Rush-Signals

DSCN5109 (1024x1019)This is the third prog rock album I have posted this month.  No smoking gun reason why.  I post what I can find. So when I found this for a dollar, there was no way I was going to pass it up.  I always like when I can post something from the 1980’s.kerrang-10.1982-1

This was Rush’s ninth studio album, from 1982, and it came of the heels of their  biggest seller, Moving Pictures.  It marked a stylistic move towards synthesizers, played by Geddy Lee.  It also was the last album with producer Terry Brown.  “Subdivisions” is the big hit off this album, becoming a live staple in their show.  “New World Man” also had some traction as well.DSCN5110 (1024x1002)

Signals sold well, going to number 10 on the Billboard chart and going platinum in November of 1982, two months after its release. The new direction, aided by the synthesizers differentiated the album so it was not a case of Moving Pictures II, which they could have easily done.  The record buying public reacted gratefully for this.

For a sample, I went with “The Analog Kid”.  I find it kind of a bookend to the “Digital Man”.prog-02.2014-3

There you go.  Satisfactory record.  Five paragraphs to the point, a video, and an MP3.  Less than 5 minutes to throw together.  It is Saturday.  That is all you are going to get,

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