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"Time Stand Still" was the first track Neil Peart wrote for Hold Your Fire. [2] According to Peart, he wrote the lyrics for "Time Stand Still" based on his time with Rush: "All through the '70s our lives were flying by; we spent so much time on the road that it became like a dark tunnel.
Peart wanted to do something in the same vein as Power Windows, this time working around the theme of time. However, after writing lyrics for the first song he wrote, "Time Stand Still", Peart started to create more material that would turn the theme into "Instinct," [8] which was the reason for titling the album Hold Your Fire. [9]
It is listed in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and ranked second on Rolling Stone ' s reader's poll, Your Favorite Prog Rock Albums of All Time. [ 12 ] 2112 has been reissued several times; a 40th Anniversary Edition was released in 2016 with previously unreleased material, including the album performed by numerous contemporary artists.
The band set out to record the song in one take; however, it ultimately required three separate takes. According to Lee, "We spent more time recording 'Strangiato' than the entire Fly by Night album. It was our first piece without any vocals at all. So each section had to stand up with a theme and musical structure of its own." [1]
Gold is a compilation album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on April 25, 2006.. The Gold compilation is a repackaging of the two 1997 Rush compilation albums Retrospective I and Retrospective II, with the exception of the third track of Retrospective I "Something for Nothing," which has been removed and replaced by "Working Man" (last track, #14) on the first disc.
A Show of Hands is a live album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1989.The band released a video of the same name, originally on VHS and LaserDisc, the same year.A DVD version was released as part of a box set in 2006, and as an individual DVD in 2007.
In 2006, a DVD version of the original production, with its audio re-mastered in 5.1-channel Dolby Surround by Rush guitarist and co-producer Alex Lifeson, was released as part of the DVD box set, titled Rush Replay X 3. In 2007, the DVD version of A Show of Hands, as it was included in Replay X 3, was released as a single, stand-alone DVD.
"This 16-track Best Of skips over the early years…" noted Paul Elliott in Q. "The '80s brought shorter songs, better tunes and even a Top 20 UK hit with 'The Spirit of Radio', one of the great rock singles and perhaps the only song ever to feature a Simon & Garfunkel reference, a reggae breakdown and the word 'unobtrusive'."