Rush - Rush 50 (Anniversary Super Deluxe) (2025) FLAC

Quality: FLAC 16 bit / 44.1 kHz (Tracks)
Artist: Rush
Title: Rush 50 (Anniversary Super Deluxe)
Released: 2025
Style: Rock
RAR Size: 1,61 Gb

Tracklist:

CD 1

1. Not Fade Away (3:16)
2. You Can't Fight It (2:49)
3. Working Man (Vault Edition) (7:09)
4. Need Some Love (Live At Laura Secord Secondary School, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada - 4/1/1974) (3:10)
5. Before And After (Live At Laura Secord Secondary School, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada - 4/1/1974) (5:59)
6. Bad Boy (Live At Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio - 8/26/1974) (5:34)
7. Garden Road (Live At Agora Ballroom, Cleveland, Ohio - 8/26/1974) (3:04)
8. Anthem (Live At Electric Lady Studios, New York, New York - 12/5/1974) (4:24)
9. Fly By Night (3:21)
10. Bastille Day (4:37)
11. 2112 Overture / The Temples Of Syrinx (6:46)
12. By-Tor And The Snow Dog (Live At Massey Hall, Toronto/1976) (11:51)
13. Something For Nothing (Live At Massey Hall, Toronto/1976 - Outtake) (4:02)

CD 2

1. Closer To The Heart (2:54)
2. Xanadu (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London/February 20, 1978) (12:21)
3. Drum Solo (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London/February 20, 1978) (5:41)
4. The Trees (Vault Edition) (4:44)
5. La Villa Strangiato (Live At Pinkpop Festival, Netherlands/1979) (11:22)
6. In The Mood (Live At Pinkpop Festival, Netherlands/1979) (2:44)
7. The Spirit Of Radio (4:57)
8. Natural Science (Live in Manchester - Permanent Waves 1980 Tour) (8:44)
9. A Passage To Bangkok (Live in Manchester - Permanent Waves 1980 Tour) (3:44)
10. Tom Sawyer (4:37)
11. Limelight (Live In YYZ 1981) (4:27)
12. Vital Signs (Live In YYZ 1981) (5:06)

CD 3

1. YYZ (Live In Canada / 1980) (7:44)
2. Subdivisions (5:34)
3. Red Sector A (5:09)
4. Witch Hunt (Live At Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto / 1984) (4:41)
5. New World Man (Live Audio From Grace Under Pressure DVD) (3:59)
6. The Big Money (5:38)
7. Time Stand Still (5:09)
8. Distant Early Warning (Live In Birmingham England/1988) (5:15)
9. Superconductor (4:48)
10. Dreamline (4:37)
11. Stick It Out (4:31)
12. Test For Echo (5:55)
13. The Rhythm Method (Live At World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, Illinois - 6/14/1987) (8:20)

CD 4

1. One Little Victory (Remixed) (5:09)
2. Cygnus X-1 (Live At Maracana Stadium, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 11/23/2002) (3:12)
3. The Seeker (3:25)
4. Between The Wheels (Live At Festhalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany - 9/24/2004) (6:17)
5. The Main Monkey Business (6:02)
6. Workin' Them Angels (Live At Ahoy Arena, Rotterdam, Holland - October/2007) (4:59)
7. Freewill (Live At Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, Ohio - 4/15/2011) (5:29)
8. Red Barchetta (Live At Quicken Loans Arena, Cleveland, Ohio - 4/15/2011) (6:55)
10. Manhattan Project (Live Clockwork Angels Tour, 2012) (5:18)
11. Jacob's Ladder (Live R40 Tour, 2015) (7:29)
12. What You're Doing / Working Man / Garden Road (Live At The Forum, Los Angeles, California - 8/1/2015) (10:57)

Rush fans will forever mourn the 2020 death of drummer/main lyricist Neil Peart, which spelled the end of the much beloved prog rock trio. With Geddy Lee's high-pitched vocals, Alex Lifeson's inventive guitarwork, and the irreplaceable Peart's otherworldly drumming, Rush developed an intensely loyal fanbase who will celebrate this massive 50-track retrospective of studio and live cuts, alternate takes, and seven unreleased tracks; for those new to the band, this is a superb introduction.

The core of Rush 50, which includes material from all the labels the band recorded for, is composed of well-known songs like "Fly By Night," "Closer to the Heart," "Tom Sawyer," and "The Spirit of the Radio." What makes for an enjoyable survey even for experienced fans is the clever way that many of the familiar studio versions of the band's classics appear in live form, such as second album cut "By-Tor and the Snow Dog," which is represented by a version from their excellent double live album, 1976's All The World's A Stage.

An unreleased take of the storming "Anthem"—recorded in 1974 at New York City's Electric Lady studios—has sound issues but is wonderfully furious. One of the band's exotic epics, "Xanadu," is heard in an extended live version recorded in 1978 at London's Hammersmith Odeon. For Peart obsessives, "Drum Solo" from that same show will bring back pleasant memories, if not tears, as he displays his trademark speed and inventiveness.

Another plus are the superior live takes of album deep cuts, like a 2004 performance of Grace Under Pressure's "Between The Wheels" from Frankfurt, Germany. Equally inspired is a version of "Jacob's Ladder"—which Lee intros as "a rarely played song"—from a 2015 show at Toronto's Air Canada Centre for the R40 Tour.

Two of Rush's earliest live recordings, "Need Some Love" and "Before and After," both from 1974, feature the band's original drummer John Rutsey. Another pair from that year, "Bad Boy" and "Garden Road"—neither of which ever appeared on a Rush album—were recorded with improved fidelity at one of America's most famous hard rock emporiums, The Agora Ballroom in Cleveland, Ohio. At the other end of the spectrum, a medley of "What You're Doing / Working Man / Garden Road" comes from the trio's final live show, a 2015 date at The Forum in Los Angeles. Gone but not forgotten, Rush 50 is a welcome and wide-ranging remembrance of their glory years