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    Posted: March 19 2018 at 14:00
Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

Both are terrific but A Farewell To Kings is my favorite Rush LP.

Man, that 5 album run from 2112 to Moving Pictures was something else!!!

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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

Both are terrific but A Farewell To Kings is my favorite Rush LP.

Man, that 5 album run from 2112 to Moving Pictures was something else!!!

True. They changed their sound a bit after that to a less overtly proggy sound with "signals" being a bit of a transitional album(still very good though). 
Well, I think they started their change into more pop songs already in "Permanent Waves". Too me 2112, Farewell & Hemis are the greatest Rush albums, but of course coming two albums were still really great. Signals is best of their synthpop-albums, like also Power Windows and Presto a little.
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Really love both, but Hemispheres is my favourite Rush-album.
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Originally posted by miamiscot miamiscot wrote:

Both are terrific but A Farewell To Kings is my favorite Rush LP.

Man, that 5 album run from 2112 to Moving Pictures was something else!!!

True. They changed their sound a bit after that to a less overtly proggy sound with "signals" being a bit of a transitional album(still very good though). 
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Villa Strangiato and The Trees are excellent, but Farewell to Kings is excellent all the way through (well mostly). 
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Kings gets my vote because it has more tacks LOL
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Hemispheres.

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A Farewell to Kings because of Cygnus and Xanadu
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

A Farwell to Kings for me, mostly because of "Xanadu".


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Both recorded at the same studio in Wales, so there's a vibe there. Anyway, it's 'Kings because that finally got me into Rush.

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Tough choice, but I went with Hemispheres.
But, in my book Xanadu blows Cygnus Hemispheres away. 


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Originally posted by Manuel Manuel wrote:

Both really, they could have make an excellent double album.

Both records could just about fit onto a single CD.
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I enjoy both, but I must say that A Farewell To Kings gets my vote. 
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Now that is a difficult choice! Saw Rush in Manchester before they went to Wales to record 'Farewell' and that album has a real place in my heart - especially the wonderful Xanadu, The title track and Closer to the Heart. However, Cygnus X1 was never a completely easy listen and there are a couple of steady fillers on it.

Hemispheres is just so much more consistent. While Side 1 can't touch Xanadu - I love the journey and the rest are as strong. However, having La Villa Strangiato at the end of Side 2 - is fantastic - their best ever instrumental - a work of pure genius! So Hemispheres wins for me.
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love both but

the one with

La Villa Strangiato
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Both are terrific but A Farewell To Kings is my favorite Rush LP.

Man, that 5 album run from 2112 to Moving Pictures was something else!!!
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Hemispheres, but it's damn close!
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Not very competitive. AFTK is one of the best albums Rush did and Hemispheres is just bad. Lyrically infantile and it really doesn't seem to me like there was a plan to do Cygnus X-whatever part 2 when they did the rather good first part. La Villa Strangiato is pretty good, to be fair but I think it's a very weak album.
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Points: 23994 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 06 2017 at 04:36
A Farewell to Kings has the best Rush track ever (Xanadu), but as an album I perfre Hemispheres.
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