Rush poll: Hemispheres vs A Farewell to Kings
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Topic: Rush poll: Hemispheres vs A Farewell to Kings
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: Rush poll: Hemispheres vs A Farewell to Kings
Date Posted: November 04 2017 at 20:59
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two albums that capsulates eachother, with song charing concepts. which makes listening to both quite rewarding. -------------  
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 04 2017 at 21:08
| I like both a lot but I'll vote later. |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: November 04 2017 at 21:56
| A Farwell to Kings for me, mostly because of "Xanadu". |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: November 04 2017 at 23:04
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Hemispheres ------------- |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: November 05 2017 at 05:18
| Both really, they could have make an excellent double album. |
Posted By: maryes
Date Posted: November 05 2017 at 06:15
| Two of my favorites albums in all of times... but I vote in "A Farewell To Kings" , however, I must say is by a mm !!! |
Posted By: Wanorak
Date Posted: November 05 2017 at 08:30
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A Farewell to Kings. ------------- A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!! |
Posted By: Hercules
Date Posted: November 05 2017 at 09:03
I agree - easily. ------------- A TVR is not a car. It's a way of life. |
Barbu wrote:Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: November 05 2017 at 09:24
| Too much filler on AFTK. Hemispheres for me. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: November 05 2017 at 09:33
A Farewell To Kings ends with "Cygnus X 1" and Hemispheres begins with "Cygnus X 1 Book II Hemispheres" so they are connected. I voted Hemispheres and owned them both in the late seventies. A Farewell To Kings was an album I played in my bedroom at my parents house on a used turn table I bought from a friend. By the time Hemispheres came out I got it on cassette only because I had a car by then and played it a ton while driving around. I have great memories of listening to both back in the day, they were just in a different context. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 05 2017 at 09:36
This.
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Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: November 05 2017 at 12:04
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Oh man, Hemispheres! ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: November 05 2017 at 12:09
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Hemispheres - my first Rush album and still one of my favorites. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: November 05 2017 at 12:14
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Not a huge Rush fan like many here ,but Kings edges out Hemispheres for me...though my favorites are Permanent Waves and Moving Pics... ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: November 05 2017 at 13:18
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Hemispheres for this guy. Side A slays! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: November 06 2017 at 04:25
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Very tough choice. Both are in my top 5 Rush albums. I really can't choose.
I only wish they had made more albums like these. However, the boys being who they were and are, that never would have happened. ------------- We all live in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: November 06 2017 at 04:36
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A Farewell to Kings has the best Rush track ever (Xanadu), but as an album I perfre Hemispheres. ------------- 
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Posted By: TGM: Orb
Date Posted: November 06 2017 at 05:14
| Not very competitive. AFTK is one of the best albums Rush did and Hemispheres is just bad. Lyrically infantile and it really doesn't seem to me like there was a plan to do Cygnus X-whatever part 2 when they did the rather good first part. La Villa Strangiato is pretty good, to be fair but I think it's a very weak album. |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: November 06 2017 at 05:21
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Hemispheres, but it's damn close! ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: miamiscot
Date Posted: November 06 2017 at 09:07
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Both are terrific but A Farewell To Kings is my favorite Rush LP. Man, that 5 album run from 2112 to Moving Pictures was something else!!!
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Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: November 06 2017 at 12:00
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love both but the one with La Villa Strangiato ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Squonk19
Date Posted: November 06 2017 at 14:06
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Now that is a difficult choice! Saw Rush in Manchester before they went to Wales to record 'Farewell' and that album has a real place in my heart - especially the wonderful Xanadu, The title track and Closer to the Heart. However, Cygnus X1 was never a completely easy listen and there are a couple of steady fillers on it. Hemispheres is just so much more consistent. While Side 1 can't touch Xanadu - I love the journey and the rest are as strong. However, having La Villa Strangiato at the end of Side 2 - is fantastic - their best ever instrumental - a work of pure genius! So Hemispheres wins for me. ------------- “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.” |
Posted By: Progfan1958
Date Posted: November 07 2017 at 05:23
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I enjoy both, but I must say that A Farewell To Kings gets my vote. ------------- Progfan1958 "Peace to you all" "La paix est avec vous" "Pax vobiscum" "Al salaam a'alaykum" "Vrede zij met u allen" "Shalom aleichem" |
Posted By: iluvmarillion
Date Posted: November 07 2017 at 23:20
Both records could just about fit onto a single CD.
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Posted By: TexasKing
Date Posted: November 08 2017 at 03:24
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Tough choice, but I went with Hemispheres. But, in my book Xanadu blows Cygnus Hemispheres away.
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Posted By: Man With Hat
Date Posted: November 08 2017 at 08:30
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Spheres. ------------- Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: November 08 2017 at 09:24
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Both recorded at the same studio in Wales, so there's a vibe there. Anyway, it's 'Kings because that finally got me into Rush. ------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: November 11 2017 at 17:58
This!!! |
Posted By: HemispheresOfXanadu
Date Posted: November 12 2017 at 12:03
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A Farewell to Kings because of Cygnus and Xanadu ------------- https://twitter.com/ProgFollower" rel="nofollow - @ProgFollower on Twitter. Tweet me muzak. |
Posted By: Frenetic Zetetic
Date Posted: February 21 2018 at 12:48
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Hemispheres. ------------- "I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021 |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: March 02 2018 at 19:01
Kings gets my vote because it has more tacks  ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: Walkscore
Date Posted: March 02 2018 at 20:30
| Villa Strangiato and The Trees are excellent, but Farewell to Kings is excellent all the way through (well mostly). |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: March 02 2018 at 21:12
True. They changed their sound a bit after that to a less overtly proggy sound with "signals" being a bit of a transitional album(still very good though).
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Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: March 02 2018 at 23:38
| Really love both, but Hemispheres is my favourite Rush-album. |
Posted By: Mortte
Date Posted: March 02 2018 at 23:42
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Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: March 19 2018 at 14:00
Some of the best Prog ever!  ------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |