Rush's Most Consistent album

[Bigbobby10]

This can be Consistently good or consistently bad, but which Rush album is the most Consistent from beginning to end.

 

Im not sure about this one yet.

[theredtamasrule]

MP is consistently great from beginning to end.

[Bigbobby10]

I would go with Permanent Waves.

 

I love every song on the album, from beginning to end.

[Tombstone Mountain]

It comes down to preference. Which consistent album do you enjoy most?

[Cyclonus X-1]

Moving Pictures. Great all the way through.

[laughedatbytime]

Presto. It consistently sucks. At least S&A has the pretty good Far Cry on it and the instrumentals don't suck.

[Lucas]

I went with Hemispheres

 

Perfect from beginning to end

[DistantEarlySignals]

Signals and MP are consistently epic from song one to the last track! I vote for.... Moving Pictures.

 

 

 

However, Vapor Trails is consistently bad throughout, with the title track and OLV being the only upsides.

[Mr. Not]

Hemispheres, has to be Hemispheres

[Stormtron]

Hemispheres

[driven_to_xanadu]

Moving Pictures. It just flows better than any other album

 

 

 

 

Honorable Mention: Hold Your Fire (it does trail off towards the end though IMO)

[Disk98]

Another vote for Moving Pictures. It's magnificent all the way through, from the first note of Tom Sawyer to the last note of Vital Signs.

[Relayer2112]

I picked Moving Pictures, but it is hard to compare. At that point, they were still releasing an album per year, so they tended to be shorter. Some of their later albums had more space for the dreaded "filler" tunes.

[Tuesday's Gone]

Counterparts, it consistently sucks

 

Moving Pictures. It just flows better than any other album

 

This

[Na na na]

Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows are all top of the pop...

[Maverick]

GUP

[ReRushed]

There is not one second of Moving Pictures that doesn't sound out of place or wasted. No lost opportunities. I used to think "The Camera Eye" was the weak link for being too repetitive, I have since changed my mind!

[bluefox4000]

For me it's anything from Hemispheres to Presto (yea yea i know Presto) oh excluding Grace. Hate that record.

 

Mick

Edited June 22, 2015 by bluefox4000

[Tombstone Mountain]

For me it's anything from Hemispheres to Presto (yea yea i know Presto)

 

Mick

 

You'll be pleased to know my ten year old listened to Presto with me recently. He liked it much more than I did. However, I tolerated it pretty well.

[LedRush]

Counterparts, it consistently sucks

 

Moving Pictures. It just flows better than any other album

 

This

 

I went CP as it consistently sucks. MP has Witch Hunt and Vital Signs, were are huge drop offs from the amazing songs on the rest of the album. Hemispheres and CoS are probably the most consistently awesome albums. Vapor Trails may be the most consistent as well...consistently good, with few amazing songs and no bad ones.

[LedRush]

For me it's anything from Hemispheres to Presto (yea yea i know Presto) oh excluding Grace. Hate that record.

 

Mick

 

Signals to Presto is the bands least consistent stretch to my ears. So much of the band's worst output thrown together with some legitimately great music, often distributed 50/50.

[Tuesday's Gone]

For me it's anything from Hemispheres to Presto (yea yea i know Presto) oh excluding Grace. Hate that record.

 

Mick

 

I mostly agree with that. Everything from Hemispheres to HYF for me, excluding Grace too, I don't hate it but it has too many songs I don't care about and the ones I like I'm not crazy about. I like Presto more than GUP but it has a few songs I don't care about.

Edited June 22, 2015 by Tuesday's Gone

[Bigbobby10]

I would go with MP, but Witch Hunt destroies it for me

[Lorraine]

I don't think there is any one Rush album that is consistently bad.

 

As for consistently good, I would go with Hemispheres.

[YYZ Working Man]

Moving Pictures

Most Consistant

7 Solid tracks - no weak ones here -