Your favourite Rush albums?

Great topic, I’m a big fan up until moving pictures. I have tried very hard to like their newer stuff and didn’t know why I could not accept it. The balance is different Then I realized as I was listening recently. Geddi’s voice changed, he started to sing in a lower octave. This changed the sound of the band that I new and what impacted me when I was 14 and first heard Caress of Steel. You need that upper octave in the sound triangle, otherwise everything is low.
Having said that, my most played Rush albums are :

2112
Hemiapheres
Caress of steel
Moving pictures
Exit stage left 

But I own all their documentaries on video and their concert in Rio, I’m just stuck in the original Rush sound.
I feel the same way about pink Floyd, Toto and journey.

2112
Permanent Waves
Snakes and Arrows

Pedro.

You ate absolutely correct that as Geddy got older he could not manage the same notes and range as earlier life, old age sucks....lol.

This obviously has a big impact on the overall tone of their later music but also very likely on even the way they would compose later music too.

When you find limitations you tend to work around them as best you can.

Same happened to Ozzy, on the Black Sabbath farewell tour they were limited to playing songs Oz could manage to hit the notes on.

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Moving Pictures

This is the perfect storm album. As in they had perfected all aspects of their craft, including managing how they produced LP's. It's also the album I have listened to most, and as one fellow posted, it's a great demo LP for your system. In my mind, you could dial your system (gear choice) specifically to this album. You don't have the right system until this album sounds glorious. But I listen to classic rock mostly, so I'm a little biased.

2112 is creatively my favorite album. I think part of the reason for this, with me, is similar to your first kiss. I had their early albums, but this album was when my mind exploded and I thought these guys were one of the top bands in the world. Plus, the album creates a soundscape that is unique and timeless. All these years later, I can listen to this and the thought of how many decades have passed eludes me.