Chronicles


Chronicles
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Disk 1

Finding My Way (5:08)
Working Man (7:12)
Fly By Night (3:21)
Anthem (4:24)
Bastille Day (4:39)
Lakeside Park (4:10)
2112 Overture / The Temples of Syrinx (6:48)
What You're Doing (live) (5:41)
A Farewell to Kings (5:53)
Closer To The Heart (2:54)
The Trees (4:41)
La Villa Strangiato (instrumental 9.34)

Disk 2

Freewill (5:23)
Tom Sawyer (4:37)
Red Barchetta (6:10)
Limelight (4:22)
A Passage To Bangkok (live 3:47)
Subdivisions (5:35)
New World Man (3:42)
Distant Early Warning (5:59)
Red Sector A (5:13)
The Big Money (5:35)
Manhattan Project (5:07)
Force Ten (4:34)
Time Stand Still (5:10)
Mystic Rhythms (live) (5:42)
Show Don't Tell (5:01)

Mercury/Anthem, September 4, 1990

Chronicles

Notes:

  • Certified Gold by RIAA: April 13, 1992 - Certified Platinum: April 13, 1992 - Certified 2x Platinum: November 21, 1995 - Highest Billboard Chart Position: 51
  • Chronicles linernotes essay, written by John Swenson
  • This was the first compilation from Rush's first 12 studio albums from their Mercury years (1974-1987). Unlike subsequent compilations, Chronicles was released before the Mercury catalog was digitally remastered.
  • "I thought they [Mercury Records] did a really shoddy job in terms of the song order...purely chronological, and the artwork was lame." - Neil Peart, Rollingstone.com, June 5, 1997