Your top 5 Rush albums?

2112

Not really in order but here they are

• Moving Pictures
• Power windows
• Permanent Waves
• Hemispheres
• Counterparts

King Manuel wrote: 1. A Show of Hands 2. Grace under preassure 3. Power windows 4. Clockwork Angels 5. Moving pictures A short explanation for my #1 choice. In 1990 I bought a copy of Show of Hands. I had up until this point only read about Rush in some  metal magazine and never heard any of their music. I bought the album blindly in a record store in Cape Town (in terms of metal and hard rock during that time in South Africa you bought whatever was in the shop as there was not much to choose from; that record  was the only thing by Rush in the store). This was  my introduction to Rush and it took several years until I got my hands on other Rush albums. Somehow that first love remains my favourtite after all those years (and the reason why I prefer the keyboard/synth heavy Rush albums)

I feel the same, regarding Exit stage..left. That was the first Rush album I heard and remains one of my favourite live albums of all time. With that in mind I will edit my previous post to include ESL, as I wasn't thinking in terms of live albums at all!

Catcher10 wrote: I just updated my list to all of them...........

1. Signals

1. A Show of Hands
2. Grace under preassure
3. Power windows
4. Clockwork Angels
5. Moving pictures

A short explanation for my #1 choice. In 1990 I bought a copy of Show of Hands. I had up until this point only read about Rush in some  metal magazine and never heard any of their music. I bought the album blindly in a record store in Cape Town (in terms of metal and hard rock during that time in South Africa you bought whatever was in the shop as there was not much to choose from; that record  was the only thing by Rush in the store). This was  my introduction to Rush and it took several years until I got my hands on other Rush albums. Somehow that first love remains my favourtite after all those years (and the reason why I prefer the keyboard/synth heavy Rush albums)

1. Hemispheres

1. Grace Under Pressure

Permanent Waves

Permanent Waves
A Farewell To Kings
Hemispheres
2112
Grace Under Pressure

bubbling under and waiting to replace 2112 is Counterparts (she's got a few). And Signals about which I changed my tune (from zero to near hero and even got the t shirt). And of course Moving Pictures as a result of the recent on-site hype otherwise I would have forgotten all about it.

NB  - I take it live albums are not part of the top 5 because if they are.... then we are in serious problems here. I've lots but not yet all live Rush.

For rockin' Rush it's the first live record, for the prog Rush it's Exit Stage Left.