It has wonderful lyrics dealing with guilt, but with an eye towards self-improvement (a favorite theme of Neil’s). Something Here As Strong As Life (favorite track): I actually love “Carve Away The Stone,” the closer. While the hiatus was taken for reasons personal, rather than musical, it sounds like the last album before a hiatus. There are some great songs (“Driven,” “Half The World,” “Carve Away The Stone”) but even on the album’s best moments, you can tell that they’re kind of burned out. At no point in this album do I want to air-drum, which may be the biggest accomplishment of Neil Peart’s career. Power to them, but it makes rating any Rush album a challenging task! Each album has stellar moments, but in my opinion, almost every album has at least one really awkward moment, just because Rush are a bunch of nerds from the Toronto suburbs and they don’t care how many records they sell.
Rush released nineteen studio albums during their illustrious career (twenty if you count their underappreciated covers EP, Feedback). I’m going to have a little fun with this and share some more details about each record, so hopefully a few will say, “Hey, this seems like my kind of music.” And of course, what better band to start with than my all-time favorite, Rush? Everyone loves a good ranking, right? I do! And while I suppose it is a little puerile to try and summarize a legendary band in such a simplistic way, my colleague and friend Rob’s (of Progressive Music Planet) “Rank ‘Em” columns helped me to start digging many an awesome band, by showing me what albums I should start with.
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