Cygnus X-1

Aug 08, 2010 23:33

We all know black holes rock. The intro to this song puts a nice lyrical wrapper around the concept - not one that makes a lot of sense scientifically, but still cool, especially with the effects on the vocals and synth stuff going on. In 1977 the whole thing must have seemed daringly futuristic ( Read more... )

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_earthshine_ August 14 2010, 02:03:43 UTC
My favorite two words of this song from a delivery standpoint: "sea unending".

It's songs like this, and albums like this, that i would love to see Rush re-touch now, in their modern years. The diversity of Snakes And Arrows gave me some hope (pun intended), but i want desperately to believe that they're only beginning to step back toward exploring this kind of space (no pun intended). Maybe it's just they they recognize the 70s are totally over and somehow i don't, but my wish stands. *shrug*

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