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Poll Question: What do you think of this album?
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6 [27.27%]
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    Posted: September 18 2023 at 07:41
There is a youtube channel that goes for analyzing controversial albums, unpopular opinions, so apparently Hold Your ire fits in there. LOL

So what do you think of it? 
Do choose the last option if none of the others work for you. Tongue


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I used to be much more mixed on it growing up, but it's grown on me significantly over time. Time Stand Still and Lock & Key are two of the band's best hits imo, and the album features some of Geddy's most underrated bass work. The band's mid-80s work deserves more love in general, as far as I'm concerned Smile
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My most 'least' played Rush album. Smile
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3 stars for me. So option 2.
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Originally posted by Necrotica Necrotica wrote:

I used to be much more mixed on it growing up, but it's grown on me significantly over time. Time Stand Still and Lock & Key are two of the band's best hits imo, and the album features some of Geddy's most underrated bass work. The band's mid-80s work deserves more love in general, as far as I'm concerned Smile

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Originally posted by siLLy puPPy siLLy puPPy wrote:

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Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by Necrotica Necrotica wrote:

I used to be much more mixed on it growing up, but it's grown on me significantly over time. Time Stand Still and Lock & Key are two of the band's best hits imo, and the album features some of Geddy's most underrated bass work. The band's mid-80s work deserves more love in general, as far as I'm concerned Smile

Absolutely!

I'm a big fan of mid-80s Rush. I think Power Windows is one of their absolute best. Hold Your Fire is a notch below that but still really good. 

I would vote that it's right on the line between really good and great. 

Power Windows/Hold Your Fire/Presto is a great block of albums. My least listened to albums are the debut and Roll The Bones. I find RtB to be mostly boring and lacking any sort of balls, other than Dreamline that is. That song rocks. Where's My thing is good. All of side two is snoozers. 
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I really didn't like 80s Rush and still don't even now. HYF was the album that finally turned me off Rush back then. I bought the record and couldn't even get through the first track. That sounds extreme but I was listening to more indie/alternative stuff and Rush was way off any of that. These days I can appreciate it, but I still don't like that poppy 80s sound.
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Good, just a hair under "great".
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Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

Originally posted by verslibre verslibre wrote:

Originally posted by Necrotica Necrotica wrote:

I used to be much more mixed on it growing up, but it's grown on me significantly over time. Time Stand Still and Lock & Key are two of the band's best hits imo, and the album features some of Geddy's most underrated bass work. The band's mid-80s work deserves more love in general, as far as I'm concerned Smile

Absolutely!

I'm a big fan of mid-80s Rush. I think Power Windows is one of their absolute best. Hold Your Fire is a notch below that but still really good. 

I would vote that it's right on the line between really good and great. 

Power Windows/Hold Your Fire/Presto is a great block of albums. My least listened to albums are the debut and Roll The Bones. I find RtB to be mostly boring and lacking any sort of balls, other than Dreamline that is. That song rocks. Where's My thing is good. All of side two is snoozers. 

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The first 7 songs are great - it's the last 3 that pull the album down from greatness to "just good".

While I still enjoy listening to this album, the enjoyment is always tempered by my feeling that Hold your Fire is the "beginning of the end" for Rush. Yes, they put out lots of albums after this one in a workmanlike fashion, but starting with Presto (and especially with Roll the Bones) the band (and especially Neil's lyrics) just leaves me cold.
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Their penultimate flash of glory and their best album after Signals. Between option #1 and #2 for me, but in the context of the period it is great. Well worth its solid fours.
Its two predecessors were decent, its two successors rather disappointing (Presto) and a total letdown (Roll the Bones).


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Very much in the snyth pop rock category which I think they did better on Power Windows although that said Force Ten has to be one of my very favourite Rush songs. I like all Rush pretty much even the much maligned 90's albums and regard Vapor Trails as one of their very best. If I can happily listen to one band's catalogue front to back its defintely Rush.
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Without hesitation one of my fav Rush albums ever. 

The piece Mission is my fav Rush song ever, such clever lyrics and solid arrangemenets
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Not bad at all, but not that good. The band sounds a little tired at this point to me.
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Most of my feelings about this album centre around my life at the time and the girl i was with etc; saw them at Wembley on that tour and have rather romanticized the era. There's some great songs on the album (Force ten, Time stand still, Mission, Prime mover) and a few fluffers.. sounds a bit flat and colourless now.. but i still adore the 'Show of Hands' live set which showcases those songs (and others from that era) so much better than the original.. and those animations were great, particularly the sheep on force ten!

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