Your favourite Rush albums?

BTW, though I have a wide range of musical interests, pgaulke60 managed to put together a list of music that, for the most part, makes me gag.  Yuck!

If there is a more mindnumbingly boring music than early Springsteen, I can't think of it.  Santana - most overrated "guitar God" of all time. Rolling Stones?  Wake me when they're done.
My idea of hell, though, would be the music of Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy piped in all day long.  I'd be begging for the flames instead.

But, hey...that's the subjectivity of musical taste for ya....:)

2112
Hemispheres.  Gotta second you on Trees.

Trees AND 2112 are both well pointed commentaries.

@prof  " My idea of hell, though, would be the music of Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy piped in all day long."

De gustatibus non disputandum. And I don't mean that in a nice way. ;-)

Bitten by the bug in 1989, a 30-year Rush fan here (which is young compared to many) and my biggest regret about them is that I’ll never get a chance to take my young sons to see the live. I remember on my first date with the woman who became my wife I discovered she was a Rush fan as well - and that pretty much sealed the deal.

Anyway, my album tastes are somewhat unconventional:
1. Signals - spoke to my adolescence, my love of literary structure (I love how the album alternates themes of constraint and release), so many others. Plus, learning several years ago that Neil structured his drum parts in "Subdivisions" to reflect the dichotomy of marching in step with the crowd AND trying to be different blew my mind even more.

2. Presto - simply beautiful, if poorly produced. But melody-wise this album soars.

3. Clockwork Angels - more beautiful melodies, even if the storyline is a bit hackneyed. This album really made me appreciate Geddy’s songwriting talents more than I had before.

4. Hemispheres - got an original German pressing of this a few months ago and boy, does it sing on the system!

Also, why feel the need to say how much the dislike the band? Please read the threat title again. Seriously, @pgauke, stay in your lane.

@n80

I agree.
But I mean it in a nice way :)

My father-in-law listens strictly to classical music. To his ears, pretty much all other music, especially any popular modern music, is only fit to be played by "cavemen dancing around a fire." (His words).


I won’t be turning him on to EDM any time soon. But that’s ok, I don’t need his permission to like it, or Rush....

Everything I wrote was, of course, purely a reflection of my subjective opinion.

The guaranteed way to look like a fool is to go beyond one’s own opinion to make objective claims in pronouncing some music "good" or "bad."

Virtually every classic piece of music, or any musical style, had someone somewhere declaring it to be of no worth and "will not last."