PERMANENT WAVES

A masterpiece. The album has some shorter songs on this album but the band is in fine form this time around. They still maintain their Prog-ness about them even as they enter the era of punk and new wave. From the pulsating opening riffs of "The Spirit Of Radio" the band ignites fire on the album. The song "Jacobs Ladder is a bit repititious but that riff is a classic amongst the Rush fans. Freewill is a great rocker, Entre Nous has a good feel to it, Different Strings has decent lyrics but is mere fille. The song that has the most Rush-ness about them is "Natural Science". That tune hits it all home where the hardness and the Progressiveness mesh together A la Hemispheres. It's also great heard live!! So despite a new age of music that is about to come, Rush still retained the sound that made them one of the most potent bands of their genre