The current music madness threads seem to be fairly popular, so I thought I would give it a go with Rush. I’ve started with 64 of their songs, broken down into 4 brackets. Brackets 1 and 4 will eventually match up, as will 2 and 3, then the ultimate champion will be decided.
I broke it down by era, and tried to match up similar style songs when I could. With each matchup, just vote for the one you personally like best. I will total up all the votes and the winners will go on to the next round. This round will conclude at 11:00 PM Tuesday March 25th, or sooner if voting slows too much. Now for the songs:
Bracket 2
16. Vital Signs
8. Circumstances
12. La Villa Strangiato
4. Natural Science
11. Freewill
3. Red Barchetta
10. Witch Hunt
2. The Spirit of Radio
Bracket 3
Subdivisions
The Enemy Within
Analog Kid
Force Ten
The Big Money
Distant Early Warning
Time Stand Still
New World Man
I’m skipping bracket 4 because I don’t know the songs well enough.
I own(ed) every Rush album up until “Signals” but there is a huge gap from there to “Snakes and Arrows”. I’d have to pass on about half of bracket 3 and all of bracket 4! Maybe I’ll check back in for one of the later rounds. (Maybe I should go stock up on some later Rush!)
I’ve got a couple of upsets here. YYZ vs. La Villa? You’re killing me! I also loved the Analog kid vs. Digital Man. My shocker is Spirit of the Radio getting bounced by 15 seed Camera Eye. Camera Eye just had the game of it’s life, and I love that freakin’ song.
I’m going to go ahead and close this and tabulate the results. Not exactly the number of responses I was hoping for, but whatareyagonnado. I’ll start round two shortly.