What is your least favorite Rush album

[Stormtron]

The debut rules. Test for Echo stanks.

[micgtr71]

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 19 2012, 04:25 PM)

rush haVe mAde some Pretty mediOcRe albums, buT aRe Any I've heard truLy So bad that I could say it was the WORST one? i'll have to give this some serious thought...

Very nice!

[micgtr71]

QUOTE (Bangster of Goats @ Jul 19 2012, 06:06 PM)

Roll the Bones. Two words: rapping skeleton. Two more words: Face Up.

This just about says it....Roll the Bones by a country mile. Also, I would like to add You Bet Your Life as part of the reason.

[rushgoober]

QUOTE (DBJetsman @ Jul 19 2012, 03:32 PM)

WTF?!  How is Test for Echo, from their worst decade ever, have the same amount of votes as Rush, which includes Working Man and In the Mood?! Sometimes, I really don't get what's going in peoples' heads from this forum...

Besides the fact that is a truly great kick-ass rock and roll album that actually rates pretty highly in the Rush discography, I don't know how anyone, at the minimum, could rate it lower than Presto, Roll the Bones, Test For Echo or Vapor Trails.

[Tombstone Mountain]

[rushgoober]

[Tombstone Mountain]

[Gompers]

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 19 2012, 05:25 PM)

rush haVe mAde some Pretty mediOcRe albums, buT aRe Any I've heard truLy So bad that I could say it was the WORST one? i'll have to give this some serious thought...

[rushgoober]

[Your_Lion]

[Tombstone Mountain]

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 20 2012, 10:00 AM)

I can't accept that argument when I'm looking at "great fun album I enjoy listening to" compared to "mediocre album where I enjoy one or two songs, if that." No problem - you enjoy the hell out of Heresy, Neurotica, You Bet Your Life and Face Up while I'm rocking out to Working Man, Finding My Way, In the Mood and Here Again. Bazinga!

The title of the thread is "least favorite Rush album", not "great fun album YOU enjoy listening too"

 

Oh and when I picture you rocking out to those songs...I think of "40 year old virgin" star Steve Carell walking around his apartment in the movie playing the tuba!!! Rock on with that buddy!

 

 

Bazinga--wtf does that mean?

[rushgoober]

QUOTE (Tombstone Mountain @ Jul 20 2012, 09:14 AM)

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 20 2012, 10:00 AM) I can't accept that argument when I'm looking at "great fun album I enjoy listening to" compared to "mediocre album where I enjoy one or two songs, if that." No problem - you enjoy the hell out of Heresy, Neurotica, You Bet Your Life and Face Up while I'm rocking out to Working Man, Finding My Way, In the Mood and Here Again. Bazinga! The title of the thread is "least favorite Rush album", not "great fun album YOU enjoy listening too"   Oh and when I picture you rocking out to those songs...I think of "40 year old virgin" star Steve Carell walking around his apartment in the movie playing the tuba!!! Rock on with that buddy!     Bazinga--wtf does that mean?   Well, don't tell my wife I'm a 40-year old virgin!   All I can say is that is a truly awesome album, even without Neil and without the lyrical sophistication that would come later. Hell, Alex's guitar solos are worth the price of admission alone, but the whole album rocks hard.   Bazinga is from The Big Bang Theory.

[rushlady23]

[Tombstone Mountain]

[Tommy Sawyer]

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 19 2012, 06:53 PM)

Their debut album is criminally underrated. That and HYF.

Signals is criminally overrated.

 

 

I voted for Signals

[Animate]

could go either Power Windows or Hold Your Fire...... hmmm.... will, HYF has no votes yet, so going that way.

 

I have learned to appreciate both PowW and HYF, especially individual songs, but it was not easy.

[Shreddy Lee]

What is the EXACT kind of sound that I absolutely do not ever want to hear from my favorite rock band, you say? Why, that's easy. They call it Power Windows.

[treeduck]

QUOTE (Shreddy Lee @ Jul 20 2012, 03:59 PM)

What is the EXACT kind of sound that I absolutely do not ever want to hear from my favorite rock band, you say? Why, that's easy. They call it Power Windows.

It's f***ing good boyo! Power Windows is bright, beautiful, bombastic and byzantine!

 

And...

 

It's METAL!!

 

 

Bow down Shreddy, bow down to the Power of Power Windows!!

 

Get out of town! Or shake your shreddies to Big Money!!

 

[CygnusGal]

The band nearly lost me with HYF. Didn't care for (and that is being polite) Time Stand Still (guest vocalist? - wtf?) and it was the height of there 80s sound and really, really pop sounding, imo. I've since learned to accept it and even love Mission, Force Ten and the lyrical content of TSS and appreciate Aimee's performance (a fine one). I was not happy with the direction of the band on HYF.

[New World Kid]

Lyrical synopsis for most of the songs on the first album:

 

"I'm horny. I really want to bang something. What time is it? Work time or bangin time?"

[An Enemy Without]

QUOTE (New World Kid @ Jul 20 2012, 04:50 PM)

Lyrical synopsis for most of the songs on the first album: "I'm horny. I really want to bang something. What time is it? Work time or bangin time?"

[TheAccountant]

VT gets my vote, although CoS gets a dishonorable mention as the runner up.

[Pound of Obscure]

Snakes. Not even close.

[treeduck]

QUOTE (New World Kid @ Jul 20 2012, 04:50 PM)

Lyrical synopsis for most of the songs on the first album: "I'm horny. I really want to bang something. What time is it? Work time or bangin time?"

The first album is not synthy enough for the new wavers, it's not brickwalled enough for the I-Pod squad, it's not trendy enough for the alternative cock rockers, it's not proggy enough for the hipster pseudo proggers, it's not funky enough for drum and bass crowd, it's too classic rock for the millenium brats who don't want to be seen to be into their dad's music, it's too retro for the retroactive pansies who only want pseudo retro rock, it's too Zeppelin for the Zep haters and Zep plagiarism accusers and because it has Rutsey and no Peart it's not arty farty enough for the snob rockers nor lyrically advanced enough for the Lyric tards and fake intellectual bores who mock the "simplistic" style...

 

[rushgoober]

QUOTE (Tommy Sawyer @ Jul 20 2012, 12:49 PM)

QUOTE (rushgoober @ Jul 19 2012, 06:53 PM) Their debut album is criminally underrated.  That and HYF. Signals is criminally overrated.     I voted for Signals Dude, put down the hash pipe and walk away from the computer.