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| | Fly by Night | | | Music Artist : | | Rush | | Music Style : | | Album-Oriented Rock (AOR) | | Record Label : | | Island / Mercury | | Release Date : | | 1997-05-06 | | Store Price : | | $9.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $8.99 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Anthem
2. Best I Can
3. Beneath, Between & Behind
4. By-Tor and the Snow Dog
5. Fly by Night
6. Making Memories
7. Rivendell
8. In the End
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Rush fan
Submitted on: 2009-11-14 |
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| They were one of my favourite groups when I was a kid... and still are now. DV |
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Memory serves!
Submitted on: 2009-09-14 |
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| This album is just as great as I remember it!I love "themed" albums, and this is one of the best! By-Tor and the Snow Dog Takes the Genre of Tolkien, and makes it their own! Rivendell is a wonderful tip of the hat in that direction! |
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Introducing Neil Peart
Submitted on: 2009-06-24 |
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| Just a great album. It's a vast departure from the eponymous debut lyrically and musically. There's less of a Led Zep feel as Rush starts finding its groove. Rush detractors will point to Geddy's shrill voice but (much like Dickinson with Iron Maiden) Rush needed a voice to rise above the music. "Making Memories" remains to me a criminally underrated song. |
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Rush - the Album Number Two!
Submitted on: 2009-04-13 |
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Rush's first album was great but after that started even better time - when Neil Peart joined the band. The first album with Peart in drums turns to be a classic! There's great, uptempo songs, such as "Beneath, Between & Behind" and "Anthem". There's also great and long proggressive rock songs, such as "By-Tor & The Snow Dog" and "In the End". The Led Zeppelin sounding "Making Memories" is quite a slow one...this song could almost be from Led Zeppelin III. The slowest one however is "Rivendell" which is an acoustic ballad - still quite good. Alex Lifeson's guitar work and Geddy Lee's bass guitar work is beautiful. Geddy's vocals may cause different opinions - because they are rough! I like his voice very much...
Stars: Fly by Night, Beneath, Between & Behind, Anthem |
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 New Direction
Submitted on: 2009-04-01 |
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Fly by Night is Rush's second album, and first with Neil Peart. Peart would play a pivotal role in the direction and future success of the band in the years to follow. Fly by Night is a solid release, and the first 3 tracks (Anthem, Best I Can, Beneath Between & Behind) are hard rockers, and any one of them would've been suited for the first slot. These tracks are somewhat of a continuation of where their first album left off. The next track (By-Tor and the Snow Dog) is their first epic-length offering, and delivers well in that it displays all of the band's diverse talents in one song. Each member highlights their respective instruments well, and Geddy's voice is as powerful as ever. The title track (Fly by Night) is still pretty popular on the airwaves, and responsible for pretty good sales overall. "Making Memories" reminds me so much of the Zeppelin track, "Over the Hills and Far Away". "Rivendell" is Rush's most mellow song, and Geddy sings it with emotion. This song is Tolkien-inspired, and brings some balance to the album. The last track "In the End" starts with good acoustics, then fades into powerful Lifeson riffs and vintage Lee vocals that shriek. Overall, the album is a healthy mixture of rock and progressive lyrics that transition the band out of the first album plainness, and into the more philosophy-inspired intellectual lyrics that would become a Rush trademark in the years ahead. The ratings:
ANTHEM:9/10
BEST I CAN:8/10
BENEATH BETWEEN & BEHIND:9/10
BY-TOR AND THE SNOW DOG:10/10
FLY BY NIGHT:10/10
MAKING MEMORIES:9/10
RIVENDELL:7/10
IN THE END:8/10
This album is a must-have for any fan, as well as anyone who's just getting into Rush, because these are the roots for everything else the band subsequently released. |
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