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Title: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: WildRanger on April 15, 2018, 11:48:10 AM


What tracks?

Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: King Puppies and the Acid Guppies on April 15, 2018, 11:53:22 AM
This must be a trick question. There are no weak tracks on Moving Pictures...  :corn
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Adami on April 15, 2018, 11:59:16 AM
I hate this. Ummmm


Witch Hunt I guess for weakest?
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: ChuckSteak on April 15, 2018, 12:05:22 PM
Tom Sawyer/The Camera Eye
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Mladen on April 15, 2018, 12:11:09 PM
The Camera eye / Vital signs
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: WildRanger on April 15, 2018, 12:21:07 PM
This must be a trick question. There are no weak tracks on Moving Pictures...  :corn

Maybe there are no weak or bad tracks, but definitely there is at least one track that is DECENT, but not GREAT.
So weakest track from the album Moving Pictures doesn't have to mean a bad track, just a track that is weaker compared to other 6 album tracks.
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: The Walrus on April 15, 2018, 12:22:29 PM
Not sure about the best, but the worst is Witch Hunt, no doubt
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Metro on April 15, 2018, 01:10:16 PM
Best: Red Barchetta

Worst: Witch Hunt
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: TAC on April 15, 2018, 01:10:33 PM
Just listened to Moving Pictures yesterday. Damn near perfect album.

Fave track: Red Barchetta
Least Fave: The Camera Eye
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: max_security on April 15, 2018, 01:13:09 PM
I went with Red Barchetta / Witch Hunt .
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Architeuthis on April 15, 2018, 02:26:40 PM
Favorite...Limelight
Least favorite...Vital Signs
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: DTA on April 15, 2018, 02:37:51 PM
Best: Vital Signs

Worst: Witch Hunt (still awesome though)
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: jjrock88 on April 15, 2018, 11:38:56 PM
The whole thing is awesome
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Zydar on April 16, 2018, 01:00:37 AM
Best: Limelight (for the longest time I held The Camera Eye as the best though)

Worst: Witch Hunt
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Mister Gold on April 16, 2018, 04:36:02 AM
This must be a trick question. There are no weak tracks on Moving Pictures...  :corn

The Camera Eye begs to differ. And what sucks is that it's literally a whole third of the entire album's overall length! :lol

Every time I try to give Moving Pictures another shot and I get through that insanely awesome first half of the album, I think to myself, "Maybe this time, I'll like The Camera Eye." But for the better part of a decade now, that hasn't happened and it brings the whole album down quite a few spots in my Rush album ranking because of how much of the whole album it takes up. It just drags for me and I'm not particularly invested in the song.

Seriously, if you switched The Camera Eye out with Natural Science from Permanent Waves (albeit keeping Natural Science as the album closer instead of at the middle), I think Moving Pictures would probably be pitch perfect. That last third of the album after TCE isn't quite as good as the opening half of the album, but it's not bad by any stretch.
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Nekov on April 16, 2018, 05:44:55 AM
Best: Tom Sawyer

Worst: YYZ
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Stadler on April 16, 2018, 06:40:34 AM
This isn't even close:

BEST:  The Camera Eye (and this is from an album I love love love, so it's not like "Tom Sawyer sucks" or anything)
WORST:  Vital Signs (Maybe it's because the rest of the album is so strong, but this song feels tacked on, and is too much of a harbinger of the bad things to come. i.e. "p/g")
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: The Walrus on April 16, 2018, 06:41:58 AM
This isn't even close:

BEST:  The Camera Eye (and this is from an album I love love love, so it's not like "Tom Sawyer sucks" or anything)
WORST:  Vital Signs (Maybe it's because the rest of the album is so strong, but this song feels tacked on, and is too much of a harbinger of the bad things to come. i.e. "p/g")

Wrong, wrong, and wrong :neverusethis:
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Dream Team on April 16, 2018, 06:57:27 AM
This isn't even close:

BEST:  The Camera Eye (and this is from an album I love love love, so it's not like "Tom Sawyer sucks" or anything)
WORST:  Vital Signs (Maybe it's because the rest of the album is so strong, but this song feels tacked on, and is too much of a harbinger of the bad things to come. i.e. "p/g")

Wrong, wrong, and wrong :neverusethis:

Nope. Camera Eye is awesome.
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: jingle.boy on April 16, 2018, 09:36:48 AM
Should be titled fave and least fave.  If you aren't going to give a specific criteria for "best", don't leave it up to people to apply their own subjective criteria.

Fave - Red Barchetta (love seeing the love for this)
Least Fave - Vital Signs
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: The Walrus on April 16, 2018, 09:43:05 AM
This isn't even close:

BEST:  The Camera Eye (and this is from an album I love love love, so it's not like "Tom Sawyer sucks" or anything)
WORST:  Vital Signs (Maybe it's because the rest of the album is so strong, but this song feels tacked on, and is too much of a harbinger of the bad things to come. i.e. "p/g")

Wrong, wrong, and wrong :neverusethis:

Nope. Camera Eye is awesome.

*cough* The bolded part, if you please. :)
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: pg1067 on April 16, 2018, 11:24:26 AM
WORST:  Vital Signs (Maybe it's because the rest of the album is so strong, but this song feels tacked on, and is too much of a harbinger of the bad things to come. i.e. "p/g")

I don't know about that.  I don't really see much of a connection, but maybe Vital Signs was a tease that demonstrated that GUP could have been good.  If anything, Vital Signs was a prelude to Digital Man.

Anyway, this thread is a lot like asking to pick the best and worst of one's children...

Most favorite:  Limelight
Least favorite:  Witch Hunt
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: ? on April 16, 2018, 12:54:34 PM
Best: Witch Hunt
Worst: Vital Signs
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: SleeperAwake on April 26, 2018, 12:44:13 PM
Best: Limelight (though Vital Signs is close)
Worst: Red Barchetta
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Architeuthis on April 26, 2018, 01:34:34 PM

Worst: Red Barchetta
Just.........WOW!!!  :huh:
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Train of Naught on April 26, 2018, 01:46:51 PM
Not a very wise move to make a poll about favourite and least favourite songs and put all the options together, the results are pretty much meaningless now

Anyway I think I listened to this album once or twice and the only song I really dug I think was YYZ, least favourite is "Weakest track on MP?"
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Lowdz on April 26, 2018, 02:33:54 PM
Weakes5 track is the easiest decision I ever had to make. Vital Signs is shit.

Best track? All the rest really but went Red Barchetta
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: pg1067 on April 26, 2018, 04:03:56 PM
Not a very wise move to make a poll about favourite and least favourite songs and put all the options together, the results are pretty much meaningless now

Anyway I think I listened to this album once or twice and the only song I really dug I think was YYZ, least favourite is "Weakest track on MP?"

In theory the results are separated by the "Weakest track on MP?" option such that the votes above that option are for favorite track and the votes below are for least favorite track, but yeah, I agree this is a rather awkwardly set up poll.  It's also interesting that "Best/fave track on MP?" got five votes, while "Weakest track on MP?" only got four votes.


Weakes5 track is the easiest decision I ever had to make. Vital Signs is the shit.

ftfy
Title: Re: Best and weakest track from Moving Pictures?
Post by: Lowdz on April 26, 2018, 04:14:57 PM
No, you didn’t.