Rush Moving Pictures (40th Anniversary) (DMM Half-Speed Mastering) Deluxe Edition Box Set (5 LP)

Deluxe 40th Anniversary 180g Audiophile 5LP Box Set!
Cut Via Half-Speed Direct-To-Metal Mastering!
The Original Album + Complete, Unreleased Live Album On 4LP!
Includes Booklet With Illustrations & Liner Notes!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 379/500!
Celebrating 40 years of Moving Pictures with the 5LP Deluxe Edition! All vinyl has been cut via half-speed Direct-To-Metal Mastering for the first time ever and pressed on 180-gram audiophile vinyl. LP 1 features the original album, while LPs 2-5 feature the complete, unreleased Toronto concert from March 25, 1981. Extras include a booklet with new Hugh Syme illustrations & liner notes by Kim Thayil, Les Claypool, Taylor Hawkins, Bill Kelliher and Neil Sanderson.
"On Seventies albums like 2112 and Hemispheres, Rush mastered the high-prog epic. Moving Pictures was the record where they proved they could say as much in four minutes as they previously had in 20. Songs like 'Tom Sawyer,' 'Limelight,' and the Police-like 'Vital Signs' showcased the trio's superhuman chops in a radio-ready framework, while more adventurous tracks like the Morse code-inspired instrumental 'YYZ' and the synth-heavy suite 'The Camera Eye' found them tastefully streamlining their wildest ideas. Said Geddy Lee, 'We learned it's not so easy to write something simple." - Rolling Stone, The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
"Thanks to its tautness, conceptual integrity, and the fortuitous manner in which their career ambitions and radio programmer taste intersected, Moving Pictures functioned as much a harbinger of a new artistic era as David Bowie's Young Americans...Best, Rush was constitutionally incapable of cynicism. 'Alienation is the craze,' sang the Cars two years earlier, sounding neither crazy nor alienated but arch; 'Put aside the alienation,' Neil Peart countered on 'Limelight.' Optimism without sentimentality? In this biz? For a couple of hours, this Moving Pictures package envisages a world of love and light." - Alfred Soto, Pitchfork

Features:

• 40th Anniversary Deluxe 5LP Box Set
• Cut via Half-Speed Direct-To-Metal Mastering for the First Time Ever
• 180g Audiophile Vinyl
• LP1 - Original Album
• LP2-LP5 - Complete, Previously Unreleased Toronto Concert
• 24-page Booklet
• Designed by Hugh Syme with unreleased illustrations & photos
• Liner Notes by Kim Thayil, Les Claypool, Taylor Hawkins, Bill Kelliher & Neil Sanderson
• Slipcase
• Made in EU

Selections:

Disc 1 - Moving Pictures
Side A
1. Tom Sawyer
2. Red Barchetta
3. YYZ
4. Limelight
Side B
1. The Camera Eye
2. Witch Hunt
3. Vital Signs
Disc 2 - Live In YYZ 1981 (Previously Unreleased)
Side C
1. 2112 - Overture
2. 2112 - The Temples Of Syrinx
3. Freewill
4. Limelight
Side D
1. Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - Prelude
2. Beneath, Between & Behind
3. The Camera Eye
Disc 3
Side E
1. YYZ
2. Broon's Bane
3. The Trees
Side F
1. Xanadu
2. The Spirit Of Radio
Disc 4
Side G
1. Red Barchetta
2. Closer To The Heart
3. Tom Sawyer
Side H
1. Vital Signs
2. Natural Science
Disc 5
Side I
1. Working Man/Cygnus X-1 Book II:Hemispheres-Armageddon:The Battle Of Heart And Mind/By-Tor & The Snow Dog/In The End/In The Mood/2112-Grand Finale
Side J
1. La Villa Strangiato