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Pretty sure Hugh Syme said it didn't make it for the holiday season so I took that to mean it wouldn't be coming until 2022. That was probably a couple months ago.

While the Peert pronunciation is common in words ending in "ear", it is quite rare for words that end in "ear" plus another consonant. In that case, the Pert pronunciation is fairly common and that's probably why it is mispronounced so much. Notably, there aren't a ton of commonly used English words ending in this pattern that I could come up with. Pert: Earn/learn/yearn, Earl/pearl, heard, earth/dearth, search Part: Heart Peert: Beard

I vaguely remember occasionally visiting (lurking) another Rush forum before this one, probably early/mid 2000s but I don't know if that was TriNet or something else. I feel like there were polls for each album where you could click on the songs and it played a clip from the track. At the time I was mostly familiar with their earlier stuff and that was my introduction to some of the 80s/90s material. But this is really testing the limits of my memory and could be way off.

It comes down to the 76-82 period as expected. All of these are great, but I suppose I like Natural Science a bit less than the others. I would've gone with Freewill from that album personally.

I guess I'd rather Marathon go than Red Barchetta or Xanadu. But seriously, Earthshine needed to be gone first round.

Far Cry, I guess. I'd vote for Earthshine but seems like a waste when so many are saving it.

"Working Man" - yes "By-Tor And The Snow Dog" - yes "Bastille Day" - yes "2112" - yes "Xanadu" - yes "La Villa Strangiato" - yes "Natural Science" - no "Red Barchetta" - no "Subdivisions" - yes "Distant Early Warning" - no "Marathon" - yes "Force Ten" - no "Show Don't Tell" - no "Dreamline" - yes "Cut To The Chase" - no "Driven" - yes "Earthshine" - no "Far Cry" - yes "Headlong Flight" - yes 12/19 overall match, not bad. Interestingly I went 7/9 with album polls I didn't vote in but only 5/10 for polls I did vote in (I started voting with GUP). Maybe there is just more consensus in the earlier albums.

Natural Science isn't even the best track off Permanent Waves. Having said that, I won't be voting to eliminate it anytime soon.

I'm not a huge fan of this album, but it still has a few tracks I enjoy. I chose to eliminate Good News First because it's one of the few in their whole catalog where I don't like Geddy's vocals.

Tough one, but I think Secret Touch might just edge out Earthshine for me.

Roll the Bones was the first to come to mind. The narration in the Necromancer really drags that down for me.

Mission and Animate are a couple of my favorites.

Counterparts is one of my favorites but it does have one dud - The Speed of Love. I really wish they had played Cut to the Chase live.

WHAT "WHAT" that I don't like it? Or you don't see the connection? Or that I don't like We Didn't Start the Fire? (Or all of the above? :D) My aversion to We Didn't Start the Fire may have something to do with a school project where we each had to do a report on something mentioned in the song. I swear the teacher played that song a hundred times over.

Roll the Bones is another album like Presto where if I take about the top 5 songs it makes a good album, but unfortunately there are quite a few average or below average songs that bring it down. I won't say I dislike either album because they each have some great tunes, but both are inconsistent and could've used better production. I've noticed I prefer live versions of several Roll the Bones tracks, which is unusual since I almost always prefer studio versions. I've never really cared for You Bet Your Life. It has always kind of reminded me of We Didn't Start the Fire, another song I dislike.