My feeling towards this album have always been mixed, first off its got some great songs and it was the bands best album in years when it came out and I loved the way they returned to a harder rocking sound, after years of never nailing down a proper sound in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s. The big down-point of this album though was the production, I remember years ago reading about its production techniques and the issues a lot of reviewers had with it, as I found the music was just too loud in relation to the vocals of Geddy Lee, which kind of dampened the impact of the album.
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