YOUR Best of album for Rush

Here are the rules:

1. You get to pick one song from every Rush original studio album. Only one. Nothing from live albums. Nothing from compilations. Nothing from Feedback (ugh...).
   
2. You do not have to pick one from every album, but if you don't pick one from Caress of Steel, you can't then pick two from 2112.
3. A song is a track on that album according to its sleeve listing. So if it has a sub-part i, ii, iii you can pick the whole song or just a part. But no, you cannot list the Fear Trilogy as one song.

This is not 'greatest hits' this is your best of, and you get to choose the song order. Let 'er rip.

 

Chronological, working backwards:

1. The Wreckers
2. The Way the Wind Blows
3. How It Is
4. Totem
5. Cut to the Chase
6. Dreamline
7. The Pass
8. Mission
9. Marathon
10. Red Sector A
11. Losing It
12. Red Barchetta
13. Natural Science
14. La Villa Strangiato
15. Closer to the Heart
16. Something for Nothing (yes, I'm sure on that)
17. Lakeside Park
18. In The End
19. Finding My Way

 

1. What You’re Doing
2. In The End
3. Lakeside Park
4. A Passage To Bangkok
5. Xanadu
6. La Villa Strangiato
7. Natural Science
8. Vital Signs
9. Subdivisions
10. The Enemy Within
11. Mystic Rhythms
12. Mission
13. The Pass
14. Bravado
15. Animate
16. Half The World
17. Earthshine
18. Workin’ Them Angels
19. BU2B

 

Dreamline
Fly By Night
I Think I'm Going Bald
Spirit of Radio
Subdivisions
Xanadu
Tears
YYZ
The Trees
Working Man

 

1. Working Man
2. Fly By Night
3. Lakeside Park
4. 2112 (This counts, as one track, right?)
5. Closer to the Heart
6. The Trees
7. Freewill
8. Limelight
9. New World Man
10. Red Sector A
11. Mystic Rhythms
12. Time Stand Still
13. The Pass
14. Roll the Bones
15. Nobody's Hero
16. Totem
17. Ghost Rider
18. Far Cry
19. The Anarchist

 

1. Working Man
2. Fly By Night
3. Lakeside Park
4. A Passage To Bangkok
5. Xanadu
6. Circumstances
7. The Spirit Of Radio
8. Red Barchetta
9. Losing It
10. Between The Wheels
11. Manhattan Project
12. Time Stand Still
13. Show Don't Tell
14. Dreamline
15. Animate
16. Test For Echo
17. One Little Victory
18. Far Cry
19. Headlong Flight

 

Finding My Way
Anthem
Bastille Day
Something for Nothing
A Farewell to Kings
La Villa Strangiato
Natural Science
Limelight
Subdivisions
Kid Gloves
Emotion Detector
Open Secrets
Available Light
Bravado
Leave That thing Alone
Totem
One Little Victory
Far Cry
Clockwork Angels

 

Making Memories
Lakeside Park
Lessons
Xanadu
The Trees
Entre Nous
Red Barchetta
Analog Kid
Afterimage

 

Working Man
Fly by Night
Lakeside Park
2112
Xanadu
La Villa Strangiato
Spirit of the Radio
YYZ
Subdivisions
Distant Early Warning
The Big Money
Time Stands Still

 

Probably my toughest choice on this list was this or Dreamline.

Sure does!!

I would have said this was the track I least expected to see here (because of the three other songs on this album), but then someone went and posted I Think I'm Going Bald.

 

Working Man
Anthem
Bastille Day
2112
Xanadu
La Villa Strangiato
The Spirit Of Radio
Limelight
The Analog Kid
Between The Wheels
Marathon
Time Stand Still
Available Light
Ghost Of a Chance
Cold Fire
The Garden

 

I understand nothing from Feedback makes sense as it's all covers, but otherwise what the hell's wrong with it?

 

Close second on my list for that album. Just listened to it today, and that's a great song. I chose groove over lyrics.

When a previously prolific band goes in to the studio more rarely, and then chooses to do an EP of covers when they do... Plus if I had gone to a show on that tour and heard any of those songs instead of an original, I would have been upset.

 

Working Man
Best I Can
Lakeside Park
Lessons
Closer to The Heart
The Trees
The Spirit of Radio
Limelight
Subdivisions
Distant Early Warning
The Big Money
Time Stand Still

 

1) Finding My Way
2) Anthem
3) Bastille Day
4) Something for Nothing
5) A Farewell to Kings
6) La Villa Strangiato
7) Natural Science
8) YYZ
9) Digital Man
10) Red Sector A
11) Mystic Rhythms
12) Force Ten
13) Scars
14) Where's My Thing
15) Animate
16) Test For Echo
17) Earthshine
18) Spindrift
19) Seven Cities Of Gold

 

This isn't a bad game, but it doesn't result in my "best of" as you state, at all.

In the Mood
Fly By Night
Bastille Day
2112
Xanadu
La Villa Strangiato
Freewill
The Camera Eye
Subdivisions
Distant Early Warning
Marathon
Time Stand Still
Superconductor
Ghost of a Chance
Animate
Driven
Earthshine
Spindrift
The Anarchist

 

I get ya. Maybe we can propose a new set of rules after a couple of days to keep it going.

 

Huh. It thrilled me as I love all those songs and think Rush played the hell out of 'em. Also, I realize that for some reason it's classed as an EP by the label ... but it's an LP. One of the best covers LPs I've heard.

 

Working Man
By-Tor and the Snow Dog
Lakeside Park
2112 (Could have picked Lessons, here.)
Xanadu (My fave Rush album.)
Hemispheres (Could have picked La Villa Strangiato.)
Natural Science
The Camera Eye
The Analog Kid
Kid Gloves
Marathon
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*cracks knuckles*

Okay, time to get some dirty looks:

1 What You're Doing
2 Anthem
3 Bastille Day
4 2112 (entire piece)
5 Xanadu
6 Cygnus X-1 (entire piece)
7 Freewill
8 Red Barchetta
9 Subdivisions
10 Afterimage
11 Manhattan Project
12 Time Stand Still
13 Show Don't Tell
14 Dreamline
15 Stick It Out
16 Driven
17 One Little Victory
18 Workin' Them Angels
19 The Anarchist


Hmmm. Maybe mine wasn't as far off...

 

In defense of Feedback... their cover of Summertime Blues is fantastic.

The other stuff is good too, but that track stands out.

 

Doing damage control after Vapor Trails.

 

1. Working Man
2. By-Tor and the Snow Dog
3. The Fountain of Lamneth
4. 2112
5. Xanadu
6. The Trees
7. Freewill
8. Tom Sawyer
9. Subdivisions
10. Distant Early Warning
11. The Big Money
12. Time Stand Stll
13. Show Don't Tell
14. Dreamline
15. Stick It Out
16. Test For Echo
17. Earthshine
18. Far Cry
19. Headlong Flight
(20. Bonus Track: Not Fade Away)

 

1. Working Man
2. Fly By Night
3. Fountain of Lamneth
4. 2112 Overture
5. Xanadu
6. La Villa Strangiato
7. Freewill
8. Limelight
9. The Analog Kid
10. Between the Wheels
11. Manhattan Project
12. Tun the Page
13. Presto
14. Ghost of a Chance
15. Everyday Glory
16. Driven

nothing stands out after this point, though I actually enjoy Feedback.

 

Hemispheres. No extra work required.