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Natural Science is their finest work.
Vital Signs is a really underrated tune.
Permanent Waves is my personal favorite. They routinely apologize for the post-Signals synth era (esp. Lifeson, understandably)
They have never "apologized" for their synth period - hell, the first SIX songs on the Clockwork Angels tour setlist were from that period. 
and thank their fans for sticking with them through it. They really lost their way during that period.
debatable 2112 has to be their masterpiece, maybe the best prog album ever
Arguably not even top 3 of their catalogue. Best prog album ever? Not even close. Your opinion, though, but bad.
But they have at least one really good song on every album up through Signals.
Should have stopped that sentence after the word "album" Geddy Lee actually a solo album in the early 2000s. It's not very interesting, basically sounds like songs Rush rejected. Probably foretelling the whole LeeLifeson deal.
What? The album, while not a standout, is not very Rush,-like, either; at that time, however, he didn't even know if Rush was going to reconvene after Neil's family tragedies. Oh, and BTW, Alex did a solo album at the time as well, likely for similar reasons.Hmmm. I wasn't even trying to be controversial--that 2112 isn't in their top 3 is just silly. It's their definitive work. These responses seem to be shockingly ignorant of primary source materials re: the synth stuff. And Lee himself said the solo album was bad & that he wasn't comfortable playing w/o the other guys. It sounds exactly like the Rush albums that followed Neil's return, which were bad. I loved them when I was a kid but they peaked in the 70s and were never really relevant after Signals except to the hard-core
Geddy's solo album came at a time when the band was on hiatus, not even knowing if they were getting back together. OF COURSE, Lee would say he was uncomfortable without the only two guys he played with for the previous 25 years.
The albums that followed Neil's return were ALL better that that turd Test For Echo. Vapor Trails had some monster playing, but was disjointedly recorded and horribly mixed. Feedback was a neat covers EP. Snakes and Arrows sounded much better than Vapor Trails, but the songs for the most part plodded along. Clockwork Angels, however, was BY FAR the best album they did since Counterparts, and maybe even Moving Pictures - it was THE type of album I would hope they released after they returned, but was worth the wait.
My Rush album rank (not including the live stuff):
1) Moving Pictures
2) Permanent Waves
3) Clockwork Angels (yep - I said it)
4) Hemispheres (if for "side" 2 only)
5) *maybe* 2112 (if for side 1 only)
6) *maybe* Counterparts
7) Grace Under Pressure (GREAT songs, and maybe Peart's best lyrics, but hampered by thin '80s production)
8 ) A Farewell To Kings (if only for Xanadu and Closer To The Heart)
9) Power Windows
10) Hold Your Fire
11) Signals
12) Presto
13) Roll The Bones
14) Fly By Night
15) Vapor Trails
16) Snakes And Arrows
17) Feedback
18) Caress Of Steel
19) Test For Echo
20) The First One
Still, each and every one of these has at least something listenable and unique.
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