{"id":2179,"date":"2009-02-05T22:41:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T04:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2009-02-05T22:45:39","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T04:45:39","slug":"fly-by-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Fly By Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WQcm5ghdQn0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/WQcm5ghdQn0&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;border=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"500\" height=\"405\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in a bit of a Rush kick lately.  Here are my favorite early Rush songs (1980 and prior), not in any particular order:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MYzGMxGq9rM\" >Freewill<\/a> (Permanent Waves)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AlTVbx6b9L8\" >The Spirit of Radio<\/a> (Permanent Waves)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2C52wsxuZT0\" >Closer to the Heart<\/a> (A Farewell to Kings)<\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0lpVjXwAfm0\" >Fly by Night<\/a> (Fly by Night)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Fly by Night<\/em>, <em>A Farewell to Kings<\/em> and <em>Permanent Waves<\/em> are my top three Rush albums from the 1968 to 1980 period.  The other ones were a little too &#8220;out there&#8221; for me.  I guess I prefer their more commercial, radio-friendly songs.  I also liked them more when they started playing more progressive rock style, which began the year I was born (1977).  I think that style suited Geddy&#8217;s vocals best.  <em>Freewill<\/em> is my all-time favorite Rush song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m in a bit of a Rush kick lately. Here are my favorite early Rush songs (1980 and prior), not in any particular order: Freewill (Permanent Waves) The Spirit of Radio (Permanent Waves) Closer to the Heart (A Farewell to Kings) Fly by Night (Fly by Night) Fly by Night, A Farewell to Kings and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[303],"tags":[319],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2181,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}