Rush Permenant waves C-X1 Home Complete Rush Discography Rush Lyric Database Complete Rush Videography Rush Image Database Latest Rush News Rush Tour Information Rush Biographies & Articles Rush Reviews Other Rush Links The Rush Store Rush - Permanent Waves There are 16 active users currently online. 2 PERMANENT WAVES Released: January 1st, 1980 Certified Gold by RIAA: March 17, 1980 -- Certified Platinum by RIAA: November 9, 1987 View All Album Certifications Highest Billboard Chart Position: 4 |Hemispheres| -- |Lyrics| -- |Liner Notes| -- |Articles| -- |Album Artwork| -- |Album Review| -- |Tour Dates| -- |Purchase| -- |Moving Pictures| LINER NOTES Alex Lifeson - Six and twelve string electric and acoustic guitars, Taurus pedals Neil Peart - Drums, tympani, timbales, orchestra bells, tubular bells, wind chimes, bell tree, triangle, crotales Geddy Lee - Bass guitars, Oberheim polyphonic, OB-1, Mini Moog, and Taurus pedal synthsizers, vocals Produced by Rush and Terry Brown Arrangements by Rush and Terry Brown Recorded at Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Quebec, during September and October 1979 Engineerd by Paul Northfield With general assistance from Robbie Whelan Mixed at Trident Studios, Soho, London, in November 1979 Engineerd by Terry Brown Assisted by Adam Moseley, Craig Milliner, and Geddy Lee, with cameo appearances by Steve S. Hort Mastered by Bob Ludwig and Brain Lee at Gateway Mastering Studios, Portland, Maine Special featured guest: Hugh Syme, piano on Different Strings Inspiration and vocal coaching by Daisy the Dog Steel drums by Erwig Chuapchuaduah Art Direction and graphics by Hugh Syme Cover concept by Hugh Syme and Neil Peart Photography by Fin Costello, Flip Schulke and Deborah Samuel Cover girl couturière: Ou la la Colour collaboration: Peter George Pilot of Juliet Foxtrot Kilo: Mike Deere Management: Ray Danniels, SRO Management, Inc., Toronto Executive Production: Moon Records Road manager, lighting director, and assistant to Mr. Shreve: Howard (Herns) Ungerleider Stage manager: Michael (Lurch) Hirsh Concert sound engineer: Ian (the Weez) Grandy Stage right technician: Liam (Punjabi) Birt Stage left technician: Skip (Slider) Gildersleeve Centre stage technician: Larry (Shrav) Allen Guitar and synthesizer maintenance: Tony (Jack Secret) Geranios Electrical technician: Ted (Theo) McDonald Stage Monitor mixer: Gred (Gordie) Connolly Projectionist: Harry (Tex) Dilman Personal Shreve: Sam (Shreve) Charters Concert sound by National Sound and Electrosound (U.K.) Concert lighting by See Factor International Concert rigging by Bill Collins All of the above was transported by the skilled hands of: Tom (Whitney) Whittaker, Pat (No. 9) Lines, Arthur (Mac) MacLear, Gene Guido, and Tim Lewis Honourable mentions: Moe Kniffman, Nick Kotos, George (Ike) Guido, Bob (Puppy) Cross, John LeBlanc, Bill Churchman, Dave (Shreve 1) Donne, Fuzzy Frazer, Dave Burman, Helmut, Nick Prince, Graham (Wild Man) Hewitt, Sgt. Rock & Easy Co., Second City Television, Lakewoods Farm, The Sound Kitchen, Lefty, D.K.D., Steve Herns, Le Studio: Andre, Yael, Pam, Kim, Carole, and Roger, Andre & La Barratte, the Wines & Crew, FM & Crew, Wireless & Crew, The Maxoids, Marvin Gleicher, Brian Robertson, Jimmy Bain, Michael Schenker, the Projectors, Peter Mensch, the P.M., Bob (the Grove) Snelgrove, the inmates of the Great Fog, Gerry Griffin, Lee Scherer, and their families and friends at NASA, Henry Spencer and baby, Le Mont St. Michael, the Montcalm, vin-du-hairface, volleyball, Space Invaders (10p), euchre, Malibu Grand Prix, hockey--Steve Shutt and Larry Robinson, thanks for the sticks!, M*A*S*H, The Jack Secret Show, Rickey, Lucy, and Ethel, (Wheres Fred?), Neal and Larry at the Percussion Centre, all at Oak Manor, and all at Trident. Ho-Hoo! We express our appreciation to the fine people and instruments of Gibson, Moog, Tama drums, Rickenbacker, and Sunn amplification © 1980 Mercury Records © 1980 Anthem Entertainment ARTICLES Billboard Special Survey: Permanent Waves - Billboard Magazine, January 1980 Logical Positivism for Astral Minds - Sounds Magazine, January 1980 Rush: Something Special For Everyone - Scene Magazine, February 1980 Intense Early Reaction to Rushs Permanent Waves - RPM Weekly Magazine, February 1980 Rush: Permanent Waves (Review) - Melody Maker Magazine, February 1980 F.M. Radio Earns Plaudits from Rush - Music Express Magazine, February 1980 Rush Wont Rush Into Style Fads of Moment - Billboard Magazine, March 1980 Battered by Old & New Waves, Rush Keeps Their Boat Afloat by Rocking It - Circus Magazine, April 1980 A Canadian Chart Rush - Record Review Magazine, April 1980 Tight Rush - Record Review Magazine, April 1980 Alex Lifeson - Rushs Kinetic Lead Guitarist - Guitar Player Magazine, June 1980 Geddy Lee - Hi-Tech Bassist and Synthesist with Rush - Guitar Player Magazine, June 1980 Rushs Heavy-Metal Message Hits the Radio - Rolling Stone Magazine, June 1980 Rush Identifies with International Markets - RPM Weekly Magazine, November 1980 TRACK LISTING (click on any track for the lyrics) 1. The Spirit of Radio (4:57) 2. Freewill (5:23) 3. Jacobs Ladder (7:28) 4. Entre Nous (4:37) 5. Different Strings (3:49) 6. Natural Science (9:16) THE SPIRIT OF RADIO Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson / Lyrics: Neil Peart Begin the day With a friendly voice A companion, unobtrusive Plays the song thats so elusive And the magic music makes your morning mood Off on your way Hit the open road There is magic at your fingers For the Spirit ever lingers Undemanding contact In your happy solitude. Invisible airwaves Crackle with life Bright antennae bristle With the energy Emotional feedback On a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price - Almost free... All this machinery Making modern music Can still be open-hearted Not so coldly charted Its really just a question Of your honesty One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity For the words of the profits, Are written on the studio wall, Concert hall - Echoes with the sounds... Of salesmen. FREEWILL Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson / Lyrics: Neil Peart There are those who think that life Has nothing left to chance With a host of holy horrors To direct our aimless dance A planet of playthings We dance on the strings Of powers we cannot perceive The stars arent aligned - Or the gods are malign Blame is better to give than receive You can choose a ready guide In some celestial voice If you choose not to decide You still have made a choice You can choose from phantom fears And kindness that can kill I will choose a path thats clear I will choose free will. There are those who think that They were dealt a losing hand The cards were stacked against them They werent born in Lotus-Land. All pre-ordained A prisoner in chains A victim of venomous fate Kicked in the face You cant pray for a place In Heavens unearthly estate Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt Thats far too fleet... JACOBS LADDER Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson / Lyrics: Neil Peart The clouds prepare for battle In the dark and brooding silence Bruised and sullen stormclouds Have the light of day obscured Looming low and ominous In twilight premature Thunderheads are rumbling In a distant overture All at once, The clouds are parted Light streams down In bright unbroken beams Follow mens eyes As they look to the skies The shifting shafts of shining Weave the fabric of their dreams... ENTRE NOUS Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson / Lyrics: Neil Peart We are secrets to each other Each ones life a novel No-one else has read Even joined in bonds of love Were linked to one another By such slender threads We are planets to each other Drifting in our orbits To a brief eclipse Each of us a world apart Alone and yet together Like two passing ships Just between us I think its time for us to recognize The differences we sometimes fear to show Just between us I think its time for us to realize The spaces in between Leave room for you and I to grow We are strangers to each other Full of sliding panels An illusion show Acting well-rehearsed routines Or playing from the heart? Its hard for one to know We are islands to each other Building hopeful bridges On a troubled sea Some are burned or swept away Some we would not choose But were not always free DIFFERENT STRINGS Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson / Lyrics: Geddy Lee Whos come to slay the dragon - Come to watch him fall? Making arrows out of pointed words Giant killers at the call Too much fuss and bother Too much contradiction And confusion Peel away the mystery Heres a clue to some real motivation All there really is The two of us And we both know why weve come along Nothing to explain Its a part of us To be found within a song What happened to our innocence - Did it go out of style? Along with our naiveté - No longer a child Different eyes see different things Different hearts Beat on different strings But there are times For you and me When all such things agree NATURAL SCIENCE Music: Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson / Lyrics: Neil Peart I. TIDE POOLS When the ebbing tide retreats Along the rocky shoreline It leaves a trail of tidal pools In a short-lived galaxy Each microcosmic planet A complete society A simple kind mirror To reflect upon our own All the busy little creatures Chasing out their destinies Living in their pools They soon forget about the sea... Wheels within wheels In a spiral array A pattern so grand And complex Time after time We lose sight of the way Our causes cant see Their effects II. HYPERSPACE A quantum leap forward In time and in space The universe learned to expand The mess and the magic Triumphant and tragic A mechanized world, out of hand Computerized clinic For superior cynics Who dance to a synthetic band In their own image Their world is fashioned - No wonder they dont understand Wheels within wheels In a spiral array A pattern so grand And complex Time after time We lose sight of the way Our causes cant see Their effects III. PERMANENT WAVES Science, like Nature Must also be tamed With a view towards its preservation Given the same State of integrity It will surely serve us well Art as expression - Not as market campaigns Will still capture our imaginations Given the same State of integrity It will surely help us along The most endangered species - The honest man Will still survive annihilation Forming a world - State of integrity Sensitive, open and strong. Wave after wave Will flow with the tide And bury the world as it does Tide after tide Will flow and recede Leaving life to go on As it was...
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