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Signals

Hemispheres

Moving Pictures

A Farewell to Kings

Permanent Waves

2112

Caress of Steel

Grace Under Pressure

Fly By Night

Power Windows

Hold Your Fire

Roll the Bones

Rush

Clockwork Angels

Presto

Counterparts

Snakes and Arrows

Vapor Trails

Test for Echo

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19. Caress of Steel

18. :rush:

17. Test for Echo

16. Snakes & Arrows

15. Hemispheres

14. Fly by Night

13. Roll the Bones

12. A Farewell to Kings

11. Presto

10. Signals

9. Grace Under Pressure

8. Hold Your Fire

7. Counterparts

6. Power Windows

5. 2112

4. Vapor Trails

3. Clockwork Angels

2. Permanent Waves

1. Moving Pictures

Glad to see Vapor Trails up there :D

I choose to look past the subpar audio quality and consider Vapor Trails to be an utter masterpiece.

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19. Caress of Steel

18. :rush:

17. Test for Echo

16. Snakes & Arrows

15. Hemispheres

14. Fly by Night

13. Roll the Bones

12. A Farewell to Kings

11. Presto

10. Signals

9. Grace Under Pressure

8. Hold Your Fire

7. Counterparts

6. Power Windows

5. 2112

4. Vapor Trails

3. Clockwork Angels

2. Permanent Waves

1. Moving Pictures

Glad to see Vapor Trails up there :D

I choose to look past the subpar audio quality and consider Vapor Trails to be an utter masterpiece.

 

I actually think the nature of the songs suits the burnt sound. It's acidic angry and fierce at times. An accident that actually did the songs justice. The remix is cleaner but far less emotional in my opinion.

 

Vapor Trails has had moments where it is all the Rush I think I need. If I could only have one Rush album, I could easily see me picking VT.

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1. Hemispheres

2. A Farewell To Kings

3. Moving Pictures

4. Permanent Waves

5. Signals

6. 2112

7. Power Windows

8. Hold Your Fire

9. Grace Under Pressure

10. Caress Of Steel

11. Test For Echo

12. Counterparts

13. Roll The Bones

14. Snakes and Arrows

15. Clockwork Angels

16. Rush

17. Presto

18. Vapor Trails

 

You don't even consider Fly By Night worthy of being ranked? :huh:

 

I amended my mistake in another post. I put it at about 9.5.

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1. Permanent Waves

2. Moving Pictures

3. Hemispheres

4. A Farewell To Kings

5. Signals

6. 2112

7. Fly By Night

8. Counterparts

9. Caress Of Steel (this is a weird-ass album, but has some great playing on...wish it were better)

10. Roll The Bones

11. Vapor Trails

12. Grace Under Pressure

13. Clockwork Angels

14. Rush

15. Snakes and Arrows

16. Presto

17. Power Windows

18. Test For Echo

19. Hold Your Fire

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1. Grace Under Pressure..............- 8/8

2. Power Windows.....................- 7/8

3. Moving Pictures...................- 5/7

4. Snakes & Arrows...................- 9/13

5. Roll the Bones....................- 7/10

6. Permanent Waves...................- 4/6

7. Test for Echo.....................- 7/11

8. Vapor Trails Remixed..............- 8/13

9. Hold Your Fire....................- 6/10

10. Signals...........................- 5/8

11. Presto............................- 6/11

12. Clockwork Angels..................- 6/12

13. A Farewell to Kings...............- 3/6

14. Counterparts......................- 5/11

15. 2112..............................- 3/7

16. Fly by Night......................- 2/8

17. Hemispheres.......................- 2/4

18. Caress of Steel...................- 2/5

19. Rush..............................- 1/8

20. Feedback..........................- 0/8

 

 

This was derived from a long and thought out process. The numbers on your right represent the number of songs I love on the album over the number of total songs on the album. The percentages derived from these numbers help understand why albums rank highly or near the bottom of my list, but don't tell the full story. For example, just going by the numbers, Hold Your Fire ranks at 60% while Signals scores a 62.5%, but that fails to take into account that I really dislike the 3 remaining songs on Signals and I like a couple of the songs off Hold Your Fire after my Top 6. This means I am far more likely to listen to the whole album of the latter. Hemispheres is another special case. At 50%, one would assume that it would fall no lower than just behind A Farewell to Kings. The problem is that the two songs I love off of Hemispheres are Circumstances & The Trees. That means that I only like a very small percentage of the actual running time of the album. This fact drops it down below even Fly by Night, because although I also only love two songs from that album, I find some of the other songs on it more listenable. Also the fact that By-Tor and The Snow Dog is one of my favourites skews the running time in favour of Fly By Night.

 

So there we go. This list is surely to not be well liked on this board, which seems to be dominated by fans who prefer the long prog-rock songs that I dislike. Nevertheless I think I think it is a worthwhile endeavour to bring forth alternate opinions, especially when they have some thought behind them. For the record, I used this font so I could maintain the spacing between the songs and the fractions. It was a bitch to get it to work!

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1. Grace Under Pressure..............- 8/8

2. Power Windows.....................- 7/8

3. Moving Pictures...................- 5/7

4. Snakes & Arrows...................- 9/13

5. Roll the Bones....................- 7/10

6. Permanent Waves...................- 4/6

7. Test for Echo.....................- 7/11

8. Vapor Trails Remixed..............- 8/13

9. Hold Your Fire....................- 6/10

10. Signals...........................- 5/8

11. Presto............................- 6/11

12. Clockwork Angels..................- 6/12

13. A Farewell to Kings...............- 3/6

14. Counterparts......................- 5/11

15. 2112..............................- 3/7

16. Fly by Night......................- 3/8

17. Hemispheres.......................- 2/4

18. Caress of Steel...................- 2/5

19. Rush..............................- 1/8

20. Feedback..........................- 0/8

 

 

This was derived from a long and thought out process. The numbers on your right represent the number of songs I love on the album over the number of total songs on the album. The percentages derived from these numbers help understand why albums rank highly or near the bottom of my list, but don't tell the full story. For example, just going by the numbers, Hold Your Fire ranks at 60% while Signals scores a 62.5%, but that fails to take into account that I really dislike the 3 remaining songs on Signals and I like a couple of the songs off Hold Your Fire after my Top 6. This means I am far more likely to listen to the whole album of the latter. Hemispheres is another special case. At 50%, one would assume that it would fall no lower than just behind A Farewell to Kings. The problem is that the two songs I love off of Hemispheres are Circumstances & The Trees. That means that I only like a very small percentage of the actual running time of the album. This fact drops it down below even Fly by Night, because although I also only love three songs out of eight from that album, I find some of the other songs on it more listenable. Also the fact that By-Tor and The Snow Dog is one of my favourites skews the running time in favour of Fly By Night.

 

So there we go. This list is surely to not be well liked on this board, which seems to be dominated by fans who prefer the long prog-rock songs that I dislike. Nevertheless I think I think it is a worthwhile endeavour to bring forth alternate opinions, especially when they have some thought behind them. For the record, I used this font so I could maintain the spacing between the songs and the fractions. It was a bitch to get it to work!

 

I wanted to change Fly By Night to 3/8 after I took another listen tonight, but I guess editing is time limited. Either way, doing it here: Fly By Night: 3/8. It continues to be my 16th favourite RUSH album.

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My personal favorite is and always will be 2112. I also love Power Windows, Vapor Trails, and Clockwork Angels.

When I am in doubt as to which one of the 19 in the catalogue I want to listen to, I usually pick one of these. Permanent Waves & Hold your Fire also get recognition.

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Signals wins my vote as my favorite Rush album. It was the first one I really grew to like, especially that complicated drumming in "Subdivisions" made me want to attempt it myself. That whole album is actually good, and one of my personal favorite tracks is "Losing It."
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1. Permanent Waves

2. Hemispheres

3. Moving Pictures

4. 2112

5. Counterparts

These 5 are pure gold and are fairly interchangeable in their order. From there, there's a drop:

 

6. Grace Under Pressure

7. A Farewell to Kings

8. Clockwork Angels

9. Signals

10. Roll the Bones

These 5 are great albums but not in the same class as the top 5. Things get dicey from here

 

11. Fly by Night

12. Caress of Steel

13. Presto

14. Power Windows

15. Snakes and Arrows

These 5 have some good tunes but as a whole, are not among the best, by Rush standards. The final 3 are just not listenable for me for differing reasons

 

16. Hold Your Fire

17.Test For Echo

18. Vapor Trails

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Signals wins my vote as my favorite Rush album. It was the first one I really grew to like, especially that complicated drumming in "Subdivisions" made me want to attempt it myself. That whole album is actually good, and one of my personal favorite tracks is "Losing It."

 

I agree about some truly great songs on Signals, but I think there are a few misses. Digital Man was an interesting attempt that never really come together. The Weapon is a skip for me. Chemistry's lyrics turn me off. And Countdown hasn't aged well for me. But thats all just my opinion of course....love the rest of the album.

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New to the forum ,I’m 49 and just realized rush is the best.

 

Welcome!

 

Better late than never. I just turned 50 and luckily I've been in love with RUSH since I was 13. I'm bummed I missed the first decade of Live Rush but I have no regrets or complaints. I'll take my 60 shows since 1984 to the grave and I will be content.

Cheers!

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1Gup

2 signals

3 pew

4 ca

5 mp

6 s&a

6 pow

7 hyf

8 vt

9 t4e

10 cp

New to the forum ,I’m 49 and just realized rush is the best.

 

Welcome! :) I'm 19 and I've been into Rush since middle school/high school, lol.

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