Lateralus

Ick.. .I can only go with 10 selections. I picked Moving Pictures, it is the best album ever made period!

KnightLerxst

Moving Pictures...although Permanent Waves and Signals run a close 2 and 3 in my book.

anglagard

You didn't list my favorite, "Power Windows". "A Farewell to Kings", "Hemispheres", "Permanent Waves", and "Grace Under Pressure" are a close second. Most underrated Rush album: "Caress of Steel". Favorite live album: "All the World's a Stage".

Lateralus

Sorry, only had 10 choices...I love Power Windows also.

timmer

I love Counterparts. For newer Rush, that album is incredible.

Jason

I voted for newer Rush. From that list, Moving Pictures is the best one. I love Counterparts and Power Windows too.

According to their label, Rush are officially back in the studio, so we can look forward to a new album by summer or fall

Lateralus

www.geddylee.net They have been talking about a early 2002 release. The hired a producer around September and that usually means the album is almost completed. I bet they finished recording right before the holidays.

Lateralus

There is a new Rush Book coming out and they have it at Amazon! Get it here! (I clicked through DVDTALK's link for Amazon, so I'm hoping that this is the correct DVDTALK link)

Giantrobo

I love 'em all because each one has it's good and bad. Plus, I think RUSH is soooo talented it's hard for me to be objective. I mean their worst stuff is still better than most modern band's best.

KnightLerxst

Word.

jkcarter

Moving Pictures!

BTW- Don't you just hate those guys who say if you've got one Rush album you've got them all?

bigjim25

Myself, I like Chronicles. That's almost enough Rush for me beside CPs.

slop101

I used to be the biggest Rush fan all through the 80s. Mostly because I hated a lot of the music from that dacade. I had all their albums, seen them live on every tour, memorized all the lyrics and could actually play most of Alex's guitar riffs.

But they just don't make any sense to me anymore. I'm not talking about their new material - it's still pretty much the same. What's not the same is me - I just don't get them. Lyrics I once loved sound obvious, trite and stupid. Also, the music and performance comes off so mechanical and technical that my feeling of wonder in it is now replaced by a feeling of annoyance.

Anyways, the only Rush album I can still bear to listen to is 2112.

Mostly for sentimental reasons because it was the first Rush album I listened to and one of my first albums ever.

Foole

I like all new and old Rush. Out of the specific choices, I picked Signals...some innovative stuff there...

ChrisKnudsen

where was the "none" choice?

Lateralus

Well you are from Kansas that should explain it. Go back to listening to your Garth Brooks album and leave us Rush fans alone.

ChrisKnudsen

I am sorry that I think that Rush sucks but it wasn't until two years ago that I found out that Rush had a male vocalist! Rush is the most played rock band probably here in Kansas. I find Rush to be annoying and I had never owned anything but a rock album. I moved to Kansas from Seattle a few years ago.

Lateralus

Some people do find Geddy's voice a bit annoying, but that mostly from their earlier albums. (Some critics even called him a "screaming banshee") However, on Rush's later albums Geddy's voice just seems to be getting better and much less annoying. Kansas must be a pretty cool state to be playing Rush, but most likely it's from their earlier albums.

anglagard

ChrisKnudsen,
If you don't mind me asking, why exactly did you reply to this thread? Did you not read Blade's statement about crapping in people's threads and generally being a troll?

ChrisKnudsen

I replied to this thread because Rush is in my top 3 three of the worst bands but I admit I never heard Rush's later stuff so I will check it out at cdnow.com. If I saw a post about Staind, I would do the same. People just have different tastes and I just made a wise crack. This will be my last post on this thread until I listen to see if Geddy changed his voice in the later albums.

Lateralus

Wow! The only one that did not get a vote so far is Hemispheres. Just goes to show how good and how diverse Rush is. I just can't believe that Hemispheres did not get a vote yet, its such a great album!

sundog

My favorite is Presto, but I think Permanent Waves edges out Moving Pictures by a hair as their best. Natural Science is one of their best songs.

As for Hemispheres, the album is very good but The Trees may be their apex of silly, overdone lyrics.

anglagard

I'm also a big fan of "Hemispheres" and almost voted for it as my favorite. Very underrated. The "Tour of the Hemispheres" was the first time I saw them live. I would love for them to release a live version of Side 1 on CD.

Wait, what am I talking about! I forgot that the great and legendary ChrisKnudsen thinks they suck. I need to burn all my Rush CDs and listen to bands that only know 2 or 3 notes, take heroin, and sing about how much life sucks. Those damn Rush guys play too many notes and use words I don't understand. My mind simply can't handle them. AAARRRGGGHHH!

KnightLerxst

Hemispheres is indeed very underated. It contains one of the most amazing tracks of all time...La Villa Strangiato...amazing stuff...

bigjim25

From www.billboard.com Edited by Jonathan Cohen / January 09, 2002, 10:40 AM

Rush Wraps New Album

Veteran rock power trio Rush has finished recording its as-yet-untitled next Anthem/Atlantic studio album, the group's first since 1996's "Test for Echo." Sessions recently wrapped in Toronto, with the band serving as producers and longtime collaborator Paul Northfield engineering. Atlantic expects the album to be released in early spring.

"It's been almost five years since we've done any writing together, and there's a bit of feeling each other out that needs to happen," vocalist/bassist Geddy Lee said early last year. "We've all been in such different head spaces, it's going to take some time for us to communicate musically. I think you have to start to communicate as people first, and the music comes as an extension of those good feelings."

"Test for Echo" was a No. 5 hit on The Billboard 200, with its title track vaulting to No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and "Half the World" reaching No. 6 on the same tally. "Different Stages," a three-CD live album spanning shows from 1978, 1994, and 1997, bowed at No. 35 on The Billboard 200 in November 1998.

In the downtime since "Test for Echo," tragedy befell Rush when drummer Neil Peart's 19-year-old daughter died in 1997. Her passing was followed by the death of his wife in 1998. Lee released his first solo album, "My Favorite Headache," in December 2000, notching a No. 20 hit on Mainstream Rock Tracks with the title track.