Best RUSH Album

A Farewell to Kings

I agree, there is a very loose connection between the two, but I am convinced that it is there.

Signals. Why is it my favorite? Because it is. But I like it, Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves, and Grace Under Pressure fairly equally. Those are four mindblowing albums. I love every Rush album, some more than others, with the very first pre-Peart album not in my collection (no need for it), and Roll The Bones is also left out because the only songs on there I like are better-represented on the live albums.

Edited by dropForge

I casted my vote to "Signals". Firstly, it was my premiere approach to the band, and ever since I listened to "Subdivisions", I realized Neil Peart had to be somewhere in between the "Best Drummer" category (I'd also put Cozzy Powell and Pete Bardens in there ) !!!

Cesar Inca wrote:   Pete Bardens wasn't a professional drummer during his lifetime, but a very skillfull keyboardsman, with an exquisite taste for ellegant solos and captivating textures - maybe you mean Andy Ward... a terrific drummer, by the way!!!, who should be mentioned more often. regards.

No, no! No Andy Ward... Andy Newmark instead!  I like him better  even Dave Stewart!

I just think of Pete Bardens as one of those "Kings without a crown" within the drummers world, and just like you say, if he would've decided drums over keyboards, surely we have never been given such ellegant CAMEL compositions... ( "Mirage" is my favorite album with Bardens BTW... )

Edited by landberkdoten

I voted for Farewell to Kings. But ask me again in 5 minutes and it will change. I had to go on a buisness trip, and I only brought Hemispheres and Caress of Steel. So if that tells you anything.

i think that is going to be a controversy, but to me is PRESTO...

these record shows a more matture band and a different approach to music, more melodic and more "fusion", less hard rock.

sounds strange, but is my favorite.

peace

Resurrected

It was between A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres and Hemispheres is too short and I don't like the synthy work so much. Still, plenty of great albums nevertheless.

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.