FatherAlabaster

You're still doing better than me. I routinely go for weeks without listening to anything for enjoyment lately.

I lean towards albums. I like an immersive experience when I have time by myself for active listening, and I like zoning out to music while I work on visual art, so less frequent interruptions are better. Also I have a few EPs that I like a lot but most of my favorite music happens to be on full lengths. Sometimes I have to split an album in half because I don't have time for the whole thing with all the family distractions. I don't run into the filler-track issue very much. If an album has songs on it that I dislike enough to make me skip them, I just don't wind up listening to it at all.

They're both bubblegum tracks, so if you're looking for more involved prog rock then it's no surprise you didn't like them. I have no idea if I would like Moving Pictures if I heard it for the first time now, but it's so much a part of my musical DNA that there's no point thinking about it.

It goes by so quickly, you may as well listen to it twice! For me it was Moving Pictures, especially Red Barchetta. First heard it when I was 10 or 11. I've gradually moved on from most of the music I got into back then, but my appreciation for Rush has only gotten stronger. I've told the story here before, but my dad borrowed the album from someone, and I made a tape for myself by sticking a boom box in front of one of the speakers. I didn't know what "stereo" meant. I listened to it all the time. When I finally got a real copy of the album in my late teens I was blown away by all the extra parts I'd been missing.

I was in a band that was friends with them back in the mid 2000s and we got to play a few local shows with them. Also saw them on tour at much bigger venues. They always sounded great no matter the setting, put a lot of effort into getting the live sound on point. And yeah... they're great albums. So well put together.

Daylight Dies binge: Dismantling Devotion Lost To The Living A Frail Becoming

Best wishes for a quick recovery. Dental pain can be pretty awful and it's impossible to ignore. I remember reading some little bit of early modern English doggerel that stuck with me, about a guy with bad teeth who "had a pain in his heede" and would "soon be deede". We have made real progress. Trying to run modern software on my 19 year old laptop is a bit like a dental procedure, come to think of it.

I love their albums through the mid 80s, but I wouldn't have minded some more prog epics with intense musicianship mixed in with the radio rock.

Rush - Hemispheres

Hooded Menace - Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed Abigor - Opus IV Abigor - Nachthymnen

Saturnus - Martyre Pan.Thy.Monium - Dawn Of Dreams

Hornwood Fell - Damno Lumina Nocte Nur Run - Among Those Waves

Abigor - Taphonomia Aeternitatis Abigor - Totschläger ...RIP Peter Kubik. No idea if the band will continue.

I like Charnel Passages a lot, but it came out in 2015. Did you mean Obsidian Refractions?

Evoken - Antithesis Of Light