![]() Gotta love the hammer dulcimer.ġ48 – Time and Motion. Yeah, Test for Echo doesn’t fare well on this list, and I can’t disagree with that. Sure, it might be worth a remake without quite so many layers of keyboards, but the tribute to heroes is inspiring.ġ52 – Resist. Come on, man. But I love Neil Peart’s lyrics here, and Geddy Lee weaves some wonderful melodic bass lines throughout.ġ59 – Lock and Key. The keyboards are a bit overboard here - it’s late-80s Rush, after all - but this doesn’t seem worth dumping at the bottom here along with the remainders from their immature debut or the synth-rockers from Roll the Bones that didn’t age well.ġ54 – Mission. Love it. Even the remixed version of that album, which removed much of the sludge that made the album a difficult listen, didn’t do this song many favors. Wow, really? This was one of my favorites on Vapor Trails, though like much of that album, it wasn’t recorded particularly well. But again, Rush owned the silliness here, and this was always a crowd-pleaser in concerts.ġ62 – Peaceable Kingdom. It’s all quite silly, but it doesn’t pretend to be anything else, and the guitar riff is pretty good.ġ64 – Roll the Bones. Some people hate the rap segment here with the heat of a bunch of prog-rock fans being forced to listen to Taylor Swift and Vanilla Ice. Yeah, In the Mood is a little immature, and its inclusion in latter-day setlists was probably ironic, with the happily married Geddy Lee singing about picking up the hot woman at the party. Their debut album was basically three teenagers distilling Led Zeppelin and other influences into a blues-rock album from which the only real standouts were the blazing Finding My Way and the rock-radio anthem Working Man. I won’t replicate the whole list ( take a look), but I’ll highlight a few worth emphasizing or disputing.ġ67 (last) – In the Mood. So let’s put off work a little longer and take a look. Then Ultimate Classic Rock’s Ryan Reed, who is not one of the UCR staffers I know from Popdose, took it upon himself to rank every Rush song. A couple of dud songs, but overall, their best album since the Permanent Waves through Signals heyday. ![]() ![]() I didn’t realize until today that I’d forgotten to review Clockwork Angels, so I’ll do so here: It’s good. I thought I took on a massive task when I reviewed every Rush album through 2008 (see most of the “rush” category here). ![]()
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