What is your least favorite Rush album

[treeduck]

QUOTE (LedRush @ Aug 7 2012, 12:13 PM)

QUOTE (metaldad @ Aug 7 2012, 12:03 PM) To the person that voted for AFTK................... Ditto for 2112. Aye and double

[rushgoober]

QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 7 2012, 10:20 AM)

QUOTE (LedRush @ Aug 7 2012, 12:13 PM) QUOTE (metaldad @ Aug 7 2012, 12:03 PM) To the person that voted for AFTK................... Ditto for 2112. Aye and double I'd like to add one in for whomever voted for Signals. I guess some people just hate great music?

[Animate]

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Aug 7 2012, 01:31 PM)

QUOTE (treeduck @ Aug 7 2012, 10:20 AM) QUOTE (LedRush @ Aug 7 2012, 12:13 PM) QUOTE (metaldad @ Aug 7 2012, 12:03 PM) To the person that voted for AFTK................... Ditto for 2112. Aye and double I'd like to add one in for whomever voted for Signals. I guess some people just hate great music?   One to each of the 15 people who voted for COS:

[StellarJetman]

Test for Echo. Just a dull, dreary album, an absolute slog to sit through. "The Color of Right" has great lyrics (and a terrible melody), and "Virtuality" and the title track have great melodies (and terrible lyrics), but that's about it for compliments as far as I'm concerned. Everything else is mediocre or worse, usually the latter.

 

If I could give a second-place vote, it would go to Roll the Bones. It basically flatlines after the first two songs.

 

The '90s weren't a good decade for Rush.

Edited August 8, 2012 by StellarJetman

[rushgoober]

QUOTE (StellarJetman @ Aug 8 2012, 02:38 PM)

Test for Echo... If I could give a second-place vote, it would go to Roll the Bones... The '90s weren't a good decade for Rush.

The excellent Counterparts of course being the exception.

[LedRush]

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Aug 8 2012, 05:06 PM)

QUOTE (StellarJetman @ Aug 8 2012, 02:38 PM) Test for Echo... If I could give a second-place vote, it would go to Roll the Bones... The '90s weren't a good decade for Rush. The excellent Counterparts of course being the exception. Ugh, Counterparts is easily Rush's worst album. At least RTB expanded Rush's fanbase, and T4E contained songs that were sounded like songs and had lyrics that had impact. There's a reason Peart doesn't write about love.

[StellarJetman]

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Aug 8 2012, 04:06 PM)

The excellent Counterparts of course being the exception.

There are some great songs on it, but the world never needed crap like "Nobody's Hero" or "At the Speed of Love" or "Double Agent" or basically half of the album. "Everyday Glory" sounds like a freaking Roll the Bones outtake.

 

Really gets me down because I love almost everything else on it.

Edited August 9, 2012 by StellarJetman

[Amy Farrah Fowler]

Presto. Even the recording quality is very different.

[rushgoober]

QUOTE (LedRush @ Aug 8 2012, 03:18 PM)

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Aug 8 2012, 05:06 PM) QUOTE (StellarJetman @ Aug 8 2012, 02:38 PM) Test for Echo... If I could give a second-place vote, it would go to Roll the Bones... The '90s weren't a good decade for Rush. The excellent Counterparts of course being the exception. Ugh, Counterparts is easily Rush's worst album.     http://2wheeltuesday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/epic-fail-1.jpg

[treeduck]

More bitchslaps are due for the damn RUSH traitors I think!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[JohnnyBlaze]

Even the 2 votes for CA is quite surprising to me.

[t2s]

MP

[LedRush]

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Aug 9 2012, 12:50 AM)

QUOTE (LedRush @ Aug 8 2012, 03:18 PM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Aug 8 2012, 05:06 PM) QUOTE (StellarJetman @ Aug 8 2012, 02:38 PM) Test for Echo... If I could give a second-place vote, it would go to Roll the Bones... The '90s weren't a good decade for Rush. The excellent Counterparts of course being the exception. Ugh, Counterparts is easily Rush's worst album.     http://2wheeltuesday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/epic-fail-1.jpg There's a reason that less than half the fans that bought RTB bought Counterparts. And it ain't because of the "new" "heavy" sound, that's for sure. Bad songs are bad no matter what the production. The hardcore fans love this album because they see it as a return to hard Rush. But really, it's just style without substance.

[ThinkingBig]

don't have one.

[HomesickAlien]

QUOTE (LedRush @ Aug 9 2012, 08:57 AM)

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Aug 9 2012, 12:50 AM) QUOTE (LedRush @ Aug 8 2012, 03:18 PM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Aug 8 2012, 05:06 PM) QUOTE (StellarJetman @ Aug 8 2012, 02:38 PM) Test for Echo... If I could give a second-place vote, it would go to Roll the Bones... The '90s weren't a good decade for Rush. The excellent Counterparts of course being the exception. Ugh, Counterparts is easily Rush's worst album.     http://2wheeltuesday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/epic-fail-1.jpg There's a reason that less than half the fans that bought RTB bought Counterparts. And it ain't because of the "new" "heavy" sound, that's for sure. Bad songs are bad no matter what the production. The hardcore fans love this album because they see it as a return to hard Rush. But really, it's just style without substance.

[LedRush]

QUOTE (substancewithoutstyle @ Aug 9 2012, 09:13 AM)

QUOTE (LedRush @ Aug 9 2012, 08:57 AM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Aug 9 2012, 12:50 AM) QUOTE (LedRush @ Aug 8 2012, 03:18 PM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Aug 8 2012, 05:06 PM) QUOTE (StellarJetman @ Aug 8 2012, 02:38 PM) Test for Echo... If I could give a second-place vote, it would go to Roll the Bones... The '90s weren't a good decade for Rush. The excellent Counterparts of course being the exception. Ugh, Counterparts is easily Rush's worst album.     http://2wheeltuesday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/epic-fail-1.jpg There's a reason that less than half the fans that bought RTB bought Counterparts. And it ain't because of the "new" "heavy" sound, that's for sure. Bad songs are bad no matter what the production. The hardcore fans love this album because they see it as a return to hard Rush. But really, it's just style without substance.

[rushgoober]

QUOTE (LedRush @ Aug 9 2012, 06:57 AM)

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Aug 9 2012, 12:50 AM) QUOTE (LedRush @ Aug 8 2012, 03:18 PM) QUOTE (rushgoober @ Aug 8 2012, 05:06 PM) QUOTE (StellarJetman @ Aug 8 2012, 02:38 PM) Test for Echo... If I could give a second-place vote, it would go to Roll the Bones... The '90s weren't a good decade for Rush. The excellent Counterparts of course being the exception. Ugh, Counterparts is easily Rush's worst album.     http://2wheeltuesday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/epic-fail-1.jpg There's a reason that less than half the fans that bought RTB bought Counterparts. And it ain't because of the "new" "heavy" sound, that's for sure. Bad songs are bad no matter what the production. The hardcore fans love this album because they see it as a return to hard Rush. But really, it's just style without substance.   You can't attribute sales to quality. Look at rateyourmusic.com or progarchives, or even here for that matter. Counterparts always rates significantly higher than RTB. RTB just had luck and good timing. It had a fantastic song in Dreamline (by FAR the best song on that album), and the song RTB, which while containing the horrendous rap section, was catchy and somewhat of a minor hit. It was just the right place at the right time, but most of the album sucked.   Most all of Counterparts, however, was GREAT, the first four songs especially just being incredible kick-ass Rush songs, and they took on topics that they had never gone after before, and to my money, very successfully. Sorry you can't appreciate how great an album Rush made in 1993.

[USB Connector]

Caress of Steel. It's like they took Fly by Night, smoked some serious weed, got drunk and then rehashed the album while stealing a little from Zeppelin.

 

My eyes have just been opened and they're opened very wide.

[Texas King]

I heard Vapor Trails again today and I totally dislike it. To be fair I can't find one single song on the album which I like. All songs sound pretty similar. From the instrumental aspect it is a messy noise, from a vocal aspect the vocal melodies suck big time!, Geddy Lee is not singing on this album he is lamenting, that is so annoying to my ears.

Awful album in every way. That's my view.

[Rutlefan]

I really like VT. Love some tracks, like Ceiling Unlimited, Secret Touch, etc. But to each one's own. Presto on the other hand has nothing going for it, except for The Pass. One song.

[EagleMoon]

Kind of a tie between Vapor Trails and Presto.