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Re: Presto
I like Presto. "Show Don't Tell" is okay, but "The Pass", "Presto", "Hand Over Fist" and "Available Light" are all among my favorite Rush tracks. In a sense, Presto best illustrates Rush's songwriting approach of jamming melodies together, sometimes well and sometimes awkwardly. Ultimately. I was disappointed that they discarded the semi-acoustic sound some songs on Presto have, which I think would have been a more interesting direction than the one they took in the 90s.
(I think Roll the Bones was half of a good album, Counterparts was sort of like all the worst parts of Presto done over again, and Test For Echo was, well, the less said, the better. I think it will be the last Rush album I own, as I haven't been able to work up any enthusiasm for buying Vapor Trails.)
Best Rush track? For my money, it's "The Big Money". But you can practically throw darts at Hold Your Fire's song list for second-best.
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