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Permanent Waves (Rush) - Extended Play Lounge (Ep. 25) (Patreon)

Published:
2022-08-05 14:16:34
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2023-05

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As we start our 2nd year, we return to Rush for their third appearance in the series. I really enjoyed this listen. These albums from right around 1980 (from a variety of bands) are so interesting in how they reflect a rapidly changing commercial music scene. I think this album threads the needle as good as any.

I hope you enjoy!

Unlisted Vimeo Link: https://vimeo.com/736713532/70717a552b

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Permanent Waves (Rush) - Extended Play Lounge (Ep. 25)

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Comments

Anonymous
>>89073662

Isn't that amazing? I just about fell over when I saw that fairly recently for the first time. What an amazing artifact.

Anonymous
>>89074392

You know, though, they're such goofy guys and so affable that they never really come off as pretentious - at least not in an insufferable way.

Anonymous
>>90248552

Absolutely. Poor Neil really had to endure some heavy tragedy. Such a brilliant man.

Anonymous

Listening along with you, I'm realizing this is probably Alex's strongest album. His playing on this is really beautiful and very diverse. He has such lovelyy restraint and simplicity on Different Strings. Jeff Beck-like.

grnmntl

I was 16 when this came out. This was my favorite band. The tour for this album was the first rock concert I ever saw, back in '80. Powerful stuff.

Robert Thornton

This takes me back to junior high, playing D&D and listening to music over at my best friend's house. He had this, A Farewell to Kings and 2112.

Paul Halicki

The "concise" arrangements of this album were a purposeful decision to simplify the music. Hemispheres was too ambitious musically. Rush conceived it but could barely play it and it was exhausting; it almost broke them in a way. Thereafter they made an effort to create music that was better within their abilities.

Paul Halicki

One last thing: Have you ever seen the film of Alex Lifeson telling his parents he was quitting school to play in a band? It was from a Canadian documentary. Fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M977GFRWDmY

Gerard Dion

Spirit of Radio and Free Will are prog classics and some of Rush’s very best songs IMO. Also IMO, I find the rest of the album a bit self-indulgent and pretentious, but that’s Rush. Rush may be the originators of prog metal, but they definitely diversified as their career wore on. They are just a great, very unique, and extremely talented band. RIP great drummer and lyricist Neil Peart.

Anonymous

For your next Rush album, I think you should fast forward a bit to 1985’s Power Windows. It’s the heart of synth-y Rush, but I find it to be one of their most powerful albums both sonically and lyrically. Neil hits on lots of heavier real-world topics, like capitalism, atomic warfare, world cultures, and, of course, human nature. It’s one of my favs, if not my absolute favorite Rush album.

Tom Brophy

Fantastic review and as a fan of Rush since 1985 and having heard these albums countless times, I still find freshness within them and your insights also spark new ways of listening and experiencing them which brings me much joy. Plus, your expression during that instrumental break of Freewill is all of us :).

Anthony Taylor

This is your best reaction to date! The entire album had you hanging on every note, lyric and shift in meter, accompanied by the many stank faces. There is only one Rush, and you picked their very best. Thanks Doug!

Anonymous

I was about 14 or so when I first bought this record. I was fascinated by everything on it! I always thought of the middle jam section of Freewill as a three-way solo, and the next section (Bm11, BbM7#11.. ) as the vocal solo. I loved Jacob's Ladder enough to transcribe every note of the drum part for a friend of mine, so we could play it. Natural Science was no problem for me to play on guitar and bass, but I wanted to know what the lyrics were, and my copy of the record did not come with an inner sleeve with lyrics, so I did my best to transcribe them.. not quite right. Anyway, thanks for doing this one, Doug! These videos always remind me what it may have been like when I listened to it for the very first time many years ago.

Jukka Alanen

For a newish Neal Peart fan I wholly recommend reading his book Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road. It's heartbreaking, moving and thought provoking. A masterpiece in its own right.

Anonymous

Is it just me, or do I detect a hint of Wagner in the "at once, the clouds have parted" section?

Toby Sanchez

"The Spirit of Radio" was meant to sound as if the listener was changing stations - hence all the tempo and stylistic changes. They weren't lamenting changes in radio as much as how their production oversight demanded shorter, radio friendly songs.

Toby Sanchez

"Difference Strings" is also self referential about key progression. ;-) (recognizing the spaces in between and how they make the transition between keys work in the song.)