MOVING PICTURES

So, this album is considered one of the most amazing albums in RUSH's discography and in all the Progressive Rock genre; if you go to ProgArchives' top 100 albums right now you'll find this album in the 17th place while "Hemispheres" is in the 20th place, "A farewell to kings" is in the 32nd place and "2112" is not even included in the top, I just can't agree with that.

Just as in "Permanent waves" the first tracks of the album are the most interesting ones while the ones approaching the end of the album got regular and even kind of boring. I've been reading a lot of reviews about this album and I just can't get what is what people find so majestic about this record. "Tom Sawyer", "Red Barchetta" and "YYZ" are brilliant, I don't deny that but (in my humble opinion) after that the songs are played with a huge lack of inspiration and the album doesn't have too many interesting moments; not even the almost 11-minute piece "The camera eye" gives me the vibe of an iconic song but only an average song with nothing amazing to discover in.

I really don't believe that 3 songs out of 7 could give an album the reputation of an indispensable masterpiece of Progressive Rock music. I'm sorry for not being able to appreciate the greatness that everyone seems to catch in this record.

SONG RATING: Tom Sawyer, 5 Red Barchetta, 4 YYZ, 5 Limelight, 3 The camera eye, 3 Witch hunt, 3 Vital signs, 3

AVERAGE: 3.71

PERCENTAGE: 74.29

ALBUM RATING: 3 stars

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