CygnusX1 wrote:Big Blue Owl wrote:I heard some of that and really liked it. I'm a classical freak anyway and when you combine Rush songs and strings it transcends!
Cool.
I've always wanted to play Rush tunes with a two-guitar attack and heavier
distortion..I always thought that would be different, but I know - it's been
done.
**sticks to my day job**
It's been attempted...and that might be a generous statement. I bought Red Star - A Tribute To Rush a few years ago and I'm not sure that I've listened to it twice. Death Metal bands trying to slice through Rush but not quite getting it right. I laughed like an idiot a few times, I remember. And there were a few really good moments, but they were quickly trashed by something with a crap drummer or a *WHAT?* voice.
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/rush/alb ... torush.php
1. Engrave Speed Death "Anthem" (4:14)
2. Killingfield "Working Man" (2:46)
3. Shallows of the Mundane "Bastille Day" (3:44)
4. Hostile Intent "Subdivisions" (5:43)
5. Hate Theory "What You're Doing" (3:54)
6. Capital 2 "Tears" (3:56)
7. Scary German Guy "A Passage to Bangkok" (4:08)
8. Disarray "Tom Sawyer" (4:04)
9. Blood Coven "The Temples of Syrinx" (4:02)
10. Mythiasin "Freewill" (5:23)
11. Prototype "Red Barchetta" (6:24)
12. Premonition "The Spirit of Radio" (4:37)
Here is a review:
It seems we have a winner in the never-ending "Worst Tribute Album Ever" contest. Rush songs are notoriously difficult to cover (which is why there's so few of them), so when you get Dwell records dipping into its bottomless tar pit of zero-talent bands, the result doesn't just suck, it's sheer blasphemy! You know there's a problem when the most listenable cover is "Anthem" by Engrave Speed Death, normally a forgettable also-ran on Dwell's other putrid platters. Capital 2 comes up with an interesting idea for "Tears" by interpreting that ballad with a melodic-metal riff, but the opportunity's wasted as that song just goes on and on and ON with no dynamic changes whatsoever. I should also mention Prototype's "Red Barchetta" as a head above the rest, mainly because they appear to have more talent than the other eleven bands combined (alas, that's not saying much.) The rest is absolute garbage -- case in point is "Bastille Day", where the band sticks to only one or two chords from the original, since obviously they're not skilled enough to play that song the way it's supposed to be played! And "Scary German Guy" simply is a waste of a great band name. I don't know what possessed me to trade for this CD except that I was curious to hear if it was really as bad as everyone said...and believe me, it's worse than you can imagine. Save sixty minutes of your life and avoid this album at all costs!
