review by thomas

Their first album and the only one with drummer John Rutsey. This is hard and rough rock with strong Led Zeppelin influences (especially – it seems – the early Zeppelin), and traces of Mountain and the Jimi Hendrix Experience can also be heard. Just like on “Fly By Night” there are two standout tracks, namely “Working Man” and “Here Again”, the former a furious long rocker and the latter a long and calmer song, still with heavy outbursts. These two songs are good ones but not classics as is the case with “Anthem” and “By-Tor and the Snowdog”, the two standout tracks from “Fly By Night”. And this is also the difference between the two albums, they achieve the same grade but “Fly By Night” is still stronger.

The other six songs on “Rush” are noting that I hold high, but they are not lousy or bad songs, well some are rather bad, but often run of the mill songs and very uninteresting. Of interest only to die-hard Rush fans and maybe for those lovers of 70’s hard rock in style with the bands I mentioned before.