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Which grouping of original studio albums would you take for the rest of your life?

Rush through Hemispheres, Vapor Trails, Snakes & Arrows and Clockwork Angels
Permanent Waves through Test for Echo

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Offline KevShmev

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Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« on: August 09, 2021, 07:23:55 PM »
Let's make this one a little more fun.

I have to go with the 80's and 90's.  I took the 80's over the 70's in the previous poll, and of the six studio albums post-80's, two of my three favorites are from the 90's (Roll the Bones and Counterparts).



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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #1 on: August 09, 2021, 07:28:58 PM »
The only album I’d really miss out of Group 1 is Vapor Trails. Group 2 plus Vapor Trails is my favorite run from Rush.
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #2 on: August 09, 2021, 07:32:34 PM »
Permanent Waves through Test For Echo
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #3 on: August 09, 2021, 07:32:58 PM »
This is like the mean vs the average. Hard to leave out Hemispheres from ANY Rush album list.....but the balance of music in the second option is better.
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #4 on: August 09, 2021, 07:34:08 PM »
Second option, no contest.
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #5 on: August 09, 2021, 09:08:05 PM »
Second option, slight contest... :biggrin:
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #6 on: August 09, 2021, 10:31:35 PM »
Permanent Waves messes this up for me. I'd nearly take Rush-Hemispheres over the entire rest of the discography, but PW might be my favorite Rush album start to finish. But I could realistically do without everything else in Option 2 (except The Pass, which has some nostalgic value, aside from being a killer song). So... Option 1, I guess.
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #7 on: August 10, 2021, 02:01:44 AM »
First group easily. Only the debut and Vapor Trails are weak albums in this group.

Second group contains 4 weak Rush albums: Hold Your Fire, Presto, Roll the Bones and Test for Echo.

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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #8 on: August 10, 2021, 03:10:29 AM »
I'll vote for whichever group has Moving Pictures, Hold Your Fire and Counterparts in.
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #9 on: August 10, 2021, 06:23:16 AM »
Quote from: The Curious Orange on August 10, 2021, 03:10:29 AM
I'll vote for whichever group has Moving Pictures, Hold Your Fire and Counterparts in.

No, no, the correct answer is to say, "I'll vote for whichever group has Power Windows." :P :P
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #10 on: August 10, 2021, 06:39:42 AM »
Well, this was relatively easy too - the second group has all of my top 5 Rush, so that's that  :biggrin:
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2021, 07:12:34 AM »
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The only album I’d really miss out of Group 1 is Vapor Trails. Group 2 plus Vapor Trails is my favorite run from Rush.

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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #12 on: August 10, 2021, 07:16:20 AM »
My first thought was 70's without question, but this is harder than it looks.  I'd be skipping Moving Pictures, Signals and Presto. But if I go 80's, I'd be skipping AFTK and Hemispheres.

I think it might be the 80's after all. 
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #13 on: August 10, 2021, 07:24:36 AM »
Man, I don't know.
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #14 on: August 10, 2021, 09:31:53 AM »
And here we go again (in a good way).

Let's start with the '80s and '90s.  We've got PEW, MP, Signals, Presto, Counterparts and TFE.  The rest can be largely disregarded as four of the band's bottom six albums.

For the other category, we've got FBN, 2112, Kings, Hemispheres, VT, half of the debut, half of COS, and a few songs on each of S&A and CW.

All I can say is that, for me, you did a great job of making these categories really even.  I think I'm going to go with the '70s-plus.  However, I predict that the '80s and '90s will dominate -- probably by an even greater margin than in the '70s v. '80s poll.
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #15 on: August 10, 2021, 09:41:16 AM »
I'm leaning on choosing not to decide, which means I still have made a choice.

Seriously, not sure I can vote here. Analysis paralysis.
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #16 on: August 10, 2021, 01:04:38 PM »
This is really tough I need to give it some thought.  Good job KevShmev making this (at least for me) pretty even and a real tough call!
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« Reply #17 on: August 10, 2021, 01:34:21 PM »
On the surface, it seemed like it would be a tough decision.  The first option has some great albums in Fly By Night, 2112, AFTK, Hemispheres, Vapor Trails, and Clockwork Angels.  When matched against the 80s and 90s output, though, for me, there's really no other choice.  Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Power Windows, and Grace Under Pressure are all consistently great, and this period also contains my sentimental favorite in Presto (the first Rush album that really clicked with me to love it, back in high school around '96-97ish).  Hold Your Fire is still good in spite of its overall mellower nature.  And even my lesser liked albums in Signals and Roll the Bones are still miles above those in the other eras (S/T, Caress of Steel, and Snakes and Arrows).

So 80s and 90s Rush it is.
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« Reply #18 on: August 10, 2021, 01:48:40 PM »
80's and 90's for me, since those are the albums I listen to most consistently. 
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #19 on: August 10, 2021, 02:57:34 PM »
80s but you can keep the awful TFE.
The other option has three albums I never play - the debut, S&A and VT. The highs of 70s Rush beat 80s Rush though.
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #20 on: August 10, 2021, 03:11:19 PM »
WTF kind of choices are these? :lol

What's better, albums 1-5 + albums 11 & 15 + albums 18-20 vs the rest? WUT?
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« Reply #21 on: August 10, 2021, 03:42:43 PM »
The next poll should be PEW, MP & Sig vs. the rest of the catalog.
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« Reply #22 on: August 10, 2021, 05:25:32 PM »
Quote from: Trav86 on August 10, 2021, 03:42:43 PM
The next poll should be PEW, MP & Sig vs. the rest of the catalog.

This would be rest of the catalog for me without question.
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #23 on: August 10, 2021, 06:16:05 PM »
Already have the idea for the next one in place thanks to a great suggestion from Stadler.  :hat :hat
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #24 on: August 10, 2021, 06:53:32 PM »
I have to go 80's and 90's.  PW and MP are my 2 favorite Rush albums.  So, it's pretty easy for me.  If you split up PW and MP, it might be a harder call.
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« Reply #25 on: August 11, 2021, 02:47:06 AM »
Permanent Waves through Test for Echo. I guess that's the mood I've been in over the more recent years, I keep spinning the 80s and 90s Rush but rarely go back to the early stuff.
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #26 on: August 11, 2021, 11:20:23 AM »
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WTF kind of choices are these? :lol

What's better, albums 1-5 + albums 11 & 15 + albums 18-20 vs the rest? WUT?

Next will be the odd numbered albums versus the even numbered albums (which I wish I hadn't thought of because I'm now going to have figure out what that would look like).
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #27 on: August 11, 2021, 11:26:27 AM »
Quote from: pg1067 on August 11, 2021, 11:20:23 AM
Quote from: TAC on August 10, 2021, 03:11:19 PM
WTF kind of choices are these? :lol

What's better, albums 1-5 + albums 11 & 15 + albums 18-20 vs the rest? WUT?

Next will be the odd numbered albums versus the even numbered albums (which I wish I hadn't thought of because I'm now going to have figure out what that would look like).

I made a suggestion to Kev that I'm pretty proud of, myself.
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« Reply #28 on: August 11, 2021, 12:47:36 PM »
Quote from: Stadler on August 11, 2021, 11:26:27 AM
Quote from: pg1067 on August 11, 2021, 11:20:23 AM
Quote from: TAC on August 10, 2021, 03:11:19 PM
WTF kind of choices are these? :lol

What's better, albums 1-5 + albums 11 & 15 + albums 18-20 vs the rest? WUT?

Next will be the odd numbered albums versus the even numbered albums (which I wish I hadn't thought of because I'm now going to have figure out what that would look like).

I made a suggestion to Kev that I'm pretty proud of, myself.

Which was...??
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Re: Rush for the rest of your life: 70's, 00's and 10's vs. 80's and 90's
« Reply #29 on: August 11, 2021, 12:57:07 PM »
Patience, good sir.  That will be the next Rush poll I run.  I will probably put it up by Friday, so your wait will not be long.  :tup :tup
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« Reply #30 on: August 19, 2021, 06:48:42 PM »
Quote from: ProfessorPeart on August 10, 2021, 09:41:16 AM
I'm leaning on choosing not to decide, which means I still have made a choice.

Seriously, not sure I can vote here. Analysis paralysis.

The only correct answer regarding Rush. All part of one body of work.
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