MUSIC

Progressive rock band from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, formed 1968.

Official Website:
http://www.rush.com/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Geddy Lee	Bassist	29-Jul-1953		Bassist for Rush
Alex Lifeson	Guitarist	27-Aug-1953		Guitarist for Rush
Neil Peart	Drummer	12-Sep-1952		Drummer for Rush

DISCOGRAPHY

Rush (1974, Mercury)

1	Finding My Way
2	Need Some Love
3	Take A Friend
4	Here Again
5	What You're Doing
6	In The Mood
7	Before And After
8	Working Man

Fly By Night (1975, Mercury)

1	Anthem
2	Best I Can
3	Beneath Between & Behind
4	By-Tor & The Snow Dog
5	Fly By Night
6	Making Memories
7	Rivendell
8	In The End

Caress of Steel (1975, Mercury)

1	Bastille Day
2	I Think I'm Going Bald
3	Lakeside Park
4	The Necromancer
5	The Fountain of Lamneth

2112 (1976, Mercury)

1	2112
2	A Passage to Bangkok
3	The Twilight Zone
4	Lessons
5	Tears
6	Something for Nothing

Faint strains of Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture can be heard in the 2112 overture. The song is noted: "...to the genius of Ayn Rand", as it is based on her novelette Anthem.

All The World's A Stage (1976, Mercury)

1	Bastille Day
2	Anthem
3	Fly By Night/In The Mood
4	Something For Nothing
5	Lakeside Park
6	2112
7	By-Tor And The Snow Dog
8	In The End
9	Working Man/Finding My Way
10	What You're Doing

Rush's first live album was recorded in Toronto, in June of 1976. It completes the first Rush Cycle, each of which consists of 4 studio albums followed by one live one.

A Farewell to Kings (1977, Mercury)

1	A Farewell To Kings
2	Xanadu
3	Closer To The Heart
4	Cinderella Man
5	Madrigal
6	Cygnus X-1

The lyrics to "Xanadu" are based on the poem "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Hemispheres (1978, Mercury)

1	Cygnus X-1 Book II
2	Hemispheres
3	Circumstances
4	The Trees
5	La Villa Strangiato

During "La Villa Strangiato" Rush momentarily lifts the riff from "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott.

Permanent Waves (1980, Mercury)

1	The Spirit Of Radio
2	Free Will
3	Jacob's Ladder
4	Entre Nous
5	Different Strings
6	Natural Science

Moving Pictures (1981, Mercury)

1	Tom Sawyer
2	Red Barchetta
3	YYZ
4	Limelight
5	The Camera Eye
6	Witch Hunt
7	Vital Signs

Exit...Stage Left (1981, Mercury)

1	The Spirit Of Radio
2	Red Barchetta
3	YYZ
4	A Passage To Bangkok
5	Closer To The Heart
6	Beneath, Between & Behind
7	Jacob's Ladder
8	Broon's Bane
9	The Trees
10	Xanadu
11	Freewill
12	Tom Sawyer
13	La Villa Strangiato

Rush's second live album was compiled from various Canadian and U.K. concerts in 1981.

Signals (1982, Mercury)

1	Subdivisions
2	The Analog Kid
3	Chemistry
4	Digital Man
5	The Weapon
6	New World Man
7	Losing It
8	Countdown

The lyrics to "Losing It" are a reference to the latter years of writer Ernest Hemingway.

Grace Under Pressure (1984, Mercury)

1	Distant Early Warning
2	Afterimage
3	Red Sector A
4	The Enemy Within
5	The Body Electric
6	Kid Gloves
7	Red Lenses
8	Between the Wheels

Power Windows (1985, Mercury)

1	The Big Money
2	Grand Designs
3	Manhattan Project
4	Marathon
5	Territories
6	Middletown Dreams
7	Emotion Detector
8	Mystic Rhythms

Hold Your Fire (1987, Mercury)

1	Force Ten
2	Time Stand Still
3	Open Secrets
4	Second Nature
5	Prime Mover
6	Lock and Key
7	Mission
8	Turn the Page
9	Tai Shan
10	High Water

"Time Stand Still" features vocals by Aimee Mann, the first time a Rush album had featured vocals by anyone outside the band.

A Show Of Hands (1988, Mercury)

1	Intro
2	Big Money
3	Subdivisions
4	Marathon
5	Turn the Page
6	Manhattan Project
7	Mission
8	Distant Early Warning
9	Mystic Rhythms
10	Witch Hunt (Pt. 3 of Fear)
11	Rhythm Method
12	Force Ten
13	Time Stand Still
14	Red Sector 'A'
15	Closer to the Heart

The tracks off of Rush's third live album were selected mainly from US shows in 1988.

Presto (1989, Atlantic)

1	Show Don't Tell
2	Chain Lightning
3	The Pass
4	War Paint
5	Scars
6	Presto
7	Superconductor
8	Anagram (for Mongo)
9	Red Tide
10	Hand Over Fist
11	Available Light

Chronicles (1990, Atlantic)

Disc 1
1	Finding My Way
2	Working Man
3	Fly by Night1
4	Anthem
5	Bastille Day
6	Lakeside Park
7	2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx
8	What You're Doing (Live)
9	Farewell to Kings
10	Closer to the Heart
11	Trees
12	La Villa Strangiato
13	Freewill
14	Spirit of Radio
Disc 2
1	Tom Sawyer
2	Red Barchetta
3	Limelight
4	Passage to Bangkok (Live)
5	Subdivisions
6	New World Man
7	Distant Early Warning
8	Red Sector 'A'
9	Big Money
10	Manhattan Project
11	Force Ten
12	Time Stand Still
13	Mystic Rhythms
14	Show Don't Tell

Rush's first best of compilation

Roll the Bones (1991, Atlantic)

1	Dreamline
2	Bravado
3	Roll the Bones
4	Face Up
5	Where's My Thing? (Part IV: "Gangster of Boats" Trilogy)
6	The Big Wheel
7	Heresy
8	Ghost of a Chance
9	Neurotica
10	You Bet Your Life

Counterparts (1993, Atlantic)

1	Animate
2	Stick It Out
3	Cut To The Chase
4	Nobody's Hero
5	Between Sun and Moon
6	Alien Shore
7	The Speed of Love
8	Double Agent
9	Leave That Thing Alone
10	Cold Fire
11	Everyday Glory

Test for Echo (1996, Atlantic)

1	Test For Echo
2	Driven
3	Half The World
4	The Color of Right
5	Totem
6	Dog Years
7	Virtuality
8	Resist
9	Limbo
10	Carve away The Stone

Retrospective I: 1974-1980 (1997, Mercury)

1	The Spirit Of Radio
2	The Trees
3	Something For Nothing
4	Freewill
5	Xanadu
6	Bastille Day
7	By-Tor and the Snow Dog
8	Anthem
9	Closer to the Heart
10	2112 Overture
11	The Temples of Syrinx
12	La Villa Strangiato
13	Fly By Night
14	Finding My Way

A compilation focusing on Rush's work during the 70s

Retrospective II: 1981-87 (1997, Mercury)

1	The Big Money
2	Red Barchetta
3	Subdivisions
4	Time Stands Still
5	Mystic Rhythms
6	The Analog Kid
7	Distant Early Warning
8	Marathon
9	The Body Electric
10	Mission
11	Limelight
12	Red Sector 'A'
13	New World Man
14	Tom Sawyer
15	Force 10

A compilation focusing on Rush's work during the 80's

Different Stages (1998, Atlantic)

Disc 1
1	Dreamline
2	Limelight
3	Driven
4	Bravado
5	Animate
6	Show Don't Tell
7	The Trees
8	Nobody's Hero
9	Closer to the Heart
10	2112
Disc 2
1	Test for Echo
2	Analog Kid
3	Freewill
4	Roll the Bones
5	Stick It Out
6	Resist
7	Leave That Thing Alone
8	The Rhythm Method
9	Natural Science
10	The Spirit of Radio
11	Tom Sawyer
12	YYZ
Disc 3
1	Bastille Day
2	By-Tor and the Snow Dog
3	Xanadu
4	A Farewell to Kings
5	Something for Nothing
6	Cygnus X-1
7	Anthem
8	Working Man
9	Fly by Night
10	In the Mood
11	Cinderella Man

Rush's fourth live album was taken from two shows in Chicago and one in London

Vapor Trails (2002, Atlantic)

1	One Little Victory
2	Ceiling Unlimited
3	Ghost Rider
4	Peaceable Kingdom
5	The Stars Look Down
6	How It Is
7	Vapor Trail
8	Secret Touch
9	Earthshine
10	Sweet Miracle
11	Nocturne
12	Freeze (Part IV of "Fear")
13	Out of the Cradle

The Spirit Of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974-1987 (2003, Mercury)

1	Working Man
2	Fly By Night
3	2112 Overture/Temples of Syrinx
4	Closer to the Heart
5	The Trees
6	The Spirit of Radio
7	Freewill
8	Limelight
9	Tom Sawyer
10	Red Barchetta
11	New World Man
12	Subdivisions
13	Distant Early Warning
14	The Big Money
15	Force Ten
16	Time Stands Still

A compilation album covering Rush's first 14 years.

Rush in Rio (2003, Atlantic)

1	Tom Sawyer
2	Distant Early Warning
3	New World Man
4	Roll the Bones
5	Earthshine
6	YYZ
7	The Pass
8	Bravado
9	The Big Money
10	Trees
11	Freewill
12	Closer to the Heart
13	Natural Science
14	One Little Victory
15	Driven
16	Ghost Rider
17	Secret Touch
18	Dreamline
19	Red Sector A
20	Leave That Thing Alone
21	O Baterista
22	Resist
23	2112
24	Limelight
25	La Villa Strangiato
26	The Spirit of Radio
27	By-Tor & The Snow Dog/Cygnus X-1
28	Working Man
29	Between Sun & Moon
30	Vital Signs

Reproduces in its entirety a 2003 show the band performed in front of 40,000 in Rio de Janeiro.

Feedback (2004, Atlantic)

1	Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran/Blue Cheer cover)
2	Heart Full of Soul (The Yardbirds cover)
3	For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield cover)
4	The Seeker (The Who cover)
5	Mr. Soul (Buffalo Springfield cover)
6	Seven and Seven Is (Love cover)
7	Shapes of Things (The Yardbirds cover)
8	Crossroads (Cream cover)

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