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From: jhopkins@cbacc.cba.uga.edu (John Hopkins)
Subject: Seventies Pop lyrics quiz
Organization: Terry College of Business, University of Georgia
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 21:42:10 GMT


A few months ago, a gentleman named John Hiatt came up with a nifty idea: post a lyrics quiz that is easy enough that an average radio listener can do well at it.  His quiz was based on music of the eighties.  In that vein, this is a relatively easy quiz A few months ago, a gentleman named John Hiatt came up with a nifty idea: post a lyrics quiz that is easy enough that an average radio listener can do well at it.  His quiz was based on music of the eighties.  In that vein, this is a relatively easy quiz b

ased on the music of the seventies.  If you listened to the radio, saw "Saturday Night Fever," and liked K.C. and the Sunshine Band, you should do well.

Please do not post your answers.  You may mail them to me at jhopkins@cbacc.cba.uga.edu.  Answers are due in my mailbox by 0700 GMT on Tuesday, December 22.  I will post the results the following day.

I'm sorry that I can't offer a prize to the winner.  Hopefully the fun of playing is incentive enough.

Good luck, and above all, have fun!!

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

1.	Well I didn't want to bring her
	and I know it will make her worse.

2.	And they whirl and they twirl and they tango.

3.	So here I am with pockets full of good intentions,
	but none of them will comfort me tonight.

4.	One chromosome too many.

5.	We haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

6.	There's an open road that leads to nowhere,
	so just make some miles between here and there.

7.	Know that the Lord is well and inside of you.

8.	It'll take you a couple of vodka and tonics
	to set you on your feet again.

9.	She's mighty mighty, just lettin' it all hang out.

10.	A woman that I know just came from Majorca, Spain.

11.	Don't play B-17, it was our song, it was his song.

12.	I was on the dance floor acting strange.

13.	Writing something nasty on the wall.

14.	We were at the beach;
	everybody had matching towels.

15.	Have you ever had to push push push push?

16.	You may feel a little sick.

17.	Ain't no beauty queens in this locality, I'll tell you.

18.	Well your big brown eyes are all filled with tears
	from the bitterness of those lonely years.

19.	I'm the one you're using, please dont push me aside.

20.	In a silk dress, running like a watercolor in the rain.

21.	I think I had met my match.
	He was singing.

22.	I got the world calling me up here tonight on the phone.

23.	This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

24.	You can get yourself clean,
	you can have a good meal,
	you can do whatever you feel.

25.	In these old familiar rooms, children would play.
From: intruder@cats.ucsc.edu (Isaac N. Truder)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Armagettel
Date: 17 Dec 1992 05:54:22 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
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 > As for finding anything satanic in the music -- I simply ask you
 > "where"? I have at <least> one copy of <every> Rush album (I had
 > to buy news ones when I made the move to CD -- couldn't let <any>
 > of their music escape my ears) and I have <yet> to find <any>
 > satanic reference in their music... although it is <their>
 > perogative, if it is there...

Yeah, sure -- so what if there WERE Satanic references in the music?
Seems to me that if one were going to preach, they'd to a lot more good
flying out to the respective homes of the members of Rush.... or perhaps
follow them around on tour in a van or something... and do one's
preaching to THEM.  Or to Slayer for that matter.  The point being, that
would do a whole lot more good that screaming at people who just enjoy
the sound of the music.  No sin in that.

(And yes, I realize the original poster was making a little joke...)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: lerxst@wam.umd.edu (By-Tor)
Subject: Re: Favorite Alex solos (was Alex' guitar work on p/g)
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 22:43:00 GMT

In article <1992Dec19.202607.12206@newshub.ariel.yorku.ca> cs911029@ariel.yorku.ca (THOMAS J DUCK) writes:
      [various unrelated stuff deleted]

>     BTW,  in a music book that I have ("RUSH COMPLETE"),  it calls
>this section "A Lerxst in Wonderland".  I don't beleive that I ever saw
>this title (or the others) on the album sleeve.  Anyone care to
>enlighten me where they came from then?
>
>     It would also be interesting to know what guitarists (like myself)
>favourite solos are,  and what other listeners favourite solos are.  I
>wonder if they are similar or differ vastly?
>
>Cheers,
>Thomas J. Duck
>
>

Hmm. My CD copy has this title, as well as all the others. I am sure all of
the CD sleeves have em, they're on the back page. However, the times aren't
shown for each section, but the FAQ has those (or maybe not, I am not sure).

Happy holidays!

- IL
       ---- never turn your back on a Monster! ----
From: cf908@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Etienne Colon-Rios)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: SNL?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 23:20:03 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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Has_Rush_ever_appeared_on_Saturday_Night_Live?
-- 
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From: kyoung@nyx.cs.du.edu (Kris Young)
Subject: Re: Armagettel
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Where in the world did you hear that crap?  I assume that you don't honestly
believe that RUSH is satanic, do you?  I mean, try ftp'ing to the syrinx.umd.-
edu site, and there's an article, written by Peart, defending his band against
these shallow accusations.  I admit, they're anti-religious, but satanic?
I really think that you had better be careful about who you believe.  Think
about it.  You stated in your article about the evil 'Apollo- Bringer of 
Wisdom'.  That song is no more evil than the pope himself.  I really didn't 
that song was about religion, anyways.  I thought it was purely speaking of
a philisophical battle between the heart and the mind, which has gone on 
inside man since the beginning of time. To say that "Hemispheres" is satanic,
seems to be admitting that you hav e never listened to the album or the song.
And besides, don't you think that if they were really satanic, they would
make songs about Human Sacrifices, drinking blood, and practicing witch-
craft and the occult.  You're just becoming part of the modern-day witch hunt.


Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast)
Subject: Re: Biggest AOR 'hit' (was Chronicles)
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:09:40 GMT

In article <92351.152406SS3254B@auvm.american.edu> Doc <SS3254B@auvm.american.edu> writes:
>Once, I was talking to a friend who had spent the last ten years of his life
>listening to nothing but Top 40 radio, and I was telling him how I was a
>fan of Rush.  When I said Rush, he, surprisngly, said "Rush...'Subdivisions'".
>Now Subdivisions, although being one of their best songs, didn't strike me
>as a big hit, but I have heard that Subdivisions was their only Top 40 single.
>Not really that surprising that such great music is so overlooked, while
>other junk, like Madonna and Garth Brooks continue to sell millions of records.
>Just my $0.02.  - Doc
>
		Actually, they play Subdivisions a lot on 100.7 WGRX in B'more.
Since you're at American, you probably could get the station if you angle your
antenna precisely, or so I am told by a friend at GWU.


> -------------------------------------------------------------------
>|Steve Schillinger - "Doc" - _The_ American University - GO COWBOYS!|
							  ~~~~~~~~~~~~
							  11 - 3 :-)

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Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: cka52397@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Slartibartfast)
Subject: Re: Does anyone know if...
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 05:48:10 GMT

In article <BzDx25.I24@unix.portal.com> rivit@shell.portal.com (Russell Michael VanTassell) writes:
>In article <exuptr.427.0@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor) writes:
>>In article <1992Dec15.040651.20048@reed.edu> jcherney@envy.reed.edu (Joel Alexander Cherney) writes:
>>
>>[ notation stuff edited ]
>>
>>>Surely, they MUST!  In my old band, I was the only one who could read music.  They only way  
>>>to do it, pretty much, was "Four bars of this... eight bars of this..." etc.  Anything with  
>>>Rush's complexity, it seems to me, requires notation.
>
>If they didn't write notation before recently, how did they ever manage
>to release guitar books in their hand many years ago?  I didn't think
>Peart had too much experience with a guitar, or am I missing something?
>
>RiViT

	Paul McArtney can't read music yet wrote an opera (Liverpool Oratorio)
and played for the commercially greatest (and probably most overrated) band in
Rock.  And sheet music _is_ availible for the Beatles.  What happens is that
a really good ear at the record company takes a listen and transcribes what he
hears with input from the band.  But I think that all three of the Boyz know
how to read music.

-- 
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Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: gimper@leland.Stanford.EDU (Stuart Miyasato)
Subject: Re: How do you describe Rush?
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 00:26:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.234109.6806@hellgate.utah.edu> larsen@hellgate.utah.edu (Steve Larsen) writes:
>moleface@next05cville.wam.umd.edu (Ashley Edward Collins) writes:
>: 
>: I can tell you that "2112" is based upon Ayn Rand's book, _Anthem,_ which  
>: I still haven't read.  It's also the only song Peart wrote inspired by  
>: another writer where he actually sites that writer in the liners (oh,  
>: yeah, I just remembered that he sited whatshisface in "Red Barchetta").   
>
>  Actually, 2112 is not based on Anthem.  Neil wrote the story and then
>read the book and realized the similarities, so he mentioned Ayn Rand.

Close, but not quite.  From the FAQ:

Where did the story of _2112_ come from?

   "The inspiration behind it was...  It's difficult always to trace those
   lines because so many things tend to coalesce, and in fact it ended up
   being quite similar to a book called _Anthem_ by the writer Ayn Rand.  But
   I didn't realize that while I was working on it, and then eventually as the
   story came together, the parallels became obvious to me and I thought, 'Oh
   gee, I don't want to be a plagiarist here.'  So I did give credit to her
   writings in the liner notes." -- Neil Peart, in the Dec 2 1991
                                       "Rockline" interview

I transcribed this from my Rockline interview tape, so this topic is kind
of special to me.  I first posted this to alt.music.rush.  Dan may have
then incorporated it into the FAQL, although he may have gotten it from
another source as well.  Anyway, I just wanted to get the story straight.

>Steve

-- Stuart  (gimper@leland.stanford.edu)
From: jaeger@buphyk.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: How do you describe Rush?
Date: 19 Dec 92 19:57:55 GMT
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

In article <1992Dec18.234109.6806@hellgate.utah.edu> larsen@hellgate.utah.edu (Steve Larsen) writes:

>moleface@next05cville.wam.umd.edu (Ashley Edward Collins) writes:
 
>: I can tell you that "2112" is based upon Ayn Rand's book, _Anthem,_ which  

>  Actually, 2112 is not based on Anthem.  Neil wrote the story and then read the book and
>realized the similarities, so he mentioned Ayn Rand.

Actually, Neil read the book _before_ writing ``2112.'' He realized the
similarity after having written ``2112'' but he had read the book before
writing the song. The point is that it wasn't a _conscious_ imitation...


Gregg




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"You see, the quantum mechanical description is in terms of knowledge" -Peierls
"One can _not_ put the psi-function... in place of the... thing" -Schroedinger
                   _De gustibus non disputandum_, NOT!
From: srf6200@zeus.tamu.edu (Steven R. Fennell)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Enough (Re:) Marillion?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 12:58 CST
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In article <104519@bu.edu>, jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger) writes...
>In article <1992Dec10.171054.3572@netcom.com> jtkung@netcom.com (Joseph T. Kung) writes:
> 
>Enough Marillion, Dream Theatre, etc. for me! It's cool for people to
>give their comparisons and opinions and answers to queries, but _analysis_
>of other bands without a single reference to Rush?
> 
>Hmm.
> 
>Gregg
> 

Well, I think everyone's just plain bored.  There's really nothing _rush_ to 
talk about that hasn't been hashed over several times.  I wish they'd release 
a concert video...I missed the last tour {sigh}

On another note, I hear there is a promo CD for Prime Mover out there 
somewhere, but I haven't located it.  Anyone know anything about this?  Let me 
know...thanks.

Steve Fennell
srf6200@zeus.tamu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
From: moleface@next05cville.wam.umd.edu (Ashley Edward Collins)
Subject: Re: Different Strings
Organization: Workstations at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:11:59 GMT

In article <1992Dec7.172121.20395@ee.rochester.edu>  
rasche@ee.rochester.edu (Shorts/Rasche) writes:
> I am glad that you mentioned Different Strings -------------------
> It is a great song - probably ranking up there as one of my favorite  
RUSH
> tunes.  What I find interesting is that Geddy wrote the lyrics - which  
is 
> extremely rare.  Since I like this song so much - I wonder why he  
doesn't
> write more lyrics than he has...   What other songs did Geddy write the  
lyrics
> for?  I know he also wrote Cinderella Man - and possible a few from 

He wrote everything on _Rush_, unless Alex wrote some, too, which I doubt.   
He's a great guitarist, but I've read interviews, and he doesn't strike me  
as being terribly bright (no flames, please, but tell me if you got a  
different impression).  Geddy also wrote some lyrics on FBN, although I  
can't think which ones offhand--the ones where Neil isn' t given  
songwriting credit.
From: jaeger@buphy.bu.edu (Gregg Jaeger)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Happy Holidays...
Date: 18 Dec 92 18:38:17 GMT
Organization: Boston University Physics Department

In article <gfABB1m00WB74N62oU@andrew.cmu.edu> jv14+@andrew.cmu.edu (Joseph Velardi) writes:
>Excerpts from netnews.alt.music.rush: 16-Dec-92 Happy Holidays... by
>Christopher Mermagen@eng 

>> 1st: Anyone know how much Rush through Time is worth (the album
>> without the cover picture on the platter)?

>Rush through Time!!  Ah, the collection I always thought was more
>fiction than fact.  It was one of those things that somebody's older
>brother saw somewhere out of state once that would be really neat to
>have but, dammit, is just impossible to find.  My friends and I who
>listen to Rush always thought of it as "the Grail."  That being the
>case, I recall many pilgrimages to cubbyhole record stores and many,
>many disappointments....

>So now I find that it really *does* exist.  Would anyone (Chris?) be
>kind enough to post some more information about this disc?  For instance:
>    o  Is it a bootleg? 

No. It's a GEM import

>    o  What songs are included?

I have it at home, not here, but it's sort of a `best of' collection,
presumably for European distribution.


>    o  If it isn't a bootleg and it doesn't contain any original tracks,
>        what the hell is its purpose?

A `best of' for European listeners?

>    o  Why haven't I seen it in any discographies?  Even Archives and
>        Chronicles made those.

Maybe because it's not an American release...


Gregg





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                   _De gustibus non disputandum_, NOT!
From: cw001b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Cristobal Weinholz)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Concert Notes...
Date: 17 Dec 92 19:52:38 GMT
Organization: University of Rochester - Rochester, New York

In <BzDv98.F29@unix.portal.com> rivit@shell.portal.com (Russell Michael VanTassell) writes:

>OK, here's a question that maybe some of you "more hardcore" Rush fans
>can answer...

>I've started trying to collect all of the concert notes from all of
>Rush's past concerts.  You know, those things that they charge about
>$14.00 for at the concerts -- they have all sorts of cool live pictures
>in them, a few notes from the guys, and a list of all the current
>albums with pictures of the covers (and, of course, the entire thing is
>written by Neil).

>Anyone have any ideas where I might be able to "come across" some of
>the earlier ones?  I've only been collecting these since Power Windows
>or so... I'm not even sure that I have all of them since then (since
>they decided to <skip> Northern and Central California for a particular
>tour (not that that particular thing will stop me in the future)).

>Thanks in advance!
>RiViT
>--
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>RiViT@shell.portal.com                                      russ@mce.com

>#include <signature.h>

If you look in Goldmine Magazine (or any other rare record magazine or
store), you should be able to find older concert tourbooks, but I've only been 
able to find them as far back as Signals:(

Cristobal Weinholz			"He's not concerned with yesterday
University of Rochester		He knows constant change is here to stay..."
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Subject: Re: Armagettel
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Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 21:54:21 GMT


     Just what do the christians find to object about Rush's music? Did
their rantings have any effect on Rush's music at all?
From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (Patrick Taylor)
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush
Subject: Re: Does anyone know if...
Date: 17 Dec 92 16:35:20 GMT
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In article <BzDr0q.8vq@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> feygin@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Alexander Feygin) writes:
>I always thought it was Roger Waters that was the musically illiterate
>one of Pink Floyd...

Ted Nugent is musically illiterate, too.  Only difference is you can tell.


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Newsgroups: alt.music.ska
From: bradley@reed.edu (Ben Bradley)
Subject: Misc Ska Thoughts
Organization: Reed College, Portland OR
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:47:20 GMT

I was quite delighted to see the creation of this newsgroup.
I had all but thought ska had died out.  I went to high school
during the height of the 2-Tone era, so Dance Craze and associated
bands have always been a part of my arrested development.  God, I
can't remember the last time I heard "Lip Up Fatty".  Anyway, I 
thought I'd toss a few comments in to the discussion.

Re the Crazy 8's:  I moved to Portland nine years ago, when the 8's
were a young band.  They were great!  Besides their upbeat originals they
still did Beat and Selecter covers.  In the last five years they have
been sliding downhill, and they have certainlyt lost any resemblance
to ska.  I've found bands to replace them (The Daddies, Black Happy)
but none of them are remotely ska-oriented.

I have heard a few songs by the American band the Beat.  They sucked.
It's too bad the English Beat had to go through all that hassle.

Finally, as part of the aforementioned arrested development in high
school (in Vancouver, British Columbia) I often went and saw a local
band called The Villains.  Anybody ever hear them?

Keep the recommended recordings coming.  I'd like to hear about any
new band that is even close to ska.

Ben
bradley@reed.edu
Newsgroups: alt.music.ska
From: bradley@reed.edu (Ben Bradley)
Subject: Re: The English Beat vs. The Beat
Organization: Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:41:54 GMT

In article <angus.724482069@well.sf.ca.us> angus@well.sf.ca.us (Angus P. MacDonald) writes:
>
>I don't think the American Beat actually sued, it's just that they
>had product out in the U.S. before the English band did. Later, after
>the English Beat got more popular anyway, the American band was called
>the "Paul Collins Beat," after their main guy, a power-popper who had
>earlier been in the Nerves. I saw Paul Collins open for Doug and the
>Slugs in San Fran in 1987; don't know where he is now. BTW, the American
>band was managed by Bill Graham.
>
>       Angus MacDonald;   angus@well.sf.ca.us


Doug and the Slugs played in San Francisco???  I remember them
having some local success (in Vancouver, BC) and even playing at
a dance in my high school.  Hmm...

ben
bradley@reed.edu
Newsgroups: alt.music.ska
From: dee@skipper.physics.sunysb.edu (James Dee)
Subject: Crazy 8's
Organization: RHI Group, SUNY-Stony Brook Physics
Distribution: alt
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:58:00 GMT

Is anyone out there into the Crazy 8's?  For those who haven't had the
privilege, they're a small ska band from Corvales, OR, who are REALLY
fun to see.  I think they must be on speed when they perform, because
they are wayfar energetic.  They play mostly on the Left Coast.

Anyway, I used to see them occasionally when I lived in California, but
now that I live on Lawn Guyland, I don't have the opportunity.  Has
anyone seen them recently?  Are they still together?  Have they moved
east at all?

Enquiring minds want to know.

---
Jimmy Dee <dee@skipper.physics.sunysb.edu>
SUNY-Stony Brook Physics