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Exit Stage Left in about 1982

 

Nothing else until 2014, then over 12 months:

2112

Grace Under Pressure

Presto - Snakes and Arrows (box set)

A Farewell to Kings - Moving Pictures (Sector 2 box set)

Clockwork Angels

Power Windows

Signals

Fly by Night

Caress of Steel

Hold Your Fire

 

Still to get the debut.

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Signals, Christmas Day 1982

Moving Pictures, Christmas Day 1983

Grace Under Pressure, April 21, 1984

Fly By Night, September 28, 1984

Caress of Steel, September 29, 1984

A Farewell to Kings, Thanksgiving Eve, 1984

Hemispheres, Christmas Eve, 1984

2112, Christmas Day 1984

Permanent Waves, Christmas Day 1984

Exit...Stage Left, Christmas Day 1984

Rush, April 1985

Power Windows, October 1985

All the World's A Stage, September 1986

Hold Your Fire, September 8, 1987

A Show Of Hands, January 9, 1989

Presto, November 23, 1989

Roll the Bones, September 3, 1991

Counterparts, October 23, 1993

Test for Echo, September 1996

Different Stages, late 1998 or early 1999

Vapor Trails, May 14, 2002

Snakes and Arrows, May 1, 2007

Clockwork Angels, June 12, 2012

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Old enough to have purchased the debut up thru PW in order. But after that, with money having to go to dumb things like rent and car payments and me losing interest in the "synth era," my purchases took the form of cassette mixes. One of the record store chains here in Los Angeles had the ground-breaking technology of you giving them the songs and they would create the mix for you to pick up a few days later. Some of the MP and Signals cuts ended up on that mix. After that, it is a blur of random purchases. Actually, my last purchase of any music in 2015 was "Icon" in the bargain bin at Best Buy.
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Can't remember exactly, but it was at a time when cassettes and CDs were popular so it was a mix at first as I got into the band - this was just as Presto and then Chronicles came out so good timing for a new fan - but I think it was like this:

 

Chronicles

Presto

Exit...Stage Left

Moving Pictures

2112

Fly by Night

Caress of Steel

All the World's a Stage

A Farewell to Kings

Permanent Waves

 

I got Roll the Bones somewhere in there too, when it was released ...

 

Signals

Grace under Pressure

Power Windows

Hold Your Fire

A Show of Hands

Rush

Hemispheres

 

Then every release after that as it was issued... It was something like that. I remember hitting a few suggested high points, then going back chronologically.

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All the World's a Stage (About a month after release)

Caress of Steel (on the same Columbia House order)

2112

Archives (I know, but it was the same price as buying Rush and Fly by Night at the time)

 

After those, it was as they were released in order of release.

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Man, I can't remember. Every one from Power Windows forward on release day. I heard Signals, PeW, and pictures all around the same time. I was 11 or 12. It could have been E..SL...
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Big brother had Kings, Hemispheres and Permanent Waves. I bought Archives from a buddy, then 2112 and the rest as they happened. All LPs and cassettes until Roll the Bones. I remember being somewhat excited about the new technology, not so much about the album . . .
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Big brother had Kings, Hemispheres and Permanent Waves. I bought Archives from a buddy, then 2112 and the rest as they happened. All LPs and cassettes until Roll the Bones. I remember being somewhat excited about the new technology, not so much about the album . . .

 

So what you're sayin' is that your brother had all the 70s stuff ?

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Big brother had Kings, Hemispheres and Permanent Waves. I bought Archives from a buddy, then 2112 and the rest as they happened. All LPs and cassettes until Roll the Bones. I remember being somewhat excited about the new technology, not so much about the album . . .

 

So what you're sayin' is that your brother had all the 70s stuff ?

 

He did indeed have the mid- to late-70s albums. Sharp eye, my friend.

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Big brother had Kings, Hemispheres and Permanent Waves. I bought Archives from a buddy, then 2112 and the rest as they happened. All LPs and cassettes until Roll the Bones. I remember being somewhat excited about the new technology, not so much about the album . . .

 

So what you're sayin' is that your brother had all the 70s stuff ?

 

Same here...my brother raised me on large chunks of Fly By Night, 2112, and A Farewell to Kings. Caress of Steel and Hemispheres I didn't hear until a little bit later, for some reason (but not too much later).

 

The first "new" Rush album released after I became a fan was Permanent Waves.

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My parents more or less refused to buy me rock music for Christmas so I appealed to my grandmother. She bought me cassettes of MP and Signals in either 1982 or 1983. From there P/G (cassette), PoW (vinyl), HYF (vinyl), then HYF & 2112 - my very first CDs. Then every current release on CD after that.

 

I bought Archives and ESL on vinyl and PW on cassette somewhere in there. Not sure exactly when I started to pick up the rest of the back catalog...

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I inherited my older brother's Rush albums, which, at the time, consisted of Rush through A Farewell To Kings (AFtK was the "new record" back then). From there I bought each new album as close to their release dates as finances would allow. I think the last vinyl Rush I bought was p/g.
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"A Farewell to Kings" (at a record store at Shoppingtown Mall in Syracuse, NY)

 

"2112" (the very next day after picking up at a used record store)

 

"All the World's a Stage" (I "borrowed" this from a store about two days later...sorry.)

 

"Archives: Rush / Fly By Night / Caress of Steel" (I bought this late spring/early summer of 1978 (with Genesis "Second's Out") because I was going to work at a camp that summer and wanted some new music to bring with me).

 

"Hemispheres" to "R40" (I purchased each release as they came out).

 

 

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1. Roll The Bones - my least favorite Rush album, but it's what my Dad had at the time and it's the first I listened to

2. Signals/Moving Pictures - When my Dad found out I liked Roll The Bones (at the time) he got these

3. Fly By Night/2112 - I decided I wanted to hear the old Rush, I wasn't disappointed!

4. Permanent Waves

5. Caress of Steel

6. Hemispheres/A Farewell To Kings

7. Grace Under Pressure/Power Windows/Hold Your Fire - I was disappointed mostly, but I've grown to love Grace.

8.Test for Echo

9. Vapor Trails

10. Rush

11. Presto

12. Counterparts

13. Snakes and Arrows

14. Clockwork Angels - the first and only album that came out after I was introduced to Rush, and the only one I waited for and bought on release

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I think it went like this (including albums acquired from friends and family)

 

Chronicles

ESL

Roll the Bones

 

*years pass*

 

2112

 

A Farewell to Kings

Hemispheres

Permanent Waves

Moving Pictures

Caress of Steel

Fly By Night

Rush

(These 7 were purchased at about the same time, a couple of months after 2112)

 

*years pass*

 

Test for Echo

Signals

Everything else

 

*years pass*

 

Vapor Trails

Rush in Rio

Then everything on release date

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Signals, Christmas Day 1982

Moving Pictures, Christmas Day 1983

Grace Under Pressure, April 21, 1984

Fly By Night, September 28, 1984

Caress of Steel, September 29, 1984

A Farewell to Kings, Thanksgiving Eve, 1984

Hemispheres, Christmas Eve, 1984

2112, Christmas Day 1984

Permanent Waves, Christmas Day 1984

Exit...Stage Left, Christmas Day 1984

Rush, April 1985

Power Windows, October 1985

All the World's A Stage, September 1986

Hold Your Fire, September 8, 1987

A Show Of Hands, January 9, 1989

Presto, November 23, 1989

Roll the Bones, September 3, 1991

Counterparts, October 23, 1993

Test for Echo, September 1996

Different Stages, late 1998 or early 1999

Vapor Trails, May 14, 2002

Snakes and Arrows, May 1, 2007

Clockwork Angels, June 12, 2012

Now THAT is some kind of specific, dude!

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Signals, Christmas Day 1982

Moving Pictures, Christmas Day 1983

Grace Under Pressure, April 21, 1984

Fly By Night, September 28, 1984

Caress of Steel, September 29, 1984

A Farewell to Kings, Thanksgiving Eve, 1984

Hemispheres, Christmas Eve, 1984

2112, Christmas Day 1984

Permanent Waves, Christmas Day 1984

Exit...Stage Left, Christmas Day 1984

Rush, April 1985

Power Windows, October 1985

All the World's A Stage, September 1986

Hold Your Fire, September 8, 1987

A Show Of Hands, January 9, 1989

Presto, November 23, 1989

Roll the Bones, September 3, 1991

Counterparts, October 23, 1993

Test for Echo, September 1996

Different Stages, late 1998 or early 1999

Vapor Trails, May 14, 2002

Snakes and Arrows, May 1, 2007

Clockwork Angels, June 12, 2012

Now THAT is some kind of specific, dude!

 

Thats the kind of detail that gets mofos into the movies folks!!!

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