POWER WINDOWS

One of the lesser Rush albums in my opinion, it just doesn't have the spirit that most of their other releases have. There are plenty of good songs here, but very few are great. If anything elevates this album above mediocre, it's the lyrical content. Peart has pieced together one of his more complete albums in that respect. The Big Money, Marathon (especially), and Territories are the better tunes here, but songs like The Manhattan Project and Middletown Dreams kind of bog this album down for me. I find both Signals and Hold Your Fire to be much more essential Rush efforts. But that's bringing my rating for this album down based on other Rush releases. I'm reviewing it as a Rush fan. As a work of mid-80's progressive rock, it still remains top-notch.