Clockwork Angels - Rush
Track List:
Caravan
BU2B
Clockwork Angels
The Anarchist
Carnies
Halo Effect
Seven Cities Of Gold
The Wreckers
Headlong Flight
BU2B2
Wish Them Well
The Garden
The last Rush album
For almost the entirety of the Rush catalog I’ve been able to understand how the band evolved and changed from each album to the next. I do think that the opinion I formed while listening to Presto still holds true. Rush was a reactive band. They were a “Progressive Pop” trio. They didn’t set out to come up with innovative new sounds to make musical, sometimes they did this but I don’t believe that was their intent. They took the sounds that were being used in popular music at the time then they wrote and developed compositions using this. A lot of the times it works and is either fine or amazing, a few times it really fails (Roll the Bones).
I am also aware of time gaps in music that I am familiarity with. Specifically I haven’t listened to a lot of music released from the mid 80’s to the mid 90’s. It could be that music produced in the first decade of my life hasn’t drawn me in, I am not sure. I’ve tried to listen to albums released in this period of time (over 50 so far this year) but growing up I heard music from the mid 60’s to the early 80’s most often. I found this interesting, as I felt that the Rush albums released in the same period of time were the ones I enjoyed the least. I would say the albums I enjoyed the most were the earlier ones, starting with “Fly by Night”. I felt the band ended their career with a highlight. I am not sure if “Clockwork Angels” was planned to be the last album.
