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 Очень, очень удачное название подобрали Rush для своего шестого альбома. Действительно, все в этом мире течет, все изменяется. Вот накатила очередная волна - и поменялись Rush. В какую сторону - каждый решает за себя, но я постараюсь быть объективным. После прослушивания данной пластинки возникает ощущение какого то неудобства, как будто бы все на месте, но чего то явно не хватает. Итак, гитары и вообще тяжелый звук мягко отошли на второй план, уступив место разнообразным клавишным. Музыка стала еще чуточку сложней, но по-прежнему притягательна и общедоступна. Стиль новых Rush теперь можно назвать прог-арт роком, прежнее слово хард уже как то не вяжется. Но никаких сравнений с Genesis и прочей поп музыкой, хард никуда не уходил, просто его МЕНЬШЕ. Исполнение по-прежнему безупречно, запись по-прежнему кристальна чистая, тексты по-прежнему тянут на сборник первоклассной поэзии. Треков на альбоме ровно шесть и их опять явственно можно разбить на две части. Первая часть - это четыре небольшие и довольно обычные композиции, причем слово обычные ни в коем случае не значит плохие или примитивные, это просто именно те песни, которые ожидаешь услышать от Rush. Две из них ("The Spirit Of Radio" и "Freewill") уже давно стали прижизненной классикой, а две других ("Entre Nous", "Differnt Strings"), к сожалению, прошли незамеченными. Ну а основным изюмом альбома являются две монструозных работы в стиле прог-арт. Во первых, это девятиминутная пьеса "Natural Science" - она посвящена как раз постоянным переменам и (опять!) загаживанию нашей родной планеты. В музыке - полное разнообразие, от акустического спокойствия в начале до пронизывающих гитарных риффов в середине. Ну а во вторых - просто умопомрачительная сюита "Jacob's Ladder". Эта песня настолько мрачна и по настоящему СТРАШНА, что лично меня при прослушивании натурально бьет озноб. По-моему именно это и есть величайший показатель мастерства музыкантов - затрагивать какой либо мелодией самые сокровенные струны души. Подводим итог - на "Permanent Waves" Rush смело пошли вперед и на этот раз изменились весьма ощутимо. Множество клавишных очень органично вписались в посложневшую музыку группы и никаких мыслей о "опопсении" даже в голову не приходит. Сильнейшая работа НАСТОЯЩИХ музыкантов. |
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Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antenna bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
All this machinery making modern music
Can still be open hearted
Not so coldly charted
It's really just a question of your honesty, your honesty
One likes to believe in the freedom of music
But glittering prizes
And endless compromises
Shatter the illusion of integrity
Invisible airwaves crackle with life
Bright antenna bristle with the energy
Emotional feedback on timeless wavelength
Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free
For the words of the profits
Were written on the studio wall
Concert hall
And echoes with the sounds of salesmen
Freewill
(Lee/Lifeson/Peart)
There are those who think
That life has nothing left to chance
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 aren't 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 that's clear
I will choose freewill
There are those who think
That they were dealt a losing hand
The cards were stacked against them
They weren't born in Lotusland
All preordained, a prisoner in chains
A victim of venomous fate
Kicked in the face, you can't pray for a place
In heaven's unearthly estate
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 that's clear
I will choose freewill
Each of us a cell of awareness
Imperfect and incomplete
Genetic blends with uncertain ends
On a fortune hunt that's far too fleet
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 that's clear
I will choose freewill
Jacob's ladder
(Lee/Lifeson/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 men's eyes as they look to the skies
The shifting shafts of shining weave, the fabric of their dreams
Entre nous
(Lee/Lifeson/Peart)
We are secrets to each other
Each one's life a novel no one else has read
Even joined in bonds of love
We're 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 it's time for us to recognize
The differences
We sometimes fear to show
Just between us
I think it's 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? It's hard for one to know
Just between us
I think it's time for us to recognize
The differences
We sometimes fear to show
Just between us
I think it's time for us to realize
The spaces in between
Leave room for you and I to grow
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 we're not always free
Just between us
I think it's time for us to recognize
The differences
We sometimes fear to show
Just between us
I think it's time for us to realize
The spaces in between
Leave room for you and I to grow
Different strings
(Lee/Lifeson/Peart)
Who's 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
Here's a clue to some real motivation
All there really is - the two of us
And we both know why we've come along
Nothing to explain, it's a part of us
To be found within a song
What happened to our innocence?
Did it go out of style?
Along with our naivety
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
All there really is - the two of us
And we both know why we've come along
Nothing to explain, it's a part of us
To be found within a song
Natural science
(Lee/Lifeson/Peart)
1) 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 can't see their effects
2) 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 don't 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 can't see their effects
3) 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