The Beginning of My Journey

An Introduction

Good afternoon dear readers. I am aware that the blog at this moment looks ugly, and there will be improvements made to it in the coming weeks once my classes are concluded. A little bit about myself; I am a fan of entertainment, not really something that is all that unique or mind blowing about a person. However, I feel I have a lot to say about certain types of entertainment, whether it'd be music or comic books or films or a whole plethora of other topics. I will describe myself as passionate, someone who knows a great deal about what he is talking but is always willing to open himself to new pieces of information or new types of genres or styles that he has not heard of or experienced.

Some of you who will read this may know me as Professional Elite Overlord on Twitter; my real name is Ian. A lot of you know that one of my biggest passions is music, especially metal, and that I have been doing retrospectives of bands on my profile (almost done with a second one). This is where I will put new retrospectives from now on, so as not to bury my writings with daily Twitter posts. Nothing further to say, but expect album reviews, band and solo artist retrospective, comic book discussions, and movie reviews whenever I feel inspired to do them. I hope that many of you will stick around with me on this project as I have a lot of great ideas that I think many readers will enjoy.

Until then, take care and I'll see you around.

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Rush Retrospective Part 9: Signals (1982)

A Sleek New Form Rush were now in the unenviable position of having to capitalize the mammoth success that was “Moving Pictures”. Whatever direction the band was going to explore, inevitably fans were going to compare it to “Moving Pictures”, whether they liked it or not. Luckily, the band did not fall into the trap of resting on their laurels and in 1982, “Signals” was released. This record marks the beginning of a new era of the band, one in which the trio heavily implemented synthesizers into their music, an era that fans have dubbed the "Synth Era". Now synthesizers were an already established ingredient of Rush's music, since the late seventies in fact, but this is the release where the synths started to become a more dominant part of the song making process. “Signals” is a very bold, daring record in many respects helping to push the band's sound further, luckily not resting on the success of their previous output. The record opens with a from ...

Rush Retrospective Part 14: Roll the Bones (1991)

Immortal for A Limited Time A new decade, and a new chance for Rush to prove themselves in the music landscape. The year is 1991, a massive year for hard rock and metal bands, both new and old. Given the massive flux of successful and influences releases that were released in 1991, Rush were put in the unenviable position of having to at least match up to the new titans of the music industry. Would Rush be able to deliver their signature high quality of songwriting and musicianship into this new alt rock scene? After two consecutive weak releases at the end of the eighties, one might not be blamed for going into “Roll The Bones” with skepticism. F urthermore, Reading forums and Youtube videos about the album only compound matters for new listeners, with some saying this is one of the worst albums the trio unleashed in their lengthy career. In reality, a lot of that vitriolic attitude is both earned and unearned on "Roll The Bones." Opening off with “Dreamlin...

Rush Retrospective Part Ten: Grace Under Pressure (1984)

Synthetic Dread With “Signals”, the power trio dipped their toes into new sonic directions, a direction that took advantage of the emerging technology that was being implemented by bands around the early eighties. Rush were always about advancing their own unique brand of rock music, and they were aware that they had to adapt to the changes of the music industry in order to stay relevant. This direction was one that had diehard fans a bit taken aback but they were still willing to see where the band would go with this new focus. If “Signals” was the album where the band were toying with the ideas of synthesizers, 1984's “Grace Under Pressure” exhibited the band diving head first into this realm. Compared to “Signals”, Rush’s tenth studio outing is a much more focused release, one that takes greater advantage of the new direction that the band was toying with and in addition, Rush tackle greater, more emotionally heavy concepts. The opening track, “Distan...

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