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Poll Question: Which of these is the best?
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These days my faves are Caress and the debut.  
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Moving Pictures is the best, Signals my favorite.
And i voted for my fav just like everybody else
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Moving Pictures with 2 votes Shocked.  Shurely shome mistake.

I'm going out in leftfield and casting a vote for Snakes and Arrows, cracking album Approve.
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Moving Pictures.

Hemispheres and Permanent Waves are also excellent.
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I'm probably alone on this one, but for me, Rush's best album is Counterparts.  My reasoning:

1. It's a musically strong album from start to (almost) finish, marred only slightly by "Everyday Glory."

2. The playing is outstanding, as usual, but Neil is deserving of special mention for his work on "Alien Shore," a song that Rush have never played live due in part, I believe, to the difficulty of the drumming:



3. I find that Neil's lyrics are at their best when dealing with the human condition, so devoting an entire album to songs about relationships was perhaps the smartest lyrical move, in my opinion.

4. It sounds great--unlike the previous two albums produced by Rupert Hine, but much like the two before that, which were also produced by Peter Collins--and is (again, in my opinion) the best-engineered (recorded/mixed/mastered) album in Rush's entire catalogue.

5. The minimalist album art is timeless:

Counterparts

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1. Hemispheres
2. 2112
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Moving Pictures
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Hemispheres for me

followed by

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Originally posted by JediJoker7169 JediJoker7169 wrote:

I'm probably alone on this one, but for me, Rush's best album is Counterparts.  My reasoning:

1. It's a musically strong album from start to (almost) finish, marred only slightly by "Everyday Glory."

2. The playing is outstanding, as usual, but Neil is deserving of special mention for his work on "Alien Shore," a song that Rush have never played live due in part, I believe, to the difficulty of the drumming:



3. I find that Neil's lyrics are at their best when dealing with the human condition, so devoting an entire album to songs about relationships was perhaps the smartest lyrical move, in my opinion.

4. It sounds great--unlike the previous two albums produced by Rupert Hine, but much like the two before that, which were also produced by Peter Collins--and is (again, in my opinion) the best-engineered (recorded/mixed/mastered) album in Rush's entire catalogue.

5. The minimalist album art is timeless:

Counterparts

I don't expect you to agree with me, but I hope you can understand from where I'm coming.

It's a very close 2nd or 3rd best for me. I waffle back and forth between Moving Pictures, p/g, and Counterparts as to my favorite Rush album.

Today I picked p/g, I tend to listen to that album the most. But ask me again tomorrow and I might pick Moving Pictures or Counterparts.
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Moving Pictures

Permenant Waves
Hemispheres
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Well, this voting has certainly not gone the way I was expecting.

Hemispheres for me.
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No votes for Power Windows? I'll give it one. It's been one of my favorites lately.
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Originally posted by JediJoker7169 JediJoker7169 wrote:

I'm probably alone on this one, but for me, Rush's best album is Counterparts.  My reasoning:

1. It's a musically strong album from start to (almost) finish, marred only slightly by "Everyday Glory."

2. The playing is outstanding, as usual, but Neil is deserving of special mention for his work on "Alien Shore," a song that Rush have never played live due in part, I believe, to the difficulty of the drumming:



3. I find that Neil's lyrics are at their best when dealing with the human condition, so devoting an entire album to songs about relationships was perhaps the smartest lyrical move, in my opinion.

4. It sounds great--unlike the previous two albums produced by Rupert Hine, but much like the two before that, which were also produced by Peter Collins--and is (again, in my opinion) the best-engineered (recorded/mixed/mastered) album in Rush's entire catalogue.

5. The minimalist album art is timeless:

Counterparts

I don't expect you to agree with me, but I hope you can understand from where I'm coming.


I'd agree with you mostly. Counterparts is easily in my top 5.
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A Farewell To Kings.



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Counterparts is one of my favorite Rush albums (a soundtrack of my youth).

"Everyday Glory" is not a flaw- it's a brilliant ending to the album.
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1. Hemispheres
2. A Farewell to Kings
3. 2112
4. Permanent Waves
5. Grace Under Pressure
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Originally posted by JediJoker7169 JediJoker7169 wrote:

 
2. The playing is outstanding, as usual, but Neil is deserving of special mention for his work on "Alien Shore," a song that Rush have never played live due in part, I believe, to the difficulty of the drumming:


A great track, though I don't think the drumming is any more complicated than a lot of other Rush tracks that they routinely play live.
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If anything, I think "Double Agent" is the failure on Counterparts.
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