Since Neil Peart joined Rush in time to record 1975's Fly by Night, the band began experimenting and growing musically with each successive release. By 1980's Permanent Waves, the modern sounds of new wave (the Police, Peter Gabriel, etc.) began to creep into Rush's sound, but the trio kept their hard rock roots intact. This new approach paid off: Two of their most popular songs, the "make a difference" anthem "Freewill" and their tribute to Toronto radio station CFNY, "The Spirit of Radio" (the latter a U.K. Top 15 hit), ...
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Since Neil Peart joined Rush in time to record 1975's Fly by Night, the band began experimenting and growing musically with each successive release. By 1980's Permanent Waves, the modern sounds of new wave (the Police, Peter Gabriel, etc.) began to creep into Rush's sound, but the trio kept their hard rock roots intact. This new approach paid off: Two of their most popular songs, the "make a difference" anthem "Freewill" and their tribute to Toronto radio station CFNY, "The Spirit of Radio" (the latter a U.K. Top 15 hit), are spectacular highlights. Also included were two "epics," the stormy "Jacob's Ladder" and the album-closing "Natural Science," that contains a middle section with elements of reggae, which served to make their music more accessible to fans outside of heavy and prog rock circles. Bassist Geddy Lee also began singing in a slightly lower register around this time. The album proved to be the final breakthrough for Rush, and its tour ensured their future as arena headliners throughout the world. This set also created the paradigm for a string of albums that would reach inside the Top Five of the U.S. album charts. Permanent Waves is an undisputed hard rock classic that prefigured the sound they would showcase on 1981's Moving Pictures. [In the spring of 2020, five months after the death of drummer Neil Peart, Rush issued a 40th anniversary edition of Permanent Waves in four different configurations, including two-CD and three-LP deluxe editions, and a "super deluxe" box set featuring a 40-page hardcover booklet in addition to the music. The various deluxe packages included a disc of the album's 2015 remaster (previously only reissued on vinyl), along with 11 unreleased live recordings. It also included a 20-page booklet featuring archival photos and reimagined artwork by Rush contributor Hugh Syme. The LP and digital versions contain one additional live track, "A Passage to Bangkok." The concert material -- compiled from shows in St. Louis, London, and Manchester, England -- spans the band's recorded catalog up to and including 1980, and features performances of early tracks such as "Beneath, Between & Behind" as well as Permanent Waves highlights "Jacob's Ladder" and "Freewill."] ~ Thom Jurek, Rovi
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