GRACE UNDER PRESSURE

I feel this is one of the best albums Rush has made. It does require however that the listener enjoy the 80's Rush being very different from the previous decade and moving away from the epic songs and into more shorter, synthesized pieces. This album begins and ends on great songs just like most of Rush's albums opening with Distant Early Warning and ending with Between the Wheels. The songs on this album all display dark emotions (Distant Early Warning, Afterimage, Red Sector A, The Enemy Within, The Body Electric, Red Lenses, and Between the Wheels); just about all of them! Kid Gloves is a nice poppy exception with an awesome chorus. This past summer (2004) I saw Rush's 30th anniversary tour and they actually played Between the Wheels. I'm only 21 so I haven't been around to see their previous shows except Vapor Trails and I missed T4E but I about died and went to heaven when they played that song because I don't think they play it all that often and it's a very underrated song. If there was a song i'd throw away from this album, it would probably be Red Lenses, and thats even hard to say. I don't see a weak point in this one, very consistent throughout the entire thing. A definite buy for the 80's Rush fan.