Album Releases
These are the only two albums Rush released in the same calendar year.
What are "Fly By Night" and "Caress of Steel"?
After a quick "and a one and a two and a buckle my shoe" from the band on the video board, this song began the encore of the "Clockwork Angels" tour.
What is "Tom Sawyer"?
The two figures on the cover of the "Hemispheres" album are said to symbolize these two Greek figures.
Who are Dionysus and Apollo?
"Well weathered leather, hot metal and oil, the scented country air, _____, the blur of the landscape, every nerve aware"
What is "sunlight on chrome"?
This terrible tragedy inspired the haunting lyrics of "Red Sector A".
What is the Holocaust?
Directly following the release of "Moving Pictures", this live album includes a performance of the rarely played "Jacob's Ladder".
What is "Exit... Stage Left"?
Including songs that were not played every night, these two albums had the most songs featured during the R40 tour, with four each.
What are "Clockwork Angels" and "Moving Pictures"?
This album cover was the first not to be designed by Hugh Syme since 1975's "Fly By Night".
What is "Snakes and Arrows"?
"The more we think we know about, the greater the unknown, _____, and we are not alone"
What is "we suspend our disbelief?"
This aircraft delivered the payload on "that August day", as described in "Manhattan Project".
What is the "Enola Gay"?
"Counterparts" was immediately preceded by this album, recorded in Chalet Studio in Ontario.
What is "Roll the Bones"?
Alex's solo acoustic guitar interlude from "Exit... Stage Left" was called this, after the nickname of their producer Terry Brown.
What is "Broon's Bane"?
What are flaming balls?
"Wilderness of mirrors, world of polished steel, gears and iron chains, _____, I run between the shadows..."
What is "turn the grinding wheel"?
"Bastille Day" quotes a common French phrase often attributed to this lady, the last Queen of France before the French Revolution.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
This number of (calendar) years was the longest time in between Rush releasing a new album.
What is six? ("Test for Echo", 1996 - "Vapor Trails", 2002)
According to Rush.com, this tour marked the first time the band played two sets instead of one before the encore.
What is the "Test for Echo" tour?
The yellow lines connecting red push pins on the back cover of this album represent the urine of the animal on the front cover.
What is "Signals"?
"I know that my goal is more than a thought, I'll be there, _____, what I've been taught "
What is "when I teach"?
These two cities were critical both during World War II and for decades after, as referenced in the first verse of "Heresy".
What are Moscow and Berlin?
With most songs having been recorded in November of 2002, "Rush in Rio" was released in this month of 2003.
What is October?
"Countdown", first played on the "Signals" tour, was played on this many subsequent tours.
What is zero?
The interior art of this album includes salt and pepper, a mortar and pestle, and a quarter note and quarter rest.
What is "Counterparts"?
"The clouds were suddenly parted, _____, the patterns of the landscape, reaching to the eastern sea"
What is "for a moment I could see"?
This was the name of the area from which the band watched the Columbia launch as described in "Countdown".
What is "Red Sector A"?