Rush - Clockwork Angels Release Date

rednik · 15-06-2012 12:12am

Links234 wrote: »

Is it in hmv? I don't think my local easons carries CD's

Classic Rock fanpack released last Monday. Official album release next month.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1858705231/

Links234 · 15-06-2012 10:47am

rednik wrote: »

Classic Rock fanpack released last Monday. Official album release next month.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1858705231/

Ah. I feel a little stupid.

EyesClosed · 15-06-2012 11:27am

Just finished my first listen, its a great album

rednik · 15-06-2012 12:11pm

Links234 wrote: »

Ah. I feel a little stupid.

Ah sure you can always get it today.;)

peter1892 · 15-06-2012 2:40pm

Got it on Monday, can't stop listening to it - brilliant stuff

In fact, every time I listen to it there's new bits I haven't noticed before. Just little subtle things in there, be it bass lines, guitar fills, drum stuff whatever.

And - this is obvious really - it deserves to be played LOUD. No distortion or clipping, it's just made for volume. 'Caravan', 'BU2B' and 'Headlong Flight' (all tracks I liked anyway) sound so much better on CD through my stereo.

GLaDOS · 15-06-2012 3:13pm

Some of the basslines from Geddy are ridiculously good, such an enjoyable album!

Links234 · 15-06-2012 3:14pm

Is there any differences between the album that comes with the magazine, and the official album release?

Doctor Jimbob · 16-06-2012 8:07am

I'm pretty sure we can just end music now, we have a winner.

PickledLime · 16-06-2012 1:06pm

I'm not going to call it their best album (that will always be AFTK for me), but it's probably in their top 6 or so. More importantly, it sounds like it's been recorded by a band half their age, as if they had something to prove to the world. It fizzles and pops with ideas and vitality.

The fact that they're able to produce music this far into their career is a feat in itself, but when it's some of the best music of that lengthy and formidable career? Astounding. Phenomenal album.

PickledLime · 16-06-2012 1:24pm

Links234 wrote: »

Is there any differences between the album that comes with the magazine, and the official album release?

Pretty sure the audio is all the same, dunno if there'll be a general release of the nice digipack it comes in though. The magazine cost me €20, i guess depending where you shop, the actual cd won't be a whole lot cheaper and the magazine is great if you're a big enough fan

laros · 16-06-2012 2:42pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kYXM7daTxo&feature=player_embedded#!

Interview with Geddy about the Recording of Clockwork Angels

Doctor Jimbob · 18-06-2012 8:34am

The Wreckers is slowly creeping up my list of favourite songs.
In general I mean, not just on the album.
It's bloody magnificent.

rednik · 18-06-2012 11:15am

After listening to it for a week now it is a great album, I just hope they come back to Dublin again.

Cill94 · 18-06-2012 7:37pm

Could someone recommend which Rush album is best to start out with if you've never listened to them before? I keep seeing them mentioned all over the place and feel it's a sign to give them a go :P

xerces · 18-06-2012 8:12pm

Cill94 wrote: »

Could someone recommend which Rush album is best to start out with if you've never listened to them before? I keep seeing them mentioned all over the place and feel it's a sign to give them a go :P

I'd recommend their 1981 album Moving Pictures if you've never listened to them before. It's widely regarded as one of their best and should give you feel for what they're all about.

Cill94 · 18-06-2012 9:17pm

xerces wrote: »

I'd recommend their 1981 album Moving Pictures if you've never listened to them before. It's widely regarded as one of their best and should give you feel for what they're all about.

Thanks!

I'll give it a listen.

Richy06 · 19-06-2012 9:00am

I'd recommend just going to the start and working your way forward. Rush are a band who went through huge changes to their style and sound through the years. Each period has it's better albums, but Rush are really one of those bands whereby you reap huge rewards from going through their catalogue chronologically. The self titled debut and Caress Of Steel being maybe the only ones I'm not too pushed on - but these have some great songs nonetheless. But Fly By Night, 2112, A Farewell To Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals & Grace Under Pressure is a run of albums that, to my mind, is almost unrivalled in it's consistency as well as it's originality and freshness. Their sound changes drastically over the course of the two decades and the journey through their evolving styles is one I'd encourage anyone to embark on.

I personally started with Moving Pictures and was blown away, but I didn't like the more progressive material (especially Hemispheres) until years later. I kind of dipped in and out of albums here and there. But then I did it like I mention above and I'm so glad I did. I even bought each on on vinyl as I made my way through. Good times.

Now my favourite album is Hemispheres and my favourite song is Cygnus X1 Book 2 and my favourite moment in music is within the song (THAT chord when the song kicks back in). So that's just my experience, but maybe I'm just too much of a music nerd and nobody else feels this way...

xerces · 19-06-2012 11:51am

Richy06 wrote: »

I'd recommend just going to the start and working your way forward.

Yeah, ideally this would be the best way to go about their discography (or anybody's discography for that matter), but I got the impression that Cill94 wanted one album to see if Rush are to his tastes and I think Moving Pictures is a good one for that.

In saying that, I'm dipping in and out of their albums of late so I think I'll have a crack at the nerdy way of things by starting from the beginning

.

Richy06 · 19-06-2012 11:54am

I meant more if he listens to Moving Pictures and finds them too his taste then to go about it the way I mentioned. I'm like that with any band or artist with an extensive back catalogue, though. It's so much more rewarding if you've the time and patience to do it!

Mushy · 19-06-2012 10:13pm

Finally got the album. Although I'm only home a few minutes, so it'll take me a while to lsiten to it. Very excited though.

bnt · 22-06-2012 7:46pm

Just got the new Rush yesterday: so far, the title track is doing the most damage to my head. I don't think I've ever heard Rush swing before, but they manage it here. It has a kind of weightless feel to it while still being heavy - a contradiction, I know, but that's what I get from it. Apart from that - like any Rush album, it doesn't lend itself to a quick review.

PickledLime · 22-06-2012 8:49pm

After spending a solid week listening to it (minimum 3 times a day), i'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's the best thing they've done since Moving Pictures :eek:

galwayrush · 22-06-2012 11:12pm

PickledLime wrote: »

After spending a solid week listening to it (minimum 3 times a day), i'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's the best thing they've done since Moving Pictures :eek:

I'll add Permanent Waves and declare the finest 3 albums of their career.:)
Ill even admit to shedding a tear or two with The Garden...

PickledLime · 23-06-2012 12:38am

galwayrush wrote: »

I'll add Permanent Waves and declare the finest 3 albums of their career.:)
Ill even admit to shedding a tear or two with The Garden...

Ah Permanent Waves, it was my first Rush album and made my jaw hit the floor and me fall in love with them.

They've such a large body of fantastic work (and i'm a huge fan of their prog noodlings) it's hard to say top 3 for myself, but i will say my top 6 albums are 2112, AFTK, Hemispheres, PM, MP, CA.

I'll admit The Garden took me quite a few listens, but it's probably their best ballad now.

RayCon · 23-06-2012 9:29am

348 days til Berlin !!!!!!! woo hooo ....*

* This could be the longest "countdown" ever*

xerces · 23-06-2012 10:27am

Does any hope remain for an Irish show?

grimm2005 · 23-06-2012 6:11pm

xerces wrote: »

Does any hope remain for an Irish show?

I've lost hope myself so am going to the London O2 show with a mate!

RayCon · 23-06-2012 8:58pm

PickledLime wrote: »

i'm a huge fan of their prog noodlings

If you like Prog noodlings ... may I recommend Astra ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWiBTnGoGM8

bnt · 24-06-2012 7:57pm

Looking at the lyrics, The Anarchist seems like it could stand up to a Death Metal cover version. I don't think I've ever seen such cold anger in Rush lyrics before:

The lenses inside of me that paint the world black
The pools of poison, the scarlet mist, that spill over into rage
The things I've always been denied
An early promise that somehow died
A missing part of me that grows around me like a cage ...

:mad: :cool:

greendom · 24-06-2012 8:22pm

PickledLime wrote: »

I'll admit The Garden took me quite a few listens, but it's probably their best ballad now.

Available Light is better (imo).

As to the album as a whole my initial thoughts are that its on a par with Vapor Trails for me (which I really like). However it doesn't come close to the vast majority of their output. A huge improvement on Snakes and Arrows though. Rush albums do have a tendency to improve the more I listen to them so that opinion could change.

PickledLime · 24-06-2012 8:46pm

bnt wrote: »

Looking at the lyrics, The Anarchist seems like it could stand up to a Death Metal cover version. I don't think I've ever seen such cold anger in Rush lyrics before:
:mad: :cool:

Far more eloquent than most death metal (and i'm speaking as a massive, massive death metaller).

I think though it fits, moreso than anything they've done, this album is a fictional story. It's a bit of an odd shift considering Peart's lyrical output for the last how many decades, never thought he'd return to this kind of storytelling tbh (my fave song on the album too!).

PickledLime · 24-06-2012 8:47pm

RayCon wrote: »

If you like Prog noodlings ... may I recommend Astra ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWiBTnGoGM8

To the ever evolving and expanding 'to buy' list that goes :pac:

RayCon · 24-06-2012 8:51pm

PickledLime wrote: »

To the ever evolving and expanding 'to buy' list that goes :pac:

Their debut album, The Weirding, is a cracker too ...

Here's the opening track with a pretty excellent Fan-Made video ...

http://youtu.be/aD0HWo0T_xQ

EyesClosed · 26-06-2012 12:49pm

My mate just picked me up a ticket for the O2 in London
332 days to go.....

RayCon · 08-09-2012 11:37am

:eek::eek::eek::eek: Holy sh!t cakes ... check out the setlist from the first night of the tour !!!!

Analogue Kid !!!!!! Fcukin Analogue Kid !!!!! AARRGGHHHHH :cool:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rush/2012/verizon-wireless-arena-manchester-nh-bdc4162.html

Somnus · 08-09-2012 12:44pm

Really hope they come back again after the reception they got last time!

greendom · 08-09-2012 12:55pm

Brilliant 80s dominated set-list. I'm delighted :cool:

xerces · 08-09-2012 1:09pm

I'm getting notions of travelling to see them next summer, I've never seen them before...

RayCon · 08-09-2012 1:25pm

271 days til Berlin !!!!!:cool::D

galwayrush · 08-09-2012 10:42pm

RayCon wrote: »

271 days til Berlin !!!!!:cool::D

I haven't looked for a ticket, but the German shows are tempting me more by the day.

PickledLime · 09-09-2012 7:49pm

RayCon wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek: Holy sh!t cakes ... check out the setlist from the first night of the tour !!!!

Analogue Kid !!!!!! Fcukin Analogue Kid !!!!! AARRGGHHHHH :cool:

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/rush/2012/verizon-wireless-arena-manchester-nh-bdc4162.html

They haven't played 'Grand Designs' live since 1986?! :eek: That's once of my favourite songs from their entire catalogue!

Good to see 'The Anarchist' on the set list too - i'm gonna go out on a limb and say it's better than at least half of Moving Pictures.

Baggio1 · 10-09-2012 8:54am

sounds a heck of a setlist for sure.

the album?.. yeahh its veryy good, some elements of vocals am not crazy about, but overall its as good as snakes n arrows,, pity theres no instrumental, but there is some great instrumental passages -

for me its a combination of test for echo,vapour trails and snakes n arrows all entwined,, you can hear hints/moments of all those albums on there...

great stuff form the 3 mastercraftsmen.... a real shame they dont seem to be coming this way on the tour.

RayCon · 11-09-2012 1:22pm

5 changes in the setlist on the 2nd night of the tour ... interesting ...

FYI - 2nd night is listed 1st in the attachment ...

Links234 · 26-09-2012 10:22pm

Think will we see Rush back in 2013? I know they're playing in the UK in May, but no word on an Irish date. after the gig last year, I'd think they should be back?

GLaDOS · 26-09-2012 10:25pm

I really really hope so, but I'm wary of getting my hopes up

grimm2005 · 27-09-2012 10:34am

As I said earlier in the thread it seems veerrryy unlikely that they'll play here next summer as you'd think they would have announced it long ago. Going to London to see em myself (thank god for having relatives over there so the only expense is a cheap flight!). Having said that, it would be great if they did come back and I'd happily see em twice!

triggermortis · 27-09-2012 1:33pm

I'm going to Birmingham to see them (again) but would love a show here.
Love the new album, and would put it in the top 5 of theirs

Mushy · 04-10-2012 7:29am

Guess who are nominated to be inducted into the hall of fame....at last. Not that it means much, but its about time they got the recognition from a huge selling magazine. Fans can vote too....Rush dominating it.

groovie · 05-10-2012 10:21am

Get Voting People

Deplasterer · 31-10-2012 2:05pm

Rumours are about that 3 additional euro dates to be announced soon (1 probably a festival) and 30 US tour dates autumn 2013. Hopefully Dublin/Belfast slot?

Rush - Clockwork Angels Release Date

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