![]() Peart described the meaning behind ‘Distant Early Warning’ in an interview with Jim Ladd from Innterview in 1984: ![]() ![]() There is some very personal stuff going on in each of these songs both for Neil and Geddy. Lyrically, Grace Under Pressure is the Rush album of the synth era that is really worth paying attention to. The balance of hard rocking guitars and bass works nicely with synth nicely whether serving as a lead or as a supportive instrument. Each song fits with the one prior and leads nicely into the one after it. Looking at the album as a whole piece of music, the album certainly sounds more complete than Signals did. Grace Under Pressure, however, feels like the band was done experimenting with guitars-plus-synth and now got it down to a more refined state. Some songs, namely the songs I brought up on the last album that felt lacking or incomplete were the most standout culprits of these experiments. Signals felt like the band was playing with how to integrate Alex’s guitars and Geddy’s keyboards together and still have the combination make musical sense. Grace just seemed too 80s for my palette and as a result, I simply passed on it for a long time (ironically, Power Windows was one of my other favorite Rush albums – go figure.)īut now some years have passed and I’ve given Grace Under Pressure another look and frankly, I like it a bit more than I did some years ago. They all felt softer and more watery and lacked that razor sharp cut that the band’s earlier albums had and even Signals had to an extent. None of the songs, with the exception of ‘The Enemy Within’ seemed to have any real punch or grit to them. Back when I was getting into Rush many years ago, this album just lacked…everything to me. I did not like Grace Under Pressure for a number of years. In 10 years, Rush turned from a Led Zeppelin cover band into a progressive U2 sounding project.
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