Your top 5 the 80's Rush synth songs(Signals - Hold Your Fire)?

[Freeze]

The Analog Kid

Between The Wheels

Losing It

Marathon

Subdivisions

[Day of Light]

All of Signals.

 

In all seriousness...

 

Subdivisions

The Weapon

Early Distant Warning

Red Sector A

Mystic Rhythms

 

[TexMike]

Subdivisions, Analog Kid, Body Electric, Between The Wheels, Grand Designs

[Rushman14]

Kid Gloves

Force Ten

Grand Designs

Digital Man

Losing It

[yyz305]

No order:

 

Marathon

 

Prime Mover

 

Between The Wheels

 

Turn The Page

 

Distant Early Warning

[Duke1]

Subdivisions

Distant Early Warning

Marathon

Manhattan Project

Force 10

[tas7]

Totally agree with the comments about Signals, IMO Moving Pictures and Signals, barring the production values could have been a double album. So my five would be in no particular order;

Afterimage

Grand Designs

Force Ten

Kid Gloves

Marathon

[grasbo]

Countdown

Red Sector A

Between the Wheels

Marathon

Turn the Page

I sought of picked songs where the keyboards were to the fore but I had to have a great Alex solo there.Between the Wheels is probably my fave solo of all beating out La Villa,Limelight,etc

[Rick N. Backer]

I don't put Signals in The Snyth Era so here are mine.

 

1. The Big Money

2. Marathon

3. Time Stand Still

4. Manhattan Project

5. Mystic Rhythms

 

...how? It's literally one of their top three most synth filled albums, and the only one of those top three where the guitar really gets blocked out by the sytnth parts regularly.

This is just my humble opinion. When I listen to Signals I still hear the Broone Era. The album is certainly a harbinger of what is to come. Yet the snyth still compliments the traditional instruments. Then comes GUP where to this day the snyth sounds almost jarring, seemingly overwhelming the strings and drums. Then The Snyth Era has begun for me.

 

Agreed. Signals is more like Pictures than GUP to me.

[Rick N. Backer]

. . . But, given the opening by the OP:

 

Subdivisions

 

The Analog Kid

 

Digital Man

 

The Weapon

 

Countdown

 

Power Windows and, more so, Hold Your Fire ended my relationship with the band for a long time.

[DirkPrattLerxst]

Open Secrets

Middletown Dreams

Subdivisions

Mission

Marathon

 

But I love lots of the others

[DirtyMidnighter]

1. The Analog Kid

2. Subdivisions

3. New World Man

4. Distant Early Warning

5. Time Stand Still

[Segue Myles]

Losing It

Distant Early Warning

Marathon

Open Secrets

The Body Electric

[yyzjam]

1. Subdivisions

2. Time Stand Still

3. Middletown Dreams

4. Emotion Detector

5. The Analog Kid

[Justus_2112]

Grand Designs

Subdivisions

Lock And Key

Territories

Emotion Detector

[LeaveMyThingAlone]

Not my favorite Rush era by any means but some great songs came out of this stuff:

 

1. The Analog Kid

2. Distant Early Warning

3. Subdivisions

4. The Enemy Wiithin

5. Kid Gloves

 

I don't like Power windows or Hold Your Fire much and it shows with my list

[diatribein]

This is difficult!

 

1. Subdivisions

2. Prime Mover

3. Territories

4. The Big Money

5. The Enemy Within

 

 

The irony here is that Grace Under Pressure is my favourite album of this era, while Signals is my least favourite. In fact, I like the albums in the reverse order of the songs listed! I also kept going back & forth over if I like The Enemy Within or The Body Electric better before I settled on one and I still don't know if I made the right choice!

[toddlimelight]

1. Subdivisions

2. Analog Kid

3. Digital Man

4. Red Sector A

5. Countdown

5.5 Big Money

[The Honest Man]

This was tougher than I thought. In no order

 

Subdivisions

Red sector A

Middletown Dreams

Prime mover

Territories