Rush: Moving Pictures (40th anniversary, white opaque vinyl, 180g, half-speed master) [ANTHEM]

Why you'll love it

This is the 40th anniversary pressing, half-speed mastered and cut on 180-gram white opaque vinyl. Moving Pictures is Rush's best-selling studio album, ranked among Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums, and "YYZ" earned a Grammy nomination.

This edition

• 40th anniversary edition
• Half-speed master on 180g white opaque vinyl
• Single LP, 7 tracks

About the album

Moving Pictures is the album where Rush figured out how to fit their prog-rock ambitions into tight, radio-ready songs without losing an ounce of their chops. Recorded in 1980 at Le Studio in Morin-Heights, Quebec, with longtime co-producer Terry Brown, it's seven tracks of near-perfection, and side one might be the greatest side of Canadian rock ever pressed.

"Tom Sawyer" is the anthem every air drummer knows by heart, "Red Barchetta" is a sci-fi joyride, "YYZ" (named for the Toronto airport code, and tapping it out in Morse code) is the most famous instrumental in rock, and "Limelight" is Neil Peart's wry take on fame. Side two stretches out with "The Camera Eye" and looks ahead with the reggae-tinged "Vital Signs." This 40th anniversary half-speed pressing on white vinyl sounds as good as it looks.

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Tracklist

Listen

On Anthem, a 40th anniversary reissue of the 1981 album.