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Rush | 
 enlarge | Artist: Rush
Label: Island / Mercury
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  122 reviews
Sales Rank: 1727
Format: Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 534623
UPC: 731453462328
EAN: 0731453462328
ASIN: B000001ES9
Release Date: May 6, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Finding My Way | | • | Need Some Love | | • | Take a Friend | | • | Here Again | | • | What You're Doing | | • | In the Mood | | • | Before and After | | • | Working Man |
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 Rock! July 7, 2008
This might not serve as a great review for this album, as I really just call people out for telling me I should stay away from buying it. It just shows me that half of the people who have an opinion on music don't have a clue. They told me the same thing about Led Zeppelin's Prescence album, and that has become one of my favorites! They told me I wouldn't like Pink Floyd's Animals.. I love it! I think Dark Side of the Moon sounds weak and lazy! They said (when I was getting into Maiden) to wait to buy Killers and try something else first. Wrong! I am a little upset, and I want to talk about it.
I just picked this album up the other day after thinking about the song "Working Man". No matter how much I explore Rush's other work, in the end, I always go back and listen to this song. I like it more than any other Rush song I've heard, and it's a totally different sound than anything else from any other Rush album. I really wanted to hear more of this sound.... and it is awesome.
First of all, stop comparing it to their other albums because that is where you start to sound foolish. This is hardly even the same band as their later work. This album is a straight up rocker and when looked at by itself, it really shines. The bass is thick, the guitar tone is exciting, the drums rock, and the lyrics are about getting lit. It has everything that makes a great listening experience.
The second thing that makes me upset is how people percieve John Rutsy. The mentality is like "he was no Peart, but he did his best." They say everything short of calling him total garbage. He is great on this record and that is compared to any pro drummer. I am going to say it now, after listening to this album, I think Peart kinda ruined Rush! He blew it! They had a great thing going with this debut record and you can only imagine where it would have grown from there had Peart's influence not come about. I can't listen to later Rush the same way after listening to this record. Now that I think about it... if you are anything like me you SHOULD stay away from this album! It will destroy your entire perception of the band.
RIP John Rutsey May 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
John Rutsey passed away last weekend , and big props to him. John was Rush's original drummer and can be heard on this album. Without him Rush as we know it now might not have existed. RIP John.
 Rush's best record. February 1, 2008
1 out of 5 found this review helpful
After being dissapointed with listening to Rush's latest plastic frisbee, I've went and revisted this old classic to repaire the hearing damage.
God, I love this album.....
Simply put folks, this is in my estimation Rush's finest moment as a band. Even though it is a debut record, it sure doesn't like it! They are playing with such conviction, hunger and professionalism on "Rush" for (at the time) a young rock band that I feel it is both inaccurate and irresponsible for dim wits to lable this as "immature" or "childish" when comparing it to later works. "Rush" stands out from the rest of the bands later catalog releases in a number of ways that it is almost a completely different band. [...], because we have a man named John Rutsey thumpin' the skins, and he does a great job! No need for 1,543,453,653, piece drum kits or dodgy sci-fi psycho babble, liberal propaganda, 4/17 jazz time changes or Ayn Rand garbage.... just pure power drumming that serves the songs! Geddy Lee is Geddy here, nuff' said. Alex is playing more hard/blues based guitar in the vein of Leslie West and Jimmie Page(love that!), way before he became an Andy Summers rip-off. Chech out those solos on HERE AGAIN and WORKING MAN.
But what about the songs? Yes, the songs are all great Rock 'n' Roll here. Now Rush are not the greatest song writters, that fact is indisputable, but here not only are these songs well written, they are honest and non-pretentious. Here Rush is being nothing more then a rock band, and I love that. FINDING MY WAY is a great opening song. NEED SOME LOVE and TAKE A FREIND might have dumb lyrics, however they are miles better the the tripe Neil would be penning, plus they kick major amounts of @$$es thanks to Alex Lifeson.I really like the heavy romps of WHAT YOUR DOING and IN THE MOOD, which is much like a heavy metal Rush style song.
Then you have WORKING MAN....Holy $ h ! t....... this must be the greatest rock song ever written, with Alex's Iommi-esq tones and 110 + guitar solos stuffed in a 7 minute mind f & * k. This is the song to end all songs.
"...Ooh I Need Some Love......"
Don't let the fans scare you away from this one, it is really one of the finest pure rock records...ever. This is Rush.
The legacy of Rush begins here,this album rocks!!! January 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is Rush's debut with the late John Rutsey on the skins not Peart but he's still a great steady drummmer(he plays complex stuff too just listen to Before and After Take a Friend!)Geddy and Alex are of course in great form as always!!! The sleeper classic on this album is Here Again (an awesome slow number that's a treat to listen too!!!) Also includes the classics Working Man,In The Mood,What You're Doing and Finding My Way!!! Rock on Rush!!! Two thumbs up!!! A+
Canada's greatest hard rock export's underappreciated debut November 7, 2007
Canadian hard rockers Rush released their self titled debut album initially in Canada in March of 1974 on independent label Moon Records and would not be released in the US until August of 1974 on Mercury Records after the label signed the band because this album got extensive airplay on rock radio in Cleveland thanks to DJ Donna Halper (Hello Cleveland as they'd say in Spinal Tap).
The lineup on this album was bass player and singer Geddy Lee (born Gary Lee Weinrib), guitarist Alex Lifeson (Alex Zivojinovic) and drummer John Rutsey whom were schoolmates and buddies in the Ontario, Canada suburb of Willowdale and formed the group Rush in 1970.
Many critics unjustly called this album Led Zeppelin on acid. This album was a great straight, hard rock record.
This album kicks off with the rocking "Finding My Way", which introduced the world to Geddy, Alex and John in a Zep-inspired mode. The track "Need Some Love" follows and sounds like punk rock, two years before The Ramones came into existence. Other standouts on this album are the epic ballad "Here Again", "What You're Doing", the future show closer "In the Mood" and the seven minute epic closer "Working Man". That track featured stellar guitar work from Alex and great musicianship from the band.
The other tracks "Take a Friend" and "Before and After" are great numbers as well and showed early signs Rush could do epic songs.
Today, this album has aged well but is somewhat overlooked as it was missing a key member whom will be introduced on the next album's review.
Highly recommended!
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