The Middle 3 Albums: Signals vs Grace Under Pressure vs Power Windows

[Lucas]

This was a transitional time for not only Rush and many of the other bands I had grown up with, but also for me, as the direction of so many of the performers I had liked pushed me to seek out music I could better relate to ..

 

- Signals

- Grace Under Pressure

 

- Power Windows

 

Subdivisions is my favorite song of the lot, narrowly beating out Digital Man ..

 

None of these albums get close to an "A" from me ... My Power Windows LP was actually one of the first things I sold on eBay when I joined back on 1998 ..

 

Added to that were the interviews from Geddy on MTV at the time and Neil in the press attempting to justify their watered down product with very critical jabs at heavy metal and the fans of metal ..

 

So for a kid who was 15, 16 years old and had grown up with Rush, this change in the band was tough ...

 

 

[Narps]

This is a tough one for me as I was in high school when the band was in what I consider their prime. Grace was the last Rush album I bought and I had bought all of the previous albums starting with AFTK on the first day they were available. I still think Signals and Grace were/are very good especially considering the dramatic change in style. Power Windows mostly just doesn't cut it. Some good but too much not so much...

[Duke1]

Absolutely love Power Windows... Marathon, Manhattan and Middletown, personally these 3 “M” tracks are always on high rotation even after 32 years.

 

A top 5 album for me with Spheres, Waves, Pictures and Angels.

Edited February 14, 2018 by Duke1

[Rick N. Backer]

Signals is the last truly great Rush album. Subdivisions is the best song.

[Derek19]

On what is my favorite between "Signals", "Grace Under Pressure", and "Power Windows", I think, and feel that all three c.ds, and albums have been equal, and even to not need deciding by voting. Out of the songs on those three c.ds, and albums, I have had three of each favorite ones, which are:

 

Signals: Countdown, Digital Man, Subdivisions

Grace Under Pressure: Between the Wheels, Kid Gloves, Red Sector A

Power Windows: Marathon, Mystic Rhythms, Middletown Dreams

 

With each of the three being equal, and even, I think they deserve to be graded higher, than an "A-".

Edited March 30, 2019 by Derek19

[The Cat 3]

Signals is the best of the three, in my opinion, but Grace Under Pressure is my favourite of the lot.

[_hi_water._]

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