Rush is amazing! Neil Peart is one of my favorites drummers.

Rush makes me think about all the things in universe, is really incredible.

Yep, I agree. Love Rush, favourite album is Hemisphere's.

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who's a fan? i've always liked them but didn't give them to much attention. I mean i listened to six or seven of their tracks but only recently have i been sitting down and listening to entire albums.

Do you like/dislike them? What do you think their best albums are?

Merged.

Captain Awesome please do a search for already existing threads before you start a new one.

Think you`ll find that most music buffs and rock enthusiasts love this group (they are very popular on these boards) Rush are the kind of group that you listen to, to really get into rock music:laughing: They`re popular for their superb technical ability, complex songwriting, shifting styles and even their dodgy lyrics:laughing:

The Rush Albums to have are: Moving Pictures, 2112, A Farewell to Kings, Grace Under Pressure, Permanent Waves in that order, plus a whole load of excellent live material.

Each person has the fav in the group and Geddy Lee was always mine with his unique voice and big bass lines.

I recently ran through my Rush collection and promptly deleted all the 70's stuff I had by them. I'm a big fan of Moving Pictures through to some stuff off Hold Your Fire. not really what diehard Rush fans want to hear but their 70's stuff bores the arse off me.

Even stuff like Fly By Night, Anthem or Working Man? Oh damn. I've always liked Lee's voice on Fly by Night and lets face it, Anthem and Working Man are pretty damn cool too. And then the stuff like Farewell to Kings and 2012?

Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures started the trend away from their traditional prog sound of the time and more of an emphasis towards shorter songs in general and the greater use of keyboards. It wasn`t until "Signals" released in 1982 with the brilliant lead single "Sudbivisions" that the group were putting out a more rock/pop (power pop) centric sound and I suppose "Grace Under Pressure" is their definitive power pop release. "Power Windows" is also a good album despite the terrible single "The Big Money" but don`t agree with "Hold Your Fire" as I always thought this a much weaker effort.

To show how poppy this band had become, Alex Lifeson in this era looked more like a member of Spandau Ballet than a rock band:laughing:

Yea, I never liked that change of style. For me, they peaked about halfway through Moving Pictures. I agree they released a lot of quality material, I even like their early stuff like "Working Man" quite a bit.

Geddy Lee is a wonder man of sorts.
He plays bass.
Sings.
AND plays keyboard.
SOMETIMES, all at the same time.
So take that piece of information and eat it, PUDDIN!