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In many ways the keyboard heavy, pop-influenced sound of Rush was still present and accounted for on 1989's "Presto." Still, this was a new sound for the band [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], perhaps mellower than anything they'd done before. It is another that is popular with some fans, and rather disliked by others.
Presto
While there was still a lot of more modern Rush sounds present on 1996's "Test for Echo," but the album came a lot closer to the hard rocking progressive rock tinged sounds they had done years earlier.
Highlights of the album include "Show Don't Tell" and "Superconductor." "Hand Over Fist" has a catchy chorus and "The Pass" is also intriguing, but the band wasn't breaking too far out of the holding pattern they'd been in for a while.
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It was a step in the right direction for many Rush fans. Highlights of the set included the title track, "Driven," "Half the World" and "Limbo."
The first two discs of the set are from the most recent tours, but the third disc is older and includes live versions of material from the progressive rock era of the band. This makes the set a "must have" for most Rush fans.
Perhaps the biggest surprise on 1991's "Roll the Bones" is the rap in the middle of the title track. This disc isn't far outside the boundaries of the type of music Rush had been doing for a while, but it did seem a bit harder rocking.
Rush were seemingly influenced by alternative rock in 1993 when they released "Counterparts." The disc was their hardest rocking one in quite some time and seemed more stripped down and organic than a lot of their releases had.
Rush live albums since the original "All The World's A Stage" had seemingly been a bit overproduced. The three CD set (released during the band's hiatus in 1998, came without a lot of studio tricks after the recording.
Roll the Bones
There is a lot of diversity on the set from the hard rocking "Animate" and "Stick It Out" to the poignant ballad "Nobody's Hero." In between are other highlights including "Cut to the Chase [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," At the Speed of Love" and "Alien Shore."
After the release of "Test for Echo," tragedy struck Neil Peart. His wife fell ill with cancer and died and less than a year after his teenage daughter had been killed in an accident. Peart took a sabbatical and Rush went on hold. That made "Test for Echo" their studio last release of the twentieth century.
While the last disc of the 1980's saw Rush continuing in the same basic type of music they had been doing for while, the 1990's found them moving more towards a merging of old and new Rush sounds. Of course, the end of the 1990's found Rush's existence in question.
Different Stages
Another aspect that was a stark contrast were the lyrics. The writing in that regard was quite dark [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], not in keeping with a lot of the Rush catalog. Still, in addition to the title track, highlights of the set include the instrumental "Where's My Thing?," "The Big Wheel" and "Dreamline."
Read on
Yes: Album by Album Overview: Keys to Ascension to Magnification
Rush: Album by Album Overview: The Early Years
Rush: Album by Album Overview: The Progressive Rock Era
Test for Echo
From the early era, through the progressive rock era and beyond, Rush had always maintained a pattern of four studio albums followed by a live disc. The period that began with "Presto" would hold keep that tradition going one more time.
Counterparts
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