Actor's reaction to Rush! 4 tracks from Grace Under Pressure - Distant Early Warning + more!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2025
- Join me (JSB) as I listen to 4 randomly selected tunes from Rush's classic 1984 album Grace Under Pressure for this week's 'random 4-play' (and 40 year flashback!).
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RANDOM 4-PLAY, WHAT'S THAT?
Nothing naughty, honest, it's simply where I put an album on shuffle and listen to/discuss the first 4 tracks to come up and (SPOILER ALERT) in this case those songs were:
Red Sector A
Afterimage
Between the Wheels
Distant Early Warning
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Alex's guitar work on this album is some of his very best. Every time I listen to it I am amazed.
Thanks Bryan, hard to disagree with that! JSB.
80s rush is the best
1976-1985 is going to cover their Top 8 albums IMO. But yeah, that 1980-1985 was pretty awesome with Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows.
Wise words Steve! 😁
Red Sector A is a very personal song for Geddy Lee. His parents were both in concentration camps in Nazi Germany. Alex's parents were also Polish immigrants from that same era.
A powerful tune for sure, thanks for watching! JSB
Any and all Rush...surpasses anyone and everyone else.
Haha, that’s certainly a valid viewpoint!!
GREAT album!! Just missing The Enemy Within and my day would be complete!! LOVE the bassline on that track! I've embraced the 70's and 80's Rush pretty much equally.
Cheers from Canada, eh!
Thanks for watching, I absolutely get the love for 70s Rush as well! JSB
@@Act0rJSB as I totally understand the 'dislike' for Geddy's voice (at times) during this era...my wife is one - she greatly prefers the 80's output, and much of that is due to Geddy's dropped register. Cheers!
'Grace' was not derided as much as people think. I was still onboard with Rush as a hardcore fan and a musician. Their peak period for me was the late 70s into 81-82. Signals was a terrific album, the synths were full and warm and the songs had subtle atmospheres. I missed Terry's production on Grace, and Rush suffered for that loss, but it was still a banger of an album. I also loved Power Windows, but they were going overboard with all of the clattering layers of sequencers and samples, but they were still shredding their fretboards underneath it all, and the songs were still great. Hold Your Fire was the one that lost me. Didn't get tbe songwriting, the production was a mess, guitar, bass and keys all in tbe top end, drums submerged in ambient tones. BUT.... they were still shredding tbe fretboards!! LOL So I still bought every album and listened through the following weaker period, Presto and Roll tbe Bones. Then Counterpoints woke us all up again and every album since has been great.
Thanks Mark, great summary of those years from someone who actually lived through them! A very different experience from the haphazard way I've gone back and forth through time when working my way through their discography! JSB
Great Album just putting on my kidd gloves right now!! Anger wear a crown of thorns reversed the golden rule!
Thanks for watching - have been pleased to see that this album is a lot better regarded than I thought (or those who hate it have just stayed away perhaps...?!) JSB.
This is a genius album and it’s interesting in that it’s probably the darkest Rush album in their discography due to the lyrics that Peart penned. While Peart in particular is highly influenced by reggae here which was all the rage at the time, it’s still a master at his craft. There’s not one mediocre song on the album, they’re all great, but being a musician I look at things a bit differently with a very different metric. Nonetheless, it’s all subjective anyway so ultimately it doesn’t really matter what people think; you like what you like.
Interesting insights, thanks for watching! JSB
Algorithm
I got rhythm, but I ain’t got no algorithm! (Except it may just have found me this once, cheers Steve!).