending seamlessly, classic Genesis.  Maybe Catcher referred to that verse and especially the way Collins renders it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2014 at 22:47
Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

I think Genesis departed more from their 70's roots than Rush did. Loosing two main members, it seems Genesis had to do something to keep going. We all know Phil Collins has a pop side to him (More Fool Me, Mad Man Moon, Follow You Follow Me) and he took over as the flavor of Genesis, but they did it well enough to attract another legion of fans.

To me Yes with 90125 and Big Generator, were closer to what Rush did but Yes were more commercially accepted, by that I mean on the FM radio. Rush still did not dominate the FM radio waves, but only with Tom Sawyer and Spirit of Radio, the rest of the success was still via album sales and droves of under ground fans, mainly the prog community.

Back then it seemed if you dominated the FM dial PLUS music videos on MTV, you were a commercial pop success. Gosh, I remember seeing the Yes videos played over and over and over...Rush not into music videos.

Bottom line I think Rush incorporated the "new wave 80s" sound into their music just enough to keep it fresh but not fall off the edge like people view Genesis and Yes did. Rush lyrics were still based on albums like Hemispheres, AFTK and 2112....whereas Genesis and Yes were writing more about love and feelings, emotions and relationships.

The Police and these other new wave bands had that in their lyrics, but Rush picked up on the music side, the sound that they were making and incorporated that into their 80's albums. The progressive and hard rock/metal fans obviously liked it and made them some of their best selling albums....There is some amazing music on those albums.

As for Mad Man Moon reflecting some kind of "pop side," FOOEY! The song is perhaps the proggiest number on A Trick of the Tail, argueably Collins' finest vocal performance on record, and the band's greatest epic since the departure of the Gabe-Meister.


Everyone here knows that Genesis is my #2 all time favorite band...behind Rush. I love all eras of Genesis, its brilliant music..prog or no prog, I'm not that stuck up on that point.

That song can easily be a FM radio friendly song, meaning a pop song, because of how Phil Collins delivers it. Unlike a Rush song say like Losing It or Different Strings, which I have never heard on the radio and would never make a radio playlist, they have no pop flavor to them.

Certainly Mad Man Moon is not the progiest song on that album. And I am not sure I understand, you say the song is their greatest epic since the departure of Peter Gabriel??

Maybe I misunderstand that part....
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2014 at 07:04
Originally posted by HolyMoly HolyMoly wrote:

I think at the time, Rush's embrace of 80s sounds was viewed pretty negatively, at least I was a bit turned off by it (especially when Power Windows came out, I thought they had gone too far with that one).  The difference is really how well it has aged.  With the passage of time, the Rush 80s stuff has held up very well.  I think this may have to do with the the fact that their music, even when heavily synthesized, was not done so in a trivial or superficial way.  The arrangements still had the same depth and sophistication  they had before, maybe even more depth.  In 1985, all I heard was "KEYBOARDS! AAUGH!" but now I hear it as creative orchestration. 

Yes, on the other hand (not to pick on them, but just using your example), used 80s sounds in a much more "novelty" oriented way.  It didn't feel as genuine and as well integrated into the musical ideas like Rush's did.

I think I felt like you back then. I remember spinning Signals the first time in my neighbor's bedroom and being shocked by the synths. When I listen to that era now, I'm amazed by how much lack of synth some of the the songs have. 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2014 at 08:55
Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

I think Genesis departed more from their 70's roots than Rush did. Loosing two main members, it seems Genesis had to do something to keep going. We all know Phil Collins has a pop side to him (More Fool Me, Mad Man Moon, Follow You Follow Me) and he took over as the flavor of Genesis, but they did it well enough to attract another legion of fans.

To me Yes with 90125 and Big Generator, were closer to what Rush did but Yes were more commercially accepted, by that I mean on the FM radio. Rush still did not dominate the FM radio waves, but only with Tom Sawyer and Spirit of Radio, the rest of the success was still via album sales and droves of under ground fans, mainly the prog community.

Back then it seemed if you dominated the FM dial PLUS music videos on MTV, you were a commercial pop success. Gosh, I remember seeing the Yes videos played over and over and over...Rush not into music videos.

Bottom line I think Rush incorporated the "new wave 80s" sound into their music just enough to keep it fresh but not fall off the edge like people view Genesis and Yes did. Rush lyrics were still based on albums like Hemispheres, AFTK and 2112....whereas Genesis and Yes were writing more about love and feelings, emotions and relationships.

The Police and these other new wave bands had that in their lyrics, but Rush picked up on the music side, the sound that they were making and incorporated that into their 80's albums. The progressive and hard rock/metal fans obviously liked it and made them some of their best selling albums....There is some amazing music on those albums.

As for Mad Man Moon reflecting some kind of "pop side," FOOEY! The song is perhaps the proggiest number on A Trick of the Tail, argueably Collins' finest vocal performance on record, and the band's greatest epic since the departure of the Gabe-Meister.


Everyone here knows that Genesis is my #2 all time favorite band...behind Rush. I love all eras of Genesis, its brilliant music..prog or no prog, I'm not that stuck up on that point.

That song can easily be a FM radio friendly song, meaning a pop song, because of how Phil Collins delivers it. Unlike a Rush song say like Losing It or Different Strings, which I have never heard on the radio and would never make a radio playlist, they have no pop flavor to them.

Certainly Mad Man Moon is not the progiest song on that album. And I am not sure I understand, you say the song is their greatest epic since the departure of Peter Gabriel??

Maybe I misunderstand that part....

How all perfectly smug. And Mad Man Moon is played to death on FM radio, second only to Bad Company's Rock and Roll Fantasy. And what is the proggiest song on 'Tail', hmm? I'd love to hear your answer. Also, name your post-Gabriel epic for the band-I'm all eyes.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2014 at 09:08
Tail is bad in general. Either of the first songs on Wind and Wuthering is better than anything on Tail. In either the scope of progressiveness or just honest song quality. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2014 at 09:17
Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

I think Genesis departed more from their 70's roots than Rush did. Loosing two main members, it seems Genesis had to do something to keep going. We all know Phil Collins has a pop side to him (More Fool Me, Mad Man Moon, Follow You Follow Me) and he took over as the flavor of Genesis, but they did it well enough to attract another legion of fans.

To me Yes with 90125 and Big Generator, were closer to what Rush did but Yes were more commercially accepted, by that I mean on the FM radio. Rush still did not dominate the FM radio waves, but only with Tom Sawyer and Spirit of Radio, the rest of the success was still via album sales and droves of under ground fans, mainly the prog community.

Back then it seemed if you dominated the FM dial PLUS music videos on MTV, you were a commercial pop success. Gosh, I remember seeing the Yes videos played over and over and over...Rush not into music videos.

Bottom line I think Rush incorporated the "new wave 80s" sound into their music just enough to keep it fresh but not fall off the edge like people view Genesis and Yes did. Rush lyrics were still based on albums like Hemispheres, AFTK and 2112....whereas Genesis and Yes were writing more about love and feelings, emotions and relationships.

The Police and these other new wave bands had that in their lyrics, but Rush picked up on the music side, the sound that they were making and incorporated that into their 80's albums. The progressive and hard rock/metal fans obviously liked it and made them some of their best selling albums....There is some amazing music on those albums.

As for Mad Man Moon reflecting some kind of "pop side," FOOEY! The song is perhaps the proggiest number on A Trick of the Tail, argueably Collins' finest vocal performance on record, and the band's greatest epic since the departure of the Gabe-Meister.


Everyone here knows that Genesis is my #2 all time favorite band...behind Rush. I love all eras of Genesis, its brilliant music..prog or no prog, I'm not that stuck up on that point.

That song can easily be a FM radio friendly song, meaning a pop song, because of how Phil Collins delivers it. Unlike a Rush song say like Losing It or Different Strings, which I have never heard on the radio and would never make a radio playlist, they have no pop flavor to them.

Certainly Mad Man Moon is not the progiest song on that album. And I am not sure I understand, you say the song is their greatest epic since the departure of Peter Gabriel??

Maybe I misunderstand that part....

How all perfectly smug. And Mad Man Moon is played to death on FM radio, second only to Bad Company's Rock and Roll Fantasy. And what is the proggiest song on 'Tail', hmm? I'd love to hear your answer. Also, name your post-Gabriel epic for the band-I'm all eyes.


I'm good thanks.....this is a Rush thread not a Genesis thread. You can go and start a Genesis ATotT thread if you want to find out peoples opinion of that album.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2014 at 11:33
In the late seventies and early eighties Rush were viewed by many as a hard rock and heavy metal band. They had a prog following also but I'd say a lot of people who were fans of heavier stuff also were fans. This meant that they had to please more than one kind of fan. However, RUSH were and still are very much their own band and did what they wanted to do. They were open to new ideas and experimenting with different textures, themes and sounds. RUSH didn't do the same album twice like a lot of bands seem to do. Because they were able to take control of themselves without worrying about what the record label thought they didn't have to put out hit singles. Why were they able to do this when Genesis and Yes weren't? I'm not really sure and I don't think there is a definitive answer to that. It might have something to do with the fact that bands who are heavier or at least have a reputation of being heavier aren't expected to be commercial sounding or have hits. How many hits did Iron Maiden, Metallica, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest have in their early days? Even Led Zeppelin weren't exactly known as a top forty band.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2014 at 11:42

[How all perfectly smug. And Mad Man Moon is played to death on FM radio, second only to Bad Company's Rock and Roll Fantasy. And what is the proggiest song on 'Tail', hmm? I'd love to hear your answer. Also, name your post-Gabriel epic for the band-I'm all eyes.]

Well I don't know where you live but I have NEVER heard "mad man moon" on FM radio. Maybe you are thinking of "follow you follow me." That is the one that gets over played.

As for favorite post Gabriel epic my vote might go to Dukes Travel's/Dukes End although there are a few. At one point "home by the sea/second home by the sea" was my favorite Genesis song period. Now it's lucky if it makes my top twenty. Anyway, how did we get on the topic of Genesis. I thought this was about RUSH.

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[How all perfectly smug. And Mad Man Moon is played to death on FM radio, second only to Bad Company's Rock and Roll Fantasy. And what is the proggiest song on 'Tail', hmm? I'd love to hear your answer. Also, name your post-Gabriel epic for the band-I'm all eyes.]

Well I don't know where you live but I have NEVER heard "mad man moon" on FM radio. Maybe you are thinking of "follow you follow me." That is the one that gets over played.

As for favorite post Gabriel epic my vote might go to Dukes Travel's/Dukes End although there are a few. At one point "home by the sea/second home by the sea" was my favorite Genesis song period. Now it's lucky if it makes my top twenty. Anyway, how did we get on the topic of Genesis. I thought this was about RUSH.

The topic of Genesis was breached when the Rush guy wrote that Mad Man Moon reflected Phil Collins' "pop side." And, no, I've never heard Mad Man Moon played on regular rotation FM radio either (that was facetiousness). Mad Man Moon, in fact, was the grand statement of a classically great album (their best post-Gabriel one, IMHO) that graced our ears at just the right time.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2014 at 15:59
Ok. Well your sarcasm went over my head. Maybe because you didn't use any winkies. ;) Yeah, let's stick to RUSH for this thread. :)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 10 2014 at 22:18
Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by Prog_Traveller Prog_Traveller wrote:


[How all perfectly smug. And Mad Man Moon is played to death on FM radio, second only to Bad Company's Rock and Roll Fantasy. And what is the proggiest song on 'Tail', hmm? I'd love to hear your answer. Also, name your post-Gabriel epic for the band-I'm all eyes.]

Well I don't know where you live but I have NEVER heard "mad man moon" on FM radio. Maybe you are thinking of "follow you follow me." That is the one that gets over played.

As for favorite post Gabriel epic my vote might go to Dukes Travel's/Dukes End although there are a few. At one point "home by the sea/second home by the sea" was my favorite Genesis song period. Now it's lucky if it makes my top twenty. Anyway, how did we get on the topic of Genesis. I thought this was about RUSH.

The topic of Genesis was breached when the Rush guy wrote that Mad Man Moon reflected Phil Collins' "pop side." And, no, I've never heard Mad Man Moon played on regular rotation FM radio either (that was facetiousness). Mad Man Moon, in fact, was the grand statement of a classically great album (their best post-Gabriel one, IMHO) that graced our ears at just the right time.


"Night guy"..Did you pay attention to the OP?? He specifically mentions both Genesis and Yes...You took it to another level by asking people what their fav song on ATOtT is and also post Gabriel song, sorry Gabe-Meister

My points in using Genesis and Yes were to reply to Steve G.....read the OP again, I think you should "night guy".
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2014 at 01:00
Yes and Genesis wrote great complex music, followed by overall decent pop-prog music. Rush wrote inadequate 'complex' music, followed by good streamlined prog tunes. So part of it is that the former bands fell quite a ways whereas Rush got better. There's also the fact that Rush's style of prog was suited to the 80's, and that they never got as outright 'poppy' as albums like Genesis, 90125 etc.

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