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What is your favorite Rush album and why?

RUSH
0 (0%)
Fly By Night
0 (0%)
Caress of Steel
1 (1.6%)
2112
4 (6.3%)
A Farewell to Kings
6 (9.4%)
Hemispheres
9 (14.1%)
Permanent Waves
12 (18.8%)
Moving Pictures
19 (29.7%)
Signals
1 (1.6%)
Grace Under Pressure
0 (0%)
Power Windows
5 (7.8%)
Hold Your Fire
0 (0%)
Presto
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Roll the Bones
1 (1.6%)
Counterparts
3 (4.7%)
Test for Echo
2 (3.1%)
Vapor Trails
1 (1.6%)
Feedback
0 (0%)
Snakes and Arrows
0 (0%)

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Re: Best Rush (studio) album?
« Reply #35 on: May 27, 2010, 05:44:58 AM »
The poll should be instead: "...other than Moving Pictures/Permanent Waves" :P

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« Reply #36 on: May 27, 2010, 08:42:05 AM »
Hemispheres is my favourite, but Moving Pictures is the best.
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Re: Best Rush (studio) album?
« Reply #37 on: May 27, 2010, 09:00:20 AM »
I went with Moving Pictures.
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Re: Best Rush (studio) album?
« Reply #38 on: May 27, 2010, 10:10:11 AM »
Who's the joker who voted for Vapor Trails? :lol

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Re: Best Rush (studio) album?
« Reply #39 on: May 27, 2010, 10:33:39 AM »
:lol If someone can honestly think Roll the Bones is their best album, then apparently anything goes.

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Re: Best Rush (studio) album?
« Reply #40 on: May 27, 2010, 11:07:00 AM »
I hope you are not insinuating that Roll the Bones is below Vapor Trails.
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Re: Best Rush (studio) album?
« Reply #41 on: May 27, 2010, 11:13:23 AM »
VT's emotion and songwriting is great, the production is bad but I don't understand the hate a lot of people have for it. 
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Re: Best Rush (studio) album?
« Reply #42 on: May 27, 2010, 11:23:27 AM »
I hope you are not insinuating that Roll the Bones is below Vapor Trails.

Of course not, but it's not too far above it.

VT's emotion and songwriting is great, the production is bad but I don't understand the hate a lot of people have for it. 

I don't "hate" Vapor Trails, it's just one of Rush's worst albums.

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Re: Best Rush (studio) album?
« Reply #43 on: May 27, 2010, 11:34:31 AM »
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Re: Best Rush (studio) album?
« Reply #44 on: May 27, 2010, 11:37:52 AM »
I am just now recovering from the shock of two people having voted for Test for Echo. :lol :biggrin:

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Re: Best Rush (studio) album?
« Reply #45 on: May 27, 2010, 08:12:05 PM »
I am just now recovering from the shock of two people having voted for Test for Echo. :lol :biggrin:

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« Reply #46 on: May 28, 2010, 09:29:00 AM »
I am just now recovering from the shock of two people having voted for Test for Echo. :lol :biggrin:

Well it's the best thing they've done since it's come out.

If you don't count Vapor Trails and Snakes & Arrows, I agree.  The best compliment I can give Test for Echo is, it was Rush's best studio album of the latter half of the 90s. :biggrin:

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« Reply #47 on: May 28, 2010, 12:22:38 PM »
I can understand an argument for S&A being better, but VT? Really? :lol :biggrin:
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« Reply #48 on: May 28, 2010, 12:25:36 PM »
VT is difficult to listen to from start to finish, for the obvious reason, but it still has five to six legitimately very good to great songs, while TfE might have one or two, at most.  And while VT has a couple of ordinary songs, it has nothing as vomit-inducing as "Time and Motion."   

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« Reply #49 on: May 28, 2010, 12:27:35 PM »
Test For Echo has at least 3 excellent tracks and 3 or 4 more good ones.
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« Reply #50 on: June 06, 2010, 02:59:34 PM »
Test For Echo has at least 3 excellent tracks and 3 or 4 more good ones.

I'm still trying to figure out why Half The World wasn't a commercial smash.

I'd love to hear Totem live one day. 

There's really not a lot to dislike except for Carve Away The Stone and the title track doesn't really hold up well for me either.

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« Reply #51 on: June 07, 2010, 01:19:29 PM »
I'd love to hear Totem live one day. 

Me too.  I was shocked when that wasn't played on the TfE tour.

There's really not a lot to dislike except for Carve Away The Stone and the title track doesn't really hold up well for me either.

"Carve Away the Stone" is kind of like the last tracks from Rush's last two albums: neither noteworthy nor bad; just pretty good.

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Re: Best Rush (studio) album?
« Reply #52 on: June 07, 2010, 01:21:05 PM »
"Carve Away the Stone" is kind of like the last tracks from Rush's last two albums: neither noteworthy nor bad; just pretty good.

I find that to be the case with every Rush album since Roll The Bones. I often forget about those songs, tbh.  :lol

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« Reply #53 on: June 07, 2010, 01:23:18 PM »
I love "Everyday Glory" waaaaaaaaaay too much to say that, but last songs on Rush albums aren't as impressive as they used to be.  Interestingly, Power Windows is the last Rush studio album where the last song on it got played live.

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« Reply #54 on: June 07, 2010, 01:33:24 PM »
I was wondering the same thing the other day - is it weird that the last song on the last seven albums is actually one of my lesser favorites from that particular album? Except for Available light, that one is awesome.  ;D

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« Reply #55 on: June 07, 2010, 04:19:59 PM »
Voted for Counterparts, and I'll just re-use some of what I wrote in the top 5 albums thread, since it appeared there as well: as much as I love their earlier progressive insanity, Rush's return to a more organic, three-piece, hard-edged sound on this album was pure awesome.  Concise songs, yet still with immense complexity oozing out of every measure.  In addition, lyrically, the album stands out as my favorite from Peart, which is saying a lot. The concepts of relationships, sex, race, etc. all intertwine throughout the journey, no counterpart left unscrewed. All of these factors conjoin to produce my favorite Rush album, and the only proper musical choice for navigating that wilderness of mirrors we call life.

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Re: Best Rush (studio) album?
« Reply #56 on: June 07, 2010, 04:34:45 PM »
Where's the love for 2112? I thought that was one of their most revered albums, up there with Waves and Pictures, and I'm utterly shocked that almost no one else is picking it as their favorite...
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« Reply #57 on: June 07, 2010, 04:38:10 PM »
2112 is more of a classic album just for the first song alone and being responsible for revitalizing Rush's career, not for being an album full of stellar songs.  As a whole its still pretty awesome though, but there are a lot of albums that outclass it.

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« Reply #58 on: June 07, 2010, 04:40:29 PM »
2112 the song is awesome.  The rest of the album is just okay, in my opinion.

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« Reply #59 on: June 07, 2010, 04:41:28 PM »
2112 is more of a classic album just for the first song alone and being responsible for revitalizing Rush's career, not for being an album full of stellar songs.  As a whole its still pretty awesome though, but there are a lot of albums that outclass it.

Hmm. I personally love the other 5 songs on it. I consider the album damn near perfect with no weak link at all.
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« Reply #60 on: June 07, 2010, 06:11:39 PM »
If you asked every Rush fan in the world to rank their studio albums, 2112 would easily finish in the consensus top 5, but it probably wouldn't be number 1 on too many lists.  It is very highly-regarded by most, but not many would say it is their absolute best.  It is like PT's "Trains" being so popular; a lot of people might not say it is their best song, but most would agree that it is one of their best songs, hence it is consistently among their popular overall songs; same thing with Rush and the 2112 record.

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« Reply #61 on: June 07, 2010, 06:19:10 PM »
Well put, and I agree.
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« Reply #62 on: June 07, 2010, 07:58:01 PM »
Makes enough sense.
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« Reply #64 on: June 08, 2010, 12:01:48 PM »
After listening to it earlier, Permanent Waves just took the #1 spot over AFtK in my list!
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« Reply #65 on: June 09, 2010, 05:28:05 PM »
I was going to rank the last songs on the Rush studio albums going back to Power Windows, but I can't seem to even manage that other than to say I really like them a lot.

My least favorites are "You Bet Your Life" and "Carve Away The Stone". I'd like to hear the rest ("High Water," "Available Light," "Everyday Glory," "Out Of The Cradle" and "We Hold On"  live very much).



I like the second side of 2112 as much as I do the first side. "Twilight Zone" (although it has some cool effects) if probably the weakest song for me.

But then I'm as likely to choose Caress of Steel over 2112 as I am not.

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« Reply #66 on: June 10, 2010, 09:38:39 AM »
I like the second side of 2112 as much as I do the first side. "Twilight Zone" (although it has some cool effects) if probably the weakest song for me.

"The Twilight Zone" might be my favorite song from Side 2; I love the galloping bass line during the verses.  "Tears" is my other favorite from Side 2.  The other three songs are all good, as well, but those two are my favorites from Side 2.  :coolio

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« Reply #67 on: June 21, 2010, 05:05:27 PM »
I like the second side of 2112 as much as I do the first side. "Twilight Zone" (although it has some cool effects) if probably the weakest song for me.

"The Twilight Zone" might be my favorite song from Side 2; I love the galloping bass line during the verses.  "Tears" is my other favorite from Side 2.  The other three songs are all good, as well, but those two are my favorites from Side 2.  :coolio

I went through a phase where I really liked "The Twilight Zone." 

I kind of like "Tears" too, but after hearing James sing it, I don't really think of it the way I used to. James sings it so much better. Geddy does a pretty good job too, but he still had a lot to learn by that point.

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« Reply #68 on: June 21, 2010, 06:03:02 PM »
VT is difficult to listen to from start to finish, for the obvious reason, but it still has five to six legitimately very good to great songs, while TfE might have one or two, at most.  And while VT has a couple of ordinary songs, it has nothing as vomit-inducing as "Time and Motion."  

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« Reply #69 on: June 21, 2010, 06:17:32 PM »
To explain it yet again :p, the chorus is "Time and Motion" is nothing short of atrocious, and the keyboard sound they use underneath the main riff is laughably bad.  It is just a really bad song, which even Rush is not immune to.  But I forgive them for it. :biggrin: