tks95747 Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Moving PicturesPermanent WavesA Farewell to Kings2112Clockwork AngelsGrace Under PressureHemispheresSignalsSnakes and ArrowsCounterpartsPrestoFly by NightPower WindowsRushRoll the BonesCaress of SteelVapor TrailsHold Your FireTest for EchoCoS in your bottom 5--- I guess we can't be froinds ... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Moving PicturesPermanent WavesA Farewell to Kings2112Clockwork AngelsGrace Under PressureHemispheresSignalsSnakes and ArrowsCounterpartsPrestoFly by NightPower WindowsRushRoll the BonesCaress of SteelVapor TrailsHold Your FireTest for EchoCoS in your bottom 5--- I guess we can't be froinds ... ;)dead to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 I'd have to go thusly: 1) Permenant Waves 2) Moving Pictures 3) 2112 Everything after is subjective....as long as Echo is last.sensible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 Moving PicturesPermanent WavesA Farewell to Kings2112Clockwork AngelsGrace Under PressureHemispheresSignalsSnakes and ArrowsCounterpartsPrestoFly by NightPower WindowsRushRoll the BonesCaress of SteelVapor TrailsHold Your FireTest for EchoCoS in your bottom 5--- I guess we can't be froinds ... ;)dead to me :zzz: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 (edited) I can do my bottom 5 easy: The worst:Test For Echo The very good, but need to be in the mood for:Snakes And ArrowsClockwork AngelsPower Windows And then the last of the bottom five is a great album that took years to grow on me:Signals After that, I love it all to varying degrees. Edited March 3, 2019 by Segue Myles 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 I can do my bottom 5 easy: The worst:Test For Echo The very good, but need to be in the mood for:Snakes And ArrowsClockwork AngelsPower Windows And then the last of the bottom five is a great album that took years to grow on me:Signals After that, I love it all to varying degrees.I like your bottom five... Mine is just a little bit different: Pretty bad--- RTBGetting really bad--- PrestoReally bad-T4MusicAwful-S&AThrew up in my mouth-VT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 I can do my bottom 5 easy: The worst:Test For Echo The very good, but need to be in the mood for:Snakes And ArrowsClockwork AngelsPower Windows And then the last of the bottom five is a great album that took years to grow on me:Signals After that, I love it all to varying degrees.I like your bottom five... Mine is just a little bit different: Pretty bad--- RTBGetting really bad--- PrestoReally bad-T4MusicAwful-S&AThrew up in my mouth-VT See, I love Vapor Trails, Presto and Roll The Bones. Snakes And Arrows is far from perfect but I do like the first five songs (then it gets really samey). Clockwork Angels...sometimes I love it but mostly I think its very bland and meandering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted March 3, 2019 Share Posted March 3, 2019 I can do my bottom 5 easy: The worst:Test For Echo The very good, but need to be in the mood for:Snakes And ArrowsClockwork AngelsPower Windows And then the last of the bottom five is a great album that took years to grow on me:Signals After that, I love it all to varying degrees.I like your bottom five... Mine is just a little bit different: Pretty bad--- RTBGetting really bad--- PrestoReally bad-T4MusicAwful-S&AThrew up in my mouth-VT See, I love Vapor Trails, Presto and Roll The Bones. Snakes And Arrows is far from perfect but I do like the first five songs (then it gets really samey). Clockwork Angels...sometimes I love it but mostly I think its very bland and meandering.Presto- I like "Show Don't Tell". RTB- "Bravado" is great. S&A- Perhaps I can listen to a few songs, but am not enamored with any of them. VT- Just no for me...I can't even listen to it anymore. As for CA, I used to loathe it, now I love it. Go figure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnoble Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 To each their own but I watched two recent Youtube vids last night of "Rush albums ranked worst to best" by two different people and both had HYF as the worst ("too 80s synth") and Snakes ranked much too high. One was describing it as energetic which is bogus because its one midtempo bore after another once Far Cry ends. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted March 5, 2019 Share Posted March 5, 2019 To each their own but I watched two recent Youtube vids last night of "Rush albums ranked worst to best" by two different people and both had HYF as the worst ("too 80s synth") and Snakes ranked much too high. One was describing it as energetic which is bogus because its one midtempo bore after another once Far Cry ends.I agree as to the S&A assessment, but HYF is certainly nowhere near the worst... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnoble Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Except for Second Nature Tai Shan and High Water, HYF would be a perfect album for that era of the band. Its so much warmer sounding than the cold sterile GUP & PoW before it 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Except for Second Nature Tai Shan and High Water, HYF would be a perfect album for that era of the band. Its so much warmer sounding than the cold sterile GUP & PoW before itI often find my inner voice second-guessing Dirk, Lerxst and Pratt with questions like, "Why did they write a song like that?" or "Why did they include those songs on this album?" or "Why didn't they play more like (insert dumb thought) on this album?"... Invariably, my second voice chimes back, "Well, do you think you could have done better?".... always immediately followed by a disembodied third voice... "What, are you both morons?" ;) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClashWho Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Except for Second Nature Tai Shan and High Water, HYF would be a perfect album for that era of the band. Its so much warmer sounding than the cold sterile GUP & PoW before itI was playing it the other day from beginning to end and when it was over my wife said, "That's a really good album." 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Except for Second Nature Tai Shan and High Water, HYF would be a perfect album for that era of the band. Its so much warmer sounding than the cold sterile GUP & PoW before itI was playing it the other day from beginning to end and when it was over my wife said, "That's a really good album."So, it's basically RUSH's chick album. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tks95747 Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Except for Second Nature Tai Shan and High Water, HYF would be a perfect album for that era of the band. Its so much warmer sounding than the cold sterile GUP & PoW before itI was playing it the other day from beginning to end and when it was over my wife said, "That's a really good album."So, it's basically RUSH's chick album.lolol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClashWho Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 I was playing it the other day from beginning to end and when it was over my wife said, "That's a really good album."So, it's basically RUSH's chick album.Could be! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GeddyLeeRoth Posted March 7, 2019 Share Posted March 7, 2019 Except for Second Nature Tai Shan and High Water, HYF would be a perfect album for that era of the band. Its so much warmer sounding than the cold sterile GUP & PoW before it I disagree that GUP and PoW are sterile, but you are dead-on with those three songs bringing HYF down--I would even say they soiled the whole HYF album experience for me as those are arguably their 3 worst songs. Geddy was right, they went too far with the shynth pop on this album. If there were 3 other songs more in line with the rest of HYF or PoW instead of Shit Nature, Tai Shit and Shit Water, HYF would be one of their better albums, but holy crap those songs suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnoble Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Its impossible to listen to a TOTALLY wussy creampuff song like Second Nature with fruity lyrics like "now I lay me down in dreamland" and not go into shock realizing this is the same band who wrote such kick you in the ass songs like Anthem, 2112, Something For Nothing, Cygnus X1, etc etc... At least they started getting their mojo back on Presto. The opening riff to Show Don't Tell has more testosterone in it than all of HYF combined lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClashWho Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 At least they started getting their mojo back on Presto. The opening riff to Show Don't Tell has more testosterone in it than all of HYF combined lol "Show Don't Tell" is one of my all-time Rush favorites. I hit every tour from R30 to R40, but, alas, they never played that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnoble Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 It lasted three tours: Presto, RTB and Counterparts Geddy years later in an interview didn't seem to miss performing it. Mentioned the constant switching between bass and keys 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClashWho Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 It lasted three tours: Presto, RTB and Counterparts Geddy years later in an interview didn't seem to miss performing it. Mentioned the constant switching between bass and keys Interesting. Do you know why they dropped "Fly By Night" after 1978? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jnoble Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Probably because it was hard for him to sing, they always needed to make room for new songs in the set list, and they were never that crazy about the song as time passed anyway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tas7 Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Agree about HYF, Second Nature makes me think of that cheesy song You can thank your lucky Stars. My wife's fave albums are Fly by Night and Caress of Steel but she hates Roll the Bones and Show don't Tell. Personally I find the Yin and Yang albums; Counterparts and Test for Echo hard going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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