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The Studio Albums 1989–2007
''The Studio Albums 1989–2007'' is a box set by the Canadian rock music, rock band Rush (band), Rush. It contains the band's seven studio albums released from 1989 to 2007 and was released on 7 CDs on September 30, 2013. The albums are ''Presto (album), Presto'' (1989), ''Roll the Bones'' (1991), ''Counterparts (Rush album), Counterparts'' (1993), ''Test for Echo'' (1996), the 2013 remix of ''Vapor Trails'' (2002), ''Feedback (EP), Feedback'' (2004) and ''Snakes & Arrows'' (2007). There is also a booklet included with lyrics to every album, with the exception of ''Feedback''. Reception Gregory Heaney of AllMusic gave the box set 4 out of 5 stars. He said that of most interest to Rush fans in the box set will be the remixed version of ''Vapor Trails''. Track listing ''Presto (album), Presto'' (1989) ''Roll the Bones'' (1991) ''Counterparts (Rush album), Counterparts'' (1993) ''Test for Echo'' (1996) ''Vapor Trails'' (2002) [2013 remixed version] ''Feedback (EP), Feed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rush (band)
Rush was a Canadian rock music, rock band formed in Toronto in 1968 that consisted primarily of Geddy Lee (vocals, bass, keyboards), Alex Lifeson (guitars) and Neil Peart (drums, percussion). The band's original line-up consisted of Lifeson, drummer John Rutsey, and bassist and vocalist Jeff Jones (bassist), Jeff Jones, whom Lee immediately replaced. After Lee joined, the band went through a few line-up changes before arriving at its classic power trio line-up with the addition of Peart in July 1974, who replaced Rutsey four months after the release of their Rush (Rush album), self-titled debut album; this line-up remained unchanged for the remainder of the band's career. Rush first achieved moderate success with their second album, ''Fly by Night (album), Fly by Night'' (1975). The commercial failure of their next album ''Caress of Steel'', released seven months after ''Fly by Night'', resulted in the band nearly getting dropped from their then-record label Mercury Records. Rus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Lifeson
Aleksandar Živojinović (born 27 August 1953), known professionally as Alex Lifeson (), is a Canadian musician, best known as the guitarist for the rock band Rush. In 1968, he co-founded a band (which later became Rush) with drummer John Rutsey and bassist and lead vocalist Jeff Jones. One month later, Jones was succeeded by Geddy Lee and in 1974, Rutsey was succeeded by Neil Peart. The lineup remained unchanged until the band's dissolution in 2018. Lifeson was the only member of Rush who stayed in the band throughout its entire existence, and he and Lee were the only members to appear on all of the band's albums. With Rush, Lifeson played electric and acoustic guitar, and other various string instruments such as mandola, mandolin, and bouzouki. He also performed backing vocals in live performances and select studio recordings, and occasionally played keyboards and bass pedal synthesizers. Each band member sometimes performed real-time on-stage triggering of sampled instrum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cold Fire (song)
"Cold Fire" is a song by the Canadian progressive rock band Rush. It was released on their 1993 album '' Counterparts''. The song peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. mainstream rock chart. Personnel *Geddy Lee – vocals, bass, synthesizer *Alex Lifeson – guitars, backing vocals *Neil Peart Neil Ellwood Peart ( ; September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) was a Canadian and American musician, known as the drummer, percussionist, and primary lyricist of the rock band Rush (band), Rush. He was known to fans by the nickname "the Profe ... – drums See also * List of Rush songs References Rush (band) songs 1993 songs 1994 singles Song recordings produced by Peter Collins (record producer) Songs written by Neil Peart Songs written by Alex Lifeson Songs written by Geddy Lee Atlantic Records singles {{1990s-rock-single-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leave That Thing Alone
The Canadian rock band Rush wrote, recorded, and performed several instrumentals throughout its career. Studio recordings La Villa Strangiato "La Villa Strangiato" was released on the 1978 album ''Hemispheres'', and is subtitled "An Exercise in Self-Indulgence". The 9:37 song, the fourth and final track of the album, was Rush's first entirely instrumental piece. The multi-part piece was inspired by a dream guitarist Alex Lifeson had, and the music in these sections correspond to the occurrences in his dream. The opening segment was played on a nylon-string classical guitar. The next segment introduces the main theme of La Villa, the Strangiato theme. The song progresses to include an increasingly complex guitar solo backed by string synthesizer, followed closely by bass and drum fills. The Strangiato theme is then revisited before the song ends abruptly with phased bass and drums. The piece is divided as follows: * I: "Buenas Noches, Mein Froinds!" (0:00–0:26) * II: "To sleep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nobody's Hero (song)
"Nobody's Hero" is a song by Canadian progressive rock band Rush, released as the third single from their 1993 album '' Counterparts''. The first verse deals with the AIDS-related death of a gay man named Ellis Booth, a friend of Neil Peart when Peart lived in London. After the chorus, the second verse speaks of a girl who was murdered in Peart's hometown, Port Dalhousie and was the daughter of a family friend, as remembered by Peart in ''Far and Wide: Bring That Horizon to Me!'' The girl is rumoured to have been Kristen French, one of Paul Bernardo's victims. It inspired the title for the paper ''Nobody's Hero: On Equal Protection, Homosexuality, and National Security'' published in The George Washington Law Review. Track listing Personnel *Geddy Lee – bass, lead vocals *Alex Lifeson – acoustic & electric guitars *Neil Peart – drums, percussion *John Webster – keyboards with *Michael Kamen Michael Arnold Kamen (April 15, 1948 – November 18, 2003) was an Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stick It Out (Rush Song)
"Stick It Out" is a song and single by the band Rush from their 1993 album '' Counterparts''. The song debuted at number one on the ''Billboard'' Album Rock Tracks chart, becoming the band's only number one debut of their five chart-toppers. The song also reached number one on the ''RPM'' Cancon chart. A music video was made for the song. It was briefly featured on an episode of ''Beavis and Butt-Head''. It was also featured on the '' Retrospective III: 1989–2008'' DVD included in the two-disc version. Background Drummer and lyricist Neil Peart said of the song: It’s just a play on the words, really. "Stick It Out" meaning both a kind of arrogant display, 'stick it out', but also the endurance thing; if you have a difficult thing to endure, stick it out and you get to the end. It was the pun on both of those, really, so again the duality in the song is a bit leaning both ways. The sense of forbearance, of holding back, and also the idea of fortitude: stick it out, you know, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pye Dubois
Pye Dubois is a Canadian lyricist and poet. He has worked mainly with Kim Mitchell and Max Webster (with whom he was considered an unofficial fifth non-performing member), and occasionally Rush. Career Dubois accompanied Max Webster in the studio and wrote lyrics for each of their albums."A witness to a creative spark" ''Beach Metro'', March 10, 2015 Melinda Drake He was given lyric-writing credits on several Rush songs, most notably " Tom Sawyer", which has been included on the soundtrack of several films. Dubois wrote the poem "There is a Lake Between Sun and Moon", which inspired Rush to write many of the lyrics for the album '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Of A Chance (Rush Song)
"Ghost of a Chance" is a song by the Canadian rock band Rush released as the third single from their 1991 album ''Roll the Bones''. The single peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. Album Rocks Track chart. The lyrics focus on finding love, and as its strength over any other force. Although the song was a radio hit at the time of its release, it has rarely been performed live. It was played live in 1991-1992 during the Roll the Bones Tour, and not played again until the 2008 leg of the Snakes & Arrows Tour. Track listing Music by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson; lyrics by Neil Peart. US release: #Ghost of a Chance – 5:19 #Where's My Thing? - 3:49 #An Interview With Rush UK / German release: #Ghost of a Chance – 5:19 #Dreamline – 4:38 #Chain Lightning – 4:33 nly on CD#Red Tide – 4:29 nly on CD Personnel *Geddy Lee – vocals, bass *Alex Lifeson – guitar *Neil Peart Neil Ellwood Peart ( ; September 12, 1952 – January 7, 2020) was a Canadian and American musician, known ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heresy (Rush Song)
"Heresy" is a song written by and performed by Rush and appears on their 1991 album ''Roll the Bones''. The song is about the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and Russia, resultant about-face consumerism and the passing of the Cold War nuclear threat. Song Like the rest of the album ''Roll the Bones'', "Heresy" also marks the transition from the band's 1980s style to their sound of the 1990s where guitars are a prominent part of this song and keyboard and organ are played in the background. As with the vast majority of Rush songs since the album '' Fly by Night'', Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson composed the song's music while Neil Peart wrote the lyrics. The percussion aspect of this song was noted in the Roll the Bones Tour program. Neil Peart explains, Lyrics The song speaks of the wall coming down, and the liberation of Eastern European from Communism which started in 1989 and continued through the early 1990s. While historians and journalists alike celebrated these events, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rush Instrumentals
The Canadian rock music, rock band Rush (band), Rush wrote, recorded, and performed several instrumentals throughout its career. Studio recordings La Villa Strangiato "La Villa Strangiato" was released on the 1978 album ''Hemispheres (Rush album), Hemispheres'', and is subtitled "An Exercise in Self-Indulgence". The 9:37 song, the fourth and final track of the album, was Rush's first entirely instrumental piece. The multi-part piece was inspired by a dream guitarist Alex Lifeson had, and the music in these sections correspond to the occurrences in his dream. The opening segment was played on a nylon-string classical guitar. The next segment introduces the main theme of La Villa, the Strangiato theme. The song progresses to include an increasingly complex guitar solo backed by string synthesizer, followed closely by bass guitar, bass and drum fills. The Strangiato theme is then revisited before the song ends abruptly with phased bass and drums. The piece is divided as follows: * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roll The Bones (song)
"Roll the Bones" is a song by the Canadian rock band Rush. It was released as the second single from their 1991 album of the same name. Background The music of "Roll the Bones" was written by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, and its lyrics by Neil Peart. The lyrics reflect on taking chances in life, and urging those unsure to "roll the bones," a term used for throwing dice. "But the bottom line...is to take the chance, roll the bones, if it's a random universe and that's terrifying and it makes you neurotic and everything, never mind. You really have to take the chance or else nothing's going to happen." - Neil Peart, "It's a Rap" interview, February 1992 As a "lyrical experiment", Peart wrote a " rap" section in his lyrics, as a result of listening to "the better rap writers", like LL Cool J and Public Enemy. The band considered seeking out a real rapper to perform this section of the song, or even considered approaching the section with a camp or comedic sensibility, and hirin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dreamline
"Dreamline" is a song by the Canadian rock band Rush. It was released as a single and on their 1991 album ''Roll the Bones''. The song peaked at number one on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. Bassist and singer Geddy Lee said: "I love the spirit of 'Dreamline' and the way Neil captures that feeling of wanderlust and invulnerability that comes in a particular trying time in your life." Reception Martin Popoff said that the song is "strafed by a crouching-then-striking verse and clouds-breaking chorus. It is a track that proved to be strong enough to open the '' Different Stages'' live album seven years later and then stay tenaciously in the set for the '' Vapor Trails'' tour." AllMusic writer Eduardo Rivadavia called the song "gutsy" and also said that "Dreamline" is one of their best songs from the '90s. Track listing Personnel *Geddy Lee - synthesizer, bass, vocals *Alex Lifeson - acoustic and electric guitars, vocals *Neil Peart Neil Ellwood Peart ( ; Septemb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
