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Rush's Moving Pictures results

The participants sorted by deviation from final results:
BlueCrystalTear (0)
ZaziGuado (4)
CasanovaZelos (6)
neonreaper (8)
WiggumFan267 (8)
HBJDubs (8)
Seanchan (8)
Jesse_Custer (10)
Snake5555555555 (10)
Reg (10)
darkx (10)
Johnbobb (12)
VeryInsane (12)
TheArkOfTurus (14)
Comedy101 (14)
Raetsel_Lapin (14)
SpikeSetsFire (18)
ChichiriMuyo (18)
MetalmindStats (18)

General Album Comments

BlueCrystalTear: Side One here is absolute perfection. Side Two is REALLY good too.

ZaziGuado: Prog Rock is one of those genres that I feel like I would enjoy, but this album did very little for me, so maybe that's not true? It was only 40 minutes though, so it has that in its favor.

ChichiriMuyo: This album has been a "wow" for me since the first time I listened to it. Moving Pictures is an album from the early synth era, but one where the more experimental effects are relatively few and feel well placed when used*. In most places the synth is just an added instrument to accompany the power trio, almost like a virtual 4th member. It works well, as all four "instruments" get relatively equal play and all of the band's technical skill is on full display. The Camera Eye... well that imo is the only real blemish on this album.

Seanchan: I liked this album but I did not love it. I was hoping this would be another Powerslave but that proved not to be the case.

Johnbobb: I'll admit, I never fully got the hype over Moving Pictures, or even Rush itself. Don't get me wrong, it's a solid album, and Tom Sawyer is a great song. In fact most Rush songs aren't bad but I feel like, even moreso than many bands, their fans treat them like theyre objectively the greatest thing to ever happen to music, and overall I'd say this is good, but not something I ever feel like listening to if it doesn't just happen to be on the radio.

MetalmindStats: I didn't remotely love Moving Pictures, but it certainly exceeded my modest expectations given my lack of familiarity with instrumental-oriented rock.

Reg: I don't normally participate in this topic series (Or with the b8 music community at all...), but I gotta for an album I love. It's not quite my favorite Rush, but it is still great, and I saw them on the Time Machine tour, where they played the entire thing live in sequence.

ChichiriMuyo: Their fans tend to respect technical skill, and in regards to technical skill very few musicians surpass the members of Rush. Individually they've each mastered their instruments to a level that most people can only hope to achieve, and collectively they've put out some masterpieces. If in the future rock music would be studied the way classical is now, they will have a spot in that pantheon.

Now am I going to argue that technical skill alone makes them the greatest thing to ever happen to music? No, of course not. In the last century the greatest thing to happen to music was the Beatles, and uh, I don't think that's so much my argument as it is something the general public agrees on.

darkx: Other than Witch Hunt in a fairly easy last place this was actually pretty hard. Some really strong tracks on the first side and then just when I'm losing interest a bit they end with one of my favorite Rush tracks.