Rush: Moving Pictures - Extended Play Lounge (Episode 20)
Added 2022-05-18 16:09:41 +0000 UTCOur next installment of the Extended Play Lounge features the most commercially successful album in the history of Rush: Moving Pictures.
I had never heard the entire album before, although Tom Sawyer and Limelight were familiar to me. There's not a weak song on the entire album.
Turn it up and enjoy!
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Comments
Try not to over think what they were doing,they weren’t a soulless prog band,even though the seemed to spawn a few
Brian Rushford
2022-09-02 22:13:49 +0000 UTCPart of the brilliance of Rush is that there are three virtuoso musicians that complement each other and they never step on each other, even while Neil, Alex and Geddy are playing solo-level performances simultaneously. They seem to all do it for each other rather than for themselves. I think that this is the reason for the band's logevity- they all did it for each other, they all appreciated each other. There wasn't a struggle of egos (like Paul and John in the Beatles) but just constant collaboration.
Paul Halicki
2022-06-19 04:01:49 +0000 UTCI'm a little surprised you didn't mention the extensive use of open harmonics by Lifeson on the intro and outro of Red Barchetta. It really sets the mood of the song.
Paul Halicki
2022-06-19 03:21:11 +0000 UTC...as you say before the last song Doug...brainwashed by poisonous lies (All countries leaders it seems, with no better example than Putin). How sad is it that we can't find a few honest people to help run our Governments and Countries for the betterment of all!!...Jon Anderson for World leader for me.
Paul Hoyle
2022-05-31 09:56:37 +0000 UTCyou really nailed it pinning The Police sound to vital signs. in this era all three guys were really really heavily influenced by the police. vital signs ALWAYS has given me big police vibes. I really love that song.
Jordan Hyland
2022-05-31 05:38:26 +0000 UTCThat’s a great performance!
MikeCarr
2022-05-23 09:53:08 +0000 UTCSome call it an alternating meter of 4/4 and 3/4 which I think matches the feel. Technically it's all 7/8, of course
Craig Welton
2022-05-23 02:22:29 +0000 UTCYou expressed interest in the "Fear" trilogy (part IV added later, but parts I-III released in reverse order on successive albums! :-D )... they string all 3 of these together (in the right order) on their Grace Under Pressure Live album, which for me best encapsulates the early 80s era of Rush before they went far too synthy (IMHO). And it also includes a cracking version of YYZ, since you asked...
Patholas
2022-05-22 19:25:16 +0000 UTCMuch like YES, GENESIS, KANSAS,THE MOODY BLUES,etc RUSH created excellent "pop" music They were influenced The Police, Ultravox & many other "New wave" bands.
Memelord Mark
2022-05-22 19:00:10 +0000 UTCGreat episode! You have crossed over to the next sonic playground of the band. It would be great if you could do a track from each of the next three LPs on the Daily Doug. Literally every track from those LPs is perfect for a midweek episode.
Memelord Mark
2022-05-22 18:55:28 +0000 UTCI love Rush. Red Barchetta was the first sub-surface song that made me realize there was a lot more to this band than Tom Sawyer and Fly By Night. Such amazing imagery
Dominick Pearce
2022-05-22 08:40:59 +0000 UTCGenesis
Les Guiblin
2022-05-20 22:51:30 +0000 UTCSo sad that the lyrics to Witch Hunt are as relevant if not more so now as they were 41 years ago when they were written. Will we ever learn?
Dave Clarke
2022-05-20 20:20:53 +0000 UTCExactly, he mentioned it often and this Big Money et al speak of it
Dave Clarke
2022-05-20 20:17:35 +0000 UTCNeil must have been a big fan of Dos Passos' USA Trilogy.
David Granger
2022-05-20 18:55:28 +0000 UTCExit Stage Left is a live album. YYZ live version is on this one
Joseph Pasteris
2022-05-19 22:12:04 +0000 UTCThere’s an interesting thing about the chord pattern during the chorus to Limelight. I don’t know the technical musical terminology, but it’s a progression with 3 chords. Each chord lasts one bar of 3/4, and then the pattern starts over. So the chord pattern is only 3 bars long, but the vocal line is longer than 3 bars. So the 3 chords keep circling around, but different chords fall in the “first chord” place. Like A-B-C-A. B-C-A. B-C-A-B. C-B-A. I’m probably not explaining this well - does anyone know what I’m talking about? 😂
MikeCarr
2022-05-19 20:51:47 +0000 UTCOn their grace under pressure tour, they actually did parts 1 to 3 live in order - great live versions, and the video is somewhere in the YouTubes.
MikeCarr
2022-05-19 20:46:26 +0000 UTCThis is great. I do have a teeny-tiny nitpick, though... Being Canadian, isn't the title pronounced, "YYZed?"
Illume Eltanin
2022-05-19 17:21:07 +0000 UTCI love watching your facials expressions as you listen to this! Excellent work as always. I suggest at some point you listen to the “Fear Series in order of release. I’m just amazed at the mind of Neil, how he crafted these and released the. To think 21 years between the beginning and the end. Again Bravo!!!
David McCardell
2022-05-19 03:16:11 +0000 UTCBack in Jr High I went to Germany as an exchange student. Up to that point I had been into Kiss, then ELO, but I had just been introduced to Yes. While over there I picked up Yessongs and Drama (I had 90125 and Fragile), and then another American who was over there and a bit older told me to get Moving Pictures. Those were the three albums I could afford while over there (along with blank tapes so I could record them to listen while wandering around Germany), and all three are still albums that I feel are perfect from
Randy Hammill
2022-05-18 18:02:44 +0000 UTCMoving Pictures is definitely 'Rush going to the 80s', transitional album. But you won't get a better transitional album! It's insanely cohesive and well crafted, no weak tracks whatsoever, one of my all time favorite prog albums. Vital Signs is actually my favorite Rush song. I'm not a reggae fan, but that groove is fantastic and ending of that track is epic. Also, the track is a prime example of tasteful use of synthesizers. And Vital Signs is actually the only song in Rush's discography that has that reggae feel, but of course, that's not the only daring thing Rush has ever done. Also, when I heard the news about Neil's passing in 2020, I went to listen Limelight and grieved along with that song for a couple of days. I wasn't a Limelight fan before, but I also sensed that this is a very personal Neil's lyric and that Lifeson's solo and the last chorus - so emotional. Limelight was really a perfect 'painkiller' at that time To continue Rush journey, there's two directions from this point: going one album back to Permanent Waves or one album further to Signals. Permanent Waves is the first sign that Rush are going to not so epic, more compact songwriting, but a lot of prog elements are still on. And Signals is a definitive 80s Rush album with even more synthesizers and bits of new wave influences and it probably has best Geddy's bass performance of all the albums. For me Signals and Permanent Waves are equally excellent albums, just a little step down compared with Moving Pictures.
Einaras Sipavičius
2022-05-18 17:22:40 +0000 UTCSuper awesome. I loved revisiting this on your channel. Thank you. “Story Time with Rush”. I believe you may have found your next sub channel.
Ryan Gonzalez
2022-05-18 17:12:29 +0000 UTCThis truly is a great album and because of the popularity of Tom Sawyer and Limelight I'm sure that is the reason why... I still think it would of been better to do Permanent Waves first... Then Moving Pictures... Then Signals... I think it clearly shows the highest point of Rush's popularity and growth musically. Thanks Doug for all you do and I'm sure the other albums will get a turn in the future. Peace.
Bryan Tursk
2022-05-18 16:20:49 +0000 UTCOne of my current closest friends early interactions with me within the first month of knowing each other was I was in their car on aux with their iPod and YYZ was on it and they were not familiar at that point with Rush all too much so I put it on and my buddy who was in the back was also a huge fan and he and I immediately started singing the different parts. I automatically just started singing the bass part and he did the guitar just naturally. Sure it was a wild experience for her to hear and see us go wild to that song.
Noah Hallman
2022-05-18 16:17:53 +0000 UTC
