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Rush Celebrates 30 Years of "Moving Pictures" With Surround Mixes and More

February 28, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

For fans of music in surround, every new release can be a cause for celebration. Surround music hasn't proliferated for years, but a small if steady flow keeps the torch burning over multiple formats. Last year saw the surprise launch of Rhino Handmade's Quadradisc series with classic quadraphonic titles arriving on DVD from Aretha Franklin and Chicago, while Tom Petty and UMe offered Damn the Torpedoes as a 5.1 Blu-Ray. King Crimson continued its 40th Anniversary Series on Inner Knot with a group of lauded DVD-Audio titles, and Acoustic Sounds offered remarkable three-channel mixes of Nat "King" Cole's Capitol catalogue. (Of new music in surround, Trent Reznor is offering his Oscar-winning score to The Social Network in surround.) A few weeks back, The Second Disc reported a tantalizing tidbit about a surround-sound reissue of Rush's 1981 classic Moving Pictures. Details are now in, and the news looks great!

Moving Pictures is generally considered the strongest album by the band. Members Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart built on their hard rock-meets-new wave sound pioneered on Permanent Waves, incorporating reggae and even pop influences. The Mercury label will release the 30th anniversary edition of Moving Pictures on April 5 in two formats. A CD+DVD edition will feature the original seven-track album as Disc One. Disc Two will contain the entire album in audiophile-quality surround and stereo mixes plus the music videos for "Tom Sawyer," "Limelight" and the previously-unreleased "Vital Signs." All tracks on the DVD will be presented in both 5.1 and stereo. Both mixes will be in 96 kHz/24 bit resolution for DVD-A users, and Dolby Digital 5.1 and PCM Stereo for those listeners utilizing DVD-V players.

Do you prefer your music in the more recent Blu-Ray format? No worries! Moving Pictures will also be issued as CD+BD. Again, the original album will comprise Disc One on CD, and the Blu-Ray will contain the same tracks as the DVD.  For Blu-Ray, however, the surround mixes are available in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 in addition to 96 kHz/24 bit PCM 5.1 and stereo. Engineer Richard Chycki remixed Moving Pictures for surround and wrote on his blog, "It really was an amazing experience to spread the original tracks of such a classic CD into the 3D world of surround. (The car [on the track "Red Barchetta"] speeds off, goes behind and banks a sharp right in rear, [by the way]). The listening experience is drastically enveloping and coupled with songs and performances that epitomize this band, it's definitely a great time to re-discover Rush." Chycki has revealed on his blog that he is also currently remixing the band's 2002 Vapor Trails, presumably as a standard stereo CD, for release sometime in the future.

To top off this truly deluxe package, Moving Pictures will contain new liner notes by music historian David Fricke, updated artwork by original album designer Hugh Syme, and a gallery of previously unreleased photos from the recording sessions. Hit the jump for pre-order information and a full track listing with discographical annotation!

Rush, Moving Pictures: 30th Anniversary Edition CD+DVD or CD+BD (Mercury SRM-1-4013, 1981 - reissued Mercury, 2011)

Disc 1 (CD)

  1. Tom Sawyer
  2. Red Barchetta
  3. YYZ
  4. Limelight
  5. The Camera Eye
  6. Witch Hunt
  7. Vital Signs

Disc 2 (DVD/Blu-Ray - all tracks in 5.1 Surround Sound and Stereo)

  1. Tom Sawyer
  2. Red Barchetta
  3. YYZ
  4. Limelight
  5. The Camera Eye
  6. Witch Hunt
  7. Vital Signs
  8. Tom Sawyer (Music Video)
  9. Limelight (Music Video)
  10. Vital Signs (Music Video) - previously unreleased

All tracks on Disc 2 are previously unreleased in 5.1 Surround Sound.

Categories: News Tags: Rush

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JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Chet Atkins, and many others. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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Comments

  1. ward says

    February 28, 2011 at 12:13 pm

    I recall seeing a video for "Vital Signs" in the early days of MTV. Is this a previously unreleased version?

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    • Joe Marchese says

      February 28, 2011 at 1:35 pm

      The press release and info at Rush.com states that the video for "Vital Signs" is a "previously unreleased clip." Not having seen the new DVD/BD yet myself, I can't confirm, but I hope this helps!

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      • Mike Duquette says

        February 28, 2011 at 11:08 pm

        I inferred that the video in question hadn't been commercially available, though I could be wrong.

        Reply
  2. jt says

    February 28, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    Yes, to concur, I also remember seeing Vital Signs quite often on MTV in the early 1980s.

    Reply
  3. Don says

    March 1, 2011 at 9:54 am

    As Mike said, I think by "previously unreleased" they mean that it hasn't been available for purchase before, either on VHS (or Beta... ha!) or DVD, etc.

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