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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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n80
2,107 posts
 
"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.
nitrobob
238 posts
 

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

tedag
30 posts
 
2112 - is my favorite and the only album or theirs in my regular rotation

Moving Pictures- it takes me back to my high school days
Roll the Bones - its a solid album and the only time i've seen them live was on that tour. They were tight and put on a great show. Still can't figure out why they had Primus open for em, probably a Canadian thing.

gregdude
222 posts
 
My favorites are all up until and including moving pictures. I've had a long held belief that any good band's first 5(approximately) records are their best then they usually trail off. One possible exception being primus, they still jam hard af.
shawnmr2
8 posts
 
Being a drummer I always was a fan of All The World’s A Stage, which included the first 4 albums, then I would say 2112 and Farewell to Kings...Cygnus-X1 etc. was a killer track. Hemispheres and "La Villa Strangiato", I spent countless hours learning that tune getting up from my drum kit and starting it over(cassette deck). Then Moving Pictures album and the first time I saw them live (1981 New Orleans Municipal Auditorium) that sealed the deal.

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