It's always darkest before the dawn, and while next episode's album will showcase Rush in the act of defining their legacy, this time around we're dealing with a glaring misstep that even the band doesn't like -- 1975's "Caress of Steel".
This record has a misprinted cover which has been frozen in time. It also has a metric shit-ton of "hobbit-humping bullshit" in the lyrics, and contains exactly three songs (plus two very lengthy hodge-podges of half-finished ideas). Not an impressive deal, but an arrested spiel.
Put on your robe and wizard hat and get ready to "rock" in a decidedly beard-stroking fashion.
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"Fly By Night" is Rush's second album and includes a lot of lyrics about elves and elf shit. There's also some hobbits. Tune in for all the hottest elf and hobbit-related discussion in the world of rock and roll podcasting.
This episode is somewhat non-canonical; an introduction to the show and a review of 1974's almost-Rush debut album, misleadingly entitled "Rush", despite sounding like a completely different band than what comes later.