Fly by Night by Rush from 1975
We have talked at length about Rush in the related artist profile and in the reviews of numerous albums.
After the self-titled debut album, this is the first album to feature the legendary Neil Peart on drums, the Professor, who also takes on the role of the band's lyricist.
It is defined as a transitional album, with the band moving away from the Zeppelin-like sound (still present, for example, in the track In the End) and heading towards the complexity that characterizes their later works, but which can already be sensed in By-Tor & the Snow Dog, towards their exceptional Heavy Prog.
An album that, besides being beautiful but not on the level of all the subsequent ones, is historically extremely important. Musically, in my opinion, it should be considered as the first step from hard rock to prog by a stratospheric band that made history for decades, producing masterpieces of the highest level one after another.
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Tracklist
1. Anthem (4:10)
2. Best I Can (3:24)
3. Beneath, Between and Behind (3:00)
4. By-Tor and the Snow Dog (8:57) :
- i. At the Tobes of Hades
- ii. Across the Styx
- iii. Of the Battle:
- iiia. Challenge and Defiance
- iiib. 7/4 War Furor
- iiic. Aftermath
- iiid. Hymn of Triumph
- iv. Epilogue
5. Fly by Night (3:20)
6. Making Memories (2:56)
7. Rivendell (5:00)
8. In the End (6:51)
Duration 37:38
LineUp
- Alex Lifeson - electric and acoustic guitar
- Geddy Lee - bass, synthesizers, vocals
- Neil Peart - drums
