Counterparts (Remastered)
Rush
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Animate | Rush | 6:03 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Stick It Out | Rush | 4:30 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Cut to the Chase | Rush | 4:48 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Nobodys Hero | Rush | 4:54 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Between Sun & Moon | Rush | 4:37 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Alien Shore | Rush | 5:46 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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The Speed of Love | Rush | 5:01 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Double Agent | Rush | 4:51 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Leave That Thing Alone | Rush | 4:05 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Cold Fire | Rush | 4:26 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Everyday Glory | Rush | 5:11 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 11 Songs |
Album Review
By 1993, alternative rock had arrived in a big way, and surprisingly, Canadian veterans Rush were game, releasing their most honest and organic rock & roll record in over a decade with Counterparts. Opener "Animate" is straightforward enough, but doesn't even hint at the guitar ferocity and lyrical angst of "Stick it Out," a song which undoubtedly polarizes Rush fans to this day. Intellectual melodic rockers like "Cut to the Chase," "At the Speed of Love," and "Everyday Glory" are also present (and less shocking), but diversity continues to rule the day with Geddy Lee's bass taking charge on the amazingly somber "Double Agent" and the giddy instrumental "Leave That Thing Alone." Pure hard rock resurfaces on "Cold Fire," but it is the largely acoustic "Nobody's Hero" which provides the album's most gripping moment with an impassioned plea for HIV consciousness and understanding.
Customer Reviews
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Counterparts is certainly the best Rush effort of the 1990s. Animate is a poetic yet rock- tageous opener. The beat is actually based on a rhythm drummer Neil Peart used to play in his formative years. Stick It Out is rebellious and anthemic. It is definitely the heaviest track on the album with the overdriven guitar and bass playing the opening riff in unison. Also of note are Nobody's Hero and Alien Shore. Nobody's Hero is a ballad about the heros of everyday life that are not recognized as they should be. The first verse is based on Neil Peart's gay friend, Ellis, who died of AIDS. Alien Shore is great. The music and vocals are great. Finally, the instrumental, Leave That Thing Alone, is one of Rush's best. If your opinion is that Rush passed their prime with Moving Pictures, this album should renew your faith in the creativity and talent of the Canadian trio. You will never regret buying this album. It was the long awaited return for many fans to a more guitar based sound, shying away from the more pop keyboard oriented sound that we all know and love. Riding on the heels of two stripped down records (Presto and Roll the Bones), the trio moved the more rock oriented sound up another level producing one of the most sophisticated hard rock records of the nineties. Apparently both Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee were writing the music on guitars rather than keyboards to give it the crunch that would engulf “Counterparts” into a more heavy aesthetic. Opening up with the dark “Animate” centered around Neil Peart’s technical drumming and the tight musical encryptions of Lifeson and Lee, it is made clear to us that this record is going follow the same path throughout. Cuts like the moody epic “Between the Sun and Moon” (played live for the first time on the Vapor Trails tour last year) and the groove centered “Cold Fire” brought more technical connotations to the musical structure along with Peart’s deep lyrics that again become the encompassing conceptual sphere of the themes that have always graced the content of all Rush albums (well, not the first Rush album). Regardless of the whole Alternative Rock/Grunge genre revolving around the mainstream at the time, this record spawned two major hits, the heavy “Stick it Out,” a return to a more “Permanent Waves” style structure, and the emotional ballad “Nobody’s Hero,” which was something that Rush had done for the first time, complete with orchestration. There is the instrumental opus of “Leave that Thing Alone” and yet more heavy cuts like “Cold Fire,” “Alien Shore,” and the atmospheric “The Speed of Light” add to this record’s metallic stature; But it’s the brightest cut that is left to end this record, “Everyday Glory,” like many cuts that end Rush albums, closes “Counterparts” off with the more upbeat sense, rather than brining the record off to a dead stop, just think of the way cuts like “Carve away the Stone” ended “Test for Echo” the phenomenal follow up to this record. All in all this is one of the last real rock records to have prominence on AOR rock radio before it dissolved in the late nineties, even when the follow up “Test for Echo” released two years later, Alternative Rock was now dominating the charts, and AOR/Hard Rock radio was nonexistent in most cites, however Rush would have the last laugh over this, “Counterparts” (as well as “Test for Echo”) would go multiplatinum, and enter high on the Billboard charts, not to mention that successful sold out tours would follow, with very little promotion, showing that Rush as well as real rock and roll can stand the test of time, trends, and other mainstream crap that is fed to us through the mass media. Through different styles and decades of being one of the most influential Hard Rock/Metal acts around, as well as being the blueprint for bands such as Dream Theater and Fates Warning, the Canadian trio has again defined their own style, creating music that only a few have been able to derive the right way. review by hashman
A FAREWELL TO SYNTH-POP
Continuing where they left off with Roll the Bones, Rush doesn't just stick the guitar out front this time, they crank it up till it sounds nice and crunchy. "Animate" "Double Agent" "Cold Fire" "Stick It Out" all rock with a welcomed ferocity not seen since Moving Pictures. Long time fans who grew up singing along to songs about Snow Dogs, Necromancers and Priests from Syrinx should be pleased with Neils lyrics dealing with less obtuse themes such as AIDs, fidelity, and Temptation.
AWESOME!!!
You would normally think that a group that was together in the 70's trying to make an album in the 90's is doomed to failure...This album would proove you wrong. Some of the best songs all put together....great album...GET IT!!!
Biography
Formed: 1968 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s, '10s
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- $9.99
- Genres: Rock, Music, Hard Rock, Prog-Rock/Art Rock, Arena Rock
- Released: Oct 19, 1993
- ℗ 1993 Atlantic Recording Corporation and Anthem Entertainment for the United States and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
