What Rush album or albums have the best lyrics?

[New_World_Man]

In your opinion which Rush album or albums(choose up to three)have the best lyrics?

[JohnnyBlaze]

Moving Pictures, Signals, & Hold Your Fire.

 

1 of these on any given day has the best lyrics overall.

[Cyclonus X-1]

Clockwork Angels.

[workingthemangels63]

moviing pictures,permanent waves,signals

[Alien Girl]

Permanent Waves (Natural Science alone is poetic genius)

Moving Pictures

Grace Under Pressure

 

Not just that the lyrics are excellent on all these albums, it's that the lyrics fit so beautifully with the music. One thing Rush is guilty of in later albums (2000s and on) is shoehorning lyrics into the music. S&A and CA were especially egregious in doing this.

[grasbo]

Moving Pictures,Grace Under Pressure and Counterparts.I chose CP because it was released at a low point in my life and i can relate to a lot of it.

[toymaker]

What working the mangles63 said.

[JARG]

p/g - RTB

[Mystic Slipperman]

Hold Your Fire

Power Windows

Permanent Waves

[Geddyleegenes]

I really dig the lyrics on Caress of Steel. Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures, too.

[diatribein]

1. Snakes And Arrows (By Far)

2. Roll The Bones

3. Hold Your Fire

 

 

 

 

 

Least: Caress Of Steel, Hemispheres, 2112.

Edited July 19, 2017 by diatribein

[jnoble]

HYF, Presto, and RTB is my favorite stretch of albums lyrically. Counterparts/TFE/Snakes is my least.

[Texas King]

Permanent Waves and Signals.

[GabesCavesOfIce]

"Let the truth of love be lighted

Let the love of truth shine clear

Sensibility

Armed with sense and liberty

With the Heart and Mind united

In a single perfect sphere"

[fourrobert13]

Moving Pictures, Signals, and Test for Echo.

[yyzjam]

Hold Your Fire, Signals and Moving Pictures

[vaportrailer]

I like the obliqueness of many of the Vapor Trails lyrics, and find them to be the closest NP has come to real poetry (as opposed to rhyming statements).

I realize that I'm in the minority about this. :D

They're certainly his most 'honest/real' lyrics methinks.

 

 

It's such a cloudy day, seems we'll never see the sun.

I feel the day is all uncertainty.

Burning in the moment; trapped by the desperation

between how it is and how it ought to be.

 

Foot upon the stair, shoulder to the wheel;

You can't tell yourself not to care.

You can't tell yourself how to feel.

That's how it is.

Another cloudy day.

 

 

Lyrically, I'm not as excited about "gleaming alloy air-cars", or "how trees are talkin' to each other, and how different sides of your brain works or outer-space bullshit."

 

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"Helix was a wicked concert. They had good lyrics like "Gimme an R-O-C-K!"

[thirteen]

Best = Power Windows.

 

 

 

Clockwork Angels lyrics =

Edited July 20, 2017 by thirteen

[New_World_Man]

For me it's power windows, Hold your fire and then maybe Signals.