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    Posted: March 24 2025 at 10:05
Thanks to everyone who participated in this poll. I was expecting it to be much closer, as Hemispheres is currently #1 (4.39) for 1978 albums, while UK is #6 (4.11). Of course, the polling population has changed a lot over the 20+ years of this site's existence, which most likely explains the difference. 
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Hemispheres. I'm using my brain to grow soap bubbles shaped like Barney Fife.

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Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

Hemispheres is about 35% of good album. The title track is the TFTO of Rush; unnecessarily long for the sake of being long. La Villa Strangiato is the albums saving grace. If this was a choice between UK and AFTK, that would be closer. But I really love the UK debut.

My vote for "Rush's TFTO" is Counterparts: too long and intentionally esoteric (or shall I say, totally different from everything else in the band's discography). And Rush's Tormato is Test for Echo!
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Hemispheres. I'm using my brain to grow soap bubbles shaped like Barney Fife.
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I like both, but enjoy better UK, mainly due to the less piercing pitch of the vocals, and a more reasonable track duration.
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

Hemispheres is about 35% of good album. The title track is the TFTO of Rush; unnecessarily long for the sake of being long.

In other words their progressive peak.


Those are definitely other words. I'll give you that.

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^ or 'prog' peak perhaps? Wink
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Originally posted by Tapfret Tapfret wrote:

Hemispheres is about 35% of good album. The title track is the TFTO of Rush; unnecessarily long for the sake of being long.

In other words their progressive peak.
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Like both. Giving the edge to U.K.
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Hemispheres is about 35% of good album. The title track is the TFTO of Rush; unnecessarily long for the sake of being long. La Villa Strangiato is the albums saving grace. If this was a choice between UK and AFTK, that would be closer. But I really love the UK debut.

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^ No, just the vocals of John Wetton



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Don’t like either but UK are marginally better for me since they don’t contain the vocals of Geddy Lee

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Rush
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Hemispheres.
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Can't choose, I enjoy both quite a bit. Smile
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Hemmy.
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Rush: Hemispheres Smile
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I warm up to Rush a lot more when they get to the 80's. The UK debut is an interesting album but maybe let down on the production side a bit. Eddie Jobson is one of the great keyboard talents. By this time he had played in Curved Air and Roxy Music as well as very brief stint on Frank Zappa's band but was still only about 21-22 years old. Insane when you consider Keith Emerson was 26 before he formed ELP. Voted UK.
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I consider one of these a masterpiece. Rush for sure.
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