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Which album started Rush's "decline"?


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Which album started Rush's "decline"?  

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  1. 1. Which album started Rush's "decline"?

    • Rush
    • Fly By Night
    • Caress of Steel
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    • 2112
    • A Farewell to Kings
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    • Hemispheres
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    • Permanent Waves
    • Moving Pictures
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    • Signals
    • Grace Under Pressure
    • Power Windows
    • Hold Your Fire
    • Presto
    • Roll the Bones
    • Counterparts
    • Test for Echo
    • Vapor Trails
    • Feedback
    • Snakes and Arrows
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    • Clockwork Angels
    • Rush started declining before they released their first album
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    • Rush have been constantly ascending
    • No decline whatsoever; Rush are a progressive band so they are always "progressing"
    • The band has never declined, the listener has.
    • I "decline" to participate in this poll.


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Signals was my first thought, but the real decline started with Permanent Waves. There isn't anything negative you can say about PeW and MP as they are both masterpieces in their own right. But Hemispheres was the apex, so by definition, it went downhill after that.
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and as for the last choice of the poll, I don't think rush are really a "progressive" band anymore. they play pretty standard guitar-based modern rock nowadays. it's good shit, but they've been playing the same style of music since counterparts.
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and as for the last choice of the poll, I don't think rush are really a "progressive" band anymore. they play pretty standard guitar-based modern rock nowadays. it's good shit, but they've been playing the same style of music since counterparts.

 

Well good thing you didn't pick that one...

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Tough one. The truly great albums are great right through, without any duds - that would be the Period of Rush Majesty, from Kings to Signals. Then you start to get albums that always have a couple of bombs on them. Presto had more than a few. Then there's Roll the Bones, which required many late-night weepy conversations with friends in an effort to find some consolation. Then . . . hope, at first flickering and uncertain, but slowly strengthening.
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Who picked PeW? apetersvt? What? :o

 

I know. I hard time believing that I typed that. But (according to me) Hemispheres was the top of the mountain in terms of rising and then descending. PeW is certainly a top 8 album in my book, but it wasn't quite as good as Hemispheres. So, by definition, it was a decline from the previous album. K2 is close to Everest, but it is still a decline.

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Who picked PeW? apetersvt? What? :o

 

I know. I hard time believing that I typed that. But (according to me) Hemispheres was the top of the mountain in terms of rising and then descending. PeW is certainly a top 8 album in my book, but it wasn't quite as good as Hemispheres. So, by definition, it was a decline from the previous album. K2 is close to Everest, but it is still a decline.

Makes some sense if you think early Rush (stylistically) is the "best Rush" as I do....
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I voted for PoW. You could make an argument for Signals, but p/g was better. PoW was the start of a really tough era, the PoW/HYF/Presto years...ugh
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I voted for PoW. You could make an argument for Signals, but p/g was better. PoW was the start of a really tough era, the PoW/HYF/Presto years...ugh

Before I really listened to the last two albums you listed I would have agreed wholeheartedly. But even my old stubborn @ss has to admit there is much to like from those albums. Its by far not my favorite Rush era or style but I still think its mostly very good for what it is.... :codger:
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I voted "always progressing". And, yes, I truly believe that. I refuse to associate this band with the word "decline" because Geddy Lee's voice has aged through natural elements that are out of his control and because they haven't written AFTK II.
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