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Hold Your Fire by Rush
Hold Your Fire is an album by Rush, released in 1987. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 13 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Time Stand Still”, on 13 lists with a best position of #446.
Hold Your Fire, Rush's twelfth studio album, came out on September 8, 1987, co-produced by the band and Peter Collins. The Canadian trio went globe-trotting to make it, cutting tracks at The Manor in Oxfordshire, Ridge Farm in Surrey, AIR Studios on Montserrat and McClear Place back home in Toronto. It sits deep in their synthesizer decade: Geddy Lee's keyboards wash over everything, Alex Lifeson's guitar shimmers at the edges instead of hacking out riffs, and Neil Peart keeps the whole gleaming machine ticking.
"Time Stand Still" brought in 'Til Tuesday's Aimee Mann on vocals, and she turned up in the Zbigniew Rybczyński-directed video too. The album didn't sell like the rest of their '80s run, stalling at number 13 on the Billboard chart, their lowest peak since Hemispheres in 1978, though it went gold in the end. It was also their final studio record handled by PolyGram/Mercury outside Canada.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Hold Your Fire on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Time Stand Still | 13 | #446 | – | 1994–2025 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.