5 Favorite Rush STUDIO Albums
 

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.

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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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Of the top of the head;

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

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.

Xanadu isn't on 2112

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

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