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An excellent survey of Rush's career from 1974 to 1987, this 2006 two-disc set presents a slightly altered pairing of the earlier compilations RETROSPECTIVE I and II. Although the 29-track collection's non-chronological order may initially seem perplexing, GOLD paints an excellent portrait of the revered Canadian power trio, moving from dynamic prog-rock classics ("The Spirit of Radio" and "Freewill") to more straightforward early tunes ("Fly By Night" and "Working Man") to buoyant synth-laden moments ("The Big Money" and "Time Stands Still," the latter featuring Aimee Mann on additional vocals). Although the near-legendary technical skills of bassist/singer Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer Neil Peart are fully on display, GOLD also showcases their collective ability to create remarkably engaging songs that meld pop, prog, and metal sensibilities. While listeners seeking a concise Rush collection will be well-served by THE SPIRIT OF RADIO (which includes many of the tracks here), fans looking for a more comprehensive offering should be pleased by GOLD, which arguably replaces CHRONICLES as the band's finest compilation.
Rush: Geddy Lee (vocals, synthesizer, bass guitar); Alex Lifeson (guitar, synthesizer); John Rutsey, Neil Peart (drums).
Gold Music Review Average Rating: (3.5 out of 5 stars)    List All 6 Reviews The SOUND of these CDs are the best ever!
The 2 RUSH-GOLD , CDs are from the excellent sounding Mercury GOLD-SERIES , CDs. [Others in this series are , STYX-GOLD , CREAM-GOLD , STEPPENWOLF-GOLD , TRAFFIC-GOLD , PETE TOWNSHEND-GOLD...ect...]
The 2 Rush Retrospective CDs , were remastered over 10 years ago.
Mastering technology has vastly improved since that time!
Although The 2 RUSH-GOLD, CDs have almost the same set list as The 2 RETRO CDs, RUSH-GOLD's sound is far superior to The 2 RETRO CDs , on a digital stereo.
When I have compared the 2 packages on my digital stereo , The 2 RETRO, CDs seem allot more compressed than The 2 RUSH-GOLD, CDs are.
The 2 RUSH-GOLD, CDs have far more seperation between each instrument and the backing vocals , keyboards ect...are louder/cleaner/clearer than on The 2 RETRO, CDs.
So , The 2 RUSH-GOLD, CDs sounds far superior to the older 2 RETRO, CDs on a digital stereo.
RUSH , have a new studio CD coming out in 2007 and yet another European and N. America tour.
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All Right
I have been a fan fo over 25 years and never have these songs sounded so good!
Submitted by bobli3000 (Las Vegas,Nevada)
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Gold is a great idea and probably what should have been done back in 1997 when Rush reissued the Mercury catalog. The Disc 2 on Gold is identical to Rush Retrospective Volume 2 while disc 1 is the same as Retrospective 1 except Working Man is substituted for Something For Nothing. Cool artwork but I wish it also included some new liner notes or even a bonus DVD. I think the Mercury Years have been compiled to Death but I hope Retrospective 3 comes out which would cover the Presto to Vapor Trails albums soon.
Submitted by George (New York)
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 Rush ..............Let's do something new!!!
I am a huge Fan of Rush but I do not like another Anthology or recap. There is nothing new after Vapor trails they need to do something new !!! The Fans are waiting.
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any rush is awesome!!!
they never go out of style and this is a wonderful cd to have in the car and you're just want to hear some great music
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Purchase Gold CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Rush Feedback CD (2004) Extended Play
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For those long-time Rush fans who've always enjoyed the group's early, pre-2112 straight-ahead hard rock, FEEDBACK will come as a welcome diversion from the Canadian trio's later, much more complex work. An album of 1960s-era cover tunes that were inspirational to the band members early in their careers, the disc brings Rush back to basics, stripping away the synthesizers, effects-laden guitar, and percussion triggers, leaving only guitar, bass, drums, and vocals. From the opening notes of "Summertime Blues" (seemingly inspired equally by the Blue Cheer and Who LIVE AT LEEDS versions), the band's love of these songs is obvious; this is the unadulterated sound of Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart having fun rocking out. Wisely, Rush never strays too far from the original arrangements, which allows the record to evoke the feeling of stumbling onto the world's greatest classic-rock bar band.
Rush: Geddy Lee (vocals, bass guitar); Alex Lifeson (guitar); Neil Peart (drums).
Liner Note Author: Neil Peart.
| | Rush Roll The Bones CD (1991) Remastered
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Many Rush fans were pleased to see the band return to a more straightforward approach with 1989's PRESTO, and break out of their "synthesizer rut" of the mid-to-late-'80s (after all, Rush had made a name for themselves with technically proficient hard rock). Cut from the same musical cloth is their follow-up, 1991's ROLL THE BONES, which was the second consecutive Rush release co-produced by the band and Rupert Hine. Easily their most rock-oriented album since 1984's GRACE UNDER PRESSURE, ROLL THE BONES contains several of Rush's best-known tunes from the '90s.
The title track is a natural extension of their 1989 single "Show Don't Tell," which boasts more prominent funky rhythms and guitar work, and a surprising "rapped" section in the middle (a first for the band). Another funk-rocker is "Where's My Thing? (Part IV, 'Gangster of Boats' Trilogy)," which was Rush's first instrumental since 1981's classic "YYZ." Other highlights include the melodic pop of the album-opener "Dreamline" and a coming-of-age love song, "Ghost of a Chance." Although ROLL THE BONES contains a fair amount of filler, it's one of the better progressive rock albums of the '90s.
Recorded at Le Studio, Morin Heights, Quebec, Canada.
Rush: Geddy Lee (vocals, synthesizer, bass guitar); Alex Lifeson (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, background vocals); Neil Peart (drums, cymbals).
Rush: Geddy Lee (vocals, synthesizer, bass); Alex Lifeson (guitar, background vocals); Neil Peart (drums, percussion).
Additional personnel: Rupert Hine (keyboards, background vocals).
| | Rush Test For Echo CD (1996) Remastered
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In 20-plus years together, Rush has rarely varied from its basic formula--two parts musical chops, one part lyrical smarts, and one more part musical chops. This power trio knows its strengths. Drummer Neil Peart writes intelligent lyrics here about global subjects ranging from the Internet ("Virtuality") to comparative religion ("Totem"). But it keeps coming back to the trio's musical interplay, and Rush's ever-ready willingness to experiment with it. Alex Lifeson adds a nice touch to "Half The World" with a mandola, while Geddy Lee's synthesizer flourishes and off-kilter rhythm on "Time And Motion" are vintage Rush.
The most exciting demonstration of Rush's group synchronicity is on the instrumental "Limbo." It starts with the sounds of clinking chains and a bubbling cauldron, before charging forward--occasionally soaring--on waves of guitar, synth and disembodied voices (including a sample from "The Monster Mash"). This is the sound of an intellectual band smart enough not to take itself too seriously.
Recorded at Bearsville Studios, Bearsville, New York and Reaction Studios, Toronto, Canada from January to March 1996.
Rush: Geddy Lee (vocals, synthesizer, bass guitar); Alex Lifeson (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandola); Neil Peart (hammer dulcimer, drums, cymbals).
Rush: Geddy Lee (vocals, synthesizer, bass); Alex Lifeson (acoustic & electric guitars, mandola); Neil Peart (drums, hammered dulcimer).
| | Rush Counterparts CD (1993) Remastered
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Principally recorded at McClear Pathe, Toronto, Canada from April to June 1993.
"Leave That Thing Alone" was nominated for a 1995 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
Reuniting with POWER WINDOWS/HOLD YOUR FIRE producer Peter Collins, Rush released their fifteenth studio album (and nineteenth overall). During its recording, guitarist Alex Lifeson wanted the album to be more hard rock-oriented, while bassist Geddy Lee was content with their recent excursions in melodic pop. Lifeson must have won the battle, because COUNTERPARTS is a harder-rocking affair than Rush's previous several albums. It's also the strongest and most consistent set of songs the band had composed in a while, with a grittier feel (an element sorely missed by fans of the band's 1970s work).
COUNTERPARTS contains at least one track that deals with a topical issue (as in 1989's anti-suicide "The Pass," etc.)--"Nobody's Hero" is Rush's analysis of the AIDS situation. But not all of the tracks were conceived as lyrical epics; the opening "Animate" and "Stick It Out" delight in the strength of the band's re-discovered hard rock chops. And while the sheer force of "Cut To the Chase" serves as the track's catalyst, the band's pop sensibilities come back into play on the album's closer, "Everyday Glory." COUNTERPARTS is Rush's greatest work of the '90s.
Rush: Geddy Lee (vocals, synthesizer, bass guitar); Alex Lifeson (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Neil Peart (drums, cymbals, electronic percussion).
Rush: Geddy Lee (vocals, bass, synthesizer); Alex Lifeson (acoustic & electric guitars); Neil Peart (drums, electronic percussion).
Additional personnel: Michael Kamen (conductor); John Webster (keyboards).
| | Rush - Replay DVDs (2006) Remastered; DTS Sound; Box Set
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Highlights of this set include live performances of all their classic hits plus 12 live songs previously unreleased on DVD. Also included are magnificent, rare medleys. DVDs include Exit...Stage Left, Grace Under Pressure, and A Show Of Hands.
Rush gathers some of its previously released concert material on REPLAY. Included in the package is: EXIT...STAGE LEFT, which was filmed at the Forum in Montreal, Quebec; GRACE UNDER PRESSURE, which was shot at the Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Canada; and A SHOW OF HANDS from the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England. An additional CD includes the soundtrack from GRACE UNDER PRESSURE.
| | Rush Snakes & Arrows CD (2007)
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In the five years since their last full studio album, a covers EP (2004's FEEDBACK) and two live releases (2003's RUSH IN RIO and 2005's R30) hardly sated the throngs of Rush fans hungry for new music. SNAKES & ARROWS is all they could have possibly hoped for and dreamed about. The brash, contemporary vibe of 2002's VAPOR TRAILS has been shed as the trio returns to the polished production and complex arrangements of their most beloved works.
Woven into the later-era Rush song stylings are no less than three instrumentals: "The Main Monkey Business" (a hard rocking full-band workout), "Hope" (a solo acoustic guitar piece written and performed by Alex Lifeson), and the humorously titled "Malignant Narcissism" (featuring Geddy Lee's riffy, fretless electric bass and Neil Peart's tasty drum breaks). Keyboards are few and far between on SNAKES & ARROWS, with erstwhile Geddy Lee collaborator Ben Mink contributing strings. Peart's lyrics remain cerebral and poetic--challenging conventional spirituality ("Faithless" and "Armour & Sword"), examining the often troubled nature of mankind ("The Way The Wind Blows" and "The Larger Bowl") and the frailties of communication ("Spindrift" and "Good News First"). All the elements of classic Rush are here, making perhaps the band's finest late-career statement.
Audio Mixers: Nick Raskulinecz; Richard Chycki.
Recording information: Allaire Studios, Shokan, NY (11/2006-12/2006); Grandmaster Recorders, Hollywood, CA (11/2006-12/2006).
Illustrators: George Eastman; Hugh Syme; Andrew MacNaughtan.
Photographer: Andrew MacNaughtan.
Arrangers: Rush; Nick Raskulinecz.
Rush: Alex Lifeson (guitar); Geddy Lee, Neil Peart.
Personnel: Geddy Lee (vocals, Mellotron, bass guitar); Alex Lifeson (acoustic guitar, acoustic 12-string guitar, electric guitar, electric 12-string guitar, bouzouki, mandola, mandolin); Ben Mink (strings); Neil Peart (drums, cymbals, tambourine, electronic percussion).
| | Marianne Faithfull Dangerous Acquaintances CD (1981)
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Wrote many cuts. Less commercial, more pensive. ~ Bil Carpenter
The second album of Faithfull's "comeback" was originally released in 1981, following up the breakthru "Broken English" album that introduced her to a new generation. Gone were the flowery songs and cheery voice of her youth. In it's place is a gruff voiced woman who had been thru the pits of hell and survived to tell the tale in some of the most eloquent work of her career. Most of the songs here were co-written with Barry Reynolds, one with Steve Winwood ("For Beauty's Sake").
| | Transitions Back In Da Days CD (2001) Parental Advisory
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Additional personnel includes: Med, Junod Etienne (various instruments, programming); Danny P, Dauwd Muhammad, Addarlly "Tiger" Wilson (various instruments); Makarios Cesaino (guitar); Falonte Moore, Rob Fusari (keyboards, programming); Yves Abel (bass); Vernell Sales (background vocals).
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Producers: Dauwd Muhammad, Kaygee, Lavolta Allen IV, Daniel Pierre, Falonte Moore.
Engineers: Adam Kudzin, Dauwd Muhammad, Dug McGuirk.
Personnel: Falonte Moore, Rob Fusari (keyboards, programming); Junod Etienne (programming).
Audio Mixers: Adam Kudzin; Dug McGuirk; Brian Villanova; Kay Gee.
Photographer: Nitin Vadukul.
The Transitions: Charles "Gator" Moore, Rashawn Worthen, Balewa "Bilal" Muhammad.
| | Kenny Sultan West Coast Blues CD (2001)
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It's impossible to fault Kenny Sultan's playing on West Coast Blues -- but it's impossible to get worked up about it, either. The man's a superb instrumentalist, certainly on a technical level, with dazzling fingerwork on a cut like "The Sick Boogie," which is all fingers flying around the fretboard, or the impressionistic "Shangri-La," whose blues connection seems tenuous, at best. But there seems to be precious little feel behind the notes. This is the blues as played, not as lived, and that makes for a huge difference. His treatment of "Dust My Broom" hits all the right notes, but it's not Robert Johnson or Elmore James, by any stretch of the imagination. Of course, they couldn't have played with the dexterity that powers "Pony Up" or "State Street Crawl," but they were the real deal. To be fair, Sultan's at his best when he's more thoughtful, dragging out the 12-string for "Cigarette Blues" and "Brown Whiskey Blooze," where the resonance of the strings lets the notes hang. And in calling his album West Coast Blues, he does hang out a shingle about the style, free of any of the regional tics which have always been a trademark of the genre, leaving it clean -- maybe even sterile -- and somewhat homogenized, owing far more to Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson (whose sax lick is the basis of the title cut) than Blind Blake, Charley Patton, or even Muddy Waters. The blues was always about pain, and pain has never been clean or easy. It's down, dirty, and gritty. It's just a shame this album, for all its skill, isn't stoked by those fires. ~ Chris Nickson
As George Thorogood says, "Don't let this guy's looks fool you, he can play!" Longtime partner of singer/harp player Tom Ball, Kenny Sultan takes the floor for his first ever set of solo acoustic blues instrumentals. A best-selling blues guitar author wi
Recorded at Sage Arts Recording Studio, Arlington, Washington.
Solo performer: Kenny Sultan (acoustic guitar).
Engineers: Daniel Protheroe, Matthew Gephart.
Personnel: Kenny Sultan (guitar).
Liner Note Author: Kenny Sultan.
Recording information: Sage Arts, Arlington, VA.
Photographer: Nathan York.
| | William Becton Broken CD (1995)
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William Becton convincingly mixes a little gospel with his brand of soul to create an uplifting, emotional album. ~ John Bush
Personnel includes: William Becton (spoken vocals); Minister Mark Freeman, Lois Tillery, Pastor Charles Phillips (vocals); Rudy Johnson (guitar); Phil French (saxophone); Gerry Gillespie (piano, organ, keyboards); Eric Valentine (bass); Warren Jones (drums).
| | Ringo Starr Tour 2003 CD (2004) (Import) Bonus Track; Japan
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Ringo Starr began touring with his ever-changing All-Starr Band in 1989, and the concept has helped to revitalize not only the ex-Beatle's career but those of the famous players with which he surrounds himself, performing both Starr's hits and those of his bandmates. Initially, he worked with artists whose greatest fame came in the '60s and '70s. However, by 2003, '80s nostalgia was on the menu, and Colin Hay (Men at Work), Paul Carrack (Squeeze, Mike & the Mechanics), John Waite (The Babys, Bad English), and Shelia E. (Prince and solo) were on the stage.
It's no surprise that Starr's Beatles hits and solo smashes are delivered with the easy amiability that's endeared him to audiences since the '60s. More unexpected is the fact that lone guitarist Hay, who was merely the rhythm guitarist in Men at Work, is able to hold up his end on everything from the rockabilly of "Honey Don't" to Sheila E.'s punchy R&B/pop hits "Love Bizarre" and "The Glamorous Life." The glossy '80s pop of Waite's ubiquitous solo hit "Missing You" and Mike & the Mechanics' "The Living Years" both benefit from the stripped-down approach here, and the all-hands-on-deck closer "With a Little Help From My Friends" exemplifies the musical camaraderie that's at the heart of this venture.
Recorded live at Casino Rama, Canada in July 2003. Includes liner notes by Ringo Starr.
Personnel: Ringo Starr; Colin Haye (vocals, guitar); John Waite (vocals, bass); Paul Carrack (vocals, keyboards); Sheila E. (vocals, drums, percussion); Mark Rivera (saxophone).
| | Dim Dam Doum Valisette CD (2007) (Import)
$21.25 | | Claude Francois Les Annees Fleche: Integrale Singles 1972-1978 CD (2008) (Import)
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Track Listing of songs: le lundi au soleil; Belinda; celui qui reste; une fille et des fleurs; je viens diner ce soir; je t'embrasse; à part ça la vie est belle; sur ton visage un sourire; chanson populaire; j'ai perdu ma chance; sha la la; immortelles sont les filles; le mal aimé; la musique américaine; le téléphone pleure; quand la pluie finira de tomber; toi et moi contre le monde entier; soudain il ne reste qu'une chanson; le chanteur malheureux; il ne me reste qu'à partir;
| | Kenny Wise Trouble With A Capital T CD (2008)
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I am thrilled to put out my very first CD and have such incredibly talented writers, musicians and friends join me! I really never thought that I would have recorded a country CD but instead a bluegrass project first. I started playing in great bluegrass bands at the early age of 12 and for 20+ years I worked on honing my vocals and instrumental skills with a great love and respect for bluegrass and old country music so it was a must that I included some of those roots in with my music. This CD is a collection of songs that I have either co-written, enjoyed listening to or grew up singing with an original twist to them. Musician creditsGarrick Alden - Acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, drum track programming, guitar piano synthesizer and banjo. Kenny Wise - Acoustic guitar and mandolinJim Cabral - Keyboard, synthesizer bass and percussionMichael Hartnet - Fiddle Background Vocals: Garrick Alden, Kenny Wise and Jim Cabral Produced by Garrick Alden and Kenny WiseAdditional production and arrangement by Dean Crawford and Jim CabralRecorded, engineered, mixed and mastered by Garrick Alden at Garrick Alden Studios in Laurel MarylandWebsite: myspace /kennywisemusicPhotography by: AB Star Status Modeling Art & Design is done by the amazing work of Jim Cabral Kenny Wise is indorsed by Winky Hicks Mandolins, Labella String Company and International Violin Company. you James Winkie Hicks for making me great mandolins!...
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