Rush-Archives (1978)


 

Artist: Rush

Title: Archives


Label: Mercury

Format: 3XLP

Catalog Number: SRM-3-9200

Year of Release: 1978

Country and Year of Edition: US 1978

Sell Price: $13.42

Sell Date: 3/22/24

Condition: VG/G+

Discogs Last Sold  2/18/24 VG+/VG+ $25.00

Low: $4.87

Median: $17.50

Average: $18.93

High: $45.00

Current low price: not available

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 0

Have/Want:  182/40

Where Sold: Charleston, SC

Time It Took To Sell:  9 years

Where and When Bought: Worcester, MA Al Bums used early 80's ca 1983 or 4

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+

Sad To See It Go: No

Archives was released in early '78 after the exponential increase in popularity for 1977's A Farewell To Kings and 1976's 2112.  This triple album 2 pocket job houses the first three: Rush from the Pertless 1974 debut with drummer John Rutsey.  Then the 1975 pair,  Fly By Night and Caress of Steel.  All of these albums are B+ or possibly A- range on their own.  For some reason I never had the debut on it's own, although I considered it the best of the three.  The other two were found used and purchased at some point after seeing the Grace Under Pressure tour in 1984.

On that tour, track one side one "Finding My Way" opened the encores which also contained "In The Mood" from the debut.  The biggest radio hit from the first three albums was easily "Working Man."  I didn't consider "Fly By Night" a hit even though the live version from All The World's A Stage charted the lower regions of the Billboard Hot 100 at #88 in January '77 paired with "In The Mood." Even the other obvious songs like "Bastille Day" from Caress or Fly By Night's opener "Anthem" didn't strike me as top tier Rush the way they do now.

The problem with Archives is it lays these three albums out to be played over 2 hours.  Stuff has a tendency to get lost that way and this material is best in 20 minute doses.  Certainly there are standouts.  "The Necromancer" with it's King Crimson feel mixed with spoken word from Caress, the side 2 Cream meets Led Sabbath opener "What You're Doing" and of course "Bye-Tor and the Snowdog" are easy standouts.  "Fountain of Lamneth" as a six part suite would be better served as side 2 rather than side 6, but you can see where 2112 came out of hearing that one.

For the lazy, the completist and the late comer, i.e. 95% of their audience in the decades following this market placeholder.


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