Rush Album Artworks

[_hi_water._]

Favorite: Moving Pictures

Least Favorite: Power Windows

 

This poll will become antiquated when Moving Pictures 40 comes out.

I don't think this poll has been done anywhere... unless I skipped it in the search.

[ST3V]

Clockwork CD is my favorite for no reason I can think of at the moment

S&A's art feels uninspired

[Union 5-3992]

Since the band usually chooses the album artwork, I wouldn't count the 40th anniversary stuff

[Nova Carmina]

Favorite: Moving Pictures (clever, lots of detail to amuse one). Honorable mention to GUP, and while I like AFTK, it seems a bit derivative of Led Zep IV.

Least favorite: they've done some boring ones, haven't they? HYF, Clockwork Angels, Rush . . . I'll go with Rush.

[zepphead]

Favourite - Permanent Waves .... always stuck in my head, can't imagine why!

Least - Rush ..... just boring

[goose]

Fav - PWaves

Least - HYF...but the inner sleeve is awesome and should have been used instead.

[laughedatbytime]

Favorite: 2112

Least: Hemi

[_hi_water._]

Favorite: 2112

Least: Hemi

I'm guessing you don't like bare-naked asses? :smoke:

[New World Kid]

Favorite: Test for Echo. Beautiful artistry, ties in perfectly with the theme of the album.

 

Least Favorite: After some thinking, I had to go with Moving Pictures. It's not bad, but it's just a picture symbolizing a pun that doesn't tie in with the music at all.

[Tinwoodsman]

Should all get 3 cracks wit it!

[driventotheedge]

Fav - GUP with MP being a very close 2nd

Least - S&A

[goose]

Favorite: Test for Echo. Beautiful artistry, ties in perfectly with the theme of the album.

 

Least Favorite: After some thinking, I had to go with Moving Pictures. It's not bad, but it's just a picture symbolizing a pun that doesn't tie in with the music at all.

multiple puns

[lifeson90]

Counterparts

[_hi_water._]

Counterparts

the blue looks good tho

[RUSHHEAD666]

Favorite: 2112

Least: Hemi

I'm guessing you don't like bare-naked asses? :smoke:

 

But he loves YES "Going For The One!" LOL

[RUSHHEAD666]

BEST: "GRACE UNDER PRESSURE!"

WORST: "VAPOR TRAILS"

[Bahamas]

A long winded reply (as is my default setting). I love Hugh Syme's work, all the albums have a distinction to them that I look at from time to time, however...

 

I like Permanent Waves - creating such a cover before photo-shop was around, the details and back story of almost every visual component. And how interesting, to me, the artistic changes for the 40th release.

 

I like Test For Echo - the idea of using an inuksuk - and actually an inunnguaq (person-looking arrangement) which is probably a communication symbol/rock cairn dating back millennia, and juxtaposing it with digital satellites is very cool! (Further more, having done many archaeological excavations in northern Ontario and uncovering artifacts from thousands of miles away (trade routes and such), it resonates so personally with me that an artist thought to couple modes of communication, both ancient and modern. And...it was a couple years after purchasing the album that I noticed the climbing figures. Too cool.

 

I am not a big fan of Hold Your Fire, just too simple or I don't understand. But when memes circulated in January with only two dots...suddenly the artwork mattered.

 

A Farewell To Kings was originally so neat, political, visual, cryptic - all in the artwork. Most of my life traveling around the country and parts of the planet I would see ruined structures and some times think "Hey! That looks a lot like...". But I don't like how the subsequent releases, certainly the 40th, idolized the "skull". And the ring? Weird, in my opinion. But still awesome art.

 

A Show Of Hands is really neat, simple, but jazzy.

 

And Different Stages - Live. The simplicity speaks volumes. Volumes, I say!!!

 

(And I did vote above, one for each category - challenging).

Edited August 4, 2020 by Bahamas