POWER WINDOWS

This album is one of the reasons why I started playing the bass. Here, as well as on HYF, you often have songs where the melodies are being carried by vocals/bass, as opposed to vocals/guitar. Also, this was recorded at a time when Geddy was using Wal basses (product mentions ok?) which, along with whatver rig he was using, gave him a very articulate and warm tone that was also very even from the low end to the high end which I felt perfectly suits his punctual, lyrical playing. I highly reccomend any young prog rock bassist, or any bassist for that matter, to pick up this album as I really do think it's a milestone in rock bass. As for everything else, this album has a very high energy level, Alex's solos are great, Neil is as usual showing us why he's an inspiration to all musician's, drummers or otherwise, but the one thing that keeps me from giving any Rush album five stars is that except for a few tunes in Rush's archives, most of the lyrics seem more mechanical and scientific than poetic to me. That's the only thing that in my mind keeps Rush from being one fo greatest bands in rock history. All the same, they don't deserve my spelling errors and they will always be one my favorite bands.