RUSH Releases Audio for ‘Vital Signs (Live In YYZ 1981)’ From Upcoming “Moving Pictures” 40th Anniversary Box Set for April

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RUSH has just released the official audio for “Vital Signs (Live in YYZ 1981)” from the upcoming “Moving Pictures – 40th Anniversary” set. Check it out below.

On April 15th, UMe/Mercury and Anthem Records label groups continue the extensive RUSH 40th anniversary album series with new, expanded editions of the band’s groundbreaking 1981 release “Moving Pictures”. “Moving Pictures-40th Anniversary” will be released through UMC on April 15 and you can watch an unboxing video for the new reissue below.

RUSH’s eighth studio album, was originally released on February 12, 1981, and its adventurous yet accessible music catapulted the forward-thinking Canadian band to even newer heights as it began navigating the demands of a new decade. The album’s seven songs expertly blended Rush’s intrinsic prowess for channeling its progressive roots into radio-friendly arrangements, a template the band had mastered to a T all throughout its previous album, 1980’s deservedly lauded “Permanent Waves”. “Moving Pictures” was also the second of many Rush recording sessions at Le Studio in Morin-Heights, Quebec, which was ultimately nicknamed the trio’s own personal Abbey Road recording studio.

The album’s lead-off track, “Tom Sawyer,” became one of Rush’s most cherished FM favorites in addition to taking its rightful place as a perpetual concert staple for decades to come. Next, the band shifts into the multi-generational dreamscape of “Red Barchetta,” which chronicles the thrills and chills of a high-stakes backroads car race. The instrumental barnburner “YYZ,” lovingly named after the airport identification code for Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, runs the gamut of the band’s forever impressive progressive chops in under four minutes flat. Side A closes out with the observational luminescence of “Limelight,” a timeless, if not prescient look at how introverted artists grapple with public demands while trying to maintain a personal level of earned privacy.

Side B commences with the expansive palette of “The Camera Eye,” a multi-layered, ten-minute-long travelogue that takes a bird’s eye view of the inherent hustle and bustle of New York City counterbalanced with the intense energy and deep-rooted history of London. “Witch Hunt” (subtitled as being “Part III of Fear”) offers a grim view of prejudice and mob mentality, while the album wraps up with the angular, cutting-edge “Vital Signs,” a propulsive track that clearly foreshadows a number of the more adventurous musical directions Rush would undertake as the ever shifting 1980s continued to unfold.

The new super deluxe box set will feature three CDs, one Blu-ray Audio disc, and five high-quality 180-gram black vinyl LPs. The set encompasses the Abbey Road Mastering Studios 2015 remastered edition of the album for the first time on CD, along with two discs of previously unreleased and newly restored bonus live content newly mixed from the original analog live multi-tracks by RUSH’s original producer, Terry Brown, featuring the band’s complete, unreleased Toronto concert from Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, Ontario, on March 25, 1981.

A fourth bonus disc is a Blu-ray Audio disc with the core album newly mixed from the original multi-tracks in Dolby Atmos (a RUSH catalog first!), Dolby TrueHD 5.1, and DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround sound as done by noted producer/engineer Richard Chycki, alongside the previously available PCM Stereo mix. Also included on the Blu-ray are four bonus videos: a brand-new video for YYZ plus three remastered vintage promo videos for “Tom Sawyer,” “Limelight” and “Vital Signs” .

The Super Deluxe Edition of “Moving Pictures-40th Anniversary” will also feature a 44-page hardcover book with unreleased photos and new artwork by original album designer Hugh Syme, along with new illustrations for each song; extensive liner notes from famous fans such as Kim Thayil (Soundgarden), Les Claypool (Primus), Taylor Hawkins (Foo Fighters) and Bill Kelliher (Mastodon); a Red Barchetta model car mounted on a black perch with an MP40 nameplate; two Neil Peart signature MP40 branded drumsticks; two metal-embossed guitar picks, one each with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson’s respective signatures engraved on them; a replica of the “Moving Picture” 1981 official tour program; an MP40 logo enamel pin; a 3D lenticular ‘Moving Pictures in motion’ lithograph; an 18×24-inch Toronto 1981 concert poster; a replica concert ticket from the 1981 Maple Leaf Gardens show; a 12×36-inch Rush Through The Years 1973-1981 poster; a YYZ luggage tag; and a All Access World Tour ’81 insert.  All contents are housed in a premium lift-top box, which features movingly reimagined cover artwork by Hugh Syme.

“Moving Pictures-40th Anniversary” will also be available as a thee-CD deluxe edition, a five-LP Deluxe Edition, all of it housed in a slipcase including a single-pocket jacket for the remastered original “Moving Pictures” on LP 1, and two gatefold jackets for LPs 2-5 that comprise all 19 tracks from the complete, unreleased “Live In YYZ 1981” concert, a one-LP eCommerce exclusive edition, featuring the first-ever half-speed DMM vinyl pressing. It comes newly wrapped in a limited-edition premium tip-on style gatefold jacket with printed sleeve, and each pressing comes with one of six randomly inserted Neil Peart hand-drawn lyrics sheets.

There will also be a Deluxe Digital Edition, features the original album and all 19 bonus live performances from Toronto, and is the digital equivalent to the three-CD Deluxe Edition, and a Dolby Atmos Digital Edition, is the digital equivalent of Richard Chycki’s masterful Atmos mix of all seven tracks from the original album. 

You can pre-order any of the aforementioned formats from HERE.

“Moving Pictures-40th Anniversary” track-listing:

CD 1
Moving Pictures Original Album – Produced by Rush and Terry Brown / 2015 remaster on CD for the first time

1. Tom Sawyer
2. Red Barchetta
3. YYZ
4. Limelight
5. The Camera Eye
6. Witch Hunt
7. Vital Signs

CD 2:
“Live In YYZ 1981”
/ previously unreleased

1. 2112 – Overture
2. 2112 – The Temples Of Syrinx
3. Freewill
4. Limelight
5. Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres – Prelude
6. Beneath, Between & Behind
7. The Camera Eye
8. YYZ
9. Broon’s Bane
10. The Trees
11. Xanadu

CD 3:
Live In YYZ 1981 / previously unreleased

1. The Spirit Of Radio
2. Red Barchetta
3. Closer To The Heart
4. Tom Sawyer
5. Vital Signs
6. Natural Science
7. 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
8. La Villa Strangiato

BLU-RAY AUDIO – DISC 4: 
Dolby Atmos* / Dolby TrueHD 5.1* / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1* / PCM Stereo

* Denotes previously unreleased mixes

1. Tom Sawyer
2. Red Barchetta
3. YYZ
4. Limelight
5. The Camera Eye
6. Witch Hunt
7. Vital Signs

Bonus Promo Videos
Dolby TrueHD 5.1* / DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1* / PCM Stereo
* Denotes previously unreleased mixes
** Denotes previously unreleased video

1. Tom Sawyer
2. Limelight
3. Vital Signs
4. YYZ**

LP 1 – “Moving Pictures”
DMM Half-Speed Mastering / Original Album – Produced by Rush and Terry Brown

Side A
1. Tom Sawyer
2. Red Barchetta
3. YYZ
4. Limelight

Side B
1. The Camera Eye
2. Witch Hunt
3. Vital Signs

LP 2 – “Live in YYZ 1981”
Live In YYZ 1981 / DMM Half-Speed Mastering / previously unreleased

Side A
1. 2112 – Overture
2. 2112 – The Temples Of Syrinx
3. Freewill
4. Limelight

Side B
1. Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres – Prelude
2. Beneath, Between & Behind
3. The Camera Eye

LP 3 – “Live in YYZ 1981”
DMM Half-Speed Mastering / previously unreleased

Side A
1. YYZ
2. Broon’s Bane
3. The Trees

Side B
1. Xanadu
2. The Spirit Of Radio 

LP 4 – “Live in YYZ 1981”
DMM Half-Speed Mastering / previously unreleased

Side A
1. Red Barchetta
2. Closer To The Heart
3. Tom Sawyer

Side B
1. Vital Signs
2. Natural Science

LP 5 – “Live in YYZ 1981”
DMM Half-Speed Mastering / previously unreleased

Side A
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 B
1. La Villa Strangiato 

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