Clockwork Angels< Best Album?CD since?

[GeddysMullet]

Best since Grace Under Pressure.

 

I love Snakes And Arrows like crazy, but Clockwork Angels is even better

[Torgo Satyr]

Best Album since Moving Pictures.

 

The last album I dug every song was GUP... although both that album and Signals had tracks that weren't upper echelon to me: (Countdown, New World Man, Red Lenses, The Enemy Within, etc.)

 

My top 5 Rush albums previously being: Hem, PeW, MP, FWTK, Signals... After CA it now goes:

 

1) Hemispheres

2) Permanent Waves

3) Moving Pictures

4) Farewell to Kings

5) Clockwork Angels

 

And that is saying a LOT for this latest effort. I can't stop playing the damn thing (driving my wife crazy)... I promised her after our November 30th concert (in San Antonio, TX)... I'll give it a rest.

 

I'd put "Headlong Flight" up against any song in their catalog for pure "Rush" virtuosity (all three shine like Novas here). Not a stinker on the album (well, I don't really count BU2B2 as a "song", but as an interlude withing the story).

 

Just my opinion.

[Tombstone Mountain]

QUOTE (Torgo Satyr @ Sep 4 2012, 10:10 AM)

Best Album since Moving Pictures. The last album I dug every song was GUP... although both that album and Signals had tracks that weren't upper echelon to me: (Countdown, New World Man, Red Lenses, The Enemy Within, etc.) My top 5 Rush albums previously being: Hem, PeW, MP, FWTK, Signals... After CA it now goes: 1) Hemispheres 2) Permanent Waves 3) Moving Pictures 4) Farewell to Kings 5) Clockwork Angels And that is saying a LOT for this latest effort. I can't stop playing the damn thing (driving my wife crazy)... I promised her after our November 30th concert (in San Antonio, TX)... I'll give it a rest. I'd put "Headlong Flight" up against any song in their catalog for pure "Rush" virtuosity (all three shine like Novas here). Not a stinker on the album (well, I don't really count BU2B2 as a "song", but as an interlude withing the story). Just my opinion.

Nice one. Clockwork Angels is the song that I put up on that lofty shelf, however, the Garden, Seven Cities of Gold, and Headlong Flight, are up there as well!

 

 

[drbirdsong]

QUOTE (Torgo Satyr @ Sep 4 2012, 10:10 AM)

I can't stop playing the damn thing (driving my wife crazy)... I promised her after our November 30th concert (in San Antonio, TX)... I'll give it a rest.

Heh, there's nothing like a spouse to bring you back down to earth. My wife said yesterday that they repeat their lyrics too much and she hates The Wreckers video as much as anyone else around here. I promised that the drive to St. Louis is the last time I'll force it on her.

 

Ah well, I still think it is the best thing in many years and not even Jesus himself could convince me otherwise.

[losingit2k]

Best since Moving Pictures.

 

Clockwork Angels > Signals - S & A

 

[robertjames1971]

After a few months of nearly constant listening...

 

Best since Moving Pictures... at least. Maybe the best, period.

[Tombstone Mountain]

QUOTE (drbirdsong @ Sep 4 2012, 12:02 PM)

QUOTE (Torgo Satyr @ Sep 4 2012, 10:10 AM) I can't stop playing the damn thing (driving my wife crazy)... I promised her after our November 30th concert (in San Antonio, TX)... I'll give it a rest. Heh, there's nothing like a spouse to bring you back down to earth. My wife said yesterday that they repeat their lyrics too much and she hates The Wreckers video as much as anyone else around here. I promised that the drive to St. Louis is the last time I'll force it on her.   Ah well, I still think it is the best thing in many years and not even Jesus himself could convince me otherwise. Best album since...Thriller

[WIDE-ANGLE WATCHER]

QUOTE (robertjames1971 @ Sep 6 2012, 08:03 PM)

After a few months of nearly constant listening... Best since Moving Pictures... at least.  Maybe the best, period.

A debatable yet solid view and worthy of your 2112th post.

 

It is okay for us to put CA up there in the Top 3.....It's that good.

[CygnusGal]

IMO, Clockwork Angels is the best album since Rush has been recording albums.

 

I've written and deleted this post three times...I couldn't be right, I can't be right... it feels ...... blasphemous.

 

But, I can't get enough of this album.

[default236]

Easily their best since Counterparts. They both just click with me so much.

[Jaminbenb]

Let's talk about my favorite studio albums.... I became a fan in 1976 with ATWAS, and never looked back...

 

My FIRST favorite album is and always will be Caress of Steel...great stuff...It was actually my FIRST Rush Studio album, and I've always loved it!

 

A Farewell to Kings and Hemispheres sort of hit me as a double threat. Of course I had AFTK for a little while before Hemispheres, but they just seemed to make me really happy!

 

Permanent Waves hit me like a ton of bricks, and that showed me that Rush wasn't all about the epic tunes, and could hit some shorter classics.

 

Grace Under Pressure came at a time when I needed Rush, and I've always loved that album.

 

The next album that really struck me was Counterparts, and the fact that they really sold each and every song, made me love the album. Nothing was the same.

 

Which brings us to Snakes and Arrows, which, really hit a home run for me! Great songs, different themes, and sounds LOVE it! (and I was glad they played most of it live so far)

 

Clockwork Angels needs to grow on me a little before I really can judge it. Once I hear it live (or what they end up playing live) I'll render a decision upon where it stands within my favorite albums.

 

Now as a disclaimer...I'm not detracting from the rest of the catalog, but the aforementioned albums always stood out, and seem to hit the rotation more often than not.

 

 

[teamski]

I know this is an old thread, but I just don't see why everybody likes CA so much. Now, we all know that being a Rush fan means having to listen to each album at least 5 times to "get it." I've been doing that since GUP. However, I just don't get CA. I don't care for repetitive driving riffs. This is not Rush, but Rush trying to update their sound to match 9 inch nails. IMHO, Personally, I think Vapor Trails was a better balanced album with some really good melodies. I do like The Anarchist and Wish Them Well, but BU2B and Caravan is just to driving to enjoy. Just my personal opinion, mind you.

 

-Ski

[USB Connector]

I said it when the album came out and I stick by my guns: I think CA is quite easily the best album since Moving Pictures.

[calirush]

Hello everybody, newbie to the forum first post. For me CA is the best album since Counterparts. I've liked songs from the releases in between but CA and CP are the last two albums that I've enjoyed end to end. I am bothered by the way CA was mixed, but I don't let it detract from the enjoyment of the music.

[bluefox4000]

I thought S&A was the best since POW and CA was a huge drop off.....and I still feel that way. .

 

Mick

[Dscrapre]

Best since VT. If VT didn't exist it would be the best since Power Windows.

[Capt starman]

I'm thinking GUP at this point even though I enjoyed their music after this point.

[rushpepe]

I'm a huge fan of Counterparts and thought some of their albums after that were lacking a bit. S&A was good but CA is the best since Counterparts.

[Ancient Ways]

It's the best since either Signals or P/G. I can take pieces of the albums after them and make a better album than CA but I don't think any of them can hold up to CA by themselves. Interestingly, I'm writing this while watching Time Machine listening to Faithless and what a snoozefest that song and a lot of Snakes really is.

[Jeffrey]

Clockwork Angels continues to be billiant. There is no honeymoon, this is going to be long term love. It's in the top 6 of all time for me, the best since Power Windows.

[Nate1647]

100% confident that this is their best work...ever. Absolutely mind blowing that they could turn something like this out.

[Tombstone Mountain]

100% confident that this is their best work...ever. Absolutely mind blowing that they could turn something like this out.

Thus Spake Zarathustra—I agree. It is a sprawling epic work.

[toscanobarga]

Signals

[Mystic Slipperman]

HYF

[calirush]

I'm a huge fan of Counterparts and thought some of their albums after that were lacking a bit. S&A was good but CA is the best since Counterparts.

 

 

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