Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #17: Vapor Trails
Genre: Progressive Rock, Hard Rock
Date: 30/07/2020
Time: 8:10 PM
We're nearing the end of our Rush discography diaries and the last leg of their albums begins with their 17th album, Vapor Trails. This is the album that saw Rush's return after their 6 year hiatus as after Test For Echo Neil Peart had experienced some heartbreaking personal tragedies, therefore they went on this hiatus. They returned into a new era in the 2000's but to say ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #16: Test For Echo
Genre: Progressive Rock, Hard Rock
Date: 29/07/2020
Time: 4:15 PM
[Update: After returning to this record I just can't find any redeeming qualities about it]
So it's about time I review the 16th album from Rush. Test For Echo. The bands previous album Counterparts was a much needed pick me up from the bland, uninteresting and "nothing" albums that Rush been releasing prior to it and I was hoping for the pick me up to continue, ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #15: Counterparts
Genre: Progressive Rock, Hard Rock
Date: 28/07/2020
Time: 5:10 PM
So yeah, it's time to review the 15th album from Rush, Counterparts. At this moment in time I feel like Rush were on a massive drop off in quality with their music, as each album has just become more and more of a slog to listen to, it just feels like Rush's discography has just been crumbling into a monotonous and inoffensive rut.... but Counterparts is the pick me up I ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #14: Roll the Bones
Genre: Progressive Rock
Date: 27/07/2020
Time: 8:00 PM
Continuing on with my dive through Rush's discography I'm now on their 14th album Roll the Bones. So to get right to the point the past few Rush albums have been underwhelming to say the least, they've just seemed to be some of the most forgettable material that's been coming from their discography and I hoped that when more releases came about the quality would pick up but ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #13: Presto
Genre: Progressive Rock
Date: 26/07/2020
Time: 3:25 PM
So continuing on we have Rush's 13th album Presto. This albums predecessor Hold Your Fire was in my opinion Rush' worst album thus far, it barely had anything memorable to write home about bar one song and it was truly a slog to get through. I only really bring this up because to me Presto suffers from a lot of the same things I disliked about Hold Your Fire but it's slightly better.
Presto ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #12: Hold Your Fire
Genre: Progressive Rock, Pop Rock
Date: 25/07/2020
Time: 8:05 PM
So continuing on with my dive, I'm on Rush's 12th album Hold Your Fire. It's seems that since Rush went in a more synth heavy direction they haven't really been able to recapture what made albums like 2112, A Farewell to Kings and Moving Pictures so great, that doesn't mean that these batch of synth based albums have been bad, they've all been pretty good actually so with ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #11: Power Windows
Genre: Progressive Rock, New Wave
Date: 24/07/2020
Time: 8:20 PM
It's time to talk about the next album in my dive into Rush's discography, their 11th album, Power Windows. The New Wave direction that the band have been going in with their last two LP's has been turning out pretty good in my opinion although they haven't been the best of the best in Rush's catalogue. Power Windows to me is no different but so far it's one of the bands ... read more
So this is end of the Logic saga huh?
I'm a bit conflicted on how I should feel about Logic's retirement and his career, on one hand I have nostalgia for Logic, he was the first artist that I feel like I discovered on my own and Under Pressure was one of the first albums that I felt like I loved listening to on repeat, it truly resonated with me and I still hold that album in high regard to this day, I still even hold The Incredible True story in high regard too, but on the other hand my love ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #10: Grace Under Pressure
Genre: Progressive Rock, New Wave
Date: 23/07/2020
Time: 7:45 PM
Continuing on with my dive into Rush's discography I see myself on the bands 10th album, Grace Under Pressure. While going through Rushes catalogue they haven't missed at all with most of their albums, some aren't as good as others but they've been fairly consistent nonetheless. The bands previous album Signals saw them fully commit with a blend of Prog Rock and New ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #9: Signals
Genre: Progressive Rock, New Wave
Date: 22/07/2020
Time: 6:15 PM
So we've made it to the 9th album in Rush's discography Signals. I was guessing that since the band toyed a lot with synths on their previous LP Moving Pictures that they would continue to go in this more synthy direction, after listening to Signals my suspicions were correct and Rush make a pretty solid record out of it but it's not one of their best.
The Hard Rock aspects that ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #8: Moving Pictures
Genre: Progressive Rock, Hard Rock,
Date: 21/07/2020
Time: 5:25 PM
The next album in Rush's discography Moving Pictures is a pretty popular one from the band, one that's often considered Rush's best and it contains one of the bands more popular songs Tom Sawyer, I heard that song before and I enjoy it quite a lot. From the sound of that song I felt like there was gonna be more of an embrace of 80's synth sounds and their Prog and Hard rock ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #7: Permanent Waves
Genre: Progressive Rock, Hard Rock,
Date: 20/07/2020
Time: 6:50 PM
For me Rush have been on a great streak with their discography since Caress of Steel and I hope that this streak continues going into their next album Permanent Waves. With me being a tad bit underwhelmed by the bands previous effort Hemispheres, I was hoping that Permanent Waves would offer a bit of a pick me up or at least be as good as Hemispheres but I can safely say ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #6: Hemispheres
Genre: Progressive Rock, Hard Rock,
Date: 19/07/2020
Time: 11:10AM
[Update: It grew on me a fair amount]
It's time to take a look at the 6th album from Rush, Hemispheres. I see no reason not to enjoy this project at all as I pretty much liked most of the albums that I've heard in my dive through Rush's discography and this one is one of their most critically acclaimed among fans and critics alike so that should be a good sign. While I do ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #5: A Farewell to Kings
Genre: Progressive Rock, Hard Rock,
Date: 18/07/2020
Time: 1:30 PM
As we continue Rush's discography we see ourselves at their 5th album, A Farewell to Kings. To say the least I've pretty much been loving the last 2 albums from Rush Caress of Steel and 2112 quite a bit, they just keep outdoing themselves in terms quality constantly and I was thinking to myself after I heard 2112 "how are gonna follow this up?", and I'll tell ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #4: 2112
Genre: Hard Rock, Progressive Rock
Date: 17/07/2020
Time: 10:00 PM
It's time for album number 4 in Rush's catalogue, 2112. Up to this point Rush have just kept outdoing themselves in my opinion, each album so far has been a massive improvement upon the previous albums formulas and with 2112 I would hope that the same would happen. I liked how each album strives to be better than it's predecessor in terms of both instrumentation, lyricism and ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #3: Caress of Steel
Genre: Hard Rock, Progressive Rock
Date: 16/07/2020
Time: 3:55 PM
Continuing on with my dive through Rush's discography I see myself on their 3rd album, Caress of Steel. With me enjoying Fly By Night a fair bit I was hoping that we could continue this progression of sounds that were toyed with on that album, that being the more obscure and prog influenced sounds combined with the hard rock aesthetic. I was a bit worried going into this ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #2: Fly By Night
Genre: Hard Rock, Progressive Rock
Date: 15/07/2020
Time: 10:00 PM
We are still continuing on with this dive into Rush's discography, as I have just listened to the sophomore album from them, Fly By Night. Going into Fly By Night I was hoping for an improvement on the hard rock sounds of their debut and maybe something to spice things up a bit and I feel like Fly By Night delivers on that.
To get through the negatives first, I feel like ... read more
Discography Diaries #3: Rush
Album #1: Rush
Genre: Hard Rock
Date: 14/07/2020
Time: 3:35 PM
Let's gooo! The beginning of the new edition of my Discography Diaries series and we are set on our starting point for Rush, the self-titled debut. As far as I'm aware I have never listened to a Rush album ever in my life, I'm not sure if I ever even heard a Rush song before but I'm sure I'll find out down the line. So the debut as you can see has a pretty harsh critic score and a pretty mixed user ... read more
Discography Diaries #2: Swans
Album #15: leaving meaning.
Genre: Experimental Rock, Post-Rock, Neo-Folk
Date: 13/07/2020
Time: 12:40 PM
It's about that time, it's time to finish this segment of the series, it's time for my journey through Swans catalogue to come to end and the album this journey ends on, is their most recent album, 'leaving meaning.'. When it comes to the bands most recent entry I was hoping for a fantastic finish, something that would potentially be on par with the greatness ... read more
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