Test for echo
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| Studio album by Rush | ||||
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September 1996 |
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| Label (s) | Atlantic Records | |||
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CD |
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Title (number) |
11 |
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Peter Collins and Rush |
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Test for Echo is the title of the 16th studio album that the Canadian rock band Rush released in September 1996.
Solid rock numbers with varied rhythms, but sometimes the finishing touches are missing. With "Limbo", the trio has again added an instrumental number to the program, but it cannot be compared with "Leave that Thing alone" by Counterparts .
"Driven" is a very guitar-heavy number with a bass solo after the second verse. "Half the world" refers to the injustice in the world where one half is good and content while living at the expense of the other half. "Half the world cries, half the world laughs. Half the world tries to be the other half." In "Virtuality" Neil Peart refers to the increasing computer age and that everyone around the world can communicate. "Net boy, net girl, send your signal round the world" or "Put your message in a modem and throw it in the Cyber Sea" . He compares the Internet as a virtual land with "footprints in the virtual sand" . "Totem" celebrates a religious theme: the gullibility of some gods. "I believe in what I see, I believe in what I hear" it says in the chorus.
When performing live, the three musicians show that the processing for the stage can be different: "Resist" on the R30 tour is performed in a reduced form; only with two acoustic guitars and the garish voice of Geddy Lee .
Track list
- Test for Echo - 5:55
- Driven - 4:26
- Half the World - 3:43
- Color of Right - 4:49
- Time and Motion - 5:01
- Totem - 4:58
- Dog Years - 4:55
- Virtuality - 5:43
- Resist - 4:23
- Limbo - 5:29
- Carve away the Stone - 4:06
occupation
- Geddy Lee - bass, synthesizer, vocals
- Alex Lifeson - electric and acoustic guitars, mandolin
- Neil Peart - drums, cymbals