Red3angel Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Anybody have clockwork Angels in the top five? Lately it’s been my most played album, maybe because it’s the newest. Some days I think it’s the best. Which is not a bad thing to go out on top 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughedatbytime Posted January 7, 2022 Share Posted January 7, 2022 Anybody have clockwork Angels in the top five? Lately it’s been my most played album, maybe because it’s the newest. Some days I think it’s the best. Which is not a bad thing to go out on topAbout 6th or 7th most days. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IbanezJem Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Yes, around 6th or 7th for me too. Knocks most of the previous 25 years work into a cocked hat, that`s for sure. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Yeah I've got it like 7th or 8th. Close, but too many classics in the way. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST3V Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 CA is in my top 5, hell maybe even top 3. Love the album to death. What a way to go out for this legendary band. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zepphead Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 10th on my list ...... a bunch of much better albums there for me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 No. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I still really like CA, and I'm so pleased they were able to make such a strong album to end their recording career. Is it top 3 though? That's a tough call. If you substituted peak Geddy vocals on it then it might be right up there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ged Lent's sis Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Would that I were able. Suffice it to say — (at risk of saying the quiet part loud :oops: and derailing the thread) that while I default to "no", I'd be willing to hear it should someone make it possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddysMullet Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 CA is in my top 5, hell maybe even top 3. Love the album to death. What a way to go out for this legendary band. This is how I feel. I can never do definitive "Top Whatever" album rankings, but Clockwork Angels is way up there for me. So is the 2013 version of Vapour Trails. Both very meaningful to me, and rewarding to listen to from start to finish as whole albums. There are a lot of Rush albums that I love to pieces but don't feel that way about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 Probably 5th or 6th most of the time. Moving Pictures, Grace Under Pressure, Hemispheres, Counterparts, and Permanent Waves tend to rotate around each other in the top 5 for me these days. I can think of very few swansong albums that are as excellent as Clockwork Angels, though. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I can think of very few swansong albums that are as excellent as Clockwork Angels, though. Certainly not from bands that had been around for 40 years! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 (edited) Double post. Edited January 8, 2022 by Lurkst Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexmai Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 In my personal poll, CA has been their best album since Moving Pictures after 3 or 4 turns.Actually it's in my Rush Top 5. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patjnev Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I would say I like CA better then Roll the Bones , Presto , Hold Your Fire , Feedback, Vapor Trails , Snakes and Arrows, Caress of Steel . But not more then the early 80s releases and the epics from the 70s . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytserush Posted January 8, 2022 Share Posted January 8, 2022 I'd put the last three studio albums up against any other three in the catalog. They're that good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 I'd put the last three studio albums up against any other three in the catalog. They're that good.I think if you pare them down to 40 min each, you have a case. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rush Didact Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 CA is actually my least favourite Rush album, I listen to it about as much as I listen to the debut. Unfocused, cut-and-paste songs; no memorable melodies; hackneyed 2112-retread concept. It's the kind of backwards-thinking album I never expected to see from Rush. Its sole saving grace is The Garden. If it didn't have that song on it, it would be completely forgettable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chemistry1973 Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 I think they could’ve trimmed a couple tracks, and spent some more quality time on a couple others (wreckers, cities of gold). Otherwise it’s a pretty great swan song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 CA is actually my least favourite Rush album, I listen to it about as much as I listen to the debut. Unfocused, cut-and-paste songs; no memorable melodies; hackneyed 2112-retread concept. It's the kind of backwards-thinking album I never expected to see from Rush. Its sole saving grace is The Garden. If it didn't have that song on it, it would be completely forgettable. No memorable melodies? I’m not sure we’ve been listening to the same album! I have stoked the fire of the big steel wheel... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rftag Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 I think it was their best album since Signals. I don't think it's a great album but it was very ambitious and a great accomplishment for the band at that stage of their career. In retrospect (which seems really obvious now but wasn't at the time) there were a lot of hints in the album that they suspected it could be their last. Lyrically there's definitely a lot of swan song signalling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 I think it was their best album since Signals. I don't think it's a great album but it was very ambitious and a great accomplishment for the band at that stage of their career. In retrospect (which seems really obvious now but wasn't at the time) there were a lot of hints in the album that they suspected it could be their last. Lyrically there's definitely a lot of swan song signalling. I think even though I got into Rush the very summer CA came out, it seemed to me at the time to have an air of finality about it. When R40 was sorta kinda advertised as maybe a last tour a few years later, I wasn't surprised. Though I held out hope for a long time they would get back in the studio and make one more record. Really until a year or so before Neil passed. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lurkst Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 I think it was their best album since Signals. I don't think it's a great album but it was very ambitious and a great accomplishment for the band at that stage of their career. In retrospect (which seems really obvious now but wasn't at the time) there were a lot of hints in the album that they suspected it could be their last. Lyrically there's definitely a lot of swan song signalling. I think even though I got into Rush the very summer CA came out, it seemed to me at the time to have an air of finality about it. When R40 was sorta kinda advertised as maybe a last tour a few years later, I wasn't surprised. Though I held out hope for a long time they would get back in the studio and make one more record. Really until a year or so before Neil passed. Neil had actually wanted the CA tour to be their last. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weatherman Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 It's not a great album, but it's a great final album.The only one who did a swan song better was Bowie. Blackstar is amaaaazing. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Entre_Perpetuo Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 It's not a great album, but it's a great final album.The only one who did a swan song better was Bowie. Blackstar is amaaaazing. The only one? Innuendo by Queen begs to differ. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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