Rush - Studio Albums Ranking
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- This is the all-time, supersonic, no-doubt-about-it, album ranking for the progressive rock, hard rock, prog-metal, heavy-prog, prog-pop band Rush. Rush released 19 studio albums from 1974-2015. Rush is Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart.
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Their debut is such a kick ass rock album. Unreal people pick 90’s releases over it. Crazy.
I prefer the songs and albums from a more mature band. Rush and Fly By Night aren’t my favorites.
Exit...Stage Left is phenomenal.
Broon's Bane/The Trees/Xanadu is possibly the greatest 20 mins of live music ever.
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All the World's a Stage and the 1978 live CD from Different Stages Live are also amazing.
All of the Rush live albums are terrific.
Top 4 are on point, no matter the order. After that, this is one of the wonkiest rankings imaginable! Enjoyed the watch 👍
Anyone with a rush ranking is worth watching. I don’t love hold your fire either but signals is my #1. Thanks for making this video.
Hold Your Fire is so much better than a lot of people give it credit for. I've been a huge Rush fan since the 90s. Their synth heavy albums took years for me to truly get. Now I listen to them as much, or more than any other era. My roots are in hard rock and progressive rock, so it took some time to come around on the synth albums. It's easily some of Rush's greatest work. It's possible you'll find your opinions change on Hold Your Fire in the future. I could never do a Rush album ranking because there's so much music and my moods change. I have albums that I listen to less than others, but I don't think I could stick to a particular order of rank.
My views on HYF haven’t changed. I can listen to it right now and enjoy it , but it is still my least favorite Rush album. If the synth albums, it the least “synthy.”
Ranking albums is a difficult chore. I really don’t like doing it because there isn’t a consistent way to do it. I generally follow the rule of which album has the best collection of songs end to end (my opinion only). And the tiebreakers are which which have I listed to more over time, which would I listen to right now if given a choice, or which do I like better (I know generic) or which would you recommend. I find myself using the tie breakers a lot.
The rankings don’t mean too much because as I said there isn’t a bad Rush album. But I found what made it easier for me to rank Rush was to rank the individual “stages” first and then merge it together at the end. Have you watched the Rush Stage ranking videos? Have you watched the Rush album reviews?
Great to see the love for Rush. I first got into them when 2112 was released in 1976. Signed the record out from the school library. Then after listening to it for a week strait. Went down to the local record shop and picked up the my own new copy.
I have to point out the one mistake though. Power windows was not the next album after signals. Grace under pressure came next.
Fun to hear your take on your favourites. It would be real hear for me to pick a number 1.
Cheers.
6 tiered ranking:
1- Moving Pics, Permanent Waves
2-Power Wondows, Hemispheres, 2112
3-Signals, Fky By Night, Farewell 2 Kings
4- Roll the Bones , Grace under Pressure, Vapor Trails, Rush, Counterparts
5- Hold ur Fire , Presto, Test 4echo
6. Caress, Clockwork Angels, Snakes n Arrows
I'm also pretty new to Rush, I've enjoyed their hit songs for years but just recently began to dive into their discography, it's amazing how much great material I've been missing out on!
I can't rank them all yet but Permanent Waves is probably my favorite so far
I forgot ‘Turn the Page’ was on ‘Hold Your Fire’. I may have to demote it out of my top few Rush albums
@@magicsinglez Haha that made me laugh out loud.
"Lakeside Park" is actually a reference to St Catharines/Port Dalhousie. But you can see Toronto across the lake from there.
The only time I was ever in Canada was for a rowing regatta in St. Catharines and I had no idea about the connection even though I was a huge Rush fan. I randomly ran into Lakeside Park and my brain melted.
THANK YOU for not putting Moving Pictures at #1. I gotta say, you have a lot of hot takes. No one puts Test For Echo that high lol. and it's not uncommon to have Counterparts so high, solid album. I've seen it in other top fives before. Where you and I differ is placing Signals, Grace, and Power Windows so low, those are all in my top ten haha
I really liked reading your comment. It's been an hour and I'm still smiling. To be fair there isn't too much separation in quality between the albums that I ranked 1-5. Honestly, anything after 1981 for Rush is when the differentiation in rankings begins amongst the fans. Ppl are fairly polar on the 80s material (either like or dislike) and generally dislike the 90s and beyond. I kind of like all of it, however, I take a lot of heat for having Signals that low both from commenters like you and my friends. Thanks for listening and thanks for the comment.
Pleased to hear someone give praise to "Test for Echo" and "Counterparts". I actually would probably rank them higher, but your rank is higher than every other video I've seen.
Those are two of my "go to" albums for Rush. I've heard the 70s albums so many times and I generally like their 90s material better than the 80s. Vapor Trails and Roll the Bones included also.
@@coachplyoguy2637 Yes. I don't skip a single song on either album.
I think I am the only person that likes Hold your Fire. lol.
Great video!!
A bunch of ppl have told me HYF is their favorite Rush album!
Hold your fire is a grower, most people don't like it right away. Fave song on it is Mission
Hold your fire was my introduction to Rush, and it is my favorite hands down.
I don't agree with so many of your placements, but I actually really like and appreciate that- brings something new to the discussion. I would have Snakes, Fly, and Grace way higher with Windows and Fire much lower.
Available Light is one of my favs~~
Damn straight!
Yup ... top 4 works for me ... then Caress Of Steel (for Necromancer and Fountain of Lamneth) ... Question for you re Vapour Trails ... did you get the remixed version? Where would it fit in your list? Just curious .... CMcG, Aberdeen, Scotland ... p.s. gotta love Yes's Tormato ... just "works" ... and I am one of those who loves Circus of Heaven .... song worked so well in cconcert (especially the BBC Radio recording of Wembley 1978 shows)
I also share your appreciation for Caress of Steel which is why I wondered out loud why it was only like #7 on the list. Feels like it's better than that.
Vapor Trails - I have the original version from 2002. I picked it up a few years ago. I don't own the remix on CD, however, I have heard the remixed version on Spotify. I captured some of the differences (9 total) between the two in the Vapor Trails Album review czcams.com/video/NztOKh8RzUQ/video.html Hope you enjoy it. I like both versions - probably prefer the original.
I think ppl would be shocked if they did the Tormato vs Drama test the way I did. Thanks for listening and I can tell you have active listening skills - so kudos to you.
Last, there is a version of Circus to Heaven from 1978 Oakland, California, on Yes - The Word is Live. I probably haven't heard the Wembley version but probably similar if not identical.
My fav Rush album of all time is Counterparts
Good choice. 👍
You fixed it!
Yes Paul. Thank you so much for pointing it out. When you told me the issue I thought about it, researched it, identified what went wrong, and how it was impossible to fix. I had already trashed the files. So I needed to re-record!
Whoa brother! That was an, ummm, “interesting” take 😱😂 But that’s ok, I always respect unorthodox album rankings 🙏😊
Oh yeah? How so? You probably really love HYF?
Xanadu is probably my fave piece of theirs too. And I do like the Exit Stage Left version better than studio…
Xanadu is about tops for me with Rush. I would put Xanadu, Cygnus, and La Villa right at the top. I've really come around on Limelight and also Clockwork Angels. Rush has so many excellent songs and a lot of them are burried on albums that the fans don't frequent.
2112 is in a class by itself . It's a classic.
1) Signals 2) Moving Pictures 3) Permanent Waves 4) Clockwork Angels 5) Fly By Night 6) Grace Under Pressure 7) Hemispheres 8) Counterparts 9) Vapor Trails 10) A Farewell to Kings 11) Power Windows 12) 2112 13) Debut 14) Snakes and Arrows 15) Roll the Bones 16) Presto 17) Hold Your Fire 18) Test for Echo 19) Caress of Steel - LOVE The Necromancer, Lakeside Park, and Bastille Day. LOATHE side 2
You have the most interesting ranking I’ve seen yet. I’m not quite sure what to make of it. Especially Power Windows at 11. You seem to like the 80s stuff most but not that album.
I ran into a rush ranking video out of the blue and have watched several. Signals seems to get a lot of love but when it came out, it was a letdown after moving pictures. Lately it’s become my favorite with counterparts second.
Side 2 is just as good, you're nuts
@@davidmartinez2833 what’s your Rush top 10?
@@youtoo2233 how come Rush fans dislike The Fountain of Lamenth?
Thanks for speaking good of Roll the Bones.
It’s a pretty undervalued album. I like it.
With 19 albums, there's 121,645,100,000,000,000 possibilities for ranking them, so that's how many different arguments from Rush fans you'll hear. LOL! I agree with a lot of your rankings in a general way (a lot of albums are close to where I'd put them). My thing is that it starts getting subjective if an album is 1st or 2nd, or 5th or 6th. There are so many that are so close. I'd rather group them in batches where you can slide them around at will, and even then some are close to the border between batches, so take it with a grain of salt. Hahahaha!
TOP BATCH: Farewell to Kings... Permanent Waves... 2112... Hemispheres... Vapor Trails (VP can switch with MP, the other four, definitely not!)
SECOND BATCH: Moving Pictures... Counterparts... Clockwork Angels... Snakes and Arrows... Test for Echo... Grace Under Pressure (Except for MP or VP at the top, all are interchangeable)
THIRD BATCH: Power Windows... Fly by Night... Signals... Hold Your Fire... Caress of Steel (HYF really didn't age as well as others, same with Signals)
LOW END: Rush... Presto.... Roll the Bones ("Rush" can move up one and switch with CoS)
Presto has really good songs, but just doesn't quite work as a whole. It feels like they're doing something they weren't supposed to be doing. RTB is even moreso, with a couple of cringe songs. Caress of Steel..... It was a very valiant try. But "Fountain" is lyrically dense and the songs don't complement each other, and "Necromancer" has horrible lyrics dragging it down. I'm not sure if I should put Caress above Rush. Rush didn't have Neil, but Working Man, Finding My Way, and What You're Doing? Those are really great songs! Some things being towards the bottom of my list doesn't mean I think they're bad (except for RTB), just that I find other ones more compelling.
121 kajillion 645 trillion plus options! Hahaha. I like that you have Vapor Trails that high! Same for Test for Echo. Is Farewell to Kings your #1 favorite?
@@coachplyoguy2637 Farewell to Kings was when I first saw them. They were touring to promote it. Cheap Trick (who was very new) opened for them. I had never heard of them and was floored by the concert and they instantly became my favorite band. So I do have a lot of nostalgic sentiments regarding that album. I think it's great. They fully delved into prog-rock and made it more atmospheric than any other ones they recorded. The album has a great feel and a consistent sound/tone. It's grand! I'm pretty sure it's my fav. Permanent Waves is just too awesome to not be near the top. The combination of Jacob's Ladder and Natural Science is hard to beat, and Spirit of Radio encompasses every quality they have in one short song. Vapor Trails is filled with some of their most melodic songs. I sing along to that one a lot, not all of their songs are ones you can easily sing along too. That makes me rate it pretty high. I love that album. 2112 is up there because it's so passionate and it's when everything they were aspiring towards clicked into place. It was one of the earliest prog-metal albums. Though it's not quite metal, it's falls close enough. Moving Pics is, of course, flawless. I don't rate it at the top only because I like quirky and Permanent Waves feels a little more unique.
I'm really surprised by how low you rated "Signals", as it's probably in my top 5. Which, in no particular order would include Permanent Waves, Signals, P/G, Moving Pictures, and Hemispheres.
What is P/G?
@@coachplyoguy2637 Grace under Pressure.
@@ryancraig2795 hahahaha. I get it.
S Tier:
Moving Pictures
Hemispheres
Permanent Waves
A Farewell to Kings
Signals
A Tier:
Power Windows
2112
Grace Under Pressure
Fly By Night
Clockwork Angels
B Tier:
Hold Your Fire
Counterparts
Snakes and Arrows
Roll the Bones
Caress of Steel
C Tier:
Rush
Presto
Vapor Trails
D Tier:
Test for Echo
Great list. Test for Echo has become a go-to album for me.
You wanted to say “Dog Years” but played it safe
You’re right.
People dog on dog years but I've always liked it, it rocks
@@youtoo2233 the verse is interesting. It seems like they punted on the chorus.
HYF gets a bad rap. I always liked that album - force ten, time stand still, open secrets, high water all great songs imo. It was the couple that immediately followed that didn't do much for me.
It’s just ok. Not a bad album. Just too many good choices.
Great ranting, er rating:
Last - Snakes and Arrows. Shoots like a snake, misses like a Disney live action.
Best - ..... .... Hemispheres. My GOD!!!
Overrated - Fly by Night. Bytor is sick of flower power.
Underrated - Counterparts. It took every keystroke to make a statement.
Haha. This made me laugh! 😃 Good job. I have discovered that Snakes and Arrows is a fairly controversial album. The ppl either love it or hate it. I agree with you on Fly By Night. It’s in the bottom quartile. Hemispheres is the bestest.
1. Moving Pictures. 2. 2112. 3. Hemispheres. After Power Windows I lost interest in Rush.
Righteous!!
Listened until you started by throwing HYF and their debut under the bus and had to stop. God forbid you start praising shit albums like VT or T4E next. Everyone's entitled to their opinions... but it doesn't mean you have to listen to them all!
1. Hemispheres
2. 2112
3. Power Windows
4. Signals
5. A Farewell to Kings
6. Fly by Night
7. Grace Under Pressure
8. Caress of Steel
9. Presto
10. Hold Your Fire
11. Moving Pictures
12. Roll the Bones
13. Permanent Waves
14. Vapor Trails
15. Rush
16. Counterparts
17. Test for Echo
18. Snakes & Arrows
19. Clockwork Angels
Something like that. 1-18 are the albums I like. 19 I don't like and I think this album sucks.
Hell yeah!