![]() More than that, and maybe most importantly, Moving Pictures invigorated a rapidly aging heavy music image with the modern sounds and textures of the 80s. Most obviously, but not necessarily adequately appreciated, Moving Pictures was responsible in a big way for bringing prog rock back to the mainstream during a time when the mainstream had all but abandoned it. ![]() That may be true in a broad sense, but both the immediate impact and enduring legacy of the Canadian power trio’s eighth album come down to features that actually make Moving Pictures heavy music’s ultimate bridge album. People tend to talk about Rush’s music as an object of either love or hate, an experience with no middle ground. How did that happen for a band that had previously met with success, but mostly within a niche defined by hard rock sounds and progressive songwriting, which is hardly chart-topping territory? There’s no doubt music nerds will forever argue over which Rush album is the best, but there’s really no disputing the objective truth that Moving Pictures was and is the band’s most successful, having sold more than 4 million copies worldwide and featuring in countless lists and discussions of the best rock music ever. ![]() Moving Pictures represents the final bit of arc in that second phase, marking the band’s second major transition, this time to a more modern and streamlined rock and roll, still progressive, though less aggressively so. By the time Rush released Moving Pictures early in 1981, they’d already completed a major phase shift from blues-based hard rock to full on prog rock and then produced no fewer than four indisputably classic albums.
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