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Points: 15141 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2009 at 08:31
I don't really know the Rush albums after Moving Pictures, but the only album I can think that I didn't like is the debut album. In fact, I absolutely hate the debut album, Working Man is a good song, but all the others are terrible IMO. 
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Points: 4287 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 16 2009 at 08:49
Originally posted by Drew Drew wrote:




1st post is this sh*t?

HORRIBLE
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Whoa! Just saw this. Don`t get me going. Any one of those live albums with an atrocious Neil Peart drum solo. Seriously though, and I`ll be fair.
Snakes & Arrows
Presto
Power Windows
Hold Your Fire
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Points: 14258 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2009 at 22:49
Originally posted by Vibrationbaby Vibrationbaby wrote:

Whoa! Just saw this. Don`t get me going. Any one of those live albums with an atrocious Neil Peart drum solo. Seriously though, and I`ll be fair.
Snakes & Arrows
Presto
Power Windows
Hold Your Fire
Feedback
 
I agree with all except Power Windows
 
One of their best of the 80s
 
 
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Points: 5210 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 21 2009 at 23:13
The original poster started here two days before me, approximately one year ago. I have over 1000 posts, he has 7.
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In other words, ignore this thread.
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Roll the Bones was my first live Rush tour and it ruled. it was a good album. not as good as some of their classics, but for the time very solid.
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Maybe we could have a 5 worst Carpenters thread. And still the musicians involved would be better than everyone on this site combined including myself. 
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And I take issue with all this "Snakes and Arrows" hate going 'round prog circles. Seriously, how is it bad?

Is it like the 'classic' Rush albums? No, of course not, and nothing ever will. We need to stop applying our nostalgia to modern records; it keeps us from appreciating what they truly are.

p.s. Anyone who doesn't like 'Hope' must be insane. :p
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Originally posted by p0mt3 p0mt3 wrote:

And I take issue with all this "Snakes and Arrows" hate going 'round prog circles. Seriously, how is it bad?

Is it like the 'classic' Rush albums? No, of course not, and nothing ever will. We need to stop applying our nostalgia to modern records; it keeps us from appreciating what they truly are.

p.s. Anyone who doesn't like 'Hope' must be insane. :p


I agree; this thread is stupid.

And Snakes and Arrows is in my top 5, if anything. But that doesn't even exist, since every Rush album is great, IMO. They're just different from each other.
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Originally posted by Negoba Negoba wrote:

The original poster started here two days before me, approximately one year ago. I have over 1000 posts, he has 7.
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In other words, ignore this thread.
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Roll the Bones was my first live Rush tour and it ruled. it was a good album. not as good as some of their classics, but for the time very solid.
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What's up with the Caress of Steel haters. In my opinion it's at least in their top 3 albums. That album is what turned my passing interest in Prog into an obsession.
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Originally posted by Xanthous Xanthous wrote:

What's up with the Caress of Steel haters. In my opinion it's at least in their top 3 albums. That album is what turned my passing interest in Prog into an obsession.


agreed, first prog album I ever heard and will always hold  a nugget of my soul.

TBH its pretty disconstructive to focus on the bad albums bands have released. Infact its probs best to challenge music that you enitialy dislike (within reason) by immersing yourself in it, especially when it comes to bands/acts that you have enjoyed before, its a bad plan to compare subsequent releases from anyone, its best to put them up against allot of the dirge that gets released on a daily basis. If you know what I mean.Confused
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Terrible thread.....
 
I used to hate Test For Echo but actually it is great now
 
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I like all Rush albums, so I don't hate any of these or anything, they're just the weakest in my eyes.

- Presto (extremely thin sounding, weak tracks except "The Pass" and closer "Available Light")
- Roll the Bones (the same thin sound, generally weaker tracks than Presto, reaches the bottom on the silly title track. "Bravado" is strong though)
- Caress of Steel (bleak production, the short tracks are pretty weak, the 20-minute epic is flawed at several points)
- Vapor Trails (a bit messy sounding, too loud sounding, this affects the drum sound)
- Test for Echo (a bit of a letdown after the superb Counterparts album, a mixed bag really, and not that bad, but can't really think of a weaker album not already mentioned)
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2009 at 07:34
Originally posted by Chris S Chris S wrote:

Terrible thread.....
 
I used to hate Test For Echo but actually it is great now
 
Time does indeed change perspectives/

I'm glad you came to like it. I always did, but then again I like Counterparts less.
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Points: 1501 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2009 at 08:05
I really don't think think they have made a bad album in their career. Even their later efforts are still solid albums. I'm going with feedback, not a fan of cover songs.
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Points: 4079 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 24 2009 at 08:33
Originally posted by JROCHA JROCHA wrote:

I really don't think think they have made a bad album in their career. Even their later efforts are still solid albums. I'm going with feedback, not a fan of cover songs.


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Just bad production. Although I think VT is a bit over-layered for Rush.
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I haven't really given anything past "Counterparts" a good listen, but aside from the newer stuff, the following ones never did much for me:
 
Power Windows
Roll the Bones
A Show of Hands
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Originally posted by StyLaZyn StyLaZyn wrote:

Even though Presto is my least favorite (in part because of how tinny it sounds), The Pass is a great song. 


Best post in a thoroughly depressing thread. The Pass makes that album worth buying alone, and even though it is probably their weakest overall, that band are simply incapable of making a bad LP. Simple as.
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Actually the live versions of Vapor Trails tracks are great as well as Snakes and Arrows. The live sound is way heavier and more accomplished. Worth getting the Live Snakes and Arrows - great production and very good concert - most of the snakes CD is on it so its worth it just to hear decent versions of those mediocre studio tracks. I rediscovered those tracks through that DVD.
 
 
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5 bad  Rush albums is impossible I think, but GRACE UNDER PRESSURE is a horrible one.


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