A Farewell To Kings - Rush (CD 1997)

(Disclaimer: Those looking for a brief description of the album will find what their looking for in the "Album Overview" section. The section titled "Detailed Track Discussion" is meant only for those who want to read detailed descriptions of the songs, and they do not constitute the essence of this review. Lastly and most importantly, this review is not necessarily written by the point of view of a Rush fan.) Introduction Ah, here's the problem with Rush: They want to be great musical artists, except they don't have an artists' inspiration. They concentrate hard on the artistic aspect of...

Note: This review is part of a re-writing process I'm going through on my earlier Rush entries. Some of them clearly needed a little more polish so I felt obligated to do so. Rather than delete the original and re-submit a new review, I felt it best to simply modify the original and add a notification of the updated review in PTiemann's Notification System. Thanks for reading... ... 'A Farewell to Kings' marks the opening of the second phase of Rush. Each phase, as it were, seems to begin after the release of a live album. As such, with their wildly successful All the World's A Stage...

--------------------------RUSH AND ME------------------------------- I have listened to Rush since I was a youngster, and this has always been my favorite of their albums. However, with the exception of the great Fly by Night (1975), every one of their recordings, up to and including Moving Pictures (1981), are about half excellent tracks and I just can't get into the other half. For instance, Hemispheres (1978) has both the amazing "La Villa Strangiato" and the pointless, 18 minute adventure song of side one. 2112 (1976) has the stellar tracks "Temples of Syrinx" and "Soliloquy" on side one,.

For my 150th contribution to epinions, I've decided to talk about my favorite album by Rush, A Farewell To Kings. I absolutely adore this album!! I got this for Christmas in 1977. I asked my parents for either this album or Kiss/Alive 2 and since the Kiss album was a DOUBLE and more expensive, they got me A Farewell To Kings instead and I was (and still am) awfully glad they did. I just picked up the remastered version of this album. I don't hear much of a sound difference ( I had no problems with the sound on the original CD version). It does include a few photos that were left off the...