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 pc and guitarist Alex Lifeson was experimenting with tapes at house.
Their earlier album, Energy Home windows, targeted on the theme of energy, however this time Peart turned his consideration to the concept of time — the abundance of it and the occasional lack of it. The primary track Peart wrote, “Time Stand Nonetheless,” wrestled with these ideas.
“I would been fascinated by this for a while now,” Peart later said. “How so usually the richness of a time period or an expertise appears to lie in wanting again at it. Or conversely, typically you would possibly know that you’re having fun with an exquisite time, however simply want you could possibly make it last more.”
As soon as the track’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 Residence, 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 out there to sing on “Time Stand Nonetheless.”
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