YOUR Best of album for Rush

Working Man
In The End
Bastille Day
A Passage To Bangkok
Closer To The Heart
Circumstances
Freewill
Witch Hunt
Chemistry
Red Sector A
The Big Money
Open Secrets
The Pass
Roll The Bones
Animate
Resist
Earthshine
The Main Monkey Business
Halo Effect

 

What You're Doing
By-Tor and the Snow Dog
The Necromancer
2112
Xanadu
La Villa Strangiato
Jacob's Ladder
Red Barchetta
Subdivisions
Between the Wheels
Marathon
Mission
The Pass
Ghost of a Chance
Leave That Thing Alone
Resist
Freeze
Armor and Sword
Headlong Flight

 

If the idea is to make an album, then I'm paying attention to time and not making it any longer than 72 minutes. Here's what my favorite single-disc Rush comp with the one-track-per format would look like, with attention paid to the best way to sequence.

Force Ten
Spirit of Radio
Analog Kid
Dreamline
Presto
Xanadu
Distant Early Warning
Territories
Animate
Malignant Narcissism
Tom Sawyer
La Villa Strangiato

 

Bytor vs. Snowdog
Bastille Day
Closer to the Heart
Spirit of Radio
The Camera Eye
Subdivisions
Marathon
Mission
Show Don't Tell
Animate

 

As much as I love Rush, I'm just not a fan of the era of music that preceded their formation. I like songs from that era, but this collection for me was nothing special or unique.

I don't get much more out of it than I get from the Blue Cheer version.

 

1. Natural Science
2. Afterimage
3. Clockwork Angels
4. Earthshine (remix)
5. Open Secrets
6. Finding My Way
7. Time and Motion
8. Show Don't Tell
9. Emotion Detector
10. Bastille Day
11. Armor & Sword
12. Dreamline
13. The Weapon
14. Cut to the Chase
15. Witch Hunt
16. Something For Nothing
17. Anthem
18. Cygnus X-1
19. Cygnus X-1: Book II (Hemispheres)

 

Finding My Way
Fly by Night
Bastille Day
A Passage to Bangkok
Closer to the Heart
The Trees
Freewill
Red Barchetta
Subdivisions
Distant Early Warning
The Big Money
Turn the Page
The Pass
Roll the Bones
Stick It Out
Half the World
Ceiling Unlimited
Far Cry
Caravan

 

Up to 1982:

Working Man
Anthem
The Fountain of Lamneth
A Passage to Bangkok
Xanadu
La Villa Strangiato
The Spirit of Radio
Tom Sawyer
Subdivisions

 

Revising my list, I'm removing anything from Snakes & Arrows. I just can't see any reason to include any song from that album among what is best about Rush. Listened to it again this morning, and the album sounds like one long drone.

 

1. Distant Early Warning
2. Circumstances
3. Red Barchetta
4. BU2B
5. Secret Touch
6. What You're Doing
7. Something for Nothing
8. Limbo
9. Grand Designs
10. A Farewell to Kings
11. Workin' Them Angels
12. Face Up
13. Beneath, Between and Behind
14. Scars
15. The Necromancer (Pt. II: Under the Shadow)
16. Natural Science
17. Countdown
18. Cold Fire
19. High Water

I wanted to use Force Ten as that's one of my favorites, but High Water needs some more love. It's truly one of the band's most underrated tracks IMO.

 

1. Working Man
2. Anthem
3. Bastille Day
4. A Passage to Bangkok
5. Xanadu
6. Circumstances
7. Freewill
8. Tom Sawyer
9. Subdivisions
10. Afterimage
11. Manhattan Project
12. Time Stands Still
13. Show Don't Tell
14. Roll the Bones
15. Stick It Out
16. Test For Echo
17. One Little Victory
18. The Main Monkey Business
19. Headlong Flight

 

I'll give you High Water, but Face Up? That requires some 'splaining?!?!

 

In chronological order, not necessarily what I think are the "best", but what some of my favorites are:

1. Finding My Way
2. Fly By Night (or By-Tor)
3. Bastille Day
4. 2112
5. Xanadu
6. La Villa Strangiato
7. Natural Science (or Entre Nous)
8. Red Barchetta (or The Camera Eye)
9. Digital Man (or The Analog Kid)
10. The Body Electric
11. Manhattan Project (or Grand Designs)
12. Lock and Key (or Time Stand Still)
13. Show Don't Tell (or The Pass)
14. Roll the Bones
15. Alien Shore (or Cut to the Chase)
16. Totem (or Limbo)
17. How It Is
18. Far Cry (or Armor and Sword)
19. Headlong Flight (or The Garden)

Sorry for cheating with all the alternate choices, but Rush is my favorite band and OP asks the impossible.

 

I never do long lists, but I'm bored.

And I've been listening through Rush's catalogue lately!

Working Man
Fly By Night
Lakeside Park
2112
Xanadu
La Villa Strangiato
Different Strings
Tom Sawyer
Subdivisions
Distant Early Warning
Manhattan Project
Time Stands Still
Show Don't Tell (not familiar enough to think of better)
Dreamline
Animate
Test For Echo
Meh ... okay ... Ghost Rider
Far Cry
The Garden
Dancing Queen

 

And yet you rose to the occasion.

 

Dig in. That's a good song, but that album has some of their finest moments in that era, IMO.

 

Thats one of those albums with a good amoubt of filler, but the highs are SO high it totally counterbalances it, lol.

Show Dont Tell (most badass riff ever and so much fun on guitar)

The Pass

Presto

Superconductor

Available Light

War Paint

Chain Lightning

Actually, just take out the trio of Anagram, Red Tide and Hand Over Fist and and youd have a 39 minute killer album with no filler at all!!!

 

Great list! Replace Driven with Totem and youre there!

(Sorry, its my lifelong quest to sing the praises of Totem until others love it as much, lol)

 

I don't have any Rush in my collection, what is their best album? (No, I'm not buying 19 albums...)

 

It just grew on me over time. I really like middle section how it builds up to the guitar solo. Really though, I think all of side 1 on Roll the Bones is fun to listen to.

 

If this is a serious question, get a compilation and see which tracks you like. Then get the original album(s) with the tracks you like.

70's Rush is different than 80's and beyond Rush, but it's all good.

 

I'd say to get Moving Pictures immediately if not sooner...

 

A Farewell To Kings is my favorite.

 

Yes, It was a serious question. I figured in a thread like this I would get good suggestions. I don't like Geddy Lee's voice, but I guess that just "goes with the territory"...
The band is excellent technically, and I realize that. Is there a good compilation available?

 

1 anthem
2 bastille day
3 a passage to bangcock
4 closer to the heart
5 the trees
6 jacob's ladder
7 tom sawyer
8 new world man
9 distant early warning
10 manhattan project


i don't have all their albums, so that's the best i can do. if we could put complete pieces, rather than sections, it would look a little different