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Only some are greater than others...*cough* AFTK *cough* Excuse me. Hayfever!

Witch Hunt Losing It ... Bravado Those first two rule my world.

At this moment in time, although I stand by my previous list as my ultimate favourite, my top five is: 1) Rush 2) Lacuna Coil (still my favourite, but I play Rush more!) 3) Beyoncé 4) Bruce Springsteen 5) Fleet Foxes For those who care (ie. No One!) my official top five is: 1) Lacuna Coil 2) Khoma 3) Bruce Springsteen 4) Rush 5) Miles Davis My fifth, non-Rush entry would very likely be The Beatles, or Jimmy Eat World.

I'm very glad to hear you say that. "Paramore" is my #1 album of 2013 as well. A truly remarkable achievement for a pop/rock band. They are the new No Doubt in my eyes. I love No Doubt, but for any band to replace them today was at one point unthinkable, but this amazing album is every bit as grand and exciting as Tragic Kingdom! And being a huge fan of nineties emo and Jimmy Eat World, its nice to see a band outgrow its heritage and pull it off so perfectly! I adore them. Brand New Eyes was brilliant as well, and in small doses I enjoy their first two releases!

Journey and Rush don't sound alike at all to my ears! Um...Marathon, Hemispheres and Witch Hunt stand out for me as songs that I could never find a companion to. All unique! Double Agent and Headlong Flight as well. Despite the latters self-plagiarism. That chorus is like magic to my ears. Never experienced anything like that vocal melody. Abnormally great vocal work.

Paramore released a brilliant pop rock album this year! I couldn't say they are one of my favourite bands, but the self titled album is my number one album of 2013. Brilliant stuff! Nice to see another list with a very commercial band. (I had two controversial choices: ABBA,and Toto. And why not?) The rest of your list is decent. Again, I wouldn't say I am a Foo Fighters fan, but they did a concert in Milton Keynes in 2011 with Biffy Clyro and my beloved Jimmy Eat World as support, and it wad the best gig of my life! Lindsey Buckingham is my joint favourite member of Fleetwood Mac, and his album with Stevie Nicks, entitled Buckingham Nicks, is one of my all time favourites! So glad to see him get mentioned. Big Love and Go Insane are both absolutely amazing live songs, and Frozen Love is a great underrated gem.

1) A Farewell To Kings- I have no real favourite. All perfect (not kidding! I adore the soothing Madrigal as it leads to Cygnus X-1 perfectly) 2) Permanent Waves- I love the whole thing, but the chorus to Freewill is just to good to overlook. But its all pretty great! 3) 2112- title track. The rest just spoils us with riches. But the title track is just insane. 4) Moving Pictures- Limelight is my favourite, I also rate highly Witch Hunt. 5) Hemispheres- I love this. I always enjoy The Trees, but La Villa Strangiato is unforgettable. 6) Grace Under Pressure- Distant Early Warning. Perfection. 7) Power Windows- Marathon, Mystic Rhythms, Manhatton Project, Grand Designs, The Big Money...I think this may one day be my number one album. Will have to wait and see... 8) Clockwork Angels- Seven Cities Of Gold, Headlong Flight. But its all great. The production is a bit dense, but its not an issue unique to this album, or even Rush. 9) Signals- Losing It is the most underrated Rush song in the world, alongside Witch Hunt and Double Agent. 10) Roll The Bones- Dreamline, Bravado, Roll The Bones, The Big Wheel I also love Counterparts and most of Fly By Night.

1) Rush: Finding My Way Working Man 2) Fly By Night: Anthem Best I Can Fly By Night 3) Caress Of Steel: Bastille Day Lakeside Park 4) 2112: 2112 (full) Tears 5) A Farewell To Kings: Xanadu Cinderella Man Closer To The Heart 6) Hemispheres: Circumstances The Tres 7) Permanent Waves: Natural Science Freewill 8) Moving Pictures: Witch Hunt Witch Hunt Witch Hunt Witch Hunt (I do LOVE this song!) 9) Signals: Losing It 10) Grace Under Pressure: Red Sector A Distant Early Warning 11) Power Windows: Marathon Grand Designs 12) Hold Your Fire: Time Stand Still Tai Shan 13) Presto Superconductor 14) Roll The Bones The Big Wheel Dreamline Roll The Bones 15) Counterparts: Double Agent Speed Of Love Animate 16) Test For Echo: Driven Test For Echo Dog Years 17) Vapor Trails: One Little Victory Earthshine 18) Feedback: The Seeker 19) Snakes And Arrows: Far Cry Workin' Them Angels 20) Clockwork Angels Seven Cities Of Gold Headlong Flight Clockwork Angels Some albums needed multiple choices...

I am the same. Who says you can't have Pink Floyd and Joy Division on the same playlist? And how about Rush and Beyoncé. I love that woman, chunky thighs and all! Her debut album and a host of her singles are genuine not-so-guilty pleasures! I could easily play Beyoncé-I Care and Opeth's Beneath The Mire without a blink of an eye one after the other!

I completely get it. Now...what is the meaning behind Grace Under Pressures artwork? The answer lies deep in the heart of each...

All really interesting opinions! Thinking about it, I think if I was a teen in 1991 I would have been excited over the myriad other amazing albums of that time! RTB really does seem a bit...dull...in comparison. But I still think, as a Rush album, its one of my favourites. But it does stand out to me as being their most commercial album, even more so than HYF. So I get the lesser opinions of this album.

Lacuna Coil- Karmacode: Fragile; To The Edge: Our Truth (then Within Me...I might wee myself Iove this album!) Khoma- The Second Wave: The Guillotine; Stop Making Speeches; If All Else Fails Rush- Signals: Subdivisions; The Analog Kid; Chemistry The Gathering- Mandylion: Strange Machines; Eleanor; In Motion #1; Alter Bridge- ABIII: Slip To The Void; Isolation; Ghost Of Days Gone By Bruce Springsteen- Born To Run: Thunder Road; Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out; Night Nightwish- Dark Passion Play: The Poet And The Pendulum; Bye Bye Beautiful; Amaranth Fleetwood Mac-Fleetwood Mac (1975): Monday Morning; Warm Ways; Blue Letter Muse- Blackholes And Revelations: Take A Bow; Starlight; Supermassive Black Hole Idlewild- The Remote Part: You Held The World In Your Arms; A Modern Way Of Letting Go; American English The Beatles- Help!: Help!; The Night Before; You've Got To Hide Your Love Away Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes: Sun It Rises; White Winter Hymnal; Ragged Wood Rush- Grace Under Pressure: Distant Early Warning; Afterimage; Red Sector A Love- Forever Changes: Alone Again Or; A House Is Not A Motel; Andmoreagain Jimmy Eat World- Clarity: Table Fo Glasses; Lucky Denver Mint; Your New Aesthetic Third Eye Blind- Third Eye Blind: Losing A Whole Year; Narcolepsy; Semi-Charmed Life The Juliana Theory- Understand This Is A Dream: This Is Not A Lovesong; Duane Joseph; August In Bethany

It's because the songs were on the radio all the time and it really brought the band into the public after a long slide into relative obscurity. Rush fans liked the idea of being part of a cult band type atmosphere, and they were pissed that everyone could get into Dreamline and Ghost of a Chance and that these new poseurs didn't know the real Rush. this has NOTHING to do with why rush fans "dislike" the album. I don't recall this album being hugely popular at the time.. Like all of a sudden, Rush were as popular as Aerosmith or somethin Rush had lost a lot of fans in the synth era, and RTB was the first album to go platinum since PoW, and it was the first Rush album to have 3 top 10 singles on mainstream radio (and the only with 4 top 15 songs on mainstream radio). You can argue that the album isn't good, but you can't argue that it wasn't popular. I know you like to quote album sales for RTB. However, at that time in '91, ABSOLUTELY NONE of my college friends, classmates, or acquaintances EVER mentioned having or liking RTB. They were talking about Metallica's black album, Pearl Jam's Ten, Nirvana's Nevermind, and still talking about Queensryche's Empire which had been released a year earlier (I think). Hell, college kids then even talked a lot more about Tom Petty's new album as opposed to RTB. RTB DID get a fair amount of airplay on MTV that year BUT nobody I knew ever said anything positive about it. Usually, they simply asked me if the album was any good. Just looking at album sales doesn't give a clear picture of how that album was totally viewed. If anything, I think RTB sales benefited from being from a legendary hard rock band (even though the album wasn't really hard rock) when hard rock was popular and strong Wow...I forgot to put this album in context. Those are all much better albums! What a good year! Shame CA was still another 20 years away.

The only song I struggle with is Neurotica. But I never skip it. The big wheel is a real favourite!

Favourite album: A Farewell To Kings Favourite song: the title track or Cinderella Man. Madrigal gets some special Segue loving as well from time to time.

Ok...I prefer Tambu to both Roll The Bones and Presto. I like Kingdom of Desire more than Counterparts. I think Mindfields is superior to Test For Echo. In the eighties, only Fahrenheit stands out, and even then I think Rush tops that. And Fahrenheit is my favourite Toto album. Toto are really, really good. People smirk, but then my friends laugh at me for loving Rush so its all cool!! But when it comes to it, give me Toto over Rush when it comes to the nineties. If I was to proclaim IV as being greater than Hemispheres, then I know I am in trouble!

They put out seven more albums, at least. I recommend the latest, Falling In Between as its first three tracks are proggy and very heavy. And Tambu is a very tribal sounding rock album. And Kingdom Of Desire is a harder edged classic. Isolation through to The Seventh One are instant classics.

Duh...popular music was at it's 20th century rock&roll low during the 80s. This isn't even really debatable. Guitar based rock was basically ignored by radio stations and popular outlets. I don't judge quality by popularity or sales. you use the "it's popular!" argument to back up your love of roll the bones and why it's better than a bunch of albums that actually kick its ass, and I don't think that's a very good argument No, I use popularity to show how many people share an opinion. Liking music is subjective. My point on the 80s is that popular music was crappier than any other time in 20th century rock and roll history. I if you wanna compare 80s pop to 90s pop, 80s still kicks ass! everybody have fun tonight and sussudio vs the macarena and barbie girl? I'm with pat bateman on this one Bateman loved his bad pop. I'll take the popular music of the early /mid 90s like Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Counting Crows, Black Crows. I'm saying that bad 80s pop is still better than bad 90s pop. What I'm saying is that popular music in the 80s was worse than popular music in the 90s, largely because guitar based rock and roll was so much more popular in the 90s than it was in the 80s, due in large part to the grunge movement which allowed for many non-grunge bands to reach popularity that otherwise would have been ignored. At its peak, 90s rock was better (slightly) than 80s rock. But 90s rock, after about 1993-94, and pretty much up through today (with of course a few exceptions) sucks, at least in terms of bands more than 1000 people have heard of. Could not agree more...three exceptions in my mind: Alter Bridge, Jimmy Eat World and Khoma. I would add Lacuna Coil but I lost track of what genre they belong to years ago.

Lol that album is pure cheese...I am proud to say I love it! Maybe not quite like my love for AFTK but still...shame most people think thats the best Toto album. Its average at best by their own standards. Tambu is a very beautiful and bombastic pop rock album, and Kingdom Of Desire verges on heavy metal. My favourite, Fahrenheit, is embarrassingly '80's pop, but I think its one of my top ten albums. In the early 90's, Toto bettered Rush. Not for long though. Opinions are like buttcracks. We all have one.

Ooohhh...lol I got the impression this was a really hated album having come across many posts bashing this...and I could not picture you being a Cure fan. I am well impressed! Still need to get me some Yes however... And as for the person who dismisses my taste as a Toto fan...lets just say I am content. They were more than three hit singles. Just play Falling In Between, Tambu and the very heavy (for the genre) Kingdom Of Desire. For me, Toto and Rush are almost equals, when Toto are at their peak. Fahrenheit is one of my all time favourite albums, as is Tambu and Isolation. Nothing wrong with brilliantly played, anthemically written and uplifting cheese rock. They do it better than anybody else. Sorry if I am agitated, I am cooking for friends who I see tomorrow and its gonna be way past midnight when I am done. I am not sure if I am coming across nicely or aggressively! I take few shortcuts when it comes to cooking.

I am amazed that this thread is so pro-RTB. This is such a beautiful album, and Bluefunk, you're daughter has exquisite taste!

Why why why????? This album is a real favourite of mine. The songs, the vocals, the lyrics, its odd quirks. It stupid rap. Oh yeah. ..Segue loves this... So come on, we have a thread on Test For Echo, and yet everyone STILL DISSES THIS RECORD. (Bear in mind that I am a Toto fan so my opinions may lack credibility.) For me, only nine albums better this. And no. Caress Of Steel is not one of them.

So about Fight Club...

Still can't decide between Animate, Double Agent and Speed Of Love. This is a great album, although for entertainment value the circus-pop/rock of Roll The Bones still takes the lead when it comes to the nineties releases. I'm not going to vote just yet, but Speed Of Love is one of those tunes that I never expected from a band like Rush, and yet I can't help but love it!

I really enjoy this album. For me, Snakes And Arrows is the difficult listen. Test For Echo is all good stuff! I really enjoy Dog Years, Totem and Virtuality as well. As for Carve Away The Stone, I think it is beautiful. A great, underrated track in the same vein as the amazing Speed Of Love off Counterparts. But my favourite post-synth album prior to CA is Roll The Bones, for me the natural successor to Power Windows. However, I would rank Test For Echo ahead of Snakes and Arrows and Vapor Trails by a smidge. It just has this geeky, nerdy vibe that I really find endearing! Some of the lyrics are so naff I find myself enjoykng them in spite of my usual tastes. Counterparts is still growjng on me, I think its amazing but I don't find myself addicted to it from start to finish like some albums. Highlight of T4E? The title track, Driven and Carve Away The Stone. Virtuality has geek appeal and Resist is awesome as well. Totem has startlingly awful lyrics (but its meaning has good intentions). Dog Years is just brilliant. End of. Lol I remember when I said I hated Power Windows. Give it a month and I will probably trash this album!