Best RUSH Album
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Topic: Best RUSH Album
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Subject: Best RUSH Album
Date Posted: April 08 2004 at 17:01
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With Rush in the lead for the "Best Technically Brilliant Prog Band," I felt it was time for "Best Album" poll from this Canadian Trio. I voted for Permanent Waves. Great musicianship Now, don't bruise yerselves in this (sure to be) firefight. Don't hold back and say what you feel. (NO CUSSING) |
, a splash of "radio-Friendly" tunes
and my favorite Rush epic; Natural Science. 
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Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: April 08 2004 at 17:12
| Moving Pictures. 'Tom Sawyer' is still the most awesome peice of music ever IMO.In fact the whole album is a triumph. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: April 08 2004 at 17:32
Much as I like both Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures, 2112 is an epic. Nuff said 
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: April 08 2004 at 17:56
| Hemispheres because I'm an old man and saw them on that tour and because La Villa is a phenomenal piece of music. My favourite Rush track though is Cygnus X-1. |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 08 2004 at 18:00
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Would you consider La Villa and Cygnus "technically brilliant?" Did you click the little thingee doo? There is no rating for Hemispheres.
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Vibrationbaby wrote:
Posted By: Aaron
Date Posted: April 08 2004 at 18:10
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good band, but not that good
but i do think 2112 is one of the best songs ever written |
Posted By: lucas
Date Posted: April 08 2004 at 18:28
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As I can't stand Geddy's screamings, the only Rush albums I appreciate range from 'Moving pictures' to 'Hold your fire'. And I must admit that my favourite one is 'Power windows' (fresh sound and listenable vocals), 'Signals' being a close second. ------------- "Magma was the very first gothic rock band" (Didier Lockwood) |
Posted By: dt_1928
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 09:26
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i cant chose between 2112 or moving pictures... *blows up* ------------- i was uncool before uncool was cool. |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 09:53
WOW TOUGH CHOICE!!!..forgive me for being vague but i would say everything from "MOVING PICTURES" back(including the Zeplinesque first album)
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Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 10:05
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No matter which album you choose; a day without RUSH is like a day without sunshine.
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Posted By: corbet
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 10:21
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Hey, I really want to dig this technical brilliance thing -- will someone please guide this Rush-doubting neophyte to their most technically brilliant album? I currently own 2112 and Moving Pictures. I kind of like Moving Pictures: Tom Sawyer, YYZ... awesome. But I still have this feeling that I'm missing out on something (I NEVER thought I would see them leading that poll). Please?
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 11:35
Neophyte no longer. We are teach you master-jedi. The Rush song that does not kill you, only makes you stronger. The tag line for this thread is "tongue in cheek." |
I've been a Rush fan for many odd years, over twenty-six or so. Anyway, I found a lot of humour in the responses to the "technically brilliant" thread when Rush took and expanded the lead. I felt this was the natural course to take. I own all of Rush's studio recordings and do find them entertaining. I also feel that their lead is an anti-thread. Some bands are technically brilliant, but lack heart and soul. IMHO. Enjoy the poll and buy more Rush!!! Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 16:14
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 17:01
La Villa SMOKES!!!!!!!!!! |
Posted By: Stormcrow
Date Posted: April 09 2004 at 18:22
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I would affirm that there is no RUSH album that I do not enjoy. Indeed if you forced me to it, I might even admit that RUSH is my favorite source of music of any type. Even if, to me only their last three studio albums were just first class stadium rock, rather than authentic prog. That being said, after careful internal debate, I will vote "A Farewell To Kings" as my favorite RUSH album. Your mileage may vary. |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: April 10 2004 at 14:22
DANBO"THE RUSH SONG THAT DEOS NOT KILL YOU,ONLY MAKES YOU STRONGER? YET SOMEHOW I THINK THERE IS A CONNECTION BETWEEN FREIDRICH NEITSCHE AND RUSH...BY WAY OF AYN RAND!!!!
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Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: April 10 2004 at 18:24
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Yes, but Nietzsche was an existentialist in the sense that he refuted the morality of religion, yet made few steps toward finding the 'introspective' morality that Ayn Rand had shown the world. For example, closer to the heart is a call for a morality of selfishness, and altering the world in the image of man. Also, several moments on Permanent waves, especially Different Strings: "Different hearts beat on different strings, but there are times, for you and me, when all such things agree". This obviously represents a glimmer of hope shining through the absurdity of human existence. How about Natural Science? part III, Permanent waves, definitely gives a glimpse of a utopian world that is contrary to the contents of the first two parts. In summary, Ayn Rand is not an Existentialist, as Nietzsche is often called, she merely chose to expand on some topics covered by him. Then, of course, Neil read Atlas Shrugged, and his whole life changed(As mine did) |
Posted By: Mancru2000
Date Posted: April 10 2004 at 20:51
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Hemispheres... It`s a pretty hard task to pick only one, though... ------------- Mechanical Asymmetrical Nocturnal Calculation and Repair Unit 2000 |
Posted By: CygnusX2112
Date Posted: April 16 2004 at 20:48
| The whole Cygnus X-1 series is my favorite song probably ever, but i think Book ii.: Hemispheres is my favorite part and the whole rest of that album is a giant masterpiece especially La Villa Strangiato. I just had to vote for Hemispheres. |
Posted By: Andy Roddick
Date Posted: April 18 2004 at 09:35
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I like all Rush albuns. This band is my favorite one but if I have to choose one I would choose Moving Pictures. But Permanent Waves is also fantastic and so is Counterparts, Signals, 2112... |
Posted By: moonchild
Date Posted: May 15 2004 at 20:45
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A Farewell to Kings ------------- In the Wake of Poseidon |
Posted By: dude
Date Posted: May 16 2004 at 11:17
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MOON CHILD:MY FAVOURITE RUSH ALBUM!!!
GLASS:I WILL ABSORB YOUR WORDS RE AYN RAND
not convinced of your point though
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Posted By: Glass-Prison
Date Posted: May 16 2004 at 15:05
| I agree, there is a very loose connection between the two, but I am convinced that it is there. |
Posted By: moonchild
Date Posted: May 16 2004 at 16:00
Cool dude! ------------- In the Wake of Poseidon |
Posted By: dropForge
Date Posted: May 16 2004 at 23:23
| 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. |
Posted By: moonchild
Date Posted: June 02 2004 at 14:43
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I also like: 2. Hemispheres 3. 2112 after that it would be MovingPictures, Fly By Night... ------------- In the Wake of Poseidon |
Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: June 02 2004 at 14:49
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  ) !!! ------------- break the circle reset my head wake the sleepwalker and i'll wake the dead |
Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: June 02 2004 at 14:55
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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. |
Posted By: The Prognaut
Date Posted: June 02 2004 at 15:17
No, no! No Andy Ward... Andy Newmark instead! 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... ) ------------- break the circle reset my head wake the sleepwalker and i'll wake the dead |
Posted By: Focussed
Date Posted: June 03 2004 at 05:06
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Moving pictures is my fave. Best rock album of all time. ------------- 'You cant have two killers living on the same patch!' |
Posted By: DNA1997
Date Posted: June 03 2004 at 06:56
| 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. |
Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: June 03 2004 at 07:33
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Definitely Hemispheres, for me! Any album with a side long epic, and tracks like 'The Trees' & 'La Villa Strangiato' has to be a winner.... ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: arqwave
Date Posted: June 07 2004 at 13:32
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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 |
Posted By: dropForge
Date Posted: June 08 2004 at 03:28
| Okay, how is Presto more "fusion"? Presto is an uneven album, but it's much better than Roll The Boner (hehe). Presto has some great songs, faves being "Chain Lightning" & "Available Light." |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: September 01 2004 at 14:35
| Resurrected |
Posted By: Petra
Date Posted: September 01 2004 at 14:51
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WOOO! ..Well you know where my vote has gone! ------------- Don't hate me I'm not special like you |
Posted By: goose
Date Posted: September 01 2004 at 14:56
| 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. |
Posted By: gdub411
Date Posted: September 01 2004 at 14:57
Rush, Rush , Rush....Honestly I don't get the love for these guys. Totally over-rated. Burn all their albums!!!Yuk...........
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Posted By: arcer
Date Posted: September 01 2004 at 15:27
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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. |
Posted By: AngelRat
Date Posted: September 01 2004 at 16:34
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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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Posted By: Batts
Date Posted: September 01 2004 at 17:10
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I couldn't agree more richardh!!!! Awesome album by an awesome band. ------------- marching on together!! |
Posted By: Vegetableman
Date Posted: September 01 2004 at 18:17
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I went with Permanent Waves. HM goes to Moving Pictures and Hemispheres. ------------- "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: James Lee
Date Posted: September 01 2004 at 19:14
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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. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/sollipsist/?chartstyle=kaonashi"> 
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Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: September 01 2004 at 19:21
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Posted By: Reed Lover
Date Posted: September 02 2004 at 08:32
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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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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 02 2004 at 08:43
Moving Pictures is my favourite rock album of all time by any band. Perfect playing, perfect production, exciting and inspring music  ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: Dan Bobrowski
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 19:53
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Again
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Posted By: Tony R
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 20:18
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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! |
Posted By: King of Loss
Date Posted: May 13 2005 at 22:05
| 2112 because I believe its one of the best songs ever made, but of course Hemispheres isn't that far away either. |
Posted By: rushaholic
Date Posted: May 15 2005 at 19:25
| 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. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: May 16 2005 at 10:40
| 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'. |
Posted By: NetsNJFan
Date Posted: May 17 2005 at 19:17
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My Ranking:
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Posted By: daz2112
Date Posted: January 22 2006 at 16:49
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Hemispheres ------------- In the constellation of cygnus,There lurks a mysterious force...The black hole |
Posted By: ColonelClaypool
Date Posted: January 22 2006 at 19:53
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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. ------------- 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: ANDREW
Date Posted: January 22 2006 at 20:41
I love also EXIT STAGE LEFT. RUSH is my favourite band. |
Posted By: Mongo
Date Posted: January 23 2006 at 02:27
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AFOTK -though I love em all. ------------- "The options are ever fewer on the ground these days" Fish |
Posted By: Trotsky
Date Posted: January 23 2006 at 02:43
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2112 followed by Caress Of Steel and A Farewell To Kings ... ------------- "Death to Utopia! Death to faith! Death to love! Death to hope?" thunders the 20th century. "Surrender, you pathetic dreamer.” "No" replies the unhumbled optimist "You are only the present." |
Posted By: Spacemac
Date Posted: January 25 2006 at 09:56
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Moving Pictures - faaaaaantastic
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