Chula Vista

STUDIO ONLY

Just watched Beyond the Lighted Stage again so riding a Rush high. I discovered Rush at 15 with Caress of Steel, basically because the album cover was so cool. Didn't have a clue what the music was going to be like.



MIND. BLOWN. FOREVER.

The band I was playing professionally in from 1978 to 1981 was, in hindsight, basically almost a Rush tribute band. We did at one time or another:

Bastille Day
Circumstances
The Trees
Passage to Bangkok
La Villa Strangiato
Cygnus X1
Xanadu
2112 - Overture

Using just a turntable I learned the entire Hemispheres album and could play it note for note from beginning to end. The whole thing. Stupid crazy in hindsight.

Anyway: 5 Favorite Rush Albums (trying to encompass their entire career.)

Caress of Steel
Permanent Waves
Moving Pictures
Power Windows
Clockwork Angels

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Texas Boy

I am a big Rush fan and my top 5 list would be:
1.Permanent Waves
2.Hemisheres
3.A Farewell to Kings
4.Moving Pictures
5.2112

priestofsyrinx2112

Why don't people like 2112? It was my all time favorite album!

Frownland

I thought it would've been Permanent Waves knowing you .

1. Exit...Stage Left
2. All the World's a Stage
3. Rush in Rio
4. A Show of Hands
5. R40 Live

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

Chula Vista

I use to get goosebumps playing the guitar solo live. Saw that tour in a small theater in Mass. Geddy and Alex both played double necks during Xanadu.

Was the peak of their kimono days.

__________________

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

OccultHawk

5)Permanent Waves
4) Grace Under Pressure
3) Moving Pictures
2) 2112
1) Signals

Akai

Of the top of the head;

5: Hemispheres
4: Signals
3: Moving Pictures
2: 2112
1: A Farewell to Kings

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''To be honest, in my opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view,
but also by looking into this matter from a different perspective and by considering each and every one's valid opinion,
I do believe that I forgot what I was going to say.''


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Texas Boy

2112 is a bit overrated as an ALBUM. I never understood why is this album their second best-selling record after Moving Pictures (it has 3 Platinums in the USA).
The side one of that album is the perfect epic 2112, which is along with Xanadu the best thing they've ever done IMO. But a side two of this album is mediocre and filled with forgettable tunes.

OccultHawk

Xanadu isn't on 2112

Side two is a little weak sauce but side one is THAT good

Akai

You're thinking of 'A Farewell to Kings' mate

__________________

''To be honest, in my opinion, of course without offending anyone who thinks differently from my point of view,
but also by looking into this matter from a different perspective and by considering each and every one's valid opinion,
I do believe that I forgot what I was going to say.''


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