 | Rush Grace Under Pressure
3.9
excellent
| Ranking: #46 for 1984 | |
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| 1.5 very poor | GamamJ | October 17th 20 |
Crazy to think this band released 2112 and Hemispheres. All new wave?d and polished up, this is not the Rush I love. Most of the technicality, complecity and long tracks are gone, and the focus is on catchiness and accesibility while retaining some level of prog. Eh. Lifeson still has some great guitar-lines though.
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| 4.0 excellent | Deadwing2112 | March 12th 20 |
Grace Under Pressure finds the blend of keyboards and guitars that seems to satisfy Rush's 80s experimentative muse and fans still on board following Signals. Neil Peart's percussion artistry in particular on Red Lenses is mesmerizing.
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| 4.0 excellent | Alabaster Jones | June 27th 17 |
In a lot of ways the name Grace Under Pressure describes Rush themselves. The band had been so successful up until this point that the pressure to keep churning out hits for the charts and lasting albums for the fans must've been huge. Yet still, the trio released Grace Under Pressure, with a new wave style accentuating their established pop-prog, as if it were second nature. It contains some of Rush's catchiest moments, including "Afterimage" and "The Body Electric", but it also contains some of Geddy Lee's best bass moments as well as some memorable vocal moments. Lifeson and Peart are pitch-perfect, as was par for the course for them during the last decade, and though the album doesn't have a true highlight the likes of "Subdivisions", the quality stays high and static throughout. Pound-for-pound, I don't know if any band in the history of progressive rock had a run as brilliant as Rush did for the first decade-and-change of their careers.
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| 5.0 classic | smaugman | May 20th 15 |
even after 10 years and 10 albums these guys can still pull off anything...
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| 4.5 superb | pragpro | May 7th 14 |
Angular Guitar. *check* Some Regatta Blanca (White Boy Reggae) *check* Awesome lyrics *check* Synthtastic.
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| 5.0 classic | themetalhead1121 | December 1st 12 |
Absolutely great album. I've listened to the entire thing many many times. It will never get old to me.
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| 4.0 excellent | Staker | November 24th 10 |
My first from the synth era, and like many of their other albums from the 80s, the tracks are very consistent and often downright awesome such as Between and Red Sector A.
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| 4.0 excellent | gbowles | August 21st 08 |
A very very amazing cd. One of the best "mainstream" albums of the 80s. Geddy tones it down a bit, but the compositions of these songs are damn near perfect!
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