Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres
The timing of my life and this song has been awkward. I had a vacation, then all my nieces and nephews around, then Mass Effect 2 and a cold, and I just generally lose the flow. Trying to come back, I kept thinking I needed to wait for a day when I could go in at length, but that day never comes. I have to just push ahead with what effort I can
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... and it's my favorite Rush album because i quite simply and sincerely love everything on it. There's no hemming or hawing over how much i do or don't entirely fall for "The Twighlight Zone", or how much i appreciate but don't quite get totally stoked over "Different Strings". There's no empathic journey into musical adolescence or blues roots as needed for the full appreciation of "Rivendell" or "Best I Can", or the meditative state required to fully experience "The Camera Eye". It's four tracks of purely-wrought symphonic rock genius, no strings attached, and there is nothing but love.
Sorry ... just had to say that.
Can anyone explain, in terms of musical theory, what exactly he does in that little rocking bit that gets panned around just as it circles around the scales?This album being what it is (see above), it happens to be one of the only dozen-or-so albums i've had a chance to rip back into my iTunes since my HD crash, so i spun up the spot ( ... )
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