Rush - the epics 1975-1981 POLL

new haven 1980 bootleg on youtube has 2112 and xanadu at 13 minutes each. i was so happy to hear xanadu and jacob's ladder live.

Speaking of which, shouldn't "Working Man" be in the poll? It clocks in at 7 minutes plus.

No, because it came out in '74 ;)

I know I'm in the minority here, but that first Rush LP is my favorite. Nothing against Peart, and sure, they were Zep copyists at that point but they were good at it.

I like the debut, but for me the band really begin with Fly by Night and even then they were just warming up for a couple of LP's!

i just played that first live double album over and over and over when i was a kid. 1979 and 1980 was just non-stop rush, sabbath, and priest for me. until kings of the wild frontier came out. (which i bought on october 1, 1980. a very definite before/after for me.)

I had that same rotation going, with Blue Oyster Cult thrown in for comic relief.

I saw Rush a bunch of times in those days - the opening act was always some kind of April Wine/Max Webster/Triumph combination.

I played that Rush Live LP over and over too, to the point where I was shocked when somebody mentioned that corny part at the end where you hear the band going "aw man, what a show!"...For whatever reason I never noticed it!

Listening to Hemispheres this morning is reminding me just how awesome this band were when they were firing on all cylinders.

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I haven't listened to any of these in probably a decade or more, but voted La Villa.

I ended up voting for Hemispheres because that's what I'm feeling right now. It's the moment they went from really good band to Godhead.

I saw Primus the other night and they tossed out the opening riff of Cygnus X-1 at one point.

Yeah, I voted for 'Hemispheres' too... my favourite of all the side-long epics.

Although the 'No One At The Bridge' section of 'The Fountain of Lamneth' is all-time for me... love the guitar solo on that.

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Top 2 OTM

Aww, I feel bad for Camera's Eye, it's nearest to my heart.

Xanadu's a pretty good jam, but I never got down with that "for I will dine on honeydew" stuff. Honeydew melons? Yech! Like that's supposed to be a big deal? Honey Dew donuts, maybe.

I always liked honeydew melon but tbf it was Coleridge who made a big deal about it in the first place.

Maybe honeydew melons taste fabulous while on opium.

0 votes for 'Natural Science'!

"natural science" (and "jacob's ladder"!) are in my top 4

Would buy a 7-sided LP set consisting of all these tracks.

Agreed - they were untouchable.