The Rad RUSH 57
Because I couldn't pick just 50. List is best 57 Rush songs. Top 25 ranked hard. Band Rules and stuff. |
1 | | Rush Permanent Waves
THE SPIRIT OF RADIO - Ah, The Spirit of Radio. The opening salvo on the first record released in the 1980s. It was a tumultuous time. An age of excess. An era personified by greed, repugnant fashion, and miles of cocaine. A co-mingling of unabashed tomfoolery, of unbridled skullduggery, of unmitigated ballyhoo. The track was a soothsayer. Released on the first day of the decade, it accurately predicted the scope of the pop-cultural and socio-economic mores of the time. It?s a song about riffs and how riffs make you feel. A song about how riffs are the best things in life. Without fear of retribution, it brilliantly scathes the notion how some exploit riffs for profit. How "prophets" is code for studio walls and concert halls and abusing the purest aspects of them. It perfectly encapsulates human nature, courageously calling out the corrupt aspects of life and telling us to ignore them anyway. To embrace the things that are inherently perfect despite their scars. We?re talking about music. The power and freedom of music. One of the few entities that carries across generations, that can inspire a timid man to hate rape a grizzly bear, or an evil man to hug puppies and sh*t rainbows. It?s that powerful, that inspiring, and that meaningful. It?s a spirit that ever lingers. |
2 | | Rush Moving Pictures
LIMELIGHT - The melodic guitar line in the chorus is the best moment in the history of music. |
3 | | Rush Signals
SUBDIVISIONS - Song is impossibly huge without being huge. |
4 | | Rush Power Windows
MANHATTAN PROJECT - Imagine a time, when it all began |
5 | | Rush Moving Pictures
RED BARCHETTA - Best song about a car ever |
6 | | Rush Fly By Night
FLY BY NIGHT - Simple, yet one of the best songs of all time |
7 | | Rush Rush
FINDING MY WAY - In 1991, Hit Parader said this was one of the best metal songs ever. m/ |
8 | | Rush Moving Pictures
TOM SAWYER - duh |
9 | | Rush Power Windows
Mystic Rhythms - This has always been my jam. Chorus is fucking GODLY. |
10 | | Rush A Farewell to Kings
CLOSER TO THE HEART - I mean, it got KILL into Rush |
11 | | Rush Rush
WORKING MAN - Since I'm all about the RAWK I value the first two albums much higher than most. |
12 | | Rush 2112
2112 - Mostly for the first 8 minutes. |
13 | | Rush Fly By Night
ANTHEM - riffs so hard |
14 | | Rush Permanent Waves
FREEWILL - whoa the solo dude |
15 | | Rush A Farewell to Kings
XANADU - If I progged harder this would probably be in the top 5 |
16 | | Rush Hold Your Fire
TIME STANDS STILL - best power ballad ever |
17 | | Rush Signals
ANALOG KID - goes hard |
18 | | Rush Rush
BEFORE & AFTER - love that intro, song rules |
19 | | Rush Hemispheres
CYGNUS BOOK 2 - damn this progs hard |
20 | | Rush Hemispheres
THE TREES - Ah, The Trees. The song makes me think of the Kurt Vonnegut short story "Harrison Bergeron", which presents a world where absolutely social equality is enforced by crippling those with special abilities so they are at the same level as the lowest common denominator. It's essentially a clever retelling of the "tall poppy syndrome", where people want to cut people with more money, talent, better looks, or whatever, down to size. I'm not sure if at the end the maples have arranged to have the oaks literally cut down to size, or if the maples' agitations have led to the whole forest being clear cut, but either way it's a clever jibe at those who nurse resentments and want to bring down those above them in some way. |
21 | | Rush Caress of Steel
BASTILLE DAY - used to hate this song till I realized it has the same riff as an AC/DC song which rules. |
22 | | Rush Clockwork Angels
HEADLONG FLIGHT - because of the RIFFS |
23 | | Rush Signals
NEW WORLD MAN - yeah |
24 | | Rush Fly By Night
BY TOR AND THE SNOW DOG - the start of prog |
25 | | Rush Roll The Bones
BRAVADO - we wont count the cost. |
26 | | Rush Counterparts
ANIMATE - album rules |
27 | | Rush Hold Your Fire
FORCE TEN - TOUGH TIMES DEMAND TOUGH TALK |
28 | | Rush Presto
THE PASS - Geddy said this was one of his favorite jams |
29 | | Rush Permanent Waves
NATURAL SCIENCE - progs kinda hard |
30 | | Rush 2112
LESSONS - underrated hard |
31 | | Rush Power Windows
THE BIG MONEY - the old time religion |
32 | | Rush Counterparts
CUT TO THE CHASE - rules |
33 | | Rush A Farewell to Kings
FAREWELL TO KINGS - love that acoustic |
34 | | Rush Hemispheres
LA VILLA STRANGIATO - duh |
35 | | Rush Roll the Bones
ROLL THE BONES - hip hop interlude goes hard |
36 | | Rush Presto
AVAILABLE LIGHT - melodic and tasty |
37 | | Rush Permanent Waves
JACOBS LADDER - rules |
38 | | Rush Grace Under Pressure
BETWEEN THE WHEELS - chorus rules hard |
39 | | Rush Vapor Trails
ONE LITTLE VICTORY - back from hiatus hard |
40 | | Rush Rush
WHAT YOURE DOING - that riff |
41 | | Rush Moving Pictures
YYZ - airport codes rule |
42 | | Rush Presto
ANAGRAM - rules |
43 | | Rush Fly By Night
IN THE END - rules |
44 | | Rush Roll The Bones
DREAMLINE - we are young and rule |
45 | | Rush Test For Echo
RESIST - damn tough to.....................RESIST |
46 | | Rush Counterparts
COLD FIRE - grunges hard |
47 | | Rush Clockwork Angels
CARAVAN - rules |
48 | | Rush Caress of Steel
FOUNTAIN OF LANMETH - Ah, The Fountain of Lamneth. The idea that this song is about a person's life cycle is interesting. Still, anyone with familiarity with LSD will attest that this song has a psychedelic interpretation. "(eyes) are open very wide" refers to the large pupils of an LSD taker. The "no one at the bridge" part tells of the horrors of a bad trip. "Panacea" relates the blessing of a good trip. "Have I left my life behind" refers to the feeling during a trip that the tripper has "died" and been resurrected. The beginning and end parts pertain to the "I AM THAT I AM" god-definition of "yahweh", a solipsistic experience of godhood that psychedelic-takers and religious mystics have. There is zero chance that this song has no psychedelic connotations. |
49 | | Rush 2112
PASSAGE TO BANGKOK - riffs |
50 | | Rush Grace Under Pressure
DISTANT EARLY WARNING - red alert |
51 | | Rush Hold Your Fire
LOCK & KEY - rules |
52 | | Rush Counterparts
STICK IT OUT - grunges hard |
53 | | Rush Test For Echo
TEST FOR ECHO - rules |
54 | | Rush Vapor Trails
EARTHSHINE - Sludges Hard |
55 | | Rush Hold Your Fire
TAI SHAN - and CHINA SANG TO ME |
56 | | Rush Snakes & Arrows
FAR CRY - rules |
57 | | Rush Clockwork Angels
THE WRECKERS - it was between this and Ghost Rider, tough choice. |
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