Any album that I’ve listened to in the past that I initially think is weird, but makes me want to keep coming back to it, usually ended up being something I grew to really enjoy.
This has been one of my favorite "instrumentals"... "whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?" "Batch good!" 😄 Alex's arpeggiated pinch harmonics are so musical!
This instrumental for me was just OK. Two albums later, on Snakes & Arrows, Rush would deliver BIG TIME with the instrumental “The Main Monkey Business.”
I really love this instrumental. It's right up there with some of their best. Alex plays some incredibly loose but aggressive strumming (somehow?) underneath Geddy's atmospheric vocals. Both at the 3:00 mark with the monster mash bits and again at the 5:15 mark. Something about the vocals and Alex's guitar give me some super melancholia, but in the best way. Literally has the hairs standing up on my arms. Feels to me like a goodbye, but I couldn't really explain why. I listened to the album again ahead of your pass through and I had Limbo on nonstop repeat And with the grunginess in the production it definitely takes a few listens to really pick everything out, but that's fine in my book.
To me, TFE took many listens over several years to appreciate it. I really have developed a different fondness for each album, especially after the untimely passing of the Professor. There will never be a new Rush album, so each one is special to me. RIP Neil...to me, you are the GOAT of contemporary percussionists. 🙏🥁😇
Thanks Justin. This is definitely one of those albums where you have to listen to it multiple times. I remember when you first reacted to Grace Under Pressure and Power Windows. They grew on you. Especially when you reacted to A Show Of Hands.
I think Rush got better and better with their instrumentals. I love this one. It's a bit different from their previous ones, has dramatic flairs throughout it, and feels tight and cohesive. I wish they had played it more in concert. This is one I come back to frequently.
Never liked it when it came out. But really enjoy it now. After not having it on high Rush rotation for a couple of decades. And yes, that's how you think of Rush after forty years of listening.
That’s a great analysis of the album in general. Pretty much how I’ve always felt about it. This one is aptly titled. It really sounds and feels like being in limbo. Love some of Neil’s fills. They don’t sound like him at all. And I especially dig the vocals. Ironically, I feel that they are an essential part of this track.
The Live version of this song from the test for echo tour is way better. All 3 added way more to their parts. The test for echo tour as a whole is worth a watch. It’s the only time that they played 2112 in its entirety live.
"They're not the same band" is what kept them so interesting for multiple decades. Never the same, Never stale. Don't go into any Rush album thinking it's going to be the same as the past.
@@rockodilechannel3509 makes sense. When you like something, you want more of it. Rush just never stayed with one style for long. I just happen to like everything they did. Some more than others, but still love it all.
I traveled to a rural part of NM for work, and it was then and after a few road trips that I really began to appreciate this album. And, I think you are right, you can't really compare this album with others and certainly not earlier albums except that some of the songs are more accessible for radio play. Carve Away the Stone falls right in line.
This is my favorite Rush instrumental! That whole melodic section at 4:11 with those keys are just so beautiful. I hate and love how rush just gives you a taste of that stuff but never extends it so I end up replaying that same melodic section 🤣🤣🤣
Totally agree, their newer songs are littered with snippets you wish went on for a bit longer, maybe that's why us oldies prefer the older stuff with prolonged brilliant sections, you know the ones :)
@@geddylee501 OH yeah I know what you mean. That's what makes songs like these great because they don't spoil me and beat a dead horse but they tease me which gives it more replay value. They make me want to replay and replay just for that one part, so that's genius on their part.
@@geddylee501 The older stuff wasn't perfect on that either. On Cygnus X-1 I'd like to hear several minutes of the amazing groove Geddy and Alex are playing for about 30 seconds during the verse and a lot less of the random bass noodling, for instance.
@@ischmidt Yeah that one too! 🤌🏾 Again thats what makes these songs so great because those little snippets are meant to tease me to not give me what I think I want but get the replay value. Its great song writing! Because if they did extend those parts they'd probably get old and dry. Geddy did it at the end of Totem when he sang those mellow drama notes. Perfect 🤌🏾
.......and now in a recent interview, Geddy and Alex called out Limbaugh for being a "horrible human being". Being that Limbaugh was a racist conspiracy theorist, makes me love the band even more. Rush stands up for what is right.
I picked this CD up at Philly International the day after its release before embarking on my first ever flight from Philly to Seattle where I rented a car and drove up into British Columbia, Canada. Thankfully the rental had a CD player. I let this CD just loop repeatedly. This song and well as Time and Motion felt like it was echoing majestically off the Fraser River Canyon walls.
There aren't many bands who can pull off rhythm changes like this in my view and make it sound like it is one song. I also had to listen to this album multiple times. There is so much going on that you can't take it all in. It's so different from the likes of permanent waves, moving pictures and signals, where you can instantly say nearly every song is a banger.
For me, early Rush connected with me almost immediately and it stayed with me for years. But almost all later Rush records took multiple listens to "get" but most of the time I was rewarded with stuff that was interesting moving forward.
I always love this one when I'm listening to it (the part where Alex is playing that kind of angular-but-crunchy riff while Geddy basically uses his voice as a synth pad is freaking awesome) but when I'm not I struggle to remember what any of it sounds like. I think it's just because it's on a record I don't play as much as a lot of the rest of the catalog. I can remember the riffs for Leave That Thing Alone anytime, but I also play Counterparts a lot more often than Test For Echo.
Never thought I would hear Rush do an instrumental in 90's Grunge format. If that was their goal, they accomplished it well. Some interesting drum and guitar parts, but still doesn't quite measure up to their classic instrumentals on all their other records. I applaud them for trying something different, but this is usually a track I skipped when listening to T4E and never made my Rush playlists.
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Rush definitely changes with time. They borrow some from their past, and then they tend to allow current trends and influences in music to shape their direction, though without completely losing who they are. I had a hard time with this album as well. Same with Vapor Trails, though I think they have more to write about on that album. A lot of mixing issues with that album. However, I love Snakes and Arrows (lyrically depressing as hell though) and I personally think Clockwork Angels was a masterpiece at the level of Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures.
If you look back to 1st albums, they're constantly changing. FBN is very different from Permanent Waves, or P/G After the synth era, they couldn't return to progressive ground they'd already covered or the simpler rock of Fly By Night. Can't underestimate the three individuals & group's curiosity & desire for challenging themselves. Recall Geddy saying they never felt they achieved the perfect album but were always trying. Out of musical & personal evolution, the sound is changing. If they hadn', they'd have gotten stale musically & personally. "Going over the same old ground..." and never gone 40 years. They'd fall into slow, retread, decline, or call it a day, with occasional reunions. Musically Evolve or die a stale death. That's my 2 cents, anyway.
I'm right there with you Justin on this album. You're right it's like they're trying to ReDiscover their Hard Rock roots with just guitar bass and drums and haven't quite found themselves again with this album. Now I like this album more than anything previously all the way back to Hold Your Fire, and it has grown on me after I've listened to it several times through. And their instrumentals are definitely some of my favorite songs throughout their entire discography, but this one is the least favorite of mine out of all their instrumentals. But fear not, this album's almost done and then all that tragedy happens to Neil and they take, that four or five year hiatus, but when I get back together again they've definitely found themselves again by the time they get back together again. I think Vapor Trails onward is some of their best stuff. Oh and by the way when you do Vapor Trails, do the remixed version because the original is just very thin sounding. I haven't personally heard it, but I was warned away from it and told to get the remix, and I love Vapor Trails remixed. I'm just saying from what other people said, go with the remixed version. Even Geddy says it breaths new life into that album.
I like this one. Neils fills remind me of some of the fills Gavin Harrison does now. I think you’ve given the album a good description. Not easily digestible. To me, it’s mainly the lyrics that hurt this album. And musically does kind of feel like they’re trying to find their way. kind of like COS.
Nice reaction. Totally agree. Sonically, it was interesting at parts; but for me, it didn't flow like some of their other instrumentals. It felt disjointed. Maybe that was the point with a title like Limbo. The vocalizing for me was reminiscent of 2112's Overture. It just didn't draw me in and make me care like their classics do.
I'd argue that Rush started to really stray from their sound, looking for other things that would work......but ended up with albums that had peaks and valleys, but not a lot that was a home run. The break that came from Neil's personal tragedy re-focused them like nobody's business. Wait until you hear Vapor Trails. 🙂
This is Rush's Halloween song. 😄 I rate it lower than the previous instrumentals, but it's still got some cool things going on. Alex's guitar is really trash-y, and Geddy kicks butt all over the place. It just falls more into the "Rush Instrumental by the Numbers" camp for me. At least they rediscovered the joy of doing these things after a long hiatus.
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I've always felt they had no idea what they were trying to achieve, with this album. They 'tested for echo', but they were in the wrong cave! Certainly not the worst album - I wouldn't describe any as bad - but, along with RtB, CP, and Presto, it's an album I never play. There are far too many great ones. So, if I've got an hour or two and feel like some Rush, why would I pick any of those four? 🤔
In the catalog of Rush instrumentals, this one is towards the bottom. I still like it but it is not even close to being as iconic as YYZ, La Villa or even Where’s My Thing?
Another 🔥 instrumental to close out one their weakest albums in my opinion. The good news is that Vapor Trails is sofa king good. Secret Touch, Sweet Miracle, Peacable Kingdom and Earthshine just to highlight.
My least favorite of Rush's instrumentals. Rarely seek it out for replay. The Main Monkey Business and Malignant Narcissism on Snakes and Arrows (as well as all the past instrumentals -- especially La Villa Strangiato) are far superior.
For me on this album, Half the World & Resist were good songs. The others all had great parts to them but not as a whole song. This meant that the album felt a little dis-jointed & didn't flow. Great moments but overall a bit weak. For me, this album & it's follow-up Vapor Trails were Rush's weakest but they returned to form with Snakes & Arrows & then excelled with Clockwork Angels.
Justin, as a diehard Rush fan, every album ALWAYS sucked to me on first listen!!! If I happened to like a song the first time, it turned out to be trash!!!
Total rip off song. Can’t believe Rush would blatantly try and pass this off as their own especially considering the hit that they are stealing from. If you want to really enjoy this song you need to go to the source and give them credit. Monster Mash was one of my favorite songs 45 years ago. Oh how people forget 😉😂😂😂 All kidding aside, I know what you are saying about this album sounded different. Don’t know if it was the fact Neil was playing differently, the time of the decade that this came out and music was kind of blah at the time or something else. It’s not a throwaway album as there is some great stuff on here. Vapor trail is similar but a better album to my ears (the remix version anyway). But they don’t hit their prog sound again to Clockwork Angels and it’s a different prog sound than their older stuff.
It's a very disjointed album and far from the melodic tunes they have done in the past, to me the songs just don't flow and it's more of a jarring sound to me. This makes it harder to get in to even after multiple listens.
Any album that I’ve listened to in the past that I initially think is weird, but makes me want to keep coming back to it, usually ended up being something I grew to really enjoy.
This is what I affectionately call rush's holiday song lol! They never did a Christmas song but they did a Halloween one! 😆
This has been one of my favorite "instrumentals"... "whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?" "Batch good!" 😄 Alex's arpeggiated pinch harmonics are so musical!
ya the harmonics were the best part.
This instrumental for me was just OK. Two albums later, on Snakes & Arrows, Rush would deliver BIG TIME with the instrumental “The Main Monkey Business.”
Indeed. I thought the music on S& A is satisfying in the vein of Counterparts and near Permanent Waves.
agree, love the MMB.
I really love this instrumental. It's right up there with some of their best. Alex plays some incredibly loose but aggressive strumming (somehow?) underneath Geddy's atmospheric vocals. Both at the 3:00 mark with the monster mash bits and again at the 5:15 mark. Something about the vocals and Alex's guitar give me some super melancholia, but in the best way. Literally has the hairs standing up on my arms. Feels to me like a goodbye, but I couldn't really explain why.
I listened to the album again ahead of your pass through and I had Limbo on nonstop repeat
And with the grunginess in the production it definitely takes a few listens to really pick everything out, but that's fine in my book.
To me, TFE took many listens over several years to appreciate it. I really have developed a different fondness for each album, especially after the untimely passing of the Professor. There will never be a new Rush album, so each one is special to me.
RIP Neil...to me, you are the GOAT of contemporary percussionists.
🙏🥁😇
Thanks Justin. This is definitely one of those albums where you have to listen to it multiple times. I remember when you first reacted to Grace Under Pressure and Power Windows. They grew on you. Especially when you reacted to A Show Of Hands.
I think Rush got better and better with their instrumentals. I love this one. It's a bit different from their previous ones, has dramatic flairs throughout it, and feels tight and cohesive. I wish they had played it more in concert. This is one I come back to frequently.
Never liked it when it came out. But really enjoy it now. After not having it on high Rush rotation for a couple of decades. And yes, that's how you think of Rush after forty years of listening.
That’s a great analysis of the album in general. Pretty much how I’ve always felt about it. This one is aptly titled. It really sounds and feels like being in limbo. Love some of Neil’s fills. They don’t sound like him at all. And I especially dig the vocals. Ironically, I feel that they are an essential part of this track.
The Live version of this song from the test for echo tour is way better. All 3 added way more to their parts.
The test for echo tour as a whole is worth a watch. It’s the only time that they played 2112 in its entirety live.
If you want to listen to it again go for it lol. The lyrics won't change. Cheers 👍
I personally think this instrumental is one of best on the album, even though its a bit different i like it.
"They're not the same band" is what kept them so interesting for multiple decades. Never the same, Never stale. Don't go into any Rush album thinking it's going to be the same as the past.
yes absolutely and yeah I get that
I think that's part of the frustration fans have when they want more of what we just heard, but get something different.
@@rockodilechannel3509 makes sense. When you like something, you want more of it. Rush just never stayed with one style for long. I just happen to like everything they did. Some more than others, but still love it all.
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The spoken verses are samples from the 1962 song "Monster Mash"
As is the chains clanking and door creaking at the beginning and end.
Great Song. Great Album. Just need a few listens. Looking forward to wrap up video!
Solid instrumental. I particularly like what Alex was doing, sounded great.
My favourite instrumental of all time.
Haha at 4:03 you and the song both said "That's Cool" That was awesome.😀
I Loved this fing story.
I traveled to a rural part of NM for work, and it was then and after a few road trips that I really began to appreciate this album. And, I think you are right, you can't really compare this album with others and certainly not earlier albums except that some of the songs are more accessible for radio play. Carve Away the Stone falls right in line.
For me, this has always been the forgotten Rush instrumental.
This record didn’t grab me right away when it came out, but I liked it more over time. Like this song has that one really cool note.
This is my favorite Rush instrumental! That whole melodic section at 4:11 with those keys are just so beautiful. I hate and love how rush just gives you a taste of that stuff but never extends it so I end up replaying that same melodic section 🤣🤣🤣
Totally agree, their newer songs are littered with snippets you wish went on for a bit longer, maybe that's why us oldies prefer the older stuff with prolonged brilliant sections, you know the ones :)
@@geddylee501 OH yeah I know what you mean. That's what makes songs like these great because they don't spoil me and beat a dead horse but they tease me which gives it more replay value. They make me want to replay and replay just for that one part, so that's genius on their part.
@@geddylee501 The older stuff wasn't perfect on that either. On Cygnus X-1 I'd like to hear several minutes of the amazing groove Geddy and Alex are playing for about 30 seconds during the verse and a lot less of the random bass noodling, for instance.
@@ischmidt Yeah that one too! 🤌🏾 Again thats what makes these songs so great because those little snippets are meant to tease me to not give me what I think I want but get the replay value. Its great song writing! Because if they did extend those parts they'd probably get old and dry. Geddy did it at the end of Totem when he sang those mellow drama notes. Perfect 🤌🏾
Gimme ESL played loudly over any rush album ever, perfection ...
Some younger listeners might not cotton to Rush “Limbo” being a play on Rush Limbaugh, a man ubiquitous in the 1990s.
.......and now in a recent interview, Geddy and Alex called out Limbaugh for being a "horrible human being". Being that Limbaugh was a racist conspiracy theorist, makes me love the band even more. Rush stands up for what is right.
They apparently regularly had people showing up for the Counterparts tour shoes thinking they were getting Limbaugh.
@@LeviRamsey what? lol Republican voters would be that stupid considering they are still falling for the biggest American con of all time.
Welcome to the new Rush. I think we all felt like you when this came out. Give it a few listens, it grows on you.
I picked this CD up at Philly International the day after its release before embarking on my first ever flight from Philly to Seattle where I rented a car and drove up into British Columbia, Canada. Thankfully the rental had a CD player. I let this CD just loop repeatedly. This song and well as Time and Motion felt like it was echoing majestically off the Fraser River Canyon walls.
This song has so much stuff going on it takes a lot of listens... I was glad to see a smile at the end.
There aren't many bands who can pull off rhythm changes like this in my view and make it sound like it is one song. I also had to listen to this album multiple times. There is so much going on that you can't take it all in. It's so different from the likes of permanent waves, moving pictures and signals, where you can instantly say nearly every song is a banger.
Cool parts and Alex goofing off as only Alex can do!
I really like this one. It is a fav off the album.
For me, early Rush connected with me almost immediately and it stayed with me for years. But almost all later Rush records took multiple listens to "get" but most of the time I was rewarded with stuff that was interesting moving forward.
I always love this one when I'm listening to it (the part where Alex is playing that kind of angular-but-crunchy riff while Geddy basically uses his voice as a synth pad is freaking awesome) but when I'm not I struggle to remember what any of it sounds like. I think it's just because it's on a record I don't play as much as a lot of the rest of the catalog. I can remember the riffs for Leave That Thing Alone anytime, but I also play Counterparts a lot more often than Test For Echo.
Never thought I would hear Rush do an instrumental in 90's Grunge format. If that was their goal, they accomplished it well. Some interesting drum and guitar parts, but still doesn't quite measure up to their classic instrumentals on all their other records. I applaud them for trying something different, but this is usually a track I skipped when listening to T4E and never made my Rush playlists.
Just ANOTHER REASON why Rush is the greatest and most talented band of all time. Next topic of conversation....
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Multiple times listening are necessary. It will grow on you. 👍
They went a little off the beam in the 90's from the sound of it.
The song title kind of sums up where they were at the time!
Rush definitely changes with time. They borrow some from their past, and then they tend to allow current trends and influences in music to shape their direction, though without completely losing who they are. I had a hard time with this album as well. Same with Vapor Trails, though I think they have more to write about on that album. A lot of mixing issues with that album. However, I love Snakes and Arrows (lyrically depressing as hell though) and I personally think Clockwork Angels was a masterpiece at the level of Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures.
Really nice song IMO
If you look back to 1st albums, they're constantly changing. FBN is very different from Permanent Waves, or P/G
After the synth era, they couldn't return to progressive ground they'd already covered or the simpler rock of Fly By Night.
Can't underestimate the three individuals & group's curiosity & desire for challenging themselves. Recall Geddy saying they never felt they achieved the perfect album but were always trying.
Out of musical & personal evolution, the sound is changing. If they hadn', they'd have gotten stale musically & personally. "Going over the same old ground..." and never gone 40 years. They'd fall into slow, retread, decline, or call it a day, with occasional reunions.
Musically Evolve or die a stale death.
That's my 2 cents, anyway.
I'm right there with you Justin on this album. You're right it's like they're trying to ReDiscover their Hard Rock roots with just guitar bass and drums and haven't quite found themselves again with this album.
Now I like this album more than anything previously all the way back to Hold Your Fire, and it has grown on me after I've listened to it several times through. And their instrumentals are definitely some of my favorite songs throughout their entire discography, but this one is the least favorite of mine out of all their instrumentals.
But fear not, this album's almost done and then all that tragedy happens to Neil and they take, that four or five year hiatus, but when I get back together again they've definitely found themselves again by the time they get back together again. I think Vapor Trails onward is some of their best stuff. Oh and by the way when you do Vapor Trails, do the remixed version because the original is just very thin sounding. I haven't personally heard it, but I was warned away from it and told to get the remix, and I love Vapor Trails remixed. I'm just saying from what other people said, go with the remixed version. Even Geddy says it breaths new life into that album.
I like this one. Neils fills remind me of some of the fills Gavin Harrison does now. I think you’ve given the album a good description. Not easily digestible. To me, it’s mainly the lyrics that hurt this album. And musically does kind of feel like they’re trying to find their way. kind of like COS.
Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist😂
Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?😂
Could (very arguably) be considered Part II of the Gangster of Boats Trilogy (in 4 parts of course)..
Not my favorite instrumental of theirs, but it doesn’t suck!! Looking forward to the last 3 albums! Be well and God bless… from Texas!!
Nice reaction. Totally agree. Sonically, it was interesting at parts; but for me, it didn't flow like some of their other instrumentals. It felt disjointed. Maybe that was the point with a title like Limbo. The vocalizing for me was reminiscent of 2112's Overture. It just didn't draw me in and make me care like their classics do.
Damn a 2nd straight song without lyrical analysis...guess we're back on track🤣
I'd argue that Rush started to really stray from their sound, looking for other things that would work......but ended up with albums that had peaks and valleys, but not a lot that was a home run. The break that came from Neil's personal tragedy re-focused them like nobody's business. Wait until you hear Vapor Trails. 🙂
This is Rush's Halloween song. 😄 I rate it lower than the previous instrumentals, but it's still got some cool things going on. Alex's guitar is really trash-y, and Geddy kicks butt all over the place. It just falls more into the "Rush Instrumental by the Numbers" camp for me. At least they rediscovered the joy of doing these things after a long hiatus.
It's not YYZ, but it has some interesting vibes to it. After all, that's what we should expect from our favorite progressive band.
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I've always felt they had no idea what they were trying to achieve, with this album. They 'tested for echo', but they were in the wrong cave!
Certainly not the worst album - I wouldn't describe any as bad - but, along with RtB, CP, and Presto, it's an album I never play. There are far too many great ones. So, if I've got an hour or two and feel like some Rush, why would I pick any of those four? 🤔
If it helps man, I’m a Rush fan from day one (as you know), and had not heard this album. It’s ok if you never listen to it again.
In the catalog of Rush instrumentals, this one is towards the bottom. I still like it but it is not even close to being as iconic as YYZ, La Villa or even Where’s My Thing?
Neil Peart... Jazz Drummer? ala Freddie Gruber.
Another 🔥 instrumental to close out one their weakest albums in my opinion. The good news is that Vapor Trails is sofa king good. Secret Touch, Sweet Miracle, Peacable Kingdom and Earthshine just to highlight.
You're face says it all ...
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This one was different. It was good but didn't grab me like the others.
My least favorite of Rush's instrumentals. Rarely seek it out for replay. The Main Monkey Business and Malignant Narcissism on Snakes and Arrows (as well as all the past instrumentals -- especially La Villa Strangiato) are far superior.
I like some sections of this song, but it mostly doesn't work for me.
For me on this album, Half the World & Resist were good songs. The others all had great parts to them but not as a whole song. This meant that the album felt a little dis-jointed & didn't flow. Great moments but overall a bit weak. For me, this album & it's follow-up Vapor Trails were Rush's weakest but they returned to form with Snakes & Arrows & then excelled with Clockwork Angels.
Justin, as a diehard Rush fan, every album ALWAYS sucked to me on first listen!!! If I happened to like a song the first time, it turned out to be trash!!!
There's pretty much no Rush instrumental I don't like.
Total rip off song. Can’t believe Rush would blatantly try and pass this off as their own especially considering the hit that they are stealing from. If you want to really enjoy this song you need to go to the source and give them credit. Monster Mash was one of my favorite songs 45 years ago. Oh how people forget 😉😂😂😂
All kidding aside, I know what you are saying about this album sounded different. Don’t know if it was the fact Neil was playing differently, the time of the decade that this came out and music was kind of blah at the time or something else. It’s not a throwaway album as there is some great stuff on here.
Vapor trail is similar but a better album to my ears (the remix version anyway). But they don’t hit their prog sound again to Clockwork Angels and it’s a different prog sound than their older stuff.
It's a very disjointed album and far from the melodic tunes they have done in the past, to me the songs just don't flow and it's more of a jarring sound to me. This makes it harder to get in to even after multiple listens.
I find this to be their worst instrumental. Some cool parts, but the "verses" are so bland.