Artist Page: Rush

Great live DVD with lots of musical and visual delicacies. Geddy's voice sounds strange on some of the old tunes, but that's okay, since the rest is just fine. Oh, and look out for the Pirates of the Temple of Syrinx.

The best post 90's Rush album so far, and one of my favorite Rush albums period. The lyrics are the best ive heard from Neil, he is very honest and I really admire his values when it comes to that special relationship. The whole album is very loud and energetic, probably the most of all Rush's entire discography (except maybe vapor trails, but that one has major problems so lets just forget about it).

Am I being a bit harsh? Personally, I think not. This is SUB PAR. It is sub-par hard rock, and sub-par Rush. One of Rush's worst albums, and Rush is one of my favorite bands and my first prog band for life, so I know my Rush. Anthem and By-Tor are the only songs on the album that are worth while, and are in fact great Rush songs. Other than that, it is very low quality and very forgettable. Fans only, like me, but honestly I hardly ever play it and I can never get all the way through it thanks to Geddy's chipmunk vocals wailing bloody murder into my poor ears.

Although only the title track (20 minutes of prog heaven) can be considered anything essential, this is still an essential release in my book for any hard rock fan and probably for any progger. This is of the the standard entry level prog albums, not just Rush albums, and this along with Yes' Fragile can easily convert even the most jaded rock fan who knows nothing of this word 'prog'.

Rush's seminal release. This is the album all those other bands out there looked to for inspiration. Accessible so that hard rockers can enjoy it, and the hard rockin' radio stations can play it, yet prog and technical enough for us proggers to pull out the subtlies as well after multiple listens. A must own album even if your not a fan of Rush, if you like rock music. This influenced your favorite bands more than you know.

A very hit and miss album, but probably Rush's best since Counterparts (Other than Counterparts, post 90's Rush hasn't made anything but decent and below studio albums) I was left dissapointed with this one as well, since Alex Lifeson himself said that this was the best album they've made in a long time. The songs have an amazing amount of energy, especially considering the age of these three prog grandpa's, yet they have more energy than some guys over half their age! Some truly great new Rush songs: Far Cry, The Main Monkey Buisness, The Way the Wind Blows. But the rest are sub-par and most of the songs start to run together and its hard to differentiate between each indivual song. I expect better from Rush, but at least this is a step up from Test for Echo and Vapor Trails! (eww...)

Despite the absolutely amazing Vital Signs, the rest of the album really is not my thing. Some of the Lifeson solos sound lifeless, and I often find it difficult to relate the lyrics to the music.

Includes Natural Science, which is a *must*, and is generally an excellent albums. I felt that Entre Nous was a bit forced, and the album as a whole lacks the charm of some earlier Rush albums.

Objectively, this probably comes off as Rush's finest hour. There are a couple of the issues I have with later Rush surfacing (vestigial bursts of music after the intense atmospheric opening of Xanadu, for instance). Still, superb.

A great early Rush album, lyrically and musically. It's a shame that some of the choices on the short pieces feel a little weak.

Certainly the most fun that Rush has ever been for me. The only real problem with it is that occasionally the flow in The Fountain of Lamneth is rather lacking.

Yes this is a compilation album, but it is worth a mention because it serves as a great introduction to the Rush of the 70s and early 80s comprising some of the best songs from "Rush" up until "Permanent Waves". It's a great introduction to those who are new to Rush and would like to get a peek into their progressive years.

I must say that I'd like to have seen "Natural Science", "Jacob's Ladder" and "Passage to Bangkok" represented here, and in terms of musical style, it would make sense to have "Moving Pictures" tunes represented on this disc as well, such as "Tom Sawyer", "YYZ" and "Camera Eye".

But that aside, this compilation is recommended to anyone who is interested in getting into early Rush.

The first live album from the greatest band on the World's stage. Thus ends phase 1 of their career and the beginning of a pattern of 4 albums per phase followed by a live album. This is their first official live album, but I do have the pleasure of owning a couple of bootlegs that precede this fine release.

Album number three from the greatest band to grace these ears. Whilst their first two albums were very good, Caress of Steel is their first excellent album, and yet it still only foreshadows what is yet to come.

Album number two from the greatest band on Earth. Neil Peart is now in the fold, and there is a slight shift towards becoming a prog band, but still for the most part this is a good hard rock album. Not quite the "Best I Can" yet, but those are on their way.

The debut album by the greatest band in the world. This album is the only Rush album to not have Neil Peart on drums, but John Rutsey does an admirable job in the drum seat. When songs from this album were first played on the radio, they were mistaken as new Led Zeppelin songs, which is quite a compliment given the greatness of the Zep. I don't listen to this album as often as their others, but it is always a fun album to listen to.

This is an EP of covers that Rush put together so that they would have "new" material to play during their 30th anniversary tour. I absolutely love this EP. These are fun songs to listen to and to hear Rush's interpretation of. Unlike many, I tend to like cover songs and hearing a band apply their style to well-known music. And of course, I am a huge Rush fan, although there are many huge Rush fans who don't like this covers album. For Prog Archives website users, as much as I like this EP, I will probably only give it 2 stars since it really is for Fans/Collectors only.

I am RushFan4 and this is RushAlbum4. Their first masterpiece. 2112 is the epic story to end all epic stories. The Necromancer and the Fountain of Lamneth were both excellent songs, but 2112 is awesome. Side 2 is also quite good, with Passage of Bangkok being one of my all time favorite Rush songs, and Tears being one of my favorite Rush unknown songs.

Rush returns to the hard rock sound that is associated with their 70s period. While not super progressive, 'Snakes and Arrows' is a damn fine album.

My introduction to Rush was a rather odd one in that I fell in love with them with the Counterparts album and then just as quickly fell out of love with them with the albums that followed: Test for Echo and Vapor Trails. But then as I developed a taste for prog, I went back and looked at their older material and found that I really enjoyed 2112, A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres. Now I am delving into the ‘80s.

Rush certainly creates an atmosphere with this album, with the spacey keyboards providing a good fit along with the overwhelming lyrical theme. The problem I have with this album is that it sounds very "dated." Twenty-three years after release, so many of these songs sound...well, 23 years old. That’s not necessarily always a bad thing, but I find that in this case it really detracts from the quality of the music.

I find that I really like Distant Early Warning and Red Sector A (the two songs from this album which also made it onto the excellent compilation album Chronicles). I also enjoy the final song on the album, Between the Wheels. Everything else is forgettable, as far as I’m concerned. In fact, I find a couple of the songs just downright bad (The Enemy Within and Kid Gloves).

As much as I’d like to give this talented trio a higher grade with this effort, I can only recommend it for completionists.