A nonny mouse wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 10:08 pm
Pyperkub wrote: ↑Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:52 pm
I wouldn't start with Hemispheres. It's probably my least favorite album by them.
What is your favorite?
It varies, they have way too many great albums. Maybe Permanent Waves, because it was my first. I think a huge reason why I don't like Hemispheres is Cygnus X1 - it is a pretty amazing piece, but I find it too jarring and unmelodic to my ears. I can understand how Hemispheres could be someone's favorite if they really enjoyed that piece however.
I'd probably recommend one of the Live albums for a n00b, just to make sure they get a drum solo! I didn't have Rush in Rio, so I just grabbed it and will listen on the way home from work tonight ( think I only have Exit Stage Left and A Show of Hands, for Live stuff)!
My favorite underappreciated album by them (post their pop-heyday carryover from Moving Pictures/Signals, but excluding Clockwork Angels) is Presto.
One thing I found for me about Rush, was that you really needed to give any album by them multiple listens, they would vary their musical styles so much from album to album that it would take a bit of an investment to truly grasp what they were doing in a new album. It may just be that I never gave Hemispheres enough of that chance, the Trees and La Villa Strangiato are two of my favorites, so I don't think so.
Roll the Bones is probably my second least favorite Rush album, FWIW.