Artist: Rush
Title: “Chronicles” (deluxe edition)
Label: Universal Music
Release Date: 3/22/2005
Genre: Progressive Hard Rock
Rating: 5/5

Rush “Chronicles” was the first compilation release to feature studio tracks from the legendary Progressive Rock/Metal band from Canada. Originally issued as a double CD effort, we eventually found the videos for many of the albums tracks coming out as a separate DVD release. As a long time Rush fan I admit that I have both of these items somewhere in my collection so I was very pleased to find them being packaged together for the fans to get their hands on. As a hits package this was a winner from the beginning to end because it made sure to touch upon every one of the bands releases up to the time of its issue. It begins with their first album “Rush” and ends with 1989’s “Presto”. For the new fan this is the perfect primer on thirteen of the bands accomplishments and while the hard core fan might scream about certain omissions, even they will find little difficulty spinning these two CD’s again and again. A number of my own favorites are here for the aural canals from the “Moving Pictures” and “Permanent Waves”, the two albums that made me a fan even though I had first heard them with “2112” and “A Farewell To Kings” a couple of years earlier. I had some other musician friends who were slightly older than me who were already enjoying Rush so they shared the knowledge.
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