Triumph

Bassist Mike Levine was known to quip, "Yeah, I'm Geddy. I’m just having a bad day."

It took what Mike Levine called a potential "career killer" of an album to get to this point.

Label meddling ultimately resulted in some pretty middling songs:

They claimed a unique spot in the progressive heavy-rock landscape, rising from unheralded upstarts to arena headliners within just a few years.

At this point, their career longevity was anything but certain.

Their seventh album missed the platinum plateau achieved by its immediate predecessors.