# Your Top "X" Favorite RUSH Albums **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 28, 2020, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192 "2020-08-28T01:07:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/21 "2020-08-30T12:49:38Z")
Thanks! That would be my number 5, then (it’s the only one on my list that never made the transition in my collection from vinyl to CD, so I haven’t heard it in a while) ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2020, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/22 "2020-08-30T14:49:12Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > No love for the Rutsey album? It obviously has a different flavor from all the other albums but I like the blues-rock. My favorite album after 1990 is probably Feedback; I love the cover of Crossroads. I’ll give it a spin once or twice a year, but it’s more of an interest because of Working Man. Otherwise, it would be one of a lot of bands that tried to sound like Led Zeppelin ---
**Author:** ![Boudicca90](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boudicca90/32/16818_2.png) [@Boudicca90](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boudicca90)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/24 "2020-09-09T05:06:23Z")
Agreed. Rush didn’t really become Rush until Neil joined, imo. Their first album is good, but it’s been their more progressive and experimental stuff that has appealed to me the most. I honestly think they would have become a footnote in music history if it wasn’t for Neal Peart’s influence on their music and lyrics. ---
**Author:** ![Hilary\_Algar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilary_algar/32/4282_2.png) [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2020, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/25 "2020-09-09T07:18:18Z")
> [@Boudicca90](#): > > I honestly think they would have become a footnote in music history if it wasn’t for Neal Peart’s influence on their music and lyrics. No guff ! Agreed \> 3,000% ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 11:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/26 "2020-09-10T11:07:13Z")
> [@Boudicca90](#): > > I honestly think they would have become a footnote in music history if it wasn’t for Neal Peart’s influence on their music and lyrics. That first Rush album would be a footnote, perhaps Working Man would have been in rare rotation on classic rock radio for a while and now on Deep Cuts type radio online. But I can’t see Geddy or Alex just packing it in and taking jobs in accounts payable. I think they’d both go off and join different bands. ---
**Author:** ![Mars\_Horizon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mars_horizon/32/2804_2.png) [@Mars\_Horizon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mars_Horizon)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2020, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/27 "2020-09-10T21:54:10Z")
My top eight are as follows: 1. Moving Pictures 2. Permanent Waves 3. Hemispheres 4. Signals 5. Power Windows 6. Grace Under Pressure 7. Hold Your Fire 8. Clockwork Angels Unsurprisingly the list skews to the 80’s…that’s when I discovered them and became a rabid fan. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2020, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/28 "2020-09-11T04:42:04Z")
Totally agree. Had John Rutsey not been a type 1 diabetic and had to quit the band due to the resulting health issues, they would probably have put out a few albums and been vaguely remembered as an opening-act band. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/29 "2020-09-12T08:38:30Z")
> [@John\_DiFool](#): > > MP & PW for me. Is that second one Permanent Waves or Power Windows? ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/30 "2020-09-12T08:49:31Z")
1. Hemispheres 2. Permanent Waves 3. Moving Pictures 4. 2112 {\*} 5. Grace Under Pressure {\*} Toughest to rank as the 1st half is as good as anything they’ve done, but the 2nd half blows. Moving Pictures is kind of a dividing line between their early proggy stuff vs. their later synth-heavy alternative rock. Obviously I strongly prefer the earlier work. GUP barely nosed out Farewell to Kings for the #5 spot. ---
**Author:** ![LLCoolL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/llcooll/32/3596_2.png) [@LLCoolL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LLCoolL)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/31 "2020-09-12T08:50:39Z")
> [@by-tor](#): > > They lost me after Signals. Same here, except I checked out after Grace Under Pressure. (Although _Time Stand Still_ from **Hold Your Fire** is a great track. It’s even more bittersweet with Neil gone.) ---
**Author:** ![Hilary\_Algar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilary_algar/32/4282_2.png) [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/32 "2020-09-12T20:18:28Z")
> [@LLCoolL](#): > > Is that second one Permanent Waves or Power Windows? Just my two ¢, but if I were a bettor, might could bet that PW in this case might be _ **Permanent Waves** _ because _ **Permanent Waves** _ immediately preceded _ **Moving Pictures** _ and because **John\_DiFool** lists his two favorites as MP (_ **Moving Pictures** _) and PW **(_Permanent Waves_**?) ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/33 "2020-09-12T22:20:19Z")
Gonna toss this out- Most Under-rated track: _Best I Can_ off **Fly By Night** One of the few songs with lyrics by Geddy, I seem to recall. _Great_ solo by Alex. ---
**Author:** ![Hilary\_Algar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilary_algar/32/4282_2.png) [@Hilary\_Algar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilary_Algar)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192/34 "2020-09-13T00:58:12Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > One of the few songs with lyrics by Geddy, I seem to recall. My all time favorite song with lyrics solely written by Geddy Lee: _Different Strings_ This song is the last _Rush song_ in which Neil Peart does _ **not** _ have lyric credit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-top-x-favorite-rush-albums/919192.md?page=1)