Their debut is such a kick ass rock album. Unreal people pick 90’s releases over it. Crazy.

Top 4 are on point, no matter the order. After that, this is one of the wonkiest rankings imaginable! Enjoyed the watch 👍

Exit...Stage Left is phenomenal. Broon's Bane/The Trees/Xanadu is possibly the greatest 20 mins of live music ever. 🤘 All the World's a Stage and the 1978 live CD from Different Stages Live are also amazing.

Great to see the love for Rush. I first got into them when 2112 was released in 1976. Signed the record out from the school library. Then after listening to it for a week strait. Went down to the local record shop and picked up the my own new copy. I have to point out the one mistake though. Power windows was not the next album after signals. Grace under pressure came next. Fun to hear your take on your favourites. It would be real hear for me to pick a number 1. Cheers.

Anyone with a rush ranking is worth watching. I don’t love hold your fire either but signals is my #1. Thanks for making this video.

Hold Your Fire is so much better than a lot of people give it credit for. I've been a huge Rush fan since the 90s. Their synth heavy albums took years for me to truly get. Now I listen to them as much, or more than any other era. My roots are in hard rock and progressive rock, so it took some time to come around on the synth albums. It's easily some of Rush's greatest work. It's possible you'll find your opinions change on Hold Your Fire in the future. I could never do a Rush album ranking because there's so much music and my moods change. I have albums that I listen to less than others, but I don't think I could stick to a particular order of rank.

6 tiered ranking: 1- Moving Pics, Permanent Waves 2-Power Wondows, Hemispheres, 2112 3-Signals, Fky By Night, Farewell 2 Kings 4- Roll the Bones , Grace under Pressure, Vapor Trails, Rush, Counterparts 5- Hold ur Fire , Presto, Test 4echo 6. Caress, Clockwork Angels, Snakes n Arrows

I'm also pretty new to Rush, I've enjoyed their hit songs for years but just recently began to dive into their discography, it's amazing how much great material I've been missing out on! I can't rank them all yet but Permanent Waves is probably my favorite so far

I forgot ‘Turn the Page’ was on ‘Hold Your Fire’. I may have to demote it out of my top few Rush albums

Pleased to hear someone give praise to "Test for Echo" and "Counterparts". I actually would probably rank them higher, but your rank is higher than every other video I've seen.

"Lakeside Park" is actually a reference to St Catharines/Port Dalhousie. But you can see Toronto across the lake from there.

THANK YOU for not putting Moving Pictures at #1. I gotta say, you have a lot of hot takes. No one puts Test For Echo that high lol. and it's not uncommon to have Counterparts so high, solid album. I've seen it in other top fives before. Where you and I differ is placing Signals, Grace, and Power Windows so low, those are all in my top ten haha

Available Light is one of my favs~~

I think I am the only person that likes Hold your Fire. lol. Great video!!

I don't agree with so many of your placements, but I actually really like and appreciate that- brings something new to the discussion. I would have Snakes, Fly, and Grace way higher with Windows and Fire much lower.

My fav Rush album of all time is Counterparts

Xanadu is probably my fave piece of theirs too. And I do like the Exit Stage Left version better than studio…

Whoa brother! That was an, ummm, “interesting” take 😱😂 But that’s ok, I always respect unorthodox album rankings 🙏😊

Yup ... top 4 works for me ... then Caress Of Steel (for Necromancer and Fountain of Lamneth) ... Question for you re Vapour Trails ... did you get the remixed version? Where would it fit in your list? Just curious .... CMcG, Aberdeen, Scotland ... p.s. gotta love Yes's Tormato ... just "works" ... and I am one of those who loves Circus of Heaven .... song worked so well in cconcert (especially the BBC Radio recording of Wembley 1978 shows)

1) Signals 2) Moving Pictures 3) Permanent Waves 4) Clockwork Angels 5) Fly By Night 6) Grace Under Pressure 7) Hemispheres 8) Counterparts 9) Vapor Trails 10) A Farewell to Kings 11) Power Windows 12) 2112 13) Debut 14) Snakes and Arrows 15) Roll the Bones 16) Presto 17) Hold Your Fire 18) Test for Echo 19) Caress of Steel - LOVE The Necromancer, Lakeside Park, and Bastille Day. LOATHE side 2

I'm really surprised by how low you rated "Signals", as it's probably in my top 5. Which, in no particular order would include Permanent Waves, Signals, P/G, Moving Pictures, and Hemispheres.

2112 is in a class by itself . It's a classic.

You fixed it!

With 19 albums, there's 121,645,100,000,000,000 possibilities for ranking them, so that's how many different arguments from Rush fans you'll hear. LOL! I agree with a lot of your rankings in a general way (a lot of albums are close to where I'd put them). My thing is that it starts getting subjective if an album is 1st or 2nd, or 5th or 6th. There are so many that are so close. I'd rather group them in batches where you can slide them around at will, and even then some are close to the border between batches, so take it with a grain of salt. Hahahaha! TOP BATCH: Farewell to Kings... Permanent Waves... 2112... Hemispheres... Vapor Trails (VP can switch with MP, the other four, definitely not!) SECOND BATCH: Moving Pictures... Counterparts... Clockwork Angels... Snakes and Arrows... Test for Echo... Grace Under Pressure (Except for MP or VP at the top, all are interchangeable) THIRD BATCH: Power Windows... Fly by Night... Signals... Hold Your Fire... Caress of Steel (HYF really didn't age as well as others, same with Signals) LOW END: Rush... Presto.... Roll the Bones ("Rush" can move up one and switch with CoS) Presto has really good songs, but just doesn't quite work as a whole. It feels like they're doing something they weren't supposed to be doing. RTB is even moreso, with a couple of cringe songs. Caress of Steel..... It was a very valiant try. But "Fountain" is lyrically dense and the songs don't complement each other, and "Necromancer" has horrible lyrics dragging it down. I'm not sure if I should put Caress above Rush. Rush didn't have Neil, but Working Man, Finding My Way, and What You're Doing? Those are really great songs! Some things being towards the bottom of my list doesn't mean I think they're bad (except for RTB), just that I find other ones more compelling.

Thanks for speaking good of Roll the Bones.

S Tier: Moving Pictures Hemispheres Permanent Waves A Farewell to Kings Signals A Tier: Power Windows 2112 Grace Under Pressure Fly By Night Clockwork Angels B Tier: Hold Your Fire Counterparts Snakes and Arrows Roll the Bones Caress of Steel C Tier: Rush Presto Vapor Trails D Tier: Test for Echo

You wanted to say “Dog Years” but played it safe

HYF gets a bad rap. I always liked that album - force ten, time stand still, open secrets, high water all great songs imo. It was the couple that immediately followed that didn't do much for me.

Great ranting, er rating: Last - Snakes and Arrows. Shoots like a snake, misses like a Disney live action. Best - ..... .... Hemispheres. My GOD!!! Overrated - Fly by Night. Bytor is sick of flower power. Underrated - Counterparts. It took every keystroke to make a statement.

1. Moving Pictures. 2. 2112. 3. Hemispheres. After Power Windows I lost interest in Rush.

Listened until you started by throwing HYF and their debut under the bus and had to stop. God forbid you start praising shit albums like VT or T4E next. Everyone's entitled to their opinions... but it doesn't mean you have to listen to them all!

1. Hemispheres 2. 2112 3. Power Windows 4. Signals 5. A Farewell to Kings 6. Fly by Night 7. Grace Under Pressure 8. Caress of Steel 9. Presto 10. Hold Your Fire 11. Moving Pictures 12. Roll the Bones 13. Permanent Waves 14. Vapor Trails 15. Rush 16. Counterparts 17. Test for Echo 18. Snakes & Arrows 19. Clockwork Angels Something like that. 1-18 are the albums I like. 19 I don't like and I think this album sucks.