Your favorites of these Rush songs - Volume 1

[KevShmev]

I picked songs from 1976-1987, but with a twist: I left out the heavyweights from the 1976-1981 era, as I was curious to see how well the most popular/best songs from the synth era would do against the non-heavyweights from the Big 5 (although some included are still pretty popular).

Also, I would ask that no one else do a similar-type poll for Rush this week, as I have another idea or two in mind.

You can vote for up to 7.

I went with:

Marathon
Mission
Territories
Subdivisions
Witch Hunt
Distant Early Warning
Manhattan Project

[El Barto]

Subdivisions
A Farewell to Kings
Different Strings
Circumstances
Between the Wheels
Witch Hunt
Enemy Within

Would have liked to sneak Analogue Kid in there. Maybe on another day it take's Circumstances' slot.

[Anguyen92]

Vital Signs
A Passage to Bangkok
Digital Man
Marathon
The Analog Kid
Distant Early Warning
Entre Nous

Boy, I'm glad all of those tracks I picked were played live in the 2000s tours and was recorded in the DVDs.  Good stuff.

[pg1067]

Yeesh...

On my original pass through the list, I clicked on 12 songs.  Paring the list down to 7 was painful.

I selected

Subdivisions
AFTK
Digital Man
Circumstances
Analog Kid
Cinderella Man
Enemy Within

The five I unclicked were Entre Nous, Marathon, Between the Wheels, Mission and Vital Signs

[TAC]

What an odd selection of choices...

In no particular order:

Enemy Within
Digital Man
Analog Kid
Between The Wheels
Something For Nothing
Turn The Page
Distant Early Warning

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

Subdivisions
Vital Signs
Territories
The Big Money
Time Stand Still
Marathon
The Analog Kid

Not listed in order of preference. I'm a pretty big fan of the synth era, I guess.

[Stadler]

I don't really give a crap about "eras", really, but I do tend to listen to and like some of the less popular songs, so this was hard.  I could have easily picked 10 or even more songs.

I  finally went with:
Subdivisions
A Farewell To Kings
Mission
Circumstances
Something For Nothing
The Analog Kid
Manhattan Project

[Nekov]

This was hard

Subdivisions
Vital Signs
Red Sector A
Marathon
The Analog Kid
Witch Hunt
Manhattan project

[Polarbear]

This was hard

Understatement of the century..

Subdivisions
Red Sector A
Vital Signs
Witch hunt
Enemy Within
Manhattan Project
Time Stand Still

[ProfessorPeart]

Good lord, was this tough. I don't dislike anything on that list.

Subdivisions
Territories
A Farewell to Kings
Red Sector A
Between the Wheels
Distant Early Warning
The Enemy Within

Hah! I just realized that I checked half of Grace Under Pressure. I honestly didn't realize. Guess I'm not lying about my love for that album.

[King Postwhore]

Subdivisions
Territories
Mission
Circumstances
Between the Wheels
Marathon
The Weapon

[The Letter M]

Marathon, Manhattan Project, Territories
Subdivisions, The Analog Kid, Digital Man
A Farewell To Kings

I'm not surprised I picked 3 songs from POW, but 3 from Signals did surprise me. This was a tough one!

-Marc.

[The Walrus]

Subdivisions
Territories
The Big Money
Marathon
Manhattan Project
The Enemy Within
The Weapon

[bosk1]

Proof that I am not a Rush fan:  I don't know ANY of these songs. 

[Grappler]

Subdivisions. 

That's the only song I like on that entire list. 

[King Postwhore]

Proof that I am not a Rush fan:  I don't know ANY of these songs. 

Now you are pulling our legs.  All of them.    You've never heard Subdivisions?

[Setlist Scotty]

Proof that I am not a Rush fan:  I don't know ANY of these songs. 

Time to edumacate yerself - you might be surprised how you might like some of the songs.

My choices (including my twp faves from PoW):
Subdivisions
Territories
Between the Wheels
Marathon
Something for Nothing
Witch Hunt
The Enemy Within

Those that just missed the cut include The Weapon, Red Sector A and Turn the Page.

[bosk1]

Proof that I am not a Rush fan:  I don't know ANY of these songs. 

Now you are pulling our legs.  All of them.    You've never heard Subdivisions?

I've heard of it.  But I don't believe I have ever heard it (unless it was on whatever greatest hits compilation I briefly had in the late '80s before I gave it away).

[The Walrus]

Wow, bosk, you need to fill that hole in your life with some Rush. And I thought I was late to the party getting into them at 26! 

[King Postwhore]

Proof that I am not a Rush fan:  I don't know ANY of these songs. 

Now you are pulling our legs.  All of them.    You've never heard Subdivisions?

I've heard of it.  But I don't believe I have ever heard it (unless it was on whatever greatest hits compilation I briefly had in the late '80s before I gave it away).

I figured with all the radio play it got in the 80's on your remember it.

[Snow Dog]

Subdivisions, Territories, Between the Wheels, Marathon, Force Ten, The Enemy Within, and Entre Nous.

Had Lock and Key been in the options, it’d take Force Ten’s place. Easily my favorite from HYF.

[busty sinclair]

Man talk about TOUGH

subdivisions
time stand still
between the wheels
entre nous
witch hunt
a passage to bangkok
red sector A

those last two could've been switched out for several songs on here

[Cool Chris]

Proof that I am not a Rush fan:  I don't know ANY of these songs. 

Proof that I am not a fan of 80s Rush, as I know very few of these, and could honestly only vote for 4 as songs I really like.

[Mladen]

Ooh, here we go!

Subdivisions
Territories
Red Sector A
Marathon
Force Ten
The Analog Kid
Manhattan Project

[bosk1]

Proof that I am not a Rush fan:  I don't know ANY of these songs. 

Now you are pulling our legs.  All of them.    You've never heard Subdivisions?

I've heard of it.  But I don't believe I have ever heard it (unless it was on whatever greatest hits compilation I briefly had in the late '80s before I gave it away).

I figured with all the radio play it got in the 80's on your remember it.

Nah.  They were one of those bands where if I heard them, I would instantly change the channel.

[El Barto]

All songs have at least 3 votes. That's a bit surprising to me. And I'm glad to see all the love for Between the Wheels. Didn't see that one coming. I reckon we could all see Subdivisions running away with it, though.

Since the poll function on this forum kind of sucks, hopefully Kev will compile some of this data and tell us what it all means when it's all said and done.

[KevShmev]

It means that all of us voting in this poll are smart and recognize their greatness, and those not voting in the poll need to get up to speed and acknowledge their greatness. 

[Shadow Ninja 2.0]

I was bored and threw the numbers into a spreadsheet and fucked around with Google's chart options until I got something that looked sort of decent. These first two are just the total points grouped by album, and then by era.






Then I thought that might not be an accurate portrayal of people's preferences, since some albums (Signals, Grace Under Pressure, etc.) have 4 songs represented here, whereas others (Hemispheres) have only one. So I tried taking the total score for each album, and dividing it by the number of available songs from that album, basically getting an average point score for each album, and then comparing those proportions. I did the same thing for the eras as well.

[Train of Naught]

I love Marathon

[DTA]

I find HYF to be an interesting album, because to me there are at least 7 songs where there is no unanimous favorite or clear standout. For me, Turn The Page is the best song, but I could easily say Time Stand Still is the best, or Prime Mover, or Open Secrets, etc. And I feel like there's a lot of fans who are the same in regards to this album. In that sense, it's a lot more solid throughout than other albums with clear favorites and standout tracks (Subdivisions, Between The Wheels, Natural Science, Xanadu, The Pass, etc.)

[Stadler]

I was bored and threw the numbers into a spreadsheet and fucked around with Google's chart options until I got something that looked sort of decent. These first two are just the total points grouped by album, and then by era.






Then I thought that might not be an accurate portrayal of people's preferences, since some albums (Signals, Grace Under Pressure, etc.) have 4 songs represented here, whereas others (Hemispheres) have only one. So I tried taking the total score for each album, and dividing it by the number of available songs from that album, basically getting an average point score for each album, and then comparing those proportions. I did the same thing for the eras as well.

A Rush  thread with a poll, graphs and statistics?   I have never been so proud as I am right now.   I'm choking  back tears, actually. 

[?]

Man, this was hard! Witch Hunt and TSS were no-brainers, but having to narrow the whole list down to 7 was cruel.

Witch Hunt
Distant Early Warning
Between the Wheels
Marathon
Force Ten
Time Stand Still
Mission

[Cool Chris]

It means that all of us voting in this poll are smart and recognize their greatness

Or all the songs are equally mediocre 

[King Postwhore]

It means that all of us voting in this poll are smart and recognize their greatness

Or all the songs are equally mediocre 

Or you have bad taste.  Tee Hee.

[romdrums]

I was bored and threw the numbers into a spreadsheet and fucked around with Google's chart options until I got something that looked sort of decent. These first two are just the total points grouped by album, and then by era.






Then I thought that might not be an accurate portrayal of people's preferences, since some albums (Signals, Grace Under Pressure, etc.) have 4 songs represented here, whereas others (Hemispheres) have only one. So I tried taking the total score for each album, and dividing it by the number of available songs from that album, basically getting an average point score for each album, and then comparing those proportions. I did the same thing for the eras as well.

A Rush  thread with a poll, graphs and statistics?   I have never been so proud as I am right now.   I'm choking  back tears, actually. 

It's so beautiful!

I went with:

Terrritories
The Big Money
Between the Wheels
Force Ten
Witch Hunt
Manhattan Project
Turn the Page

I could have easily voted for 10 or so more.  The consistency and quality of their output during this time is something else.