Earliest Rush
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Topic: Earliest Rush
Posted By: Dr Know
Subject: Earliest Rush
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 14:28
| My vote would go to Fly by night with Anthem, In the end...great album |
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Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: February 14 2006 at 14:33
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Definitely Caress of Steel. Love The Necromancer and the Fountain of Lamneth(a very overlooked epic). -------------  |
Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 12:32
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Caress Of Steel ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: John Gargo
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 12:43
| Fly By Night.. The debut is too reminiscent of Led Zeppelin and Caress of Steel has got a filler track on it (guess which one). |
Posted By: rushaholic
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 12:47
I second that. |
TheProgtologist wrote:Posted By: Empathy
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 13:47
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It was tough, but "In the End", I had to go with Fly By Night.
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 13:50
Yep, that's how I feel. ------------- 
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 14:35
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Posted By: Bastille Dude
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 14:39
| I love "Fly by night", but I also have to choose "Caress of steel". |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 16:05
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Another for 'COS'
------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Bt-Tor
Date Posted: February 18 2006 at 12:27
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TheProgtologist wrote: Definitely Caress of Steel. Love The Necromancer and the Fountain of Lamneth(a very overlooked epic). ------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------- Same feelings here. Kinda of stupid question: How do you quote comments from other people? (unlike my feeble attempt above! |
Posted By: greenback
Date Posted: February 18 2006 at 20:35
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fly by night, followed by their first album ------------- [HEADPINS - LINE OF FIRE: THE RECORD HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL GUITAR SOUND IN THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MUSIC!> |
Posted By: VERS
Date Posted: February 18 2006 at 20:40
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Definetly Caress of Steel ------------- 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: February 20 2006 at 07:33
| Fly By Night just edges it for me. Caress of Steel is great but I've never liked Bald or The Necromancer. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 20 2006 at 08:17
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Caress of Steel. C'mon, "I Think I'm Going Bald" rocks!  |
Posted By: akin
Date Posted: February 21 2006 at 10:25
For me the same. The Necromancer and the Fountain of Lammeth are among their best long songs. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: February 21 2006 at 16:46
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Got to be 'Fly By Night' for me; the other two are merely OK- their debut is all too derivative of Led Zeppelin and not especially progressive and I find 'Caress Of Steel' to be an awkward album with some excellent tracks but an over indulgent epic side long piece. 'Fly By Night' doesn't have a weak track as I recall, but some may sound weaker as albums like '2112' through 'Signals' had some extremely tight and focussed songwriting. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 21 2006 at 16:57
 started out terrible  late 70s all 80s  90s, i dont think rush knew what they wanted  2000 to present awful ""vapor trail"" is frisbee material What gos around comes around My opion of course..
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Posted By: cucacola54
Date Posted: February 21 2006 at 18:07
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Caress of Steel ------------- Most listened albums last week 
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Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: February 21 2006 at 18:08
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No Brainer of that list- Caress of Steel- experimental, and very proggy. ------------- |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: February 21 2006 at 18:16
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Fly By Night by a country mile. Fountain Of Lamneth is atrocious-I was nearly evicteed by my mother for playing "No One At The Bridge" at tea-time - "scream in desperation" pretty much sums it up for me.... |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 21 2006 at 18:54
Wow, I couldn't disagree more. Guess it's good that Rush has so many albums...there's something for everyone.  I do really enjoy Fly By Night, but don't you think the version of By-Tor on All the World's a Stage is WAY better than the studio version? That might be my favorite live song ever! |
Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: February 21 2006 at 18:59
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Same here-the live version of Bytor from ATWAS is beyond brilliant,so exciting and high-powered. I guess only the stonking version of Natural Science on Different Stages betters it.Maybe.
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Posted By: White Queen
Date Posted: February 21 2006 at 19:57
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I think the first three on Caress of Steel are weak but the rest are great. Fly By Night has no really weak tracks, but then it has no really strong tracks either. Haven't heard the first one, so I won't vote. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 21 2006 at 21:44
that performance was incredible.
I was fortunate enough to catch them on that tour, it was probably the
best concert I've seen from them (out of 6), just unbelievable - loved
how they brought out some old gems. |
Posted By: mission4prog
Date Posted: February 24 2006 at 15:50
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the first album was too much of a Zepplin rip-off. it shouldn't even be included in the poll. the band without Peart, just isn't the band.... m4p
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Posted By: dralan
Date Posted: February 24 2006 at 17:52
| Caress of Steel. Probably my favorite album by Rush period. |
Posted By: Gary the Ghoul
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 12:05
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My pick is Rush That's one helluva album |
Posted By: luckyman_123
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 19:22
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Necromancer. That "I think I'm going bald" is pretty awesome, and of course its prog. But this album is not prog compared to the debut, obviously. Just listen to all of the inspired 2 minute epics on that beautiful work of art. (My vote goes for Caress of Steel.)
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Posted By: ColonelClaypool
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 08:34
Agreed. The Necromancer is my favourite Rush-song. 
Fly By Night is very good as well, except for the abysmal Rivendell. ------------- With magic, you can turn a frog into a prince. With science, you can turn a frog into a Ph.D. and you still have the frog you started with. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 08:48
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Fly By Night...one of my favourite Rush albums...
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Posted By: Pablo_P
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 11:53
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RUSH - blues/rock album, not bad - 7/10 FLY BY NIGHT - good rock album - 8/10 CARESS OF STEEL - experimental, psychedelic album, not very successfull IMHO... - 6 /10 ------------- Pablo P. |
Posted By: chessman
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 16:25
| Caress Of Steel, by miles. It was the first Rush album I ever bought, back in '76 I think. Got the cd years ago, and recently bought the remaster. In fact, it is the only Rush remaster I have ever got, although I have all Rush cds except the last two. COS is a very strange, surreal album, different to any other Rush album, and therein lies its attraction for me. It is one of the top three Rush albums from the early period (Hemispheres marking the end of that period.) The other two being Hemispheres and Farewell To Kings; all three are excellent. They also produced two awful albums in that period, the atrocious (although some fans rate it highly) and exceedingly juvenile 2112, and, the worst album they ever produced, Fly By Night. Oh dear, oh dear! One good track on that, Anthem, the rest totally forgettable. The debut, on the other hand, is a decent effort, and I still listen to it occasionally. |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 23:12
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I agree. Although "Caress" is more ambitious in prog (or prog-related) terms, "Fly" has a more cohesive feel to it, the repertoire is more balanced and the peaks are some of the best songs Rush wrote during their first era. It's also got a lost gem in it: the beautiful acoustic ballad 'Rivendell', a piece that Gabriel-era Genesis would have been proud of. Regards. |
Posted By: The Ryan
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 23:40
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The best (not proggiest) for me is the debut, RUSH. I'm one of the weirdos who voted for it... I love the Led Zeppelin sound that much, Fly By Night and Caress of Steel are both bad representations of Rush's 70's career, just like the debut. It's a matter of what direction you like more, I suppose? |