The Albums
Permanent Waves
Moving Pictures
Round 15's Results:
Hemispheres 9 (52.9%)
Permanent Waves 4 (23.5%)
Moving Pictures 4 (23.5%)
03. Hemispheres
04. Power Windows
05. Signals
06. A Farewell To Kings
Clockwork Angels
08. Grace Under Pressure
09. 2112
10. Counterparts
11. Presto
12. Test For Echo
13. Caress Of Steel
14. Hold Your Fire
15. Fly By Night
Snakes & Arrows
17. Vapor Trails
18. Roll The Bones
19. Rush
Somehow I knew it would come down to these two! Hemispheres places third, with just over half of the previous round's votes. I wonder how close this one might be? For me, I'm voting MP - I think I like PEW just a bit more, and it might have to do with the fact that Side A of MP has been a bit over-played to my ears, and PEW blends the band's prog technical prowess with pop-rock sensibilities (The Spirit Of Radio, Freewill), even though they weren't afraid to go full prog (Natural Science, Jacob's Ladder). It's pretty close, though!
Now that we've done the instrumentals and the studio albums, I think next I'll be doing the live albums, and there are a lot post-2002, so we'll have a fairly sizable pool of albums to vote from!
-Marc.