Presto
Show Don't Tell
Chain Lightning
The Pass
War Paint
Scars
Presto
Superconductor
Anagram (For Mongo)
Red Tide
Hand Over Fist
Available Light
Here we are at the first round of the band's first album with their then-new record label, Atlantic, and so began another 4-album era, which saw the band moving further away from the intense synths and keyboards, and re-introducing more guitars into their sound to keep-up with the growing 90's rock sound.
This was an album that took awhile for me to really get into it, but over the years, it has grown on me and I quite like the first half of the album (something that happens to a lot of Rush albums with me, and many fans I think). From the opening track to the title track, there are 6 pretty good to great songs, while the back half is hit-or-miss, but the closer is pretty amazing, and one of their closers I wish they would've played live at some point.
With all of that in mind, though I suspect that "Superconductor" might go out early, if not first, but while it's very lauded by many fans, I find it very catchy, and the band found it entertaining enough to play it on TWO tours! Pretty unusual for many new songs by this point, very few got played after their initial tour, usually two or three out of the five or six they play move on to be played again in future tours (though the Presto material went severely under-represented for the rest of the band's live career). I think I'll be voting for either "Red Tide" or "Anagram". whose lyrics tend to lose their novelty after some time.
-Marc.
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Topic: Rush Survivor 2016 - Presto - Round 1 (Read 738 times)