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Psychedelic Paul 
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 Topic: Top 7 Rush SongsPosted: December 29 2024 at 09:06 |
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Hold Your Fire because Hey Presto, all the Signals indicate it's time for a Top 7 Rush songs poll as 2025 fast approaches, but let's jump ahead to 2112, the title of Rush's fourth album and the album which led to their big breakthrough in North America, leaving many other bands tailing behind in the wake of their Vapor Trails. When it comes to the Snakes & Arrows of outrageous fortune, Rush are without doubt the most successful Canadian band of all time (and maybe even the best-known Heavy Prog band this side of the twin Hemispheres) and one of the most respected bands amongst their Counterparts in the rock fraternity, where All the World's a Stage. And so, with that said, it's time for me to Exit Stage Left again in preparation for an on-Rush of votes (hopefully).
 Simply list your Top 7 Rush songs in order of preference below and then I'll assign points to your listings as per usual:- 1st song - 12 points 2nd song - 8 points 3rd song - 6 points 4th song - 4 points 5th song - 3 points 6th song - 2 points 7th song - 1 point Starting with my Fly by Night Top 7 rankings (an unreliable guide to the best Rush songs)  1. By-Tor and the Snow Dog (12 points) 2. The Spirit of Radio (8 points) 3. Working Man (6 points) 4. Tom Sawyer (4 points) 5. Time Stand Still (3 points) 6. La Villa Strangiato (2 points) 7. Subdivisions (1 point) Edited by Psychedelic Paul - December 29 2024 at 11:50 |
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Posted: December 29 2024 at 09:50 |
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I've never really gotten Rush's music under my skin. Not enough to feel qualified to make a list. It's funny, I own nine or ten* of their albums - all their classics 1976-1985 + a couple of later ones. But I haven't listened to any of them in full more than once.
I do love Xanadu, Cygnus X-1 (hey that's over half of A Farewell to Kings right there, maybe I should get re-aquainted with the reamining half), Subdivisions and well a lot of their early Hard n' Heavy Rockin' songs - such as Bastille Day, Anthem and Working Man. The latter three from albums I do not own. I guess while I'm willing to defend them as a Progressive Rock band, I personally prefer them in a more straight forward power trio mode. Similar to me having a preference for plain, "meat and potatoes Metal" with awesome riffs over Progressive Metal. Whenever I seek complexity, I tend to look elsewhere. *bought in an era where you could get all of the classic Rush, Yes, Genesis etc... LP's practically for free. |
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Posted: December 29 2024 at 10:53 |
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Quite hard to choose. I'll pick one per album and for today, it's.
2112 La Villa Strangiato Tom Sawyer Xanadu Freewill Between the Wheels Subdivisions |
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Posted: December 29 2024 at 11:29 |
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1) Xanadu
2) La Villa Strangiato 3) Red Barchetta 4) Jacobs Ladder 5) The Weapon 6) YYZ 7) The Trees Just missing: Spirit of the Radio, Tom Sawyer, Subdivisions and Manhattan Project. |
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Floydoid
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Posted: December 29 2024 at 12:27 |
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Is it any wonder that the monkey's confused?
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: December 29 2024 at 13:01 |
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You're not a Rush fan then.
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Posted: December 29 2024 at 13:06 |
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Obviously very difficult, but I'll go with these old friends.  Here Again
Cygnus X-1 Book I:Hemispheres Fountain of Lamneth Something for Nothing Circumstances Anthem What You're Doing |
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Posted: December 30 2024 at 02:44 |
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The Spirit Of Radio 2112By-Tor and the Snow Dog La Villa Strangiato Tom Sawyer Working Man
Subdivisions |
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Posted: December 30 2024 at 22:57 |
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So tempting just to pick the seven tracks from Moving Pictures
 . Anyway..1) Tom Sawyer 2) YYZ 3) Freewill 4) Xanadu 5) Subdivisions 6) Jacobs Ladder 7) Red Sector A only one track from the seventies but Xanadu represents everything about that era I love about them. 80's Rush is where it's really at for me and mainly those first 4 albums.
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Posted: December 31 2024 at 04:27 |
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1. Subdivisions 2. YYZ 3. Xanadu 4. La Villa Strangiato 5. By-Tor & the Snow Dog 6. Vital Signs 7. Cygnus X-1
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Posted: December 31 2024 at 06:34 |
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Your Top 7 looks very much like mine, only in a slightly different order.
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Posted: December 31 2024 at 06:47 |
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La Villa Strangiato
Subdivisions Camera Eye Jacob's Ladder Marathon Afterimage Xanadu Very hard to choose from a career & discography that spreads close to 4 decades. Tomorrow i could create a totally different list. |
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Posted: December 31 2024 at 07:22 |
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In that case I'll wait until tomorrow before I add your points on.
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Natural Science
Cygnus X-I Book II Cygnus X-I Xanadu Jacob's Ladder 2112 The Camera Eye I'll go with that.... if you'd had asked the 15 year old Jared, then Signals and GUP would have featured more prominently but they don't get played as much these days...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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It's funny, my fave song of theirs has always been Natural Science, but it's not in your Top 7!
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: December 31 2024 at 08:42 |
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Like i said, choosing 7 Rush songs is quite difficult, as they never released anything bad. They released 19 studio albums + their covers album. Plenty to choose from.
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Posted: December 31 2024 at 08:42 |
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I couldn't possibly comment. |
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I think he's just posted my Ayreon page for me!
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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The Top 7 Rush songs after nine rounds of voting:-
01. La Villa Strangiato (38 points) 02. Xanadu (31 points) 03. Subdivisions (26 points) 04. Tom Sawyer (25 points) 05. 2112 (22 points) 06. By-Tor and the Snow Dog (21 points) 07. The Spirit of Radio (20 points) 08. YYZ (18 points) 09. Cygnus X-1 (17 points) 10. Jacob's Ladder (13 points) 11. Natural Science (12 points) 11. Here Again (12 points) Edited by Psychedelic Paul - January 01 2025 at 04:35 |
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^ 'XYZ'
BTW 'YYZ' (the actual title) was airport code for Vancouver or Toronto which is where they got it from.
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