Rush

A Farewell To Kings

my favorite Rush album!

Review Score:

(10/10)
I love this album, it is unbelievable. While many people choose, "2112", "Hemispheres",and "Moving Pictures", as their favorites, (as I think those were good albums also), this is the one that stands above the rest in my book. This album probably dosen't get as much recognition by the critics, I don't understand why, but what the hell do they know, the fans know the real deal.

This album starts off with the title track, which starts off with classical guitar, then turns into a rocker. "Xanadu", is my second favorite epic by this talented band, as it is 11-minutes long and beautiful. I'm quite sure everyone knows "Closer To The Heart". "Cinderella Man", is also great with acoustic and electric guitar parts. "Madrigal", is soft and beautiful. "Cygnus X-1", oh my god!. This is my absolute favorite on the album. At first, I hated it, but then it totally grew on me. Now it is my #1 favorite Rush epic. The others are good, but to me Rush didn't surpass what they accomplished on this truly dark, heavy and insane epic. This is truly a hard song to play as I've only learned to play some of it.(the ending of the 1st movement in something of a 9/4 time, I think. Any guitarists out there like myself, try the Eb minor, C minor barre chords based in A, to F# barre chord based in E. Play it and see if it sounds familiar to you.) Sorry for rambling but an album like this is worth it. By the way my favorite part of the epic is the 3rd movement as it starts off in what I believe is something of an 11/8, and the key of E is repeated into submisson.

Alright I'm done with my rambling, I'm sorry if I bored anyone, but this album is truly amazing and shame on the idiots who didin't give this album the justice it deserves.

Definitely, my favorite Rush album!

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