Roll the Bones

Rush - Roll the Bones

Roll the Bones
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Artist: Rush
Brand: RUSH
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-08-31
Music Label: Atlantic
Product features:
  • RUSH ROLL THE BONES
Soundtracks:
  1. Dreamline
  2. Bravado
  3. Roll the Bones
  4. Face Up
  5. Where's My Thing?, Pt. 4: Gangster of Boats Trilogy
  6. The Big Wheel
  7. Heresy
  8. Ghost of a Chance
  9. Neurotica
  10. You Bet Your Life

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Free Music Review: Rush takes a chance on this album with chance theme and wins, 4.5 stars
Hit: 5 Stars

Rush's fourteenth studio album Roll the Bones was released in September of 1991.
I remember when this album came out as it was the first Rush album I bought the week it came out (I just started sophomore year of High School). I bought this CD the day after it came out (I also bought Pink Floyd's David Gilmour's About Face CD as well the same day). When I took the album home, I played this constantly day in and day out for weeks.
The opener "Dreamline" is a stellar rocker which was a huge song on rock radio and the major reason why the album sold well and became a Rush concert staple to this day. "Bravado" is another great song and was a minor radio hit. The title cut had Rush experimenting with rap with hilarious results and its video which had a rapping skeleton was classic. Another favorite of mine was the song "Heresy" which was about the fall of communism in the Soviet Union and eastern European territories like Budapest and so forth. The instrumental "Where's My Thing" was the group's first instrumental since 1981's YYZ and another great number. "Ghost of a Chance" (which was a single but fared poorly) is another favorite of mine on the album and is a song that takes me back to tenth grade of high school (1991/92) when my Rush fandom was arguably at its peak.
"The Big Wheel" and the closing "You Bet Your Life" are great songs as well despite some people hate those tracks. "Face Up" and "Neurotica" are great music pieces though the lyrics are pretty cheesy and ridiculous.
Geddy Lee's bass playing and vocals, Alex Lifeson's guitar work and Neil Peart's drumming and lyrics were very good and the band would then switch co-producers from Rupert Hine (who had also did Presto and worked with The Fixx, Howard Jones and Tina Turner) back to Peter Collins with the next album.
The Roll the Bones album brought the band back to Platinum glory for the first time since 1985's Power Windows and was the band's first US Top 5 album since 1981's Moving Pictures peaking at #3 on the Billboard album chart (kept from #1 by Natalie Cole's Unforgettable which was at #2 and Metallica's Black Album was anchored at #1).
Highly recommended!
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US only limited numbered edition. Pressed on 24 karat gold! Roll The Bones, Rush's 14th studio album, released in 1991, is a fantastic blend of tempos, ideas, and musical explorations. The album marks further transition from the band's 1980s style to their sound in the 1990s - it still has Rush's dark mystique but it is a more pop-oriented album. There are four popular radio staples, "Bravado," "Ghost Of A Chance," "Roll the Bones" and "Dreamline" with the former reaching #1 on the US Mainstream Rock chart, while "Where's My Thing" was Grammy nominated for Best Rock Instrumental. The band reunited with producer Rupert Hine for his second Rush album and "Roll the Bones" became their first US Top 5 album since 1981 peaking at #3 on the Billboard Top 200. The album also won the Canadian band that country's 1992 Juno Award for best album cover design.
Rush's return to progressive hard rock continued with Roll the Bones, though there's still a bit of synth work (notably on the title track). The music flows like a well-oiled machine, and with Rush, that's an asset, particularly when the material is this good. The songs are mostly up-tempo, with the intellectually oriented themes and musical structure that Rush is famous for. Especially memorable are "Dreamline," "Face Up," "Big Wheel," and "Neurotica," but everything here is good. --Genevieve Williams

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