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Track Listings
| Disc: 1 | |||
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| 1. The Spirit Of Radio (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 2. Time Stand Still (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 3. Presto (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 4. Stick It Out (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 5. Workin' Them Angels (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 6. Leave That Thing Alone (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 7. Faithless (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 8. BU2B (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 9. Free Will (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 10. Marathon (Live In Cleveland) | |||
See all 15 tracks on this disc
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| Disc: 2 | |||
| 1. The Camera Eye (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 2. Witch Hunt (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 3. Vital Signs (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 4. Caravan (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 5. Moto Perpetuo (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 6. O'Malley's Break (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 7. Closer To The Heart (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 8. 2112 Overture/The Temples Of Syrinx (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 9. Far Cry (Live In Cleveland) | |||
| 10. La Villa Strangiato (Live In Cleveland) | |||
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Editorial Reviews
Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland is the ultimate Rush live album. Recorded during last year's sold outTime Machine tour, the CD captures the band in great form in the city where their career really kicked off.
The 26 song 2-disc set includes the band's performance of the classic Moving Pictures in its entirety. It features that album's smashes "Tom Sawyer" and "Limelight" as well as other catalog greats like "Working Man," "The Spirit Of Radio" and more.
The 26 song 2-disc set includes the band's performance of the classic Moving Pictures in its entirety. It features that album's smashes "Tom Sawyer" and "Limelight" as well as other catalog greats like "Working Man," "The Spirit Of Radio" and more.
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51 of 59 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
My biggest fear in reviewing this album was my bias towards this tour.
Having been a Rush fan for most of my life, I had not ever seen them live. However, October 2010 the perfect storm of location, finances, and opportunity formed to allow me to experience one of my favorite bands live for the first time. It was a magical night, a great concert, and in my opinion, perfect in every conceivable way.
The show was sublime.
But that doesn't mean this CD necessarily is.
It's really hard to review this particular CD. On one hand, it is a great souvenir for anyone who attended the Time Machine tour in 2010-2011. The setlist for both halves of the tour are identical. This is EXACTLY the same show I saw in West Palm Beach at the end of the first leg of their tour. It is very easy for me to put this on my stereo or i-pod and be instantly transported to that beautiful October night on the grass at the Cruzan Amphitheatre.
However, as far as the "quality" of the content here, I have to be brutally honest here and say that it's a mixed bag.
On one hand, it contains the entire Moving Pictures album performed live and in order. This means the first live recorded performance of The Camera Eye. For true fans, this epic track is worth the price of admission alone. I'm not happy they split the Moving Pictures album between the two CD's, I would have much rather that they split the CD's where the intermission came during the show (between Subdivisions and Tom Sawyer). However, I understand that space limitations on the CD's may have made this unavoidable.
On the other hand, however, as far as previously unreleased live tracks go, this one only contains a handful, 5 out of 26 to be exact. Presto, Faithless, BU2B, The Camera Eye, and Caravan are the only tracks that have not been previously recorded live. And unfortunately, of the remaining 21 tracks, most are definitely better in previous live releases.
Geddy's age is clearly catching up with his vocals, and it is quite apparent here. I first noticed this on the Snakes and Arrows Live album, but here it's even more noticable.
Not suprisingly the tracks from Snakes and Arrows and the upcoming Clockwork Angels sound the best here. They were written fairly recently with his vocal limitations in mind. Older standards like Spirit of Radio, 2112, and Working Man suffer however. All of these songs make extensive use of Geddy's upper register, and he just can't quite get there anymore. And when he lowers the key of the song, he stops sounding like Geddy, but at least he is in key.
Nowhere is this more clearly demonstrated than in Spirit of Radio. Designed to be a rousing opening to a fantastic show, it instead comes off as being awkward and even a little off key. Things get worse with Time Stand Still where he just plain misses the notes. What's frustrating is that Time Stand Still is not that challenging a song and the attempts to hit high notes on this track are clearly choices Geddy made to mix things up a bit and he misses the mark completely. When he sings it "straight" it sounds great. Unforunately, this trend also continues with Presto.
However, after a very shaky opening three tracks, things settle down quite a bit and the rest of the album gets much better.
While age might be catching up with Geddy's vocals, the band's musicianship is as strong as ever. The instrumental tracks; YYZ, Leave That Thing Alone, and La Villa Strangiato just keep sounding better and better. I'm reminded a part in the movie Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, where the band mentions that when they wrote La Villa Strangito they intentionally wrote it just beyond their ability to actually play it, incredible!!! Over 30 years of practice has sure paid off as this track still sends shivers down my spine. The polka introduction to Strangiato, while seemingly completely out of place on the CD, just demonstrates their quirky sense of humor and is keeping with the theme of the videos that opened the 1st and 2nd sets. I guess you "had to be there".
For me, buying this album and it's associated Blu-Ray was never in question. They serve to remind me of a very special night in which I saw one of my favorite bands of all time, live for the first time. I gave the Blu-Ray 5 stars because the visuals, and energy overshadow the vocal weaknesses. They don't seem to be as glaring when watching the performance in Hi-Def.
However, if you are thinking of buying this album strictly for it's "new" live content, it's hard to recommend this album based soley on the 5 previously unreleased live tracks. Presto just doesn't sound that great. BU2B and Caravan both come from their upcoming studio album, Clockwork Angels, which barring unforseen circumstances will have it's own dedicated tour album in the near future. This leaves Faithless and The Camera Eye as the only previously unreleased live tracks that serve as main reasons to buy this album. That may be just too much of a stretch for some.
UPDATE 11/22/2011: There is some buzz around the internet that Geddy had a cold or was coming off of one when this was recorded. This album, like Rush In Rio was recorded over one night. In the past Rush used to slick things up via post production or cull their live tracks from MANY live performances. Exit Stage Left is a perfect example of that. It's almost "too good" to be believable. Whereas Rush In Rio, hardly the best sounding CD they released, captures the energy and excitement that few other live CD's have ever captureed.
I can give Geddy a pass if indeed he is coming off a cold. I get it. I also like the fact that since Neil's return to the band, their live CD's (Rush in Rio, R30, Snakes and Arrows Live, and Time Machine 2011) are not Live "compilation" albums like their previous live releases (I.E. Exit Stage Left, A Show Of Hands, and Diferent Stages), but recordings of individual shows. They are concert's "on the go".
I upgraded this review by one star. Perhaps it's because the album is "growing on me" with repeated listenings or maybe because I realized that I was criticizing the album for being exactly what I like most about the album. It is a snapshot of a given night so you take the good with the bad. Time Stand Still still makes me cringe though.
The bottom line is this: If you prefer, like I do, live CD's that are actual documents of a given night, this one is definitely worth a spin warts and all. If you simply are looking for the best live versions of their standards, then Different Stages and Exit Stage Left will be more up your alley.
Having been a Rush fan for most of my life, I had not ever seen them live. However, October 2010 the perfect storm of location, finances, and opportunity formed to allow me to experience one of my favorite bands live for the first time. It was a magical night, a great concert, and in my opinion, perfect in every conceivable way.
The show was sublime.
But that doesn't mean this CD necessarily is.
It's really hard to review this particular CD. On one hand, it is a great souvenir for anyone who attended the Time Machine tour in 2010-2011. The setlist for both halves of the tour are identical. This is EXACTLY the same show I saw in West Palm Beach at the end of the first leg of their tour. It is very easy for me to put this on my stereo or i-pod and be instantly transported to that beautiful October night on the grass at the Cruzan Amphitheatre.
However, as far as the "quality" of the content here, I have to be brutally honest here and say that it's a mixed bag.
On one hand, it contains the entire Moving Pictures album performed live and in order. This means the first live recorded performance of The Camera Eye. For true fans, this epic track is worth the price of admission alone. I'm not happy they split the Moving Pictures album between the two CD's, I would have much rather that they split the CD's where the intermission came during the show (between Subdivisions and Tom Sawyer). However, I understand that space limitations on the CD's may have made this unavoidable.
On the other hand, however, as far as previously unreleased live tracks go, this one only contains a handful, 5 out of 26 to be exact. Presto, Faithless, BU2B, The Camera Eye, and Caravan are the only tracks that have not been previously recorded live. And unfortunately, of the remaining 21 tracks, most are definitely better in previous live releases.
Geddy's age is clearly catching up with his vocals, and it is quite apparent here. I first noticed this on the Snakes and Arrows Live album, but here it's even more noticable.
Not suprisingly the tracks from Snakes and Arrows and the upcoming Clockwork Angels sound the best here. They were written fairly recently with his vocal limitations in mind. Older standards like Spirit of Radio, 2112, and Working Man suffer however. All of these songs make extensive use of Geddy's upper register, and he just can't quite get there anymore. And when he lowers the key of the song, he stops sounding like Geddy, but at least he is in key.
Nowhere is this more clearly demonstrated than in Spirit of Radio. Designed to be a rousing opening to a fantastic show, it instead comes off as being awkward and even a little off key. Things get worse with Time Stand Still where he just plain misses the notes. What's frustrating is that Time Stand Still is not that challenging a song and the attempts to hit high notes on this track are clearly choices Geddy made to mix things up a bit and he misses the mark completely. When he sings it "straight" it sounds great. Unforunately, this trend also continues with Presto.
However, after a very shaky opening three tracks, things settle down quite a bit and the rest of the album gets much better.
While age might be catching up with Geddy's vocals, the band's musicianship is as strong as ever. The instrumental tracks; YYZ, Leave That Thing Alone, and La Villa Strangiato just keep sounding better and better. I'm reminded a part in the movie Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, where the band mentions that when they wrote La Villa Strangito they intentionally wrote it just beyond their ability to actually play it, incredible!!! Over 30 years of practice has sure paid off as this track still sends shivers down my spine. The polka introduction to Strangiato, while seemingly completely out of place on the CD, just demonstrates their quirky sense of humor and is keeping with the theme of the videos that opened the 1st and 2nd sets. I guess you "had to be there".
For me, buying this album and it's associated Blu-Ray was never in question. They serve to remind me of a very special night in which I saw one of my favorite bands of all time, live for the first time. I gave the Blu-Ray 5 stars because the visuals, and energy overshadow the vocal weaknesses. They don't seem to be as glaring when watching the performance in Hi-Def.
However, if you are thinking of buying this album strictly for it's "new" live content, it's hard to recommend this album based soley on the 5 previously unreleased live tracks. Presto just doesn't sound that great. BU2B and Caravan both come from their upcoming studio album, Clockwork Angels, which barring unforseen circumstances will have it's own dedicated tour album in the near future. This leaves Faithless and The Camera Eye as the only previously unreleased live tracks that serve as main reasons to buy this album. That may be just too much of a stretch for some.
UPDATE 11/22/2011: There is some buzz around the internet that Geddy had a cold or was coming off of one when this was recorded. This album, like Rush In Rio was recorded over one night. In the past Rush used to slick things up via post production or cull their live tracks from MANY live performances. Exit Stage Left is a perfect example of that. It's almost "too good" to be believable. Whereas Rush In Rio, hardly the best sounding CD they released, captures the energy and excitement that few other live CD's have ever captureed.
I can give Geddy a pass if indeed he is coming off a cold. I get it. I also like the fact that since Neil's return to the band, their live CD's (Rush in Rio, R30, Snakes and Arrows Live, and Time Machine 2011) are not Live "compilation" albums like their previous live releases (I.E. Exit Stage Left, A Show Of Hands, and Diferent Stages), but recordings of individual shows. They are concert's "on the go".
I upgraded this review by one star. Perhaps it's because the album is "growing on me" with repeated listenings or maybe because I realized that I was criticizing the album for being exactly what I like most about the album. It is a snapshot of a given night so you take the good with the bad. Time Stand Still still makes me cringe though.
The bottom line is this: If you prefer, like I do, live CD's that are actual documents of a given night, this one is definitely worth a spin warts and all. If you simply are looking for the best live versions of their standards, then Different Stages and Exit Stage Left will be more up your alley.
22 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I was hoping this release would be 'the one' that gets it right for 21st century Rush live recordings. Nope. It is a major step back in sound quality. What am I talking about? Mr. Peart's drums are very low in the mix -- no hi-hat can be heard, only when there is an open hat accent (Subdivisions, Time Stand Still), and ride cymbal can scarcely be discerned. Toms have no distinction, bass drum has no punch, and the snare is a weak whack with annoying overtones. Peart's sound effects triggers are missing. Really poor mix. Why would the producers do this to a historically imporatant live record? Why would they muffle one of the greatest living rock drummers on one of his last great tours with his band? I purchase every live release from Rush but I am passing on this one. I have a copy of htis release and have listened to it several times, and the more I hear it I want to throw it out.
On the other hand, Ged's bass playing is clear and up front. I can hear almost every note he plays.
On the other hand, Ged's bass playing is clear and up front. I can hear almost every note he plays.
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By R. Short
Format:MP3 Music|Amazon Verified Purchase
Back in the old days Rush would release a live record after every four studio albums. These days brand new Rush albums are few and far between so the band tends to release a live record after every tour, a tradition they started after the Test for Echo tour in 1997. The obvious treat here is the "Moving Pictures" album presented in its entirety. Mind you every single track off that album has been released on another live release since 2003 so the real reason to buy this set is for "The Camera Eye", a song Rush fans have been salivating over for years.
Some other gems here are "Presto", "Faithless", and the two new songs "BU2B" and "Caravan". That being said the rest of the material has appeared on other Rush live releases in the past, some songs on almost every single one! That's not a bad thing. "Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland" is a satisfying audio scrapbook for anyone who attended the tour (I went to four shows) and of course good listening for those unfortunate souls who missed it.
The only thing keeping me from giving this five stars is the fact that, as I said earlier, most of the music has appeared on several other live releases and therefore doesn't seem fresh or new. Also, I wish they would have held back on the sound effects during the "Moving Pictures" portion of the show.
Peace, and enjoy.
Some other gems here are "Presto", "Faithless", and the two new songs "BU2B" and "Caravan". That being said the rest of the material has appeared on other Rush live releases in the past, some songs on almost every single one! That's not a bad thing. "Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland" is a satisfying audio scrapbook for anyone who attended the tour (I went to four shows) and of course good listening for those unfortunate souls who missed it.
The only thing keeping me from giving this five stars is the fact that, as I said earlier, most of the music has appeared on several other live releases and therefore doesn't seem fresh or new. Also, I wish they would have held back on the sound effects during the "Moving Pictures" portion of the show.
Peace, and enjoy.
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