New Rush Album
Rush, which has never been known for covering other artists' material (although their very first single was a cover of Buddy Holly's Not Fade Away), is now releasing a new album to commemorate their 30 years together consisting of eight cover songs representing their earliest musical influences:
More in the extended entry. . .
If I were to do the same thing (come up with eight songs that greatly influenced my rock keyboard style), they would be:
Argh, after reading your list I've had Fooling Yourself stuck in my head all evening. Evil.
Posted by: JB at May 15, 2004 10:01 PMMy wife is a huge Styx fan, and we got to see them on their last tour a few years ago before they self-destructed. Excellent show.
Posted by: Ted at May 16, 2004 05:06 PMJB,
At least I didn't mention Manfred Mann's "Blinded by the Light," did I? OOps! Sorry. . .
Wrapped up like a deuce, another runner in the night. . . .
Argh, not again. Time to put on some Billy Joel, in a vain attempt to wash out my brain.
Not that it explains why I was stuck with "Supercalafragalisticexpaladocious" when I woke up this morning.
By the way, another blog that enjoys Rush is http://www.mikesilverman.com/log.html. Just scroll back a couple of days.
Posted by: JB at May 18, 2004 09:40 PMI believe the lyrics actually goes, "Revved up like a duece/You know the runner in the night." Or so I read somewhere...
Posted by: zetetic at May 20, 2004 03:35 PMI honestly always thought it was
"Wrapped up like a douche..."
Posted by: Golden Boy at May 20, 2004 04:32 PM