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Which song on each Rush album do you think best represents the direction Rush would go in on their next album? Here are my choices: Rush - Before And After (a little dash of prog) FBN - By-Tor And The Snow Dog (extended song structures and composed instrumental sections with conceptual lyrics) CoS - Fountain Of Lamneth (side long song suites) 2112 - Tears (integrates melodic keyboards into the Rush sound) AFTK - Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage (see Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres) Hems - Circumstances (shorter punchier songs with more integrated synths and real world lyrics) PeW - The Spirit Of Radio (fuller integration of synths and sequencers alongside other instruments plus new wave influences in a shorter package) MP - Vital Signs (all that but more new wave, less prog, and much colder) Signals - The Weapon (Part II Of Fear) (even darker and colder and introducing cold war type paranoia) GuP - Between The Wheels (the totally 80s inspirational chorus with lyrics focused on people's struggle with powers beyond their control) PoW - Emotion Detector (a more human lyrical direction with more emotive licks and melodies) HYF - Tai Shan (experiments with the Rush sound that didn't really go over well) Presto - Anagram (For Mongo) (experiments with wordplay in the lyrics that aren't as deep as they appear) RTB - Ghost Of A Chance (a bit more rock and roll, plus lyrics about... love?!) Counterparts - Between Sun And Moon or Speed Of Love (ah yes, why the sun? and more sub-par lyricism over dull instrumentals) T4E - Driven (driving theme on the verge of a deep dark hole... eerily forbidding) VT - ...nothing! I believe little from VT carried over to S&A, and I believe it's because Feedback provided inspiration instead S&A - Far Cry (looking into Rush's golden period to recapture some of the old magic in a great new song) CA - once again... nothing... except that The Garden sounds exactly like the end of the band, which is in fact what came next.