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It is always so hard for me to rank albums, but Rush is one of the best bands in existence, so I'm going to try.
 
1. A Farewell to Kings
2. 2112
3. Caress of Steel
4. Hemispheres
5. Presto (I can't help it, I love this album)
6. Clockwork Angels
7. Moving Pictures
8. Permanent Waves
9. Signals
10.Rush
11. Hold Your Fire
12. Snakes and Arrows
13. Test for Echo
14. Fly By Night
15. Power Windows
16. Counterparts
17. Test for Echo
18. Feedback
19. Roll the Bones
20. Vapor Trails
 
If I waited until tomorrow, this could be completely changed.

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1-A Farewell To Kings
2-Hemispheres
3-2112
4-Caress Of Steel
5-Permanent Waves
6-Moving Pictures
7-Signals
8-Fly By Night
I'm too lazy to rank the others
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Unquestionably/Sans l'ombre d'un doute.
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Entre Nous is a great song. What are you thinking?
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Maybe an odd number 1 here as many find it uneven (and not prog nor hardrock anymore ayayay!)
Well it was my introduction to them around 1983 and they ruled my playlist for the next 10 years or so.

1977-1980 finds them at a peak but the albums are too uneven imo.
Really, Cinderella Man, Entre Nous... What were they thinking?

4-5 star stuff:
1) Signals
2) Moving Pictures
3) Hemispheres
4) Fly by Night
5) A Farewell to Kings
6) 2112

3-4 star stuff
7) Power Windows
8) Permanent Waves
9) Counterparts
10) Grace Under Pressure
11) Rush
12) Caress of Steel

3 down to 2 stars
13) Vapor Trails
14) Snakes & Arrows
15) Hold Your Fire
16) Test for Echo
17) Roll the Bones
18) Presto
19) Clockwork Angels



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Of the Rush albums that I've listened to thus far:

1. Hemispheres
2. A Farewell to Kings
3. Moving Pictures
4. 2112
5. Permanent Waves
6. Rush
7. Grace Under Pressure
8. Fly By Night
9. Signals
10. Caress of Steel
11. Roll the Bones
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1. A Farewell to Kings
2. Fly by Night
3. Caress of Steel
4. Permanent Waves
5. Moving Pictures
6. Rush
7. Signals
8. 2112
9. Grace Under Pressure
10. Power Windows
11. Presto
12. Hemispheres
13. Hold Your Fire

14....and the rest

Don't really listen to Rush anymore. 100's of other bands I discovered in the last 20 years I enjoy more and absorb my listening time. All the stuff I heard after Presto just sounded like awful to me.

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I have broke down all songs by lyric, individual instruments, complexity, flow, vocals, etc.Not Popularity ! 40 yr fan. 35+ Shows. My solid 20 !
1.Counterparts
2.Clockwork Angels
3.Signals
4.Moving Pictures
5.Permanent Waves
6.Hemispheres
7.Grace Under Pressure
8.Test For Echo
9.Vapor Trails
10 Roll the Bones
11.2112
12.Snakes & Arrows
13T.Presto
13T.A Farewell to Kings
15.Power Windows
16.Hold Your Fire
17.Fly By Night
18.Caress of Steel
19.Rush
20.*FEEDBACK
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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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I'm disturbed by the amount of lists that haven't got Moving Pictures at #1.
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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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Originally posted by Universeal12 Universeal12 wrote:

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


don't worry, I love 80s Rush as well, there are others as well. ;)
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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




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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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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.  
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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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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Originally posted by Mortte Mortte wrote:

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).

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



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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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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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My list would go something like:

1) All albums up to 2112
2) The albums after 2112
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