Your favourite Rush albums?

2112 
1st album - Excellent 
Fly By Night

  Saw them perform these albums when they were new.

Hemispheres
2112
Moving pictures.

I had the red vinyl edition of hemispheres. 
It was so cool. I was 10yrs old. Wish I still had it. 

Never cared for them - to many other good bands of the era with much better songwriting and musicianship.  Never liked their shtick.  

My favorite grouping was Caress all the way through Grace. After Grace I found myself picking songs I liked rather than the entire disc. That certainly doesn't mean I didn't enjoy the body of work though after some listening time. I was certainly one that thought Signals was golden while the rest of the fan base was trying to take swan dive into an empty pool lol. They certainly should be ranked among the greatest of all time and given their due,

"to many other good bands of the era with much better songwriting and musicianship."

While their songwriting might be a subjective call, their musicianship is not. The list of musicians with better skills than those three is very short.