Rush-Moving Pictures (1981)

It is true that for many the end of progressive rock came with the resounding, forceful and disastrous appearance on the scene of British punk, for others it ended with The Wall by Pink Floyd, however, strictly speaking, the last great progressive album of any of The classic bands is Moving Pictures by Canadians Rush. And like most of the classic progressive bands, like Yes, Genesis or Camel, Rush would be oriented in the eighties to a more electronic and less risky sound, and to a certain extent more commercial.
However, this work still contains remnants of the progressive height of the previous decade, and the rock energy of the band remains intact if we compare it with that of their seventies albums, that is why the work is saved, and not only that, It is the album that placed Rush on a world-renowned plane, mainly due to his spectacular opening song "Tom Sawyer", which never yields to the sweet honeys of conformity, and ends up being a classic song of the progressive rock due to its enormous complexity and its amazing interpretive mastery.
But the work also has other notable songs, such as the instrumental and spectacular "XYZ", the evocative "Red Barchetta", the epic and at times glorious "The Camera Eye" where Alex Lifeson on guitars and Neil Peart on drums they look like they rarely have, or the mystical "Witch Hunt". Moving Pictures undoubtedly stands out as a great album at a time when the classic progressive had died.