Rush Permanent Waves (40th Anniversary) [2 CD] 2 CD Description: Celebrating 40 years of Rush's Permanent Waves, deemed the poignant moment the band reinvented themselves and their sound. The 2CD Deluxe Edition includes a 20-page booklet of reimagined artwork by original designer Hugh Syme & unreleased photos from the band's archive. The 2015 Abbey Road Mastering Studios remaster available for the first time on disc 1. Disc 2 loaded with unreleased live tracks from various stops on the 1980 World Tour. Features tracks "Jacob's Ladder" and "Natural Science". Track Listings Disc: 1 The Spirit Of Radio Freewill Jacob's Ladder Entre Nous Different Strings Natural Science Disc: 2 Beneath, Between & Behind (Live in Manchester) By-Tor & The Snow Dog (Live in London) Xanadu (Live in London) The Spirit Of Radio (Live in Manchester) Natural Science (Live in Manchester) The Trees (Live in Manchester) Cygnus X-1 (Live in London) Cygnus X-1 Book II (Live in London) Closer To The Heart (Live in Manchester) Jacob's Ladder (Live in Missouri) Freewill (Live in London)
Bought it the day it came out. Put me off so much I barely bothered with any new Rush for the next 15 years. I tried to get into it again while the album-by-album thread was going, and still couldn't. Leaves me cold. As cold as the art on the cover looks.
I initially did not like this album when it was released in 1984, but it has grown on me over the years. A seriously under rated album IMHO.
Behind my house is a forest and a new weed (garlic mustard) has taken over the forest floor. It made me think of the Rush song The Trees which has been playing in my head ever since. After reading a few articles it enhanced my correlation to the song. I love that song and how Neil attached human emotions to the trees. After reading this how would Neil put this weeds agressive nature to lyrics? "The third reason it is considered an invasive plant is its long tap root. Normally plants with long tap roots only have one plant growing from the root. The tap root of garlic mustard has the ability to grow additional plants from buds that form along the root. Additionally, the root is allopathic meaning it excretes chemicals that prevent other plants from growing near it. This includes tree seedlings, another reason why a garlic mustard infestation is so disastrous for forests. The chemicals exuded by the tap root are also harmful to fungi in the soil that is needed by the roots of other plants."
I think The Trees was Neil at his Objectivist worst. I wish he never discovered Rand - Rush would've been far better off for it.
No Rand, no 2112, and possibly the end of the band? No thanks, I'll take what we got instead, lyrics and all. How much better off could it have been?
Yeah you nailed it. I’ve read interviews where he dismisses the whole Rand thing. Just something he went through. Not lifetime ideology
Definitely not. While Neil never completely related to / agreed with Ayn's objectivist philosophy, the individual aspects of it were still a big part of his life long after the '70s...
Well......there are certainly interviews you can view on Youtube where he's expressing support for Libertarian political candidates well into the 90's. But at the same time, the political/spiritual/social views he expresses in his many writings don't always line up with a strict Libertarian agenda, and certainly not with hyper-extreme views such as Rand's. Probably most accurate to say that Neil -- like all of us -- had definite leanings, but his world view was complicated and largely based on his own experiences.
....and if you believe what he said in interviews about the story line in 2112, it was only after the fact that he realized the similarity to the plot of Anthem, and thus the acknowledgment in the album's liner notes.
Playing the CD I got over the weekend - standard remaster. I have never heard the album on CD before.