Using their effective "Gold" formula Universal Music gives us Rush Gold, a double CD Anthology that takes a short cut on the recently established format. Instead of deciding what to include on this album the decision was made to re-issue the two individual "Retrospective" albums together under this new title. There is a song for song duplication with one minor exception of the track "Something For Nothing" being replaced by "Working Man". At the end of the day this is a better track for an Anthology piece and while this is not a CD for the Rush fanatic it is a great CD to give you a fair introduction to a wide amount of the bands hits if you never followed them. The album art for this two CD set was perhaps the only disappointing aspect of it as instead of decent liner notes and ample photos we simply get the album covers the same way they were represented on the original releases. Given the chance that new fans would lean to this CD, having a good background on Rush history would have been a smart way to go for the Gold release. The package contains songs from the first Rush album all the way to Hold Your Fire and given the fact that five more studio albums had come out since the time that this collection ends, perhaps a third CD should have been included to reflect the full catalog. Overall, I admit to liking this collection more than the original Chronicles or The Spirit Of Radio collections. Gold features every track on the latter listing for those that wanted some reference and you might be able to move both of these out of your collection in order to add this one in. Those that pursue a level of completeness on band releases might have a problem with that, but in my opinion an anthology that allows me to get rid of a couple of separate greatest packages is a winner in my book. The collected work here has also been through the remaster process giving you a more clean and powerful sound. There is a lot of great music on the two CD's and it's a great way to get some more folks into Rush, one of the earliest examples of Progressive Metal and legends in the Progressive Rock field for over 25 years.
Track Listing
The Spirit Of Radio
The Trees
Freewill
Xanadu
Bastille Day
By-Tor And The Snow Dog
Anthem
Closer To The Heart
2112 Overture
The Temples Of Syrinx
La Villa Strangiato
Fly By Night
Finding My Way
Working Man
The Big Money
Red Barchetta
Subdivisions
Time Stand Still
Mystic Rhythms
The Analog Kid
Distant Early Warning
Marathon
The Body Electric
Mission
Limelight
Red Sector A
New World Man
Tom Sawyer
Force Ten
Added: May 10th 2006 Reviewer:Ken Pierce Score: Related Link:Rush Website Hits: 7212 Language: english
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Using their effective "Gold" formula Universal Music gives us Rush Gold, a double CD Anthology that takes a short cut on the recently established format. Instead of deciding what to include on this album the decision was made to re-issue the two individual "Retrospective" albums together under this new title. There is a song for song duplication with one minor exception of the track "Something For Nothing" being replaced by "Working Man". At the end of the day this is a better track for an Anthology piece and while this is not a CD for the Rush fanatic it is a great CD to give you a fair introduction to a wide amount of the bands hits if you never followed them. The album art for this two CD set was perhaps the only disappointing aspect of it as instead of decent liner notes and ample photos we simply get the album covers the same way they were represented on the original releases. Given the chance that new fans would lean to this CD, having a good background on Rush history would have been a smart way to go for the Gold release. The package contains songs from the first Rush album all the way to Hold Your Fire and given the fact that five more studio albums had come out since the time that this collection ends, perhaps a third CD should have been included to reflect the full catalog. Overall, I admit to liking this collection more than the original Chronicles or The Spirit Of Radio collections. Gold features every track on the latter listing for those that wanted some reference and you might be able to move both of these out of your collection in order to add this one in. Those that pursue a level of completeness on band releases might have a problem with that, but in my opinion an anthology that allows me to get rid of a couple of separate greatest packages is a winner in my book. The collected work here has also been through the remaster process giving you a more clean and powerful sound. There is a lot of great music on the two CD's and it's a great way to get some more folks into Rush, one of the earliest examples of Progressive Metal and legends in the Progressive Rock field for over 25 years.
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