What is the best Rush song ever?

[Choose/the/light]

As i've said before, i now have to say that there is no best Rush song, its impossible. With the HUGE range of music they have been playing over the years, it is impossible to pick a best. If you made a stranger listen to Middletown Dreams, and then In the Mood, they wouldn't believe you when you told them it was the same band.

[TheRocinanteKid]

QUOTE (Choose/the/light @ Mar 22 2008, 05:42 PM)

As i've said before, i now have to say that there is no best Rush song, its impossible. With the HUGE range of music they have been playing over the years, it is impossible to pick a best. If you made a stranger listen to Middletown Dreams, and then In the Mood, they wouldn't believe you when you told them it was the same band.

Geddy's voice might give it away... but still yes I agree.

[Choose/the/light]

QUOTE (TheRocinanteKid @ Mar 22 2008, 09:48 AM)

QUOTE (Choose/the/light @ Mar 22 2008, 05:42 PM) As i've said before, i now have to say that there is no best Rush song, its impossible. With the HUGE range of music they have been playing over the years, it is impossible to pick a best. If you made a stranger listen to Middletown Dreams, and then In the Mood, they wouldn't believe you when you told them it was the same band. Geddy's voice might give it away... but still yes I agree. Yea i was thinking of that, bit his voice has changed a lot...

[PassTheAmmunition]

Its impossible to choose but....Limelight gets my vote because it ALWAYS does it for me...

[DigitalMan1001]

Im sorry but 2112 is not better than "The Pass"...

[Turn The Page]

I can't do it.

 

Next month will be the 14th time I have seen the boys.

 

I first saw them in 1978 with Pat Travers and Mothers Finest here in Columbia.

 

I can't pick just one song.

 

Sorry.

[Mara]

It's impossible to choose. I have a hard time even picking my favorite song from one freakin' album , let alone the entire catalogue.

 

You just wanted an excuse to list all of their songs alphabetically, didn't you?

[PassTheAmmunition]

My friend asks me this every so often and I either say Limelight or YYZ

[j13cents]

Open Secrets

Whos the other one

[Tinwoodsman]

For me, "Limelight" puts a new spin on getting out and facing that big ol' world, regardless of ones profession.

 

It has clever lyrics, great riffs, tempo changes and a superb solo .... a classic!

Edited November 18, 2008 by Tinwoodsman

[Rushlover13]

I completly forgot about Hemispheres but I chose Xanadu, but I would have chosen Hemispheres if I found it

[TuBIGrob]

I have picked a favorite and not the best song. I should have voted for La Villa Strangiato.

[Nootch]

Gotta be "The Spirit Of Radio"

[Tarkus406]

JACOBS LADDER

[greg2112]

This is an almost impossible task, but if I had to choose, its 2112.

[mankad89]

Vital Signs.

[mankad89]

Actually, I'm gonna go with The Stars Look Down.

[Sonatine]

LVS, followed by Earthshine and Freewill

[Shirley]

2112

[Bastille Dave]

I voted La Villa Strangiato.

 

I dont really consider the entire 2112 and Hemispheres epics as a song.

 

YYZ is as perfect as a 4 minute instrumental can be.

[g under p]

Tough call but I had to go with LVS, Red Sector A, The Camera Eye

 

Man there's too many of them in the end ....BRAIN FREEZE!

[mankad89]

Damn, no love for the beautiful "Presto"...

[micgtr71]

Hard to do. I bet that it will change from time to time, but I choose Fountain.

[graylensman]

Like everybody else, I would have picked a baker's dozen. But in the end, having to pick one, I chose...

 

Tom Sawyer

 

Is it my personal favorite? Probably not. Is it their best? Arguably so.

 

It's the one Rush song EVERYBODY knows, but it doesn't necessarily elicit smirks and snarky comments. It encapsulates many of the qualities of Rush's songwriting-complex rhythms, intricate basswork, an ear-shredding guitar solo that isn't just wanking off, a synth sound that's well-balanced with the rest.

 

Additionally, it stands on a knife's edge in the band's development - it sounds like the logical development of the work that came before, yet is entirely new; and it points the way to subsequent work without sounding partially-realized.

 

 

[EmotionDetector]

Meh...went with La Villa Strangiato.

 

An extremely close second would be...

 

Xanadu

Natural Science

Freewill

 

All 3 are in a dead-lock tie.