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Gaddy Brian 
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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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Tapfret
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Posted: January 10 2019 at 17:39 |
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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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Oganesson
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Posted: January 11 2019 at 08:30 |
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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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"I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future." - Dan Quayle
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Bonnek
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Posted: January 11 2019 at 09:57 |
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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 Bones18) Presto 19) Clockwork AngelsEdited by Bonnek - January 11 2019 at 09:59 |
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Jeffro
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Posted: January 11 2019 at 10:32 |
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Entre Nous is a great song. What are you thinking?
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Barbu
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Posted: January 11 2019 at 11:09 |
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CristauxFeur
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Posted: January 12 2019 at 09:33 |
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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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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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LAM-SGC
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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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LAM-SGC
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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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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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Gerinski
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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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jamesbaldwin
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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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LAM-SGC
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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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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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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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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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LAM-SGC
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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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Blacksword
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Ah, ok. That should have been obvious.. For me though, Vapour Trails is their Love Beach 
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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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