@GirlVersusGame Oh boy, be careful asking me about Rush, cause I can totally wax poetic about them for hours, days, weeks, months, years. You'll want to find me and have me shot with how much I can talk your ear off about Rush. But joking aside, they are and always will be my fave band of all time.
I would love to get you into Rush and have you go down a rabbit hole with them. But where do I start? "But where do I start?" that phrase says it all. And is usually a sign of a great band. Cause we are talking 19 LP's since 1974, 11 live albums, 12 compilation albums and 2 EP's. They have been on hiatus for awhile and were possibly retired for good, because their drummer Neil Peart died of cancer 6 yrs ago.
However, they recently announced a reunion tour for this summer and hired a virtuoso drummer who's been around for a while. A woman by the name of Anika Nilles, will be playing drums with Rush. Whether they write new music or not remains to be seen. She is from Germany and Anika is such a great freaking drummer. I love to see women in prog rock and metal music too.
But back to their music. Rush is very fascinating, because they have 4 phases in their career. Most rush fans only say there are 2 and they aren't wrong. They clump phase 2 and 3 together and just put phase 4 as a continuation of phase 1.But when you break it down, its actually 4 phases.
In the early days they were straight up classic rock sounding like Led zep, but progressive rock. Closer to the heart is one of their earlier songs and reflects their 1st phase. It was actually on their 5th LP "a farewell to kings". The 1st phase of Rush ran from self-titled LP in 1974 to "permanent waves" album in 1980, their first 7 LP's.
Then comes the brief 2nd phase for 2 albums, "moving pictures" and "Signals". They still have the prog rock bass and guitars, still sounded pretty classic rock and grungey, but they start adding lots of keyboards, primarily synth sounds. Both amazing albums.
Then comes phase 3 from 1984 to '87 for three LP's. They went even heavier on synths and keyboards. Stayed prog rock, but the guitars were very bright and not grungey like classic rock anymore. They sounded very 1980's and were experimental for these LP's.
Then finally, phase 4 from 1989 to 2012 for a total of 7 more LP's. They totally went back to their roots and became a grungey, classic rock sounding progressive rock band again. Lmao
Most die hard Rush fans love all the phases of Rush. Some fans do not like phase 2 and 3. They call it Rush's "synth era". I love all of it. You just have to have an open ear. I can listen to Heaven shall burn, then I'll listen to synthwave techno music you'd hear in a club. I love to do that. Many people stick to what they like and can't do that. So to each their own I guess. But the synth era of Rush had so many amazing albums and songs.
At the end of day, I do love earliest Rush the best, phase 1. Its what got me into them and I have the most nostalgia for the early grungier sounding albums.
If I were to recommend someone get into Rush I would probably say start with 3 albums. One from phase 1, 2 and 3. I would say listen to LP #2 which is "fly by night" LP #8 "moving pictures" and LP #12 "hold your fire" and if you are digging those, then go further down the rabbit hole cause you won't be disappointed. And in some ways it gets even better from there lol.
I will post 3 songs, 1 from each for you. Hope I didn't talk your ear off. I don't blame you if you didn't read my book report here. But I warned you at the start. 4 things I can talk someone's ear off about. Video games, Hockey, Music and Rush.
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