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Timing Is Everything, January 6, 2004 By A Customer
This review is from: Moving Pictures (Audio CD) Life changes occur every 7 years. By age fourteen, my life was under assault. I was in a new city and a new school. High school was intimidating, and my study skills were lousy. On top of that, my parents had split up, puberty was raging, and I was unprepared to deal with women, family, school, fights, adults, and authority. I was getting into small-scale troubles like shoplifting. My self-esteem was shot, exacerbated by pimples and the standard teasing. It was 1982.Into this social and personal morass came "Tom Sawyer", the first rock single I ever paid attention to and the most important. Being black, I was used to R&B/soul/funk. Now I realize that the uninformed, uninitiated listener can find much about Rush to criticize, but to me, "Tom Sawyer" was a clarion call and a rallying cry. By the 3rd time I heard it on the radio, I had to buy the album (remember those?). When I was able to collect enough money (about $8.00 - remember that?), I went to the record store and was... Read more
78 of 82 people found the following review helpful 'Everybody got to deviate from the norm', August 19, 2004 By This review is from: Moving Pictures (Audio CD) It's a testament to the talent of this trio that one of their most accomplished releases musically and lyrically is _also_ one of their most accessible.
Lots of times, when musicians' musicians get together to record an album of 'prog rock', the results are interesting to their fellow musicians but leave the average listener in the dust.
The three members of Rush (Geddy Lee, vocals and bass; Alex Lifeson, guitars; Neil Peart, percussion and lyrics) don't work that way. They _are_ musicians' musicians (and they don't achieve their appeal by dumbing anything down), but they never retreat into technodazzle and flashy obscurantism; their music is just (or almost) as intelligible and enjoyable to a listener who wouldn't know 7/4 time if it bit him on the behind. (Even Geddy Lee's solo release _My Favorite Headache_, which you might expect to be filled with all sorts of at-last-a-chance-to-show-off bass theatrics, is on the contrary a fine collection of really good... Read more
26 of 29 people found the following review helpful Electronic Progressive, August 15, 2003 By This review is from: Moving Pictures (Audio CD) Some have said that The Moody Blues brought bombast to rock music. Rush takes the progressive bombast of The Moody Blues to loftier, even more excessive and electronic heights. In the process they have created one of the most accessible progressive rock albums."Tom Sawyer" kicks off the album with one of the three most progressive songs on the album, with the other two being "The Camera Eye" and "Witch Hunt." All three glory in being bombastic and pretentious with exquisitely overblown keyboards of multiple types. This song, with its hard driving guitar and synth driven music, is about what Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer would be like in today's world. One of the best lines from this song is:
And what you say about his company
Is what you say about society.
The truth of these lyrics is that however uncomfortable today's Tom Sawyer may make you feel, it is your criticism of him that is at the heart of society's problem; a grandiose variation on a theme that goes back at... Read more
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| 315 of 320 people found the following review helpful Timing Is Everything, By A Customer This review is from: Moving Pictures (Audio CD) Life changes occur every 7 years. By age fourteen, my life was under assault. I was in a new city and a new school. High school was intimidating, and my study skills were lousy. On top of that, my parents had split up, puberty was raging, and I was unprepared to deal with women, family, school, fights, adults, and authority. I was getting into small-scale troubles like shoplifting. My self-esteem was shot, exacerbated by pimples and the standard teasing. It was 1982.Into this social and personal morass came "Tom Sawyer", the first rock single I ever paid attention to and the most important. Being black, I was used to R&B/soul/funk. Now I realize that the uninformed, uninitiated listener can find much about Rush to criticize, but to me, "Tom Sawyer" was a clarion call and a rallying cry. By the 3rd time I heard it on the radio, I had to buy the album (remember those?). When I was able to collect enough money (about $8.00 - remember that?), I went to the record store and was... Read more 78 of 82 people found the following review helpful 'Everybody got to deviate from the norm', By This review is from: Moving Pictures (Audio CD) It's a testament to the talent of this trio that one of their most accomplished releases musically and lyrically is _also_ one of their most accessible.Lots of times, when musicians' musicians get together to record an album of 'prog rock', the results are interesting to their fellow musicians but leave the average listener in the dust. The three members of Rush (Geddy Lee, vocals and bass; Alex Lifeson, guitars; Neil Peart, percussion and lyrics) don't work that way. They _are_ musicians' musicians (and they don't achieve their appeal by dumbing anything down), but they never retreat into technodazzle and flashy obscurantism; their music is just (or almost) as intelligible and enjoyable to a listener who wouldn't know 7/4 time if it bit him on the behind. (Even Geddy Lee's solo release _My Favorite Headache_, which you might expect to be filled with all sorts of at-last-a-chance-to-show-off bass theatrics, is on the contrary a fine collection of really good... Read more 26 of 29 people found the following review helpful Electronic Progressive, By This review is from: Moving Pictures (Audio CD) Some have said that The Moody Blues brought bombast to rock music. Rush takes the progressive bombast of The Moody Blues to loftier, even more excessive and electronic heights. In the process they have created one of the most accessible progressive rock albums."Tom Sawyer" kicks off the album with one of the three most progressive songs on the album, with the other two being "The Camera Eye" and "Witch Hunt." All three glory in being bombastic and pretentious with exquisitely overblown keyboards of multiple types. This song, with its hard driving guitar and synth driven music, is about what Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer would be like in today's world. One of the best lines from this song is: And what you say about his company The truth of these lyrics is that however uncomfortable today's Tom Sawyer may make you feel, it is your criticism of him that is at the heart of society's problem; a grandiose variation on a theme that goes back at... Read more |
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