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Moving Pictures
(more) »rank: 2041by: Rush
: essential recording:With Moving Pictures, Rush's complex songwriting and musical virtuosity reached new heights. It's that rarest of creatures, a highly listenable progressive-rock album; even the all-instrumental 'YYZ' is of interest to listeners besides musicians. The highlight of the album is 'Limelight'; like many progressive-rock bands, Rush writes songs about the experience of being on-stage. The result is impressive, with almost orchestral arrangements that never overwhelm the actual music. 'Tom Sawyer,' another classic, is on this album, as well as the science-fiction-meets-road-movie 'Red Barchetta,' the epic 'The Camera Eye,' the cautionary 'Witch Hunt,' and 'Vital Signs,' which takes advantage of the budding digital ...
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Fly by Night
(more) »rank: 959by: Rush
: essential recording:With Moving Pictures, Rush's complex songwriting and musical virtuosity reached new heights. It's that rarest of creatures, a highly listenable progressive-rock album; even the all-instrumental 'YYZ' is of interest to listeners besides musicians. The highlight of the album is 'Limelight'; like many progressive-rock bands, Rush writes songs about the experience of being on-stage. The result is impressive, with almost orchestral arrangements that never overwhelm the actual music. 'Tom Sawyer,' another classic, is on this album, as well as the science-fiction-meets-road-movie 'Red Barchetta,' the epic 'The Camera Eye,' the cautionary 'Witch Hunt,' and 'Vital Signs,' which takes advantage of the budding digital ...
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Hemispheres
(more) »rank: 1272by: Rush
: :Smart rockers Rush were just on the brink of being embraced by the album rock mainstream when they recorded Hemispheres. Already wildly popular with a certain corner of the intellectual crowd, thanks in part to drummer Neil Peart's Ayn Rand obsession, this CD marked a turning point for the Canadian trio. Hemispheres explores the political, social economic, and sci-fi themes prevalent on their early work, continuing the saga of 'Cygnus' from A Farewell To Kings. Rush was fond of writing in movements, almost orchestrally, rather than the typical verse/chorus/verse/chorus structure, and Hemispheres has the usual opus-like compositions that perfectly displayed their chops. The ...
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Apocalyptica
(more) »rank: 1880by: Apocalyptica
:Album Description:Canadian pressing of the classically trained metal act's 2005 album has earlier release. U.S. release is scheduled for March 22nd. 2005.
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Rush
(more) »rank: 1640by: Rush
:Album Description:Canadian pressing of the classically trained metal act's 2005 album has earlier release. U.S. release is scheduled for March 22nd. 2005.
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Plays Metallica by Four Cellos
(more) »rank: 2627by: Apocalyptica
: :Take four cellos, mix with a quartet of Finnish classical-music students who possess a note-for-note knowledge of metal giants Metallica, and beat gently. Viola! You have a truly stirring album that provides tangible evidence of the dramatic passages and intricate arrangements that classical music and heavy metal share. On 'Enter Sandman' and 'Creeping Death,' the exquisite playing of the cellists intensifies the darkness and emotion of Metallica. In the process the strength and versatility of the group's songwriting is given more credence. Perhaps the most remarkable element of the album is the faithfulness that's shown to the original songs, right down to faultlessly ...
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Power Windows
(more) »rank: 2250by: Rush
: :Take four cellos, mix with a quartet of Finnish classical-music students who possess a note-for-note knowledge of metal giants Metallica, and beat gently. Viola! You have a truly stirring album that provides tangible evidence of the dramatic passages and intricate arrangements that classical music and heavy metal share. On 'Enter Sandman' and 'Creeping Death,' the exquisite playing of the cellists intensifies the darkness and emotion of Metallica. In the process the strength and versatility of the group's songwriting is given more credence. Perhaps the most remarkable element of the album is the faithfulness that's shown to the original songs, right down to faultlessly ...
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Signals
(more) »rank: 1783by: Rush
: :Rush had already begun using electronics and synth in their music by the time Signals was released in 1982, so the synth-heavy opener, 'Subdivisions' (a song that proves that high-school separatism is older than last year), wasn't that great a departure from their previous material. Signals also contains the single 'New World Man,' which still gets heavy radio airplay almost 20 years later, as well as groove-heavy, tech-savvy songs like 'The Analog Kid' and 'Digital Man'--prescient comments on the forthcoming information technology revolution if ever there were any. This was Rush's first studio album following Moving Pictures, which arguably remains their strongest and ...
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2112
(more) »rank: 1489by: Rush
: essential recording:Only Rush could have pulled this off, and only in the '70s. 2112--the title suite of the band's 1976 breakthrough album--is a comically pretentious, futuristic rock opera written by a nerdy drummer and sung by a whiny-voiced geek. It also happens to be a great piece of rock & roll that lifts the listener through a variety of moods and textures from genteel acoustic ('Oracle') to thrilling metal ('The Temples of Syrinx'). Perhaps realizing that they had taken conceptualism about as far as it could go, even these guys backed off on the epic hero stuff for later releases. 2112 still ...
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Caress of Steel
(more) »rank: 2927by: Rush
: essential recording:Only Rush could have pulled this off, and only in the '70s. 2112--the title suite of the band's 1976 breakthrough album--is a comically pretentious, futuristic rock opera written by a nerdy drummer and sung by a whiny-voiced geek. It also happens to be a great piece of rock & roll that lifts the listener through a variety of moods and textures from genteel acoustic ('Oracle') to thrilling metal ('The Temples of Syrinx'). Perhaps realizing that they had taken conceptualism about as far as it could go, even these guys backed off on the epic hero stuff for later releases. 2112 still ...
