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Topic: Rush
Posted By: digdug
Subject: Rush
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 08:57
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A lot of good music here ! ------------- Prog On! |
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 09:13
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Can't choose...maybe "Kings" ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: proggy
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 10:00
| Two Words: Natural Science |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 10:03
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While I could just as easily vote for Hemispheres, I'm going to be the rogue and be the only person to vote for Vapor Trails.
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 10:04
| I'll go against the grain here, and vote for Counterparts, in my view an almost perfect album. As I have stated on various occasions here, I am not a very big fan of their Seventies output, while I love most of their Nineties and later albums (and quite a lot of their Eighties releases too). |
Posted By: rushfan4
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 10:10
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I went with the easy pick and chose Moving Pictures, but I really don't have a favorite or least favorite Rush album, since I like them all in their own ways. I was tempted to go with one of the live albums just because they have the most quantity of Rush songs. ------------- 
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Posted By: listen
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 10:14
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Very tough. At different times it has been grace under pressure, moving pictures, hemispheres, power windows, signals. i'll have to revisit them to say which i enjoy most now. ------------- Now is all there is. Be before you think! |
Posted By: digdug
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 10:57
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There are more than a few 5 star albums here for me....but Hemispheres tops them all ------------- Prog On! |
Posted By: Stooge
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 11:02
| It's a tough choice between A Farewell To Kings and Permanent Waves. I've recently purchased Presto and Roll The Bones and while I wouldn't put them up among their best, I found them to be surprisingly good despite what I've heard about them. |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 11:05
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Moving Pictures still. First Rush album I ever bought and holds a special place in my heart. E ------------- 
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Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 11:10
| Moving Pictures. Easy choice for me. |
Posted By: Nightfly
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 11:30
| A Farewell To Kings closely followed by Hemispheres. |
Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 11:59
| A Farewell to Kings, but Hemispheres, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures are not far behind. |
Posted By: J-Man
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 12:02
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2112 and Caress of Steel are currently my fave Rush albums, but since there's no votes for 2112, I'll vote for that.
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Posted By: Isa
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 12:04
Exactly my stance on this. Hemispheres is my favorite album of all time!  |
digdug wrote:Posted By: Roland113
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 13:16
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I'm going with "A Show of Hands" for mostly sentimental reasons. The first concert that I went to without the parental units was on this tour. When the live CD came out, I ran out to get it, it was still one of the first couple of CD's that I had ever purchased (all tapes before that). To this day, it remains a great sounding concerts with many of my favorite Rush songs: Subdivisions, Red Sector A, Time Stand Still, Cinderella Man . . . I could go on. There are a few of my favorite songs missing, but this is still a pretty good representation of the era and a fond memory for me. ------------- -------someone please tell him to delete this line, he looks like a noob------- I don't have an unnatural obsession with Disney Princesses, I have a fourteen year old daughter and coping mechanisms. |
Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 13:27
This is a really tough poll. I could name anything before Vapour Trails for purely sentimental reasons, but I will go on current listening taste, and go for Grace Under Pressure, which I regard as a hugely underrated album. It just beats Moving Pictures, which was my first Rush album, and still sounds as good now as it did then. ------------- 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: Progosopher
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 15:39
Hemispheres  but not just for the sentimental reason that it was my first Rush album, but for the fact it is the best and most balanced of them all. Moving Pictures comes second for me - I'm suprised to see Hemispheres matching it vote for vote. After that, it's hard for me to say which, but I do like Grace Under Pressure, Permanent Waves, and Hold Your Fire a lot. My least favorite is easy - Vapor Trails.------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 16:18
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This goes between Hemispheres and Moving Pictures. Hemispheres wins. ------------- 
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Posted By: King Crimson776
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 16:28
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Oh yeah top 5-age: 2. Moving Waves 3. Hemispheres 4. A Farewell to Kings 5. 2112
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Posted By: JROCHA
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 16:30
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AFTK |
Posted By: alanight
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 17:42
| My first choice would be Hemispheres, but I'm a great fan of GUP too, so, that's my vote, to equal :) |
Posted By: American Khatru
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 18:36
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I don't listen to Rush much in recent years. But I did have a brief and personal little re-listen party about a month ago. I'd say I enjoyed Perm most on re-listen. And when I think about it, I might be able to say that that album was my favorite back in the day too, if only because I would figure out and play all the guitar parts (that I could manage anyway).
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Posted By: mistertorture
Date Posted: June 25 2009 at 19:43
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1) Permanent Waves 2) Hemispheres 3) Moving Pictures 4) Signals 5) Vapor Trails (too bad its production is so weak, I guess that's why is criminally underrated) -------------  
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Posted By: b_olariu
Date Posted: June 26 2009 at 00:56
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all with a plus on Hold Your Fire |
Posted By: hitting_singularity2
Date Posted: June 26 2009 at 01:03
exactly.. not to mention Spirit of Radio and Freewill backing it up. 2nd would have to be either 2112 or Rush...I actually really like their debut, Finding my Way and Take a Friend are just fun.. but Working Man is way overplayed |
Posted By: toolis
Date Posted: June 26 2009 at 05:23
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it's funny but, even that i acknowledge AFTK as their best efford, i much more enjoy listening to Signals! ------------- -music is like pornography... sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: June 26 2009 at 06:22
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Anything from Farewell to Pictures would do. Pictures it is this time. They were pretty unbeatable from 2112 to Grace Under Pressure and did many good albums after them as well. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: martinprog77
Date Posted: June 27 2009 at 03:39
 ------------- Nothing can last there are no second chances. Never give a day away. Always live for today. |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: June 27 2009 at 03:43
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Permanent Waves comes very near to my definition of a perfect album. ------------- 
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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: June 27 2009 at 08:26
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My personal RUSH Top-5.-
2. A Farewell to Kings
3. Moving Pictures
4. Permanent Waves
5. Test for Echo
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Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: June 27 2009 at 08:36
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Hemispheres AFTK PeW S&A MP ------------- 
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Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: June 27 2009 at 17:45
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: June 27 2009 at 17:56
 Runners up 2112 and A Farewell to Kings. |
Posted By: hitting_singularity2
Date Posted: June 28 2009 at 11:06
nice
btw, this is the kind of thread i came on this forum expecting to find.. this has been the only one I've read
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Posted By: Sangria
Date Posted: June 28 2009 at 16:21
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Hemispheres ------------- 
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Posted By: Queen By-Tor
Date Posted: June 28 2009 at 18:27
Only the best album ever: |
Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: June 28 2009 at 23:18
| I love every album, hands down. For me though it was a tough choice between HYF and GUP. Went with HYF, my only regret is that Kid Gloves is taking a back seat... |
Posted By: meptune
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 02:14
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That's way to much to really make a choice from that considers all of the important factors, so I'll just base it on which one I played the grooves off of and listened to the most times. It's A Farewell To Kings. ------------- 
"Arf, she said" |
Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 08:22
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This is made easy for me by the inclusion of the live albums.
It simply has to be Exit Stage Left. A brilliant tracklist, fantastic production and for me the band were at their absolute peak on this. The versions of La Villa Strangiato, Jacob's Ladder and YYZ are amazing. To be honest I'm shocked it has no other votes.
If I was pushed to vote for a studio album, it would have to be Moving Pictures. The Camera Eye and Witchhunt are just brilliant.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: June 29 2009 at 08:25
I don't know this one. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow">
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Posted By: StyLaZyn
Date Posted: July 14 2009 at 08:40
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Hemispheres is my fav. I am really digging Snakes and Arrows though. -------------
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Posted By: Roj
Date Posted: July 15 2009 at 03:05
| Exit Stage Left would be my choice overall, but as a studio album it simply has to be Moving Pictures. |
Posted By: Mladen_Serbia
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 03:47
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Where's the love for 2112? I'm suprised by the fact that it only has 7 votes. My top 5: 1. 2112 2. Permanent waves 3. Power windows 4. A Farewell to kings 5. Hemispheres |
Posted By: The Runaway
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 04:11
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AFTK is perfect in my opinion, so I guess my vote goes to that. ------------- http://www.formspring.me/Aragorn224" rel="nofollow - Trendsetter win! The search for nonexistent perfection. |
Posted By: zbida
Date Posted: November 06 2009 at 04:25
Moving Pictures make Permanent Waves to Farewell The King inside the Hemisphere???
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Posted By: Rushlover13
Date Posted: November 10 2009 at 19:58
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Hemispheres (cough cough, best album of 1978) ------------- I Love Rush. |
Posted By: A Person
Date Posted: November 10 2009 at 20:01
| For fun I said Caress of Steel. |
Posted By: mark kraken
Date Posted: November 21 2009 at 14:02
| there are a lot of great albums here, but hemispheres is rush and the most prog. |
Posted By: EliasMisael
Date Posted: November 25 2009 at 20:52
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Well My favorite Album from my favorite band is: Hemispheres, followed closely by Permanent Waves. But I have to admit that its (Rush is a living creature) definitive masterpiece is Moving Pictures ------------- "...Basic temperamental filters on our eyes Alter our perceptions Lenses polarize..."
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Posted By: Johnnytuba
Date Posted: November 25 2009 at 21:19
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Hemispheres will always be my favorite...however, Grace Under Pressure is often overlooked....that is a phenomenal album. ------------- "The things that we're concealing, will never let us grow. Time will do its healing, you've got to let it go. |
Posted By: SgtPepper67
Date Posted: November 26 2009 at 14:42
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My favourite Rush albums: 1. Permanent Waves 2. A Farewell To Kings 3. Moving Pictures 4. Hemispheres 5. 2112 Vapor Trails and Snakes and arrows are some of my favourites too. ------------- 
In the end the love you take is equal to the love you made... |
Posted By: Xanthous
Date Posted: November 28 2009 at 10:15
| Caress Of Steel. The Necromancer is the song that got me into Progressive music and I've had a love for all the songs on the album since then. |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: November 28 2009 at 10:37
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Hemispheres is the only Rush album I can tolerate in it's entirety I have the red vinyl. Certainly their peak. ------------- |
Posted By: ghost_of_morphy
Date Posted: November 28 2009 at 20:30
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I see you let live albums in. Permanent Waves is usually my knee jerk response, but it's hard to ignore Different Stages. -------------
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: November 28 2009 at 20:53
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great to see Hem getting so much love and beating the usual victors.. I shall therefore swing my vote to Signals, a beautifully clean and economic album but still with their high prog standards
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Posted By: steve j
Date Posted: November 29 2009 at 14:06
| My fave album is HYF, but it was a close run with Hemispheres (it was made in Wales you know) |
Posted By: mohaveman
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 15:31
| I love Perm Waves! |
Posted By: Basíleia
Date Posted: November 30 2009 at 15:38
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My number 1 is a tie of five prestigious alba: 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Grace Under Pressure....I don't know what all the fuzz around Moving Pictures is about: it's a decent album, but that's it. I'm voting: Hemispheres - just to create a distance between that one and Moving Pictures, seeying that I can't choose one of the five mentioned above. |
Posted By: llamalime
Date Posted: December 10 2009 at 01:23
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This is hard, but I went with Signals. It was tough choice from Signals, Power Windows, and Permanent Waves.
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Posted By: nahnite
Date Posted: December 12 2009 at 13:54
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"Vapor Trails" will always get my vote. It's my all-time favorite Rush record.
Aside from that, "Moving Pictures" is a VERY close second.
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Posted By: Hanke666
Date Posted: December 16 2009 at 13:27
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A Farewell to Kings! It has my favourite Rush song, Cygnus, and only song that's a bit weak, Madrigal. That one fits perfectly in it's spot though, and it isn't bad. ------------- 
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