I'm going to be extremely dull and predictable here. If you can only have one Rush album, this is the one. This is the album that would most successfully balance the prog-rock influence the band had been playing with on previous releases with the more concise radio-accessibility that has defined them ever since. And all this delivered with the instrumental power and heaviness of a rock band in their prime. Let's assume you can't even stand Rush. Then, I say buy it for the sake of sociology. Nearly every song on here is a cultural landmark for suburban, North American males who grew up in the early 80s and who at one point (maybe even still) were in love with Martha Quinn. Okay, my last pitch, and then I give up. Buy it so you can trip along to that illusion (the seemingly endless, ringing echo) at the end of Alex Lifeson's solo in "Limelight."
Moving Pictures is the eighth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush. The album was recorded and mixed October to November 1980 at Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec and released February 12, 1981. Moving Pictures became the band's biggest selling album in the U.S., hitting #3, and remains the band's most popular and commercially successful studio recording to date. The album was certified quadruple-platinum with four million copies sold as of January 27, 1995.
Tracklist
01 Tom Sawyer
02 Red Barchetta
03 YYZ
04 Limelight
05 The Camera Eye
06 Witch Hunt
07 Vital Signs
review by Joe McGlinchey
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