Rush Fan Central

I did this once... I can do it again... I think .

Rush - Working Man
Fly By Night - By-Tor And The Snow Dog
Caress Of Steel - Lakeside Park
2112 - Something For Nothing
A Farewell To Kings - Cygnus X-1
Hemispheres - La Villa Strangiato
Permanent Waves - Jacob's Ladder
Moving Pictures - The Camera Eye
Signals - New World Man
Grace Under Pressure - The Body Electric
Power Windows - Mystic Rhythms
Hold Your Fire - Force Ten
Presto - Available Light
Roll The Bones - Ghost Of A Chance
Counterparts - Animate
Test For Echo - Half The World
Vapor Trails - How It Is
Feedback - For What It's Worth
Snakes & Arrows - Armor and Sword

Live albums!

All The World's A Stage - Bastille Day
Exit... Stage Left - Jacob's Ladder
A Show Of Hands - Closer To The Heart
Different Stages - Cygnus X-1
Rush In Rio - Natural Science
R30 - Between The Wheels
Snakes & Arrows Live - Digital Man

Sweet, my wife and I are totally going to the Pittsburgh show.  I'm pretty excited, this will be the fourth time that I've seen Rush, again putting them at the top of my concert going career.  Currently, I've seen both Rush and Genesis three times.

Basíleia wrote: Hi, guys, I´m a 18-year-old Rush fan from the Netherlands. And well, at the Marillion thread (I'm a huge Marillion fan as well) Lazland launched the idea of the visitors of that thread giving their favorite song from each studio album accompagnied by a brief explanation of why, a few months ago. I was wondering which Rush songs are considered the summa, so I thought why not launch the same idea on the Rush appreciation thread? (I've shallowly searched through the pages of this thread for the same idea, but haven't found it - sorry if it's already been discussed!). Anyhow, this is my list, for as far as I was able to choose:   Looking forward to seeing what you guys think are the best Rush songs!   Joren

interesting....  there are some gaps in my later day Rush... I simply didn't like where they went and never really came back to the group.. but who better to ask the best Rush.. than one who don't drink the cool-aid and just loves great music.. and there is lots with this group hahah.

Rush - Working Man...  hell yeah.. what else is there to add. 

Fly by Night -  sure a couple of the tracks get the love... but for me.. the album sparkles for Best I Can and Beneath, Between, and Behind. Nothing special I supose .. they just flat out are smoking and that is often the difference between a great album and lesser albums.. the quality of the 'filler'.

Caress of Steel - hah...   The Necromancer...  it is all we love Rush for... killer killer musicianship.. yet so damned campy with the D&D nature that you come to love it.. just like a best friend with the lazy eye or the girlfriend with imperfect skin.  You love it.. not in spite of..  but as much FOR it's imperfections as it's perfections. A completely underrated album .

2112-  don't like the album as much as others..  but like sections of the title suite.. and of course A Passage to Bangkok is classic early Rush. 

A Farewell to KIngs - Cygnus X-1... ..  lordy..  right there with The Necromancer as my alltime favorite Rush track.  Surely more 'progressive' in sounds in style..  and thought it was the best Rush ever did in the realm of 'traditional' prog rather than just filling the virtuosity side of the prog ledger.  Then again.. they really didn't do that much.  They caught the wave late.. and bailed when everyone did.. 

Hemispheres -   Circumstances for me on this album.. but this album never has been a favorite.. much like 2112. 

Permanent Waves -  Rush goes AOR .. and finds their real talent and loses the geeks.. but gains real mainstream radioplay..so of course....  Spirit of the Radio. Overplayed? Sure.. but why is it overplayed... duh.. it's a great frickin song hah

Moving Pictures - Tom Sawyer.. duh....   the song that inspired countless kids worldwide to try playing the drums.

Signals - man I love this album. Another duh choice here.. Subdivisions...  I thought one of the best 'songs' Rush ever wrote.

after that though... ehhh..   didn't really like where they went until Roll the Bones..

Roll the Bones -  Ghost of a chance....   no.. it isn't the Necromancer.. but it is simply a great song.

Counterparts - Rush fans world wide rejoyced...a return of the Rush they knew... and they gave us a last great album.

tempted to say Stick it out...  great song.. but going with Leave that thing alone.... couldn't go through the list and not pick an instrumental.

after that...  no way.. that is for fans to decide...

rushfan4 wrote: You might get Bastille Day out of them however.

I can live with that.... in fact.. it's been too long since I've listened to Caress of Steel... that goes on next

though in my defense....Caress of Steel is not the only Rush album I've fawned over around here... just the only prog album.  (not going there again though .. I think I've said my piece enough of that over the years)    Signals has always been a favorite Rush album of mine.  Loved it so much that I didn't like what they did after it... and turned me off the group for many years.

rushfan4 wrote: You might get Bastille Day out of them however.

rushfan4 wrote: I keep waiting for you to convert him into a full-blown fan, but so far all's that we have gotten out of Micky is a concession for Caress of Steel, and it is highly unlikely that Rush would play Fountain of Lamneth or The Necromancer.

damnit...  one can dream though...

I'm still hoping for a US tour this year... Micky has never seen them, and I'm sure he'd enjoy them immensely. They are one of the best live bands I've seen, and very entertaining. 

I purchased Kevin Anderson's book #1 of the Terra Incognita series titled The Edge of the World yesterday.  The book was dedicated to Neil Peart and read something along the lines of "whose music and lyrics have inspired me for years".  I'll have to type the exact wording later.

Repner wrote: S&A was damn good indeed.  Rush's 2007 gig in Glasgow was probably one of the best gigs I've ever been to (kinda hard to decide between that and Jeff Waynes War Of The Worlds that I went to this year)

Apparently Jason Donnovan is going to be the artillary man on the next WOTW tour! I kid you not. I'd still love to see it though. I've got the DVD, and the music sounds fantastic..

Anyway, back on topic.. Rush? Yes, they're still amazing, and I still love em..

My picture says it all....Since 1975'ish I've been a part of the Rushinati. Don't consider myself a geek either, far from it so I never got that label. Up till recently the press has not been kind to Rush....only after 30+ years of making awesome music are they paying attention. Rush is 4th all time list of most consecutive gold/platinum album sales only behind Beatles, Stones and Aerosmith...go figure!!?? And of course the RnR HOF has been dissing them for the past 15 years...we all know that story.