Rush's three 90s albums are fairly easy to rank:
1. TfE
2. Counterparts
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Last. RtB
Roll the Bones is, for my money, the only truly bad Rush album. There's very little redeeming about it, and it was a huge disappointment after Presto. Counterparts was better but still not great. At the time, Nobody's Hero held some significance since my fiancée's (now wife) father was in the process of dying of AIDS. Animate is ok but becomes redundant after too many listens. Stick It Out is probably my favorite song, but I don't really seek it out. Several of the others are decent but again, I don't really seek them out. The last time I listened to Counterparts all the way through, I was left with the feeling that I had seriously overrated it at the time (probably only because it was an improvement on RtB).
TfE is better still, although I probably don't reach for it any more often than I do Counterparts. The title track, Driven, Half the World and Resist are good songs. I like the use of the dulcimer on Half the World, and I prefer the live acoustic version of Resist. Virtuality, on the other hand is absolutely terrible, and Dog Years isn't significantly better. TfE is fairly similar to Presto in that it has some good songs (although nothing on TfE is as good as Available Light) but also some monster duds.