Kev, thank you for doing this. Participating truly was a lot of fun. Not that I need any excuse to listen to some Rush, but this was a great way to enjoy their whole catalog once again.
...and here is the final DTF aggregate Rush album ranking!
1 Moving Pictures 395
2 Power Windows 353
3 Permanent Waves 310
4 Signals 273
5 Grace Under Pressure 248
6 Hemispheres 222
7 A Farewell to Kings 210
8 Clockwork Angels 134
9 Counterparts 128
10 Presto 119
11 Hold Your Fire 107
12 Roll the Bones 104
13 2112 98
14 Fly By Night 84
15 Caress of Steel 26
16 Rush 20
17 Test for Echo 19
18 Vapor Trails 0
19 Snake and Arrows 0
I had a sense Power Windows was highly regarded here (except, you know, for a couple of nonbelievers
), but it's pretty incredible to see it up there in second place. it's in my own top 5, so I'm not complaining
Just for the fun of it, I'm also including the album raking that incorporates Jammindude's suggestion of adding points that account for the % of songs in a given album that ended up in the top 75. The bonus is determined as (# of songs in top 75/# of songs in the album)*100. So the bonus is 100 if all songs made it (Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures and Power Windows got it). This is supposed to give a potentially larger boost to albums with fewer songs, especially if they happen to have a large % in the top 75.
With that, we have:
1 Moving Pictures 495.00
2 Power Windows 453.00
3 Permanent Waves 410.00
4 Signals 360.50
5 Hemispheres 322.00
6 Grace Under Pressure 310.50
7 A Farewell to Kings 276.67
8 Counterparts 182.55
9 Clockwork Angels 167.33
10 Hold Your Fire 157.00
11 Presto 155.36
12 2112 148.00
13 Roll the Bones 144.00
14 Fly By Night 121.50
15 Caress of Steel 66.00
16 Test for Echo 37.18
17 Rush 32.50
18 Vapor Trails 0.00
19 Snake and Arrows 0.00
Not much is different. There are some marginal changes in the ranking, though. Hemispheres now ranks above Grace Under Pressure and makes the top 5. Counterparts overtakes Clockwork Angels. Same thing for Hold Your Fire over Presto, 2112 over Roll the Bones and Test for Echo over Rush.