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The Camera Eye Something about Manhattan.

The Big Wheel. Good overal balance in that one musically.

Being a Who fan I am going with the Seeker, but must give props to Summertime Blues. I could give or take the rest.

Vapor Trail is my favorite from this album. My grandmother passed away the day it came out, which was the end of a period of a year and a half when I was experiencing much personal loss (house, girlfriend of 7+ years, dog, teeth, blood, etc). As I followed the lyrics the first time through I actually broke into tears.

Love TFE, Time and Motion, and Carve Away The Stone, but had to go with Driven. That song is good on a couple of levels when compared to the rest of the album.

This is agreat album, but Double Agent is a masterpiece. Again, very cool elements to it. Excellent drums and a crazy guitar solo. Honorable Mention to Alien Shore, LTTA, Animate, Sun and Moon, and Everyday Glory.

Had to go with the title track. So many cool elements to this song. This album put my rocky faith back in Rush. I really like Show Don't Tell, Chain Lightning, War Paint (especially the bit about the Charger in the garage), The Pass, Hand Over Fist, and Scars. Sorry, but Available Light, Anagram, and Red Tide are Crap! I am indifferent to Superconductor- much better live.

This should be relabeled as "only good song" for me. Force Ten is the only song that I really like from HYF. My disdain for this album is well documented, um, "elsewhere" for lack of a better term.

Middletown Dreams. This album is all about quarter notes on the bass drum. Marathon and Grand Designs tie for number 2.

The obvious choice here is BTW because of the recent shows, but I am going with Afterimage, despite no real bass. I always loved the lyrical content and the guitar solo section. Having listened (and trying to play along) with this album again it has lost some of the vigor I used to hold it in. It takes on a different air 20 years later.

Initially it was Subdivisions, and just Subdivisions. It was a long time before I could really listen to this album. It wasn't until HYF that I really got into Signals. Had to go with Digital Man for this because it is on our plate in Trilogy and I am putting extra effort into getting it down. I was always affraid to listen to Losing It for fear of losing my abilities. Still hard for me to listen to because it is pretty sad. But a great instrumental section.

This album is perfect. All of these songs have been my favorite from time to time. Camera Eye had occupied this spot for me recently, but that has since changed and now Witch Hunt seems to resonate with me these days. Partly because my band Trilogy has recently performed both, but I understand why Geddy doesn't want to play it. From a bass and keyboard standpoint TCE is a bit boring. Witch Hunt is a bit more challenging, but the lyrical content rings especially true in trying times (such as these). Honorable mention to Vital Signs, partly because it was the first Rush song I recorded all of the parts to myself, and also because it points the way Rush went with their music through the 80s.

Tie for Jacob's Ladder and Natural Science. Both are incredible works of art, lyrically and musically. This album is a pinnacle of Rush for me. Freewill also meant a lot to me growing up. Being spirituly inclined in my formative years, this song propelled me into questioning everything put before me and not taking stock answers from anyone, especially clergy. There is more to life than we can measure or perceive and this song pointed the way for me to begin my own spiritual exploration.

Title track. Again, more individuality but with a twist. Aside from that it is awesome musically on all accounts. I cannot think of anything wrong with this album, except for the tape stock they used for recording it. Noisey.

Cinderalla Man. Geddy wrote the lyrics after watching Mr. Deeds Goes To Town directed by Frank Capra, starring Gary Cooper. Much better than the Adam Sandler version. I love the lyrics, but really the drums and guitar solo are cool. Title track is number 2 for me.

Ok, I went with Bangkok. Not just because I am a stoner either. This was a tough choice for me because I really like the production on Twilight Zone. 2112 is awesome, but I have heard it so many times that it has lost some luster for me personally. But I really identified with the theme of individuality in my teeenage years. This was probably my second Rush album purchase.

Went with Fountain, because it is their first full length piece, but would also like to add that it could have been divided up, as each tune is stand alone as well as part of the greater whole. In the Valley, Didacts and Narpets, No One At The Bridge, and Bachus Plateau in particular (but that really only leaves out Panacea, since the end is pretty much In the Valley). COS is the first Rush album I ever bought. To learn Bastille Day for the band I was in when I was 12.

Anthem because it is the first song that they collaborated on with Neil (at his audition) and because of the lyrical content. It was the first of many about individualism. This song meant a lot to me when I first heard it and still does today. "Live for yourself There's no one else more worth living for..." "I know they've always told you selfishness was wrong But it was for me, not you, that I came to write this song..." It's no wonder all of my ex-girlfriends call me self-absorbed.

I cannot vote because there is no such thing. It's not that I think this album sucks, because it really doesn't, but I have a hard time considering it a Rush album without Neil.