Your favourite Rush albums?


Started as a side discussion on another thread so thought I would just make a thread for it.

Pretty simple really, your favourite Rush albums and why?

To keep it simple, studio albums ONLY, no bootlegs, live albums etc.
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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.

Good lord. Your question brings back vivid memories of all night’ers with headphones. I was renting a bedroom off a buddy at his dads place. Many an evening we came home in the we hours of the mornings after closing up every local rock and roll bar in town. His dad would of course be asleep. The object of the game back then was to meet a girl, bring her home, sneak her in, and then out, of our rooms before mornings. Brad and I kind of had a little competition going on . But most of the time, we came back home alone. The headphones would go on, and so would 2112. And then Farewell to Kings. I even had a  mural painting of that huge hawk from Fly by Night on the trunk lid of my Electra 225 Buick I drove back then. No wonder I had issues picking up girls. Thanks for the memory.. LOL
2112

Farewell to Kings