Favorite Rush Songs 1984-1996

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I really tried to like Test for Echo. In support of the Rush-ies, I even bought the CD. I made several attempts to give it a chance (like I did with The Phantom Menace). But, in the end, I had to face up to the fact that the Rush I knew and loved had morphed into something I no longer connected with.

My buddy who is a huge Rush fan loves Driven. The bass line is fairly catchy, but to me, it sounds almost like a bar song when the strummy guitar comes in. I much prefer the punchy futuristic sounds of Rush from the 1980s.

Subdivisions, The Weapon, Vital Signs, Distant Early Warning, The Big Money, etc. I do think the “The” is in the wrong place. It should just be Big Money and The Manhattan Project, but somebody at the label obviously didn’t understand proper article usage, and mixed it up … like when people annoyingly say The Twitter.

I also did a “what the?” at that Erotica Neurotica Psychotica mumbo jumbo from Roll the Bones … and that cringeworthy attempt at rap. Now I love Blondie’s rap …in Rapture … but Rush’s rap makes me squirm and my eye starts twitching like Johnny English and Mozambique.

Honestly, though. I have a hard time listening to most music that came out after 1989. I’m stuck in a time warp.

I get post-Signals and pre-hiatus as fair cutoff points, but in my mind the natural divisions in Rush's catalogue occur every four albums: Rush to 2112, AFTK to MP, Signals to HYF, Presto to T4E, and then just three with VT to CA (unless you include the Feedback covers EP).

Between the wheels
Leave that thing alone
Animate
Distant Early Warning
Resist
Emotion Detector
Middletown Dreams
Marathon Man
Show Don’t Tell
Available Light

mellotronwave wrote: a lot of , all from 2012 ( the LP not the year) on

I stopped listening to them after Grace Under Pressure (which I actually like). If that album falls in the right time period, then everything from that bloody album! What came next, Power Windows? That must have scared me.

Edited by Boojieboy - February 01 2022 at 15:34

No. They drifted too far away from why I enjoyed their music. First got into them with A Farewell to Kings, and saw them on tour then too. But by the mid-80s, the magic was gone (IMO). But many bands change, especially towards a more common / accessible format, so it's hard for many to resist.

Edited by Boojieboy - February 01 2022 at 16:19