Andrew Paul
The cat's meow
The other night, kicking back, I throw the headphones on, and I listen to the entire Hemispheres album. The true masterpiece by the trio.
I am a huge Rush band. They are my desert island band. I was introduced to their music when I was in middle school by my older brother. Saw them live for the first time in 1983 at Radio City Music Hall when I was in high school. I was so blown away by the concert I never missed a tour from 83 to their last (40th anniversary tour) sometimes seeing them multiple times in the tri-state NYC area.
It’s time……. The way we listen to music these days seems to be more in bits and pieces, single songs and not an entire album work. I am guilty of that anyway. The convenience of music on our phones, iPads, computers has changed a listening experience, it’s less CDs, less LPs, and cassettes. So, I am going to listen to every Rush studio album in their entirety,(no greatest hits or live albums) in chronological order, uninterrupted one per day. I will reacquaint myself with the true Rush experience of their music and bodies of work. The transition from John Rutsey to Neil Peart… lyrics influenced by Ayn Rand, concept pieces to shorter song formats, guitars and bass to the synthesizer era and back, the evolution of their music the way it was meant to be listen to, complete albums.
I don’t think I will be able to do this every single day. I might have to skip a day or two before moving onto the next album. For fun I will report back in this thread thoughts regarding each album, I bet some songs will move me differently at 56 years old than they did, when I was in middle school, high school, college, and throughout my life journey.
I am a huge Rush band. They are my desert island band. I was introduced to their music when I was in middle school by my older brother. Saw them live for the first time in 1983 at Radio City Music Hall when I was in high school. I was so blown away by the concert I never missed a tour from 83 to their last (40th anniversary tour) sometimes seeing them multiple times in the tri-state NYC area.
It’s time……. The way we listen to music these days seems to be more in bits and pieces, single songs and not an entire album work. I am guilty of that anyway. The convenience of music on our phones, iPads, computers has changed a listening experience, it’s less CDs, less LPs, and cassettes. So, I am going to listen to every Rush studio album in their entirety,(no greatest hits or live albums) in chronological order, uninterrupted one per day. I will reacquaint myself with the true Rush experience of their music and bodies of work. The transition from John Rutsey to Neil Peart… lyrics influenced by Ayn Rand, concept pieces to shorter song formats, guitars and bass to the synthesizer era and back, the evolution of their music the way it was meant to be listen to, complete albums.
I don’t think I will be able to do this every single day. I might have to skip a day or two before moving onto the next album. For fun I will report back in this thread thoughts regarding each album, I bet some songs will move me differently at 56 years old than they did, when I was in middle school, high school, college, and throughout my life journey.