Rank the Rush albums

[Draconator]

All the albums have some special moments. But for me, their most complete album is Clockwork Angels. No sleepers or skip songs on that album. It is a true masterpiece; what a way to finish your career. 

 

What say you?

Edited May 30 by Draconator

[TheCockSportif]

CA is excellent, and definitely a great way to close out.  It's still MP for me with a nod to PW.

 

[Rat-boy]

I’ve always been partial to Hemispheres. The A side is not as powerful overall as the A of 2112, but it it’s a great concept tying into Cygnus X-1, and the album overall has some truly memorable tracks:

 

The Trees

La Villa Strangiato

The Sphere

 

Agree with the OP - every album except maybe the first is memorable for its own reason. But I’d have to put MP as the most complete. Nothing there below a grade of B+ by my opinion for sheer listenabilty, although other albums have more for music geeks like me.

[DD4Bills]

I don't specifically recall their "Parament Waves" album, but voted for it anyway 😜

 

If you ask me again next week, I'd probably give a different answer...but that's the way it is with Rush fans.

[BillsFanNC]

Tough, tough choice but I'll go with Grace Under Pressure. 

 

If going by decade..

 

70s: 2112

 

80s: Grace

 

90s: Counterparts

 

Post 2000: Clockwork Angels

[Draconator]

1 hour ago, DD4Bills said:

I don't specifically recall their "Parament Waves" album, but voted for it anyway 😜

I can never spell Permanent right. So I did what I thought, and Grammerly gave me "parament" and I totally missed that—fixed now. 

[Philly McButterpants]

I became a Rush fan with a Farewell to Kings and Xanadu and Cygnus X-1 still rank among my favorite tracks. 

[JÂy RÛßeÒ]

The one i have tattooed on my arm - Grace Under Pressure.  

 

20 hours ago, Philly McButterpants said:

I became a Rush fan with a Farewell to Kings and Xanadu and Cygnus X-1 still rank among my favorite tracks. 

The first of my 23 Rush concerts was the final date on that tour in Halifax Nova Scotia

Edited May 31 by JÂy RÛßeÒ

[Draconator]

39 minutes ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

The first of my 23 Rush concerts was the final date on that tour in Halifax Nova Scotia

The first of my 37 Rush Concerts was also on that tour, in Buffalo. 

[Rico]

All The World’s A Stage

Permanent Waves

2112

Fly By Night

Rush

Hemispheres

A Farewell To Kings

Caress of Steel

[Draconator]

44 minutes ago, Rico said:

All The World’s A Stage

Permanent Waves

2112

Fly By Night

Rush

Hemispheres

A Farewell To Kings

Caress of Steel

 

I left the live albums off—just the studio albums. The live albums are an entirely different thread. 

[US Egg]

Never bought a Rush album, but, my younger brother did. I had been going to concerts a couple years, he hadn’t. 
 

My mother made me take him to his 1st concert in ‘76, Rush at the Century Theater. I was glad he was a Rush fan.

[T&C]

23 minutes ago, US Egg said:

Never bought a Rush album, but, my younger brother did. I had been going to concerts a couple years, he hadn’t. 
 

My mother made me take him to his 1st concert in ‘76, Rush at the Century Theater. I was glad he was a Rush fan.

Mine too, I still have the beat up stub... its in two pieces. Rush is ok but really I only like the hemi lp and the worlds a stage lp's. 

[US Egg]

22 minutes ago, T&C said:

Mine too, I still have the beat up stub... it’s in two pieces. Rush is ok but really I only like the hemi lp and the worlds a stage lp's. 

You went to the same ‘76 show?

[T&C]

25 minutes ago, US Egg said:

You went to the same ‘76 show?

Yes, but if I remember right it was billed as the new century theatre.... the price was $6.00. I'll have to look tomorrow for more details off of the stub.

[BillsFanNC]

18 hours ago, JÂy RÛßeÒ said:

The one i have tattooed on my arm - Grace Under Pressure.  

 

The first of my 23 Rush concerts was the final date on that tour in Halifax Nova Scotia

 

18 hours ago, Draconator said:

The first of my 37 Rush Concerts was also on that tour, in Buffalo. 

 

This is the 40th anniversary of p/g.

 

Nothing officially announced yet, but we should be getting a deluxe box set treatment.  I have the MP box but skipped Signals because it had no live material. If any box set  needed a live show it was Signals as it's the only tour from the 80s without either a soundboard bootleg or official live release.

7 hours ago, T&C said:

Yes, but if I remember right it was billed as the new century theatre.... the price was $6.00. I'll have to look tomorrow for more details off of the stub.

 

There an old interview with Neil Peart where he talks about driving down from St. Catherines to see Genesis at the Century theater circa 73/74. 

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

I voted 2112, simply because I enjoy bloated prog rock anthologies like pretty much any ELP recording and I saw the 2112 tour 😂

[Gugny]

2112 for me. 

[BillsFanNC]

On 6/1/2024 at 2:22 AM, US Egg said:

It might of been, but it was hardly new. Had only about 2500 seats.

 

Saw so many good bands there before they made it to the big time.

 

My 1st concert was there, Genesis in ‘74. Mind blowing., also ELO, Billy Joel, The Tubes, they were wild, Kansas.
 

And again, in ‘78 I had to take my brother to see some band he liked called Van Halen, I was glad he was a fan.

 

Found the Neil Peart article.  You took in that Genesis Buffalo show with Neil only a few months before he joined Rush in '74.

 

Peart went on to say that he was fortunate enough to see Collins play with Genesis in 1974 at the Century Theater in Buffalo, New York. “It was simply a galvanising performance by him and all of that excellent band,” he said. “The music from that night’s show echoed in my head long after”.

 

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/phil-collins-influence-rush-neil-peart/

[US Egg]

7 hours ago, BillsFanNC said:

Found the Neil Peart article.  You took in that Genesis Buffalo show with Neil only a few months before he joined Rush in '74.

Quite a testament to the band that two years later they packed the same theater…..and I was there.