Huge RUSH fan!!! Caress Of Steel is a highly underrated masterpiece. Even their so called lesser albums have something great to offer. I really enjoyed going through your RUSH journey!
Hey Alex…Huge Rush fan since just before Moving Pictures! I picked up those box set albums as they released (on CD) back in the day, but I was really more into 90s grunge throughout that time period- over the years they all grew on me more and more. I FINALLY got to see Rush on the T4E tour (twice!) and saw every tour after that including R30 at Red Rocks and their final tour. Each of those shows they pulled out more and more songs from that 89-96 era and it solidified my love for all 4 of those albums. I now have pretty much their whole discography on vinyl (2 or 3 exceptions) They will ALWAYS be on my list of the top 5 bands of all time 🤘😎👍
After my disowning of Rush after a 1st listen to Signals, Then a year later, only to have a friend of a friend pick Signals to play and talk about music on a Saturday night did I realize my mistake, next morning was a Sunday in which I always got up early to wake and bake to an album, I dusted off Signals and it blew my mind, OMG ! Now about that box set, 4 incredible albums, Presto, what a change up, grew on me fast, still love it to this day. Roll The Bones, Dream Line right out of the gate, throw out the title track and a perfect album. Counterparts, full of tasty stuff, Cold Fire to end the album, genus. Test For Echo, 1st time I travel to see Rush, road trip to CA, NV, AZ almost only playing TFE on the CD player, 11 great tracks, I thought Test for Echo was going to be their highest charting song, maybe a #1, bought a big concert poster at one of the shows, framed it with those 4 ticket stubs. I'm 63, 1st time seeing Rush was 1979, now 21X.
I had always been aware of RUSH growing up, but it was on Vapor Trails and a roommate I had who was Obsessed with Neil Peart who really turned me on to how awesome this band truly was. Now I have pretty much have everything I can get from them. It's the gift that keeps on giving!
Hey Alex. Great video and nice breakdown on why you like Rush and their albums. I am a Rush fan. I came in on their first album. I have up to Presto on vinyl. I felt the same as you about how there was a sameness happening and a ton of keyboards, so I at the time I stopped getting their albums. Then after watching the doc "Beyond The Lighted Stage" I saw how Counterparts & Test For Echo hard a harder edge to them with some guitars! So I went and picked those up on CD. Before that I had already picked back up with them on Vapor Trails and all the following albums. I saw them on the Moving Pictures tour and they were amazing. I agree with you on Caress Of Steel, I love that album as well. Cheers
Rush were absolutely massive in my schooldays (late 70s / early 80's - what a time to be a teenager by the way). I bought Hemispheres and Permanent Waves. In about 1983 I was in a rock band, and we used to play The Trees (well, we'd give it a go! - I was no Neil Peart!!) I now own most of their stuff up to Moving Pictures 🙂
Hey Alex....oh man 13 in 2003 ...stop making me feel like a geezer !!! School of Rock drummer died , well isn't that rock n' roll. Enjoyed your journey through Rush !! You beat me to doing a video about the box set but I get it done soon. I did drop off after Roll The Bones.... and having Presto and Bones on CD I never picked up the records. Plus they are stupid $$$$. the other two I also never listen to them all they way through. I knew the cut or to that got radio play when they came out. So this box set was perfect for me to get. Enjoyed your review and yes Counterparts is a gem that is not talked about much. Cheers !!!!
I always say my favorite rush album is "farewell to kings" but to be fair i haven't listened or wanted to listen to a rush album in a while. i like and have the albums "caress of steel", 2112, farewell to kings and moving pictures. I have lisetened to these later albums you showed and i remember liking a few of the songs off the bones album but not a fan of any of their later stuff. My grandmas favorite rush song is on hemispheres the track "Trees".
Man, I can't even get this box in Canada. I missed the preorder and no one has it here. Damn! I hope they will be released individually. Caress of Steel is OK, apart from "I Think I'm Going Bald." I do have an OG Presto! I really like these four records, especially Counterparts. Test for Echo is also strong. I recall being more dismayed by the Power Windows & Hold Your Fire era than this period. Maybe I was moving is odd circles, but I hadn't really heard too much negativity about these albums when they were released 🙂
I love School of Rock. My sons and I quote it all the time. Rush is great. Caress of Steel is better than Fly By Night. Power Windows is shit. It’s where Rush was losing me after being one of my favorite bands. The albums in that box set are the ones I never got into. I have some of the music on live albums. I got back into buying their albums after Test For Echo. Well done overview of Rush here Mr Alex👍
I remember the first song Rush song I ever heard was Working Man on the local AOR radio station back in the mid-70's. At first I thought it was Led Zeppelin with Robert Plant on helium. Been hooked on Rush ever since. I bought this box set as well. A no brainer, but, four records in a box is correct. The records are getting outer-sleeved and filed with the other Rush LPs on the IKEA Kallax shelf. The box is going in the closet. Yeah, Rhino missed an opportunity here for a hard cover book, or at least a nice soft-cover 12" booklet. I'm happy to have the records on vinyl though, even if I had to duplicate Presto on LP. Hoping that some day Snakes and Arrows gets an LP repress real soon. Still have not come around on Test For Echo - it just doesn't grab me; and Hold Your Fire is not nearly as awful as you say it is. Loved that album when it came out.
of all the live albums. " stage" does it for me. to me " counterparts " is a sadly underrated lp .fun fact! the object on the front of " test " is called an," INUKSHUK " its a northern Canada indigenous thing. have you read geddy,s book " my effin life "? if not do so. cheers.
Yeah giving a 10 year old kid Rush 2112 to study Neil Peart is hilarious. No offense but I thought you were a little older. I was born in 1980. I thought you might have been an 80s kid.
Huge RUSH fan!!! Caress Of Steel is a highly underrated masterpiece. Even their so called lesser albums have something great to offer. I really enjoyed going through your RUSH journey!
Awesome review
Hey Alex…Huge Rush fan since just before Moving Pictures! I picked up those box set albums as they released (on CD) back in the day, but I was really more into 90s grunge throughout that time period- over the years they all grew on me more and more. I FINALLY got to see Rush on the T4E tour (twice!) and saw every tour after that including R30 at Red Rocks and their final tour. Each of those shows they pulled out more and more songs from that 89-96 era and it solidified my love for all 4 of those albums. I now have pretty much their whole discography on vinyl (2 or 3 exceptions) They will ALWAYS be on my list of the top 5 bands of all time 🤘😎👍
After my disowning of Rush after a 1st listen to Signals, Then a year later, only to have a friend of a friend pick Signals to play and talk about music on a Saturday night did I realize my mistake, next morning was a Sunday in which I always got up early to wake and bake to an album, I dusted off Signals and it blew my mind, OMG ! Now about that box set, 4 incredible albums, Presto, what a change up, grew on me fast, still love it to this day. Roll The Bones, Dream Line right out of the gate, throw out the title track and a perfect album. Counterparts, full of tasty stuff, Cold Fire to end the album, genus. Test For Echo, 1st time I travel to see Rush, road trip to CA, NV, AZ almost only playing TFE on the CD player, 11 great tracks, I thought Test for Echo was going to be their highest charting song, maybe a #1, bought a big concert poster at one of the shows, framed it with those 4 ticket stubs. I'm 63, 1st time seeing Rush was 1979, now 21X.
I had always been aware of RUSH growing up, but it was on Vapor Trails and a roommate I had who was Obsessed with Neil Peart who really turned me on to how awesome this band truly was. Now I have pretty much have everything I can get from them. It's the gift that keeps on giving!
Hey Alex. Great video and nice breakdown on why you like Rush and their albums. I am a Rush fan. I came in on their first album. I have up to Presto on vinyl. I felt the same as you about how there was a sameness happening and a ton of keyboards, so I at the time I stopped getting their albums. Then after watching the doc "Beyond The Lighted Stage" I saw how Counterparts & Test For Echo hard a harder edge to them with some guitars! So I went and picked those up on CD. Before that I had already picked back up with them on Vapor Trails and all the following albums. I saw them on the Moving Pictures tour and they were amazing. I agree with you on Caress Of Steel, I love that album as well. Cheers
Rush were absolutely massive in my schooldays (late 70s / early 80's - what a time to be a teenager by the way). I bought Hemispheres and Permanent Waves. In about 1983 I was in a rock band, and we used to play The Trees (well, we'd give it a go! - I was no Neil Peart!!)
I now own most of their stuff up to Moving Pictures 🙂
Hey Alex....oh man 13 in 2003 ...stop making me feel like a geezer !!! School of Rock drummer died , well isn't that rock n' roll. Enjoyed your journey through Rush !! You beat me to doing a video about the box set but I get it done soon. I did drop off after Roll The Bones.... and having Presto and Bones on CD I never picked up the records. Plus they are stupid $$$$. the other two I also never listen to them all they way through. I knew the cut or to that got radio play when they came out. So this box set was perfect for me to get. Enjoyed your review and yes Counterparts is a gem that is not talked about much. Cheers !!!!
I always say my favorite rush album is "farewell to kings" but to be fair i haven't listened or wanted to listen to a rush album in a while. i like and have the albums "caress of steel", 2112, farewell to kings and moving pictures. I have lisetened to these later albums you showed and i remember liking a few of the songs off the bones album but not a fan of any of their later stuff. My grandmas favorite rush song is on hemispheres the track "Trees".
Man, I can't even get this box in Canada. I missed the preorder and no one has it here. Damn! I hope they will be released individually. Caress of Steel is OK, apart from "I Think I'm Going Bald." I do have an OG Presto! I really like these four records, especially Counterparts. Test for Echo is also strong. I recall being more dismayed by the Power Windows & Hold Your Fire era than this period. Maybe I was moving is odd circles, but I hadn't really heard too much negativity about these albums when they were released 🙂
I love School of Rock. My sons and I quote it all the time. Rush is great. Caress of Steel is better than Fly By Night. Power Windows is shit. It’s where Rush was losing me after being one of my favorite bands. The albums in that box set are the ones I never got into. I have some of the music on live albums. I got back into buying their albums after Test For Echo. Well done overview of Rush here Mr Alex👍
I remember the first song Rush song I ever heard was Working Man on the local AOR radio station back in the mid-70's. At first I thought it was Led Zeppelin with Robert Plant on helium. Been hooked on Rush ever since. I bought this box set as well. A no brainer, but, four records in a box is correct. The records are getting outer-sleeved and filed with the other Rush LPs on the IKEA Kallax shelf. The box is going in the closet. Yeah, Rhino missed an opportunity here for a hard cover book, or at least a nice soft-cover 12" booklet. I'm happy to have the records on vinyl though, even if I had to duplicate Presto on LP. Hoping that some day Snakes and Arrows gets an LP repress real soon. Still have not come around on Test For Echo - it just doesn't grab me; and Hold Your Fire is not nearly as awful as you say it is. Loved that album when it came out.
of all the live albums. " stage" does it for me. to me " counterparts " is a sadly underrated lp .fun fact! the object on the front of " test " is called an," INUKSHUK " its a northern Canada indigenous thing. have you read geddy,s book " my effin life "? if not do so. cheers.
Yeah giving a 10 year old kid Rush 2112 to study Neil Peart is hilarious.
No offense but I thought you were a little older. I was born in 1980. I thought you might have been an 80s kid.