Roll the Bones by Rush

Roll the Bones, Rush's fourteenth album, came out on September 3, 1991, on Anthem in Canada and Atlantic everywhere else, with the band co-producing with Rupert Hine at Le Studio in Morin-Heights, Quebec. Picking up where Presto left off, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson and Neil Peart kept pushing the synths to the back and the guitars to the front, and they let some funk and jazz into the room too, most famously the rap Lee delivers on the title track.

Peart's lyrics circle chance, fate and luck, the dice of the title (and of Hugh Syme's Juno-winning cover). "Where's My Thing?" was their first instrumental since 1981 and earned a Grammy nomination. The record reached No. 3 on the Billboard 200, their highest US showing since Signals, and went platinum, though that rap split the critics.

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