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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Even If You Already Have ALL Their CD's..., February 19, 2007
I have been a RUSH Fan for as long as I have been buying music. I still remember going into the local Record store and plunking down some hard earned cash at the tender age of 14 and buying my first two record albums, RUSH - A Farewell to Kings and R.E.O. Speedwagon - T.W.O.
As a middle-aged adult music buyer, I have acquired every single RUSH offering in Remastered digital format (I'm something of an Audiophile).
I had never been interested in their "Best of" compilations before. I didn't need that, I had all the albums. But, after reading an early review by someone who had actually listened to this selection and not just jumped in on the record company bashing critisms about putting something out "just to make a buck", I decided to purchase it. And let me tell you: IT SOUNDS GREAT! All the songs presented here are superior to the 1997 and 2002 remaster series. And its a nice selection of songs. Some of my favorites.
Buy it. Or purchase it for someone as an introduction to RUSH's music. I even got it on sale for about $12, what a deal! Two discs packed with RUSH music.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Rush n' Roll!!!, September 19, 2006
Yes, yes, i know what you're about to say: OVERKILL!!! ANOTHER Rush compilation??!! It's true, the folks at mercury/universal have flooded the market with compilations in recent years, but let's take a moment to analyze those, shall we? "Chronicles": the first, true, Rush 2 CD compilation, it was released several years ago, when Rush changed labels. Then came "Retrospective I & II", which, essentially, consisted of the same songs included in "Chronicles", but split in 2, so people could have the possibility to buy one or the other.
Althought these compilations offered almost nothing new (there were a couple of different songs, that's all...), it was a smart move, and one that has become increasingly common for record labels in recent years (Atlantic did the same with Zeppelin's "Remasters", spiltting it into "Earlier Days" and "Latter Days"...). Then came the single disc "Spirit of Radio", which was a Greatest Hits of sorts, with little appeal for long time fans, but most likely meant to attract new ones. It failed to represent the band's full body of work, but it probably served well its purpose of enticing new listeners. And now we get the latest installment of the "Gold" series by Universal, which in fact consists of the 2 volumes of "Retrospective" grouped together at half the price and with minor changes (the song "Something for Nothing" is sacrificed in favor of "Working Man").
But unlike many other such compilations, which (to me) more often than not fall short to people's expectations, this one is pretty good! You get 29 songs (one more than Chronicles) spanning all of their studio albums with mercury, for less than 15 bucks! The song lineup is somewhat different, though, but you get pretty much all of their "big" songs included in Chronicles(Working Man, Flight by Night, Closer to the Heart, Limelight, Tom Sawyer, Subdivisions, 2112, etc), and I believe that long time fans will appreciate the inclusion of songs like "By-Tor and the Snow Dog" and "Xanadu', which, oddly enough, were left off Chronicles.
Of course, if you want to complain, you can always do so by saying that this or that song were excluded, but C'MON, what else can you ask for for less than $15? By restricting the song selections to studio albums, live versions of songs like "What you're doing" and "Passage to Bangkok" are absent here, and while it is a shame, i guess we can all eventually get over that. A few other songs are absent here, such as "A farewell to kings" and "Lakeside Park", and the running order (random, as opposed to chronological) is probably not the best, but in the end, I still think that this compilation is very much worthwhile, especially if you take in consideration its best asset: value.
You really get your money's worth and, at half the price of Chronicles, I think this is the best choice right now for those looking for an introduction to the band, and maybe also for those long time fans looking for a good compilation. Let's face it, for a band with such an enormous catalog as Rush, it is almost impossible to please everybody. So there you go, now you know what to expect, so the choice is up to you now, but be sure of one thing: if you choose to get "Gold", it will be a purchase you won't regret.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Label Rehash!!, June 16, 2006
Although this compilation is great and an updated version of the older classics,the newer music is not here. The contract was up w/Mercury and the band decided to go with Atlantic for their future distribution.This also means that the newer material that is not on the disc is because of the different labels.It's a contract thing..Mercury which has been bought out by Universal has the publishing rights to the bands older songs.So the label can reissue all the best of's as long as they want and the band can't do anything about it.Just business..
Hopefully,in the future the band w/Atlantic will decide to release a hits from '88 on.
So for the time being we can just make our own best of downloading MP3's..
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