5 Worst Rush albums
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Topic: 5 Worst Rush albums
Posted By: moogprodigy
Subject: 5 Worst Rush albums
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 00:03
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Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 00:13
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I can only name 1 I don't like: Presto. The rest are just lovely. ------------- 
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Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 00:14
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Caress of Steel Rush Hold Your Fire Presto Roll the Bones ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Statutory-Mike
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 00:31
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^
 Caress of Stell is one of my favorites!As for me:
Presto
Rush
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Posted By: Mousoleum
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 01:04
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5. Roll the Bones/Counterparts (Damn, these albums would be good if the better song from both were combined and made into something not unlike Presto) 4. Feedback (Uggghhh.. I don't EVER want to hear another cover of Summertime Blues again.) 3. Vapor Trails (I maybe like one song. Maybe.) 2. Snakes and Arrows (One listen in enough.) 1. Rush (Not another Led Zep cover band!) I can't believe all the Presto hate. Presto is great from start to finish! Sure it's no 2112 or Moving Pictures. Then again, my favorite Rush album is Grace Under Pressure/ |
Posted By: Drew
Date Posted: July 23 2008 at 01:08
 1st post is this sh*t? HORRIBLE ------------- |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: September 22 2008 at 18:59
I agree they are terrible really. But take the best tracks from these and form one album and you have a winner.
What is actually good from Presto I wonder? Any ideas? ------------- 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 23 2008 at 04:04
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In no order..
Rush Test for Echo Vapour Trails Hold Your Fire Roll the Bones Overall least favorite is Vapour Trails, but I dont think they've ever made a 'bad' album, as such. These are merely my least fave from a generally excellent back catalogue. I'm quite surprised to see Presto slated so much. The production is a little weak, but there are some gems on that album, especially The Pass and Available Light. |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 23 2008 at 04:14
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I can only name three it seems: Hold Your Fire, Test For Echo and by far Vapor Trails. The next would be worse than the great Rush albums, but they're essentially good Rush.
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Posted By: LinusW
Date Posted: September 23 2008 at 07:12
Would be those three for me too. But only TFE and VT leaves me relatively cold, even though they have some killer tracks. |
Ricochet wrote:Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 23 2008 at 07:33
Struggling a bit on the counting front?
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Posted By: Jared
Date Posted: September 23 2008 at 08:13
that occurred to me, Alan...
but more immediately, this is the n00b's first post...they haven't introduced themselves, or said anything constructive...merely decided to criticise the later output of one of this site's staple bands...
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: September 23 2008 at 08:19
I hadn't noticed that Jared. It's always a good way to start in the forum, doing a "worst of" on one of the top bands. 
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Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: September 23 2008 at 08:55
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1. Rush
2. Hold Your Fire 3. Test For Echo 4. Roll The Bones and that's it... ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: September 23 2008 at 09:03
I actually like Rush. 
Of course "five worst" (and your listing of six) implies that more than five are at least "bad."
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Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: September 23 2008 at 09:36
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umm...well....does not compute. ------------- 
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Posted By: nahnite
Date Posted: September 24 2008 at 18:17
What a way to start off. 
Worst?
1. Grace Under Pressure
Then, in no particular order...
Caress Of Steel
Fly By Night
Test For Echo
Retrospective 1974-1980 & 1981-1987
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Posted By: splyu
Date Posted: September 25 2008 at 06:32
There are no 5 worst Rush albums. 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: September 25 2008 at 07:59
Grace Under Pressure!!!! Worst?? Nooooooo way!! 
I think it's in their top 5 best! 
Didn't like it when it first came out though..
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Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: September 26 2008 at 05:51
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Hold Your Fire
Power Windows
Presto
Grace Under Pressure
Roll The Bones
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Posted By: keiser willhelm
Date Posted: September 26 2008 at 08:24
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sooo much to choose from . . .
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Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: September 26 2008 at 16:28
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They're not bad, but the least good. 1. Caress of Steel 2. Test for Echo 3. Presto (kinda liked it the last time I listened to it, though. The Pass and Available Light are great at least) 4. Vapor Trails (the songs are good, the sound not so much so) 5. Fly by Night ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: Ozzloaf
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 01:29
Um.... all of them. 
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: September 28 2008 at 14:53
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As a PERSONAL point of view, I must say('preparing to run') that the CLASSIC ALBUM era is the "worst", actually I dislike..
My faves are the first 4 albums, plus Farewell...No need to purchase others.. Caress  2112  Fly by Night  Rush  Farewell
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Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 08:38
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From the least favorite... PrestoVapor Trails Rush Roll the Bones Feedback ------------- 
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Posted By: rdtprog
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 08:58
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Vapor Trails (the only one i don't like at all!) Roll The Bones Rush Test For Echo Presto (still like it pretty much) ------------- Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. Emile M. Cioran |
Posted By: Equality 7-2521
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 12:01
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Test For Echo Presto Vapor Trails Roll The Bones Hold Your Fire Still like the bottom two a lot. ------------- "One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. " |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 12:08
That was hard though. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 12:40
Some of peoples worst five are my top five.  I love Rush, but if I had to list my least favorite albums... 1)Rush 2)Feedback Only two I could do without, all others are essential. |
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 12:45
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1. Presto
2. Roll the Bones
3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterparts_%28album%29 - . Counterparts
4. Test for Echo
5. Vapor Trails
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Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 12:46
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Even though Presto is my least favorite (in part because of how tinny it sounds), The Pass is a great song. -------------
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Posted By: progvortex
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 13:54
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The only Rush album I'd really call flat-out awful is Presto. Oh, I forgot about Feedback. Utter disaster. |
Posted By: Kestrel
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 14:22
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Anything after Grace Under Pressure excluding Vapor Trails. I'd have trouble filling up a single CD of songs I like post-1984. Edit: And to make an additional point, it's not the 80s sound I don't care about. I adore 80s Genesis and a good amount of 80s pop. I just think 80s Rush post-GUP is no good to me. As for the 90s albums... well, they're 90s. |
Posted By: SgtPepper67
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 19:52
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1. Hold Your Fire 2. Power Windows 3. Grace Under Pressure 4. Counterparts 5. Presto Those are definitely their weakest in my opinion. From Grace under pressure to Presto the production on all the album sounds too 80's and there's not many great songs, although there are some really good one on Presto. All the albums before those are classics of course, and all the ones after I think their great (except maybe Counterparts), although not as prog as the others, but who cares? I don't. ------------- 
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 19:56
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Roll the Bones Test for Echo Grace Under Pressure Rush Hold Your Fire |
Posted By: crimson87
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 20:27
| After Power Windows , all of their records are the worst more or less. |
Posted By: Moatilliatta
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 21:25
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I'm not sure, they've made a lot of bad records. ------------- www.last.fm/user/ThisCenotaph  
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Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 22:30
| I can't even think of 5 Rush albums I dislike. The only studio album I haven't heard anything from is Test For Echo, and from all the Rush albums I own, I guess my least favorite is Grace Under Pressure. |
Posted By: Canprog
Date Posted: July 15 2009 at 22:58
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Roll The Bones Power Windows A Show Of Hands Test For Echo Presto |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: July 16 2009 at 08:24
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1. Rush 2. Test For Echo 3. Vapor Trails 4. Counterparts 5. Hold Your Fire E ------------- 
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Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date 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. |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: July 16 2009 at 08:49
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: July 16 2009 at 09:44
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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 Feedback ------------- |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: July 21 2009 at 22:49
I agree with all except Power Windows
One of their best of the 80s
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Posted By: Negoba
Date Posted: July 21 2009 at 23:13
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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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Posted By: JLocke
Date Posted: July 21 2009 at 23:41
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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 |
Posted By: MovingPictures07
Date Posted: July 21 2009 at 23:59
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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Posted By: Alberto Muņoz
Date Posted: July 22 2009 at 20:51
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Posted By: Xanthous
Date Posted: July 23 2009 at 13:46
| 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. |
Posted By: RPCSteve
Date Posted: July 23 2009 at 21:21
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.  ------------- And to the tune of a billion dollars, I supplied to the D.O.E. Some tasty little nuggets of alien technology. |
Posted By: Chris S
Date Posted: July 23 2009 at 21:49
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Terrible thread.....
I used to hate Test For Echo but actually it is great now
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Posted By: AtlantisAgony
Date Posted: July 24 2009 at 07:30
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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) ------------- proggity prog prog |
Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 24 2009 at 07:34
I'm glad you came to like it. I always did, but then again I like Counterparts less. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: JROCHA
Date 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. |
Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: July 24 2009 at 08:33
 Just bad production. Although I think VT is a bit over-layered for Rush. -------------
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: July 24 2009 at 09:06
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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
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: July 24 2009 at 13:33
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.  ------------- Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org Now also broadcasting on www.progzilla.com Every Saturday, 4.00 p.m. UK time! |
Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: July 28 2009 at 01:24
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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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Posted By: SergiUriah
Date Posted: July 28 2009 at 20:34
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5 bad Rush albums is impossible I think, but GRACE UNDER PRESSURE is a horrible one. ------------- http://img229.imageshack.us/i/bonfirma.jpg/"> 
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