You can never go wrong with anything by RUSH

Permanent Waves

The first one I ever bought was Hemispheres, so I will say that is my favorite

I loved them as a guitar playing teenager back in the 70's but they're hard to listen to now. If I had to pick one album I thought was my favorite it would be A Farewell To Kings.

What is it that makes them a band that males identify with and women don't like as much. I have probably asked at least a hundred people about RUSH. Almost ever man definitely knows them. Almost every women either has no clue who they are or is like, yeah don't overly like them. After "I Love You Man" came out it seems that I wasn't the only one to think this.
I think I'm between Fly by Night and 2112, but I think 2112 just because it was the first album I was introduced with. Plus the numbers also significant for me, nothing to do with the band.

My favorite band. I have all their albums and DVDs and have seen them twice in concert. Moving Pictures is my favorite, largely due to the 'first side' of Tom Sawyer, Red Barchetta, YYZ and Limelight. But as a prog rocker, a close second is Hemispheres, with my favorite track being La Villa Strangiato. Thanks for asking this question. A friend of mine and I, both huge Rush fans, were highly critical of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Rolling Stone (very much the same thing), who never understood Rush and their fan base, and finally had to concede this band's greatness in 2013! It appears they may finally be hanging it up.

Not a huge Fan, but had a friend who was an UBER fan. Owned a set of Ludwigs like the drummer whom he idolized in the 70's.
He turned me onto Rush with 2112
I do not know if that is before or after moving pictures, but just saying that makes me hear
"We are the priests
Of the Temples of Syrinx
Our great computers
Fill the hollowed halls"

So hard to pick a favorite, but I default to the album that got me into them - Permanent Waves... Freewill = Agnostic anthem...

That being said, Clockwork Angels is up there... great swan song...

Signals. I don't care about the negative points. It is almost a tie with Roll The Bones, I love both of them. My regret is not seeing them in concert.

I never thought of them as a band; always heard Geddy Lee alone. I have been following his career, listen to his interviews, and am sorry they are done. Also, my apologies to the other band members.

Rush is one of the few bands that I actively disliked in their time. I've since come to at least appreciate them at some level, but I'm not a fan.

Well, I stick to groups that take their time and don't rush their albums. But that's just me.

2112 It was my introduction to Rush.

Hemispheres, specifically 'The Trees'.

Hemispheres

Farewell to Kings

I love RUSH, but I don't have any albums (or CDs)
I'll probably get all the negative points for that comment.

I do wish the radio stations would play a larger range of RUSH songs and not just the 'commercially popular' ones. (though that can be said for most artists and radio play.)

Okay, old jerk, 2112 and Moving Pictures are great, but some of my favorite songs are not from those albums. Any good atheist should appreciate first and foremost, Roll the Bones (the song, not the album). Because I Can't find a better overall studio album than Moving Pictures, and because Rush has had incredible longevity, just to earn negative points and because you didn't specify "studio" albums only, I am going to pick 2003's "Rush in Rio," a 3 disco tour concert album that is awesome--especially if you watch the DVD. Second will be Presto (yes, you can accuse it of pandering to commercial demands, but it takes me back to my last months of college, when I saw them on their Presto tour. Honestly, though, I rarely listen to their studio albums anymore, because I made my own compilations.

2112, fly by night

RUSH.
1st on my list of 10 performers that are NO PLAY
He has a list of 10 also.

I wasn't going to comment, but I always like to score negative points when I can...hehe...and I always appreciate a jerk...most of my best friends are jerks...here it goes: Rush is the brittany spears of it's time....they did one good song....Take Off...but only because I appreciate hosers. And again, I would have passed by the message if it wasn't for the 'jerk' and 'negative points' part...it was like a siren call...to another jerk...hehe.

I can't remember-my ex took the CD when he left. Love Rush though.

I usually go through phases, but right now I'm digging the first album. I love the Over The Top guitar rock that came out in 73-75: Scorpions, Judas Priest, Rush, UFO, lots of Krautrock... I'm not a huge fan, though this post may imply otherwise. I think it's impressive their career can be divided up in 3 album segments. At least the first 9, so I usually go through phases of listening to 'em grouped like that.... but, again, currently diggin' the first.

Forgot to mention, Geddy didn't learn to sing properly until later in his career(he seemed to have inhaled a touch of helium/chipmunk juice in those early albums). And Niel has always been great, but he got better and better with age. Alex, hard to tell.

Only Rush I own is on vinyl. Farewell to Kings I think but never been a fan mostly because the lead singer hurts my ears