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Roll the Bones

Roll the Bones
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Studio album by Rush
Released September 3, 1991
Recorded Le Studio, Morin-Heights, Quebec and McClear Place, Toronto, Ontario
Genre Hard rock
Length 48:04
Label Anthem (Canada)
Atlantic
Producer Rupert Hine, Rush
Rush chronology
Presto
(1989)		 Roll the Bones
(1991)		 Counterparts
(1993)
Singles from Roll the Bones
  1. "Dreamline"
    Released: 1991
  2. "Roll the Bones"
    Released: 1991
  3. "Ghost of a Chance"
    Released: April 1992
  4. "Bravado"
    Released: 1992
  5. "Face Up"
    Released: 1992
  6. "Heresy"
    Released: 1992
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3/5 stars
Entertainment Weekly (B)
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 2.5/5 stars

Roll the Bones is the fourteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1991. It was recorded at Le Studio in Morin-Heights, Quebec and McClear Place in Toronto, Ontario with Rupert Hine returning as producer. The album won the 1992 Juno Award for best album cover design. Roll the Bones became Rush's first US Top 5 album since 1981's Moving Pictures, peaking at #3 on the Billboard 200. It also achieved an RIAA certification of platinum, the latest Rush album to date to do so. The album was remastered and re-released in 2004 as part of the Atlantic Records "Rush Remasters" series. In 2013, it was remastered and re-released, this time as part of the box set The Studio Albums 1989-2007.

"Dreamline" and "Roll the Bones" were popular radio staples of the early 90s, with the former reaching No. 1 on the Album Rock Tracks chart, while "Where's My Thing?" became the band's third instrumental and was their second song to be nominated for a Grammy, in 1991, losing to Eric Johnson's "Cliffs of Dover". Coincidentally, Johnson went on to provide support for the Roll the Bones tour in fall of 1991; alternative rockers, The Beyond supported them in Europe in 1992. The musical style of Roll the Bones paved the way for the "alternative" style of 1993’s Counterparts.

"Bones" is a slang term for dice. In the Roll the Bones tourbook of 1991–92, Neil Peart described both the mindset of the lyrics written for not only the title track, but also the album:


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