My Top 25—What's Yours?

**Geddy's Soul Patch** · July 22, 2014

What's surprising me the most on here is how many people are putting Lock and Key in their lists. I always considered that one to be the "unsung hero" from what I consider Rush's weakest period ('87-'91). Glad to see I'm not the only one who loves that song.
"Weakest period"!!? HYF and Presto were during that period....... :)

Has someone finally discovered the joys of Hold Your Fire, at long last?

HIGH FIVE!
8/10 ain't bad......

I still don't understand what is so bad a out High Water and Tai Shan. To me, HYF is perfection.
And not many talks about the good Open Secrets and Second Nature songs

You're right. In my opinion, the lyrics to Open Secrets are among the best Neil has ever written. I love the music too.

That groove they slip into, when Geddy sings "Find no absolution..." Until the end of the song is some of their finest work ever. I adore Alex's solo

**x1yyz** · July 22, 2014

Do you ever find yourself kinda bored so you decide to do a little project, only to discover the project is a lot bigger than you first thought, but since you're halfway through you go ahead and finish it? Yeah, well that happened, and now here is a tally of the songs people have chosen for their lists of 25 (as of Post #76).

The most popular song was ... Xanadu, with 26 votes! 39 songs (from the studio albums only; I didn't count live albums or Feedback) got zero votes.

The most popular album was ... Moving Pictures, with 80 votes! The least was Rush with 9.

Here's the data (info exported from iTunes and calculated in a spreadsheet as I wasn't going to type it all in!):

EDIT: Okay, I think I fixed how things were displaying...

Albums

Rush - 9

FBN - 25

CoS - 23

2112 - 34

AFTK - 58

Hemispheres - 50

PeW - 59

MP - 80

Signals - 46

p/g - 39

PoW - 35

HYF - 26

Presto - 19

RTB - 18

Counterparts - 23

T4E - 15

VT - 23

S&A - 14

CA - 46

Songs, by # of mentions

Xanadu - 26

La Villa Strangiato - 23

2112 - 20

Natural Science - 18

Red Barchetta - 18

Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - 15

Headlong Flight - 14

The Spirit Of Radio - 13

Witch Hunt - 13

Cygnus X-1 Bk I: The Voyage - 12

Limelight - 12

Subdivisions - 12

The Camera Eye - 12

Between The Wheels - 11

YYZ - 11

A Farewell To Kings - 10

Freewill - 10

The Analog Kid - 10

The Fountain Of Lamneth - 10

The Garden - 10

Marathon - 9

Red Sector A - 9

The Trees - 9

Dreamline - 8

Jacob's Ladder - 8

The Weapon - 8

Vital Signs - 8

A Passage To Bangkok - 7

By-Tor and the Snow Dog - 7

Entre Nous - 7

In the End - 7

Losing It - 7

Territories - 7

Time Stand Still - 7

Animate - 6

Bravado - 6

Clockwork Angels - 6

Lakeside Park - 6

Manhattan Project - 6

The Anarchist - 6

Tom Sawyer - 6

Armor and Sword - 5

Available Light - 5

Bastille Day - 5

Ceiling Unlimited - 5

Cinderella Man - 5

Distant Early Warning - 5

Driven - 5

Fly By Night - 5

Grand Designs - 5

Kid Gloves - 5

Lock And Key - 5

Something For Nothing - 5

The Pass - 5

Beneath, Between and Behind - 4

Closer To The Heart - 4

Earthshine - 4

Mission - 4

Mystic Rhythms - 4

Prime Mover - 4

The Enemy Within - 4

Working Man - 4

Afterimage - 3

Caravan - 3

Circumstances - 3

Cut to the Chase - 3

Different Strings - 3

Digital Man - 3

Double Agent - 3

Here Again - 3

How It Is - 3

Leave That Thing Alone - 3

Middletown Dreams - 3

New World Man - 3

Spindrift - 3

The Speed of Love - 3

Time and Motion - 3

Vapor Trail - 3

Anthem - 2

Carnies 2

Chain Lightning - 2

Countdown - 2

Force Ten - 2

Ghost Rider - 2

Halo Effect - 2

Lessons - 2

Nobodys Hero - 2

Presto - 2

Resist - 2

Scars - 2

Secret Touch - 2

Test for Echo - 2

The Body Electric - 2

The Necromancer - 2

Totem - 2

Turn The Page - 2

Where's My Thing - 2

Alien Shore - 1

Chemistry - 1

Emotion Detector - 1

Everyday Glory - 1

Far Cry - 1

Finding My Way - 1

Freeze (Part IV of "Fear") - 1

Ghost of a Chance - 1

Half the World - 1

Hope - 1

Madrigal - 1

Malignant Narcissism - 1

Nocturne - 1

Open Secrets - 1

Out of the Cradle - 1

Red Tide - 1

Roll the Bones - 1

Second Nature - 1

Seven Cities Of Gold - 1

Show Don't Tell - 1

Stick It Out - 1

Superconductor - 1

Sweet Miracle - 1

The Larger Bowl - 1

The Way the Wind Blows - 1

The Wreckers - 1

What You're Doing - 1

Wish Them Well - 1

Workin' Them Angels - 1

Anagram - 0

Before and After - 0

Best I Can - 0

Between Sun & Moon - 0

Bravest Face - 0

BU2B - 0

BU2B2 - 0

Carve Away the Stone - 0

Cold Fire - 0

Dog Years - 0

Face Up - 0

Faithless - 0

Good News First - 0

Hand Over Fist - 0

Heresy - 0

High Water - 0

I Think I'm Going Bald - 0

In The Mood - 0

Limbo - 0

Making Memories - 0

Need Some Love - 0

Neurotica - 0

One Little Victory - 0

Peaceable Kingdom - 0

Red Lenses - 0

Rivendell - 0

Tai Shan - 0

Take A Friend - 0

Tears - 0

The Big Money - 0

The Big Wheel - 0

The Color of Right - 0

The Main Monkey Business - 0

The Stars Look Down - 0

The Twilight Zone - 0

Virtuality - 0

War Paint - 0

We Hold On - 0

You Bet Your Life - 0

Edited July 22, 2014 by x1yyz

**Lorraine** · July 22, 2014

Do you know that I wanted to do what you did? I knew there was a way to do it on the computer that I wasn't aware of.

**Lorraine** · July 22, 2014

By the way, thank you for doing it! :)

**x1yyz** · July 22, 2014

You're welcome! I kept seeing stuff mentioned over and over, and then got curious about what the most popular choices were.

**Geddy's Soul Patch** · July 22, 2014

Do you ever find yourself kinda bored so you decide to do a little project, only to discover the project is a lot bigger than you first thought, but since you're halfway through you go ahead and finish it? Yeah, well that happened, and now here is a tally of the songs people have chosen for their lists of 25 (as of Post #76).

The most popular song was ... Xanadu, with 26 votes! 39 songs (from the studio albums only; I didn't count live albums or Feedback) got zero votes.

The most popular album was ... Moving Pictures, with 80 votes! The least was Rush with 9.

Here's the data (info exported from iTunes and calculated in a spreadsheet as I wasn't going to type it all in!):

EDIT: Okay, I think I fixed how things were displaying...

Albums
Rush - 9
FBN - 25
CoS - 23
2112 - 34
AFTK - 58
Hemispheres - 50
PeW - 59
MP - 80
Signals - 46
p/g - 39
PoW - 35
HYF - 26
Presto - 19
RTB - 18
Counterparts - 23
T4E - 15
VT - 23
S&A - 14
CA - 46

Songs, by # of mentions

Xanadu - 26
La Villa Strangiato - 23
2112 - 20
Natural Science - 18
Red Barchetta - 18
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - 15
Headlong Flight - 14
The Spirit Of Radio - 13
Witch Hunt - 13
Cygnus X-1 Bk I: The Voyage - 12
Limelight - 12
Subdivisions - 12
The Camera Eye - 12
Between The Wheels - 11
YYZ - 11
A Farewell To Kings - 10
Freewill - 10
The Analog Kid - 10
The Fountain Of Lamneth - 10
The Garden - 10
Marathon - 9
Red Sector A - 9
The Trees - 9
Dreamline - 8
Jacob's Ladder - 8
The Weapon - 8
Vital Signs - 8
A Passage To Bangkok - 7
By-Tor and the Snow Dog - 7
Entre Nous - 7
In the End - 7
Losing It - 7
Territories - 7
Time Stand Still - 7
Animate - 6
Bravado - 6
Clockwork Angels - 6
Lakeside Park - 6
Manhattan Project - 6
The Anarchist - 6
Tom Sawyer - 6
Armor and Sword - 5
Available Light - 5
Bastille Day - 5
Ceiling Unlimited - 5
Cinderella Man - 5
Distant Early Warning - 5
Driven - 5
Fly By Night - 5
Grand Designs - 5
Kid Gloves - 5
Lock And Key - 5
Something For Nothing - 5
The Pass - 5
Beneath, Between and Behind - 4
Closer To The Heart - 4
Earthshine - 4
Mission - 4
Mystic Rhythms - 4
Prime Mover - 4
The Enemy Within - 4
Working Man - 4
Afterimage - 3
Caravan - 3
Circumstances - 3
Cut to the Chase - 3
Different Strings - 3
Digital Man - 3
Double Agent - 3
Here Again - 3
How It Is - 3
Leave That Thing Alone - 3
Middletown Dreams - 3
New World Man - 3
Spindrift - 3
The Speed of Love - 3
Time and Motion - 3
Vapor Trail - 3
Anthem - 2
Carnies 2
Chain Lightning - 2
Countdown - 2
Force Ten - 2
Ghost Rider - 2
Halo Effect - 2
Lessons - 2
Nobodys Hero - 2
Presto - 2
Resist - 2
Scars - 2
Secret Touch - 2
Test for Echo - 2
The Body Electric - 2
The Necromancer - 2
Totem - 2
Turn The Page - 2
Where's My Thing - 2
Alien Shore - 1
Chemistry - 1
Emotion Detector - 1
Everyday Glory - 1
Far Cry - 1
Finding My Way - 1
Freeze (Part IV of "Fear") - 1
Ghost of a Chance - 1
Half the World - 1
Hope - 1
Madrigal - 1
Malignant Narcissism - 1
Nocturne - 1
Open Secrets - 1
Out of the Cradle - 1
Red Tide - 1
Roll the Bones - 1
Second Nature - 1
Seven Cities Of Gold - 1
Show Don't Tell - 1
Stick It Out - 1
Superconductor - 1
Sweet Miracle - 1
The Larger Bowl - 1
The Way the Wind Blows - 1
The Wreckers - 1
What You're Doing - 1
Wish Them Well - 1
Workin' Them Angels - 1
Anagram - 0
Before and After - 0
Best I Can - 0
Between Sun & Moon - 0
Bravest Face - 0
BU2B - 0
BU2B2 - 0
Carve Away the Stone - 0
Cold Fire - 0
Dog Years - 0
Face Up - 0
Faithless - 0
Good News First - 0
Hand Over Fist - 0
Heresy - 0
High Water - 0
I Think I'm Going Bald - 0
In The Mood - 0
Limbo - 0
Making Memories - 0
Need Some Love - 0
Neurotica - 0
One Little Victory - 0
Peaceable Kingdom - 0
Red Lenses - 0
Rivendell - 0
Tai Shan - 0
Take A Friend - 0
Tears - 0
The Big Money - 0
The Big Wheel - 0
The Color of Right - 0
The Main Monkey Business - 0
The Stars Look Down - 0
The Twilight Zone - 0
Virtuality - 0
War Paint - 0
We Hold On - 0
You Bet Your Life - 0

I'm shocked that no one put Big Money! Only one vote for Emotion Detector?!

**Narps** · July 22, 2014

You're welcome! I kept seeing stuff mentioned over and over, and then got curious about what the most popular choices were.

Nicely done young lady :cheers: The Big Money for some reason surprises me the most with 0 votes. Not sure why but it does.....

**x1yyz** · July 22, 2014

You're welcome! I kept seeing stuff mentioned over and over, and then got curious about what the most popular choices were.
Nicely done young lady :cheers: The Big Money for some reason surprises me the most with 0 votes. Not sure why but it does.....

Yeah, wasn't it a single or something?

**x1yyz** · July 22, 2014

You're welcome! I kept seeing stuff mentioned over and over, and then got curious about what the most popular choices were.
Nicely done young lady :cheers: The Big Money for some reason surprises me the most with 0 votes. Not sure why but it does.....

Oh, and thanks :D

**Lorraine** · July 22, 2014

Tears got a big goose egg too.

**Narps** · July 22, 2014

You're welcome! I kept seeing stuff mentioned over and over, and then got curious about what the most popular choices were.
Nicely done young lady :cheers: The Big Money for some reason surprises me the most with 0 votes. Not sure why but it does.....

Yeah, wasn't it a single or something?

It was a "hit" (whatever that means for Rush) and all over the radio and is still played quite a bit as far as I know.....

**Lorraine** · July 22, 2014

The top ten:

Xanadu - 26 :wub: :wub: :wub:

La Villa Strangiato - 23

2112 - 20

Natural Science - 18

Red Barchetta - 18

Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - 15

Headlong Flight - 14

The Spirit Of Radio - 13

Witch Hunt - 13

Cygnus X-1 Bk I: The Voyage - 12

**Brucey** · July 22, 2014

The top ten:

Xanadu - 26 :wub:
La Villa Strangiato - 23
2112 - 20
Natural Science - 18
Red Barchetta - 18
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - 15
Headlong Flight - 14
The Spirit Of Radio - 13
Witch Hunt - 13
Cygnus X-1 Bk I: The Voyage - 12

Seeing Headlong Flight and Witch Hunt in the top 10 was unexpected.

**Narps** · July 22, 2014

Lessons got 2 votes...... :dweez:

**g under p** · July 23, 2014

Interesting, the top song from Grace Under Pressure was Between The Wheels with 11. I never would have thought that would come to be.

**Narps** · July 23, 2014

Interesting, the top song from Grace Under Pressure was Between The Wheels with 11. I never would have thought that would come to be.

I think R30 has the most to do with that.....

**len(songs)** · July 23, 2014

Tears got a big goose egg too.

Well, Tears isn't exactly "popular" around here...

**Tombstone Mountain** · July 23, 2014

The top ten:

Xanadu - 26 :wub:
La Villa Strangiato - 23
2112 - 20
Natural Science - 18
Red Barchetta - 18
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - 15
Headlong Flight - 14
The Spirit Of Radio - 13
Witch Hunt - 13
Cygnus X-1 Bk I: The Voyage - 12

Seeing Headlong Flight and Witch Hunt in the top 10 was unexpected.

Always thought HF is among their very best.

**Brucey** · July 23, 2014

The top ten:

Xanadu - 26 :wub:
La Villa Strangiato - 23
2112 - 20
Natural Science - 18
Red Barchetta - 18
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - 15
Headlong Flight - 14
The Spirit Of Radio - 13
Witch Hunt - 13
Cygnus X-1 Bk I: The Voyage - 12

Seeing Headlong Flight and Witch Hunt in the top 10 was unexpected.
Always thought HF is among their very best.

It is! But, I didn't think this many people would vote for it.

**yyz211282** · July 23, 2014

I'll give you top ten

1 YYZ

2 2112

3 Working Man

Uhhhhhhhhhh

4 Camera Eye

5 Spirit of Radio

6 Anthem

7 Virtuality

8 Big Money

9 Limelight

10 Territories

Bold means ????

**Mr. JD** · July 23, 2014

What's surprising me the most on here is how many people are putting Lock and Key in their lists. I always considered that one to be the "unsung hero" from what I consider Rush's weakest period ('87-'91). Glad to see I'm not the only one who loves that song.
"Weakest period"!!? HYF and Presto were during that period....... :)

Has someone finally discovered the joys of Hold Your Fire, at long last?

HIGH FIVE!
8/10 ain't bad......

I still don't understand what is so bad a out High Water and Tai Shan. To me, HYF is perfection.
And not many talks about the good Open Secrets and Second Nature songs

Second Nature is on my list. It's actually in my top 5. I love that song!

**Tombstone Mountain** · July 23, 2014

The top ten:

Xanadu - 26 :wub:
La Villa Strangiato - 23
2112 - 20
Natural Science - 18
Red Barchetta - 18
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - 15
Headlong Flight - 14
The Spirit Of Radio - 13
Witch Hunt - 13
Cygnus X-1 Bk I: The Voyage - 12

Seeing Headlong Flight and Witch Hunt in the top 10 was unexpected.
Always thought HF is among their very best.

It is! But, I didn't think this many people would vote for it.

It's got everything that makes Rush great. An epic song! The band gave us so much in the album known as Clockwork Angels. Still kicking my butt

**Tombstone Mountain** · July 23, 2014

The top ten:

Xanadu - 26 :wub:
La Villa Strangiato - 23
2112 - 20
Natural Science - 18
Red Barchetta - 18
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - 15
Headlong Flight - 14
The Spirit Of Radio - 13
Witch Hunt - 13
Cygnus X-1 Bk I: The Voyage - 12

Seeing Headlong Flight and Witch Hunt in the top 10 was unexpected.
Always thought HF is among their very best.

It is! But, I didn't think this many people would vote for it.

It's got everything that makes Rush great. An epic song! The band gave us so much in the album known as Clockwork Angels. Still kicking my butt

**toymaker** · July 23, 2014

Tears got a big goose egg too.
Well, Tears isn't exactly "popular" around here...

I like Tears. I think it's the only Rush song I can play without hurting myself.

**x1yyz** · July 23, 2014

The top ten:

Xanadu - 26 :wub:
La Villa Strangiato - 23
2112 - 20
Natural Science - 18
Red Barchetta - 18
Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres - 15
Headlong Flight - 14
The Spirit Of Radio - 13
Witch Hunt - 13
Cygnus X-1 Bk I: The Voyage - 12

Heh, all of those besides Red Barchetta were on my list. And I'm not sure why RB wasn't there -- probably because the list was so hard to make!

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