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    Posted: February 13 2024 at 07:53
I don't know what the worst Rush album is.  I stopped purchasing Rush albums after "Power Windows".  I don't know how or when...but I ended up with copies of Presto and Counterparts.  I'd like to backtrack and purchase the picks of the litter from the "Hold Your Fire" to "Clockwork Angels" multi-decade period.   I don't wish to wade through bottom-dwelling swill.   I have never seen a consensus opinion on the worst Rush. 

What is your least favorite Rush album? 
What do you dislike about your least favorite Rush album?





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Vapor Trails > Snakes

really can't get on with either...
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There is no such thing as a worst Rush album.
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Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Vapor Trails > Snakes

really can't get on with either...


A friend told me that the Vapor Trails 2013 remix was a huge improvement on the original.  Is it?  I haven't heard either. Wink


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Originally posted by omphaloskepsis omphaloskepsis wrote:

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Vapor Trails > Snakes

really can't get on with either...


A friend told me that the Vapor Trails 1013 remix was a huge improvement on the original.  Is it?  I haven't heard either. Wink

I'll be honest, to these ears, literally all the tracks sound the same. If I played say Counterparts, at any point I would know what track I was listening to and indeed roughly how far thru the track. Put VT on and I could be anywhere on the album... every time I hear it (and I bought it when it was first released) within a couple of tracks, I have zoned out and lost interest; it's a complete mess.
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

There is no such thing as a worst Rush album.


Maybe not, but among what I consider to be the worse Rush albums, it's particularly down to Test for Echo and Vapor Trails.
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Hold Your Fire is my least played Rush album. Smile
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Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

There is no such thing as a worst Rush album.
That's true. I have neither a favourite Rush album, nor a least favourite Rush album. They all sound the same to me, including the seven Rush albums I own on CD. Smile


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My least favorites are Test for Echo, Roll The Bones, and Presto.....I'm not a huge fan but I do like the earlier ones like most people.
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They lost me after Permanent Waves. There are some good songs here and there, but IMHO they never rose to great heights in their later albums, which to me are all uneven. 
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Roll The Bones. For me, it's mostly sleep inducing. Dreamline rocks though.
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Anything after Presto.
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The early 90s is when they really started to phone it in, in my opinion. The hiatus leading up to Vapor Trails (tragic though the cause of it may have been) definitely rekindled their creativity even if it took them until 2012 to make something worthy of the old standards again.
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Hold Your Fire - when I heard that I couldn't make it past the first track and stopped listening to Rush. I've caught up with all their albums since but still dislike their 80s output. Unlike some I really like Vapor Trails.
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Originally posted by omphaloskepsis omphaloskepsis wrote:

What do you dislike about your least favorite Rush album?
The electronic drum sound on Hold Your Fire. It blows my mind how Neil Peart went from one of the best recorded drum sounds in the late 70s/early 80s to that plastic Casio shіt.
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It must be Vapor Trails.
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I like all Rush albums, but my least favorite is Presto. I enjoy "Show Don't Tell," "Chain Lightning," "The Pass," and "Red Tide," but the rest of the album is mediocre.
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Everything I've seen and heard has Test for Echo as the consensus least-favorite Rush album.

For myself, I've always considered the first two albums to be amateur efforts. In the 80s, Grace Under Pressure, while not terrible, is definitely below par. And while I've heard bits and pieces every now and again, I've never bought a Rush album after Presto, especially after hearing parts of Roll the Bones. 
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Originally posted by Steve Wyzard Steve Wyzard wrote:

In the 80s, Grace Under Pressure, while not terrible, is definitely below par. 

blimey, which bits are below par? it's one of their most consistent offerings!?
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