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Philéas 
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 Topic: Your favourite Rush album...Posted: September 30 2006 at 16:40 |
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Just curious. These two albums are the lowest rated studioalbums by
Rush on this site. Which one do you prefer? Personally, I vote for the
debut, although I think Test for Echo is lovely aswell.
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Jared
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 16:43 |
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Oh, Test For Echo by a country mile...
...Working Man scarcely manages to save an otherwise sorry excuse for an album...
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Raff
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 16:49 |
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T4E for me. Not Rush's greatest album (far from that), with far too much filler (including the godawful "Dog Years") - but still there are some gems to be appreciated, like the excellent title track.
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Philéas
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 16:49 |
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Hmm. I actually thought the debut would win this. It is the highest
rated out of these two (3.01 as opposed to 2.85 for TfE). But of course
things can change. After all, there are only three votes.
Edited by Philéas - September 30 2006 at 16:49 |
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Jared
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 16:56 |
quite simply, 2.85 is harsh. i think it has 3.5 on my own grading system...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Philéas
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 17:02 |
I'm with you on that one, a 3.5 for me aswell. I might review it some time... However I still like their debut better. A good Hard Rock album, in my opinion not so insanely similair to Led Zeppelin as some people tend to think. Alex Lifeson has a great guitar tone on it. But it's not Prog (which TfE is, at least in places), and because of that I could never give it more than three stars. Edited by Philéas - September 30 2006 at 17:03 |
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Jared
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 17:04 |
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for me, its lyrically shallow and musically one dimensional glam rock... nothing more.
2/5 on a good day, with the wind behind it...
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Philéas
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 17:12 |
I kind of agree with you here aswell, but there are surely worse pieces of Glam Rock, take anything from the '80s, for example.  |
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Angelo
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 17:18 |
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If it comes to being favourite, Rush wins. I don't play TfE that often...
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Cristi
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 17:21 |
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Test for Echo. I love this album.
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R o V e R
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 17:21 |
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Love both
going for "Test fo Echo" title song is deep |
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chessman
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 19:41 |
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I voted for 'Rush'. I have always enjoyed the debut album. I think it's a decent effort.
'Test For Echo' has been one of my least favourites since it came out. However, I think it has grown on me a little since then.
My two least favourite Rush albums have to be 'Vapour Trails' and, worst Rush album of all - 'Fly By Night'.
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Bt-Tor
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 19:50 |
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I never could understand why Rush's debut is rated higher than Test for
Echo on this site, or why the latter is viewed so negatively. I think
it is a great album, far surpassing the terrible lyrics and oftentimes
mediocre, mostly generic rock of the debut. Although the debut as a
whole is a decent rock record and Working Man is an amazing rock song,
TFE rocks just as hard with the extra advantages of better lyrics and a
less generic sound.
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Prog-man
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 20:07 |
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Philéas
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 20:10 |
I'm surprised to see that you favor the debut. In my opinion Fly by Night is a very much better album, both lyrically and musically. The debut's cover is better though, in my opinion. |
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micky
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 20:21 |
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the debut for me...
simple equation actuallly old rush (even the bad stuff) > anything post Signals |
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proghairfunk
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 20:24 |
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Test For Echo, by quite a distance!
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eugene
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 20:25 |
I kinda agree with the exception for Grace Under Pressure, which I value much more than Signals.
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billbuckner
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 21:32 |
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Counterparts is a great album as well.
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Masque
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Posted: September 30 2006 at 22:36 |
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I can`t decide, I`ll go with "test" since Peart was on it but both CD`s are not the CD`s you loan a friend to get into Rush. One question about the cover of "test" how are Rush supposed to get down from there ?
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