Hold Your Fire

about this album

Hold Your Fire is the twelfth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in the fall of 1987. The album was recorded at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, Air Studios in Montserrat and at McClear Place in Toronto. Although Hold Your Fire uses nearly as much synthesizer as its predecessor, Power Windows, Hold Your Fire’s guitar riffs and solos are considerably more prominent on several songs. Nevertheless, like with Power Windows, some Rush fans consider repeated listening to be the main factor in enjoying Hold Your Fire. In terms of songwriting, Rush continued to explore new territory with Hold Your Fire. The song “Tai Shan”, for example, has significant eastern influences, and is a reference to Mount Tai, in Shandong province. Til Tuesday bassist and vocalist Aimee Mann contributed the first vocals from an artist outside of Rush to "Time Stand Still" (she also appears in the Zbigniew Rybczynski-directed video for the song). Mann's laughter is also sampled in the opening minute of the song "Force Ten." Finally, like with previous Rush albums, Hold Your Fire features complex bass lines that deviate from the guitar riffs. Hold Your Fire stalled at #13 (the first time a Rush studio album failed to reach the Top 10 since 1978's Hemispheres) and sold a million copies according to the band's then-label Mercury Records although the American RIAA has it listed at Gold. Track listing All music by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson and lyrics by Neil P

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