Talk:Presto (album)

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Shifting away from the synthesizers

I thought the quote by Geddy Lee underscores the important observation that Presto represented a major change away from Power Windows and Hold Your Fire. V Schauf (talk) 06:46, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

ALSO, can we classify this as being better than "Start-Class"???V Schauf (talk) 06:46, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Pop Rock"

What?

The album consists of mainly songs in the vein of pop rock - what else would you classify them as? Wisdom89 20:32, 10 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Pop rock

For the listed genres, I would like to propose replacing pop with pop rock. The Sterogum article cited as well as other sources, including the AllMusic review as well as "Rush: The Illustrated History" by Martin Popoff indicate that Presto is rock with a poppier sound. SomePersona (talk) 21:49, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

The Stereogum article cited says, "...Presto would turn out to be yet another continuation of Rush's great pop experiment." It says "pop", not "pop rock".

I do not see anything about "rock with a poppier sound" in the AllMusic review. All I see is "...always been a band that you could count on to push the boundaries of what rock was capable of, and their discography contains a laundry list of ambitious albums that helped to bring prog to a wider audience. Having said that, Presto is not one of those albums." I read that as saying the album doesn't push the boundaries of rock and isn't ambitiously bringing prog rock to a wider audience. Other than those notes about what it doesn't do, I'm not getting anything helpful re genre. - SummerPhD^v2.0 23:14, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Nonetheless, rock in general should definitely be included as a genre. Pop rock, however, is much more intuitive. SomePersona (talk) 23:43, 24 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I did find one source that literally says the album is "pop/rock": Inside Rock Guitar: Four Decades of the Greatest Electric Rock Guitarists by Dave Rubin [1] SomePersona (talk) 02:54, 25 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]