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Cristi 
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 Posted: April 13 2018 at 04:41 |
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^ I love Rush and I don't think they ever did a bad or weak album, but I'd put Vapor Trails at the bottom, too if (or better said when) I'll try to make my list :)
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Rednight
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Posted: April 24 2018 at 11:04 |
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1. A Farewell To Kings
2. Hemispheres 3. Moving Pictures 4. Grace Under Pressure 5. Signals 6. Permanent Waves 7. Clockwork Angels 8. 2112 9. Caress of Steel 10. Fly By Night |
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: April 24 2018 at 15:04 |
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I haven't heard all of them but here we go anyway:
Hemispheres Permanent Waves A Farewell to Kings Moving Pictures Caress of Steel Signals Hold Your Fire 2112 Power Windows Fly By Night Grace Under Pressure Roll the Bones Clockwork Angels Counterparts Presto Rush Snakes and Arrows Test for Echo (only heard it once or twice though)
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AFlowerKingCrimson
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Posted: April 24 2018 at 15:07 |
Wow, this is rather similar to mine. I could actually get behind this list too although I might rank Clockwork Angels slightly higher. Then again you are missing a few others so if you heard them maybe CA would stay where it is.
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HolyMoly
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Posted: April 24 2018 at 15:49 |
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1. Moving Pictures A+
2. Grace Under Pressure A 3. Caress of Steel A- 4. Permanent Waves A- 5. Fly By Night B+ 6. Hemispheres B+ 7. 2112 B+ 8. Hold Your Fire B+ 9. Rush B 10. Signals B 11. A Farewell to Kings B 12. Clockwork Angels B- 13. Counterparts B- Don’t know the others well enough to say. But as by letter grades show, even the lower ranking albums are well above average for me. Edited by HolyMoly - April 24 2018 at 15:50 |
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Mortte
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Posted: April 25 2018 at 02:09 |
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^Why a Farewell is eleventh when Hemispheres is sixth? You know they´re both my big Rush favourites and I have found a lot in common in them. And first album better than Farewell?
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: April 25 2018 at 03:25 |
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I don’t know every single Rush album, however, I know that Hold Your Fire should be in the top half of rankings........
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Enigmaticus Rex
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My choice of Rush albums is almost the polar opposite of yours. Here is my list of favorite Rush studio recordings from least favorite to favorite:
19. Rush 18. Fly By Night 17. 2112 16. Caress Of Steel 15. Grace Under Pressure 14. Vapor Trails 13. A Farewell To Kings 12. Counterparts 11. Hold Your Fire 10. Test For Echo 09. Hemispheres 08. Snakes & Arrows 07. Signals 06. Permanent Waves 05. Moving Pictures 04. Clockwork Angels 03. Power Windows 02. Presto 01. Roll The Bones As far as my favorite Rush live albums are concerned, this is the order: 10. All The World’s A Stage 09. Rush In Rio 08. A Show Of Hands 07. Time Machine Tour: Live In Cleveland 06. Different Strings 05. Snakes & Arrows Live 04. R30 03. R40 Live 02. Clockwork Angels Tour 01. Exit... Stage Left |
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The Dark Elf
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Posted: May 05 2018 at 16:02 |
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My list would go something like:
1) All albums up to 2112 2) The albums after 2112
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Posted: May 05 2018 at 22:17 |
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About the Rush live albums I prefer All the World´s a Stage. Exit...Stage Left has of course better song material, but it sounds much lesser live album to me. And I really don´t care at all the other Rush-lives, specially R40 is painful listening experience (because Geddy´s todays voice).
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Posted: May 06 2018 at 01:56 |
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1. A Show of Hands
2. Grace Under Pressure 3. Power Windows 4. Counterparts 5. Hold Your Fire 6. Presto 7. 2112 8. Exit... Stage Left 9. Signals The rest (I don't really care for their 70's hardrockstuff, but Exit..Stage Left is a great live-compilation, all I need from that era).
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Posted: May 07 2018 at 05:31 |
I agree. Everyone wants Rush back touring but I can't handle Geddy not being able to sing the old songs the way they deserve to be sung. I wish they had released a live album pre-Moving Pictures. I mean look at this killer set list Or this one Edited by Jeffro - May 07 2018 at 05:33 |
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Just watched the Bryan Cranston film The Infiltrator . First few minutes well worth a peek if you are a Rush fan! And that's a also a clue to my favourite Rush album (if you have seen it) 1. Moving Pictures 2. Farewell To Kings 3. Permanent Waves 4. 2112 5. Signals 6. Vapor Trails 7. Counterparts 8. Power Windows 9. Grace Under Pressure 10. Roll The Bones 11. Test For Echo 12. Snakes And Arrows 13. Hemispheres |
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Posted: May 26 2018 at 07:37 |
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As a dabbler, mind you:
1 Hemispheres 2 Farewell 3 Caress 4 Permanent 5 Moving The first two live albums, 2112 and Fly by Night are also groovy albums. |
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Posted: May 29 2018 at 05:32 |
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1) A Farewell To Kings
2) Moving Pictures 3) Hemispheres 4) Permanent Waves 5) 2112 6) Signals |
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Hopefully I won’t be slaughtered for enjoying Rush’s synth-80s period..
1.) Grace Under Pressure 2.) Vapor Trails (remixed version) 3.)Counterparts 4.) Clockwork Angels 5.)2112 6.) Hemispheres 7.) Moving Pictures 8.) Signals 9.) Power Windows 10.) Fly By Night Edited by Universeal12 - May 31 2018 at 16:12 |
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Cristi
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Posted: June 01 2018 at 01:10 |
don't worry, I love 80s Rush as well, there are others as well. ;)
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As you'll see from list, I'm more of a fan of 70's style of music:
19. Test for Echo 18. Hold Your Fire 17. Power Windows 16. Presto 15. Vapor Trails 14. Snakes and Arrows 13. Counterparts 12. Roll the Bones 11. Clockwork Angels 10. Grace Under Pressure 9. Caress of Steel 8. Rush 7. Signals 6. Fly By Night 5. Moving Pictures 4. 2112 3. Permanent Waves 2. A Farewell to Kings 1. Hemispheres |
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Posted: July 20 2018 at 15:07 |
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I'm disturbed by the amount of lists that haven't got Moving Pictures at #1.
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The important thing for me to point out is that, on a Rush list, a low relative ranking is in no way indicative of a bad album!
1. Moving Pictures (A+) 2. 2112 (A+) 3. Hemispheres (A+) 4. Permanent Waves (A+) 5. A Farewell to Kings (A+) 6. Signals (A) 7. Hold Your Fire (A) 8. Power Windows (A) 9. Clockwork Angels (A) 10. Roll the Bones (A) 11. Fly By Night (A-) 12. Snakes and Arrows (A-) 13. Rush (A-) 14. Caress of Steel (A-) 15. Test for Echo (B+) 16. Vapor Trails(B+) 17. Grace Under Pressure (B+) 18. Presto (B) 19. Counterparts (B-)
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