winter17 Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 What do you get when you have an engineering student with a passion for Rush that is procrastinating on homework? A large excel spreadsheet ranking each Rush song 1-10 (by Rush standards), and using that to determine my album rankings, and then using that to rank every Rush song from 1-165. I spent too much time on this. Anyways here's what I ended up with for the albums, and if anyone wants to see the full spreadsheet or my ranking of every Rush song, just let me know. Permanent Waves: 9.5Hemispheres: 9Moving Pictures: 8.71A Farewell to Kings: 8Signals: 7.63Grace Under Pressure: 7.25Power Windows: 7.132112: 7Clockwork Angels: 6.75Vapor Trails: 6.31Roll the Bones: 6.3Fly By Night: 6.25Caress of Steel: 6.2Hold Your Fire: 6.1Counterparts: 6Snakes and Arrows: 5.77Presto: 5.55Test for Echo: 5.27Rush: 4.88 Please don't hate on me too much, for the rankings themselves or that I shared them here. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wil1972 Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 What do you get when you have an engineering student with a passion for Rush that is procrastinating on homework? A large excel spreadsheet ranking each Rush song 1-10 (by Rush standards), and using that to determine my album rankings, and then using that to rank every Rush song from 1-165. I spent too much time on this. Anyways here's what I ended up with for the albums, and if anyone wants to see the full spreadsheet or my ranking of every Rush song, just let me know. Permanent Waves: 9.5Hemispheres: 9Moving Pictures: 8.71A Farewell to Kings: 8Signals: 7.63Grace Under Pressure: 7.25Power Windows: 7.132112: 7Clockwork Angels: 6.75Vapor Trails: 6.31Roll the Bones: 6.3Fly By Night: 6.25Caress of Steel: 6.2Hold Your Fire: 6.1Counterparts: 6Snakes and Arrows: 5.77Presto: 5.55Test for Echo: 5.27Rush: 4.88 Please don't hate on me too much, for the rankings themselves or that I shared them here. Your rankings are pretty good except CP is way too low. And RTB too high. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apetersvt Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 (edited) <<What do you get when you have an engineering student with a passion for Rush that is procrastinating on homework?>> That was me in college except there was no Excel. Had to do it by hand. It may have a bit easier as I only had to go through Presto. Edit: I think Excel may have existed at the time but it I didn't have it. Edited November 27, 2018 by apetersvt 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 What do you get when you have an engineering student with a passion for Rush that is procrastinating on homework? A large excel spreadsheet ranking each Rush song 1-10 (by Rush standards), and using that to determine my album rankings, and then using that to rank every Rush song from 1-165. I spent too much time on this. Anyways here's what I ended up with for the albums, and if anyone wants to see the full spreadsheet or my ranking of every Rush song, just let me know. Permanent Waves: 9.5Hemispheres: 9Moving Pictures: 8.71A Farewell to Kings: 8Signals: 7.63Grace Under Pressure: 7.25Power Windows: 7.132112: 7Clockwork Angels: 6.75Vapor Trails: 6.31Roll the Bones: 6.3Fly By Night: 6.25Caress of Steel: 6.2Hold Your Fire: 6.1Counterparts: 6Snakes and Arrows: 5.77Presto: 5.55Test for Echo: 5.27Rush: 4.88 Please don't hate on me too much, for the rankings themselves or that I shared them here. And since its in excel you can make some graghs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted November 27, 2018 Share Posted November 27, 2018 I have been there, but I don’t have excel, so I just have to keep track of ratings myself. As an architecture student, I relate greatly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narps Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 (edited) A list that has the debut at the bottom and their signature work 8th I'll pass on. We all have our opinions however... Edited November 28, 2018 by Narps 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangy Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 A list that has the debut at the bottom and their signature work 8th I'll pass on. We all have our opinions however... Indeed but those values can change over time and further study Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thizzellewashington Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 A list that has the debut at the bottom and their signature work 8th I'll pass on. We all have our opinions however...The way to correct this would be to weigh the longer songs more heavily. Because side 1 of 2112 is top 5 in their catalog and side 2 is reallllllllllly spotty. I could see how it would lose points in a ranking like this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thizzellewashington Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 I have my own list of every song ranked 175-1 (I got to the 175 number because I included some of the live instrumentals and the early bootleg songs like "Fancy Dancer" and "Garden Road") that I've been working on writing up off and on for almost three years. It's at around 11k words right now. Someday when it's done I'll try to get it published somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red3angel Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 I like the ranks but know I’ll diagree tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalformedEarthborn Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 I'd say that's a generally popular ranking. Not for me but I respect the effort more than just trying to rank them overall. Why no love for CoS and Presto though :< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winter17 Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 What do you get when you have an engineering student with a passion for Rush that is procrastinating on homework? A large excel spreadsheet ranking each Rush song 1-10 (by Rush standards), and using that to determine my album rankings, and then using that to rank every Rush song from 1-165. I spent too much time on this. Anyways here's what I ended up with for the albums, and if anyone wants to see the full spreadsheet or my ranking of every Rush song, just let me know. Permanent Waves: 9.5Hemispheres: 9Moving Pictures: 8.71A Farewell to Kings: 8Signals: 7.63Grace Under Pressure: 7.25Power Windows: 7.132112: 7Clockwork Angels: 6.75Vapor Trails: 6.31Roll the Bones: 6.3Fly By Night: 6.25Caress of Steel: 6.2Hold Your Fire: 6.1Counterparts: 6Snakes and Arrows: 5.77Presto: 5.55Test for Echo: 5.27Rush: 4.88 Please don't hate on me too much, for the rankings themselves or that I shared them here. And since its in excel you can make some graghs! Already done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winter17 Posted November 28, 2018 Author Share Posted November 28, 2018 A list that has the debut at the bottom and their signature work 8th I'll pass on. We all have our opinions however...The way to correct this would be to weigh the longer songs more heavily. Because side 1 of 2112 is top 5 in their catalog and side 2 is reallllllllllly spotty. I could see how it would lose points in a ranking like this. I thought about that, and there could be ways to weight the songs based on length or weight the albums based on total minutes or total songs, but I decided that I wanted to look at the albums holistically, which meant I needed to disregard song length or number of songs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narps Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 A list that has the debut at the bottom and their signature work 8th I'll pass on. We all have our opinions however...The way to correct this would be to weigh the longer songs more heavily. Because side 1 of 2112 is top 5 in their catalog and side 2 is reallllllllllly spotty. I could see how it would lose points in a ranking like this.I disagree completely about side 2 so therein may lye the problem... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 Way too high for Presto and S&A. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedRush Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 What do you get when you have an engineering student with a passion for Rush that is procrastinating on homework? A large excel spreadsheet ranking each Rush song 1-10 (by Rush standards), and using that to determine my album rankings, and then using that to rank every Rush song from 1-165. I spent too much time on this. Anyways here's what I ended up with for the albums, and if anyone wants to see the full spreadsheet or my ranking of every Rush song, just let me know. Permanent Waves: 9.5Hemispheres: 9Moving Pictures: 8.71A Farewell to Kings: 8Signals: 7.63Grace Under Pressure: 7.25Power Windows: 7.132112: 7Clockwork Angels: 6.75Vapor Trails: 6.31Roll the Bones: 6.3Fly By Night: 6.25Caress of Steel: 6.2Hold Your Fire: 6.1Counterparts: 6Snakes and Arrows: 5.77Presto: 5.55Test for Echo: 5.27Rush: 4.88 Please don't hate on me too much, for the rankings themselves or that I shared them here. Your rankings are pretty good except CP is way too high. And RTB too low. Fixed 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wil1972 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 What do you get when you have an engineering student with a passion for Rush that is procrastinating on homework? A large excel spreadsheet ranking each Rush song 1-10 (by Rush standards), and using that to determine my album rankings, and then using that to rank every Rush song from 1-165. I spent too much time on this. Anyways here's what I ended up with for the albums, and if anyone wants to see the full spreadsheet or my ranking of every Rush song, just let me know. Permanent Waves: 9.5Hemispheres: 9Moving Pictures: 8.71A Farewell to Kings: 8Signals: 7.63Grace Under Pressure: 7.25Power Windows: 7.132112: 7Clockwork Angels: 6.75Vapor Trails: 6.31Roll the Bones: 6.3Fly By Night: 6.25Caress of Steel: 6.2Hold Your Fire: 6.1Counterparts: 6Snakes and Arrows: 5.77Presto: 5.55Test for Echo: 5.27Rush: 4.88 Please don't hate on me too much, for the rankings themselves or that I shared them here. Your rankings are pretty good except CP is way too high. And RTB too low. Fixed Nah CP is great. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 2112, Fly By Night and Caress Of Steel are far too low and Clockwork Angels is way too high... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Debut at the bottom?? I needed a good laugh today... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winter17 Posted November 29, 2018 Author Share Posted November 29, 2018 Catching lots of flack for having the debut at the bottom. Not surprised, but I might as well offer my justification. Take a Friend, Need Some Love, Finding My Way, Before and After, and In the Mood I ranked 5/10 or below, again in comparison to other Rush songs. For reference, Caravan was a 6, Lessons was a 5, and Ceiling Unlimited was a 4. Those songs outweighed Working Man, What You're Doing, and Here Again. Take a Friend was the lowest of those 5, I'm not at all a fan of the lyrics.Need Some Love and Finding My Way are good, but the lack of Neil on these tracks and iffy lyrics are what caused me to rank them low. In the Mood was a 5, good song but I think it is just a little too repetitive. Before and After was also a 5, I enjoy this song, but for some reason I can't quite define, I can't justify ranking it better than a perfectly average Rush song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted November 29, 2018 Share Posted November 29, 2018 Catching lots of flack for having the debut at the bottom. Not surprised, but I might as well offer my justification. Take a Friend, Need Some Love, Finding My Way, Before and After, and In the Mood I ranked 5/10 or below, again in comparison to other Rush songs. For reference, Caravan was a 6, Lessons was a 5, and Ceiling Unlimited was a 4. Those songs outweighed Working Man, What You're Doing, and Here Again. Take a Friend was the lowest of those 5, I'm not at all a fan of the lyrics.Need Some Love and Finding My Way are good, but the lack of Neil on these tracks and iffy lyrics are what caused me to rank them low. In the Mood was a 5, good song but I think it is just a little too repetitive. Before and After was also a 5, I enjoy this song, but for some reason I can't quite define, I can't justify ranking it better than a perfectly average Rush song.Like I said, I needed a good laugh today... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thizzellewashington Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 The debut has two and a half good songs and a non-Neil Peart drummer. Ranking it last is not controversial at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MalformedEarthborn Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 Next thread: Wanking Rush 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 The debut has two and a half good songs and a non-Neil Peart drummer. Ranking it last is not controversial at all.Does "non-Neil Peart drummer" mean: 1. That there was no Neil Peart on the album; or,2. That there was a drummer who was not Neil Peart on the album; or,3. That there was a drummer named Peart that did not have the given name Neil on the album; or,4. That there was a drummer named "non-Neil Peart" on the album? Please help... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnnyBlaze Posted November 30, 2018 Share Posted November 30, 2018 (edited) What do you get when you have an engineering student with a passion for Rush that is procrastinating on homework? A large excel spreadsheet ranking each Rush song 1-10 (by Rush standards), and using that to determine my album rankings, and then using that to rank every Rush song from 1-165. I spent too much time on this. Anyways here's what I ended up with for the albums, and if anyone wants to see the full spreadsheet or my ranking of every Rush song, just let me know. Permanent Waves: 9.5Hemispheres: 9Moving Pictures: 8.71A Farewell to Kings: 8Signals: 7.63Grace Under Pressure: 7.25Power Windows: 7.132112: 7Clockwork Angels: 6.75Vapor Trails: 6.31Roll the Bones: 6.3Fly By Night: 6.25Caress of Steel: 6.2Hold Your Fire: 6.1Counterparts: 6Snakes and Arrows: 5.77Presto: 5.55Test for Echo: 5.27Rush: 4.88 Please don't hate on me too much, for the rankings themselves or that I shared them here. Similar line of thinking a few years earlier here (minus the spreadsheet): http://www.therushforum.com/index.php?/topic/75947-johnnyblazes-definitive-method-of-ranking-rush/page__hl__+johnnyblaze%20+definitive%20+rush#entry2687521 Edited November 30, 2018 by JohnnyBlaze 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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