"Roll The Bones" In A Rush To Hit Gold CD

“Roll The Bones” In A Rush To Hit Gold CD

June 14, 2011 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

Earlier this year, Mercury celebrated 30 years of Rush’s Moving Pictures with a deluxe edition including surround mixes and music videos. A more unexpected anniversary for Rush will be recognized next month when Audio Fidelity releases a 24k Gold CD of Roll the Bones, just in time for the platinum seller’s 20th anniversary. The 1991 album, the 14th studio effort by Rush, was produced by the band and Rupert Hine (Tina Turner, Howard Jones) and became Rush’s first Top 5 album in a decade. Audio Fidelity’s limited edition is available for pre-order now through the label’s website.

Roll the Bones found Geddy Lee (bass), Alex Lifeson (guitar) and Neil Peart (drums) refining the hard rock-meets-new wave Rush sound for a new decade. The title track even features a surprising rap section! The rare instrumental “Where’s My Thing?” netted the band a Grammy nomination. And if the overall production was a bit more guitar-driven and pop-flavored, Rush didn’t back away from darker lyrical explorations. Every song was credited to the three band members and despite mortality being a key theme of the album, “Bravado,” “Ghost Of A Chance,” “Roll the Bones” and “Dreamline” all received significant radio airplay. “Dreamline” reached the top spot on the US Mainstream Rock chart; “Bones” and “Ghost” both went Top Ten. The success of Roll the Bones paved the way for 1993’s Counterparts, which became Rush’s highest-charting album in the United States when it hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

Audio Fidelity’s Gold CD is mastered by Kevin Gray and as soon as an Amazon link becomes available, we’ll insert a pre-order link below! In the meantime, hit the jump for the direct Audio Fidelity link as well as the track listing with discographical information!

Rush, Roll the Bones (Atlantic 7 82293-2, 1991 – reissued Audio Fidelity AFZ 116, 2011)

Dreamline
Bravado
Roll the Bones
Face Up
Where’s My Thing? (Part IV, “Gangster of Boats” Trilogy)
The Big Wheel
Heresy
Ghost of a Chance
Neurotica
You Bet Your Life

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Joe Marchese

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 and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.

Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.

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.