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27 minutes ago, mirkwood said:

One of those rare perfect albums.

 

 

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There are three plays on the title that appear on the album cover, especially if you see the *full* image. 

1. Workers are transporting paintings. They are... moving pictures. 

2. The onlookers are growing emotional over the images being displayed. They... find the pictures to be moving. 

3. In the full-size version of the image, a film crew is recording the proceedings. They are... taking a "moving picture". 

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12 hours ago, mirkwood said:

One of those rare perfect albums.

 

 

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I was 16. I remember well going into town on the bus to buy it, and the excitement when I first played it. Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, Limelight. I loved them all at the first hearing. Oddly though, all the memorable songs for me are on Side 1 - maybe I never quite "got" Side 2.

Of the early Rush albums, I like Caress of Steel best - particularly the Fountain of Lamneth. The words "Life is just a candle, and a dream must give it flame" give me a shiver. (The sentiment was echoed much later on "Hold Your Fire".) But I like all of them. I once tried to get my daughter to listen to Hemispheres when she was doing a school assignment on the cult of Dionysius- but you know what teenagers are like. Rush was "Dad stuff" and very uncool.

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8 hours ago, Jamie123 said:

I was 16. I remember well going into town on the bus to buy it, and the excitement when I first played it. Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, Limelight. I loved them all at the first hearing. Oddly though, all the memorable songs for me are on Side 1 - maybe I never quite "got" Side 2.

 

Those four are also the songs on the album that get the most airplay, with the second side being almost completely ignored. 

And that's *with* "Vital Signs" being one of the actual singles. 

So no, it's not just you. 

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