Through the Camera Eye

1985 video by Rush

Video by

Rush

Released

July 17, 1985 (Betamax, VHS, Laserdisc)

Recorded

1981-1984

Genre

Progressive rock

Length

42:34

Rush chronology

Through the Camera Eye
(1985)

Chronicles
(1990)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Through the Camera Eye is a videocassette/laserdisc release by the Canadian band Rush. It was released in 1985 by PolyGram Records.^[2] It contains promotional videos issued for the band's albums Moving Pictures (1981), Signals (1982) and Grace Under Pressure (1984). Absent from the collection were the videos for "Limelight" and the album version of "Tom Sawyer", both filmed at Le Studio (the same locale as the "Vital Signs" video). The live version of "Tom Sawyer" comes from the concert video Exit... Stage Left (1982). No DVD re-issue was released.

The concept of "The Camera Eye" is a literary device used by the author John Dos Passos in his U.S.A. trilogy.

Track listing

"Distant Early Warning" - 5:31
"Vital Signs" - 4:42
"The Body Electric" - 5:08
"Afterimage" - 5:11
"Subdivisions" - 5:37
"Tom Sawyer" - 4:43^[A]
"The Enemy Within" - 4:22
"Countdown" - 5:56
"YYZ (Credits) - 1:24

Notes

^ Live version from the Exit...Stage Left video

Personnel

Geddy Lee - Rickenbacker, Fender Jazz, Steinberger Bass, Minimoog Synthesizer and Moog Taurus Bass Pedals Oberheim OB-X, Oberheim OB-Xa, Oberheim DSX, Roland JP-8.
Neil Peart - Electric and Acoustic Drums and Percussion
Alex Lifeson - Fender Stratocaster, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson ES-355 Electric Guitars and Moog Taurus Bass Pedals

References

^ Through the Camera Eye at AllMusic
^ Billboard May 25, 1985, page 27

Rush

Jeff Jones
John Rutsey

Studio albums

Rush (1974)
Fly by Night (1975)
Caress of Steel (1975)
2112 (1976)
A Farewell to Kings (1977)
Hemispheres (1978)
Permanent Waves (1980)
Moving Pictures (1981)
Signals (1982)
Grace Under Pressure (1984)
Power Windows (1985)
Hold Your Fire (1987)
Presto (1989)
Roll the Bones (1991)
Counterparts (1993)
Test for Echo (1996)
Vapor Trails (2002)
Snakes & Arrows (2007)
Clockwork Angels (2012)

Live albums

All the World's a Stage (1976)
Exit... Stage Left (1981)
A Show of Hands (1989)
Different Stages (1998)
Rush in Rio (2003)
R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour (2005)
Snakes & Arrows Live (2008)
Grace Under Pressure Tour (2009)
Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland (2011)
Clockwork Angels Tour (2013)
R40 Live (2015)

Live videos

Exit... Stage Left (1982)
Grace Under Pressure Tour (1986)
A Show of Hands (1989)
Rush in Rio (2003)
R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour (2005)
Rush Replay X 3 (2006)
Snakes & Arrows Live (2008)
Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland (2011)
Clockwork Angels Tour (2013)
R40 Live (2015)

Compilations

Rush Through Time (1979)
Chronicles (1990)
Retrospective I (1997)
Retrospective II (1997)
The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974–1987 (2003)
Gold (2006)
Retrospective III: 1989–2008 (2009)
Working Men (2009)

Video compilations

Through the Camera Eye (1985)
Chronicles (1990)

Box sets

The Studio Albums 1989–2007 (2013)

Extended plays

Feedback (2004)
Cygnus X-1 (2017)

Singles

1970s	"In the Mood" "Fly by Night" "Lakeside Park" "The Twilight Zone" "Closer to the Heart" "Circumstances" "The Trees"
1980s	"The Spirit of Radio" "Entre Nous" "Limelight" "Tom Sawyer" "Vital Signs" "New World Man" "Subdivisions" "Countdown" "Red Sector A" "Afterimage" "The Big Money" "Mystic Rhythms" "Time Stand Still" "Show Don't Tell"
1990s–2010s	"The Pass" "Dreamline" "Roll the Bones" "Ghost of a Chance" "Stick It Out" "Nobody's Hero" "Test for Echo" "Half the World" "Driven" "One Little Victory" "Secret Touch" "Summertime Blues" "Far Cry" "Spindrift" "Caravan" "Headlong Flight"