I hereby declare and rule that Ms Alexia is not to ever miss another Rush reaction. She has never missed one before and Nick, I luv yuh, man...but Ms Alexia MUST be on all Rush reactions. That is all. Court is adjourned.
A great live album from Rush is "A Show of Hands", which features mostly 80's Rush. Predominantly from Hold Your Fire, and Power Windows. I had a VHS tape of it back in the day that I wore out watching it so much. So, if you want to watch a great live show, check it out. Of course, you may want to react to each song individually before you watch it.
I like all Rush catalog, studio, live albums and videos. I have them all. I don't want to go to the eternal debate of "the best" or "favorite". I can't explain why, but "A Show of Hands" is my most played Rush live video. It's so brilliant, but I have to accept that some Rush fans don't like 80s Rush or beyond 70s.
Also, when you start reacting to the deep cuts, they are all gems like the deep cuts on other Rush albums like Middletown Dreams, Between The Wheels, Losing It, Bravado, Double Agent, and Vital Signs.
You should check out the song, Turn The Page from this same album. To me, it's the high point of HYF. This album is one that I didn't much care for at first. It has aged well and I've come to appreciate it years later.
Yes, it's balls to the wall 80s prog rock with this face melting intro to Hold Your Fire, which I'm pretty sure has now climed to the very top of my all time favourite albums list. Every track is killer. Definitely at the top of their game here. Everything is just so sophisticated and accessible. You're not really a Rush fan if you don't embrace this era of the bands musical evolution.
Thanks for inviting Lex. This entire album is a gem. Closing out the album is a jewel as y"all can sit back and relax, turn it up, close your eyes and enjoy the SOUND!! The WATER will take you HOME!!! This song imo has easily the best guitar work and instumental piece in the album. So beautiful!!!
In 1987, I was on a Backcountry trail crew in the High Sierra mountains of Yosemite National Park. Our camp was seven miles in from the nearest road. One Saturday afternoon, I wanted to see what music I could find on the radio. This was WAY before the Internet. I climbed up a ridge, sat down, and started looking for a radio station. I heard a drum riff that sounded pretty cool and stopped dialing. There was more cool drum stuff, and maybe a chorus or synth. Then the bass started. I said, "That sounds like Geddy Lee, but I don't recognize this song." Then the singing started and I KNEW it was Geddy Lee and a Rush song I didn't know. And that was how I discovered Rush had just dropped a new album in 1987. I had to wait until my summer in the mountains was done, so it was October before I could get the whole album. Loved it then. Love it now!
Wow, loved how you found the song and also the anticipation of having to wait before being able to purchase an album! Nowadays, even in the mountains with a lil cell service you'd be able to have the album instantly on Spotify. Not the same!
This song was my anthem when I lost my 7 month old son to brain cancer in 1996. A friend of mine bought tickets for me to see them in Maryland on the Test for Echo tour a month after he passed away. They played this song about 3 songs in .
I fondly remember this song being our first look at "Hold Your Fire" and came out 37 years ago around this time in the Summer of 1987, right before I went off to college in late August. To show you how much times have changed, I first heard this song after a friend called me to say he had recorded it off the radio and that I should come over for a listen! This was "music sharing" 80s style! As always, nice pick and great reaction!
This song is one of a few "last minute" songs . The band wanted to add one more song to the album, they penned down the song within 3 hours. If you think about how good the song is it is unbelievable.
I don't understand people who think that Rush stopped being progressive when the 1970's ended. There is so much more complexity to the arrangements they came up with in the 1980's than they ever had before, they just learned to integrate things more smoothly so the changes weren't as obvious. Hold Your Fire is a very good album, but a couple of tracks too long.
Like seriously - I’ve run into so many people who have claimed, “yeah, I pretty much stopped listening after 2112…” Such a missed opportunity - this band grew so much throughout their entire career.
From a band point of view, we certainly worked on our musicianship first, then - armed with that increased facility and confidence in our individual instruments - expanded into paying more attention to songwriting, arranging, and production ... It’s about nineteen-eighty that I really start to like our music like a fan. Before that there’s stuff I like in an affectionate way, because we were brave, but as far as achievement I really think we started to bring it together a bit with Permanent Waves…, but particularly Moving Pictures and from then on. - Neil
@@markgettemeyer1145, I never stopped listening and never will stop, but after their Presto album, the band made a conscious effort to change their musical direction, which, except for a couple of notable exceptions like Counterparts and Snakes and Arrows, I just wasn't personally down with. But there were still some amazing songs interspersed. It's just that they didn't have any complete sublime masterpiece albums in the last part of their career, although Snakes and Arrows came close. And yes, I know that Clockwork Angels is highly regarded by fans, and I do admit it was stellar and a great way to end their transcendent career. As for Hold Your Fire, I think it was their weakest effort in their peak period (roughly covering 2112 through Presto), but there's still some incredible music on it like Force Ten. But Turn the Page and Open Secrets are the highlights of the album by far for me.
@@DionysusAlS They lost me after Hold Your Fire, and for some reason I think everything started sounding the same and in a way I wasn't digging. They got me (at 16) when they released 2112 and then I learned what having a bad sound system meant. It was an old turntable cabinet that my parents had had for years, must have weighed 150 lbs, and the right speaker didn't work, so they moved it into my room so I would have something to play my records on. I was not moving in stereo. lol
I love how you have some very specific memories of a song. It can bring you straight back to a time and place, almost like a time machine. This song is one of them for me. thanks for the reaction :)
Guys, wait until you hear "Open Secrets"! It's very Progressive but it's also a "relationship" song, which Rush doesn't do often! It's got some sweet changes and musicianship but it's on a relatable subject! You will love it! Oh, and Alex's solo is AMAZING on that song!
A fabulous song from HYF. Probably one of my favorites from this epic album. I still remember the first time I saw them play this live. It’s another RUSH song that is excellent but it takes it to another level when it’s played live. Great reaction. 🤘🎶💜
This album, and Moving Pictures were my first two Rush albums, as I hit my teens in the 80's and had some money to buy full albums. I went to the "Hold your Fire" tour when they came around and was blown away by that, which also meant I needed to go buy more albums! A tech note from that concert, while the Aimee Mann parts were recorded, the show opened with their "Three Stooges" themes, and right into "Force Ten" - and it was in surround, with the heavy beats and swirly sounds mixed into rear speakers! Thump! (Front), Thump (back!) Great show as always! (Edited to add:) This song is 80's exactly in the same way that Yes was 80's, right down to the sampled Stab type sounds - you should go back to Yes and give it shake, with the Big Generator album, as progressive didn't die, it just progressed!
They recently listened to "Love Will Find A Way" from Big Generator by Yes. Alexia was disappointed, that it was too much a deviation from their classic prog sound. Prior to that, Nick and Lex listened to Yes' cover of "America" and they both loved it!
Nick & Lex more Rush Hold Your Fire. Lock & Key, Second Nature., Open Secrets & Tai Shan very beautiful song Neil wrote after a trip to Asia. It wasn't Geddy's & Alex's favorite. ❤🔥
This song was great live.the lasers would follow the music and span out over the crowd. Rush gets a lot of credit for their live playing but they also had great light shows and cool videos that coincided with the music
Nick, given the complexities of the tunes and the wall of keyboards, sequencers, and other sonic accouterments, eating up both the high and middle frequencies the guitar would normally occupy, and the fact that all the keyboards were laid down before Alex's guitar, he really struggled to find a way to fit into the band. He nearly left the band, and by the end of that tour, told his bandmates he was probably done. So while Alex was certainly a fan of Holdsworth, learning some of Holdsworth's style was really a matter of necessity, looking for a way to fit in to where the other two were headed. In the end, the keyboard years forced Alex to become a much more skilled and diversified writer and player.
This was the first studio release the band made after I became a fan. I loved every inch of it. Decades later I never listen to this album in studio form. The live versions are more epic to me as they figure out how to play the multitracked layers live. And don’t come after me because Geddy and Alex have both said they hate the song Tai Shan on this album.
There's a band that no one has done yet on a lot of these reactions and I really wish that people would look at this band that was can I pass by in the early nineties. That band is called dada and their first album is called puzzle. The the group is a three-piece band and they all play excellent guitar bass and drums and harmonizing vocals I'm just waiting for someone to do it on the reaction I hope you're the first to try them
You both should react to the whole "A Show of Hands" video. Taken from bits of the live tour of this album and includes bits and pieces of earlier works too. I wore that VHS tape down to a clear plastic film when I was a teenager!
If you have reacted to 30 Rush songs, then you have 148 original songs and 8 cover songs left to react too. Out of all those songs, there are just two that I don't care for, one due to the lyrics that hit too close to home in a negative way for me, and one due to everything. But I will not name them, because it is a personal opinion and I don't want to scare you away from a Rush song you might enjoy. I will say that one of those songs is on the Hold Your Fire album, but I still love the album.
Lex, so glad you got to hear Force Ten. As i commented in Nick & Narvik's marathon. You've now heard the three great songs off this album. The rest are good, just not great. I love Rush, have all the albums, cds, dvds, seen them like 28 times, starting with their first show with Neil's first show with the band in the US. But they have a couple of albums that are good not great & this is one of them, imo. Every album is going to have a couple of fantastic songs on them & most of their albums are great from beginning to end. But Hold Your Fire is not one of those. Guys, please check out the Garden from their last studio album, Clockwork Angels. It's such a beautiful song & one of my all time favorites.
It would be interesting to get your take on what may possibly be the most fan-divisive song in their catalog. It's on HYF as well - Tai Shan. My take is even failed experiments can be valuable. I read that in retrospect they were disappointed, but better to experiment and miss than not to evolve from their beginnings...
Nice! Rush is amazing! It would be great if Geddy and Alex can have a reunion tour! OH, Can you make a video on 2 videos of SPARKS......Sparks - 'Thanks But No Thanks' 1974, Belgium and SPARKS - My Baby's Taking Me Home (on Dcee730 youtube channel) Thanks!
I’d like every rush album in their catalog, however, hold your fire is ranked next to last in my personal list. It’s better than test for echo, but not by much.
I've got to remind you that Hold Your Fire is my 2nd favorite album in all music history. Only Tales From Topographic Oceans is better. Nearly every song on this album is great. And my least favorite is Prime Mover, which is a good song. I think the two of you should do every song on the album.
There is quite a bit of solo parts in this song. The little solo licks during the verses were a massive departure for Alex, plus the main instrumental break is also a very sparse, textual solo as opposed the the sonic bombast that guitar solos are typically associated as being. Watch the "Show of Hands" version of this song and you'll see what I mean.
I like HYF but I always thought as with so many of these later albums that Alex's guitar need more beef in the mix, it's a bit too sparkly laid on top.
I can tell that Nick is a guitarist, your video mix is very heavy on the guitar side. If possible could you please make adjustments to bring up the bottom end? No disrespect intended. Love your reactions. 🤘🏻🇨🇦
I'm stunned you all haven't figure out how to add a video or at least some album cover thumbnail to your reactions. One of the reasons I don't come here often or subscribe..... oh well.
I'm about 2 minutes in and I can safely say that I much prefer 70's Rush. The 80's had some really fine music but it was not a good era for prog bands IMO.....Yes maybe but Kansas certainly lost their way to soft rock....but both those bands and Rush eventually returned to what they do best and to their true calling.....prog.....leaving the 80's behind and thank goodness they did.
I was amazed by this album when it came out (except for one song and I will not give the name of the song). This is the last album I liked of theirs though, and for some reason, I think the very song on THIS album I don't like, the rest of their efforts sound very much like it. I know Rush fans are going to say I'm wrong, but it's my opinion. I am an avid fan of everything up to Hold Your Fire. lol
I’ve always maintained that hold your fire is such an underrated album
You're so wrong.
I hereby declare and rule that Ms Alexia is not to ever miss another Rush reaction. She has never missed one before and Nick, I luv yuh, man...but Ms Alexia MUST be on all Rush reactions. That is all. Court is adjourned.
Here here. There it is. It is settled.
A great live album from Rush is "A Show of Hands", which features mostly 80's Rush. Predominantly from Hold Your Fire, and Power Windows. I had a VHS tape of it back in the day that I wore out watching it so much. So, if you want to watch a great live show, check it out. Of course, you may want to react to each song individually before you watch it.
A fabulous recording...
Time Stand Still sounds better than the studio version imo. Love that album.
I like all Rush catalog, studio, live albums and videos. I have them all.
I don't want to go to the eternal debate of "the best" or "favorite".
I can't explain why, but "A Show of Hands" is my most played Rush live video.
It's so brilliant, but I have to accept that some Rush fans don't like 80s Rush or beyond 70s.
I wore my copy of that VHS out!
Also, when you start reacting to the deep cuts, they are all gems like the deep cuts on other Rush albums like Middletown Dreams, Between The Wheels, Losing It, Bravado, Double Agent, and Vital Signs.
You should check out the song, Turn The Page from this same album. To me, it's the high point of HYF. This album is one that I didn't much care for at first. It has aged well and I've come to appreciate it years later.
There are so many great songs from 80s Rush and even into the early 90's... just a ton of great songs
Yes, it's balls to the wall 80s prog rock with this face melting intro to Hold Your Fire, which I'm pretty sure has now climed to the very top of my all time favourite albums list. Every track is killer. Definitely at the top of their game here. Everything is just so sophisticated and accessible. You're not really a Rush fan if you don't embrace this era of the bands musical evolution.
Agree 1987, Hold Your Fire is the last great Rush Album.
Thanks for inviting Lex. This entire album is a gem. Closing out the album is a jewel as y"all can sit back and relax, turn it up, close your eyes and enjoy the SOUND!! The WATER will take you HOME!!! This song imo has easily the best guitar work and instumental piece in the album. So beautiful!!!
In 1987, I was on a Backcountry trail crew in the High Sierra mountains of Yosemite National Park. Our camp was seven miles in from the nearest road. One Saturday afternoon, I wanted to see what music I could find on the radio. This was WAY before the Internet. I climbed up a ridge, sat down, and started looking for a radio station.
I heard a drum riff that sounded pretty cool and stopped dialing. There was more cool drum stuff, and maybe a chorus or synth. Then the bass started.
I said, "That sounds like Geddy Lee, but I don't recognize this song."
Then the singing started and I KNEW it was Geddy Lee and a Rush song I didn't know.
And that was how I discovered Rush had just dropped a new album in 1987. I had to wait until my summer in the mountains was done, so it was October before I could get the whole album. Loved it then. Love it now!
Wow, loved how you found the song and also the anticipation of having to wait before being able to purchase an album! Nowadays, even in the mountains with a lil cell service you'd be able to have the album instantly on Spotify.
Not the same!
This song was my anthem when I lost my 7 month old son to brain cancer in 1996. A friend of mine bought tickets for me to see them in Maryland on the Test for Echo tour a month after he passed away. They played this song about 3 songs in .
I fondly remember this song being our first look at "Hold Your Fire" and came out 37 years ago around this time in the Summer of 1987, right before I went off to college in late August. To show you how much times have changed, I first heard this song after a friend called me to say he had recorded it off the radio and that I should come over for a listen! This was "music sharing" 80s style! As always, nice pick and great reaction!
This song is one of a few "last minute" songs . The band wanted to add one more song to the album, they penned down the song within 3 hours. If you think about how good the song is it is unbelievable.
Alex's guitar sound on this album is fire. All of them fire. Awesome driving song, just pick any live version, awesome
R30 version of this is fantastic
I don't understand people who think that Rush stopped being progressive when the 1970's ended. There is so much more complexity to the arrangements they came up with in the 1980's than they ever had before, they just learned to integrate things more smoothly so the changes weren't as obvious. Hold Your Fire is a very good album, but a couple of tracks too long.
This isn't Prog.
Like seriously - I’ve run into so many people who have claimed, “yeah, I pretty much stopped listening after 2112…”
Such a missed opportunity - this band grew so much throughout their entire career.
From a band point of view, we certainly worked on our musicianship first, then - armed with that increased facility and confidence in our individual instruments - expanded into paying more attention to songwriting, arranging, and production ... It’s about nineteen-eighty that I really start to like our music like a fan. Before that there’s stuff I like in an affectionate way, because we were brave, but as far as achievement I really think we started to bring it together a bit with Permanent Waves…, but particularly Moving Pictures and from then on. - Neil
@@markgettemeyer1145, I never stopped listening and never will stop, but after their Presto album, the band made a conscious effort to change their musical direction, which, except for a couple of notable exceptions like Counterparts and Snakes and Arrows, I just wasn't personally down with. But there were still some amazing songs interspersed. It's just that they didn't have any complete sublime masterpiece albums in the last part of their career, although Snakes and Arrows came close. And yes, I know that Clockwork Angels is highly regarded by fans, and I do admit it was stellar and a great way to end their transcendent career. As for Hold Your Fire, I think it was their weakest effort in their peak period (roughly covering 2112 through Presto), but there's still some incredible music on it like Force Ten. But Turn the Page and Open Secrets are the highlights of the album by far for me.
@@DionysusAlS They lost me after Hold Your Fire, and for some reason I think everything started sounding the same and in a way I wasn't digging. They got me (at 16) when they released 2112 and then I learned what having a bad sound system meant. It was an old turntable cabinet that my parents had had for years, must have weighed 150 lbs, and the right speaker didn't work, so they moved it into my room so I would have something to play my records on. I was not moving in stereo. lol
I love how you have some very specific memories of a song. It can bring you straight back to a time and place, almost like a time machine. This song is one of them for me. thanks for the reaction :)
My favorite lyric from this song: "Look the storm in the eye"
Great song, Love Rush...
I think Alexia might like Dreamline
Sooooooo, tonight (WOO!)...Always fun to have the two of you together with your interaction reaction...And my Rush education enjoyably continues...
A great song from a great Rush album
On of my fav's...used to always workout with this album in the gym on tape!!!
Guys, wait until you hear "Open Secrets"! It's very Progressive but it's also a "relationship" song, which Rush doesn't do often! It's got some sweet changes and musicianship but it's on a relatable subject! You will love it! Oh, and Alex's solo is AMAZING on that song!
A fabulous song from HYF. Probably one of my favorites from this epic album.
I still remember the first time I saw them play this live.
It’s another RUSH song that is excellent but it takes it to another level when it’s played live.
Great reaction. 🤘🎶💜
A must see live!
Geddy doing triple duty on the bass, synths and vocals, plus bass pedals. My god, is the man an octopus?!
Another cameo by Aimee Mann! (The laugh at the beginning)
I didn't know that. Cool. Tkx
Every time I hear this song, I think of the poor sheep in the animated video they showed during their concerts for this song.
Me too!!!!
Rush la mejor banda de culto, rock progresivo , tuve la suerte de verlos en vivo en argentina de donde soy , abrazo grande
This album, and Moving Pictures were my first two Rush albums, as I hit my teens in the 80's and had some money to buy full albums. I went to the "Hold your Fire" tour when they came around and was blown away by that, which also meant I needed to go buy more albums! A tech note from that concert, while the Aimee Mann parts were recorded, the show opened with their "Three Stooges" themes, and right into "Force Ten" - and it was in surround, with the heavy beats and swirly sounds mixed into rear speakers! Thump! (Front), Thump (back!) Great show as always! (Edited to add:) This song is 80's exactly in the same way that Yes was 80's, right down to the sampled Stab type sounds - you should go back to Yes and give it shake, with the Big Generator album, as progressive didn't die, it just progressed!
They recently listened to "Love Will Find A Way" from Big Generator by Yes. Alexia was disappointed, that it was too much a deviation from their classic prog sound. Prior to that, Nick and Lex listened to Yes' cover of "America" and they both loved it!
Nick & Lex more Rush Hold Your Fire. Lock & Key, Second Nature., Open Secrets & Tai Shan very beautiful song Neil wrote after a trip to Asia. It wasn't Geddy's & Alex's favorite. ❤🔥
This was the show opener on the “Roll The Bones” tour. It only got better from there.
Wait until Alexia hears “Second Nature”.
You guys should watch the concert for Hold Your Fire called A Show If Hands! It’s awesome 😎
That was my first Rush tour. ❤
This song was great live.the lasers would follow the music and span out over the crowd. Rush gets a lot of credit for their live playing but they also had great light shows and cool videos that coincided with the music
Hold Your Fire is such an underrated album in Rush's catalog :)
High water, kicks-ass....love you guys....Todd from Ohio
Nick, given the complexities of the tunes and the wall of keyboards, sequencers, and other sonic accouterments, eating up both the high and middle frequencies the guitar would normally occupy, and the fact that all the keyboards were laid down before Alex's guitar, he really struggled to find a way to fit into the band. He nearly left the band, and by the end of that tour, told his bandmates he was probably done.
So while Alex was certainly a fan of Holdsworth, learning some of Holdsworth's style was really a matter of necessity, looking for a way to fit in to where the other two were headed.
In the end, the keyboard years forced Alex to become a much more skilled and diversified writer and player.
This was the first studio release the band made after I became a fan. I loved every inch of it. Decades later I never listen to this album in studio form. The live versions are more epic to me as they figure out how to play the multitracked layers live. And don’t come after me because Geddy and Alex have both said they hate the song Tai Shan on this album.
There's a band that no one has done yet on a lot of these reactions and I really wish that people would look at this band that was can I pass by in the early nineties. That band is called dada and their first album is called puzzle. The the group is a three-piece band and they all play excellent guitar bass and drums and harmonizing vocals I'm just waiting for someone to do it on the reaction I hope you're the first to try them
You both should react to the whole "A Show of Hands" video. Taken from bits of the live tour of this album and includes bits and pieces of earlier works too. I wore that VHS tape down to a clear plastic film when I was a teenager!
It was the final song they did for hold your fire, fantastic reaction cheers 🍻🍻🍻🍻
The best band ! La banda que ha creado mas generaciones de musicos .
If you have reacted to 30 Rush songs, then you have 148 original songs and 8 cover songs left to react too. Out of all those songs, there are just two that I don't care for, one due to the lyrics that hit too close to home in a negative way for me, and one due to everything. But I will not name them, because it is a personal opinion and I don't want to scare you away from a Rush song you might enjoy. I will say that one of those songs is on the Hold Your Fire album, but I still love the album.
Howdy Yall! This is a monster of a RUSH record.
You’ll like Mystic Rhythms, but play it loud!
Lex, so glad you got to hear Force Ten. As i commented in Nick & Narvik's marathon. You've now heard the three great songs off this album. The rest are good, just not great.
I love Rush, have all the albums, cds, dvds, seen them like 28 times, starting with their first show with Neil's first show with the band in the US. But they have a couple of albums that are good not great & this is one of them, imo. Every album is going to have a couple of fantastic songs on them & most of their albums are great from beginning to end.
But Hold Your Fire is not one of those.
Guys, please check out the Garden from their last studio album, Clockwork Angels. It's such a beautiful song & one of my all time favorites.
It would be interesting to get your take on what may possibly be the most fan-divisive song in their catalog. It's on HYF as well - Tai Shan.
My take is even failed experiments can be valuable. I read that in retrospect they were disappointed, but better to experiment and miss than not to evolve from their beginnings...
Precioso tema!!! Saludos desde Temperley, BsAs!!!
Alex Lifeson was a big Rory Gallagher fan as well.
Please listen to The Pass
Interesting near the end of this song, Rush throws in "a ha ha ha" line similar to "La Grange" by ZZ Top.
Nice! Rush is amazing! It would be great if Geddy and Alex can have a reunion tour! OH, Can you make a video on 2 videos of SPARKS......Sparks - 'Thanks But No Thanks' 1974, Belgium and SPARKS - My Baby's Taking Me Home (on Dcee730 youtube channel) Thanks!
i grewup on rush
For more of the "synth albums" from Rush, I highly recommend Power Windows. Pretty much every song on there is a banger.
Check out the album Feedback from 2004
It’s RUSH playing their favorite covers of
The Who
Buffalo Springfield
Cream
Neil Young
Yardbirds
Absolutely, a superb album!
I just sent them a copy in the event they didn't already have it.
I’d like every rush album in their catalog, however, hold your fire is ranked next to last in my personal list. It’s better than test for echo, but not by much.
I've got to remind you that Hold Your Fire is my 2nd favorite album in all music history. Only Tales From Topographic Oceans is better. Nearly every song on this album is great. And my least favorite is Prime Mover, which is a good song. I think the two of you should do every song on the album.
There is quite a bit of solo parts in this song. The little solo licks during the verses were a massive departure for Alex, plus the main instrumental break is also a very sparse, textual solo as opposed the the sonic bombast that guitar solos are typically associated as being. Watch the "Show of Hands" version of this song and you'll see what I mean.
Oohh vamo los Redo' los Redo' los Redo' vamos los Redo' 🎶🎵😂
Try Lock and key next !!! 😊
Una d las mejores 5 bandas de la historia
Everybody do a Holdsworth shot!! 😉🥃
Finally someone gets HYF !!!!!!
Rush…the best…Neil…the GOAT…
I love Geddy Lee's more mature vocals
As a yes fan I loved this album even though it’s pop rush , it’s still great
The record exec's forced them to put 10 songs on the album.
The record execs never forced Rush to do anything. Once they released 2112 they had cart blanch to do whatever they wanted.
You should listen to open Secrets or Lock and Key from this album
Prime Mover is nice as well...
I like HYF but I always thought as with so many of these later albums that Alex's guitar need more beef in the mix, it's a bit too sparkly laid on top.
Alex got more "beef" than you can handle in the last 5 albums or so. So heavy and crunchy!
I can tell that Nick is a guitarist, your video mix is very heavy on the guitar side. If possible could you please make adjustments to bring up the bottom end? No disrespect intended. Love your reactions. 🤘🏻🇨🇦
Loved Rush but I jumped ship after Signals. Too commercial. Still occasional good stuff though
Too commercial? Yet they still got very little radio play. Doesn't add up.
I'm stunned you all haven't figure out how to add a video or at least some album cover thumbnail to your reactions. One of the reasons I don't come here often or subscribe..... oh well.
We do video reactions all the time…
I'm about 2 minutes in and I can safely say that I much prefer 70's Rush. The 80's had some really fine music but it was not a good era for prog bands IMO.....Yes maybe but Kansas certainly lost their way to soft rock....but both those bands and Rush eventually returned to what they do best and to their true calling.....prog.....leaving the 80's behind and thank goodness they did.
I was amazed by this album when it came out (except for one song and I will not give the name of the song). This is the last album I liked of theirs though, and for some reason, I think the very song on THIS album I don't like, the rest of their efforts sound very much like it. I know Rush fans are going to say I'm wrong, but it's my opinion. I am an avid fan of everything up to Hold Your Fire. lol
Good song but feel it could have been even better if Terry Brown had still been their producer
Used to really like this song but now not so much to poppy sounding.
80's is garbage Rush.