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CA Album Battle 15: Clockwork Angels vs. Counterparts


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CP has two of my top fifteen Rush songs: Cold Fire and Everyday Glory.

 

Clockwork Angels doesn't have any songs in my top twenty.

 

But CA wins this round, because it has better lows than CP.

 

CP has garbage like Stick It Out. Actually, that's the only song of Rush I hate. The rest of the album is good. Just good. Until the last two.

 

CA might not come close to my favourite, but its a darn side more consistent, and not even CP with its good production can convince me otherwise.

 

CA (but I will have to ask for the two special songs off of CP please).

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I will go with CA too this time. I like five songs from CA and only three from Counterparts.

 

CP has two top shelf Rush songs for me. Plenty of good ones. And on offensively bad stinker.

 

CA has six very good songs, a couple of good ones, and the rest appear on the tracklist but I couldn't tell you how the chorused go as they are completely forgettable.

 

But CA has no genuine stinkers.

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I'm going with CP a lot of really underrated pieces and one of my favorite albums

 

CP is underrated, but its faults cannot be denied.

 

But aside from CF and EG, Animate, Nobody's Hero, Alien Shore, Double Agent and Speed Of Love are genuinely nice songs!

 

Cut out Stick It Out and I would have picked Counterparts.

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Counterparts by far, I just love it! Counterparts also have my first Rush song that I loved. Stick It Out.

 

You love Stick It Out...

 

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Respect buddy!

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Counterparts by far, I just love it! Counterparts also have my first Rush song that I loved. Stick It Out.

 

You love Stick It Out...

 

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...

 

Respect buddy!

 

Yes I do... what´s wrong with that? It´s a great song!

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Counterparts is another inconsistent album. Stick it out is somewhat obnoxious...don't hate it. Nobody's Hero...blah...

 

Cut to the Chase and Animate are the cream of the crop followed by BTS&M.

 

This album ranked high for me in the 90's...not so much in 2015.

 

Give me CA.

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When Counterparts came out it was an album I did not care for. Like Presto I would listen to it once in a while in the hope that I would start to like the like it and always come away disappointed. And like Presto about 5 years ago I listened to it one day and it just clicked for me.

 

Unlike Presto it is an album that is not consistent. It has some real ups and some downs.

 

I still don't go crazy for Leave that Thing Alone, Double Agent & Stick it Out. In fact, I often skip some of them when listening to the album.

 

On the other hand, Cold Fire, Everyday Glory, The Speed of Love, Alien Shore, Nobody's Hero, Between the Sun and the Moon and Animate are all very strong songs.

 

CA has lower low's and its highs, while good and fine, are not as high as Counterparts.

 

If this was a tennis match (hey I have used horse racing and boxing as ways to compare albums, why not another sport?) the match would go into a 5th set but Counterparts would win an entertaining match.

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Rush's worst album vs. CA? Is this a joke?

 

I think you are talking about the poll before this

 

Nope. CP is more painful than a kick to the nuts, and it scared off a lot of fans who came back to Rush for RTB.

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Since Signals, the only Rush songs I recall getting a buzz on the radio here in NYC (hi Lorraine, btw NYers kick my butt!) were Big Money and Stick it Out. Force Ten a little bit.

 

CP was the first Rush record to début #2 on the billboard charts. I think CA might have matched it. Following HYF,P and RTB, which didn't sell well by their standards, that's no small accomplishment.

 

Great songs on CP- SIO captured the hard rock grunge sound of the early 90s, a great return to hard rock for Rush. CTTC and BSAM are awesome Rush tunes. DA is a close call, should have been a monster tune, still decent. It fell victim to the Rush Unusual Lyric Era.

 

 

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Counterparts, because it's one of my all-time favorite Rush albums, if not my favorite. Clockwork Angels is so close, too. Counterparts was the album that got me into Rush, so... This was a very tough decision for me.
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Rush's worst album vs. CA? Is this a joke?

 

I think you are talking about the poll before this

 

Nope. CP is more painful than a kick to the nuts, and it scared off a lot of fans who came back to Rush for RTB.

 

Uh, really? Just who are these fans who "came back" for RTB? And why the hell would they? For Roll The Friggin' Bones??? We all get that you hate Counterparts, but RTB certainly wasn't a step back towards classic Rush either. And that's putting it mildly.

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Since Signals, the only Rush songs I recall getting a buzz on the radio here in NYC (hi Lorraine, btw NYers kick my butt!) were Big Money and Stick it Out. Force Ten a little bit.

 

CP was the first Rush record to début #2 on the billboard charts. I think CA might have matched it. Following HYF,P and RTB, which didn't sell well by their standards, that's no small accomplishment.

 

Great songs on CP- SIO captured the hard rock grunge sound of the early 90s, a great return to hard rock for Rush. CTTC and BSAM are awesome Rush tunes. DA is a close call, should have been a monster tune, still decent. It fell victim to the Rush Unusual Lyric Era.

 

 

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RTB sold better than the previous 2 albums, and is a reason that CO sold well out of the gate. However, when people heard the single and the album, sales died and it never matched RTB.

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Since Signals, the only Rush songs I recall getting a buzz on the radio here in NYC (hi Lorraine, btw NYers kick my butt!) were Big Money and Stick it Out. Force Ten a little bit.

 

CP was the first Rush record to début #2 on the billboard charts. I think CA might have matched it. Following HYF,P and RTB, which didn't sell well by their standards, that's no small accomplishment.

 

Great songs on CP- SIO captured the hard rock grunge sound of the early 90s, a great return to hard rock for Rush. CTTC and BSAM are awesome Rush tunes. DA is a close call, should have been a monster tune, still decent. It fell victim to the Rush Unusual Lyric Era.

 

 

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RTB sold better than the previous 2 albums, and is a reason that CO sold well out of the gate. However, when people heard the single and the album, sales died and it never matched RTB.

I remember rtb getting a lot of attention on the radio with a lot of dj comments that rush was back and the heavy use of keys was over.

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