Permanent Waves by far. I found Moving Pictures rather compromised to a more "mainstream friendly" song form. Signals tried to correct that by embracing influences of new wave, synth music even reggae and resulted in a substantially different sound. But Grace Under Pressure put them for me, on a perpetual road to stagnation.
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I have to remind myself that I'm not on a Rush Forum... "I warmed up to the other songs on Moving Pictures"
"Permanent Waves has more filler"
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Easily Moving Pictures, their best album, and which includes their best track, "Red Barchetta." Permanent Waves is good, but I should like it better than I do.
Incidentally, I can personally attest that the run from Hemispheres to p/g produced some outstanding tours. Great live shows in this era.
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
PW... a perfect album all 6 songs are great.
there are a couple of tracks on MP that are not quite great.
This a highly recommended show for the great MP clan of fans (including myself), their Cleveland performance featured them back in form with quite much of their full 70's fire, for those who think they could on longer be any close. And Neil Peart really shows what he's for, especially on those most explosive triple fire off Rush's discography, ever! (Tom Sawyer-Red Barchetta-YYZ)
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It's "Moving Pictures" for Me (I love all the songs on it)! "Permanent Waves" is a close second (only song I don't like on it is "Different Strings").
On the whole, I vote Permanent Waves, but Moving Pictures gave us "Vital Signs" which is my all-time favorite Rush tune.
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Moving Pictures is better because of one thing....Spirit of Radio is on PW and I HATE THAT SONG!
Yea, Rush used to be me fav band but ever since around Roll the Bones, I just don't like the way they took musically. Can't see them live because Geddy's voice is gone and I just remember the shows of the 70's through the 90's and leave it at that.
A Farewell to Kings is Rush's best with Caress of Steel being a close second.
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Well, this is from their run of five "perfect" (to me) albums starting with AFTK and ending with Signals. Really impossible to choose, maybe I'd pick Permanent Waves by a hair because I like the "lesser" songs (Entre Nous, Different Strings) better than the "lesser" songs on Moving Pictures (Witch Hunt, Vital Signs)... although Vital Signs became a lot more interesting once I had the tablature and played the bass line.
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One of the first rock bands I really warmed up to during the early 80's, despite Lee's scratching vocals hahah
Yeah many different nuances I find in both, never noticed much of a great bass line on Vital Signs, will have to spin it again after a long while. Always appreciated the different colours that Entre Nous and Different Strings added to PW, pretty much like Broon's Bane atmosphere which fit so pefectly as an intro to The Trees - 'E... SL' is btw a GREAT live recording.
But I enjoy even more the weirdness of Witch Hunt these days, so today MP would get my vote.
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Man you're absolutely right, on target! Been thinking it is indeed their kind of Holy Trinity for my ears too. No Rush album achieved that triple height at the start of it, 3 fire spitting in a row! This makes MP so special for me too, closing with their best instrumental ever, just The Main Monkey Business perhaps can reach YYZ league.
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