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Sacro_Porgo 
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Superior: A Farewell To KingsPermanent Waves Moving Pictures Signals 2112 Great: Clockwork Angels Hemispheres Power Windows Caress Of Steel Grace Under Pressure Good: Presto Fly By Night Hold Your Fire Rush Vapor Trails Passable: Snakes And Arrows Test For Echo Counterparts Runt: Roll The Bones |
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Porg for short. My love of music doesn't end with prog! Feel free to discuss all sorts of music with me. Odds are I'll give it a chance if I haven't already! :)
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Catcher10
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Posted: April 25 2019 at 12:08 |
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Well I really enjoy RTB, Ghost Of A Chance is an excellent song.....the last song is a dud.
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Jeffro
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I have, since it was released in fact. My opinion of it has only gone down over the last couple decades. Dreamline is great and a couple other songs are okay but overall "sleeper" is a great description of what it does to me when I spin it.
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PEAK RUSH
1. A Farewell To Kings
2. Hemispheres 3. 2112 4. Permanent Waves 5. Moving Pictures DECENT RUSH 6. Caress Of Steel 7. Fly By Night 8. Signals 9. Rush 10. Power Windows 11. Grace Under Pressure 12. Clockwork Angels MEH RUSH 13. Counterparts 14. Hold Your Fire 15. Snakes & Arrows 16. Presto 17. Test For Echo 18. Roll The Bones 19. Vapor Trails |
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Man With Hat
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Posted: April 24 2019 at 14:40 |
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1. A Farewell To Kings 2. Hemispheres 3. Permanent Waves 4. 2112 5. Signals 6. Moving Pictures After that...it really doesn't matter. They all smash together into a bland uninteresting mass for me. |
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I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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Catcher10
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Both spots are a great topic as to why.......But I can see how someone might rate Roll the Bones fairly high. That is a sleeper album, if you sit and listen to that album it is excellent. For me it would never rank higher than AFTK, but I can see it rather high on my list.
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I'm intrigued (or perhaps it's horrified) by a list that has Roll The Bones as the favorite and Farewell To Kings at 13. Wow!
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Of the albums I know well enough to rank:
1. _Moving Pictures_ 1. _Permanent Waves_ 1. _Hemispheres_ 4. _Signals_ 4. _A Farewell to Kings_ 6. _2112_ 7. _Grace Under Pressure_ 7. _Caress of Steel_ 7. _Fly by Night_ 10. _Rush_ 11. _Power Windows_ Those first three are interchangeable. Same with the next two.
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I can’t say I have been into them all
But here’s mine 1) Hemespheres 2) Permanet Waves 3) A Farwell To Kings 4) 2112 5) Caress Of Steel 6) Moving Pictures 7)Fly By Night 8) Couterparts 9) Signals 10)Rush 11) Roll The Bones 12)Presto 13) Vapor Trails Edited by Jzrk - January 25 2019 at 21:26 |
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Ah, ok. That should have been obvious..  For me though, Vapour Trails is their Love Beach 
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Looking at this again now after a while, I would now rank as follows: 1. Fly By Night 2. Caress of Steel 3. A Farewell to Kings 4. Rush 5. 2112 6. All The World's A Stage 7 onwards - everything else Edited by LAM-SGC - January 24 2019 at 03:19 |
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1. Signals
2. Caress of Steel . . . . . 3. Permanent Waves/ A Farewell to Kings/2112 . . . 4. The rest (what I’ve heard ie Fly by Night, Hemispheres, Power Windows, Snakes & Arrows and yes Moving Pictures which I never warmed up to) |
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I was already a huge Rush fan when Signals came out and I hated it at the time. But over the next few years, I shed my preconceptions of what a Rush albumbshould sound like, and I came to see it as no less brilliant than any other Rush album. Plus I was a bassist and my band did a couple songs from the album. New World Man is really fun for a bassist. |
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While it isn't my favorite, I love seeing Roll the Bones get some love. IMO, it gets a bad rap (no pun intended). |
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Yea, I'm in it for the metal/hard rock and the folksy, mystical proggy stuff. In fact, a good deal of Hemispheres leaves me cold...and it shouldn't really be on my list. Yea, I couldn't put Rush higher than 3 because the next two were just killer hard rock albums.
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I started listening to Rush two years ago. They are not among my favorites. But I only partially know their discography. From what I see in the Top 100 of PA and in your comments, they are a group that has not recorded a masterpiece recognized by all (or almost) as their best ever (such as Close to the Edge for Yes or In the Court of .. for KC). It seems to me that they have recorded at least 4-5 records that are competing as their absolute masterpiece. |
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Not easy but here we go
1. A Farewell to Kings 2. Hemispheres 3. Moving Pictures 4. Permanent Waves 5. Hold Your Fire 6. Signals 7. 2112 8. Caress of Steel 9. Power Windows 10. Presto (I can't help it, I love this album) 11. Clockwork Angels 12. Fly By Night 13. Snakes and Arrows 14. Roll the Bones 15. Test for Echo 16.Rush 17. Counterparts 18. Vapor Trails |
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Pretty close to mine! I might even put the debut higher than you! So much fun. I like the band through Grace, and find pretty much everything post-Grace to be a snooze.
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Led Zeppelin IV was very folksy, rootsy, and a bit mystical would you say A Farewell To Kings was Rush's LZ IV?
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1. Fly By Night 2. Caress of Steel 3. Rush 4. A Farewell to Kings 5. 2112 6. All The World's A Stage 7. Hemispheres 8 onwards - everything else
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