Rush’s twelfth album, Maintain Your Hearth, started in bits and items.
Within the fall of 1986, drummer Neil Peart had began writing lyrics in a cottage, bassist Geddy Lee was tinkering with musical compositions utilizing new software program on his Macintosh laptop and guitarist Alex Lifeson was experimenting with tapes at dwelling.
Their earlier album, Energy Home windows, centered on the theme of energy, however this time Peart turned his consideration to the thought of time — the abundance of it and the occasional lack of it. The primary music Peart wrote, “Time Stand Nonetheless,” wrestled with these ideas.
“I might been occupied with this for a while now,” Peart later stated. “How so typically the richness of a time frame or an expertise appears to lie in wanting again at it. Or conversely, generally you would possibly know that you’re having fun with a beautiful time, however simply want you might make it last more.”
As soon as the music’s basis was in place, Lee sang lead on the monitor, however the band felt what it wanted was a feminine voice. Aimee Mann, singer and bassist for the brand new wave band ‘Til Tuesday, got here to thoughts.
Mann’s band had simply launched its second album, Welcome House, for which she had written nearly all of songs. The LP was a business disappointment, so Mann had little to lose when Rush known as her to ask if she was obtainable to sing on “Time Stand Nonetheless.”
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