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Don't anybody remind Ged of this. Another 40th anniversary album will upset him again.

I don't see what gender has to do with anything. My best friend in high school was a girl and I got her hooked with 2112. I hate to break the news, but as a general rule, boys like Rush, and girls don't. Gender differences are real. Well that's very reductive of you. I suppose girls also don't play Dungeons And Dragons and boys don't listen to Cyndi Lauper. Newsflash, people will like whatever they please regardless of stereotypes. PLEASE don't play that equivalence game. Even the band acknowledged their fanbase is mostly men. It's okay to generalize, generally speaking lol.

I don't see what gender has to do with anything. My best friend in high school was a girl and I got her hooked with 2112. I hate to break the news, but as a general rule, boys like Rush, and girls don't. Gender differences are real.

Depends on the newb. If delicate constitution, simple pop listener, or female: Hold Your Fire If basic young male who kinda likes rock: Moving Pictures If totally obsessive political hyperopinionated type: 2112 If metalhead and/or deaf: Vapor Trails If 70 years old: Rush

U2 has been trying to get their own channel since 2015. They just got it this week.

I had the same CD Video compact disc by Tears For Fears -- Everybody Wants To Rule the World (music + video), plus 3 more songs. The video portion never played on any machine, anywhere, ever. I still have it in a box somewhere.

I'm new here. No idea what SOCN is. But I generally live by WWND. What Would Neil Do? He's not afraid of your judgment.

Some of Neil's lyrics really grow on you, esp with experience. Cold Fire I didn't understand when I was 18. I understand the lyrics now, all too well.

1. Moving Pictures 2. 2112 3. Presto 4. Signals 5. Permanent Waves 6. Hold Your Fire 7. Grace Under Pressure 8. Counterparts 9. Hemispheres 10. Farewell to Kings 11. Roll the Bones Basically, it's 1976 to 1994 for me (minus Power Windows). They didn't exist before or after, in my mind. I don't listen to the other albums and probably shouldn't rank them. Kinda like the uglier half of the girls at the bar. Why bother? lol

I'm gonna risk making enemies here but I think Permanent Waves is overrated. Why? Freewill and Natural Science. I can't stand either song. Even though the other 4 songs are brilliant - and I love to play all 4 on guitar - I can't get behind an album that makes me skip 1/3 of it. Go ahead, kill me. I'll put my list below.

Show Don't Tell sounds like it belongs on Moving Pictures. It's the exact same vein. Available Light is great too, and I'd put the title track Presto up there as well. I return to it a lot - it's good to hear Alex on acoustic. Of course The Pass as well. TBH there's very little filler on Presto (unlike the disc that followed). The reasons that fans undervalue the album: Presto didn't break any new ground. No instrumentals, no wild changes, Geddy in restrained chest voice, synths back to normal after the last couple albums, almost every song in 4/4. The only innovation was that they started using modulations (twice - Superconductor and Presto), but that's hardly groundbreaking. Basically, Presto is solid pop-rock craftsmanship all the way through -- and it's very emotive. The older I get, the more I like their emotive music. The album is still in my top 3: 1st place (3-way tie): Moving Pictures, 2112, and Presto 4th place: Signals

I had never heard Rivendell until Neil died this year. I was listening to the continuous Rush tribute on Sirius when that piece of shit came on. The stink face stayed plastered on my skull for all four minutes and fifty six seconds of that crap. Uggh. OTOH, that continuous tribute reintroduced me to some really good songs I'd forgotten about, like Afterimage.

Here's a possible winner: La Villa on marimba, vibraphone, and glockenspiel!

Please explain. Some thing I read a few years ago...might have been an excerpt of Sammy Hagar's book. He said that Ray was looking to get a 'better singer' for Rush about the time he joined VH. Honestly, Rush's songs would've sounded better with Sammy. I like his voice a lot. Though I do have trouble imagining him singing some of Neil's lyrics: "Everybody got to deviate from the norm" But what the hell was up with Ray Daniels and Ged? Didn't he actually fire Ged in the early days? Then you're saying he tried to get Ged replaced AFTER they just had massive AOR success with MP? Anyways, Ged's studio vocals got better as time went on, so at least there's that.

Please explain.

1: First Rush Album You Bought? PRESTO 2: The Rush Album That Got You Hooked? MOVING PICTURES 3: First Rush Studio Album You Bought? PRESTO 4: First Rush Live Album You Bought? A SHOW OF HANDS 5: First Rush Compilation You Bought? CHRONICLES 6: First Rush Studio Album You Bought On Release Day? ROLL THE BONES 7: First Rush Bootleg That Blew You Away? N/A

Off the top of my head, maybe Xanadu. And 2112 if you count the entire thing as one song...

No doubt it's brilliant, but I don't think there's a single "quintessential" Lifeson sound. He had too many different ones. Limelight itself features I think three different tones.

Ohmygod I haven't heard that version in decades. It sounds SO GOOD. That guitar tone was so processed but you're right it fits the song better than the original sound did. And that note at 7:55 -- damn. Thanks!

His solos on p/g sound different from his solos previously. He was actively trying to play slower, more melodically, and even with more chords. They're very emotionally expressive. With solos, we heard hints of Alex's expressiveness on songs like La Villa and Different Strings, but I believe the peak of Alex's soloing prowess occurred on GUP-PoW-HYF. It's probably not a coincidence that those three albums were also the height of the band's keyboard era -- Alex was looking for ways for his guitar to stand out and his solos were one way to do that. Concur. Geddy's synths were encroaching on his territory ... and they upped his game. Overall, his guitar playing in the 1980s was more emotional and well-crafted than in the 1970s.

I've been playing that song on all manner of guitars for 25 years and have never gotten tired of doing it.

His solos on p/g sound different from his solos previously. He was actively trying to play slower, more melodically, and even with more chords. They're very emotionally expressive.

Yeah, this. It's what leapt out at me immediately first time on hearing Counterparts. I'd never heard his tone sooooo electrified and crunchy as it is on "Stick It Out". It makes the song what it is.

I love 25th anniversary editions. They're the universe's reminder to finally go check out the pieces of art that I missed a quarter century earlier. I have never heard Victor. What an oversight on my part.

I like the way Les Pauls feel smooth like buttah, but that's hardly an original choice on his part. So I'd go for the PRS. They used to make some terrific, heavy guitars with amazing sustain.