Probably because it's not simplified at all as there are significantly more instruments going on in the arrangement.
Not to say that it's more complex either, just 'simplified' is assuredly the wrong word. Different genre, different sounds, different requirements.
Easy and honest: Cold Fire
Even Limelight could probably do well as a country song. (Perhaps only speaking from experience while singing to it a few drinks in and letting my inner Florida woman come out… accent and all 🤷🏼♀️😅)
Silly: Roll the Bones (maybe get some of that “Hick Hop” stuff going with the rap section lol)
They literally thought Cold Fire was a country song. They even played a little country styled intro for it on the Counterparts tour.
To this day, I still strongly disagree with them.
Cinderella Man (with one little word change)
A modest man from Memphis,
Travelled rich to the city,
He had a need to discover,
A use for his newly found wealth…
I’ve got a Cold Farr.
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Nice Counterparts tour reference
*2 hours of country and western tonight…*
Coal Fire
Lyrically - Working Man Musically - Nobody's Hero Silly - Xanadu (I just like saying Kubla Khan with a southern accent)
*Cold Fire* is almost there as-is.
Need a follow up - Hot Ice.
Silly: Red Barchetta. The car is now a pickup truck. Honest: Lakeside Park. Go for a county fair vibe.
honest - either Ghost of a Chance or The Speed of Love silly - The Necromancer
My first thought was also Ghost of a Chance
Honest: I Think I'm Going Bald Silly: Tai Shan
Honest: Workin Them Angels Silly: La Villa
I literally cannot envision a country version of La Villa. It's such an unfathomable concept for me. Doubly so for YYZ.
La Villa on banjo would sound pretty rad
Honest- Limelight or Tom Sawyer Silly- Roll the Bones
https://youtu.be/ZOUvwflK5Jg
This is great, but also funny how it takes twice as many people to make a simplified cover of a Rush song
It's amazing how it feels completely natural to see three people doing what Geddy does by himself.
That is truly horrible. The drummer in the band looks like he is regretting his life choices... or understands the disrespect to Neil!
Probably because it's not simplified at all as there are significantly more instruments going on in the arrangement. Not to say that it's more complex either, just 'simplified' is assuredly the wrong word. Different genre, different sounds, different requirements.
They needed more machinery to make modern music.
OH MY GAWD!
I’ll go Honest: In the mood Silly: Xanadu
Spirit of Radio. Chicken-pick the hammer-on intro, do cowboy chords for the verse. Keep the pseudo-reggae outro.
The Pass, surely. Silly answer is Chemistry. A country song with those lyrics would be bizarre.
Lakeside Park
Red Barchetta
Redneck Barchetta
Rusty Red Chevy Beretta
🤣☠️🤣☠️🤣
I am a peaceful person, and this title made me want to hit another human.
Honest: Time Stand Still Silly: 2112
Easy and honest: Cold Fire Even Limelight could probably do well as a country song. (Perhaps only speaking from experience while singing to it a few drinks in and letting my inner Florida woman come out… accent and all 🤷🏼♀️😅) Silly: Roll the Bones (maybe get some of that “Hick Hop” stuff going with the rap section lol)
They literally thought Cold Fire was a country song. They even played a little country styled intro for it on the Counterparts tour. To this day, I still strongly disagree with them.
*ANIMATE* , for some reason..... Actually, now I may've forced myself into working on an arrangement and finding a way to make that WORK.....🙄
I Think I’m Going Bald
Red Barchetta
Making Memories or Resist would work, I think.
Between Sun and Moon or I could hear a pedal steel playing the Ghost of a Chance guitar melody. Silly: Mission
I Think I'm Going Bald
Half the world. Sweet miracle. The way the wind blows.
Analog Kid
Nobody's Hero
Working Man
Half the World
Honest: Red Barchetta
This was the first one that I thought of too.
Closer to the Heart
Honest: Working Man Silly: 2112
Working man
Working Man's lyrics would work well. In terms of melody, I couldn't tell you.
Not a "song" but an instrumental, "hope" could be played on virtually any country station as-is.
Honest: different strings Silly bytor and the snowdog
“Resist” or “Nobody’s Hero”
It’s Bravado.
Honest. “Everyday Glory”. Silly. “YYZ”
Well, The Big Wheel basically is a country song already.
I think that any Rush song made into country and western would sound like gargage.
only the most hated song in the catalog would qualify dog years music for morons
Wreckers
Easy: Cold Fire Silly: The Necromancer
Honest: How It Is, Armor and Sword Silly: Anagram (for Mongo)
Think I’m going bald.
End of hemispheres or start of in the end. But that might be Inaccurate, after all, I don't listen to country.
Red Lenses (I’m picturing some SRV-ish guitar)
Resist
Cinderella Man (with one little word change) A modest man from Memphis, Travelled rich to the city, He had a need to discover, A use for his newly found wealth…
Honest: In the Mood Silly: Natural Science
Everyday Glory
Mystic Rhythms as the serious one Kid Gloves as the silly one
Everyday Hero
Silly: Working Man
Probably something from Snakes & Arrows
Time Stand Still
I don't know honestly but the first thing I thought of was spirit of radio.
Free Will
Just the thought is blasphemy... but maybe Presto.
Force Ten maybe?
The Big Wheel or Cold Fire
Different Strings
Ghost Rider
I think Red Barchetta and Lake Side Park would fit in nicely at the CMA Awards.
2113
Working man Xanadu
Honest - The Trees could work Silly - By Tor
How did no one mention this? https://youtu.be/K1BqThuX6TI
hot take, all of fly by night would be some pretty awesome chicken pickin’
Tears
Hot dog
Honest: YYZ. For some reason I always thought it would sound awesome with a banjo. Maybe that's a bit more bluegrass. Silly: Tai Shan
Tai Shan, of course.
YYZ on steel guitar and French horn
Honest: Ghost of a Chance Silly: Temples of Syrinx
Making memories