Hold Your Fire

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Hold Your Fire
Studio album by Rush
Released September 8, 1987
June 3, 1997 (remastered CD)
Recorded The Manor Studio, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire; Ridge Farm Studio, Rusper, Surrey; Air Studios, Montserrat; McClear Place Toronto, Canada, October 1986 - April 1987
Genre Hard rock, synthpop
Length 50:21
Label Anthem (Canada)
Mercury (USA)
Vertigo (Europe)
Producer Peter Collins and Rush
Rush chronology
Power Windows
(1985)		 Hold Your Fire
(1987)		 A Show of Hands
(1989)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3/5 stars[1]
Rolling Stone 2/5 stars[2]
Metal Storm 7.7/10 stars[3]
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Hold Your Fire is the 12th studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in the fall of 1987 (see 1987 in music). The album was recorded at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, Ridge Farm Studio in Surrey, Air Studios in Montserrat and at McClear Place in Toronto.[4] Hold Your Fire was the last Rush studio album released outside Canada by PolyGram/Mercury.

Rush continued to explore new songwriting territory in Hold Your Fire. "Tai Shan", for example, is influenced by classical Chinese music, and its title is a reference to Mount Tai in China's Shandong province, which lyricist Neil Peart discovered during his bicycle trip in China.[5] 'Til Tuesday bassist and vocalist Aimee Mann contributed vocals to "Time Stand Still" and also appears in the Zbigniew Rybczyński-directed video for the song.[5]

Hold Your Fire marked the first time that Geddy Lee used the Roland D-50 keyboard.

Contents

[edit] Reception

Hold Your Fire was a commercial disappointment in comparison to other Rush albums. It stalled at No. 13 in the Billboard 200 album chart, the first time a Rush studio album failed to reach the Top 10 since 1978's Hemispheres.[6] Although Hold Your Fire was certified gold in the United States shortly after its release, it failed to reach platinum status according to the RIAA, becoming the first Rush studio album to do so since 1975's Caress of Steel.[7]

In a 2009 interview with Blender, Geddy Lee expressed regret in including the song "Tai Shan" on the album, calling it an "error." "We should have known better," he said.[8]

[edit] Track listing

All lyrics written by Neil Peart except "Force Ten" by Peart and Pye Dubois, all music composed by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson[4].

No. Title Length
1. "Force Ten"   4:31
2. "Time Stand Still"   5:09
3. "Open Secrets"   5:38
4. "Second Nature"   4:36
5. "Prime Mover"   5:19
6. "Lock and Key"   5:09
7. "Mission"   5:16
8. "Turn the Page"   4:55
9. "Tai Shan"   4:15
10. "High Water"   5:33

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Band Members

[edit] Additional musicians

  • Aimee Mann – additional vocals
  • Andy Richards – additional keyboards, synthesizers programming
  • Steven Margoshes – strings arranger and conductor
  • The William Faery Engineering Brass Band arranged and conducted by Andrew Jackman

[edit] Production

[edit] Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1987 Billboard 200 (North America)[6] 13
1987 RPM100 Albums (Canada)[9] 12
1987 UK Album Chart [10] 10
1987 German Album Chart[11] 34
1987 Swedish Album Chart[12] 21
1987 GfK Dutch Album Chart[13] 40

[edit] Singles

Information
"Time Stand Still"
  • Released: October 19, 1987
  • Written by: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson & Neil Peart
  • Produced by: Peter Collins and Rush
  • Chart positions: #3 US Mainstream Rock[14]
"Force Ten"
  • Released:
  • Written by: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart & Pye Dubois
  • Produced by: Peter Collins and Rush
  • Chart positions: #3 US Mainstream Rock[14]
"Lock and Key"
  • Released:
  • Written by: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson & Neil Peart
  • Produced by: Peter Collins and Rush
  • Chart positions: #16 US Mainstream Rock[14]
"Prime Mover"
  • Released: April 11, 1988
  • Written by: Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson & Neil Peart
  • Produced by: Peter Collins and Rush
  • Chart positions:

[edit] Sales certifications

Country Organization Sales
U.S. RIAA Gold (500,000)[7]
Canada CRIA Platinum (80,000)[15]
UK BPI Silver (60,000)[16]

[edit] Remaster details

A remaster was issued in 1997.[4]

  • The tray has a picture of three fingerprints, light blue, pink, and lime green (left to right) with "The Rush Remasters" printed in all capital letters just to the left, mirroring the cover art of Retrospective II. All remasters from Moving Pictures through A Show of Hands are like this.
  • Includes all the artwork that came with the original album.

Another remaster was released in 2011 as part of the Sector 3 compilation.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Rush Hold Your Fire review". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/album/hold-your-fire-r17147/review. Retrieved 2011-11-20. 
  2. ^ "Rush Album Guide". Rolling Stone. http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/rush/albumguide. Retrieved 2011-11-20. 
  3. ^ Espiau, Olivier (23 April 2010). "Rush - Hold Your Fire". Metal Storm. http://www.metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=7836. Retrieved 2011-11-20. 
  4. ^ a b c (1997) Album notes for Hold Your Fire (Remastered Edition) by Rush [CD booklet]. New York: Mercury Records.
  5. ^ a b Collins, Jon (2005). "And then there were three". Rush: Chemistry : The Definitive Biography. London, UK: Helter Skelter Publishing. pp. 150-152. ISBN 978-1905139286. 
  6. ^ a b "Hold Your Fire Billboard Albums". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/album/hold-your-fire-r17147/charts-awards. Retrieved 2011-11-20. 
  7. ^ a b "RIAA Database Search for Rush". Recording Industry Association of America. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?table=SEARCH. Retrieved 2011-11-20. 
  8. ^ "Dear Superstar: Geddy Lee", Blender, March 17, 2009. (accessed 29 January 2012)
  9. ^ "Top Albums/CDs - Volume 47, No. 2, October 17 1987". Library and Archives Canada. 17 October 1987. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.0886&type=1&interval=50&PHPSESSID=m89iq841abagb37ld9c0fdc1f3. Retrieved 2011-12-01. 
  10. ^ "Hold Your Fire Chart Stats". Chart Stats.com. http://www.chartstats.com/release.php?release=43769. Retrieved 2011-12-01. 
  11. ^ "Album - Rush, Hold Your Fire". Charts.de. Media Control Charts. http://www.charts.de/album.asp?artist=Rush&title=Hold+Your+Fire&cat=a&country=de. Retrieved 2011-12-01. 
  12. ^ "Rush - Power Windows (Album)". Swedishcharts.com. Media Control Charts. http://swedishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Rush&titel=Hold+Your+Fire&cat=a. Retrieved 2011-12-02. 
  13. ^ "Rush – Hold Your Fire (Album)" (in Dutch). Gfk Dutch Charts. Media Control Charts. http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Rush&titel=Hold+Your+Fire&cat=a. Retrieved 2011-12-02. 
  14. ^ a b c "Hold Your Fire Billboard Singles". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/album/hold-your-fire-r17147/charts-awards/billboard-single. Retrieved 2011-11-20. 
  15. ^ "Gold Platinum Database - Title: Hold Your Fire". Music Canada. http://www.musiccanada.com/GPSearchResult.aspx?st=hold&ica=False&sa=rush&sl=&smt=0&sat=-1&ssb=Artist. Retrieved 2011-11-20. 
  16. ^ "BPI Certified Award Search for Rush". British Phonographic Industry. http://www.bpi.co.uk/certifiedawards/search.aspx. Retrieved 2011-11-21. 
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