Grace Under Pressure
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| Studio album by Rush | ||||
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Publication |
April 1984 |
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| Label (s) | Mercury Records | |||
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LP, CD |
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Title (number) |
8th |
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Peter Henderson and Rush |
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Grace Under Pressure is the tenth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush . It was in April 1984 at the music label Mercury Records released. The lyrics are by drummer Neil Peart , the music was written by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson . The expression grace under pressure comes from Hemingway , who imposes the application of this principle (translated: "dignity under pressure") on the heroes of his short stories and novels. It is therefore the basic principle of the “Code Hero” or “Hemingway Hero”.
description
The album fits into the end of the art-oriented rock period of "Rush", synthetic sounds already play a clear role, but still fit into a soundscape dominated by guitars. The music sometimes sounds tricky ( Kid Gloves and Red Lenses ), sometimes straight rock ( The Enemy Within ), the listener is then surprised by unexpected melody and rhythm changes.
The title of the album, in German for example: “Grace under pressure”, is something like a motto; he can be found again and again in alienations in publications about the band. The titles deal with rather dark topics, such as the apocalyptic Distant Early Warning and the quasi post-apocalyptic Between the Wheels . The Body Electric tells the science fiction story of an animated and dying android. (“He re-plays each of the days, a hundred years of routine; bows its head and prays to the mother of all machines.”) With Afterimage , Neil Peart wrote a touching obituary and described the impressions of a prisoner in Red Sector A. , who is looking forward to his liberation with inner and outer devastation - here the impressions of Geddy Lee's mother, which she reported from her liberation from the concentration camp Bergen-Belsen , were processed.
Track list
- page 1
- Distant Early Warning - 4:56
- Afterimage - 5:03
- Red Sector A - 5:09
- The Enemy Within (Part I of Fear) - 4:34
- Page 2
- The Body Electric - 4:59
- Kid Gloves - 4:17
- Red Lenses - 4:41
- Between the Wheels - 5:44
occupation
- Geddy Lee - bass, keyboards, vocals
- Alex Lifeson - electric guitars, acoustic guitars
- Neil Peart - drums, percussion