Best 70’s RUSH album
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Topic: Best 70’s RUSH album
Posted By: lucas
Subject: Best 70’s RUSH album
Date Posted: February 13 2004 at 13:38
To make up for having forgotten to mention Neil Peart in my poll for best classic prog drummer, I launch two polls, one to vote for the best Rush album released in the 70's, the second to vote for the best Rush album released in the 80's. Good polls ! ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: February 13 2004 at 14:18
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This is a tough one. 2112 is classic to the nth degree. Hemisphere's contains some extra ordinary technical achievements, La Villa Strangiato is Rush's instrumental orgasm. Hey Lucas, did you notice that you left Fly By Night off the list? For me, however, I'm going to rate A Farewell to Kings as the best. Closer to the Heart is the Quintessential RUSH tune. Also, Cygnus X-1 is an adventure. I also like the balance between Sunlight and Shadow on this one. |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 13 2004 at 16:38
Sorry for the omission of 'fly by night' in the list. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Aqualung
Date Posted: February 14 2004 at 07:19
i can' t choose !!! i like all of them too much !  ------------- 
"Closer to the heart" |
Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: February 14 2004 at 10:58
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Hey, don't worry about it. Hmm, I can't decide; they all make very good candidates. Might as well just sit back and listen to them all back to back before I make up my mind |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: February 14 2004 at 14:40
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lucas wrote:Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 16 2004 at 14:28
Hey Ian, you quoted my message but where is your reply ? ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: Redstar
Date Posted: February 16 2004 at 16:51
| Glad too see some folks picking "Farewell"; a great album that is often underplayed IMHO. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: February 16 2004 at 17:34
| ( For Lucas ) I'm sorry but that must have been some kind of mistake I have no idea how that got up there. Anyway, I voted on your poll and chose Hemispheres.La Villa Strangiato is a phenomenal piece of music. I can't even remember how many times I've seen Rush live. The best show was at the Montreal Forum in 1978 ( Farewell To Kings Tour ). |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: February 17 2004 at 17:28
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Yes, Hemispheres is a great album, but IMHO it would sound more delightful if Geddy had sung at that time with the voice he had on the further Rush albums (I mean records such as 'Power windows' or 'Signals'). ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: February 17 2004 at 23:41
| i will have to go with "FAREWELL TO KINGS" if only because Xanadu was the very first rush track i ever heard(before i even knew who they were!!) and it just blew my head away!!! |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 08:09
Farewell to kings a great prog rock out!!!!!------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Miaugion
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 08:14
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1) Hemispheres 2) Fly by Night 3) A Farewell to Kings 4) Caress of Steel 5) 2112 6) Rush
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 08:22
ok then 1 Farewell to kings 2 Hemispheres 3 2112 4 Fly By Night 5 Caress of steel 6 Rush But I love 'em all. Progtastic!! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Velvetclown
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 08:26
A Farewell To Reed 
------------- Billy Connolly Dream Theater Terry Gilliam Hagen Quartet Jethro Tull Mike Keneally |
Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 14:52
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Ah, finally a poll I can sink my teeth into.
AFTK for me, followed closely by Hemispheres. I find these the best back-to-back album release of all time. |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 14:55
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Finally????? Haave you seen when it was posted? I found it on pagge 140!!! ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: Ben2112
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 15:05
Heh I guess I didn't go far enough back that night I spent about 2 hours reading old threads. My noobness is showing.
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Posted By: Vegetableman
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 15:33
The others I'm not too fond of. ------------- "Mister Fripp, your music is quite different than everything else out there. In one word, how would you describe it?" "Progressive.... yeah, that's it..." |
Posted By: Jimbo
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 16:11
I'll go against the mainstream this time. 2112 for me  .
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Posted By: widjum
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 16:30
| Always a hard choice but for me Hemispheres will always be Rush at their very best. |
Posted By: John Gargo
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 16:31
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1. A Farewell to Kings - By this time in their career, Rush had honed their songwriting and they were able to create their first full-blown prog album. The title tracks shows the band's songwriting has matured by leaps and bounds, and Xanadu + Cygnus X-1 are the obligatory epics. There isn't a single wrong note played on this one... 2. Hemispheres - How do you follow-up an album like Farewell to Kings? Easy, you go for excess! Perhaps the most ambitious album they ever did... Everyone likes to heap praises on the first and last tracks, and sure they're brilliant, but check out the middle tracks. The Trees has become a concert staple, and for good reason, but the real gem of the album is Consequences... the chorus riff is just about the catchiest thing the band has ever written. Genius. 3. 2112 - A lot of critics tend to call the second side of the album filler, but I couldn't disagree more! Check out the eerie whispered vocals on Twilight Zone, and Something for Nothing is one of their strongest closing songs ever. Their first masterpiece. 4. Fly By Night - Who would have guessed after the debut that they would have come up with this? One foot still firmly planted in classic rock, but that seems to enhance the album's prog moments. And let's not forgot the mindblowing By-Tor and the Snow Dog. Incredible. 5. Caress of steel - A very good album, but it has its flaws. For one thing, I Think I'm Going Bald is a total filler track... fun to listen to perhaps, but completely beneath the band. Secondly, the epics are perhaps a bit TOO ambitious for this particular moment of time.. They both contain moments of pure genius, but there also rather unorganized and lack focus... it wouldn't be until their next album where they perfected their songwriting to tackle something of this magnitude. Bastille Day is a classic. 6. Rush - Led Zeppelin worship here folks, not that there's anything wrong with it. Most of the album could easily stand head to head with the best of Jimmy Page and folks. The real highlight is Working Man, which pretty much towers over everything else here and hints at the direction of the band. Underrated, perhaps, but by no means essential to anyone other than big fans of the band. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 16:41
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I chose AFTK because it is the best of the 2112/AFTK/Hemispheres post-apocalyptic trilogy. All the other 70s Rush albums are only mediocre. |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 17:38
This post-apocalyptic trilogy? Intentional? Or just reocurring themes? I am I dumb or am I dumb? |
Posted By: gleam
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 18:15
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2112 because it was a dramatic departure from their previous work and set the stage for all the great stuff they would release from there on.
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Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: April 07 2005 at 22:04
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thta's too easy: 1HEMISPHERES 2Fly by night 3farewell to kings 4caress of steel 5rush 62112 ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: Rhayader
Date Posted: April 12 2005 at 13:59
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1) Hemispheres 2) A Farewell to Kings 3)= 2112 = Fly By Night 5) Caress of Steel 6) Rush I really can't decide between Fly By Night and 2112. '2112' is an absoluetly astounding song, but the rest of the tracks, bar 'A Passage to Bangkok', aren't anything too special. Fly By Night does have a couple of weak tracks (Beneath, Between, Behind and Best I Can) but Anthem is an excellent opener and By-Tor and the Snow Dog is one of my all time favourite Rush songs. It also finishes on a high note with 'In The End'. ------------- "Sadder still to watch you die than never to have known it..." Rush - Losing It |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: April 12 2005 at 15:46
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Hemispheres gets my vote I liked everything they done in the 70's, the debut obviously being my least favourite. Hemispheres has superb production, has La Villa Strangiato, and is altogether a more polished and complete album than AFTK - Which is also excellent ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: dropForge
Date Posted: April 12 2005 at 22:53
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Hemispheres. Not an easy decision, but it's all about Side A of that bad boy! And "La Villa." Pretty much clinches it. |
Posted By: Grimm
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 00:28
Hemispheres. Brilliant!!  ------------- Arguing with anonymous strangers on the internet is a sucker's game because they almost always turn out to be or seem to be self-righteous sixteen-year-olds possessing infinite amounts of free time. |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 00:33
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A Farewell to Kings ------------- 
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: May 30 2005 at 01:46
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Hemispheres -------------  |
Posted By: Pablo_P
Date Posted: May 31 2005 at 04:39
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A Farewell To Kings... Cygnus x-1 rulez! ------------- Pablo P. |
Posted By: Cygnus
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 08:33
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I CHOOSE 2112. THE FIRST BSONG IS THE BEST EPIC EVER COMBINING HEAVY RIFS, EMOTIONAL THEMES AND CLEVER - TECHNICAL STRUCTURES. THE OTHER SONGS SHOW HOW PROG CAN BE WRITEN IN LESS 4 MINUTES TRACKS.EVERYTHING HERE IS A SMALL DIAMOND. |
Posted By: Hammill
Date Posted: July 15 2005 at 10:34
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aftk
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Posted By: Cygnus X-1
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 07:24
| Hemispheres, IMO best Rush album |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: July 16 2005 at 15:15
2112 is not that much better than the rest of the Hemispheres/ATFK series, but still I like it better 
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Posted By: Olympus
Date Posted: December 11 2005 at 20:16
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Hemispheres is their BEST album. Period. ------------- "Let's get the hell away from this Eerie-ass piece of work so we can get on with the rest of our eerie-ass day" |
Posted By: FragileDT
Date Posted: December 11 2005 at 20:31
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I like a farewell to kings closely followed by 2112. ------------- One likes to believe In the freedom of music But glittering prizes And endless Compromises Shatter the illusion Of integrity |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: December 12 2005 at 00:04
| I voted A Farewell to Kings even though 2112 is easily their best (and my favorite of any band) song, in my opinion. |
Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 09:39
| 2112 |
Posted By: paulindigo
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 09:55
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currently a farewell to kings but hemispheres could beat it any time
in the future |
Posted By: Carlos
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 10:11
A FAREWELL TO KINGS IS THEIR BEST EVER... ------------- Democracy=A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people... 
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Posted By: Deliriumist
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 16:34
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A Farewell to Kings
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Posted By: Rainman
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 17:33
| A Farewell to Kings, surely |
Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 17:38
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2112 is awesome, bu t the song, not the entire album A farewell to kings is a really awesome album... excellent but my favorite is Hemispheres... all the songs in thiis album are really beautiful ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Destrio
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 18:10
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2112, you left Fly By Night off the list, not that that matters :p The whole album of 2112 is excellent |
Posted By: sbrushfan
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 18:27
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I think A FAREWELL TO KINGS is their best from the 70's, but, IMO, I also think there was better to come. BTW...what happened to FLY BY NIGHT? ------------- Some world views are spacious, and some are merely spaced... |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: December 13 2005 at 19:54
| Hemispheres |