Rush
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Caress of Steel (1975)
Bastille Day - 8/10
I Think I’m Going Bald - 1/10
Lakeside Park - 6/10
The Necromancer - 4/10
The Fountain of Lamneth - 5/10
Album rating - 4.8/10
Easily Rush's weakest album, and even the band thinks so. There is simply no cohesion to the album at all (sometimes even within the songs themselves) and it just feels like a giant drug trip.
Bastille Day - 8/10
I Think I’m Going Bald - 1/10
Lakeside Park - 6/10
The Necromancer - 4/10
The Fountain of Lamneth - 5/10
Album rating - 4.8/10
Easily Rush's weakest album, and even the band thinks so. There is simply no cohesion to the album at all (sometimes even within the songs themselves) and it just feels like a giant drug trip.
- Bastille Day is the only worthwhile song here. All around a solid tune.
- I Think I'm Going Bald is the dumbest song in their catalog. Yes, it's worse than Dog Years. Yes, it's worse than Tai Shan. The lyrics are atrocious and the music is incredibly pedestrian.
- Lakeside Park is fine, but it mostly just drifts on by. It is pleasant enough, I suppose.
- The Necromancer has a very cool middle section full of heavy, proto-prog metal riffing and jamming, but the song itself is a disjointed, lame mess. The spoken word bits are absurd, the story is not a story (for some reason By-Tor is back and he's a good guy now?), and the musical sections just don't really gel together.
- Lamneth gets points solely for allowing the band future confidence. As a song, it's not good. The parts fade in and out of each other with poor transitions, it's way, way too long and verbose for a story that boils down to "you're born, you live, you die", and there's just way too much of the samey acoustic sections throughout. It allowed the band to write much, much better epics going forward, though, and for that we are thankful.
- Really, really bad album.