The album closes with a (totally amazing) nine-and-a-half minute instrumental. The first track is an 18 minute sequel to a song from a previous album. "Hemispheres," the Rushiest Rush albumĪs I noted on Twitter yesterday, "Hemispheres" is basically the ur-Rush album.
But there are also some slightly deeper cuts worthy of praise ("Red Barchetta" is in the running for my personal favorite Rush song) and we get some solid instrumental action with "YYZ". "Tom Sawyer" is a classic rock staple for a reason and "Limelight" is, as Ace correctly notes, a great song.
"Moving Pictures" may not be Rush's best album, but it's certainly the album with the songs recognized by the most people. "Moving Pictures," the beginners' Rush album As a favor to Charlie and others who have yet to put away their childish distaste for the Canadian power rock trio, allow me to suggest five essential Rush albums. Liking Rush is no sin! They've made some solid, catchy tunes that double as musically complex suites (listen to the drumming during "Tom Sawyer" sometime Peart, one of the best rock drummers in the world, has said it's a challenge to play live each and every time). Cooke is a noted Rush Rush are awful.īut as Ace of Spades notes in a response to my post yesterday about Neil Peart's silly and seemingly ignorant political blustering, coming to grips with the fact that Rush has made some pretty solid music is part of growing up:įor those who like Rush - which, I'm surprised to say, now includes me (I recently decided to put away my childhood, identity-building hatred of Rush in my steamer trunk of Childish Things and just admit I liked Spirit of Radio and Limelight and Distant Early Warning) - the revelation that another aging boomer rocker of doubtful current cultural relevance thinks Teh Democrat Party is Awesome is as surprising as the next unwanted hair discovered growing from one's nostril. The news today is depressing, so I think I'm going to focus on something that whipped up much discussion in my Twitter feed yesterday: the band Rush.
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