Like pg1067, I can understand DEW making the top 75 list, but I too am surprised at it ranking as high as it did. For me it’s another one of those tracks that got overplayed and I got burned out on, and even then, it was always a mid-tier track from p/g IMO. So no surprise that it didn’t make my top 75 list, placing at #83.
But add me to the list of those who absolutely love AL - such an amazing and heartfelt track. Their second best ballad, only behind LI in my book. One of the best closers on any of their albums, something that I personally feel was not Rush’s strong suit. AL made it to #13 on my list.
As for those on my list that have been locked out as of now, they are:
Making Memories (72), Beneath Between & Behind (57)
High Water (69), Lock and Key (62), Turn the Page (42)
Scars (67), Chain Lightning (61), Red Tide (56)
Where’s My Thing (50)
Alien Shore (11)
Limbo (75), Resist (58), Time and Motion (36)
Nocturne (66), Freeze (59), Secret Touch (47), Vapor Trail (44)
Malignant Narcissism (71), Spindrift (55), The Main Monkey Business (40), Far Cry (38)
Clockwork Angels (45), The Anarchist (16)
I'm a huge Presto fan to begin with - I think I had 9 out of 11 songs on my list - but this was highest (Superconductor is next at 25).
You had Stupidconductor *that* high on your list?!
Hand over Fist was my #165 song...beating out only BU2B2.
You like Rivendell and I Think I’m Going Bald more?!?
30 - The Fountain of Lamneth - In retrospect, 30 seems a bit high. It's super spotty. TFOL is here on the strength of No One at the Bridge.
I'd say the opening and closing sections are right up there too. It's just the other 3 parts that are very meh and that it's so disjointed that it didn't make my list.