Vapor Trails
Aug. 19th, 2002 10:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eyelessgameDunno if I have time yet to be making regular entries, but a bit on the latest Peart/Lee/Lifeson item.
Heard it the first time about two weeks ago. Didn't care for it.
Put it on again tonight to give it another listen.
I'm stunned. It's /wonderful/. Just had to give the grunge a chance, I guess. It really grows on you, even if you don't listen to it in the meantime...
The thing about Rush has always been that every album is going to do something different than the previous one -- if you want to hear more of the same you will always be disappointed. It's grunge, done the Rush way, which is as fresh and different as Roll The Bones' hip-hop done the Rush way.
Oh, and I assert there is a definite balladeer (quasi-Dar Williams) tone to How It Is -- something I haven't heard in Rush since about The Trees... well, okay, except for Nobody's Hero. So I don't have a point after all. It's still a really good song. Makes me think of a number of people I know whose journals I often read...
Heard it the first time about two weeks ago. Didn't care for it.
Put it on again tonight to give it another listen.
I'm stunned. It's /wonderful/. Just had to give the grunge a chance, I guess. It really grows on you, even if you don't listen to it in the meantime...
The thing about Rush has always been that every album is going to do something different than the previous one -- if you want to hear more of the same you will always be disappointed. It's grunge, done the Rush way, which is as fresh and different as Roll The Bones' hip-hop done the Rush way.
Oh, and I assert there is a definite balladeer (quasi-Dar Williams) tone to How It Is -- something I haven't heard in Rush since about The Trees... well, okay, except for Nobody's Hero. So I don't have a point after all. It's still a really good song. Makes me think of a number of people I know whose journals I often read...
