Overall Favorite Rush Album

[alphseeker]

Permanent waves - for whole album -

Hemishpheres is a close second though -

 

Theres just too many PERFECT songs on Waves

Edited February 9, 2006 by alphseeker

[softfilter]

HEMISPHERES- My first RUSH purchase after I broke free from my KISS addiction and still my favorite. Played the hell out of that eight track !!!

[Willow]

Voted for Hold Your Fire.....but really does depend on my mood. So many great albums....

[GeddyRulz]

Permanent Waves for me. Similar in sound to MP, but not as overplayed.

 

Lately I've been giving Counterparts a lot of spin.

[Rush!]

I voted Hemispheres. As of right now, it is my favorite.

 

Note: I have only heard everything from the debut up to MP.

Songs I've heard on the radio or on compilations (post-MP):

Subdivisions

The Analog Kid (www.progarchives.com Type in Rush, and you can listen to this and other gems)

New World Man

Distant Early Warning

Between The Wheels (I've only heard it from R30)

The Big Money

Mystic Rhythms

Force Ten

Time Stand Still

Roll The Bones (R30)

Where's My Thing? (www.progarchives.com)

Animate (R30)

Resist (R30)

The Stars Look Down (Believe it or not, I actually heard this on the radio one time, can't remember what station)

Freeze (www.progarchives.com)

Summertime Blues (R30)

Heart Full Of Soul (R30)

The Seeker (R30)

Crossroads (R30)

 

EDIT: Forgot Earthshine (R30) I think that's it.

Edited February 13, 2006 by Rush!

[vital signz]

As of this date (388) votes, 1/5 of votes are for Moving Pictures....it got my vote too....

[mississippi willie]

Test for Echo, give it another listen.

[Geodon13]

Hemispheres is the best...............

[BassUnderPressure]

Hold Your Fire

[treeman]

as always, i don't like pinning down a fav. but yes permanent waves is my fav, but i have otheres for fiff reasons. i luv COS and most all others.

[lakeside bard]

perm waves in a tie with moving pictures

[Soni]

wow 0 for feedback?

I wonder why nobody votes for it 'cos it's a great album!

[coolguyty9]

hemispheres for me

[guitarzan_1231]

theres no dought that hemispheres is my faveourite album i love it so much. its rush at there best.

[MiriyaB]

I'd say Moving Pictures is their BEST, but my favorite right now is Vapor Trails: the first new Rush album for me in over a decade when my husband gave it to me in December--and it just knocked us flat!!! That + Rush in Rio drove us to catch up on everything I'd missed since Roll the Bones (last time I'd paid attention to Rush)...and, yes, to replace my old taped-from-a-friend copies with CDs--whereupon MP, PeW, and 2112 were the first on tap (also as Hanukkah presents: thank goodness for those 8 days, 'cos it got me LOTS of Rush for the end of the holiday!), but now we've got every studio album but Rush and CoS (we'll get 'em sooner or later). But VT will always have a special place in my heart for playing such an instrumental role in getting me back into Rush...

and for kicking a*s!!!!

Edited February 26, 2006 by MiriyaB

[Scheamer Dreamer]

this is way too difficult to answer. each Rush album has significance to me. Rush has grown so much over the years to me their best album is the next album!

[BassUnderPressure]

I voted HOld your fire. It changes from day to day. But in general it's Power Windows actually

[Steel07]

2112 for me, I think the album is killer!

 

A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres would both come into a close second for me.

[Stormtron]

Permanent Waves. None of the songs are my favorite Rush songs, but I don't think there's a better overall album. It's perfect.

[barchetta90480]

Kind of a quartet for me (in roughly the following order):

Grace Under Pressure,

Moving Pictures,

Permanent Waves

and - more and more - Vapor Trails.

 

Well, Signals makes it a quintet.

[Permanent Wave]

1-Permanent Waves

2-Rush

[BassUnderPressure]

Power Windows

 

 

It's the only album that doesn't fade in quality. Top Notch from The Big Money to Mystic Rhythms. Lush keyboard, Wal killer bass sound, Alex in his prime, Neil with intense electronic drums and 8 fantastic songs with an underlying theme.

 

Music to perfection.

[floydfanatic111]

Let's see:

 

 

Phase One:

CoS

2112

FBN

Rush

 

Phase Two:

Hemispheres and AFTK(tie)

PWaves and MP(tie)

 

Phase Three:

Signals

PWindows

HYF

GUP

 

Phase Four:

Counterparts

TFE

Presto

RtB

 

Phase Five:

VT

Feedback

[BassUnderPressure]

I'll do the same thing

 

Phase 1:

 

2112

Fly By Night

Caress of Steel

Rush

 

 

Phase 2:

 

Hemispheres

Moving Pictures

Permanent Waves

A Farewell to Kings

 

Phase 3:

 

Power Windows

Hold Your Fire

Grace Under Pressure

Signals

 

Phase 4:

 

Presto

Test For Echo

Roll The Bones

Counterparts

 

Phase 5 ain't over yet

 

[1974FAN]

The reason why I picked Vapor Trails is because it helped me get through a very long, expensive & nasty divorce. Every time I played it I thought of how fortunate I was under the circumstances as compared to Neil who lost his entire family.

 

I highly recommend reading Ghost Rider to anyone and everyone who hasn't yet.

 

Always remember Jackie & Celina while being happy for Neil & Carrie today.