Your favourite Rush albums?

I kind of lost interest in Rush after Moving Pictures, but that is one of my favorite albums of all, not just by Rush.

I go back and forth between Hemispheres and 2112 as my next favorite Rush albums.  

Hemispheres
2112
A farewell to kings
Caress of Steel
Exit Stage Left

These are the most creative and exciting in sound. Earliest Rush was still bluesy Led Zep style (fantastic but not as ground breaking as these prog albums). Later Rush became more pop as they followed the synth trend.

It appears there is a lot of love for the early Rush era and not much beyond that.

A lot of votes for Moving pictures, not been one of my top picks but will have to give it a spin later as it is one of the only two albums I have on vinyl right now.

@uberwaltz

I think Rush were greatest and most differentiated at prog Rock hence all the love for the third to fifth albums. They were good at radio pop too but it is a heavily crowded area so die hard fans love them for their most creative period.

@uberwaltz I would tend to agree on your fluff comment. I actually was listening to alternative radio in Toronto during that time and not much RUSH because I was not a fan of the ’fluff’ disks. However, I got back into RUSH when I moved to the US and started listening to the DIFFERENT STAGES live recording. That disk had some tunes from Roll the Bones and I was hooked.

My sister’s neighbor is the recording studio that RUSH recorded Presto. A truly awful release for me. This studio is in a rural area north of Toronto.

If you ever watch a Toronto Blue Jays game on mlb.com, and maybe a good time now with Vlady Jr being called up this week, look on the second row a few seats to the left, that would be Geddy Lee with the cap on.