CARESS OF STEEL

This is the most underrated Rush work but for me very important work, because it is a landmark between their first hard rock period and their next progressive era. In this album the band begins to create long suites in progressive style enriched with fantasy, philosophical and mithological lyrics by Neal Peart. The Necromancer it's about 12 minutes and it's divided in three parts, it begins slowly with the narration voice that gives a dark-gothic mood to the song and the beautifull voice of Geddy Lee, the second part it's very heavy with lots of electric guitar refrains and solos by Lifeson; the last part contains one of my favourite acoustic and electric guitar chords. The Fountain of Lamneth it's about 19 minutes and it's divided in several parts most of them in a progressive style with lots of acoustic and electric picking chord, in the same dark mood. The first three songs are straight hard rock and the best i think it's "Bastile Day" and the beautiful "Lakeside park", while "I Think i'm going bald" it's a mediocre hard rock piece. Overral it' s a very good album of transition that will come to the next masterpieces like 2112 and Hemispheres.