Official Top 75 Rush songs Thread!!! (Top 2 revealed!!)

[nick_z]

Tim also sent me a sneak peak of his list before he had to edit it.

It's a great list 

[wolfking]

Tim also sent me a sneak peak of his list before he had to edit it.

It's a great list 

I'd send it myself if it were allowed.

[wolfking]

Nutted out my top 25.  Pretty happy with it.  Now it gets tougher but looking at it, my approach has worked well up til now.

EDIT:  Fuck me though, this band is just fucking off the charts.  Absolutely incredible.  This exercise is making me appreciate them more than I did when I got into them.

[pg1067]

Tim also sent me a sneak peak of his list before he had to edit it.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit.

[wolfking]

Tim also sent me a sneak peak of his list before he had to edit it.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit.

I threw up in my pants typing it out.

[nick_z]

Tim also sent me a sneak peak of his list before he had to edit it.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit.

The truth is, this exercise is helping the (few) nonbelievers realize the greatness of Power Windows  Admit it, as you are putting together your list, you can't help but think - how did I not see?

[wolfking]

Tim also sent me a sneak peak of his list before he had to edit it.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit.

The truth is, this exercise is helping the (few) nonbelievers realize the greatness of Power Windows  Admit it, as you are putting together your list, you can't help but think - how did I not see?

Speak the truth brother! 

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Tim also sent me a sneak peak of his list before he had to edit it.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit.

The truth is, this exercise is helping the (few) nonbelievers realize the greatness of Power Windows  Admit it, as you are putting together your list, you can't help but think - how did I not see?

Speak the truth brother! 

Amen!

[HOF]

Tim also sent me a sneak peak of his list before he had to edit it.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit.

The truth is, this exercise is helping the (few) nonbelievers realize the greatness of Power Windows  Admit it, as you are putting together your list, you can't help but think - how did I not see?

Speak the truth brother! 

Amen!

*Meryl Streep shouting and pointing in agreement GIF*

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

Tim also sent me a sneak peak of his list before he had to edit it.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit.

The truth is, this exercise is helping the (few) nonbelievers realize the greatness of Power Windows  Admit it, as you are putting together your list, you can't help but think - how did I not see?

Speak the truth brother! 

Amen!

*Meryl Streep shouting and pointing in agreement GIF*

[HOF]

 

[TAC]

[Deadeye21]

Power Windows is a great album, but two of the songs didn’t make it to my top 75, and on,y one track from it hit my top 10. The answer to which one that is may surprise you!

[TAC]

That fact that any song from Power Windows made the Top 10 is surprise enough.

[HOF]

Power Windows is a great album, but two of the songs didn’t make it to my top 75, and on,y one track from it hit my top 10. The answer to which one that is may surprise you!

There’s a 1 in 4 chance it’s the same as mine. ;-)

[Deadeye21]

Power Windows is a great album, but two of the songs didn’t make it to my top 75, and on,y one track from it hit my top 10. The answer to which one that is may surprise you!

There’s a 1 in 4 chance it’s the same as mine. ;-)

Well, what’s yours?

[TAC]

You guys better take it to PM before Kev comes in with a retort.

[wolfking]

That fact that any song from Power Windows made the Top 10 is surprise enough.

Ouch!

[TAC]

That fact that any song from Power Windows made the Top 10 is surprise enough.

Ouch!

[Cool Chris]

So as I work on my list, I have been listening to the Rush albums I would generally never listen to, and while most of this isn't going to sniff my Top 75, I will say I honestly cannot recall a time when I thought a song needed to be skipped or was a drag to listen to.

I easily identified my Top 10 and as a quick exercise put those through the RE, and outside of #1, that was tough.

[The Letter M]

Sent my list. And yes, all of Power Windows made my Top 75 (actually a lot higher than I expected, but more on that later). That sorting thing took a LONG time, but kind of worth it.

-Marc.

[DragonAttack]

Tim also sent me a sneak peak of his list before he had to edit it.

It's a great list 

So does wolfking win the DT 'won the internets' award for the month?

[pg1067]

Tim also sent me a sneak peak of his list before he had to edit it.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit.

The truth is, this exercise is helping the (few) nonbelievers realize the greatness of Power Windows  Admit it, as you are putting together your list, you can't help but think - how did I not see?

I thought to myself, #106 seems a bit high for Territories.

[Dream Team]

It's been a little bit of a slog trying to learn about 10 albums or so in the past week. Still a week to go. Just not a big fan of that run from HYF through TFE. GUP and PW ain't exactly my thing either but I can find plenty of songs on both that will make the list. This would have been a lot easier if those 70s albums had 10 songs each instead of 6. 

[HOF]

It's been a little bit of a slog trying to learn about 10 albums or so in the past week. Still a week to go. Just not a big fan of that run from HYF through TFE. GUP and PW ain't exactly my thing either but I can find plenty of songs on both that will make the list. This would have been a lot easier if those 70s albums had 10 songs each instead of 6. 

Something I want to give some thought to is what would the latter Rush albums be like if you paired them all down to LP rather than CD length. There’s not a lot of fat to trim from Counterparts, but Roll the Bones and Test for Echo would both benefit, and I think Vapor Trails would too. Not sure Snakes and Arrows would be too much improved, but you could at least make it less onerous to get through. Clockwork Angels probably doesn’t work as well paired down, but honestly I don’t even know what if anything is happening in the story. Just seems like a series of random scenes from whatever steampunk world Neil concocted.

[Stadler]

I know I sound more and more like TAC every day, but for me some of those 70's records that were a concise 35, 40 minutes are really special in their own way. They are a sort of snapshot.  And the shorter albums, more frequently, sometimes give you a really cool glimpse of a band's growth and progress.   

[romdrums]

I know I sound more and more like TAC every day, but for me some of those 70's records that were a concise 35, 40 minutes are really special in their own way. They are a sort of snapshot.  And the shorter albums, more frequently, sometimes give you a really cool glimpse of a band's growth and progress.

When you add in the fact that they basically released an album a year up through Power Windows, you can basically hear it in real time when you listen in chronological order.  It's fun to hear them go from a fresh-faced, guitar-based power trio to this mountain of sounds and textures on Power Windows, and then gradually scale it back down to the power trio, but with the lessons learned from their upward climb, by the time they get to Clockwork Angels.  Each album is a necessary step to get to the next album.

[Stadler]

I know I sound more and more like TAC every day, but for me some of those 70's records that were a concise 35, 40 minutes are really special in their own way. They are a sort of snapshot.  And the shorter albums, more frequently, sometimes give you a really cool glimpse of a band's growth and progress.

When you add in the fact that they basically released an album a year up through Power Windows, you can basically hear it in real time when you listen in chronological order.  It's fun to hear them go from a fresh-faced, guitar-based power trio to this mountain of sounds and textures on Power Windows, and then gradually scale it back down to the power trio, but with the lessons learned from their upward climb, by the time they get to Clockwork Angels.  Each album is a necessary step to get to the next album.

What's fascinating to me - and of all bands, Judas Priest is in this group too, as are the Scorpions - is hearing an album that is largely consistent, and having one or two songs that seem like outliers - Vital Signs on Moving Pictures is one example - then hearing the NEXT album and it's largely like that outlier.  You see the seeds of the growing plants as you go, for lack of a better analogy.

[romdrums]

I know I sound more and more like TAC every day, but for me some of those 70's records that were a concise 35, 40 minutes are really special in their own way. They are a sort of snapshot.  And the shorter albums, more frequently, sometimes give you a really cool glimpse of a band's growth and progress.

When you add in the fact that they basically released an album a year up through Power Windows, you can basically hear it in real time when you listen in chronological order.  It's fun to hear them go from a fresh-faced, guitar-based power trio to this mountain of sounds and textures on Power Windows, and then gradually scale it back down to the power trio, but with the lessons learned from their upward climb, by the time they get to Clockwork Angels.  Each album is a necessary step to get to the next album.

What's fascinating to me - and of all bands, Judas Priest is in this group too, as are the Scorpions - is hearing an album that is largely consistent, and having one or two songs that seem like outliers - Vital Signs on Moving Pictures is one example - then hearing the NEXT album and it's largely like that outlier.  You see the seeds of the growing plants as you go, for lack of a better analogy.

And at the end of it all, you finally get to see The Garden. 

[pg1067]

Something I want to give some thought to is what would the latter Rush albums be like if you paired them all down to LP rather than CD length. There’s not a lot of fat to trim from Counterparts, but Roll the Bones and Test for Echo would both benefit, and I think Vapor Trails would too. Not sure Snakes and Arrows would be too much improved, but you could at least make it less onerous to get through. Clockwork Angels probably doesn’t work as well paired down, but honestly I don’t even know what if anything is happening in the story. Just seems like a series of random scenes from whatever steampunk world Neil concocted.

- Presto would be greatly improved by losing Superconductor and Hand over Fist, which would take it from 52+ minutes to about 44 minutes (and you can scratch Scars if you want to go lower.

- Roll the Bones is only 48 minutes and would be much better as a 4 song EP.

- There are a few songs you could ditch to get Counterparts down from 54:24 to about 40 minutes.  I'd go with Nobody's Hero, The Speed of Love and Cold Fire (which would take it under 40 minutes).

- T4E is about as long as Counterparts.  I'd lose Dog Years and Carve Away the Stone.

- Vapor Trails is a bloated 67+ minutes.  I'd get rid of Ceiling Unlimited, How It Is, Secret Touch and Sweet Miracle.

- S&A could lose most of its back half (pretty much everything after Hope) to get down below its 63 minute run time.

- Clockwork Angels probably needs to be what it is because of the story, but I'd be fine with a 3-song EP (Caravan, BU2B and Headlong Flight).

I know I sound more and more like TAC every day, but for me some of those 70's records that were a concise 35, 40 minutes are really special in their own way. They are a sort of snapshot.  And the shorter albums, more frequently, sometimes give you a really cool glimpse of a band's growth and progress.   

YES!

[wolfking]

No way Cold Fire should get cut.

[wolfking]

I know I sound more and more like TAC every day, but for me some of those 70's records that were a concise 35, 40 minutes are really special in their own way. They are a sort of snapshot.  And the shorter albums, more frequently, sometimes give you a really cool glimpse of a band's growth and progress.

May God have mercy on your soul.

[Stadler]

No way Cold Fire should get cut.

I'm pretty sure all the songs PG cut from Presto are on my list. 

[TAC]

I know I sound more and more like TAC every day, but for me some of those 70's records that were a concise 35, 40 minutes are really special in their own way. They are a sort of snapshot.  And the shorter albums, more frequently, sometimes give you a really cool glimpse of a band's growth and progress.

May God have mercy on your soul.

I, have, no, idea, what, you're, talking, about.

[Deadeye21]

- Presto would be greatly improved by losing Superconductor and Hand over Fist, which would take it from 52+ minutes to about 44 minutes (and you can scratch Scars if you want to go lower.

- Roll the Bones is only 48 minutes and would be much better as a 4 song EP.

- There are a few songs you could ditch to get Counterparts down from 54:24 to about 40 minutes.  I'd go with Nobody's Hero, The Speed of Love and Cold Fire (which would take it under 40 minutes).

- T4E is about as long as Counterparts.  I'd lose Dog Years and Carve Away the Stone.

- Vapor Trails is a bloated 67+ minutes.  I'd get rid of Ceiling Unlimited, How It Is, Secret Touch and Sweet Miracle.

- S&A could lose most of its back half (pretty much everything after Hope) to get down below its 63 minute run time.

- Clockwork Angels probably needs to be what it is because of the story, but I'd be fine with a 3-song EP (Caravan, BU2B and Headlong Flight).

Holy moly, that’s a bad take to me. In pretty much all instances, you’re taking at least one of my absolute favourites out of it.

Presto: Dump War Paint and Scars. Under no circumstances should you lose Hand Over Fist
Roll the Bones: There are 7 great songs on the album, so cutting it down to 4 would be a great loss. Trim Face Up, Big Wheel and Neurotica though. Even though I have a guilty pleasure for Neurotica.
Counterparts: Speed of Love can definitely go, but I’d dump Alien Shore and Between Sun and Moon before the others you listed. Sun and Moon is still awesome though.
T4E: Title track, Driven, Time and Motion, Resist, Limbo. If you’re not one of these, you’re not needed.
VT: Now here’s a tricky one. Peaceable Kingdom, Stars Look Down and Nocturne are pretty much the ones that I can remove at all. I love his album.
S&A: Yeah, you’re right, the back half isn’t as strong as the front, and yet, I can’t think of anything more than Good News First that I actually would cut off of this one.
CA: I mean, pretty much only BU2B2 counts as a clunker here. Halo Effect could also go if we really need to trim this one down.