The Words of the Prophets Are Written On the Studio Walls... - by fett
Koki on 29/6/2010 at 04:35
Quote Posted by fett
I don't think either of you guys realize how retarded you look when you openly admit not knowing much of anything about a band like Rush. They've had more #1 albums than God, and it speaks nothing about how awesome you are, it only confirms that you're culturally myopic.
Man, did I really miss such a hugely popular band?
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_selling_albums) Well, they're not in the world's best selling albums list. (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_music_artists) Neither are they in a list of best selling music artists. So they've been chugging out albums for over forty years and still can't beat Linkin Park?
BrokenArts on 29/6/2010 at 04:38
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I'm only 27 and I think Rush is the cat's ass. What's your point?
As long as it doesn't smell like a cats ass, we'll be ok.
Digs out Moving Pictures.....album, yes I said album.
fett on 29/6/2010 at 04:45
From Wikipedia (bolded type, mine)
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Over the course of their career, Rush has come to release 24 gold records and 14 platinum records (3 of which have gone multiplatinum),]
placing them within the top 3 for the most consecutive gold albums by a rock band. Rush ranks 79th in U.S. album sales according to the RIAA with sales of 25 million units. Total worldwide sales approximate 40 million units.
Despite having completely dropped out of the public eye for five years after the gold-selling Test for Echo (which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200) and the band being relegated almost solely to classic rock stations in the U.S., Vapor Trails reached #6 on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release in 2002 with 108,000 albums sold. It has sold approximately 343,000 units to date. The subsequent Vapor Trails tour grossed over $24 million and included the largest audience ever to see a headlining Rush show — 60,000 fans in São Paulo, Brazil. Nevertheless, Vapor Trails remains their first album not to achieve at least gold status.
However, Rush's triple CD live album, 2003's Rush in Rio, was certified gold by the RIAA, marking the fourth decade in which a Rush album had been released and certified at least gold. Moreover, in 2004 Feedback cracked the top 20 on the Billboard 200 chart and received radio airplay.
The band's most recent album, Snakes & Arrows, debuted at #3 (just one position shy of Rush's highest peaking album, 1993's Counterparts, which debuted at #2) on the Billboard 200 selling approximately 93,000 copies in its first week of release. This marks the 13th studio album to appear in the Top 20 and the band's 27th album to appear on the chart regardless of position over the course of their career. The album also debuted at #1 on the Billboard's Top Rock Albums chart, as well as peaking at #1 on the Top Internet Albums chart when the album was released on the MVI format a month later. Still, Snakes & Arrows has yet to accumulate sales that approach or eclipse Vapor Trails or Rush in Rio.
The two consecutive tours in support of Snakes & Arrows in 2007 and 2008 accrued $21 million and $18.3 million, respectively, earning Rush the
number 6 and 8 spots among the top ten summer rock concerts.
Point being, they weren't just charting back in the 70's and 80's. The most recent album debuted at #3? I'd say they're marginally popular, but far be it from me to put them in the same category as Linkin' Park. :erg:
Bluegrime on 29/6/2010 at 07:45
Geez fett, whats with the wall of wiki text? I appreciate contributing to the conversation but thats pretty obnoxious. And I hate to say this, but Koki's got a point. I'm sure Rush is great, but they aren't the super name in music that you guys seem to think they are.
That said I'm listening to them right now and they aren't feeling like my flavor of music. I'll browse around some more for them tomorrow since there are apparently several generations of their music, but so far its kinda meh.
rachel on 29/6/2010 at 08:45
I discovered Rush very recently with the Chuck and I love you, man soundtracks of all things... I had never heard of them before.
But I bought the Rush Chronicles DVD/CD set based on that, it's pretty damn awesome. :)
june gloom on 29/6/2010 at 09:07
Quote Posted by Bluegrime
That said I'm listening to them right now and they aren't feeling like my flavor of music. I'll browse around some more for them tomorrow since there are apparently several generations of their music, but so far its kinda meh.
If you don't like 2112 you're beyond help.
I see Rush shirts
all the fucking time. Even displayed in the front window at
Hot Topic! Hot Topic, for god's sakes, people, do you realize the kind of saturation it'd have to have with the younger mallcore crowd to warrant shirts getting sold at fucking Hot Topic?
So no, I think they
do manage to carry that kind of recognition even now. If you don't know who they are, even through cultural osmosis, then you're either very isolated or very ignorant.
Matthew on 29/6/2010 at 09:32
I've never knowingly heard one of their compositions but even I have heard of Rush.
Sombras on 29/6/2010 at 13:21
Quote Posted by Xorak
I think the early, edgier, more-raw stuff was always better, and this is the 'classic' Rush that most people remember. Such as in this clip from about 1975 (ignore the first couple seconds):
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Jeez, been 20 years since I've heard that song. THANKS. Interesting to see Lifeson temporarily planted in between Ted Nugent and Jimmy Page, but he seriously rocked that ES-335. Wow, could he have leaned any harder on bridge pick-up?
This was classic, solid Canuckistani rock--what Triumph was until they tried to go "metal" in the 80s.
fett on 29/6/2010 at 14:29
BlueGrime - No, Koki doesn't have a point, which is what the "wall of Wiki" is about. I was simply responding with some actual numbers to his claim that they weren't that big. They were and are huge, just by numbers of their core fanbase. I'm sorry they've never made it on to TLZ or whateverthefuckdumbassVH1 show carries all the hot new bands (ya know, like the great Linkin Park), but at this point in their career, I don't think it's overstepping my internets cool to start a thread about them. Also, if 4 short paragraphs consist of a "wall," I don't recommend Rush to you at all. They require a little more sophisticated attention span than yours. ;)
Ffs, I'm not butthurt that everyone doesn't like them. Traditionally, people that hate them REALLY hate them, which is fine. But it's the height of stepping on your dick to come wandering into a thread intended for people who appreciate them, claim they're irrelevant, and start recommending Tame Impala albums. I know it's in keeping with Koki's and Koyla's typical "look at me, I'm edgy" shtick, but it's the same shit they do all the time around here, and then they go whine in the "ttlg is dead/no one will play with me thread" that people are mean to them. Their behavior is douchebag 101, trolling at its worse. Gtfo and start a Tame Impala thread, and quit fucking up this one with your desperate attempts to impress everyone with childish "my band is better than your band" antics.
Gingerbread Man on 29/6/2010 at 15:17
Word up.
And then I say something about Alex Lifeson being total shit (really honestly totally shit) when he was onstage with the Tragically Hip recently. Incredibly disappointing to see. But awesomely cool to see.
Rush has an Annoying Quotient roughly on par with (and as ill-deserved as) Guns 'n' Roses. And for pretty much the same reasons.
ps I like Rush. I just like them as much as I think they deserve, and no more. :D
