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Everything Your Listeners Ever Wanted to Hear by Rush... But You Were Afraid to Play partly due to both the increasing length and complex nature of the material. "2112" had been a surprise success in 1976, but still had not received much airplay. The band were working on a fifth studio album to be released later in 1977, so presumably the compilation was intended to promote some of the more radio-friendly tracks from the albums in between. Incidentally, the album's back cover has a blurb from "Circus" magazine with the headline "'Closer To The Heart' Will Be The Group's Sixth LP". Though no rare material is included, two songs were excerpts from their corresponding full-length