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1.Permanent Waves

2.Hemispheres

3.A Farewell to Kings

4.Moving Pictures

5.2112

6.Caress of Steel

7.Grace Under Pressure

8.Signals

9.Clockwork Angels

10.Fly by Night

11.Power Windows

12.Counterparts

 

 

13.Snakes & Arrows

14.Presto

15.Hold Your Fire

16.Roll the Bones

17.Vapor Trails

18.Rush

19.Test for Echo

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1. A Farewell to Kings

2. Hemispheres

3. 2112

4. Permanent Waves

5. Moving Pictures

6. Caress of Steel

7. Fly By Night

8. Signals

9. Power Windows

10. Hold Your Fire

11. Clockwork Angels

12. Vapor Trails

13. Counterparts

14. Grace Under Pressure

15. Rush

16. Snakes & Arrows

17. Roll the Bones

18. Test For Echo

19. Presto

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In my metal-favored opinion:

 

1. Vapor Trails

2. Snakes and Arrows

3. Test for Echo

4. Moving Pictures

5. Permanent Waves

6. Clockwork Angels

7. Roll the Bones

8. Presto

9. Grace Under Pressure

10. Counterparts

11. Rush

12. Signals

13. 2112

14. Power Windows

15. Farewell to Kings

16. Hemispheres

17. Fly By Night

18. Hold Your Fire

19. Caress of Steel

Is this one listed in reverse?

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Rush Album Ranking as of 2.16.20

1. Moving Pictures

2. A Farewell To Kings

3. Clockwork Angels

4. Permanent Waves

5. Hold Your Fire

6. Grace Under Pressure

7. Signals

8. Power Windows

9. Roll The Bones

10. Fly By Night

11. Presto

12. Rush

13. Hemispheres

14. Counterparts

15. Test For Echo

16. 2112

17. Caress Of Steel

18. Vapor Trails

19. Snakes & Arrows

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It's constantly changing for me, but just off the top of my head:

 

1. Moving Pictures

2. Fly By Night

3. Permanent Waves

4. Signals

5. Grace Under Pressure

6. Vapor Trails

7. Hemispheres

8. 2112

9. Hold Your Fire

10. Counterparts

11. A Farewell To Kings

12. Roll The Bones

13. Presto

14. Rush

15. Snakes And Arrows

16. Caress Of Steel

17. Clockwork Angels

18. Power Windows

19. Test For Echo

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Moving Pictures

Permanent Waves

A Farewell To Kings

Hemispheres

2112

Hold Your Fire

Power Windows

Signals

Grace Under Pressure

Presto

Fly By Night

Roll The Bones

Counterparts

Caress Of Steel

Vapor Trails

Test For Echo

Rush

Snakes & Arrows

Clockwork Angels

 

 

 

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It will take me a while to come up with my full list, but Permanent Waves is certainly among those tied for 1st place. I just listened to it, and decades after first hearing it, I consider it to be as close to perfection as an album can get. Off the charts in every dimension, and it all comes together to create a masterpiece for the ages. This is the sort of album that made Rush seem like gods in the minds of their fans.
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Something like this.

 

1. A Farewell To Kings

2. Permanent Waves

3. Moving Pictures

4. Signals

5. 2112

6. Clockwork Angels

7. Hemispheres

8. Power Windows

9. Grace Under Pressure

10. Caress Of Steel

11. Hold Your Fire

12. Presto

13. Vapor Trails

14. Fly By Night

15. Counterparts

16. Snakes And Arrows

17. Test For Echo

18. Rush

19. Roll The Bones

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Very hard to rank the albums as they have so many good ones and there really is no such thing as a "Bad" RUSH Album. But here's my attempt at doing so:

 

1) Hemispheres

2) 2112

3) A Farewell To Kings

4) Clockwork Angels

5) Moving Pictures

6) Permanent Waves

7) Signals

8) Grace Under Pressure

9) Fly By Night

10) Power Windows

11) Snakes And Arrows

12) Counterparts

13) Vapor Trails

14) Hold Your Fire

15) Caress Of Steel

16) Test For Echo

17) Roll The Bones

18) Presto

19) Rush

 

Keep in mind, I love all the albums and none of them are bad by any means. Some of them are just better than others.

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1. Moving Pictures

2. Hemispheres

3. 2112

4. Permanent Waves

5. A Farewell To Kings

6. Grace Under Pressure

7. Power Windows

8. Clockwork Angels

9. Fly By Night

10.Signals

11. RUSH

12. Counterparts

13. Vapor Trails

14. Caress Of Steel

15. Presto

16. Hold Your Fire

17. Snakes & Arrows

18. Test For Echo

19. Roll The Bones

 

...there is no such thing as a bad Rush album.

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I'm new here. I'm also a guitarist who cut his teeth on Alex Lifeson's parts nearly 30 years ago.

Please let me point out that this is an impossible exercise.

 

I vote that we instead vote on our favorite Rush era.

Here's my breakdown of the 6 major eras:

 

1) Finding Their Way/Beginnings

2) High Prog (you know the albums)

3) AOR Success (Perm Waves to Signals)

4) High Synth (GUP to HYF)

5) Refinding Their Balls (Presto to TFE)

[Peart break]

6) Heavy Old Man Rock

 

My vote: Refinding Their Balls is the best era. Here's why:

 

a) Presto - nearly every track is polished and strong and classy. What a smart album. I could do without the step-up modulation in Superconductor, but that's quibbling. It's one of their strongest, most accessible albums. In a just world it would've enjoyed the same success as Moving Pictures.

b) Roll the Bones - half the songs are wonderful, other half are warm trash. Wish they could have recorded it with more bottom end.

c) Counterparts - gets better with time, I like it more now than in 1993. At least 7 songs are really terrific.

d) Test For Echo - I only included it because I couldn't fit it in any other era, would prefer to forget it

 

Nobody asked, but here's my other opinions:

 

- To my ears now, Finding Their Way (Era 1) is too derivative, and High Prog (Era 2) while accomplished is annoying. Don't kill me for saying that. I play most of Lifeson's parts from this era, and yes, a lot of it is annoying and self-indulgent. Learning them gave me chops, but to this day nobody has ever complemented me on my note-for-note rendition of the first 3 movements of La Villa Strangiato, ya know?

 

- High Synth (Era 4) wanted to be better than it was; there's some good tunes scattered amongst the forest of thin keyboards, such as Afterimage or Lock and Key or the interplay of Alex with Neil's drum pattern in Mystic Rhythms. But those were exceptions in the era.

 

- Heavy Old Man Rock (Era 6) is what it is. They were coasting at that point. Can't blame them.

 

- AOR Success (Era 3) was terrific and the only reason I put it below Era 5 is that I'm tired of listening to Perm Waves and Moving Pictures so much. lol

 

Anyways, thoughts? Love to hear different opinions, esp from fellow musicians.

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1. A Farewell to Kings

2. Hemispheres

3. 2112

4. Permanent Waves

5. Moving Pictures

6. Caress of Steel

7. Fly By Night

8. Signals

9. Power Windows

10. Hold Your Fire

11. Clockwork Angels

12. Vapor Trails

13. Counterparts

14. Grace Under Pressure

15. Rush

16. Snakes & Arrows

17. Roll the Bones

18. Test For Echo

19. Presto

Mine has changed a little but not much.

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1. Moving Pictures

2. Hemispheres

3. 2112

4. Permanent Waves

5. A Farewell To Kings

6. Grace Under Pressure

7. Power Windows

8. Clockwork Angels

9. Fly By Night

10.Signals

11. RUSH

12. Counterparts

13. Vapor Trails

14. Caress Of Steel

15. Presto

16. Hold Your Fire

17. Snakes & Arrows

18. Test For Echo

19. Roll The Bones

 

...there is no such thing as a bad Rush album.

This one is similar to mine just a few that are a bit higher or lower than I'd like.

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Rush Album Ranking as of 2.16.20

1. Moving Pictures

2. A Farewell To Kings

3. Clockwork Angels

4. Permanent Waves

5. Hold Your Fire

6. Grace Under Pressure

7. Signals

8. Power Windows

9. Roll The Bones

10. Fly By Night

11. Presto

12. Rush

13. Hemispheres

14. Counterparts

15. Test For Echo

16. 2112

17. Caress Of Steel

18. Vapor Trails

19. Snakes & Arrows

If you thought my FIRST list was bad.....

 

1. Moving Pictures

2. A Farewell To Kings

3. Clockwork Angels

4. Power Windows

5. Hold Your Fire

6. Permanent Waves

7. Signals

8. Grace Under Pressure

9. Vapor Trails

10. Roll The Bones

11. Presto

12. Test For Echo

13. Fly By Night

14. Counterparts

15. Hemispheres

16. 2112

17. Caress Of Steel

18. Rush

19. Snakes And Arrows

 

heres my new banger list :d13:

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19. Presto

18. Roll The Bones

17. Hold Your Fire

16. Test For Echo

15. Snakes & Arrows

14. Counterparts

13. Vapor Trails

12. Rush

11. Clockwork Angels

10. Power Windows

9. Grace Under Pressure

8. Fly By Night

7. Caress Of Steel

6. Signals

5. 2112

4. A Farewell To Kings

3. Hemispheres

2. Permanent Waves

1. Moving Pictures

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19. Presto

18. Roll The Bones

17. Hold Your Fire

16. Test For Echo

15. Snakes & Arrows

14. Counterparts

13. Vapor Trails

12. Rush

11. Clockwork Angels

10. Power Windows

9. Grace Under Pressure

8. Fly By Night

7. Caress Of Steel

6. Signals

5. 2112

4. A Farewell To Kings

3. Hemispheres

2. Permanent Waves

1. Moving Pictures

 

Anyone who puts Test For Echo and Caress of Steel ABOVE Presto is a disturbed individual.

Even the band themselves admitted that they were creatively empty by TFE.

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19. Presto

18. Roll The Bones

17. Hold Your Fire

16. Test For Echo

15. Snakes & Arrows

14. Counterparts

13. Vapor Trails

12. Rush

11. Clockwork Angels

10. Power Windows

9. Grace Under Pressure

8. Fly By Night

7. Caress Of Steel

6. Signals

5. 2112

4. A Farewell To Kings

3. Hemispheres

2. Permanent Waves

1. Moving Pictures

 

Anyone who puts Test For Echo and Caress of Steel ABOVE Presto is a disturbed individual.

Even the band themselves admitted that they were creatively empty by TFE.

well ok at least they have better production and better music
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If you thought my FIRST list was bad.....

 

1. Moving Pictures

2. A Farewell To Kings

3. Clockwork Angels

4. Power Windows

5. Hold Your Fire

6. Permanent Waves

7. Signals

8. Grace Under Pressure

9. Vapor Trails

10. Roll The Bones

11. Presto

12. Test For Echo

13. Fly By Night

14. Counterparts

15. Hemispheres

16. 2112

17. Caress Of Steel

18. Rush

19. Snakes And Arrows

 

heres my new banger list :d13:

 

HYF is at #5 and Hemispheres is 10 spots lower? That's very very controversial.

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1. A Farewell to Kings

2. Hemispheres

3. Moving Pictures

4. Permanent Waves

5. 2112

6. Fly By Night

7. Caress of Steel

8. Signals

9. RUSH

10. Clockwork Angels

11. Counterparts

12. Power Windows

13. Vapor Trails

14. Hold Your Fire

15. Grace Under Pressure

16. Roll the Bones

17. Snakes & Arrows

18. Test For Echo

19. Presto

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1. A Farewell to Kings

2. Hemispheres

3. Moving Pictures

4. Permanent Waves

5. 2112

6. Fly By Night

7. Caress of Steel

8. Signals

9. RUSH

10. Clockwork Angels

11. Counterparts

12. Power Windows

13. Vapor Trails

14. Hold Your Fire

15. Grace Under Pressure

16. Roll the Bones

17. Snakes & Arrows

18. Test For Echo

19. Presto

Any list where Grace Under Pressure is lower than #10 is considered an abomination in my book
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1. A Farewell to Kings

2. Hemispheres

3. Moving Pictures

4. Permanent Waves

5. 2112

6. Fly By Night

7. Caress of Steel

8. Signals

9. RUSH

10. Clockwork Angels

11. Counterparts

12. Power Windows

13. Vapor Trails

14. Hold Your Fire

15. Grace Under Pressure

16. Roll the Bones

17. Snakes & Arrows

18. Test For Echo

19. Presto

Any list where Grace Under Pressure is lower than #10 is considered an abomination in my book

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I considered lower but was feeling charitable

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If you thought my FIRST list was bad.....

 

1. Moving Pictures

2. A Farewell To Kings

3. Clockwork Angels

4. Power Windows

5. Hold Your Fire

6. Permanent Waves

7. Signals

8. Grace Under Pressure

9. Vapor Trails

10. Roll The Bones

11. Presto

12. Test For Echo

13. Fly By Night

14. Counterparts

15. Hemispheres

16. 2112

17. Caress Of Steel

18. Rush

19. Snakes And Arrows

 

heres my new banger list :d13:

 

HYF is at #5 and Hemispheres is 10 spots lower? That's very very controversial.

And I'm proud of my Shit opinions

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1. A Farewell to Kings

2. Hemispheres

3. Moving Pictures

4. Permanent Waves

5. 2112

6. Fly By Night

7. Caress of Steel

8. Signals

9. RUSH

10. Clockwork Angels

11. Counterparts

12. Power Windows

13. Vapor Trails

14. Hold Your Fire

15. Grace Under Pressure

16. Roll the Bones

17. Snakes & Arrows

18. Test For Echo

19. Presto

you nailed my top 5. that's all i wanted to post anyway :rush:

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