Rush-Hold Your Fire (1987)

Rush in 1987 would publish his penultimate album of the decade of the 80, just two years later of the work Power Windows would appear in the market the disc that concerns us today, the usually belittled Hold Your Fire. At first it might seem that it does not differ much from its predecessor, but nothing is further from reality. In Hold Your Fire the guitars recovered a lot of prominence (without reaching the levels of the 70s of course), and while Power Windows gave off a pessimistic aura Hold Your Fire embraces us with warm songs, something that matches the covers of each work. And it is that Neil seems to be tired of the pessimistic and social-themed letters that flooded Grace Under Pressure and Power Windows, and began to talk about issues about human nature, the passage of time and even love, which would have been unthinkable ten years before
As far as music is concerned, we are faced with a very compact disc, with a very homogeneous sound and that is impossible to confuse with any other disc of the Canadians. It is a more generalist AOR, they were left completely of progressive influences and offered us an album that could be signed at times by bands like Toto. However, this very homogeneous sound coupled with its long duration (50 minutes, the longest album of Rush to date) leaves us an album that was more and less with some expendable songs.
Magical songs such as "Force ten", "Time Stand Still", "Open Secrets" or the progressive "Lock and Key" stand out on the album.