Caress of Steel

Yeah.

It was one of those albums that I listened to kind of like Caress of Steel.

Very technical.

Yeah, but I listened to it before I went out on a weekend night.

or call it an opera, call it a, this would be great on one of those Netflix miniseries.

For those who like sci-fi, because 2112 was an album where Rush had pressure from their record company, Mercury Records, to put out something that would sell because their album previously, Caress of Steel, didn't do very well.

They wanted some three minute little ditties that will sell on the radio, some love songs, some happy good times with your friends.

And Rush basically said, screw that.

Also covered by Metallica, Last Caress.

Tony, I want to say, by the way, shout out Rush Caress of Steel.

If you want to talk Rush Caress of Steel.

Tony, are we assigning songs to the game today? We

can, dude.

Yeah, nothing from Fly By Night.

Nothing from Caress of Steel.

Nothing from Counterparts.

Counterparts.

He blossoms into, uh, you know, a super important part of the band, uh, more so even than he was on phenomenon on force it, and then on and on into no heavy petting and lights out an obsession.

Um, Rush, Caress of Steel.

So the big change there is Neil Peart comes into the band on Fly By Night, but they've still got some vestiges, some of the old songs still kicking around.

It's it's still a little bit of Rush Rush in there, you know, a little bit more Lifeson and Lee.

But then they decide they're so inspired by this new drummer in the band that they even go more towards his personality.

And Caress of Steel is just an even crazier, proggier album than Fly By Night, which is kind of quite proggy.

And I call it the invention of prog metal right there.

But Caress of Steel is even more so in that direction.

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... number five is Caress of Steel from Rush.

And-

That's my number four.

Now we're gonna do another, you know, long-ass side track, but now it's the first side." Um-

Yeah.

But anyway, um, Caress of Steel is great.

Every Rush album is great.

You know, he's super young, but essentially, Michael Schenker blossoms into his own on, uh, and you could hear it right on this song, "Let It Roll." He blossoms into, uh, you know, a super important part of the band, uh, more so even than he was on Phenomenon, on Force It, and then on and on into No Heavy Petting, and Lights Out, and Obsession.

Um, Rush, Caress of Steel.

So the big change there is Neil Peart comes into the band on Fly by Night.

Uh, but they've still got some vestiges, some of the old songs still kicking around.

It's st- it's still a little bit of, uh, Rush Rush in there, um, you know, a little bit more Lifeson and Lee.

Um, but then they decide, uh, they're so inspired by this new drummer, uh, in the band that they even go more towards his personality, and Caress of Steel is just an even crazier, proggier album than, uh, than, uh, Fly by Night, which, uh, which is kind of, you know, quite proggy, and I, I call it the invention of prog metal right there.

Uh, but Caress of Steel is even more so in that direction.

So it's-- The new guy is, uh, is putting even more of an imprint on the band.

And that stop off in the middle is all that you need before then the remaining three songs are all 10 minutes plus long.

And unlike, say, A Caress of Steel, uh, it, it pulls it off.

Because one of the things that I think this does really well with the last three songs is they are, you know, they are three each 10 minute plus, going up to even 15 minutes in length, post-metal songs.

And when you s- Elliot talking about sort of the formula of post-rock or post-metal, that could be quite ...