Your favourite Rush album...
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Topic: Your favourite Rush album...
Posted By: Philéas
Subject: Your favourite Rush album...
Date 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. |
Replies:
Posted By: Jared
Date 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...  ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 16:49
| 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. |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 16:49
| 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. |
Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 16:56
quite simply, 2.85 is harsh. i think it has 3.5 on my own grading system... ------------- 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 |
Philéas wrote:Posted By: Philéas
Date 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. |
Posted By: Jared
Date 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...  ------------- 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 |
Posted By: Philéas
Date 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.  |
Posted By: Angelo
Date 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...
------------- http://www.iskcrocks.com" rel="nofollow - ISKC Rock Radio I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 17:21
Test for Echo. I love this album.
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Posted By: R o V e R
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 17:21
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Love both
going for "Test fo Echo" title song is deep |
Posted By: chessman
Date 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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Posted By: Bt-Tor
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 19:50
| 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. |
Posted By: Prog-man
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 20:07
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Posted By: Philéas
Date 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. |
Posted By: micky
Date 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 ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: proghairfunk
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 20:24
| Test For Echo, by quite a distance! |
Posted By: eugene
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 20:25
I kinda agree with the exception for Grace Under Pressure, which I value much more than Signals. ------------- carefulwiththataxe |
Posted By: billbuckner
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 21:32
| Counterparts is a great album as well. |
Posted By: Masque
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 22:36
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 ?  ------------- |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 22:37
| I like the debut more. T43 is okay. It has a few interesting tunes, but as a whole I find it rather uninteresting. |
Posted By: Mellotron Storm
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 22:43
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I think "working man" is the best song on either record,but overall "test for echo" gets my vote. ------------- "The wind is slowly tearing her apart" "Sad Rain" ANEKDOTEN |
Posted By: Leningrad
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 22:44
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Debut for me.
"Finding my waaaaaaaaaay..."
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 23:28
Hehe, yeah!  |
Posted By: Zoot Allures
Date Posted: October 01 2006 at 00:10
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I notice a number of people in the forums who dis the first Rush album. I tend to think that they might mis-understand where this album is coming from.
It's not prog but strictly hard rock. In 1974 the guys in the band were 20 and their primary influences were The Yardbird, Cream, Led Zeppelin and The Who. So not suprisingly the first album is alot along the lines of Led Zeppelin. I grew up a 4 hour drive down the highway from their home town and they use to play the high school and hockey rink in the little town I lived in. Sadly
 I was a couple of years too young to go see them. First album is great.  Primary reason for the progressive turn, Neil Peart
 Oh Ya back to the poll. Test for Echos.
Fav tracks: Test for Echos, Time & Motion, Virtuality, Resist. ------------- The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. - Hunter S. Thompson |
Posted By: Melomaniac
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 11:21
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Test For Echo - A few tracks save it from being a disaster, like the title track, Driven, Half the World and Time and Motion... Though I like the brainless rocking debut also...
'Hey baby, it's a quarter to eight,
I feel I'm in the mood...'
------------- "One likes to believe in the freedom of Music" - Neil Peart, The Spirit of Radio |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 12:56
I love Test For Echo! 
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Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 16:39
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Hmm. I'll vote for "Test for Echo" - it's got enough good material to push it beyond the debut (but not by a tremendous margin). |