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Your bottom 3 Rush albums?


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Your bottom 3 Rush albums?  

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  1. 1. Your bottom 3 Rush albums?

  2. 2. How do you feel about those 3 albums?

    • I still like them, but they are my least faves.
    • I just don't care for them.
    • I don't like them.
    • I hate them!


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Bottom three?

 

Snakes And Arrows

Signals

Hemispheres

 

Ahh, the folly of youth. :P

 

What folly? I'm sure us youngsters know good prog, and Rush certainly isn't the best Prog band out there. Fellow HYF fanboys stick together.

Not that, but Hemispheres is much different than either of the other 2 you listed. I have no problem with HYF, by the way.
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The three right before Clockwork Angels for me. To be fair they are the ones I'm least familiar with not counting S&A. S&A actually isn't really that bad and has grown on me a bit but I still like everything from Counterparts and earlier better. The first album I actually reallly like because even though they didn't yet delve into prog rock yet I like the raw energy of it and John Rutsey's frantic yet capable(but not nearly as good as Neil)drumming.
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I like so much of what they do this is kind of difficult. I even like T4E and HYF. But these are my three:

 

Caress of Steel - I like it but I have to be in the mood for a lot of it. It's not a go-to album for me. If I am ever in the mood for this era of Rush I go with FbN.

 

Roll the Bones - a less interesting version of Presto. Same production, but now with a rap! Dreamline is top notch though.

 

Snakes and Arrows - just a lazy, second rate album. Forced melodies. Unmemorable choruses and hooks. Far Cry and MMB are strong, but everything else is blah.

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1) Caress Of Steel - I really love Bastille Day, Lakeside Park and The Necromancer. I just really felt the Fountain of Lamneth fell flat. Some parts were great, some parts a snore. No One at The Bridge is magical though.

 

2) Rush - A hell of a debut. I like the album. Rip roaring bluesy Led Zep inspired riffs.

 

3) Vapor Trails (original mix) - Lot's of passion and pain went into this album. But in the end it never held up for me sonic quality wise. I was shocked the album was released in this state and the band knows it was a huge mis-step in that regard. There are some great songs here though. Earthshine, Vapor Trail, Nocturne, Ghost Rider, The Stars Look Down. But some songs flat out miss the mark and sound cobbled and pasted together and have a demo like quality (that can also be the charm of this album in a way too). It is a very difficult album to listen to straight through. My ears bleed from the hot mix and master. Just bad production. And it was shocking when it came out.

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Vapor Trails - a difficult listen, I'm not sure I was ever able to do a complete listen in one sit down. I would tire of it usually after Earthshine, Prefer the later version

Snakes and Arrows - decent album but too many mid-tempo songs so for me lacks dynamics OTOH loved that we got 3 instrumentals one which had a solo acoustic piece by Alex

Test for Echo - the word pedestrian comes to mind also the phrase "addition by subtraction". Ditch Dog Years and Virtuality, and you got a much better record. I think the same could be said about every post Power Windows record except CA - leave that one alone.

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Hold Your Fire - great bass playing on a weak album

 

Roll the Bones - there's a couple of good songs on an album that just doesn't stand up to the Rush standard

 

Counterparts - just a bad album

 

 

 

 

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So would this poll seemingly indicate that the general Rush fan finds 2112 - Power Windows to be their best period? A good 10 year run.

 

That's their golden age IMO

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So would this poll seemingly indicate that the general Rush fan finds 2112 - Power Windows to be their best period? A good 10 year run.

 

That's their golden age IMO

 

Moving Pictures to Roll The Bones for me.

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Vapor Trails - a difficult listen, I'm not sure I was ever able to do a complete listen in one sit down. I would tire of it usually after Earthshine, Prefer the later version

 

Thats my issue with all the albums starting with VT....two or three songs too long and a chore to get through in one sitting. CA's songs were almost all much longer than they needed to be (especially the title track)

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I'll give four instead of three:

 

Rush: no Neil and dumb lyrics from a very young band without direction yet

 

RTB: One half an excellent album (Dreamline, Bravado, RTB, Ghost, WMT?) and another half of poorly mixed gutless airy sounding pop

 

TFE: a bland "meh" effort from a band that sounded like they went into the studio without much inspiration or fresh ideas

 

SnA: Two songs that sound like classic Rush (Far Cry and MalNar) amid a bunch of uncharacteristially mid tempo lyrically preachy tripe

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Presto is easily the worst. The only one I think is really putrid, and objectively bad, not just in my opinion.

 

Roll the Bones has its moments but still feels like too much of a Presto hangover to me.

 

Power Windows might be an excellent album, objectively, I just don't care for it.

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