Your Top 5 Most Played Rush Albums

[Show Don't Tell]

What are your top five most listened to Rush albums? If you have a Last.fm account, or even just iTunes or a music player that keeps track of plays, you can figure this out with actual numbers. If you still listen on CD, vinyl, cassette, 8-track, or other hipster-approved media, you'll have to use judgement. Remember, not necessarily your top five favourite albums -- the ones that get played most often. Mine, taken from actual stats, are:

1. Hold Your Fire
2. Signals
3. Grace Under Pressure
4. Roll the Bones
5. Power Windows

[ColdFireYYZ]

1. Signals

2. Counterparts

3. Grace Under Pressure

4. Hold Your Fire

5. Presto

 

This isn't really accurate since Rush's older albums (AFTK, Hemi, PeW, etc) have less tracks so they don't have high play counts.

[Queslington]

1. Fly By Night

2. 2112

*3. Moving Pictures

*4. A Farewell to Kings

*5. Snakes & Arrows

 

*If live albums count for this list, then #s 3, 4, and 5 are:

3. Different Stages

4. All the World's a Stage

5. Exit... Stage Left

 

[gudbuytjane]

Hmmn, going from memory/judgement, over the last howevermany years:

 

1. A Farewell to Kings

2. Hemispheres

3. Permanent Waves

4. Moving Pictures

5. "2112"

 

-Jane

 

 

(off-topic, but as I first wrote my list I typoed 'Hemispheres' as 'Hempispheres,' which would have been an entirely different album. At the very least it would need a new section, "IV: Dorito, Bringer of Snacks.")

[CMWriter]

Here's my best guess.. so I'll go "as of lately" (since I go through album phases):

 

- Counterparts

- Presto

- Grace Under Pressure

- Signals

- Hemispheres

 

Permanent Waves and AFTK might be part of that list, too.

[Ted Barchetta]

Basically the same as my top 5...

 

1. Hemispheres (I must have listened to this album 200+ times...)

2. Grace Under Pressure

3. Caress Of Steel

4. Moving Pictures

5. Power Windows

 

[HowItIs]

Currently (like CW, I go through phases):

 

Presto

Counterparts

Power Windows

Hold Your Fire

Roll The Bones

 

AFTK is moving up, though

[Invisible To Telescopic Eye]

Exit...Stage Left (Far more than all others)

 

Signals

Hemis

MP

P/G

 

(In no particular order)

[WaylonJennings67]

Hemispheres

2112

Moving Pictures

Signals

Power Windows

[MCM]

I checked my iTunes player and I'm really surprised at the results:

 

1. Caravan/BU2B

2. Moving Pictures

3. Counterparts (how'd that get there?)

4. HYF (should be higher on the list)

5. Signals

 

 

AFtK isn't even in the top 10, how did that happen?

[Tommy Sawyer]

I listen to music all over the place on many different iTunes so it would be hard to get an accurate play count. Going on basic knowledge of what I listen to here's my top 5.

 

Presto

Grace Under Pressure

Hemispheres

Test for Echo

Moving Pictures

[Mika]

Using my best guessing skills:

 

1. Counterparts

2. Hemispheres

3. Fly By Night

4. Vapor Trails

5. Moving Pictures

 

I'm rather lacking in the 80s albums, so I've started adding them to my ipod. Couldn't believe I hadn't heard 'Where's My Thing', for example, until recently!

[Captain Avatar]

1) Counterparts

2) Moving Pictures

3) Hold Your Fire

4) Roll The Bones

5) Permanent Waves/Grace Under Pressure/Power Windows

 

It's interesting just how little Test For Echo, Vapor Trails, and Snakes and Arrows gets played in my house. I just don't find "post Freddie Gruber" Rush to be nearly as interesting to me as the Rush that came before. Hopefully, Clockwork Angels will be different.

[nobodys hero]

2112

Hemispheres

ATWaS

GUP

S&A

[laughedatbytime]

1. Hemi

2. PeW

3. MP

4. 2112

5. AFTK

6. p/g

[RUSHHEAD666]

1. "Hemispheres"

2. "Hemispheres"

3. "Hemispheres"

4. "Hemispheres"

5. "Hemispheres"

[micgtr71]

Lately...but not always...

 

Signals

Grace Under Pressure

Hold Your Fire

Moving Pictures

Power Windows

 

Yes...I am currently enjoying the synth phase.

[Chicken hawk]

All of the above !

[USB Connector]

This is what iTunes recorded. Somehow I doubt it's accurate seeing as how I somehow racked up 100+ plays on the new singles but the first aren't surprising considering how often I play 2112 and Lakeside Park on drums.

 

1. 2112

2. Caress of Steel

3. Caravan/BU2B single

4. Presto

5. Vapor Trails

[apetersvt]

My best guess

 

Caress Of Steel

Hemispheres

Exit Stage Left

A Farewell To Kings

2112

[EPR66]

1. 2112

2. AtWAS

3. Moving Pictures

4. Hemispheres

5. Permanent Waves

[rushlady23]

Caress of Steel

2112

A Farewell to Kings

Hemispheres

Permanent Waves

Edited September 19, 2011 by rushlady23

[New World Kid]

According to last.fm...

 

1) Vapor Trails

2) Counterparts

3) Test for Echo

4) Snakes and Arrows

5) Grace Under Pressure

 

Edit: But I have two versions of Presto in my library, one called "Presto" and then the remaster which is labeled "Presto [remaster]". If you add both Presto's together, then the order is:

 

1) Vapor Trails

2) Counterparts

3) Test for Echo

4) Presto

5) Snakes and Arrows

Edited September 19, 2011 by New World Kid

[Tony R]

Something like:

2112

A Farewell To Kings

Hemispheres

Permanent Waves

Moving Pictures

 

I played a lot of Rush between 1976 and 1982 so that list makes most sense. I haven't played a Rush album all the way through since I first heard Snakes And Arrows.

 

[ILSnwdog]

Moving Pictures

Power Windows

Hemispheres

Permanent Waves

Snakes and Arrows