Imagine a POLL Where It All Began: Rush- Power Windows Poll

This has now become one of my favourite albums of theirs - 1985 was a great year for prog-rockers-gone-pop: this, So, Misplaced Childhood, and I suppose I can stretch to No Jacket Required ...

Holy mackerel, Big Money was played probably 3 times an hour on 102.7 WNEW FM New York when this album came out. If there's a more "80s" sounding rock song, I'm not sure I've heard it.

I actually appreciate how, for such an 80s record, everything on this album is so well defined. It's not just a messy mush, which happened more with the next album.

This is true, there's very tight control over the 80s sound effects that pop up all over this album. There are lots of parts where the focus is on the classic guitar, bass, drums configuration that sound pretty stripped down. But there's also tons of echoing punctuations and otherworldly reverb and delay effects that could've easily gotten out of hand. They managed to get all these details in there without just slathering the whole thing.

Their best eighties album imo.

'Marathon' is one of their best, most powerful choruses. Phenomenal bass playing, too.

big thumbs up to the eliot allusion

lol thanks

I really enjoy how I hear "The Manhattan Project" in my head whenever I see this thread title.

That string break in "Manhattan Project" reminds me of SIouxsie.

Geddy in that interview more or less reiterated the same diplomatic non-answer about the status of Rush he and Alex have always been giving, saying he cannot imagine the three of them touring again but who knows if they might perform again in some other way. And all of a sudden all these click bait pieces have been popping up overstating what he said, claiming they're going to tour without Neil, etc. I don't see it.

That would never happen. I could see Geddy and Alex playing together, but not as Rush without Neil.

geddy, alex, and john stanier, please

As long as it's not Mike Portnoy!

Geddy has virtually no voice left. The Clockwork Angels tour was extremely saddening in that respect: he was up there on stage visibly struggling to produce even a thin, weakened voice. So, even if Geddy and Alex continue as active professional musicians, it would probably be best that it not be a band format where Geddy is singing.

Sadly, the ravages of age apply to many of those other drummers that fans love to suggest for a Neil Peart replacement. John Stanier, for example, is 50 years old. That is the same age Neil Peart was during the Vapor Trails tour when some drumming obsessives noted that he was suddenly no longer as deft around the kit as he had been a decade or two before.

Huh, I never noticed any live instrumental drop-off in these guys, despite their various ailments. (And besides Geddy's voice.)

I would love to hear Geddy and Alex release an album with a different drummer on every track.

Listened to this again this morning... side one is absolutely perfect, isn't it!?