Rush - Permanent Waves
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Free Music Review: Rush at Their Artistic Pinnacle
Hit: 5 Stars
Permanent waves is Like an Old Friend. You can listen to it over and over and the relationship is always the same, you can fall back on it at any point even if it has been years and everything is right with the world!
Permanent Waves was released in 1980 and followed up the last of the true long suite progressive rock albums Hemispheres while also predating 1981's moving Pictures by one year. Hemispheres is also a modern rock classic but is quite different from Permanent Waves in a number of different ways. First of all the title track of Hemispheres is an entire side of the album like 1976's 2112. Permanent Waves does include a 9 plus minute tune in Natural Science but no instrumentals although sections of Natural Science are fairly long instrumental sections. I would also rank Natural Science as the best track on this great album though there are several excellent tracks here. Natural Science is very relevant today or in any era as our awareness of Climate Change and our "carbon footprint' are very relevant to the theme of Natural Science which discusses humankind's lack of awareness of our effect on the natural world and even hints of genetic engineering or other newer science technologies that we have not fully grasped before unleashing them on an unsuspecting world.
Entre Nous is one of the very few love songs ever penned by Peart, Lee and Lifeson and it is a great one. I am thrilled that they have been performing it live on the Snakes and Arrows tour and am hopeful they will continue to do so as I am slated to see them next month! Different Strings which follows Entre Nous is another excellent love song and is a true ballad, one of the few ever from the group that features some excellent guitar work by Alex Lifeson and it is a gem. I won't discuss Spirit of Radio or Free will because so many others have elaborated on them ad infinitum but I will mention the one clunker here and that would be Jacob's Ladder. This particular song smacks of filler and embodies virtually every cliche' that This Is Spinal Tap so effectively lampooned.
How can I rank an album 5 stars with one out of 6 songs being filler you ask? The remaining tracks are so superb that they overwhelmingly balance out the weak Jacob's Ladder. This one is in the top 5 of all Rush albums to date, highly recommended!
Free Music Review: Classic Rush
Hit: 5 Stars
A perfect album. The two hits "Spirit of Radio" & "Freewill" are stellar. "Natural Science" is an incredible masterpiece. None of these songs ever get old.Free Music Review: After Six Years, Rush Mature
Hit: 5 Stars
PERMANENT WAVES ushered in the mature Rush, who started to craft songs that could be played on AOR radio while still being lyrically and musically complex. Ironically, it was "The Spirit Of Radio", an indictment of the lack of adventure in radio programming, that broke the band into the upper echelons of album-rock radio playlists. This album showed the band getting away from space-rock and towards more down-to-earth lyrical themes, and lead singer Geddy Lee was finally learning not to scream like Robert Plant on Santa Fe chile sauce. This album, along with MOVING PICTURES, defined the second phase of Rush's career just as FLY BY NIGHT had defined the first phase. This CD is a must-own.Free Music Review: Rush - Geddy Learns Not To Scream
Hit: 4 Stars
For almost a decade Rush had been a cult favorite among progressive rock and metal fans. They had risen to a point where their albums were gold sellers and they could sell out mid to large size venues throughout the US. "Permanent Waves" would turn out to be a very transitional album for the band. Rush moved somewhat away from progressive rock featuring an album of shorter songs (although there are still two clocking in at over 7 minutes) and a generally more straight forward approach. Geddy Lee also changed his vocal style, doing away with the shrieking that he was known for and generally adapting a more user friendly tone in his voice. The result of all this was a huge commercial breakthrough for the band. The album had two songs that actually became hits on the radio "The Spirit Of Radio" and "Freewill". The album went platinum and the band were catapulted to superstardom, a place where they remain to this day. I remember when this first came out I was disappointed in it. I loved the progressive rock Rush and they seemed to be moving in a more commercial direction with this release. The years have been kind to it however and all of these tracks have aged pretty well. My two favorites have always been the two most prog oriented tracks the slowly building bombast of "Jacobs Ladder" and the album closer "Natural Science". The two big hits still get played to death on classic rock radio, but they remain good songs. The other two songs "Entre Nous" and "Different Strings" are both decent enough. Overall this is a good, but not great Rush album for me.Free Music Review: Awesome album, one of Rush's best.
Hit: 5 Stars
Permanent Waves is one of my favorite Rush albums. All six songs are fantastic, and my favorite Rush song, Natural Science appears on this album. This is a great place to start if you are wanting to get into Rush. Pick up this and Moving Pictures and go from there!