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Rush – Archives (VG+/VG+) – 3xLP, US 1978
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Archives is an LP by Rush from 1978 released on the Mercury label.
About this album
Archives is a compact overview of Rush’s early development, drawing together the hard-rock muscle and prog-rock ambition that defined their first phase. Issued in 1978, it highlights the Canadian trio’s rapid growth from lean, riff-driven beginnings towards the more expansive writing that would soon follow on albums like Fly by Night and Caress of Steel. With songs such as Working Man, Anthem and By-Tor and the Snow Dog, the compilation underlines Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart’s emerging identity as one of rock’s most technically assured and imaginative bands. It remains a useful snapshot of Rush before their classic late-1970s breakthrough.
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Rush
A1 Finding My Way
A2 Need Some Love
A3 Take A Friend
A4 Home Again
B1 What You'Re Doing
B2 In The Mood
B3 Before And After
B4 Working Man
Fly By Night
C1 Anthem
C2 Best I Can
C3 Beneath, Between And Behind
By-Tor And The Snow Dog
D1 Fly By Night
D2 Making Memories
D3 Rivendell
D4 In The End
Caress Of Steel
E1 Bastille Day
E2 I Think I'M Going Bald
E3 Lakeside Park
The Necromancer
The Fountain Of Lamneth