RUSH — Permanent Waves (review)

RUSH — Permanent Waves album cover Album · 1980 · Hard Rock Buy this album from MMA partners
2/5 ·
poslednijat_colobar
Another famous album by Rush and another problems for me!

This time even bigger problems. The sound is uncompleted with some sharply changes in the tempo, some jazz fusion and new wave elements from the 80s and mixture of repetitions and lack of synchronous. The album is like prelude to something that never comes. The lack of ideas is tangible. It's hard for me to listen to the whole album at once.

The first song - Spirit of the Radio - is very interesting song with three elements that followed one to other constantly, but developed poorly. The second song - Freewill - is weak enough to comment it. The third song - Jacob's Ladder - again roaming between the genres without reasonable inception of the action. This is the typical for the album. The fourth song - Entre Nous - full of meaningless solos and folk rock elements. The fifth song - Different Strings - a low quality ballad. The sixth song - Natural Science - another long and decent progressive song.

An album without unexpected and fresh ideas only for the fans of the band. 2 stars
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UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Yeah it´s quite unusual but as I said below the reviewer is entitled to his opinion :-)
cannon wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Wow! Two Stars.
UMUR wrote:
more than 2 years ago
Everyone is entitled to have his own opinion. At least here´s a review to back up that opinion and not just a rating.
more than 2 years ago
You must be crazy! This is one of best Rush albuns, a masterpiece!!

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