- Audio CD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Label: Atlantic
- ASIN: B000002JAI
- Other Editions: Audio CD | Audio Cassette | MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 56,742 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Track Listings
| 1. Test For Echo |
| 2. Driven |
| 3. Half The World |
| 4. The Color Of Right |
| 5. Time And Motion |
| 6. Totem |
| 7. Dog Years |
| 8. Virtuality |
| 9. Resist |
| 10. Limbo |
| 11. Carve Away The Stone |
Product Description
RUSH Test For Echo (1996 German 11-track CD for the sixteenth studio album by the Canadian rock band the disc is printed with an ice formation image and comes complete with lyric booklet picture sleeve)
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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Another good, if not great, album,
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This review is from: Test For Echo (Re-Issue) (Audio CD)
Rush could be the most consistant rock album makers ever. There`s nothing in their seventeen studio album career that is bad, even if some of their really early stuff has dated. "Test for echo", originally released in 1996, is another solid offering. The CD captures the band still in it`s transitional stage that went on throughout the Nineties, where the band were constantly cutting back on the keyboards which had dominated their Eighties albums, to get back to a sound closer to their guitar-bass-drums arrangements of the early seventies.The songs are all enjoyable even if there isn`t really anything which stands out as a classic. "Virtuality" and "Driven" both have a bone crunchingly heavy riff which goes into an acoustic led chorus, with "Driven" also having one of those outrageous instrumental breaks that only Rush can do, Geddy Lee`s multi-tracked bass line still beggars belief. "Half the world" is a pleasant sounding song with some great observations from lyricist and percussionist extrodinaire Neil Peart, the melancholy "Resist" also contains some excellent wordplay. "Time and motion" and the instrumental "Limbo" are the albums darkest moments with some unsettling musical passages. Meanwhile the keyboards haven`t completely disappeared, although they do not appear in every song like before, their place being taken by Alex Lifeson`s textural acoustic and electric guitar work. All in all it`s a well crafted rock album, albeit with no real knockout punch like a "Tom Sawyer" or "Closer to the heart" to really lift it into the best works of Rush. The really great thing about this, and all Rush albums, is that it shows the band moving forward from the album before. Now that really is the true meaning of progressive rock, and Rush remain one of the genres finest exponents.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Why would any Rush fan dislike this album?,
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This review is from: Test For Echo (Re-Issue) (Audio CD)
I must say I didn't expect that much from TFE, partly because of the reviews, and partly because I've had Rush on 'ignore' since 1988, due to a steady decline in quality beginning with Grace Under Pressure (just my opinion). But having heard (and loved) Snakes and Arrows, I thought I really should check out some of their other 'late' output to hear what I've been missing.
I've not given this a whole lot of listens, (as I've also been trying out Roll The Bones and Presto, and some Billy Cobham for when I get all Rush-ed out), but the first five tracks have been on five or six times, and they are excellent, compelling, complex, hard-edged, melodic, intelligent modern heavy/rock/prog/metal. In short, they are unmistakably 'GOOD' Rush. Nobody else does it like this. So why the moaning? Vertigo is scary, especially the spiralling, up-and-up chord progression, Driven is good to it's name, hard and relentless, and Time and Motion is the precursor to 'Spindrift', off Snakes and Arrows: nicely dark and dischordant. If you liked 'Snakes', get this: it's closer to their most recent work than Vapor Trails.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
T4E,
By whba19882@cableinet.co.uk (Kent, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Test For Echo (Audio CD)
T4E suffers from being the next studio album after Counterparts. Although this album is fairly consistent, there are not enough classic Rush moments. That said, Lifeson's Guitar is further cranked up and those pesky keyboards are almost laid to rest (thank god!). I think that the live versions of the songs included on "Different Stages" sound much better and have more energy which makes me wonder whether using Peter Collins as Producer for the 2nd album running was a mistake (this seems to have happened with "Power Windows" and "Hold Your Fire").Still, we get the wonderful Test for Echo (album opener) which sees the Trinity rocking the house down, Geddy Lee's basstastic Driven (3 bass parts!), Totem and a very enjoyable instrumental romp in Limbo. Lots of interesting use of electric and acoustic guitar - just a shame that the songs are not quite top notch by Rush's own (extremely) high standards!
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