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Sadly, my interest began to wane after Signals and almost totally petered out by the Power Windows and Hold Your Fire era, which was in large part their entire '80s catalog.

I began to gain new respect for Rush when they released Roll the Bones, Counterparts and Test For Echo, however, and now eagerly await the new album they're allegedly working on.

Like previous reviewers, I own the videos Exit Stage Left and Grace Under Pressure Tour 1984 and have been waiting -- along with all other fans -- for their first-ever DVD release.

Well, Chronicles The DVD Collection is out. And I have it. And it's really nice to see these music videos again, but -- as I said at the beginning -- I'm a fan of the older material. I liked Geddy Lee's Rickenbacker bass and Alex's cream colored Gibson ES-355 used on the Farewell tour!

The sound and picture quality are just about right, given what this collection is. You won't get perfection and it won't do you any good to whine about pictures and sound that aren't pristine.

All the big hits are here. It's fun to watch vintage Rush. (Check out the hair styles slowly getting shorter with each video...along with the instruments changing from Gibsons and Rickenbackers to Fenders and Wals.)

I couldn't ask for more regarding this collection. It is what it is. It's great, in fact. If you ask me what I'd LIKE to see, however, it's entire concerts on DVD, some from as long ago as their Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres period right on up through to their Test For Echo tour. Music videos are fun and interesting, but it's the live performances that really brought out the best in Rush. So, please, let's see some Rush concert DVDs released in the next year or two!

Ahh, the memories!
I thoroughly enjoyed watching this collection of Rush video clips. The choice of tracks represents a good variety, following the band through a large span of its musical growth and evolving styles (i.e. brands of instruments, dress, appearance and stage presence). The videos from "Moving Pictures" and "Signals" brought me back to my high school days when I first started listening to the band, and I couldn't help but smile at the memories.

I am not an audiophile, but I found the sound to be clean and crisp opverall. It was interesting to watch the video production quality progress with the clips from each subsequent album, although some of the dated video effects can be described as cheesy at best. Still, I guess that's part of the collection's charm -- after all, it is a chronicle of Rush's video history.

I highly recommend this DVD for any true Rush fan. There aren't any spectacular extras here (although the "bonus" tracks are a nice addition), but for Rush, I think it's always been about the music first and foremost, anyway.

Chronicles Good Collection
This DVD compilation is a fine collection of the highwater marks in Rush's video-making history with Mercury Records. Beginning with Closer To the Heart (from 1977) and threading its way through Lock and Key (from 1987), a fan of this amazing trio will find themselves entralled, although in a few instances the videos are cheesy -- Distant Early Warning to name only one -- but you can blame that on the 80's -- everything was pretty cheesy then.
Nice additions that would make a person who already owns the VHS version want to buy it include the "in studio" version of Tom Sawyer (as opposed to the live version from the VHS version) and the bonus videos, Afterimage and The Enemy Within, which were not on the VHS version.
The sound quality is also top notch and the menus are easy to navigate.
However, I do have minor gripes : most fans know that the band have videos for Fly By Night, A Farewell To Kings, and La Villa Strangiato (song featured on the CD version of Chronicles) -- yet they are not available here. Yet Lock and Key (a song not on the CD version) is here. What?
But beyond that, this disc is a must-have for fans. Well worth the money. One can only hope that Atlantic will release a collection of videos from their post-Mercury years (starting with 1989's Presto).