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Poll Question: Which is the BEST Rush Album, sans LIVE.
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Moving Pictures - faaaaaantastic
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2112 followed by Caress Of Steel and A Farewell To Kings ...
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AFOTK -though I love em all.
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  1. PERMANENT WAVES
  2. HEMISPHERES
  3. A FAREWELL TO KINGS
  4. 2112
  5. MOVING PICTURES
  6. CARESS OF STEEL
  7. FLY BY NIGHT
  8. SIGNALS
  9. RUSH
  10. GRACE UNDER PRESSURE

I love also EXIT STAGE LEFT.

RUSH is my favourite band.
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For me, it's Caress of Steel. Why? Simply because of "The Necromancer", my absolute favourite Rush-song, but you can't go wrong with "Bastille Day" and "Fountain of Lamneth" either.
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Hemispheres
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My Ranking:

  1. A Farewell to Kings (1977)            --Spectacular for Heavy-Prog
  2. Hemispheres (1978)
  3. 2112 (1976)
  4. Moving Pictures (1981)            ----to poppy, but AMAZING for 1981
  5. Permanent Waves (1980)
  6. Caress of Steel (1975)
  7. The Rest kinda suck for me

 
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I have to say that Rush are one of the very few bands I like the whole output of, yet 'A Farewell To Kings' is a truly great album- it is a kind of halfway house between the full blown prog of early albums and the more AOR approach of later ones. And it features my all time favourite Rush tracks- 'Xanadu' and 'Cygnus X-1'.
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I pretty much have to agree with everyone else that Moving Pictures is their best, in fact one of the best of all time.  I have always liked the albums 2112 through Signals.  So many great songs.
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2112 because I believe its one of the best songs ever made, but of course Hemispheres isn't that far away either.
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A Farewell To Kings is my favourite Rush album as it was the first Rush album I bought day of release (the others were available on import only so were delayed). Moving Pictures is the best, but without sounding too daft (favourite v best) you have to imagine putting the needle down on AFTK on that first day and the acoustic intro to the title track crackling out then next came Xanadu!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow, great days.AFTK is still unique, but hell I was 16 at the time and everything seemed great!Wink
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Moving Pictures is my favourite rock album of all time by any band. Perfect playing, perfect production, exciting and inspring music
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A Farewell To Kings is my favourite Rush album as it was the first Rush album I bought day of release (the others were available on import only so were delayed). Moving Pictures is the best, but without sounding too daft (favourite v best) you have to imagine putting the needle down on AFTK on that first day and the acoustic intro to the title track crackling out then next came Xanadu!!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow, great days.AFTK is still unique, but hell I was 16 at the time and everything seemed great!



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Originally posted by James Lee James Lee wrote:

re: synth on Rush albums

I used to agree that it was the use of synthesizers that forecast the end of Rush's golden years...but they've always used them pretty tastefully, and Geddy is really approaching a respectable mastery of the keys...Lifeson's particular guitar approach seems to fit nicely against the synth sounds...so now I actually catch myself thinking that "Caress of Steel" and even "2112" could have sounded a bit better with a little more synth to fill out the rather brittle mix.

Now that you mention it...., yeah, they could have used the colour. 

 
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re: synth on Rush albums

I used to agree that it was the use of synthesizers that forecast the end of Rush's golden years...but they've always used them pretty tastefully, and Geddy is really approaching a respectable mastery of the keys...Lifeson's particular guitar approach seems to fit nicely against the synth sounds...so now I actually catch myself thinking that "Caress of Steel" and even "2112" could have sounded a bit better with a little more synth to fill out the rather brittle mix.
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I went with Permanent Waves.

HM goes to Moving Pictures and Hemispheres.

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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Moving Pictures. 'Tom Sawyer' is still the most awesome peice of music ever IMO.In fact the whole album is a triumph.

I couldn't agree more richardh!!!! Awesome album by an awesome band.

marching on together!!
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Grace Under Pressure for me, sir...

It was the first Rush album I ever bought, but apart from that the one I listen to most frequently. Although I hate 80's synth sounds in general. I think the bleak and cold atmosphere combined with some genius songwriting (Red Sector A, Afterimage) AND the lyrics makes me love this album.

 



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MOVING PICTURES MOVING PICTURES MOVING PICTURES MOVING PICTURES

 

it has to be - with Permanent Waves a close second. MP has it all, cool widdly synths (intro to Camera Eye, all of Tom Sawyer), extravagantly angular guitar playing (YYZ), great pop sensibilities (Red Barchetta, Limelight), neil doing mad neil things and some angry mob noises on Witch Hunt. How much cooler can you get? And the answer is none more cool.

Okay Permanent Waves has the sublime Different Strings and the wonderful end to Jacob's Ladder but Moving Pictures is Rush's finest moment.

BTW I can't believe the popularity of Hemispheres. With the exception of The Tree and Villa it's appalling - bloated, badly constructed and utterly ill-conceived. The worst excess of Rush's occasional lack of musicality expanded to painfully epic proportions. There ain't a decent melody in there.
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