Best Rush Albums
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Topic: Best Rush Albums
Posted By: Lieutenant_Lan
Subject: Best Rush Albums
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 13:00
| What do you think the best 5 Rush albums are? |
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 14:24
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In no order: 1. Hemispheres 2. Moving Pictures 3. Permanent Waves 4. Caress of Steel 5. A Farewell To Kings 2112 would make the list if side two had most of the excitement as side one.
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Posted By: Gentle and Giant
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 15:26
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In order: 1. A Farewell To Kings 2. Hemispheres 3. Caress of Steel 4. Permanent Waves 5. ESL ------------- Oh, for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen |
Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 15:40
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1. A Farewell To Kings 2. Permanent Waves 3. Moving Pictures 4. Signals 5. 2112 ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: nick_h_nz
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 16:25
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Not best, but my favourite five: 1. 2112 2. A Farewell to Kings 3. Caress of Steel 4. Clockwork Angels 5. Signals Well, today, anyway.... 🤪 ------------- https://tinyurl.com/nickhnz-tpa" rel="nofollow - Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 18:50
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1. Moving Pictures 2. Grace Under Pressure 3. Permanent Waves 4. Signals 5. Hold Your Fire ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: February 21 2021 at 19:40
I like the eighties era a lot and I think just about anything they did in that decade is better than anything they did later but it's still no match for their prog era(obviously I'm thinking post MP here when I say eighties)imo.
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HolyMoly wrote:Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: February 22 2021 at 10:28
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1. Moving Pictures 2. Hemispheres 3. AFTK 4. Power Windows 5. Permanent Waves Does not matter really, my list could change monthly.
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Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: February 22 2021 at 10:32
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1 - Permanet Waves 2 - Moving Pictures 3 - 2112 4 - Signals 5 - A Farewell To Kings
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: February 22 2021 at 11:27
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AFTK 2112 Hemispheres Fly By Night Moving Pictures. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Argo2112
Date Posted: February 22 2021 at 13:39
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1. Moving Pictures 2. Hemispheres 3. Power Windows 4. Permanent Waves 5. Counterparts
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Posted By: Earl of Mar
Date Posted: February 22 2021 at 14:43
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AFTK Hemispheres Moving Pictures 2112 COS/ Powe Windows ( cant split them). |
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: February 25 2021 at 11:57
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1. Signals 2. Power Windows 3. Permanent Waves 4. Hemispheres 5. Caress of Steel
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: February 26 2021 at 01:44
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1. Moving Pictures 2. A Farewell To Kings 3. Vapor Trails 4. Power Windows 5. Counterparts
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Posted By: ProgLin
Date Posted: December 26 2021 at 15:48
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1. Moving Pictures 2. Permanent Waves 3. Hemispheres 4. A Farewell to Kings 5. Grace Under Pressure
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Posted By: UncleRust
Date Posted: December 26 2021 at 16:06
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This is not so easy... 1. Grace Under Pressure 2. Hemispheres 3. Permanent Waves 4. Moving Pictures 5. 2112 All of those before 2112 were pretty solid too. 85-96 were pretty bad years from my point of view, but even with some real missteps and simply too many songs, I do really like Vapor Trails, Snakes & Arrows and Clockwork Angels. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: December 26 2021 at 17:11
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1. 2112 2. Moving Pictures 3. Hemispheres 4. Permanent Waves 5. Caress of Steel |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 26 2021 at 17:46
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Perm Hem Move Sig Fare ------------- "Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought." -- John F. Kennedy |
Posted By: enigmatic
Date Posted: December 26 2021 at 19:03
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1. Permanent Waves 2. Moving Pictures 3. Hemispheres 4. A Farewell to Kings 5. Signals |
Posted By: Progmind
Date Posted: December 26 2021 at 19:54
Exactly this!
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Posted By: Sacro_Porgo
Date Posted: December 26 2021 at 22:07
Awesome!  ------------- Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :) |
Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: December 26 2021 at 22:15
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1. Hemispheres 2. Moving Pictures 3. A Farewell to Kings 4. Permanent Waves 5. A Show of Hands (believe it or not!) The first four in my favorites list are from the classic 70's era. A Show of Hands sums up the 80's era, which is the one I grew up with. |
Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 28 2021 at 12:08
Nice! I've seen many of their tours over the past 35yrs, I saw the Show of Hands tour in Maryland. That is one of my fav live albums. I also have the VHS tape of that show......
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Posted By: judahbenkenobi
Date Posted: December 28 2021 at 13:47
I have that one too! it's nice that it has a different setlist. The good thing is that there's La Villa Strangiato, YYZ, and In the Mood. The bad thing is that there's only half of The Rhythm Method and nothing from Signals. I only saw them once, on the Time Machine tour, and had to travel all the way from Guatemala to San Antonio, TX, but I can assure you, it was one of the happiest days of my life!
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: December 28 2021 at 14:08
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Caress of Steel Signals A Farewell To Kings Hemispheres Permanent Waves MP is a bit overrated imo but would still be number six.
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Posted By: Catcher10
Date Posted: December 28 2021 at 14:17
That's great.......At least you got to see them live, we saw Time Machine tour twice once in San Francisco and in Vancouver WA, that was an excellent tour. -------------
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 04:53
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Best? Don't know but these are my favorites and pretty much my permanent top five. Hemispheres A Farewell To Kings Permanent Waves Power Windows Moving Pictures Caress Of Steel almost squeaks in but not quite.
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Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: December 29 2021 at 11:06
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Classic favorites..... 2112 Farewell Hemispheres Waves Pictures ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: Magog2112
Date Posted: August 01 2023 at 05:12
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1. Grace Under Pressure 2. Power Windows 3. Signals 4. Hemispheres 5. Permanent Waves
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Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: October 09 2023 at 07:15
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Permanent Waves Moving Pictures Hemispheres A Farewell To Kings 2112 ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: October 09 2023 at 07:19
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2112 A Farewell To Kings Hemispheres Permanent Waves Moving Pictures
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Posted By: Hector Enrique
Date Posted: October 09 2023 at 15:36
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1. Hemispheres 2. A Farewell to Kings 3. Moving Pictures 4. Permanent Waves 5. 2112 / Exit... Stage Left / A Show of Hands (  )------------- Héctor Enrique |
Posted By: Necrotica
Date Posted: October 09 2023 at 15:39
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1. Permanent Waves 2. Hemispheres 3. A Farewell to Kings 4. Grace Under Pressure 5. Clockwork Angels But as far as I'm concerned, there is no bad Rush album ------------- Take me down, to the underground Won't you take me down, to the underground Why oh why, there is no light And if I can't sleep, can you hold my life https://www.youtube.com/@CocoonMasterBrendan-wh3sd |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: October 09 2023 at 15:47
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1. Moving Pictures 2. Hemispheres 3. Permanent Waves 4. Signals 5. Caress of Steel ------------- 
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Posted By: Heart of the Matter
Date Posted: October 09 2023 at 16:27
Caress is great IMO, except for I'm Going Bald, which is like a big boil in the middle of a (otherwise pretty) face. |
Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: October 10 2023 at 20:31
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1) A Farewell to Kings 2) Hemispheres 3) Moving Pictures 4) Permanent Waves 5) Signals Number 5 is tough. Grace Under Pressure and Power Windows were under consideration. Fan of both those albums. First four have been locked in those positions for many years now. |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: October 11 2023 at 01:40
possibly the greatest 5 album run of all time. Signals is a great album and probably an album I like more than the stuff before Hemispheres. 2112 is undoubtedly classic but just now seems very dated and hasn't aged well IMO.
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Posted By: ThamesRoyal
Date Posted: October 15 2023 at 00:58
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Moving Pictures Permanent Waves Hemispheres Signals Clockwork Angels 2112
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Posted By: Jeffro
Date Posted: October 15 2023 at 07:54
I don't know. It's rather like a palate cleanser for the rest of the album. The first time I spun CoS the only three songs I liked were the first three on the album. Then I got to The Necromancer and side two and I thought, what in the hell is this??   Of course now my favorites are Necromancer and Fountain of Lamneth ------------- We all dwell in an amber subdomain, amber subdomain, amber subdomain. My face IS a maserati |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: October 15 2023 at 08:07
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Permanent Waves Hemispheres Moving Pictures Signals A Farewell To Kings possibly? ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Disconnect
Date Posted: October 15 2023 at 13:43
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This old man's top 5 in no particular order: Hemispheres GuP Power Windows Presto Permanent Waves
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Posted By: Big Sky
Date Posted: October 18 2023 at 16:03
Richardh, It certainly is one of the great runs. 2112 is probably the most important album in the band's catalog as it undoubtedly saved the band. And because it was done under their terms, it allowed them creative control going forward. Had Geddy, Alex and Neil bent to the label's demand to release a more commercial album, I don't see how we get Xanadu, La Villa Strangiato or Jacob's Ladder going forward. However, like you, outside of the first 7 minutes of 2112 and A Passage to Bangkok it is not an album I revisit much. |
Posted By: Boojieboy
Date Posted: October 19 2023 at 15:37
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1. A Farewell To Kings 2. Permanent Waves 3. Signals 4. 2112 5. Grace Under Pressure These have stood up to the test of time best for my ears
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Posted By: LAM-SGC
Date Posted: October 25 2023 at 07:15
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1. Fly by Night 2. Caress of Steel 3. Rush 4. Hemispheres 5. A Farewell to Kings
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Posted By: Crimsonsnowdog
Date Posted: October 25 2023 at 11:52
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1. Hemispheres 2. A Farewell to Kings 3. Permanent Waves 4. 2112 5. Fly By Night
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