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1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rush_13_power_windows.jpg]]
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3	''Power Windows'' is the twelfth studio album by Music/{{Rush\|Band}}, released in 1985 through Anthem Records in Canada, Creator/VertigoRecords in the UK, and Creator/MercuryRecords internationally. Released at the height of the "synth era", this album showed Rush going full 80's with digital recording and mixing (which would carry over to subsequent albums), keyboards, synthesizers, sequencers, samplers, etc. The sound was also simplified more, going from progressive rock to a more electronic, arena rock sound.
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5	Regarded by fans and critics alike as one of the band's finest albums, ''Power Windows'' contains some of their most popular songs, such as "The Big Money", "Marathon", and "Mystic Rhythms". "The Big Money" and "Mystic Rhythms" also were supported with two music videos that got a lot of airplay on Creator/{{MTV}}.
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8	!! Tracklist:
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10	# "The Big Money"
11	# "Grand Designs"
12	# "Manhattan Project"
13	# "Marathon"
14	# "Territories"
15	# "Middletown Dreams"
16	# "Emotion Detector"
17	# "Mystic Rhythms"
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20	!!Principal Members:
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22	* Geddy Lee - lead vocals, bass, bass pedals, synthesizer
23	* Alex Lifeson - guitar
24	* Neil Peart - drums, percussion
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27	!! Big Tropes go around the world!
28	* AnimatedMusicVideo: The video for "The Big Money" featured CGI that's primitive by today's standards.
29	%% * BroughtToYouByTheLetterS: Well, brought To You By The Letter "M"
30	* DarkerAndEdgier: "Mystic Rhythms".
31	* EpicRocking: No song on this album is under 5 minutes. "Marathon" and "Territories" are both over 6 minutes.
32	* HorribleHistoryMetal: "Manhattan Project" is about the UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki, from the development of the bomb to the ''Enola Gay'' dropping Little Boy onto Hiroshima.
33	* LighterAndSofter
34	* LiteraryAllusionTitle: Peart has confirmed that "The Big Money" was named after a novel of the same name in the ''U.S.A.'' trilogy by John Dos Passos, of whom he is an admirer. However, he has also remarked that the lyrical content of the song differs somewhat from the thematic ideas presented in Dos Passos' novel. Dos Passos had previously provided the title for "The Camera Eye" on ''Music/{{Moving Pictures\|Album}}''.
35	* LyricalDissonance: "Manhattan Project" is a very happy, energetic song about the UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki.
36	* MoneySong: "The Big Money".
37	* NewSoundAlbum: Rush's synth-driven sound goes digital.
38	* OneWordTitle: "Marathon" and "Territories".
39	* SmallTownBoredom: "Middletown Dreams".
40	* VisualPun: The album cover.

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