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Title: Rush Survivor 2020 - The Album Covers - Round 1
Post by: The Letter M on September 30, 2020, 01:42:50 PM

Welcome to the first ever Rush Album Covers/Artwork survivor! Rush have plenty of iconic album covers, and I debated including the live albums or not, but I feel like there are some good ones in the live sets, though I decided not to include any compilations or box sets, since most of that artwork relies on recycled elements from other album covers.

For the first few rounds, I will do multi-vote elimination, so PLEASE VOTE FOR FIVE here, and the five albums with the most votes will go out first, barring any odd ties.

Rush
Fly By Night
Caress Of Steel
2112
All The World's A Stage
A Farewell To Kings
Hemispheres
Permanent Waves
Moving Pictures
Exit...Stage Left
Signals
Grace Under Pressure
Power Windows
Hold Your Fire
A Show Of Hands
Presto
Roll The Bones
Counterparts
Test For Echo
Different Stages
Vapor Trails
Rush In Rio
Feedback
R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour
Snakes & Arrows
Snakes & Arrows Live
Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland
Clockwork Angels
Clockwork Angels Tour
R40 Live

-Marc.

Title: Re: Rush Survivor 2020 - The Album Covers - Round 1
Post by: jingle.boy on September 30, 2020, 03:02:40 PM

Wow... all over the place so far - only Feedback getting multiple votes!  Some people missed the memo of VOTE FOR FIVE!

Fly By Night
Caress of Steel
Hold Your Fire
Feedback
R30

Title: Re: Rush Survivor 2020 - The Album Covers - Round 1
Post by: pg1067 on September 30, 2020, 03:10:42 PM

Well...these are all just meh:

R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour
Snakes & Arrows Live
Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland
Clockwork Angels Tour
R40 Live

R30 is probably the most bland.

But, when I initially thought I was getting only one vote, I was going to vote for A Show of Hands because I think it's just dumb.

But now that I see we get five votes, I'll go with the following:

R30
A Show of Hands
Roll the Bones
Snakes and Arrows Live
Hold Your Fire

Quote from: jingle.boy on September 30, 2020, 03:02:40 PM

Wow... all over the place so far - only Feedback getting multiple votes!  Some people missed the memo of VOTE FOR FIVE!

Fly By Night
Caress of Steel
Hold Your Fire
Feedback
R30

DAFUQ?!  Fly by Night is one of my favorite album covers ever, and I have seriously considered getting a tattoo of that owl.

Title: Re: Rush Survivor 2020 - The Album Covers - Round 1
Post by: DTA on September 30, 2020, 04:44:44 PM

First 4 then Hemispheres

Title: Re: Rush Survivor 2020 - The Album Covers - Round 1
Post by: Setlist Scotty on September 30, 2020, 07:54:24 PM

It's funny how the way I rank the cover art does not necessary line up with how I rank the music. For instance, I rate AtWaS and CP highly, but their respective covers do little for me. OTOH, I rank ESL and Feedback way low musically, but like the cover art for both. Go figure.

My choices this round:
Rush
All the World's a Stage
Hold Your Fire*
Counterparts*
R30

* would not have been voted for if the internal artwork had been used for the cover instead

Title: Re: Rush Survivor 2020 - The Album Covers - Round 1
Post by: IDontNotDoThings on September 30, 2020, 08:10:01 PM

All The World's A Stage
A Show Of Hands
Rush In Rio
Feedback
R30

Just a thought, but maybe for future rounds you could put images of the covers in the OP, so people can get a side-by-side comparison.