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| | Chamber Maid: The Baroque Tribute to Rush | | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Vitamin Records | | Release Date : | | 2004-10-05 | | Store Price : | | $16.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $16.98 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Tom Sawyer
2. Limelight
3. Fly by Night
4. Witch Hunt
5. Trees
6. Madrigal
7. Force Ten
8. Distant Early Warning
9. Closer to the Heart
10. Flickering
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Unique collection with a few bright spots
Submitted on: 2009-04-07 |
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| This album is definitely unique. A very unique sound for a tribute album. It is sort of haunting, with violins, a harpsichord, and a pipe organ. What I don't like is how in the middle of a song the beat and rhythm and melody and everything just changes suddenly, to the point where you can't recognize the song anymore. Then all of a sudden you'll hear the familiar melody again after the long, unrecognizable intermission. The best track on this album is Witch Hunt. The drumming is not very good. It's in the background more, like it should be, because the main emphasis is on the classical/haunting feel at the forefront. The snare drum almost sounds like a drum pad. I give credit to this band for taking a unique approach to the music of Rush, using some unusual instruments. Overall, this is not too bad. Before I bought this I thoroughly read the CD back of the CD case, so I knew what I was purchasing, basically. I can't say I recommend this CD, because of the fact that it is so different and out-of-the-box. If you are willing to take a chance on this, then go ahead and buy it. You might like it, especially if you want something that sounds unique and different with a haunting feel to it. |
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 should be zero stars
Submitted on: 2006-01-21 |
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| This was the worst spent money on a cd ...EVER! As a Rush fan for many (30) years , this is an abomination of their music. It would have been a little better if there was no percussion ....this guy was horrible. The drumming sounds like a junior high snare drummer that knows one little ratta-tat-tat and plays the same thing on every song. The terrible tone and playng of this drummer sounds like popcorn popping in the background. The group as a whole are just not a tight group. This sounds like a practice session that got recorded while the annoying fiddlesticker was doodling. This bunch obviosly understands nothing about dynamics. You will be listening along and then there is an abrupt stop.....now here comes a disjointed pipe organ solo that doesn't sound like the same song. This happens several times in different songs. I can't even listen to this..sheer torture. This is an abuse of the fans of Rush and yes, this is a severe review. I fell like my money was stolen on this one. |
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Don't bother
Submitted on: 2005-03-09 |
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This is just terrible. The drums sound like a kids starter set.
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absolute cash-in garbage
Submitted on: 2005-03-01 |
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I will make this as plain as possible: this CD has no redeeming value of any kind. It is simply an assembly-line "fake" tribute album with an acoustic guitarist, keyboard player, violinist and drummer (?) playing the intro to a Rush tune, then going off on uninspired counterpoint explorations for a bit before returning to the song at the end. On EVERY SINGLE SONG.
The shifts in style are frustrating and agonizing. I barely made it all the way through the disc before I put it in the "recycle at the used CD store" pile.
Now, if Apolalyptica wanted to do a Rush tribute on four cellos, I'd pay big money for that.
Special hatred goes out to engineer and drummer Eric Helmuth, who plays annoyingly in every tune on what sounds like an old high school marching band snare drum and a cereal box full of toilet paper for a bass drum. Dude, you're the freakin' engineer! Couldn't you at least make your own drumming sound halfway decent?
Bottom line: what could have been a potentially interesting concept to a select few fans is fumbled on first down on this irritating "tribute" that was cynically calculated to seperate gullible Rush fans from their cash. Don't fall for it. |
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Good to toss on when the old folks visit
Submitted on: 2004-12-26 |
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This "baroque" tribute to Rush is in some ways better and in some ways worse than the other classical-themed Rush tribute, "Exit Stage Right: A String Quartet Tribute to Rush." It's better in that it features more instrumentation than just strings, but it's arguably worse because the adaptations of Rush songs aren't quite as faithful as on "ESR."
I don't know how truly "baroque" these renditions are, but they sound nice while going by. Each song adaptation borrows the melody of the original, but often ventures off into other melodies and themes. And while I'm no classical music expert, I did notice that both "Limelight" and "Madrigal" steal liberally from J.S. Bach's "Two and Three-Part Inventions." The CD closes with "Flickering," an original compostion written for this project... although what the song has in common with either baroque music or Rush music can only be imagined.
As I've often said of "ESR" to my fellow Rush fans, this is a good CD to play when your parents or grandparents or in-laws are visiting. You get your Rush fix and the older folks don't get blown away by the hard-rocking originals. And let's face it - Rush's "Moving Pictures" isn't exactly the perfect soundtrack for a quiet dinner party with friends. Toss on this CD and/or the "ESR" CD for those times when you wanna hear Rush, but the situation calls for quieter music.
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