Sunday, June 20th, 2010
The Tapes Your Mother Laid Out for You
Second Installment: Rush - Grace Under Pressure (1984)
By Andrew W. Miller
By 1984, progressive rock was far from the genre du jour. It had seen its heyday in the 60s and 70s and had subsequently been bested by the catchiness (sorry, Johnny Rotten) and simplicity of punk and new wave. Ten years had gone by since Rush's first album, Rush (1974), had been released. The latter nine years saw eight full-length albums produced by Terry Brown, who had seen the band develop from straight-up Led Zeppelin worship to the powerhouse that recorded epic, movement-structured albums like 1976's 2112, 1978's Hemispheres, as well as the commercially-successful Moving Pictures (1981) featuring the ...
The Tapes Your Mother Laid Out for You
Second Installment: Rush - Grace Under Pressure (1984)
By Andrew W. Miller
By 1984, progressive rock was far from the genre du jour. It had seen its heyday in the 60s and 70s and had subsequently been bested by the catchiness (sorry, Johnny Rotten) and simplicity of punk and new wave. Ten years had gone by since Rush's first album, Rush (1974), had been released. The latter nine years saw eight full-length albums produced by Terry Brown, who had seen the band develop from straight-up Led Zeppelin worship to the powerhouse that recorded epic, movement-structured albums like 1976's 2112, 1978's Hemispheres, as well as the commercially-successful Moving Pictures (1981) featuring the ...