Counterparts (Rush album)

Counterparts is the fifteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released October 19, 1993, on Anthem Records. After the band finished touring its previous album Roll the Bones (1991) in mid-1992, the members took a break before starting work on a follow-up.

Counterparts
Studio album by
Rush
ReleasedOctober 19, 1993 (1993-10-19)
RecordedApril–June 1993
StudioLe Studio
(Morin-Heights, Quebec)
McClear Pathé
(Toronto, Ontario)
Genre
Length54:24
LabelAnthem
Producer
  • Peter Collins
  • Rush
Rush chronology
Roll the Bones
(1991)		 Counterparts
(1993)		 Test for Echo
(1996)
Singles from Counterparts
  1. "Stick It Out"
    Released: October 1993
  2. "Nobody's Hero"
    Released: April 1994

Counterparts reached No. 2 in the United States, one of the band's two highest-charting albums in the country, and No. 6 in Canada. The first single, "Stick It Out", was No. 1 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart for four weeks. In 1994, the instrumental "Leave That Thing Alone" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. Counterparts was remastered in 2004 and reissued in 2013 as part of The Studio Albums 1989–2007 box set. In 2015 it was reissued after being remastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios following a direct approach by Rush to remaster their entire back catalogue.

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