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Geddy Lee - My Favorite Headache Audio CD

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Geddy Lee Band: Geddy Lee
Title: My Favorite Headache
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Release Date: 2000-11-14
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: My Favorite Headache 2: Present Tense 3: Window to the World 4: Working at Perfekt 5: Runaway Train 6: Angels' Share 7: Moving to Bohemia 8: Home on the Strange 9: Slipping 10: Still 11: Grace to Grace

A masterpiece solo project
This is not a Rush album. My Favorite Headache is a great album. It is a solo album by Rush's bass player and vocalist, Geddy Lee. The album starts out swinging with the title track sounding much like a typical hard rock Rush song. After this booming start, the rest of the album starts to mellow out somewhat, beginning with the third track, Window To The World. It almost appears like Geddy Lee wanted to have the first song sound like a Rush song to satisfy Rush fans, and then after that start to get down to the business of showcasing a different sound and approach that is un-Rush-like. Geddy Lee shows his talent and depth as an artist with the rest of the album. All the songs sound different and all are good. There is one song, however, that to me kind of sticks out like a sore thumb -- Home On The Strange. To me, this song doesn't sound like it belongs on this album. It is quite different from the rest of the songs, though it is a decent song. The best songs on this album are the title track, The Present Tense, Window To The World, Runaway Train, The Angels' Share, Moving To Bohemia, Still, and Grace To Grace. I named practically the whole album, so there aren't weak tracks on this album at all. I think this album will appeal to fans of "new" Rush -- that is, the Rush albums that came out from 1982 onward that are more mellow than their older material. "Old" Rush is 1974 - 1981, and their albums that they released during this period were harder and heavier. I recommend this album to any Rush fan, whether you like the old stuff or the new stuff, or both. I also recommend this album to people who don't even like Rush, because it is un-Rush-like in a lot of ways. Very simply, it is good rock & roll with a lot of depth and brains behind the lyrics and the music. Get it. You'll love it.


You've -GOT- to want it!
A lot of bands disperse their members(or some are defunct) but Geddy Lee has made no other previous or following solos nor has Alex or Neil at all(since Neil is Rush). This is the only true Geddy Lee solo albumn. The music sounds "Rushie" as in "Rush", heavy syrupy gitars(Northern Rock) with low grungy sounds, droning out on the final notes, ect, that is because Geddy writes their music so it is his style. The lyrics however are different, where as Neil writes omi-philosphic stuff about the world(universe) as a whole, Geddy writes of individual tramas, (human)accomplishments, usually more pertainence on positive human accomplishments. -My- favorite Headache's title represents well of his individualistic lyrics. That is not to say he is self-centered, yet he writes in the point of view of -any- given individul, not a whole "galaxy" of thought. The final track, "Grace-to-Grace" is no exception. Geddy odviously wrote "Different Strings(planets to each other is individual planets being people)", (-you- can't get) "Something for Nothing" for instance on the Rush albumns. As well as the bulk of the debute as in "findin' -my- way" (the call -me-) "Work'n Man". This albumn is heart pounding in the music and the lyrics soul cutting, progressive individualism or not. He is a capable lyricist, positive and moving, just diffent than Neil or the tragic Type-o-Negative(as in negative) style of dark humorist, Alex Lifeson.


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A must for any rush fan or geddy lee fan, especially since it's hard to find.


A lot better than I expected
Although the lyrics aren't as good as Neil Peart's, they aren't bad. Given Alex Lifeson's subpar effort during this same period of time, I didn't have high hopes for Geddy Lee's solo effort. And the music meets the high standards set forth by Rush. This album is definately work buying if you are Rush fan.


Turning it down a little leaves room to breathe
Admittedly Rush is among my favorite bands (but if you're looking at this page, chances are good they are among yours, too), so I'm biased towards liking it, but Victor (Alex Lifeson's solo project) didn't really do it for me so I was a bit leery and, truth to tell, lazy. This album is quite enjoyable and I'm sorry that I didn't buy it for so long. This was on my "when I get around to it" list perpetually. Geddy as a solo artist has recognizable sounds, of course, but he's got a generally softer, more spacious sound than Rush, which is really good for the material. This is going to sound like heresy, but I really enjoyed Matt Cameron's sparer drumming compared to some of Neil's modern beat-the-stuffing-in-polyrhythm excursions. If fit the material very well. Ben Mink is a damn good rhythm guitarist, but nobody solos like Alex so basically they don't even try. It works but I miss the good melodic solo he would have turned out on a track like "Still. " MFH ended up being "the road not traveled" for because Vapor Trails and Snakes & Arrows ended up going down a generally much heavier path, dropping the keyboards, etc. ---the story we all know. This is a good way to hear what Rush might have done. .


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