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A Show Of Hands[2 LP]

Rush Format: Vinyl
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 485 ratings
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 Intro [Live]
2 The Big Money
3 Subdivisions
4 Marathon

Disc: 2

1 Turn the Page
2 Manhattan Project
3 Mission

Disc: 3

1 Distant Early Warning
2 Mystic Rhythms
3 Witch Hunt (Part III of Fear)
4 The Rhythm Method

Disc: 4

1 Force Ten
2 Time Stand Still
3 Red Sector a
4 Closer to the Heart

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Remastered on 200-gram vinyl at legendary Abbey Road - all from original analogue masters - RUSH's 3rd live album, A Show Of Hands, was released in January, 1989. A Show of Hands was recorded while on tour in Birmingham, U.K., New Orleans, Phoenix and San Diego during the 1988 Hold Your Fire tour, as well as in the Meadowlands in New Jersey during the 1986 Power Windows tour.

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 12 x 12.6 x 1 inches; 8 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Mercury
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ 00602547118301
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2015
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ December 9, 2014
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Mercury
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00QR7ZMXU
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 485 ratings

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4.7 out of 5 stars
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Rush's "Dark Period" of the 80's...Live
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Rush's "Dark Period" of the 80's...Live
This is part three of a comprehensive four part series of Music Reviews of the Progressive Rock band Rush. When a band has been around as long as RUSH has (30 years), their musical styles will change and evolve, just not always for the best. I group the bands third set of releases into what is known as Rush's "Synthesizer Period". All of these albums came out during the 1980's and represent the band's post-Moving Pictures era. The albums are Signals (1982), Grace Under Pressure (1984), Power Windows (1985), Hold Your Fire (1987) and A Show of Hands "Live" (1988).A Show of Hands is a snapshot of the Hold Your Fire tour. Only two songs on the record, Mystic Rhythms and Witch Hunt were from the preceding Power Windows tour. I'm only giving Show of Hands 3 stars. But this is compared to all of Rush's other Live offerings, which I consider better. Production is good, even better than Exit Stage Left, but I just don't like a lot of these selections, which are predominantly from Power Windows and Hold Your Fire, my two least favorite Rush albums. Personally, I would just like to forget that the 80's even happened and that one of my favorite progressive hard rock bands had to travel down this dark path of synthesizer laden "new wave" crap.On the bright side, for a fully loaded single disc that used to cost about $14, you can now pick up this '97 re-master for around $8 brand new. Now that's a bargain.Not recommended. For completists only.
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akgdoa
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT ALBUM
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2023
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Much better than "Exit." First live album will always be a classic! This one really gets you thinking (unlike the others). Peart, to me, is one of the best lyricists the WORLD has ever produced. Songs like "Manhattan Project", "Marathon", and especially "Red Sector A" really set your mind pondering. The latter especially, which to me is one of the best (and most poignant) songs ever recorded. My heart still stops when I hear that song, and I'm not even Jewish. Saw that tour and will never forget it. Only wish "The Weapon" had been on it.
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James E Mosley
5.0 out of 5 stars Sound is impressive.
Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2023
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 One of the best recordings I on. sound is the best for a live album even better than most of my studio albums.
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Brad
5.0 out of 5 stars Top notch
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2015
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A fantastic live album by my favorite band! Contrary to other reviews this album is one of my top live albums of theirs. It may take many repeated listens to "get" where they are at this point in time, much like any of the studio albums from 1983-1987. This IS Rush still in their prime though and one of my favorite era's of the bands career. I got my father to go back and listen to these 80's albums and he now finally understands what was so great about this time. Prior he was stuck on the "Rush was only good up to Moving Pictures" bandwagon, and he is hard to get to change his opinion on anything. So my suggestion, if you "hate" this era, is that you go back and take a hard listen. You might just find that this music is not as "bad" as you remember....

My favorite tracks on this albums are Distant Early Warning, The Big Money, Closer to the Heart, and Witch Hunt.
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JOHN D
5.0 out of 5 stars A Show Of Hands
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2021
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I recently purchased A Show Of Hands and was pleasantly surprised how much I liked this CD. I bought Signals about a year ago and rarely listened to it. I was going through my Rush CDS and saw Signals and after listening to it I have added to my collection Hold Your Fire, Power Windows, Grace Under Pressure (One Of My Favorites) and Clockwork Angels Tour. These CDS are a different sound for Rush. The musicianship on this CD is excellent. This is one of the best live Rush CDS in my collection. A must have if you are a Rush fan.
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Robert Stokes
4.0 out of 5 stars A great sounding concert album
Reviewed in the United States on March 10, 2024
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If you like live Rush you must get this double album. Top quality and nice song selection, new and old. Only complaint is that it came with a large scratch on side 3 but luckily still plays. It was a new album.
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Kevin D. Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars Two and both warped
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2020
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Tried two so far and both warped. Refund still processing since Feb 26! Well, I recently rolled the dice and tried a 4th copy (there was a third after my initial review). Hooray! I finally received a copy with both records not warped. This is a great album and the pressing is excellent. If you're a Rush fan, just buy it. Hopefully, the warped records are becoming a thing of the past. I did adjust my rating to 5 stars based on the music and the pressing. It's still aggravating that the first three I bought were badly warped.
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Mateo
5.0 out of 5 stars Shipped faster than expected!
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2022
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Great album I purchased as a gift hoping it would arrive in time. Shockingly, it was delivered in 2 days, AND 3 days before the expected start of arrival time (Feb 25 - Mar 3). Excellent job during these unpredictable times. Thanks
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Red Arteta
5.0 out of 5 stars Represent 89!
Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2015
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A Show of Hands encapsulates Rush's "new wave" period, a much maligned era in their evolution. I love this period, it's not hard to separate earlier Rush from this and appreciate what they were doing at this time, using different instrumentation, more synth and taking in strong influences from post-punk 80's contemporaries. I will give you that Peart's earnestly humanistic lyrics don't always mesh well with synth swells and the generally uplifting vibe, call it cheesy I guess. But Alex's slicing PRS guitar on something like "Turn the Page" is undeniably Rush and impressively performed here. If you don't like this period of Rush than you definitely will not like this, but I'm certainly enjoying it. The vinyl reissues have been an excellent value overall and they sound great. A Show of Hands on 2 LP is no exception!
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marcello silva
5.0 out of 5 stars Novamente na coleção
Reviewed in Brazil on March 27, 2023
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Assim com muitos eu troquei este LP por CD na época. Logicamente um erro, mas esta versão nova e de 200 gramas é logicamente melhor do que eu tinha. Esta turnê foi uma das melhores e maiores do Rush. Vale cada centavo.
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smithy2374
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 4, 2023
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This is a fantastic album from Rush. They are such a great rock band that are easy to listen too. I purchased several of their remastered CD's in one go!
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David_H
5.0 out of 5 stars Nice pressing fast delivery
Reviewed in Canada on May 16, 2021
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Sounds great. Rush live is much like the studio Rush. You know what you're getting. Excellence.
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Luisito
5.0 out of 5 stars Clásico directo.
Reviewed in Spain on January 12, 2021
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Criticado por muchos, adorado por otros entre los que me incluyo.
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Em Ka
5.0 out of 5 stars Eins der besten Live-Alben aller Zeiten!
Reviewed in Germany on November 29, 2020
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Durch das zu frühe Ableben Neil Pearts am Beginn dieses Jahres ist der Name "Rush" wieder öfter gefallen. Ich habe sie ja offengestanden auch erst kurz davor für mich zu entdecken begonnen (Schande über mich)!

Jedenfalls ist mir relativ schnell klar geworden, dass ich ordentlich Nachholbedarf hatte und habe mir häppchenweise Tonträger des kanadischen Super-Trios zukommen lassen. Mittlerweile ist mein CD-Regal bestens mit Rush-Veröffentlichungen ausgestattet & auch meine Vinyl-Sammlung durfte sich über so manchen Zuwachs freuen. Da ich generell auch ein Freund von Live-Mitschnitten bin, lag es natürlich nahe, sich auch diesbezüglich mit entsprechendem Material einzudecken...

Ich habe nun viele (nicht alle) Live-Alben der Kanadier gehört und besitze diese auch. Schlecht gefallen hat mir kein einziges - im Gegenteil! Besonders angetan war/bin ich aber von "A Show Of Hands", das 1988 erschienen ist und sich vor allem aus Songs zusammensetzt, die in den Jahren 1982-1987 (also von "Signals" bis zu "Hold Your Fire") entstanden sind. Die einzige Ausnahme ist der Schlusstitel "Closer To The Heart" vom großartigen "A Farewell To Kings" von 1977. Da ich, wie ich nun behaupten kann, ein großer Fan speziell dieser Schaffensperiode bin, ist es natürlich naheliegend, dass mir gerade dieses Live-Dokument so gut gefällt.

Aber allein die Songauswahl ist es nicht, die diesen Tonträger (auf Vinyl wären's 2) so unwiderstehlich macht. Der Sound ist einfach klasse: 80er-Jahre-Klischees (Synthiepop, glatt, steril usw.) hin oder her - hier wird gerockt, was das Zeug hält! Neil Peart beweist, warum er zu den besten seines Fachs gezählt wurde/wird, Mr. Lifeson steuert den nötigen Drive bei und Geddy Lee bietet eine gesangliche Glanzleistung nach der anderen, während er nebenbei virtuos Bass & Keyboard spielt & obendrein noch die Synthies bedient... Klar: "A Show Of Hands" ist kein Heavy-Metal-Album, aber Rush war ja auch keine Heavy-Metal-Band! Ob man die Stilrichtung der Kanadier mit dem oft überstrapazierten Wort "Progressive Rock" am nächsten kommt oder ob man es einfach leidenschaftlich gute, hochklassige Rockmusik nennt, überlasse ich anderen Leuten & Schubladendenkern. Meines Erachtens ist Rush eigentlich nur sehr schwer einer gewissen Stilrichtung zuzuordnen. Dazu waren die Kanadier einfach zu vielseitig (und vielleicht auch zu clever)...

Auf "A Show Of Hands" jagt wirklich ein Super-Song den nächsten und ehrlich gesagt halte ich es für müßig, jetzt extra irgendwelche Tracks hervorzuheben. Für mich persönlich sind aber vor allem "The Big Money" (samt stimmigem Intro), "Marathon", "Distant Early Warning", "Witch Hunt", "Force Ten", "Time Stand Still" und "Closer To The Heart" die Gourmetstücke hierauf. Grundsätzlich würde ich die Scheibe (oder die Vinyl-Scheiben) nur am Stück hören - so kann man das Live-Feeling, die Dynamik & die tolle Atmosphäre am besten genießen.

Fazit: Das 1988 erschienene "A Show Of Hands" ist vielleicht die beste Live-Veröffentlichung des famos-virtuosen kanadischen Power-Trios namens Rush. Es dokumentiert einen relativ begrenzten Zeitraum, was die Songauswahl einerseits ein bisschen einschränkt, andererseits aber für einen tollen Flow sorgt. Die Energie, die Lee & Co. hier versprühen, ist fast "greifbar". Der Sound ist völlig in Ordnung und passt zu den Songs. Für mich generell eines der allerbesten Live-Dokumente aller Zeiten!

Wer Lust auf mehr bekommen sollte, kann ja noch zwischen zig anderen Rush-Live-Veröffentlichungen wählen, die mittlerweile erhältlich sind. "Exit... Stage Left", "Rush In Rio", "Time Machine" oder z.B. "Clockwork Angels Tour" böten sich da unter anderem an. Rush-Sympathisanten würde ich all diese Erscheinungen wärmstens empfehlen.

Anspieltipp: Genießen Sie das Ganze am besten am Stück!

Mein Urteil: +++++

Prädikat: MUSTHAVE (nicht nur für Fans)
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