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An EP recorded and released in 2004 just to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the relase of their first album in 1974, doing covers of songs that they liked and bands that influenced them. It sounds well. They sound like having a lot of fun recording these songs. I was a bit surprised that the band recorded two songs which were originally recorded by BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD ("For What is Worth" and "Mr. Soul") as the musical style of that band ( Folk Rock with some protest songs) I think that it was very far from the musical style that RUSH developed years later. More surprises come with the recording of two songs which were originally recorded by THE YARDBIRDS ("Heart Full of Soul" and "Shapes of Things"), whose style was more Blues and Pop Rock from the sixties oriented than RUSH`s music in later years. The musical styles of the rest of the songs are really more expected to have inlfuenced RUSH as band: two songs originally recorded by THE WHO ("Summertime Blues" and "The Seeker"); one song originally recorded by LOVE ("Seven and Seven Is") and a last one which was originally covered by CREAM ("Crossroads"). All the songs are very well arranged and played, and it is interesting to listen to RUSH playing them in their own style without any Prog Rock arrangements, just having some fun in the recording studio. It was a bit strange that the band did not record any songs from LED ZEPPELIN or BLACK SABBATH, being these two bands very influential in the songs and sound that RUSH recorded in their first album, but maybe they did not record any songs from these two bands to avoid the usual comparisons of their early sound with the sounds of those two very influential bands.

A bit similar to JOHN LENNON (with his "Rock and Roll" album from 1975, which also was recorded like a deal with a person who sued him of alleged plagiarism of one song, but that is another history), PAUL McCARTNEY (with his "Run Devil Run" album from 1999) and other artists who have recorded albums with covers from songs which were previously composed and / or recorded by other artists, this EP from RUSH was done more for fun than for anything else. I don`t have anything against the idea of doing that. So, if someone is in the mood to listen to an album like this, just have fun and enjoy it.