Grace Under Pressure (Rush album)
Occupation
- Geddy Lee - bass, keyboards, vocals
- Alex Lifeson - electric guitars, acoustic guitars
- Neil Peart - drums, percussion
Grace under pressure is the title of the 10th studio album, the Canadian rock band Rush has published in April 1984 by the record company " Mercury Records ". The texts were written by drummer Neil Peart, Geddy Lee and the music have Alex Lifeson written. The phrase Grace under pressure is by Hemingway, which the application of this principle (translated: " dignity under pressure " ) imposed on the hero of his short stories and novels. Thus, it is the basic principle of the "Code Hero" or " Hemingway Hero".
Description
The album fits into the end of the art-oriented rock period of " Rush", synthetic sounds can play a significant role, but add still clearly in a guitar dominated sound landscape. The music sounds occasionally vertrakt (Kid Gloves and Red Lenses), sometimes straight rock ( The Enemy Within), the listener will be surprised by unexpected melody and rhythm changes.
The title of the album to German as: " Grace Under Pressure " is something of a motto; he finds himself in alienation repeatedly in publications about the band. The lyrics deal with rather somber topics, as the apocalyptic Distant Early Warning and the quasi- post-apocalyptic Between the Wheels. The Body Electric tells the story of a science fiction animated dying androids. ( " He re -play each of the days, a hundred years of routine; . Bows its head and prays to the mother of all machines" ) With Afterimage Neil Peart wrote a touching obituary and described in Red Sector A, the impressions of a prisoner, the inwardly and outwardly destroyed his liberation looks forward to - here are the impressions of Geddy Lee were processed mother, who has reported from their liberation from the concentration camp Bergen- Belsen.
Title list
Occupation
- Geddy Lee - bass, keyboards, vocals
- Alex Lifeson - electric guitars, acoustic guitars
- Neil Peart - drums, percussion