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2. PoW

3. MP

4. PeW

5. CA

6. Signals

7. GUP

8. Hemi

9. S & A

10. VT

11. 2112

12. Presto

13. FBN

14. CoS

15. HYF

16. RtB

17. T4E

18. Rush

19. CP

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Power Windows

Moving Pictures

Clockwork Angels

Hemispheres

Grace Under Pressure

Signals

Permanent Waves

Vapor Trails

A Farewell To Kings

2112

Snakes & Arrows

Hold Your Fire

Test For Echo

Presto

Fly By Night

Caress Of Steel

Roll The Bones

Rush

Counterparts

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Today's chart:

 

Moving Pictures

Permanent Waves

2112

Clockwork Angels

A Farewell To Kings

Hemispheres

Counterparts

Power Windows

Signals

Grace Under Pressure

Snakes and Arrows

Presto

Caress Of Steel

Vapor Trails

Fly By Night

Hold Your Fire

Roll The Bones

Test For Echo

Rush

 

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Moving Pictures

Permanent Waves

A Farewell To Kings

Hemispheres

2112

Power Windows

Signals

Grace Under Pressure

Hold Your Fire

Counterparts

Snakes and Arrows

Clockwork Angels

Presto

Caress Of Steel

Vapor Trails

Fly By Night

Roll The Bones

Test For Echo

Rush

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A Farewell to Kings

Hemispheres

Permanent Waves

Moving Pictures

Caress of Steel

2112

Fly by Night

Clockwork Angels

Grace Under Pressure

Signals

Power Windows

Rush

Counterparts

Vapor Trails

Hold Your Fire

Snakes and Arrows

Presto

Roll the Bones

Test for Echo

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Wow this is challenging. Its like saying which one of your children do you love the most!

 

Here goes:

 

Moving Pictures

Permanent Waves

Hemispheres

Clockwork Angels (I cannot believe this. I am incredulous)

Grace Under Pressure

Signals

Power Windows

A Farewell to Kings

Hold Your Fire

Counterparts

Snakes and Arrows

Roll the Bones

Presto

Fly by Night

Test for Echo

Caress of Steel

Vapor Trails

Rush

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Id rank Clockwork Angels right after the end of the classic era, which to me is everything up to and including Grace Under Pressure, save the first album. Which is to say it ranks pretty high in the Rush canon. Edited by greg2112
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1. A Farewell to Kings

2. Hemispheres

3. Moving Pictures

4. Permanent Waves

5. 2112

6. Clockwork Angels

7. Grace Under Pressure

8. Caress of Steel

9. Signals

10. Power Windows

11. Fly By Night

12. Counterparts

13. Presto

14. Vapor Trails

15. Roll the Bones

16. Hold Your Fire

17. Rush

18. Snakes & Arrows

19. Test For Echo

 

However, Clockwork Angels is moving up in the world for me at the moment....

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Way too early for me to rank. Not only do I want to digest this great album (yeah I think it is great) but I want to see them perform the songs live this November (god that is a long time from now) and then I can safely say where it belongs in my all time favorite Rush album rankings.

 

 

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Moving Pictures

Permanent Waves

A Farewell to Kings

Counterparts

Power Windows

Hemispheres

Clockwork Angels

Vapor Trails

2112

Signals

Presto

Fly by Night

Test for Echo

Hold Your Fire

Grace under Pressure

Roll the Bones

Rush

Snakes and Arrows

Caress of Steel

 

for now, anyway ...

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QUOTE (GUP1771 @ Jun 7 2012, 10:17 PM)
My tastes change so much from time to time, so that affects what type of eras I listen to of Rush. For awhile now, I'm really enjoying their Synth era. With this being said, I had to try to take an approach in making a list that would be more constant instead of changing so much, so I went by making a list based on what is listenable (for me) on each record.

I found the following:

Clockwork Angels: 100% (12/12)
Hemispheres: 100% (4/4)
Power Windows: 88% (7/8)
Moving Pictures: 86% (6/7)
Permanent Waves: 83% (5/6)
Grace Under Pressure: 75% (6/8)
Signals: 75% (6/8)
2112: 67% (4/6)
Counterparts: 64% (7/11)
Presto: 64% (7/11)
Roll the Bones: 60% (6/10)
Hold Your Fire: 50% (5/10)
Fly by Night: 38% (3/8)
Test for Echo: 36% (4/11)
A Farewell to Kings: 33% (2/6)
Snakes and Arrows: 23% (3/13)
Rush: 13% (1/8)
Vapor Trails: 0% (0/13) *
Caress of Steel: 0% (0/5)

* The only reason VT scored so low is because of the production. I'm sure there would be quite a few songs that I would like if it didn't sound so harsh to my ears.

It is a bit early to rank with Clockwork Angels, and it's one of the only albums that I can listen to every song from them, so that's a plus. With that said, listenable doesn't equate to favorites. There are definitely a few favorite songs on there, but not all of them are. I really enjoy this album, and I said after a first listen, it could be in my top 5.

Here's a list of album rankings based on my favorite songs:

Power Windows
Grace Under Pressure
Clockwork Angels
Moving Pictures
Signals

Notice how that compares to the previous list based on songs listenable. I think Clockwork Angels will remain in top 5, but whether if it stays at number 3 remains to be seen.

That is a very interesting approach!

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I haven't heard CA yet, but I'm going to rank the albums here and then revisit my post later after I've absorbed the album and see where it is then.

 

1. Hemispheres

2. Permanent Waves

3. Grace Under Pressure

4. Signals

5. Power Windows

6. Moving Pictures

7. A Farewell to Kings

8. 2112

9. Counterparts

10. Fly By Night

11. Hold Your Fire

12. Roll The Bones

13. Presto

14. Caress of Steel

15. Snakes & Arrows

16. Test For Echo

17. Rush

18. Vapor Trails

 

We'll see where CA fits when I get into it a bit!

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Erm, maybe like this?

 

1. Signals

2. Moving Pictures

3. Clockwork Angels

4. Power Windows

5. A Farewell to Kings

6. Permanent Waves

7. Vapor Trails

8. Counterparts

9. Test for Echo

10. Presto

11. Grace under Pressure

12. 2112

13. Hemispheres

14. Hold Your Fire

15. Snakes&Arrows

16. Roll the Bones

 

I do not own the first three albums yet.

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Not enough time with it to really place it anywhere.... It won't be top 5 probably....gonna take a lot to unseat my top 5!

 

Hemispheres

A Farewell to Kings

Permanent Waves

Caress of Steel

Moving Pictures or Snakes and Arrows (It all depends upon which way the wind is blowing that day)

 

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QUOTE (alphseeker @ Jun 7 2012, 08:36 PM)
Hemispheres
Permanent Waves
A Farewell to Kings
2112
Moving Pictures
Grace Under Pressure
Signals
Clockwork Angels
Caress of Steel
Rush

The rest of them i can care less what order they are in - biggrin.gif

Hmmm I had you down as a Fly By Night fan...

 

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I'm not sure where CA ranks, album wise, just yet...but it's fairly high. Regardless I'll be listening to this one regularly for as long as I listen to Rush albums the rest of my days, I fully expect. I don't see this album fizzling for me.
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QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jun 17 2012, 05:21 PM)
I'm not sure where CA ranks, album wise, just yet...but it's fairly high. Regardless I'll be listening to this one regularly for as long as I listen to Rush albums the rest of my days, I fully expect. I don't see this album fizzling for me.

Which ones have fizzled out altogether for you? And when are you gonna stage an attempt to bring some of them back? ph34r.gif

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QUOTE (treeduck @ Jun 17 2012, 05:24 PM)
QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jun 17 2012, 05:21 PM)
I'm not sure where CA ranks, album wise, just yet...but it's fairly high.  Regardless I'll be listening to this one regularly for as long as I listen to Rush albums the rest of my days, I fully expect.  I don't see this album fizzling for me.

Which ones have fizzled out altogether for you? And when are you gonna stage an attempt to bring some of them back? ph34r.gif

None have fizzled for me, but it appears other people have trouble with this...(S&A being great to some at first and now they don't like it at all).

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