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Our next installment of the Extended Play Lounge features the most commercially successful album in the history of Rush: Moving Pictures.

I had never heard the entire album before, although Tom Sawyer and Limelight were familiar to me. There's not a weak song on the entire album. 

Turn it up and enjoy!

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Rush: Moving Pictures - Extended Play Lounge (Episode 20)

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Anonymous

Genesis

Dominick Pearce

I love Rush. Red Barchetta was the first sub-surface song that made me realize there was a lot more to this band than Tom Sawyer and Fly By Night. Such amazing imagery

Memelord Mark

Great episode! You have crossed over to the next sonic playground of the band. It would be great if you could do a track from each of the next three LPs on the Daily Doug. Literally every track from those LPs is perfect for a midweek episode.

Memelord Mark

Much like YES, GENESIS, KANSAS,THE MOODY BLUES,etc RUSH created excellent "pop" music They were influenced The Police, Ultravox & many other "New wave" bands.

Anonymous

You expressed interest in the "Fear" trilogy (part IV added later, but parts I-III released in reverse order on successive albums! :-D )... they string all 3 of these together (in the right order) on their Grace Under Pressure Live album, which for me best encapsulates the early 80s era of Rush before they went far too synthy (IMHO). And it also includes a cracking version of YYZ, since you asked...

Jordan Hyland

you really nailed it pinning The Police sound to vital signs. in this era all three guys were really really heavily influenced by the police. vital signs ALWAYS has given me big police vibes. I really love that song.

Paul Hoyle

...as you say before the last song Doug...brainwashed by poisonous lies (All countries leaders it seems, with no better example than Putin). How sad is it that we can't find a few honest people to help run our Governments and Countries for the betterment of all!!...Jon Anderson for World leader for me.

Paul Halicki

I'm a little surprised you didn't mention the extensive use of open harmonics by Lifeson on the intro and outro of Red Barchetta. It really sets the mood of the song.

Paul Halicki

Part of the brilliance of Rush is that there are three virtuoso musicians that complement each other and they never step on each other, even while Neil, Alex and Geddy are playing solo-level performances simultaneously. They seem to all do it for each other rather than for themselves. I think that this is the reason for the band's logevity- they all did it for each other, they all appreciated each other. There wasn't a struggle of egos (like Paul and John in the Beatles) but just constant collaboration.

Brian Rushford

Try not to over think what they were doing,they weren’t a soulless prog band,even though the seemed to spawn a few