Roll the Bones

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Bone Roll is 14th studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1991. The song was recorded at Le Studio in Morin-Heights, Quebec and McClear Place in Toronto, Ontario with Rupert Hine back as a producer. The album won the 1992 Juno Award for best album cover design. Roll the Bones became Rush Top 5's first Rush album since 1981 Moving Pictures , peaking at # 3 on Billboard 200. It also achieved RIAA certification 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 The Studio Albums 1989-2007 set.

The 10-track album included six songs released as singles during 1991 and 1992.

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

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

No matter what kind of song you choose to play, you are risking your life on it, good or bad, and what you believe is what you... No one can ever be sure , in nature this best random universe.
That is why the essence of these songs is: if there is a chance, you should take it. So what if some part of life is nonsense? Get out there and shoot the bullshit. The random universe does not have to be useless ; we can change opportunities, load dice, and roll over again... For anyone who has not seen Groucho Marx game play You're Betting Your Life , I mean no one except Groucho who knows the secret word, and one guess as good others... Anything can happen. It's called fate.

The liner notes contain a vague phrase "now dark". Peart then explains that "The phrase happened in the classic David Lynch Blue Velvet ."