Moving Pictures is the eighth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on February 12, 1981, by Anthem Records. After touring to support their previous album, Permanent Waves (1980), the band started to write and record new material in August 1980 with longtime co-producer Terry Brown. They continued to write songs with a more radio-friendly sound, featuring tighter and shorter song structures compared to their earlier albums. Moving Pictures received a positive reception from contemporary and retrospective music critics and became an instant commercial success, reaching number one in Canada and number three in both the United States and the United Kingdom. It remains Rush’s highest-selling album in the United States, with five million copies sold. “Limelight”, “Tom Sawyer” and “Vital Signs” were released as singles across 1981, and the instrumental “YYZ” was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Rush supported the album on tour from February to July 1981. In 2020, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 379 on its list of the “500 Greatest Albums of All Time”.

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1. Moving Pictures
2. Tom Sawyer
3. Red Barchetta
4. YYZ
5. Limelight
6. The Camera Eye
7. Witch Hunt
8. Vital Signs
9. Live in YYZ 1981
10. 2112 - Overture
11. 2112 - The Temples Of Syrinx
12. Freewill
13. Limelight
14. Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - Prelude
15. Beneath, Between & Behind
16. The Camera Eye
17. YYZ
18. Broon’s Bane
19. The Trees
20. Xanadu
21. The Spirit Of Radio
22. Red Barchetta
23. Closer To The Heart
24. Tom Sawyer
25. Vital Signs
26. Natural Science
27. I - Working Man / Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres – Armageddon: The Battle Of Heart And Mind / By-Tor & The Snow Dog / In The End / In The Mood / 2112 – Grand Finale
28. La Villa Strangiato

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