Welcome to Backtracking – the podcast where two old friends take a second listen to influential bands' catalogs. For our first season, we've selected none other than legendary Canadian power trio Rush.

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LISTEN TO THE ALBUM:
Rush “Hemispheres”

CHAPTERS:

0:00: An Open as Cold as Apollonian Logic

0:24: Did you notice that Raf’s part rhymed just like the song?

3:07: A Brief Simon LeBon Interlude

6:27: Cyngus Basics

7:13: Hugh Syme’s Hemispheres are both male buttcheeks.

16:18: The Rapscallion Terry Brown, & The Ruins of Rockfield

20:08: Is this Rush’s best album from soup to nuts?

23:37: Side A, Track One: “Cygnus X-1 Book 2: Hemispheres”

1:05:02: So ends this Hemidisk. Until the next Hemidisk.

ERA CHEAT SHEET PLAYLISTS:
Bell Bottoms 1974 - 1976
Space Kimonos 1977 - 1981
Skinny Ties 1982 - 1987
Black Tees 1989 - 1997
In the End 2002 Onward

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