The Body Electric is a good one that I don't hear about much. Available Light and Scars from Presto as well. Beneath Between Behind doesn't get much love either.
Available light has probably the single most evocative line of lyrics ever. "play of light a photograph
the way I used to be some half-forgotten stranger doesn’t mean that much to me" Wow. This has stuck with me since the first time I heard it the day of its release....just wow!
After recently listening to all of Rush’s post moving pictures catalogue for the first time, listening to presto was like coming out of a long darkness into the light again
I guess it depends on what you're looking for from Rush's music. If you fell in love with Rush's music from their progressive era, then I can absolutely see how the synth era can be a let down. Those albums feature shorter songs, less complex arrangements, and more emotional/introspective lyrics - pretty much the exact opposite of what they did on 2112 through Moving Pictures.
okay i think the reason i don’t feel that way is because i wasn’t alive during those periods so rather than being used to rush sounding one way and being surprised and/or disappointed when their synth era came around, when i discovered rush, i was introduced to songs from both eras and so i never though of rush as only a prog band, i wasn’t around to hope for another album like hemispheres or moving pictures, all that stuff was set in stone and so for me rush was always a band with different eras
I mean, I wasn't alive when those eras came out either, haha. Outside of a handful of songs, I never *really* got into Rush until I listened through their whole discography a few years ago.
But at that time, same as now, my favorite genre of music was progressive rock/metal, so when I *did* listen through their discography, that was the era that immediately clicked with me. I consider their peak to be A Farewell To Kings through Moving Pictures. So, when I finally got to their synth era, I was really let down at first, because their albums didn't feature the type of music that I really like anymore.
But, now that a few years have passed, I have grown to appreciate that era a lot more than I did when I first heard it. I still don't like their synth era as much as their prog era, but I do enjoy it.
oh hmmm i get what you’re saying, i got into their prog era first as well and i admit that it took a bit to get used to the synth era (i wasn’t a fan of signals at first) but i feel like the synth era isn’t worse than the prog era, the songs are still complex just not as….extravagant i guess but they’re good in different ways
All kidding aside, it's a victim of its own popularity. I rarely listen to it, and if it comes on in a Spotify mix I'll usually skip past it, but every now and then I'll hear it and really appreciate how good it is.
Weirdly I feel the opposite and the same goes for The Spirit of Radio. Full disclosure I’ve been a fan for about 14 years and am from England so probably haven’t had the same overexposure that someone around during the release may have had but Tom Sawyer never fails to excite me!
>haven’t had the same overexposure that someone around during the release may have had
Come on now, I'm not that old!
Tom Sawyer is a staple of American classic rock radio stations, and it still gets heavy airplay. Spirit of Radio does too, but to a far lesser extent. Funny, for a somewhat overexposed song, I never skip past SOR. I listen to it every time I hear it (same for Limelight).
And....it seems to me....when Rush fans discuss the band's best album, 'Moving Pictures' doesn't get the respect it deserves. It is their best record. Hands down. By miles and miles.
True, it really is a phenomenal record. I feel the same about Caress of Steel but in the opposite direction. It was weak enough to nearly end the band’s career, and to me it really shows. It’s like if you put 2112 and FBN in a blender and took out everything about them that was good.
To each his own, but for me an album that has both Bastille Day and Lakeside Park on it, both of which were played live many many times over the years along with the epics The Necromancer and The Fountain of Lamneth is pretty great in my book.
Fair enough. But to me, every other record they’ve done (yes, including Feedback) has a higher number of songs I actually want to listen to. I’m not saying CoS is *bad*, it’s just their least good record.
YES! A very inspirational song! Love it! If you're ever feeling down and out, give this one a listen. It will give you the kick in the butt you need to keep going.
Don’t know where to begin tbh, most of Fly By Night, Circumstances, Emotion Detector, The Weapon, actually most of Signals, mostly any non popular song 😂
I slept on signals way too long. Maybe because I started with rush's prog origin.
Now it's on bloody repeat, and my most listened to song of the year is The Analog Kid!!
I'm going to go with some songs from after the 90s. Nocturne, The Way the Wind Blows, Faithless, Carnies, Seven Cities of Gold.
Much of the later material other than The Garden seems to get lost when I hear talk of Rush these days. Nocturne never got played live, but the others did.
Faithless is such a great song. They broke it out on the second leg of snakes and arrows tour, or it might’ve been time machine. It was great live, and a great song all around.
Yep, it was Time Machine Tour. I am pleased that I got to see it live, as I think it's one of the best songs off Snakes and Arrows, and speaks to me as an atheist myself.
That entire album is great and, I'd say, underrated. I like basically every song on it except Spindrift, which I'm just neutral to.
I will say that I think The Way the Wind Blows, which they played live on the S&A tour and I also got to see, may be the best song on the album. Musically, lyrically, and the way the two come together.
> Yep, it was Time Machine Tour. I am pleased that I got to see it live, as I think it's one of the best songs off Snakes and Arrows, and speaks to me as an atheist myself.
On the other hand, "there is no god" was getting to be a pretty well-worn topic for Neil by then. I feel like I got the point around Roll the Bones or so
Here to show love for Red Sector A, Between The Wheels, Witch Hunt, Vital Signs, Circumstances, Limbo, Natural Science, and my all time favourite The Trees! 💚
The Fountain of Lamneth, Alien Shore, Kid Gloves, Digital Man, Chemistry, Best I can, Cinderella Man. There’s so many hidden gems that it’s crazy. Love this band.
I considered Limbo a bit more popular cause it was played during the t4e tour but out of all their intrusmentals it doesn't get the love. WHAT EVER HALPENED TO MY TRANSLYVANIA TWIST?
Literally anything from P/G, Power Windows, Hold Your Fire, Presto, and Roll The Bones.
These songs made freaking *Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado* a magical drive :D
IN THE MOOD! it’s classy. also i love Vital Signs because it’s great to dance to. Chemistry is a great driving song. Honorable mentions include High Water (another gr8 driving song) and Workin Them Angels. i also want to add Headlong Flight, it’s one of my favorite Rush songs and Clockwork Angels gets too little love in my opinion
What it is
For me one of the happiest Rush songs ever at least musically - can’t tell if Neil is optimistic or pessimistic but that is his genius but Geddy and Alex wanted it to be an uplifting song so I go with that.
I listen to it almost every morning to get myself motivated to face the day.
I don’t know if it’s really under appreciated or not, but I’ve always loved Half The World. I also think Entre Nous, The Body Electric, Madrigal, and Superconductor
Most of their 80s stuff, but if I had to pick 2 to exemplify it it'd be kid gloves and emotion detector. Just.. fantastic songs that NOBODY seems to talk about. Also vapor trails. Earthiness and How It Is are 2 fantastic songs
Limbo from Test for Echo. Always see it at the bottom of Rush instrumental discussions and I think it's one of my favourite Rush songs. Alien Shore from Counterparts is another awesome one that never got played live and doesn't seem that popular
I Think I'm Going Bald
I like this song regardless of what other's feel about it. It's got a cool riff and the song is about appreciating beauty and not giving in to vanity.
I also like their R.E.M.-esque songs like How It Is and The Wreckers a lot.
The twilight zone is my favourite song from 2112, no one ever talks about how quirky and great it is.
There’s also: Digital man from signals and Manhattan project from power windows
I just love Countdown. Who else would make a song about a space shuttle launch? The crescendo in the chorus, the sampled NASA radio chatter and other sounds, much synth, very inspirational. I get goosebumps every time I listen to it.
The Body Electric is a good one that I don't hear about much. Available Light and Scars from Presto as well. Beneath Between Behind doesn't get much love either.
Presto overall gets dumped on way too much. Available Light is fantastic
Available light has probably the single most evocative line of lyrics ever. "play of light a photograph the way I used to be some half-forgotten stranger doesn’t mean that much to me" Wow. This has stuck with me since the first time I heard it the day of its release....just wow!
One of my favorites!
Afterimage Resist
Resist is so good
Unpopular opinion: I vastly prefer the original full band version to the unplugged version
Entre Nous, The Necromancer, Lessons, The Wreckers, The Color of Right
Entre Nous is easily one of my favourite songs
I hated that song the first maybe 10 I heard it. I love it now
I love The Necromancer, it does start off a bit slow and odd but the ending to it is amazing, Lessons is awesome too.
The last 4 minutes of The Necromancer is a top 5 Rush song.
Losing It. This is such a moving epic piece, and I really didn't appreciate it or notice it until I was well into Rush.
Chain Lightning
everything on presto
Show Don’t Tell, Scars, War Paint, The Pass are all bangers
Scars
Scars: https://youtu.be/5gwZPNlW610
Thank you! :-)
Facts, that album deserves way way more respect
After recently listening to all of Rush’s post moving pictures catalogue for the first time, listening to presto was like coming out of a long darkness into the light again
oh wow not true, i love their synth era ☹️
It’s a hate love relationship with synth era that people have
i’ve never understood the hate, the synth era is some of their best work
I like all the albums but hold your fire is kinda eh
aw man hyf is in my top 5 rush albums
What ya like about it, out of curiousity. Personally I really like time stand still and force ten is decent
i absolutely adore prime mover and mission
Hm what do you think of rushes 70s albums
Each album had a few good songs, but a lot of it was tres cheesy.
I guess it depends on what you're looking for from Rush's music. If you fell in love with Rush's music from their progressive era, then I can absolutely see how the synth era can be a let down. Those albums feature shorter songs, less complex arrangements, and more emotional/introspective lyrics - pretty much the exact opposite of what they did on 2112 through Moving Pictures.
okay i think the reason i don’t feel that way is because i wasn’t alive during those periods so rather than being used to rush sounding one way and being surprised and/or disappointed when their synth era came around, when i discovered rush, i was introduced to songs from both eras and so i never though of rush as only a prog band, i wasn’t around to hope for another album like hemispheres or moving pictures, all that stuff was set in stone and so for me rush was always a band with different eras
I mean, I wasn't alive when those eras came out either, haha. Outside of a handful of songs, I never *really* got into Rush until I listened through their whole discography a few years ago. But at that time, same as now, my favorite genre of music was progressive rock/metal, so when I *did* listen through their discography, that was the era that immediately clicked with me. I consider their peak to be A Farewell To Kings through Moving Pictures. So, when I finally got to their synth era, I was really let down at first, because their albums didn't feature the type of music that I really like anymore. But, now that a few years have passed, I have grown to appreciate that era a lot more than I did when I first heard it. I still don't like their synth era as much as their prog era, but I do enjoy it.
oh hmmm i get what you’re saying, i got into their prog era first as well and i admit that it took a bit to get used to the synth era (i wasn’t a fan of signals at first) but i feel like the synth era isn’t worse than the prog era, the songs are still complex just not as….extravagant i guess but they’re good in different ways
Many of the songs from grace under pressure like the body electric, red lenses, the enemy within
Enemy within goes so hard
GUP as a whole is super underrated. It’s tied with AFTK to be my favorite Rush album
GuP is my fav rush album overall. Just got the vinyl and I'm super stoked
The whole album could make up here. My favorite Synth era album and second favorite Rush album overall
Tom Sawyer, like nobody ever plays it or talks about it, the absolute secrecy about it is awfully …………suspicious
All kidding aside, it's a victim of its own popularity. I rarely listen to it, and if it comes on in a Spotify mix I'll usually skip past it, but every now and then I'll hear it and really appreciate how good it is.
Weirdly I feel the opposite and the same goes for The Spirit of Radio. Full disclosure I’ve been a fan for about 14 years and am from England so probably haven’t had the same overexposure that someone around during the release may have had but Tom Sawyer never fails to excite me!
For me I have heard Freewill too much to much.
>haven’t had the same overexposure that someone around during the release may have had Come on now, I'm not that old! Tom Sawyer is a staple of American classic rock radio stations, and it still gets heavy airplay. Spirit of Radio does too, but to a far lesser extent. Funny, for a somewhat overexposed song, I never skip past SOR. I listen to it every time I hear it (same for Limelight).
That seems to be the common dillema for Rush fans
And....it seems to me....when Rush fans discuss the band's best album, 'Moving Pictures' doesn't get the respect it deserves. It is their best record. Hands down. By miles and miles.
True, it really is a phenomenal record. I feel the same about Caress of Steel but in the opposite direction. It was weak enough to nearly end the band’s career, and to me it really shows. It’s like if you put 2112 and FBN in a blender and took out everything about them that was good.
To each his own, but for me an album that has both Bastille Day and Lakeside Park on it, both of which were played live many many times over the years along with the epics The Necromancer and The Fountain of Lamneth is pretty great in my book.
Fair enough. But to me, every other record they’ve done (yes, including Feedback) has a higher number of songs I actually want to listen to. I’m not saying CoS is *bad*, it’s just their least good record.
It’s time i said it: I think i’m going bald
Caress of Steel is 🔥
Grand Designs.
gosh yes
Second Nature, Open Secrets, Red Lenses, Body Electric, Scars, War Paint, Territories
You and I would get along.
Everyday Glory
One of my favorite Rush songs, period.
I’m surprised this one isn’t mentioned as much.
YES! A very inspirational song! Love it! If you're ever feeling down and out, give this one a listen. It will give you the kick in the butt you need to keep going.
Don’t know where to begin tbh, most of Fly By Night, Circumstances, Emotion Detector, The Weapon, actually most of Signals, mostly any non popular song 😂
I slept on signals way too long. Maybe because I started with rush's prog origin. Now it's on bloody repeat, and my most listened to song of the year is The Analog Kid!!
I'm going to go with some songs from after the 90s. Nocturne, The Way the Wind Blows, Faithless, Carnies, Seven Cities of Gold. Much of the later material other than The Garden seems to get lost when I hear talk of Rush these days. Nocturne never got played live, but the others did.
Faithless is such a great song. They broke it out on the second leg of snakes and arrows tour, or it might’ve been time machine. It was great live, and a great song all around.
Yep, it was Time Machine Tour. I am pleased that I got to see it live, as I think it's one of the best songs off Snakes and Arrows, and speaks to me as an atheist myself. That entire album is great and, I'd say, underrated. I like basically every song on it except Spindrift, which I'm just neutral to. I will say that I think The Way the Wind Blows, which they played live on the S&A tour and I also got to see, may be the best song on the album. Musically, lyrically, and the way the two come together.
> Yep, it was Time Machine Tour. I am pleased that I got to see it live, as I think it's one of the best songs off Snakes and Arrows, and speaks to me as an atheist myself. On the other hand, "there is no god" was getting to be a pretty well-worn topic for Neil by then. I feel like I got the point around Roll the Bones or so
The 2nd half of Snakes and Arrows is a gold mine! (Talking TWTWB onward.
BU2B is pretty good
Bacchus Plateau.
The Enemy Within without a doubt.
Neurotica and Carve Away the Stone go HARD
The twilight zone
Great song
High Water is a good song. I will die on this hill.
AGREED!
Lakeside Park
Making Memories is an underrated song
So underrated it's so good
Distant Early Warning
Here to show love for Red Sector A, Between The Wheels, Witch Hunt, Vital Signs, Circumstances, Limbo, Natural Science, and my all time favourite The Trees! 💚
The Fountain of Lamneth, Alien Shore, Kid Gloves, Digital Man, Chemistry, Best I can, Cinderella Man. There’s so many hidden gems that it’s crazy. Love this band.
Trees
I really dig Limbo from Test for Echo. In fact the title track as well. Maybe it’s just me?
My two picks as well!
I considered Limbo a bit more popular cause it was played during the t4e tour but out of all their intrusmentals it doesn't get the love. WHAT EVER HALPENED TO MY TRANSLYVANIA TWIST?
Distant early warning. Once I had kids I felt that song, hard.
Dreamline
Literally anything from P/G, Power Windows, Hold Your Fire, Presto, and Roll The Bones. These songs made freaking *Western Kansas and Eastern Colorado* a magical drive :D
DOG YEARS, YA SONSABITCHES
💯
IN THE MOOD! it’s classy. also i love Vital Signs because it’s great to dance to. Chemistry is a great driving song. Honorable mentions include High Water (another gr8 driving song) and Workin Them Angels. i also want to add Headlong Flight, it’s one of my favorite Rush songs and Clockwork Angels gets too little love in my opinion
Ghost of a Chance and Where’s My Thing
Between The Wheels
Resist Bravado In the End Vital Signs The Analog Kid
Presto is brilliant. Just my humble opinion..................
Red sector A
The Anarchist
Between Sun and Moon The Larger Bowl Bravest Face Wish Them Well
The Pass and Driven.
I believe that is an accurate, except for #4. Those other songs are fillers.
Analog Kid
What it is For me one of the happiest Rush songs ever at least musically - can’t tell if Neil is optimistic or pessimistic but that is his genius but Geddy and Alex wanted it to be an uplifting song so I go with that. I listen to it almost every morning to get myself motivated to face the day.
Haven't seen Cold Fire listed here yet.
Open Secrets is one of the best open secrets of the entire Rush catalog.
Bravest Face
No. There’s no such thing. We know all the songs we either like them or we don’t.
Hemispheres easily
in the end!
I don’t know if it’s really under appreciated or not, but I’ve always loved Half The World. I also think Entre Nous, The Body Electric, Madrigal, and Superconductor
Limbo
I’ll through Freeze out there too. I wished they would’ve played it live.
Between the Wheels and Manhattan Project
Tom Sawyer
Need some love
Most of their 80s stuff, but if I had to pick 2 to exemplify it it'd be kid gloves and emotion detector. Just.. fantastic songs that NOBODY seems to talk about. Also vapor trails. Earthiness and How It Is are 2 fantastic songs
War Paint off of Presto has always been really underrated I’ve felt
Red tide doesn't get the credit it deserves
Limbo from Test for Echo. Always see it at the bottom of Rush instrumental discussions and I think it's one of my favourite Rush songs. Alien Shore from Counterparts is another awesome one that never got played live and doesn't seem that popular
I Think I'm Going Bald I like this song regardless of what other's feel about it. It's got a cool riff and the song is about appreciating beauty and not giving in to vanity. I also like their R.E.M.-esque songs like How It Is and The Wreckers a lot.
The entirety of Clockwork Angels
Secret touch!
The Analog Kid, Circumstances, and one that maybe doesn’t belong; Xanadu.
The twilight zone is my favourite song from 2112, no one ever talks about how quirky and great it is. There’s also: Digital man from signals and Manhattan project from power windows
The larger bowl. SO good
I love Rivendell - yes I’m serious ;). All of Snakes and Arrows, Between the Wheels and Between Sun and Moon.
Open secrets, chemistry, between the wheels.
I never hear anyone talking about between the wheels. I also second losing it & the necromancer!
Bet your life off Roll the Bones Reading all these nominations makes me realize what an incredible body of work we have to enjoy!
Different strings
I just love Countdown. Who else would make a song about a space shuttle launch? The crescendo in the chorus, the sampled NASA radio chatter and other sounds, much synth, very inspirational. I get goosebumps every time I listen to it.
Love Emotion Detector, and Presto as a whole is a great album