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I'm trying to decide if this list is out of the "These are the shit songs" zone and into the "These are not bad" zone. Seems like we are. This is a pretty good tune, good guitar stuff going on.

HOLD YOUR FIRE PRESTO ROLL THE BONES There's a song or two on each of those that would have initially grabbed my interest, but the rest of the album would have proved disappointing. Like, Show Don't Tell has a unique vibe, and if that was the first song I heard from them I'd be thinking, "This is cool, who are these guys?" Then after listening to the rest of Presto I'd be, "Oh...oh well."

The fact that Second Nature has somehow escaped the bottom-30, much less the bottom-3, well, there's not much you can do to spoil that song at this point.

I consider Second Nature a bottom-3 Rush song, along with Anagram and Half The World.

Yeah, you seem to gravitate towards songs that I don't like, and vice versa. But that's what a band like Rush can do. Here's a real test:: Do you love Second Nature? Is it in your top-3 from HYF?

Actually, CP seems to be a polarizing album for us fans. I liked it right off the bat because they FINALLY ditched the thin-sounding instruments that plagued HYF thru RTB. I liked it when it first came out and still do. Others see it as another step removed from their prog years. Nobody's Hero, Speed of Love and Everyday Glory are the only songs I skip on that album.

Completely agree. I know some people don't like the spoken verses, but I don't mind them because that secret agent riff and Neil's drum pattern for it are killer. I really like the whole song. This is my third favorite song on CP behind Animate and Leave That Thing Alone. This is a criminally low ranking. THIS is the worst song from CP? Worse than Speed of Love? Really???

This. But I'll play along with the poll as constructed. I would need to listen to Favourite Headache again to see if I'd pick it over Victor or T4E (T4E gets a consideration on the strength of the title track, Driven, and Time and Motion). Right now I have VT and Feedback for my studio picks and DS as my live album.

Worse than Anagram and Second Nature? No bloody way. Third worst overall? Absolutely. Happy birthday, hi_water!

Don't get me wrong, there is potential there. The choruses are pretty good and Alex's solo is very good. And I do like the lyrics. But one problem for me with this song is in the execution. It's a Presto song, so right off the bat the production is going to bring it down and make it sound lifeless. The only three songs on this album that work for me sound-wise are Show Don't Tell, The Pass and Presto. For me, Available Light suffers greatly. The other problem, and for me it's the big one, is the verses. I don't like the easy listening feel and I don't like the piano, not only the fact that it's piano but also how it sounds -- digital. I just doesn't work for me in a Rush song, no matter what the lyrics are saying. And that brings me to this -- song rankings like this are of course subjective, but some people will maybe not love the music in a song but will overlook it if the lyrics really speak to them, and others will deal with lyrics that are blah if the music moves them. I'm almost always in the latter group. When I get a new album I don't even think about the lyrics until I've absorbed the music. The only time lyrics stick out to me right away is if they're noticeably bad (like, say, Dog Years). Neil's lyrics are good here, but for me they're not enough to save this one.

Another blah album closer for me. This isn't the "uptempo/low-intensity happy rocker" that closed out RTB thru S&A, but it's still blah. There's not enough warmth in the production to effectively convey the uplifting message, and the piano verses give me that Second Nature vibe that makes me think it's a Celine Dion song as opposed to Rush. This song is pure CD filler and I'd have ranked it lower.

I'm old school, I have a home theater system in my living room and a CD player in my car, and when I'm doing serious music listening on those systems I want my music in a lossless format. Buying an album in mp3 or m4a format is a subpar option for someone who cares about sound quality. CDs aren't even the best option sound-wise but they're better than compressed files. I'd rather have the physical CD with the album art and liner notes but as long as I can get original wav or flac files I'm happy. Unfortunately finding CDs in big box stores is not much of an option nowadays, so we're forced to order online from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, etc. And like stoopid said, getting them from the band's own websites is a good option when available.

Got home just in time to see the last hole. Would have been nice to see Rickie finally break through in the last round of a major but Clark's win was nice to watch.

Agree. This is another song I've heard only a couple of times, maybe one more time than Rivendell. Bottom 10 for sure.

Yeah, those videos are good the first time they scan over the image, but when it goes back to the beginning spot and starts over again it can lose you. Still, this is a real nice little tribute to Neil.

Released a month ago, just popped up in my YouTube feed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EndaI-okEIc

My opinion of Out Of The Cradle applies to this one as well. https://www.therushforum.com/index.php?/topic/115204-_hi_water_-ranks-all-173-rush-songs/&do=findComment&comment=5102193

Agreed, once a day is great, it gives people more time to participate without having to do too much catching up if busy.

Another post-synth era song that wants to be a rocker, but just comes across as corny.

Neil's drumming is pretty good in that song. He went old-school Neil in that he treated each verse a little differently. But that alone does not save the song, so yeah, for me it's bottom four from S&A.

I'm sure I'm in the minority, but this and Summertime Blues are my two faves from this album. I like what Alex did with his guitar parts, especially that little nod to The Byrds. I'd have this ranked way higher.

Yep, it's a skipper.

Hmmm.......