What Rush are you playing?

Gold

 

Flawed masterpiece (sonically)

You don't have to convince me. It's one of the studio albums I still listen to on a regular basis.

 

Caress of Steel

After all these years my favorite Rush album

Is is their best? Obviously not, but it's the one I go to the most

Still don't get the Bald hate, it's a young Neil already thinking like an old man, noting that time is fleeting and that it marches on while also mourning the 60s giving way to the "me"decade. These are themes he would return to later after dropping the Ayn Rand BS.

 

Listening via Apple the new Natural Science from the PWaves boxed set.

oh and btw, this is proof that Permanent Waves is an 80’s album, not a 70’s album.

 

I really think its the first Rush album. The self titled is practically a demo.

 

debut album this past week...

 

Chronicles

 

That's what I'd call the first single....a demo.

 

Live show from the new Permanent Waves 40th anniversary set via Spotify.

 

Disc two for me as well. Still loving The Trees intro a lot.

 

I'm a HUGE Caress of Steel fan. It's one of my all-time favorite albums.

Don’t RUSH to Judgement: An Impassioned Defense of Caress of Steel – Green and Black Music

 

Exit... Stage Left

 

*stolen from another thread here

 

All tracks are written by Neil Peart, Geddy Lee, and Alex Lifeson except where noted.

Set one (CD 1)
No. Title Length
1. "The World Is...The World Is..." 2:11
2. "The Anarchist" 7:07
3. "Headlong Flight/Drumbastica (drum solo)" 8:45
4. "Far Cry" 5:31
5. "The Main Monkey Business" 6:07
6. "How It Is" 4:45
7. "Animate" 6:15
8. "Roll the Bones" 6:05
9. "Between the Wheels" 5:58
10. "Losing It" (with Ben Mink) 5:55
11. "Subdivisions" 5:48

Set two (CD 2)
No. Title Length
1. "Tom Sawyer" (Peart, Lee, Lifeson, Pye Dubois) 4:59
2. "YYZ" (Lee, Peart) 4:41
3. "The Spirit of Radio" 5:03
4. "Natural Science" 8:31
5. "Jacob's Ladder" 7:34
6. "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres: Prelude" 4:19
7. "Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage: Part I/The Story So Far (drum solo)/Part III" 9:21
8. "Closer to the Heart" (Peart, Lee, Lifeson, Peter Talbot) 3:07
9. "Xanadu" 10:39
10. "2112: Part I ("Overture")/Part II ("The Temples of Syrinx")/Part IV ("Presentation")/Part VII ("Grand Finale")" 12:15

Encore (CD 3, part 1)
No. Title Length
1. "Lakeside Park/Anthem" 5:29
2. "What You're Doing/Working Man" (Lee, Lifeson) 9:35
Bonus (CD 3, part 2)
No. Title Length
1. "One Little Victory" 5:47
2. "Distant Early Warning" 5:24
3. "Red Barchetta" 7:08
4. "Clockwork Angels" 7:46
5. "The Wreckers" 5:39
6. "The Camera Eye" 10:21
7. "Losing It" (with Jonathan Dinklage

 

Test for Echo

 

Hold Your Fire

Studio album by
Rush

 

Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland

 

Permanent Waves - Rush
-A/-B, Rays x 2.
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Been on a bit of a Signals kick lately. REALLY digging "Chemistry" for some reason, a song I loathed when the album first came out. In fact the whole album was a bit tough for me following MP, but it grew in stature for me over the years.

 

Watched R30 today, and have listened to Counterparts about 7-10 times this week. Three times today.
Both excellent

 

AFTK - Rush
JAMF x 2.
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You inspired me to do the same Slick....

 

Sweet spin for sure!

 

Hammersmith Odeon 1978.

I sure as heck hope we get a complete 1981 concert when they do a Moving Pictures set. Montreal would be good

 

Criminally excluded from Exit: Stage Left. Side 2 should’ve been:

1. Limelight
2. Closer To The Heart (make a cut to the end/crash of Beneath, Between Behind...same key)...or use a 1981 performance
3. Jacob’s Ladder
4. Vital Signs

Slightly OT, I need to track down a clean copy of that b-side, and the audio/mix from the ESL laserdisc and put together a revised track list