![]() ![]() Everybody wins.Įach sample contains 5 different masterings of a track played in consecutive order (ie - A, B, C, etc.). It's alright I've also put "Poll" in there, though in parenthesis this time. Just as well, most of the blind polls here use "Test" anyway, regardless of who started the thread. Even though "Test" is in the title, in no way does that imply that there's a right or wrong answer here. I may as well in order to make these threads easier to find when searching. You may've noticed that I'm calling these "Tests" again. This will be the case for the rest of the Rush albums going forward unless a CD equivalent also exists, in which I will use that instead. ![]() Also, there's a digital download thrown into the mix. I realize that not everyone is a fan of the synth-era, but I intend to do blind tests for everything up to and including Power Windows for completists' sake. 2112 was the previous one, so let's get to Grace Under Pressure. Now, I won’t break down the album into individual songs because they all are good on their own and all compliment each other and that makes a good album.If I'm gonna make more Rush polls, I'll alternate between 70s and 80s material. As for Alex, he does nail solos on “The Body Electric” and the closer, “Between the Wheels,” and I do like his intro on “The Enemy Within.” That has to be my favourite track on the album. I have always stated that Lee has been underrated as a keyboards player. You can clearly hear Liefson’s licks laying down the foundation along with Peart’s beat in support of Lee’s keyboard skills and vocals. For me, sure I was slightly disappointed at first that the guitar takes a back seat on the album, but it doesn’t go away completely. I’ve said a number of times that all three members are talented musicians and together, they can create some fantastic music which all will enjoy no matter what camp you’re in. What Rush did with “Grace Under Pressure” was take the emerging synth sound and made it into something of their own. But believe me, “Grace Under Pressure” was no sell out and it was many levels above some of the other synthesizer music that was manifesting at the time. I guess in my naivety, I expected them to continue in the same vein as my favourite Rush album. Maybe they had sold out and gone commercial. I have to admit, when I heard the first single, “Distant Early Warning,” I wasn’t too sure about them. In the opening pages of “Rock And Roll Children,” the main characters play “Grace Under Pressure” to mellow out a bit after an evening of heavy metal records. While Rush are not heavy metal, it doesn’t stop many metalheads like myself from liking them, a lot. At first I believed it but now in my old age, I don’t really care if it was true at the time or not. Therefore, in reaction to that, they went for the more synthesizer sound to squash the stereotype. In reality, the band had started to go in that direction with their previous album, “Signals.” What was popularly believed at the time was that as a result of my favourite Rush album, “Moving Pictures,” some misguided persons heard songs like “Tom Sawyer” and “Limelight” and called Rush a heavy metal band. Nearly everyone and their sibling says that the “Grace Under Pressure” album was the beginning of Rush’s synthesizer period.
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