Editorial Review:

Album Description:
Japanese edition of 2003 compilation includes an exclusive bonus disc with two tracks, 'What You're Doing' (Live) & 'A Passage To Bangkok' (Live). 18 tracks. Atlantic.

Amazon.com:
Though not their first-ever career survey, Rush's Spirit of Radio compilation is an ideal point of entry for newbie fans or anyone who consistently likes the Rush songs most often heard on commercial radio. While 1990's Chronicles set was more encompassing--including tracks beyond Spirit of Radio's '87 cut-off point--the Canadian prog-rock trio's benchmark moments are represented among these 16 songs. Hence the appearance of 'Closer to the Heart,' 'Tom Sawyer,' 'New World Man,' 'Time Stand Still,' 'Fly by Night,' 'Subdivisions,' and the title track. --Kim Hughes









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Disc 1:

1. Working Man
2. Fly By Night
3. 2112 Medley
4. Closer To The Heart
5. Trees
6. The Spirit Of Radio
7. Freewill
8. Limelight
9. Tom Sawyer
10. Red Barchetta
11. New World Man
12. Subdivisions
13. Distant Early Warning
14. The Big Money
15. Force Ten
16. Time Stand Still

Rating: - Rush for begginers
For the people who listen Rush for the first time, this is the Rush album you need, this is a clear example of their best work. The Rush from the 70's and 80's is an example of creativity, passion and variety, and is just one cd with 16 essential songs.

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Rating: - Pure genius
I couldn't stand Rush back in the 70s but now listening to them, I have to wonder what I was smoking back then. Fantastic guitar work and the bass - no wonder I always thought there were more in the band, he plays it like a regular guitar. If you download it into your iPod or MP3, there are only a couple of songs I'd delete which should have been allowed to die a quiet death. That said, be sure to listen to the less well-known songs at the back of the CD, pure genius.

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Rating: - adrenalene surge
what can i say about this band that hasn't already been said,this is the greatest band canada has ever produced,and arguably,the greatest rock band the world has ever seen.this collection,has all the rush classics on here,such as working man,fly by night,spirit of radio,tom sawyer,red barchetta,subdivisions,etc.a must have for any rush fan,and for those who aren't.great cd.

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Rating: - if you are a semi Rush fan....
If you are looking for some of Rush's best's song here they are. there are so many more but it is a very good CD.I would recommend it very much as a 1st Rush CD or just a very good CD to keep in your car if you are "jonesing" for some good music.

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Rating: - The best of all the "Gonad Squeezer" bands
Rush was always by far the best of the Gonad Squeezers. I mean Robert Plant was a Gonad Squeezer, but I'm not including Led Zeppelin as a Gonad Squeezer band just because. Maybe Zeppelin was the first Gonad Squeezer band, who cares, for all intensive purposes, Zeppelin was not a Gonad Squeezer, even though Plant was.

Anyway, Rush really wasn't a typical Gonad Squeezer band at all. They were in a different league. They were really good, not as good as Zeppelin of course, but we already maintained that Zeppelin was not a Gonad Squeezer band, even though Plant was. O.K., on with the review. Sheesh.

Now, lets review the bad Gonad Squeezer bands, not like a review review, but lets just review. REO Spunkwagon was the worst of the Squeezers. Journey was tied with Triumph as the 2nd worst of the nad squashers. Now we have quasi-squeezers and semi-squashers like Toto and that kind of junk.

Now, lets review the best of the Squeezers and super-nad squashers, the orignal original Gonad Squeezers. The Stories were excellent, they came from the remnants of The Left Banke, who were really 60's and way before the term Gonad Squeezer was invented. Also, the Raspberries were great, such a great Nard Smasher of a band a ball crunching feast fit for King Arthur of the Round Table.

Now, Rush came in the early 70's and had not so much influence from the Stories and Raspberries, maybe a very little, but really Gedi Lee was influenced by fellow squeezers Robert Plant and Ozzi Ozzborne. I really like Rush, my favorite all time lyric line is "We are the priests from the temples of Sphyrinx" but it should say "We are the priests from the temples of Larynx". I think that Geddi was thinking of the word Larynx when he came up with the word "Syphrinx" or whatever. Then it says "all our great computers or something are held within our walls". I always like that stuff, its very imaginative and creative. Hats of to Geddi and the boys.

Now, Ozzi Ozzbourne was definitely a Squeezer, maybe his range wasn't as high but he definitely squoze. Thats not so much a bad thing, its ok, you're alright Ozzi, but you are a squeezer. Geddi was a Squeezer, a good one. I walked into the 7-11 one day as a little kid in the 70's and even the cashier was a long haired wannabee gonad squeezer. Maybe there was an influx of chemicals back then that made people want to all be nard squashers and talk like they got their cue balls smashed with a handyman vice grip. Oh well, it was a bad trip for everyone and bands like Rush made it slightly better.

But REO superspunkwagon ruined everything. They were horrible. You know when you look at a picture from the 1700's and everyone has that certain outdated look, they look as if they are from a bygone era, they have bigger noses and huge round faces. Well, the singer from REO Spunkwagon has that outdated look also, he always looks outdated even when he was young he already had that "outdated" look. It's funny. What a dirty gonad Squeezer that guy was.

I would say, all in all, the best gonad squeezer of all time would have to be Pavarotti. That guy must have had a gerbal in his tidy whities to hit those notes. Yeah, Pavarotti, what a perfect nard squeeler, squeezer. Oh yeah and after Pavarotti came the Beach Boys, whole nuther review.