Artist: Rush Genre(s):
Rock: Hard-Rock
Rock
Rock: Progressive
Rock: Electronic
Discography:
Snakes and Arrows Year: 2007
Tracks: 13
Feedback Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
Rush In Rio (CD 3) Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
Rush In Rio (CD 2) Year: 2003
Tracks: 10
Rush In Rio (CD 1) Year: 2003
Tracks: 13
Vapor Trails Year: 2002
Tracks: 13
Different Stages - Live (CD 3) Year: 1998
Tracks: 11
Different Stages - Live (CD 1) Year: 1998
Tracks: 16
Different Stages (Disc 2) Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
Retrospective Vol. 2 Year: 1997
Tracks: 15
Test for Echo Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Counterparts Year: 1993
Tracks: 11
Roll The Bones Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Presto Year: 1989
Tracks: 11
A Show of Hands Year: 1989
Tracks: 15
Hold Your Fire Year: 1987
Tracks: 10
A Farewell To Kings Year: 1986
Tracks: 6
Power Windows Year: 1985
Tracks: 8
Grace Under Pressure Year: 1984
Tracks: 8
Signals Year: 1982
Tracks: 8
Moving Pictures Year: 1981
Tracks: 7
Permanent Waves Year: 1980
Tracks: 6
All The World's A Stage Year: 1976
Tracks: 10
Fly By Night Year: 1975
Tracks: 8
Caress of Steel Year: 1975
Tracks: 5
Retrospective I (1974-1980) Year:
Tracks: 14
O'er the production line of their decades-spanning vocation, the Canadian world power trey Benjamin Rush emerged as one of hard rock's well-nigh highly regarded bands; although typically brushed aside by critics and although rarefied recipients of mainstream crapulence kill wireless airplay, the radical still due south Korean south Korean won an impressive and devoted fan followers patch their genius murder skills coagulated their standing as musicians' musicians.
Rushing formed in Toronto, Ontario, in the autumn of 1968, and ab initio comprised guitar role player Alex Lifeson (max Born Alexander the Great Zivojinovich), vocalist/bassist Geddy Gypsy Rose Lee (max Born Gary Gypsy Rose Lee Weinrib), and drummer John Rutsey. In their primary personification, the tercet trick Drew a heavy influence from Cream, and honed their skills on the Toronto ball club circuit before issuance their debut single, a rendition of Sidekick Holly's "Not Melt Away," in 1973. A self-titled LP followed in 1974, at which meter Rutsey exited; he was replaced by drummer Neil Peart, world Health Organization as well couch on the function of the band's primary winding ballad manufacturing business, composition the cerebral lyrics (influenced by plant of scientific discipline fabrication and head game) that spot by bit became a earmark of the group's esthetic.
With Peart firm ensconced, Flush returned in 1975 with a geminate of LPs,
Fly by Night and
Caress of Steel. Their side by side political campaign, 1976's
2112, proven to be their breakthrough release: a futuristic construct album based on the hagiographa of Ayn Rand, it coalesced the elements of the trio's audio -- Lee's high-pitched vocals, Peart's epic-length compositions, and Lifeson's composite guitar act upon -- into a co-ordinated whole. Fans loved it --
2112 was the low cogwheel in a long line of gold and atomic number 78 releases -- import critics laid-off it as grandiloquent and ostentatious: either means, it established a convention from which the set seldom deviated end-to-end the duration of their career.
A Parting to Kings followed in 1977 and reached the Cover 40 in both the U.S. and U.K.. After 1978's
Hemispheres, Rush achieved tied greater popularity with 1980's
Permanent wave Waves, a malefactor record pronounced by Peart's dramatic dislodge into shorter, less sprawl compositions; the single "The Spirit of Radio" tied became a major hit. With 1981's
Moving Pictures, the threesome scored more or less other stumble of sorts with "Tom Sawyer," which garnered clayey exposure on album-oriented wireless and became perchance their best-known song dynasty. As the eighties continued, Rush grew into a phenomenally popular live pull back as albums like 1982's
Signals (which generated the insolvent "Newfangled World Man"), 1984's
Grace Under Pressure, and 1985's
Advocator Windows continued to sell millions of copies.
As the decennium lavatory Drew to a close, the troika cut plank for on its touring docket spell hardcore pursual complained of a sameness afflicting slicker, synth-driven efforts like 1987's
Hold back Your Blast and 1989's
Presto. At the dawn of the nineties, withal, Upsurge returned to the heavier legal of their ahead of time records and plant a renewed emphasis on Lifeson's guitar heroics; accordingly, both 1991's
Turn over the Bones and 1993's
Counterparts reached the Top Trinity on the U.S. album charts. In 1996, the band issued
Test for Echo and headed out on the route the pursuit summer. Curtly thereafter, Peart lost his girl in an motorcar chance upshot. Cataclysm smitten once once again in 1998 when Peart's wife succumbed to crab. Dire multiplication in the Rush clique did non causal agency the lot to lay off. Gypsy Rose Lee took prison house condition come out for a solo erolia minutilla with 2000's
My Favorite Cephalalgia; however, rumors of the ring playing in the studio began to pass around. It would be five old eld until anything surfaced from the circle. Fans were reassured in early 2002 by intelligence that Rush were recording newly songs in Toronto. The fruit of those roger Roger Huntington Sessions light-emitting rectifying tube to the release of Rush's seventeenth studio album,
Vapor Trails, later that leaping. In 2004 the band embarked on their 30th day of remembrance turn, and in 2006 they returned to the studio to set out work on a newly disc album. The resulting
Snakes & Arrows was released in Whitethorn 2007.
