jnoble Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Fly By Night. It's the perfect blend of hard rock with thoughtful lyrics that aren't atypical "I'm getting drunk and laid man!" fare. It's also not three or four songs too long which has been Rush's problem since Vapor Trails Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowdogged Posted September 14, 2013 Share Posted September 14, 2013 Rubber Soul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IChoseFreeWill Posted September 16, 2013 Share Posted September 16, 2013 Presto and Test for Echo! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tbeb2112 Posted September 17, 2013 Share Posted September 17, 2013 Caress of Steel and Vapor Trails 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Empty Mindless Spectre Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Definitely Caress of Steel for me. The Necromancer has always been one of my top 2 or 3 favorite songs. I really love Bacchus Plateau as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PolarizeMe Posted March 18, 2014 Share Posted March 18, 2014 Going by decade... 70s - Caress of Steel80s - Grace Under Pressure90s - Test For Echo00s - Vapor Trails 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disk98 Posted March 19, 2014 Share Posted March 19, 2014 Going by decade... 70s - Caress of Steel80s - Grace Under Pressure90s - Test For Echo00s - Vapor TrailsSomeone has some common sense here… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg2112 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Far and away Caress. Love that album. Also think HYF is underrated...theres some good pop stuff on there. And RTB -- while not a top album, its nowhere as bad as folks say it is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narps Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Easy one from what I have witnessed on this forum. :rush: .... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemiBeers Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Counterparts This is where they shake off the dry synthy sounds of the mid late 80s and get back to rocking it. Considering that they were close to hanging it up after A Show of Hands, CP was an important album for getting back on the right track. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rutlefan Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 "amongst rush fan circles, pretty much anything after 1982 is underrated I think. the synth era as a whole is especially underrated - I get it, I love loud guitars too, and I love the 70s stuff, but I think their synth era stuff is almost as good as the 70s/early 80s stuff. not as heavy of course, but it's great music anyway. there seems to be a sentiment among lots of rush fans that anything the band did between signals and counterparts didn't even happen, but I think if you really pay attention to some of those records you'll hear some fantastic shit. at my last rush show, me and my friend were the only people who stood in our section during the synth-era part of the set. I don't get it - what's wrong with synthesizers?" I don't think it's an anti-synth thing per se (maybe for some but not for many), but more the style and weight (or lack of) of those albums. I love a lot of synth music and appreciate many synth bands, but synth Rush just sounds so white bread bland to me that there's little appealing about it. It's like music you hear in the mall. Blondie and The Cars make good pop IMO, Rush not so much; they've made many good pop songs over the nineteen albums, but it's not their strength. That said, I get it when people say PoW and HYF are great albums; they just don't appeal to me personally.I do like High Water though. Go figure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rutlefan Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Test for Echo. The first five songs are pretty solid, along with another couple of the rest. That's batting over .500, which is a lot better then the three albums before it. I was going to say VT but that has a lot of strong support, so that would get most divisive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Caress, Presto, HYF, GUP and VT. All in my top seven (alongside AFTK and MP). If I had to pick the mast severely underrated, I would have to go for HYF (actually, add PoW as well, as even I have completely forgotten that one!). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedRush Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Caress of Steel or Test For Echo. The former is routinely dismissed as the band's worst prog/hard rock efforts, despite being fascinating and engaging, and the latter has a slew of very strong songs with clever lyrics and was a real bounce back album for the band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 (edited) Grace Under Pressure and Signals deserve more love. Grace Under Pressure is one of their strongest 80's efforts by a long shot, and yes there is quite a bit of synth which alienates the older fans, but those songs still rock hard. Signals is just too good to hate. Counterparts is getting divided results on here, people either love it or hate it. Test For Echo, Vapor Trails, and Snakes And Arrows all need more love as well. Rutlefan gave a very good description of Test For Echo. Vapor Trails is a few notches better. Secret Touch is among their finest work IMO. Snakes And Arrows has some very inventive playing and atmospheric things about its songs, and is one of my favorite albums when I want some good bass playing from Geddy. His bass playing is my favorite part about this album. Edited February 25, 2015 by BowlCity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 (edited) Test for Echo. The first five songs are pretty solid, along with another couple of the rest. That's batting over .500, which is a lot better then the three albums before it. I was going to say VT but that has a lot of strong support, so that would get most divisive. Edited February 25, 2015 by BowlCity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedRush Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Test for Echo. The first five songs are pretty solid, along with another couple of the rest. That's batting over .500, which is a lot better then the three albums before it. I was going to say VT but that has a lot of strong support, so that would get most divisive. I'm glad that we agree that over 50% of Counterparts is garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Analog Cub Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 (edited) Test for Echo. The first five songs are pretty solid, along with another couple of the rest. That's batting over .500, which is a lot better then the three albums before it. I was going to say VT but that has a lot of strong support, so that would get most divisive. I'm glad that we agree that over 50% of Counterparts is garbage. My was for T4E batting over .500. Tit. Edited February 25, 2015 by BowlCity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandDesigner Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 I'm going to say Hold Your Fire. Everyone gives it shit for Tai Shan and High Water (which honestly isn't as atrocious as it's made out to be), but this album more than any other Rush album has the highest number of standout songs that could easily be called my favorite from that album. Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Open Secrets, Prime Mover, Lock And Key, Mission, and Turn The Page are seriously awesome songs. They're all standouts. Second Nature is a little goofy lyrically, and the piano sounds really schmaltzy but it's still a decent song. Tai Shan isn't offensive, but more just completely boring. I'd say the same goes for High Water, but Neil's drum pattern is pretty interesting and seemed to usher in his capabilities in world-music drumming that would appear more prominently on the next few albums. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Dad Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 (edited) Presto or Test For Echo As the Official Ambarassor of T4E I approve this message. Edited February 25, 2015 by Digital Dad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital Dad Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Also Caress. I know Ive said in the past and I firmly believe it could have used better editing, its very good and has lots of cool stuff for such young dudes. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefox4000 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 COS and Presto. They both deserve more love. Mick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gudbuytjane Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Snakes & Arrows. I know folks here hate it, but for me it's a solid album which is much more listenable than VT. It showed that post-2000 Rush was still relevant, something I'm not sure VT did (I would have been happy with anything getting the guys back together after Neil's tragedies, whereas S&A is a good album regardless). 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluefox4000 Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Snakes & Arrows. I know folks here hate it, but for me it's a solid album which is much more listenable than VT. It showed that post-2000 Rush was still relevant, something I'm not sure VT did (I would have been happy with anything getting the guys back together after Neil's tragedies, whereas S&A is a good album regardless). this too......i love Snakes. so underrated. Mick 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Stick Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Hold Your Fire never gets it's just reps. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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