This past week my random Rush selecting dingus selected Counterparts as the album of the week. This was the last album that released while I was in college so it has a special place in my heart for reminding myself of that period. Counterparts was also a much heavier and …
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Rush: Signals
This week's album choice was Rush's 1982 album "Signals". For some this marks Rush's "synth" period, though I feel like that started way earlier with "A Farewell to Kings". There are definitely a lot of synthesizers in this album, and I'm sure that this album is more polarizing than most …
read moreRush: Roll the Bones
Roll the Bones was the second Rush album that I got right around the time of release (the first was Presto, which I got in college right around the same time as I made friends with Carl at Holland CD.) If memory serves it was also the tour that I …
read moreRush: Permanent Waves
For this latest Rush album the random hand-of-fate (aka: my script) chose "Permanent Waves". This is considered one of Rush's most radio friendly albums and it's clear to see why. "The Spirit of Radio" is a straight-up radio-friendly jam that talks about the optimism of radio while saying that radio …
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