What is the best Rush song ever?

[Shredder2]

I can't pick one!!!! ARGH!!!!!

 

*brain explodes*

 

May I buy a vowel? :banana:

[WavesandWindows]

This poll can not have an actual answer? Rush is too awesome?

[yyzjam]

For now it's 2112, truly one of the toughest band to pin down a number one song for.

[jruiz2112]

Book2 baby!!! you get more bang for your buck hehe =)

[Aikenrooster]

Poll needs to be updated to reflect songs from CA

[Retrospective]

I think I'm laughing a bit too hard at the fact that Book II has gotten so many votes.

See, this is why I come to this forum

Edited May 29, 2013 by Retrospective

[Maverick]

It's gotta be 2112.

 

Not even close for me.

[Maverick]

Poll needs to be updated to reflect songs from CA

 

Ex-squeeze me?

[Retrospective]

Poll needs to be updated to reflect songs from CA

 

Ex-squeeze me?

 

:LMAO: at your response.

[comitatus1]

La Villa....where else to you get two completely awesome yet completely different guitar solos?

 

Chris

[2112rushfan1]

Well, I was gonna say "Hope" but that's not on here ;) But I would say Cygnus X-1 Book 2, or The Garden, but that's not on here either.

[ctte2112]

2112 was my first Rush song, but since that is winning anyway I voted for Hemispheres.

[BobBBQ]

2112 and the only song that can come close to it is Cygnus X-1 book II: Hemispheres

[foodbucketfanpage]

Gotta go with Subdivisions. That's the go-to song I would play for anyone not familiar with Rush if I wanted to get them listening. Edited September 10, 2013 by foodbucketfanpage

[Narps]

Natural Science if i had to pick only one.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Best Rush song...easily 2112. That broke barriers for the world of music and for them as a band. From that point on they not only knew they could write up to twenty minute epics with amazing lyrics/story-telling, but that the world WANTED them to. That song saved their career, and still acts as the best example of basic basic basic Rush.

 

 

Although my favorite is still Cygnus X-1 Book One. ;)

[Brucey]

I'm going to go with Roll The Bones, since that is the song that got me into Rush (I doubt many people got into them through that song). My Dad lent me his new Snakes & Arrows album in 2007, I tried it, and I hated it (now I love it of course), so he then lent me his Roll The Bones album 3 years later, and I quite enjoyed that. For some reason I didn't try to explore the rest of their work, but since Clockwork Angels (unbelievable album) came out, I have been doing, and they're by far and away my favourite band now.

[Segue Myles]

I could never answer this question. My tastes change from day to day, including my taste in Rush eras and albums.

 

For now I could say 2112. For me its just so full of emotion. I find it peculiarly intamate, especially towards the end. I can't explain how I feel, but it touches me deeply. Weird...I'm not even a fan of mahoosively long songs. Its just that story...like a fable its so lacking the finer details, and yet it has such depth and clarity of feeling.

 

I also think Marathon is amazing. And Witch Hunt is one of the most beautiful sounding songs ever in my book!

[yyz211282]

YYZ

[GUPower Windows]

Kinda assumed the big 3. You guys are so cliche. I mean really 2112, Xanadu & La Villa? :eyeroll:

They left the 70s behind for a reason. It was a choice. If the question is referring to composition, then Hemispheres takes the progressive epic cake easy. This question really shouldn't even exist in this form.

[Segue Myles]

Kinda assumed the big 3. You guys are so cliche. I mean really 2112, Xanadu & La Villa? :eyeroll:

They left the 70s behind for a reason. It was a choice. If the question is referring to composition, then Hemispheres takes the progressive epic cake easy. This question really shouldn't even exist in this form.

 

They left the seventies behind because in that decade they perfected their craft and then started to look elsewhere for inspiration lest they stagnate and die.

 

There is a reason why so many of our favourite songs are from this era: the lengthy songs were awesome, and they flat out rocked.

[Lorraine]

Don't even have to think twice about this.

 

Xanadu.

 

If it came out today, it would still be magnificent because it is timeless. There are many albums and songs that came out in the late sixties and seventies that will never be dated for that fact.

 

Xanadu is one of them.

[Segue Myles]

I went for Marathon. Shimmering rock perfection.

[Segue Myles]

Don't even have to think twice about this.

 

Xanadu.

 

If it came out today, it would still be magnificent because it is timeless. There are many albums and songs that came out in the late sixties and seventies that will never be dated for that fact.

 

Xanadu is one of them.

 

Xanadu...never gets enough love from me, which now I come to think about it, is quite unforgivable!

[NaturalHemisphereGarden]

2112, though Xanadu is a close second.