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I think it was around early 1982 that I first heard their music. I had heard the band name previously but knew nothing about them. Caught "Vital Signs" video on MTV and mistakenly thought it was Supertramp (the vocals are similar) who were popular then. Saw the end credit as Rush. Thought it was an interesting song because I couldn't say what genre of music it was. It was a mix of hard rock and new wave. Began seeing the ESL versions of Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, and Limelight over the summer and my interest increased. But "Subdivisions" was the one that pulled me in during the Fall of 1982. I got the new "Signals" album and became hardcore immediately. Didn't see them perform live until the Power Windows tour.

I also feel that Rush is one of those bands that you don't find them, they find you - if that makes sense. Their music and lyrics really have a way of connecting with all of the misfits and eccentrics out there.

I was in 7th grade and had enough money to buy what albums I wanted and bought A Farewell to Kings based just on the cover. I loved the whole thing especially Cygnus X1 and the sound effects and narration. Bought Hemispheres right when it came out so I could see what happened to those dudes. Got into high school and all the cool older band kids were into Rush and then I heard 2112 . . . Dropped off at Power Windows got into the bootleg scene in the early Usenet groups at the turn off the century found the recording of my first show 2-2-80 @ Tarrant County Convention Center. Bought Vapor Trails the day it came out got 20 seconds in and I was back.

I kind of miss that era. There was a magic to discovering Rush in a state of innocence, so to speak. I had a similar experience to you, I had no sense of the chronology of the band. I clearly remember asking my parents to find me a Rush CD with both Limelight and Half the World on it, because I'd heard those two songs on the radio and liked them. (This was around the time T4E was released and Half the World was actually getting some airplay.) I had no idea that I'd set them up for an impossible task, and no way to find out what albums those songs actually came from. I loved that feeling of discovering the band, one album at a time, in no particular order. I can remember my first encounter with some albums, but not with others. Roll the Bones is still crystal clear, because that was where it all began for me, as I mentioned earlier. I know Permanent Waves was an early find - I picked it out at the Future Shop (RIP) and my grandparents bought it for me. I also remember buying Presto with money from my first job working on a tobacco farm and listening to it through headphones; I would have been 13 at the time, in August 1998. 2112, Fly By Night and Test for Echo were other early acquisitions. I also found a few albums on other formats. I'm reasonably certain my first encounter with Moving Pictures was on vinyl, a copy that I picked up at a flea market in town (which I still own), and I first heard A Farewell to Kings when I bought it on 8-track, of all things, at another flea market. My best friend's mother gave me an old 8-track deck to listen to it on, and I still remember that there was a track change in the middle of Xanadu. Ka-CHUNK. That same friend's mother later bought me my CD copy of Moving Pictures, even as she laughed and told me she hated Rush. She was a kind soul and I miss her dearly... I'm pretty sure Hemispheres was the last of the studio albums that I found, around the same time as the debut and Exit... Stage Left. Counterparts was another late purchase, although I remember seeing it regularly at the Future Shop - I didn't recognize any of the songs on it and the somewhat bland cover didn't make me feel like I needed to buy it. My God, I wish I could go back and live through all those first listens again...

Hi everyone - just dropping in, its been a long time. It was amazing run, and I got to go to Game 3 which was AMAZING!

Michael McDonald was in our town a few years ago- playing keyboard and singing for an hour in a little music shop! Turns out the owner was a childhood friend and needed some publicity for the store. Didn't hear until afterward . . .would have been interesting!

1982 MTV I was 12, had an interest in playing the drums. My parents had just gotten cable TV the year before. I spent a good bit of that summer watching the wide variety of early MTV vids. At school, some friends all talked about Rush. One went with his older brother to see them (Carrier Dome, Signals tour.) Then I saw the videos on MTV - mostly the ESL videos, Subdivisions, and Countdown. They also had the midnight showings of Exit Stage Left. I was captivated by the drums and the whole atmosphere that they created - unlike all that pop crap that my sister listened to! (around that point in time, I did discover lots of other bands, Zep, Floyd, Yes, etc.) For my birthday that year, one friend got me Moving Pictures, another (the one that went to the show) got me 2112. I convinced my parents to allow me to take drum lessons and I played in my Middle school band. The following Xmas, my parents got me a small kit. I advanced quickly - really inspired by the Professor. My friends noted that I could air drum very accurately to all of MP (it would be years before I could actually do that on a kit!) I auditioned for the high school bands and got into the top school groups. I also started my own rock band (one of the first primitive songs we played was "No one at the Bridge"; our repetoire soon expanded!) In the Fall of 84, I finally got to see my first Rush show - P/G tour at the Glens Falls (NY) Civic center. By my sophomore year of HS, my band had pulled an upset victory in the Battle of the Bands - part of our encore set included "What You're Doing". My Neil infatuation hit full stride - subscribing and absorbing every issue of modern drummer, building my album collection (to all of them!) Started collecting anything and everything Rush. I wanted to play and look like them. My band continued through HS and then new bands during college....at that time, I wrote a letter to Neil via Modern Drummer in 1988; and to my delight, Neil responded to me with a postcard (did this again in 94; both of which are framed and hang above my desk.) After school, my career started in Florida and I had some money to travel to see shows (and I did - 12 on TFE tour! and obtained a pair of sticks from Larry Allen on the Cp tour) Met some like-minded musicians, wrote and recorded demos, got some record label interest (but never "made it"), got my own little column in Modern Drummer magazine, etc. Met my wife through a band-mate. Now I'm 52; some 49 shows under my belt, the music engrained in my brain, a lifetime of memories, and my semi-pro career in music continues; all inspired by those early viewings of Rush on MTV...

I know...tragic isn't it?

I have only ranked the Tull albums up to the point were I pretty much quit buying them any more (there are a couple of ok later ones but they would all be lower than these ones in my rankings) 1. Thick As A Brick 2. Aqualung 3. Songs From The Wood 4. Minstrel In The Gallery 5. Living In The Past 6. Heavy Horses 7. Benefit 8. Stand Up 9. A Passion Play 10. This Was ....... really a different sounding band but still important in the Tull history 11. Stormwatch 12. Too Old To Rock n Roll 13. War Child 14. The Broadsword And The Beast 15. A

Another post that’s never been made in the history of posts

Doors/When The Music's Over

Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden

Too Old to R&R. For this reason

If I let you in you'll sell me encyclopaedias.

I'm opening a boutique.

Here to answer this is a professional cricketer.

2nd place four years ago, 3rd/4th now. Not bad for a country with 4 million citizens.

Do you say it because you didn't know?

Wait a minute. If this is the crew who were filming us, who's filming us now?

TRF would like 'to announce that the next post is not considered suitable for family viewing. It contains scenes of violence, involving people's heads and arms getting chopped off, their ears nailed to trees, and their toenails pulled out in slow motion.

Sweet goal by Argentina!

Croatia are being mugged. (as in, "metaphorically beaten in a surprising way," not in a "physically assaulted way")

Perhaps the cat would rather answer that? No? Lizard? No. Well, er, let's ask the man in the street what he thinks.

Incidentally, these are going to be the most expensive and lavish scenes ever filmed by TRF.

So, it's lots of happy pills for you, and you can find out all about the birth when you get home. It's available on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K.

ol' Mush mouth Mick

Do you...WILL YOU SHUT THAT BLOODY "DOG YEARS" UP!!!!

Then I dub you 'Sir Terry Brown, Knight of Rocinante'.

Big Generator - YES

Yes, well, what we normally suggest for a beginner such as yourself, is that you put "Hemispheres" on in the morning, so you can wake up, look at the clock and listen immediately.

And it looks like it's over, lol

i say lots of things are my fav but Yacht may legit no joke be the all time champ. why listen to metal gods belch into their mics when you have Michal Mcdonald singing like a stroke victim Seriously though Yacht rock is banger after banger........like throw a dart in any direction and you'll hit a banger album. Mick

Future Shop!! RIP indeed... It's funny you had experiences with 8 track! I must be 13 years older than you...and I actually had a really old hand me down stereo that had an 8 track player on it...but it NEVER occurred to me to seek out a Rush record on that format! I had a couple random 8 tracks that I didn't really like, and because the system kinda confused me, I just never engaged with it. Thinking about the different records coming at you at different times...I knew both ATWAS and Exit backwards and forwards before I ever really sat and listened to 2112. Even to this day, the studio recordings of the main piece and Bangkok both sound wrong to me...way too timid, haha...

Yessongs -- Yes

This new learning amazes me, Sir Ibanez. Explain again how Rush concerts may be employed to prevent earthquakes.

Judas Priest- Sad Wings Of Destiny Taylor Swift- Midnights

Why, I mean, you're a man of the world, squire, you know...you're...you've been around, you know?

Then I would like a statement to that effect signed by the Lord Mayor.

Oh no, we only have Tudor jobs.

Agreed. I just found it sad that he had to have his nails done before each game and had F whoever he was playing applied on his fingernails. It was also pathetic he had to sit on the sidelines with a towel on his head after the PAC 12 championship game and wouldn't show any sportsmanship by shaking hands. I think it is disappointing the committee thinks this guy can act this way and still be rewarded but guess I am kidding myself. Money talks and who cares about sportsmanship.

The Zoo - Scorpions

I wasn't aware Under Wraps was a likeable album! Too Old for me . . .

And the artwork is cool too!

I'm listening to The Nutcracker on one of those REALLY old vinyls, it's 33 1/3 but it's small and it has the crackles and pops, though I did clean it. And it just has that "old" sound, which I love. I'm not sure how old it is, but it's Varsity Records, which apparently was a late 1930's label and then reopened in 1948. I guess the record is probably from the fifties. I have no idea how it came to be in my possession, though I've had it for probably 40 years myself and it's just come along with me from place to place!!

Such a wonderful, wonderful album.

Simon & Garfunkel - Simon & Garfunkel's Greatest Hits Growing up this was a favorite for me. Still is. Given my liking of hard rock & metal bet you did not see that coming.

Cat Stevens-Teaser & The Firecat (10/10) Micl

Cat Stevens-Tea For The Tillerman (10/10) Mick