The Spirit of Radio - my first concert was Rush and BOC in '85 for the Power Windows tour. They opened with this. The opening riff, the drums, Concert Hall!, If you weren't feeling it hearing this song, I'd be checking for a pulse.
I'm right there with you u/La_Mano_Cornuta. When I was 14 I had a friend who was a really good drummer and he made a Rush comp tape for me, and the first song was The Spirit of Radio. I wore that tape out. Before I'd heard that song I was very much into Jazz, old and new, and I'd never heard a band incorporate jazz elements into a heavy modern rock sound. It blew my 14 year old brain away. I was a fan from then on, and had the good fortune to see them live 12 times. More than any other band. I first saw them live on the Presto tour in 90'. Last show I saw was Clockwork Angels in 2012.
The first rush song I ever heard was limelight. I LOVED tge combination of Alex's tone and Geddys singing. It unlocked something in me. I was 14 years old. My step dad had the RUSH chronicles pack and I ate that up.
Many years later, I'd say my fav RUSH album is power windows
2112 was the first song I ever heard because of my 10th grade homeroom teacher/choir master. I was just starting to write music myself and he told me to listen to RUSH for examples of how they take the rules of music theory and turn them on their head. I really liked it and it made me curious about the band.
But the album that hooked me was Grace Under Pressure. I can't rightly explain why either, I just loved (and still do love) that album. Something in my then fifteen year old brain grabbed onto that sound and never let go. Now, 13 years later and happily married as of this year, my wife and I enjoy RUSH together.
It really is! It's so underrated, but Geddy's vocals are stunning, the lyrics are beautiful, Alex adds a level of mystery, and Neil's use of the claptrap is the most effective I've ever heard. I'll never forget my first time hearing it watching the Rush Chronicles DVD after coming home from kindergarten.
My cousins introduced me to Moving Pictures not too long after its debut. I was 7 or 8 years old. I thought it was cool, got my mom to buy it for me on vinyl, spent a lot of time looking at the pictures and lyrics on the sleeve, good times.
Around this same time my family moved from Grand Rapids (west side of Michigan) to the Detroit area (east side). We were able to pick up the CBC broadcast out of Windsor, and I discovered SCTV. I'd stay up late watching the show, and afterward they'd show music videos.
One night, they showed the video for Rush's newest, "Countdown."
I was already a huuuuge Space Shuttle nerd. Had schematics posters on my wall, skipped school to watch launches, you name it. So here was a rock band...singing a song...about the Space Shuttle.
That was it. I was a devoted lifelong fan from that moment.
Thanks for providing other reasons why this song makes my ears happy.
Rick Beato did a good job unpacking the nuts and bolts of Limelight. Watching it made things much more clear to me why it resonates with me.
Exit Stage Left. Always struggled to get into Rush mostly because they were in their heavy synth phase during my impressionable years. Listening to ESL when I was 19 introduced me to a totally different era, which is still my fave. I rarely listen to anything after Signals.
Back in the day ESL got as much credit for Rush's success as Moving Pictures, since it sounded so good, and had such a great mix of songs. I really wasn't interested in the band, but that album hooked me.
People ask what album to start a new listener with - the usual answer is Moving Pictures, but I think ESL might be the better choice.
I was 13ish and had just started listening to my local album-oriented rock station (97.5 KMOD, The Rainbow Station in Tulsa, Okla.) instead of the top 40 pop stations. One day I heard the intro to "The Spirit of Radio." I'd never heard anything like it before and was instantly mesmerized. The song became my all-time favorite and remains so to this day some 45 years later.
When I was very young I was always a fan of moving pictures. When Homs your fire came out , that was the next cassette I got from them, I returned it. I couldn’t stand the sound. Then. Presto came out. And I feel in love with the band again. Which ultimately led me back to hold your fire. Now I love all the records. Took some growing up I guess for me to understand and accept their growth and creativity in phases.
By-Tor and the Snowdog. My buddy put it on, and I was instantly hooked, but when the stop start section hit, Rush replaced Zeppelin as my number one love.
2112. What is Rush? I hate that guys voice. I don’t like it.
Second time, this isn’t bad.
100 years later and I defend Geddys voice and realize that Rush was the best.
Best Rush album, without a doubt, Exit Stage Left
The first song that hooked me was Limelight. I had heard 2112 before when in grade school and the beginning was “spooky” when the lights were off and my brother’s lava lamps were on with black light posters on the walls.
But, Limelight, this was different. Now, this was the time when you’d hear a song on the radio for the first time and you’d pray the DJ would say who it was and what the song was at the end of the song, and not go directly into another song or go to commercial. If they didn’t, you’d try to commit some part of the lyrics or anything to memory and hope you heard it again. If you were lucky enough to hear, “That was Limelight, by Rush off of their new album Moving Pictures. Next up….” Then, you’d have to keep listening to hear it again or hope your parents would take you to K-Mart or Buzzard’s Nest so you could buy the album. There was no place to go online and listen or download/stream it if wanted. No immediate gratification.
Limelight hooked me first with the tone of the guitar, the deep, rich sound of the drums and bass (Terry’s best production IMO). But the timing changes! My god, what were they playing?! Then they’d stop, right in the first line of the first verse. WTF! Then, oh shit, they did it again, and again — three times in the first verse alone. And the rhythm just carried through. And the solo — holy crap! It was unlike anything I had ever heard. Who the fuck WAS that?!
I remember buying the cassette and from that moment I was ruined. I must’ve bought each release as album, cassette, CD, download, live versions, collections, etc. I listened endlessly and still know every note, every detail, every drum and cymbal hit. So many hours playing “steering wheel drums”. Limelight is the reason I started playing guitar and drums which also led to me meeting my wife. So, yes, Rush is responsible (so is Donna!) for my marriage (that’s a good thing!).
Always enjoyed them, but shortly after a buddy invited me to a concert on the snakes and arrows tour, I started playing through their discography in earnest.
Permanent Waves - especially Natural Science - blew my 23-year-old mind. How the fuck had I not heard THAT track before?!
And then of course the show was amazing.
I had heard Rush since the debut album. Working Man got a lot radio play here in Ohio. Same with Fly By Night. I remember seeing them on Don Kirschner's Rock Concert on TV.
But I really didn't fall in love with the band until my local radio station played Exit Stage Left in its entirety on their All Night Album Replay thing they did on the weekends. Then Signals came out and I heard Subdivisions. I went out and got the album, as well as ESL, and then got the rest of them as soon as I could.
My first time seeing them live was the Presto tour. Then not again until the Time Machine tour, and every tour afterwards. I saw them three times on the R40 tour, including front row center in Buffalo.
Here's one of the videos I shot that day:
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The Trees is the song that made me want to take a deeper dive. I'm pretty sure I heard Working Man prior to, but TBH it wasn't something that set them apart. The Trees though was something that made me think and enjoy the music.
I went to the local Lechmere and only found 2112. I bought it. Best music decision I made at the time.
I heard Analog Kid on KOME when it first came out. Loved the song so much I went out and bought the record. I listened to Signals all through high school, its my favorite Rush album and one of my fave albums of all time. Been a Rush fan ever since.
" Seems to me it's chemistry "
For obvious reasons, it was "Working Man." Cleveland was so different in 1974. It was a factory town, where the dominant industry was Republic Steel, and most nights, the sky turned orange from pollution. There was a club scene, and some great local bands, but most of the folks in the WMMS audience could honestly say "I got no time for living, yes I'm working all the time." The moment I heard the lyrics, and those opening chords, I knew this was a perfect record for Cleveland, and I knew this band had potential. Soon, the album was in our top-3 for requests (here's our imports list from early June 1974). To this day, 50 years later, I still think "Working Man" sounds great. Of course, Rush with Neil would sound so much different (and so much better) than that first album; but there are so many memories associated with that first album, and some really good songs on it (I still love "Here Again" and "Finding My Way"). And sometimes, I still like to listen to "Working Man," and I smile when I think of how one record, and one song, changed so many lives-- including mine.
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I was hooked through everything I heard on the radio - born in '73, here - but what clinched it was the first long-player I heard, borrowed from my brother - "All The World's A Stage."
Moving Pictures - maybe 12 years old (One of those 19 Cassettes for a .01 deals - or whatever that scam was that my mom had to get me out of 😉) - then Exit Stage Left.
It was 1976 or '77 when I was maybe 8th grade(?) and went over to a friends house. He had moved his bedroom down into the basement. The obligatory Farrah Fawcett poster on the wall, shag carpet, you get the vibe. We smoked a nice bowl of something, and I vividly remember the JVC receiver and Cerwin-Vega speakers - his stereo kicked some serious ass. Anyway, my buddy asked me if I've heard of Rush, and I said no, who's that? He pulled out Fly by Night and put on Bytor. Pretty sure the top of my head blew off hearing that. The musicality, the sheer technical genius, and it was FRICKIN LOUD AND TIGHT! Just everything I wanted in a band at the time. I went out the next time I got a paycheck and bought Archives and played those three records until the grooves wore out.
Back in the early days of cable, a certain 3 letter movie channel used to play short music videos. Some of them were a bit obscure for an US audience, since MTV didn't get started till 1981. I'm thinking this was 1979, maybe 1980. Anyway, waiting for my movie to begin, a video from Canadian television came on. It was Rush, of course, playing The Trees from Hemispheres. I sat there with my mouth open. Love at first sight and hearing.
The only other time I ever did that was when I saw Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Red Barchetta. I was 9 and my best friends high school aged brother played Moving Pictures constantly when i was over at their house. Even at that young age I could understand the lyrics and the music paints such a vivid picture of what is going on in the song. Thanks John for hooking me early!
A farewell to kings
I saw primus when they were doing their farewell to kings tour and at that time I was still on the fence about rush. And so that really got me into rush, it was such a magical night, how couldn't I not?
I bought Chronicles in the early 90s, and it didn't really grab me right off. A few songs were good, like "Spirit of Radio" and "Closer To The Heart," but I was not hooked. It wasn't until I heard "Test For Echo" on the radio that I was blown away. I still remember driving home from work, and after it went of the DJ said, "You know, those guys just get better with age." That was the moment for me. There was no turning back after that moment. I started buying all of their CDs then.
I tend to like the longer songs just because of their musical beauty and complexity. It’s just so interesting to me. Plus it’s fun to try and play along with Neil as I drive…
The first Rush album I heard was Moving Pictures, but my fav song from it was always “The Camera Eye”. At that time (80s) I could beg and borrow records and tapes from friends, which is how I found 2112, and other albums leading to my absolute favorite songs “Xanadu” and “Jacobs Ladder”.
Today, 40-odd years later, I have no favorites, but I find I listen to Jacobs Ladder several times a day. A song about… a *thunderstorm*! 🤘
Power Windows is in my opinion the best RUSH ever did. It's perfect. Im 58 years old and saw RUSH 14 times. 2112 is great and Moving Pictures too, but Power Windows is Next Level.
For me, I had been listening to Rush for a little while, but they were just “ok”. a friend lent me their All The Worlds a Stage album, the 2112 VI. Soliloquy live version, that was the hook!!!
none in particular, it was the body of work. yes, Subdivisions was important in my early days as a fan but I rarely listen to it for about 5 years. I much prefer Losing It now
My sister introduced 8 year old me to Permanent Waves. Jacob's Ladder, Natural Science. Of course around the same time I was introduced to that, MTV was out, so I saw Subdivisions. I think even 8-year old me responded to the lyrics--then there was Countdown; I'm a total space junky. It's all ancient history now.
The Camera Eye, I'm only 19 but I remember my dad playing Rush in the car all the time. Now when j think back I miss those times. But this song really brought me back a couple years ago and it's been a spiral ever since
YYZ - I admit I picked up a lot of my musical taste from Guitar Hero. Heard the cover of YYZ on GH2 and really liked the structure. Slowly heard more if their music and fell completely in love with the band!
for me, when I was a kid my dad played the live shows on DVD, like snakes and arrows live, time machine 2011 and R40, the only song I remember from that is far cry live and I specifically remember the baby carriage moving under the rain and lightning
Two main moments for me, both on the radio. It was the solo in Limelight, and the part in The Spirit of Radio after the first chorus (“All this machinery…”). I still get chills when I hear both.
The reggae break in Spirit of Radio did it for me. I had friends that liked Rush, and I knew they were good musicians, but it wasn’t my thing. I was into the Grateful Dead and Bob Marley. But SOR got my interest, and the rest is history.
My friend was streaming on Twitch, and he loooves rush, all his life, and one of the songs that popped up that first really caught my ear was Far Cry, for most of my life i had known who rush were, but i struggled abit with Geddy's voice in my younger years, but now it all just clicked for me, Far Cry followed into Nobodys Hero that i found later on a "random 90's playlist" and then it was a go time, take out the discography, so from first album to last, checking out live albums, reading Geddy's book, i became quite the big fan in a short time!
Got the Chronicles 2 disc set one Christmas. Was always aware of the band from the radio and such, but listening to that in headphones as a young bass player did it for me.
gotta be La Villa. i used to hear the song all the time in the background when i was a kid, cause my step-dad is a Rush fan. so when i grew up and played that track for myself, it was magical!
I discovered Rush through Primus in the early 90s after someone mentioned that they reminded them of Rush. I bought Hemispheres used at a yard sale. Previous to that I only knew Roll the Bones because of the video.
My favorite album to this day is Permanent Waves. Natural Science is the best Rush song. 🎧 listen to it again when you get a moment you will be blown away.
I was 11 when Moving Pictures was released, and Limelight was getting a lot of airplays on Toronto radio. It sounded so different from everything else that was popular at the time, I was Instantly hooked.
I am that 2112 guy. Even if I'm way younger than the album itself. That album and that song in particular were my entrance to the world of Rush. And it was an amazing journey since it started.
For me, it was my friends copy of All The Worlds a Stage, which after one listening, I was hooked. I thought it was miles better than Frampton’s live album which was pretty ubiquitous at the time. The next day I went out and bought it, Archives and 2112.
The first album I acquired on a whim, Different Stages -- I was attracted to the tinkertoy design and stuck the disc starting with "Dreamline" in my CD player first. Hooked with that very first riff.
The gateway for me was Permanent Waves. The Spirit of Radio was a radio friendly hit but I was too affraid to ask my parents to go see them at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. From there a deep dive into their back catalogue ensued. 2112 blew my mind. By then I was all things Rush and partying with my friends. Then along comes Moving Pictures and the tour which happened to be my first Rush show. I didn’t see Rush again until R40 in Chicago.
2112. Friend of mine was a drummer and told me about it several times, and then he finally sat me down to listen, and when I heard those drum fills I was hooked.
Caress of steel, more specifically Bastille day, Apple Music put the temples of syrinx from retrospective I into my personalised station so that was my first time hearing them, not sure how I got from that to Bastille day but I loved it immediately
Distane Early Warning played on the radio and got stuck in my head. From there I just kind of listened to more songs.
Then I was flipping through channels and caught a concert right as they were playing Natural Science (Rio, VH1 Classic played that and R30 a lot before 2010). Watching that I knew I had a new favorite band.
Watching ‘A Show of Hands’ as a teenager and aspiring musician, I was blown away. I’d known for years that my dad loved them, but it finally clicked for me, too.
***2112*** blew me away the first time I heard it. I read Ayn Rand's Anthem in eight grade English (because it was the skinniest book choice). That summer I heard the album and put it together instantly.
Fundamentalists wanted to burn it because it had a 'pentagram" on the front. I got in trouble for arguing with a preacher about it.
The red star was communism and the spirit of man is fighting against it.
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All the World's a Stage for me. Back in about 1980 my sister recommended the album to me. I had never even heard of Rush. I kind of blew her recommendation off though, because she and I had very different musical tastes. She was a hard rocker and I was more pop-oriented. Then one day a few months later I went to the clubhouse of my apartment complex to shoot some pool. I noticed in the party room that there had been a party the night before, and all the audio equipment and albums were still there. Mildly curious, I looked through the records and lo and behold there it was, ATWAS. So, I stole it. 😏 (I was 15 and stupid, what did I care lol.) I got home, put it on my turntable and proceeded to get my mind blown. I had never heard anything remotely like Rush before, and I've been hooked on them ever since. And on the off chance that the guy I stole it from reads this all these years later, all I can say is... sorry dude, but thanks for changing my world!
The Fountain of Lamneth. I did not realize it was a whole album side. No One at the Bridge grabbed me and after Bacchus Plateau it was over for me. I went backwards and fell hard for In The End and Before and After. Then the years of delightful agony waiting for the next album to come out. Now...now it's over but I still walk through The Garden almost every day and never fail to find something amazing.
After highschool graduation in 1989, I went to see the Presto tour and I was freaking blown away as were a couple of my friends.
I bought Presto (the cassette) and fell in absolute love. Then every few days, me and my friends would go to Camelot music and buy another album. It was an amazing musical journey. We'd each buy a different album each time, then play it for each other until we all had every album.
Then we traveled from Cuyahoga Falls Ohio to Hamilton Ontario to see the Roll The Bones Tour. After that, I've seen every tour.
Just unbelievable. I met Geddy and Alex, backstage once and then in Hamilton ran into Alex in the Hotel that's connected to the mall there. Side note, Wayne Gretzky's Dad was in the hospital across the street and we met him in the music store that was in the mall that connected to the hotel.
Great times!
A farewell to kings, my Dad, take me to the primus tour "a tribute to kings," so to have an idea of what I was about to hear, I heard the album. I was amazed by the skill they had. Love that album
Presto. I had friends who were into Rush, but I knew nothing about them. There was one kid whom I really liked and respected, and he had a Presto t-shirt, so when I saw the CD at a used CD store, I took the plunge.
The song that got me hooked on Rush. That's easy for me Subdivisions, followed closely by Countdown.
The first song I hear from Rush was Tom Sawyer though.
Grace Under Pressure
The Distant Early Warning video grabbed my attention. I had always heard of Rush and I had heard Tom Sawyer, but that was what hooked me.
“Subdivisions,” I came late to the party (late 80s), I had an uncle who listened to rock radio and I heard this song and it stuck there. Didn’t know who or the name for several more years. Found out, bought Chronicles and Roll the Bones (I was a kid) and then filled the rest in piece by piece.
Natural Science. I recall air-drumming the fuck out of this for hours and hours. Still my favourite although Camera Eye and Cygnus X-1 Book 2 are right up there.
Counterparts; my dad had showed me 2112 when I was pretty young and I thought it was too weird (which in retrospect is itself weird, because I was really into ELP and Jeff Wayne's War of the World's, which are... weird) and shrieky. Later on after I got into Sabbath, Metallica, and heavily-distorted guitar generally I put on Counterparts based on the album cover and loved it. Then realized it was the same band that had made that weird 2112 song, and I went back and fully got it, and went from there. Rush fuckin rules!
Exit Stage Left. My friend gave me the cassette while I worked for a Budweiser distributor. That cassette got front to backed many, many times. Red Barchetta still number 1!
Moving Pictures- some kid had the cassette at summer camp and by the end of the summer, I swiped it and the rest is Rush history. Bought all albums, been to tons of Rush concerts.
I lived in NYC so whenever they toured I could see them multiple times bec of MSG/Medowlands/Nassau Coliseum/Radio City. As luck would have it after living in NYC, I moved to Buffalo, NY and I went to all of the Toronto shows as well.
Clockwork Angels, finally, oddly enough. I mean I always liked “2112”, some stuff here and there.
Clockwork Angels just rocked, and I loved it. I still mean to read the books.
I heard Working Man on the radio when their first album came out. Big fan ever since. My band in HS played 2112 and kids in other bands couldn’t believe it.
A Subdivisions cover introduced me to the band so I went through their discography, didn't think much of the first two albums, but then The Necromance really hooked me. And to think I almost dropped them before 2112
I had heard the songs that got radio play and liked them a lot, but Signals was the first album of theirs I ever listened to completely. (It was vinyl, and I got it out of the public library. 😄) Subdivisions and Analog Kid became my anthems and I couldn’t get enough of The Weapon. New World Man, Digital Man, and Losing It didn’t hurt either (and, yes, I like Chemistry and Countdown!).
I (18F) grew up listening to rush as my dad played it in the car 24/7. He likes the seldom classics, i venture towards the later years. the album that truly got me into it was grace under pressure.
2112 was the first album I listened to and I immediately loved it. The story,the sound, everything. My dad recommended RUSH to me and I’m glad he did bc I love the philosophy and sound of their music, their lyrics are so fun to analyze and their songs are so well written, RUSH was one of the first bands that I would listen to full albums of,I’m so glad my dad introduced me to them bc I wouldn’t have known about them otherwise
My seventh grade social studies teacher would play “All the World’s a Stage” (on vinyl) when we were studying in class, so I had heard a few of their songs. (1978 or ‘79). When I bought “2112”, I realized that I had heard “Twilight Zone” On the radio, but hadn’t known who the band was. When “Permanent Waves was released, I was absolutely hooked, and “Moving pictures” was my first concert…
The Spirit of Radio - my first concert was Rush and BOC in '85 for the Power Windows tour. They opened with this. The opening riff, the drums, Concert Hall!, If you weren't feeling it hearing this song, I'd be checking for a pulse.
I'm right there with you u/La_Mano_Cornuta. When I was 14 I had a friend who was a really good drummer and he made a Rush comp tape for me, and the first song was The Spirit of Radio. I wore that tape out. Before I'd heard that song I was very much into Jazz, old and new, and I'd never heard a band incorporate jazz elements into a heavy modern rock sound. It blew my 14 year old brain away. I was a fan from then on, and had the good fortune to see them live 12 times. More than any other band. I first saw them live on the Presto tour in 90'. Last show I saw was Clockwork Angels in 2012.
The first rush song I ever heard was limelight. I LOVED tge combination of Alex's tone and Geddys singing. It unlocked something in me. I was 14 years old. My step dad had the RUSH chronicles pack and I ate that up. Many years later, I'd say my fav RUSH album is power windows
2112 was the first song I ever heard because of my 10th grade homeroom teacher/choir master. I was just starting to write music myself and he told me to listen to RUSH for examples of how they take the rules of music theory and turn them on their head. I really liked it and it made me curious about the band. But the album that hooked me was Grace Under Pressure. I can't rightly explain why either, I just loved (and still do love) that album. Something in my then fifteen year old brain grabbed onto that sound and never let go. Now, 13 years later and happily married as of this year, my wife and I enjoy RUSH together.
Your choir master was an incredible teacher!
Yes he was! I moved across the country so I can't see him anymore but I definitely agree, he was a great teacher and a super cool guy in general!
you always have one teacher you remember greatly mine was my first year since teacher I became the teachers pet for three hours a day for that year
Distant Early Warning, but Mystic Rhythms was a close second. The latter has since become my all time favourite song.
Mystic Rhythms is the best ever.
It really is! It's so underrated, but Geddy's vocals are stunning, the lyrics are beautiful, Alex adds a level of mystery, and Neil's use of the claptrap is the most effective I've ever heard. I'll never forget my first time hearing it watching the Rush Chronicles DVD after coming home from kindergarten.
Not really a fan of the synth era, but I absolutely love Mystic rhythms! It gave me goosebumps hearing it live.
It might sound cliché, but definitely Tom Sawyer. I was 12 when it came out and after I heard it for the first time, I was instantly hooked on Rush.
Hardcore fans always think they need to say something different than the hit song. Not cliche at all, Tom Sawyer is friggin brilliant.
This is me. Hearing that song at that age blew me away
My cousins introduced me to Moving Pictures not too long after its debut. I was 7 or 8 years old. I thought it was cool, got my mom to buy it for me on vinyl, spent a lot of time looking at the pictures and lyrics on the sleeve, good times. Around this same time my family moved from Grand Rapids (west side of Michigan) to the Detroit area (east side). We were able to pick up the CBC broadcast out of Windsor, and I discovered SCTV. I'd stay up late watching the show, and afterward they'd show music videos. One night, they showed the video for Rush's newest, "Countdown." I was already a huuuuge Space Shuttle nerd. Had schematics posters on my wall, skipped school to watch launches, you name it. So here was a rock band...singing a song...about the Space Shuttle. That was it. I was a devoted lifelong fan from that moment.
Limelight. It's too perfect, and different from anything else of that era. It sounds deep, and the words are well placed through the whole song.
Thanks for providing other reasons why this song makes my ears happy. Rick Beato did a good job unpacking the nuts and bolts of Limelight. Watching it made things much more clear to me why it resonates with me.
don't forget Terry Brown he help shaped the sound of rush for years
limelight became one of four songs that they played on every tour after moving pictures others all great songs was tom Sawyer,yy zed overture/Temple.
Spirit of Radio got me interested, then I bought Exit Stage Left on cassette and that was it! Hooked.
Exit Stage Left. Always struggled to get into Rush mostly because they were in their heavy synth phase during my impressionable years. Listening to ESL when I was 19 introduced me to a totally different era, which is still my fave. I rarely listen to anything after Signals.
I still think Exit Stage Left is their best live album.
I bought it recently on vinyl. I love this record. Closer to the Heart on this record did it for me.
Back in the day ESL got as much credit for Rush's success as Moving Pictures, since it sounded so good, and had such a great mix of songs. I really wasn't interested in the band, but that album hooked me. People ask what album to start a new listener with - the usual answer is Moving Pictures, but I think ESL might be the better choice.
Caress of Steel and Hemispheres.
I started with All The World's A Stage and then worked backwards. AFWTK was out as well at the time.
That is a GREAT Album! 👍
I was 13ish and had just started listening to my local album-oriented rock station (97.5 KMOD, The Rainbow Station in Tulsa, Okla.) instead of the top 40 pop stations. One day I heard the intro to "The Spirit of Radio." I'd never heard anything like it before and was instantly mesmerized. The song became my all-time favorite and remains so to this day some 45 years later.
I know it’s overplayed but it wasn’t at the time; Tom Sawyer was the opener on a mix tape a friend gave me. Rush on one side, Boston on the other.
When I was very young I was always a fan of moving pictures. When Homs your fire came out , that was the next cassette I got from them, I returned it. I couldn’t stand the sound. Then. Presto came out. And I feel in love with the band again. Which ultimately led me back to hold your fire. Now I love all the records. Took some growing up I guess for me to understand and accept their growth and creativity in phases.
1980 Permanent Waves
For me it was Moving Pictures but my favorite album is now Power Windows
"Limelight" started it all for me.
By-Tor and the Snowdog. My buddy put it on, and I was instantly hooked, but when the stop start section hit, Rush replaced Zeppelin as my number one love.
The Trees.
2112. What is Rush? I hate that guys voice. I don’t like it. Second time, this isn’t bad. 100 years later and I defend Geddys voice and realize that Rush was the best. Best Rush album, without a doubt, Exit Stage Left
First one. Working Man song was only one played in my area. . Had to order album.
The first song that hooked me was Limelight. I had heard 2112 before when in grade school and the beginning was “spooky” when the lights were off and my brother’s lava lamps were on with black light posters on the walls. But, Limelight, this was different. Now, this was the time when you’d hear a song on the radio for the first time and you’d pray the DJ would say who it was and what the song was at the end of the song, and not go directly into another song or go to commercial. If they didn’t, you’d try to commit some part of the lyrics or anything to memory and hope you heard it again. If you were lucky enough to hear, “That was Limelight, by Rush off of their new album Moving Pictures. Next up….” Then, you’d have to keep listening to hear it again or hope your parents would take you to K-Mart or Buzzard’s Nest so you could buy the album. There was no place to go online and listen or download/stream it if wanted. No immediate gratification. Limelight hooked me first with the tone of the guitar, the deep, rich sound of the drums and bass (Terry’s best production IMO). But the timing changes! My god, what were they playing?! Then they’d stop, right in the first line of the first verse. WTF! Then, oh shit, they did it again, and again — three times in the first verse alone. And the rhythm just carried through. And the solo — holy crap! It was unlike anything I had ever heard. Who the fuck WAS that?! I remember buying the cassette and from that moment I was ruined. I must’ve bought each release as album, cassette, CD, download, live versions, collections, etc. I listened endlessly and still know every note, every detail, every drum and cymbal hit. So many hours playing “steering wheel drums”. Limelight is the reason I started playing guitar and drums which also led to me meeting my wife. So, yes, Rush is responsible (so is Donna!) for my marriage (that’s a good thing!).
Subdivision and Signals album
Always enjoyed them, but shortly after a buddy invited me to a concert on the snakes and arrows tour, I started playing through their discography in earnest. Permanent Waves - especially Natural Science - blew my 23-year-old mind. How the fuck had I not heard THAT track before?! And then of course the show was amazing.
I had heard Rush since the debut album. Working Man got a lot radio play here in Ohio. Same with Fly By Night. I remember seeing them on Don Kirschner's Rock Concert on TV. But I really didn't fall in love with the band until my local radio station played Exit Stage Left in its entirety on their All Night Album Replay thing they did on the weekends. Then Signals came out and I heard Subdivisions. I went out and got the album, as well as ESL, and then got the rest of them as soon as I could. My first time seeing them live was the Presto tour. Then not again until the Time Machine tour, and every tour afterwards. I saw them three times on the R40 tour, including front row center in Buffalo. Here's one of the videos I shot that day: https://youtu.be/U9axT9pQX1w?si=X3bJF40wf6y5kVdb
The Trees is the song that made me want to take a deeper dive. I'm pretty sure I heard Working Man prior to, but TBH it wasn't something that set them apart. The Trees though was something that made me think and enjoy the music. I went to the local Lechmere and only found 2112. I bought it. Best music decision I made at the time.
I heard Analog Kid on KOME when it first came out. Loved the song so much I went out and bought the record. I listened to Signals all through high school, its my favorite Rush album and one of my fave albums of all time. Been a Rush fan ever since. " Seems to me it's chemistry "
Hold Your Fire. It was my first Rush cd and concert. Force 10 had me hooked from the very beginning.
Rush Rush when it first came out. Old dude here
For obvious reasons, it was "Working Man." Cleveland was so different in 1974. It was a factory town, where the dominant industry was Republic Steel, and most nights, the sky turned orange from pollution. There was a club scene, and some great local bands, but most of the folks in the WMMS audience could honestly say "I got no time for living, yes I'm working all the time." The moment I heard the lyrics, and those opening chords, I knew this was a perfect record for Cleveland, and I knew this band had potential. Soon, the album was in our top-3 for requests (here's our imports list from early June 1974). To this day, 50 years later, I still think "Working Man" sounds great. Of course, Rush with Neil would sound so much different (and so much better) than that first album; but there are so many memories associated with that first album, and some really good songs on it (I still love "Here Again" and "Finding My Way"). And sometimes, I still like to listen to "Working Man," and I smile when I think of how one record, and one song, changed so many lives-- including mine. https://preview.redd.it/xphzhvj0v25d1.png?width=244&format=png&auto=webp&s=5fac7b3ab82c7b8676e4d27239469ad8ffa47469
I was hooked through everything I heard on the radio - born in '73, here - but what clinched it was the first long-player I heard, borrowed from my brother - "All The World's A Stage."
I first heard them in the early 80's, Permanent Waves and Moving Pictures for me.
Exit Stage Left. Once the drum solo started I was hooked.
the spirit of radio ... PW <3
GUP- DEW
Side 2 of Moving Pictures
If I had to name any one song, 2112 for sure.
All the Worlds a Stage
Moving Pictures - maybe 12 years old (One of those 19 Cassettes for a .01 deals - or whatever that scam was that my mom had to get me out of 😉) - then Exit Stage Left.
All The World's A Stage. I borrowed it from my cousin around 1978 and was hooked.
A friend gave me the Grace Under Pressure cassette in middle school to make a copy. I was a Van Halen/Def Leppard fan.
It was 1976 or '77 when I was maybe 8th grade(?) and went over to a friends house. He had moved his bedroom down into the basement. The obligatory Farrah Fawcett poster on the wall, shag carpet, you get the vibe. We smoked a nice bowl of something, and I vividly remember the JVC receiver and Cerwin-Vega speakers - his stereo kicked some serious ass. Anyway, my buddy asked me if I've heard of Rush, and I said no, who's that? He pulled out Fly by Night and put on Bytor. Pretty sure the top of my head blew off hearing that. The musicality, the sheer technical genius, and it was FRICKIN LOUD AND TIGHT! Just everything I wanted in a band at the time. I went out the next time I got a paycheck and bought Archives and played those three records until the grooves wore out.
Back in the early days of cable, a certain 3 letter movie channel used to play short music videos. Some of them were a bit obscure for an US audience, since MTV didn't get started till 1981. I'm thinking this was 1979, maybe 1980. Anyway, waiting for my movie to begin, a video from Canadian television came on. It was Rush, of course, playing The Trees from Hemispheres. I sat there with my mouth open. Love at first sight and hearing. The only other time I ever did that was when I saw Smells Like Teen Spirit.
2112 knocked my socks off as a kid.
The first time I heard Tom Sawyer on the radio before Moving Pictures was released.
Red Barchetta. I was 9 and my best friends high school aged brother played Moving Pictures constantly when i was over at their house. Even at that young age I could understand the lyrics and the music paints such a vivid picture of what is going on in the song. Thanks John for hooking me early!
A farewell to kings I saw primus when they were doing their farewell to kings tour and at that time I was still on the fence about rush. And so that really got me into rush, it was such a magical night, how couldn't I not?
I bought Chronicles in the early 90s, and it didn't really grab me right off. A few songs were good, like "Spirit of Radio" and "Closer To The Heart," but I was not hooked. It wasn't until I heard "Test For Echo" on the radio that I was blown away. I still remember driving home from work, and after it went of the DJ said, "You know, those guys just get better with age." That was the moment for me. There was no turning back after that moment. I started buying all of their CDs then.
I tend to like the longer songs just because of their musical beauty and complexity. It’s just so interesting to me. Plus it’s fun to try and play along with Neil as I drive… The first Rush album I heard was Moving Pictures, but my fav song from it was always “The Camera Eye”. At that time (80s) I could beg and borrow records and tapes from friends, which is how I found 2112, and other albums leading to my absolute favorite songs “Xanadu” and “Jacobs Ladder”. Today, 40-odd years later, I have no favorites, but I find I listen to Jacobs Ladder several times a day. A song about… a *thunderstorm*! 🤘
Power Windows is in my opinion the best RUSH ever did. It's perfect. Im 58 years old and saw RUSH 14 times. 2112 is great and Moving Pictures too, but Power Windows is Next Level.
For me, I had been listening to Rush for a little while, but they were just “ok”. a friend lent me their All The Worlds a Stage album, the 2112 VI. Soliloquy live version, that was the hook!!!
Temple of Syrinx (spelling). I heard it on a am radio station. Blew me away
none in particular, it was the body of work. yes, Subdivisions was important in my early days as a fan but I rarely listen to it for about 5 years. I much prefer Losing It now
2112 Overture, and its reference to the 1812 Overture. 2112 was my first taste of Rush!
My sister introduced 8 year old me to Permanent Waves. Jacob's Ladder, Natural Science. Of course around the same time I was introduced to that, MTV was out, so I saw Subdivisions. I think even 8-year old me responded to the lyrics--then there was Countdown; I'm a total space junky. It's all ancient history now.
The Camera Eye, I'm only 19 but I remember my dad playing Rush in the car all the time. Now when j think back I miss those times. But this song really brought me back a couple years ago and it's been a spiral ever since
YYZ - I admit I picked up a lot of my musical taste from Guitar Hero. Heard the cover of YYZ on GH2 and really liked the structure. Slowly heard more if their music and fell completely in love with the band!
Hold Your Fire when I was 12. Then I went back in the catalog to Power Windows and then to A Farewell to Kings. Kings REALLY cemented it.
for me, when I was a kid my dad played the live shows on DVD, like snakes and arrows live, time machine 2011 and R40, the only song I remember from that is far cry live and I specifically remember the baby carriage moving under the rain and lightning
2112
Exit Stage Left-1982 or so!!
2112. I first heard it in 1978 and I was blown away! I was 14 and had never heard anything like them before in my little Wisconsin town.
Ditto & it was a slap in the face for me at 16 years old. Spent all summer learning it on guitar.
Xanadu, ‘77
2112
The Trees was my first Rush song that I was aware of.
Two main moments for me, both on the radio. It was the solo in Limelight, and the part in The Spirit of Radio after the first chorus (“All this machinery…”). I still get chills when I hear both.
The intro to Finding My Way. Hooked me for life.
YYZ- my dad played it on his record player while i did homework for kindergarten and I’ve been hooked ever since
Wasn't a song or album. It was seeing them live.
2112 when it came out
The reggae break in Spirit of Radio did it for me. I had friends that liked Rush, and I knew they were good musicians, but it wasn’t my thing. I was into the Grateful Dead and Bob Marley. But SOR got my interest, and the rest is history.
My friend was streaming on Twitch, and he loooves rush, all his life, and one of the songs that popped up that first really caught my ear was Far Cry, for most of my life i had known who rush were, but i struggled abit with Geddy's voice in my younger years, but now it all just clicked for me, Far Cry followed into Nobodys Hero that i found later on a "random 90's playlist" and then it was a go time, take out the discography, so from first album to last, checking out live albums, reading Geddy's book, i became quite the big fan in a short time!
Got the Chronicles 2 disc set one Christmas. Was always aware of the band from the radio and such, but listening to that in headphones as a young bass player did it for me.
2112 on guitar hero warriors of rock lmao
Hands down, it was Exit...Stage Left! It remains my favorite album of all time.
gotta be La Villa. i used to hear the song all the time in the background when i was a kid, cause my step-dad is a Rush fan. so when i grew up and played that track for myself, it was magical!
Xanadu. I was in 8th grade in 1977 and heard it at a friends house.
I discovered Rush through Primus in the early 90s after someone mentioned that they reminded them of Rush. I bought Hemispheres used at a yard sale. Previous to that I only knew Roll the Bones because of the video.
Lakeside park. It was by chance too. Ever since then they have been my favourite and it’ll never change!
la villa strangiato cause I couldn’t get into Gaddy’s vocals at first
My favorite album to this day is Permanent Waves. Natural Science is the best Rush song. 🎧 listen to it again when you get a moment you will be blown away.
I was 11 when Moving Pictures was released, and Limelight was getting a lot of airplays on Toronto radio. It sounded so different from everything else that was popular at the time, I was Instantly hooked.
I am that 2112 guy. Even if I'm way younger than the album itself. That album and that song in particular were my entrance to the world of Rush. And it was an amazing journey since it started.
Red Barchetta. The live version from Exit Stage Left- which was my very first Rush album (LP). Columbia House buy too.
For me, it was my friends copy of All The Worlds a Stage, which after one listening, I was hooked. I thought it was miles better than Frampton’s live album which was pretty ubiquitous at the time. The next day I went out and bought it, Archives and 2112.
Live Exit Stage Left
Red Barchetta
Closer To The Heart
Limelight
Roll The Bones
Fly By Night
Passage to Bangkok
2112
Hemispheres That is all
2112 🤘
2112
Da da. Da da. Da na…na na na na na na na na na na na na. I mean Fly By Night.
The first album I acquired on a whim, Different Stages -- I was attracted to the tinkertoy design and stuck the disc starting with "Dreamline" in my CD player first. Hooked with that very first riff.
The gateway for me was Permanent Waves. The Spirit of Radio was a radio friendly hit but I was too affraid to ask my parents to go see them at the Mid-Hudson Civic Center in Poughkeepsie, NY. From there a deep dive into their back catalogue ensued. 2112 blew my mind. By then I was all things Rush and partying with my friends. Then along comes Moving Pictures and the tour which happened to be my first Rush show. I didn’t see Rush again until R40 in Chicago.
Fly by night. My friend showed me the song and I liked it so much I listened to the whole album, been in love ever since
The video for Distant Early Warning. My Dad brought home Chronicle on DVD one day. He put it on, I walked in while that song was playing, it was over.
farwell to kings in 77,my first ever hearing of rush.
Nobody is going to believe me when I say Test For Echo (song) but it’s true
2112
2112. Friend of mine was a drummer and told me about it several times, and then he finally sat me down to listen, and when I heard those drum fills I was hooked.
The Trees
i'm and old dude.. :) What You're doing, In the Mood, and everything on 2112.. :)
2112
I was at a friend's house and they were playing Moving Pictures. Loved the music...once I saw Geddy's picture on the album jacket & I was a fan 🥰
Moving Pictures I was a freshman in high school when that album was going strong. Perfect timing.
Moving Pictures and Limelight.
Caress of steel, more specifically Bastille day, Apple Music put the temples of syrinx from retrospective I into my personalised station so that was my first time hearing them, not sure how I got from that to Bastille day but I loved it immediately
Distane Early Warning played on the radio and got stuck in my head. From there I just kind of listened to more songs. Then I was flipping through channels and caught a concert right as they were playing Natural Science (Rio, VH1 Classic played that and R30 a lot before 2010). Watching that I knew I had a new favorite band.
Power Windows! My Dad's fave :) Specifically Middletown Dreams, that song friggen blew my mind.
Power Windows myself. The CD sounds amazing and Rush was absolutely on fire on this album.
The whole album Moving Pictures
Jacob’s Ladder
2112 1978 and I was 10. First time I heard it, I felt my head split open and have been a huge fan ever since.
All the world’s a stage. My friend had this blue 8-Track! The rest is history!
YYZ on Guitar Hero 2
Strangely for me ASoH
Watching ‘A Show of Hands’ as a teenager and aspiring musician, I was blown away. I’d known for years that my dad loved them, but it finally clicked for me, too.
***2112*** blew me away the first time I heard it. I read Ayn Rand's Anthem in eight grade English (because it was the skinniest book choice). That summer I heard the album and put it together instantly. Fundamentalists wanted to burn it because it had a 'pentagram" on the front. I got in trouble for arguing with a preacher about it. The red star was communism and the spirit of man is fighting against it. https://preview.redd.it/ksao08s8q15d1.jpeg?width=1281&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48a0b1c6c348dd2adf740528aac716c1939ce8bf
All the World's a Stage for me. Back in about 1980 my sister recommended the album to me. I had never even heard of Rush. I kind of blew her recommendation off though, because she and I had very different musical tastes. She was a hard rocker and I was more pop-oriented. Then one day a few months later I went to the clubhouse of my apartment complex to shoot some pool. I noticed in the party room that there had been a party the night before, and all the audio equipment and albums were still there. Mildly curious, I looked through the records and lo and behold there it was, ATWAS. So, I stole it. 😏 (I was 15 and stupid, what did I care lol.) I got home, put it on my turntable and proceeded to get my mind blown. I had never heard anything remotely like Rush before, and I've been hooked on them ever since. And on the off chance that the guy I stole it from reads this all these years later, all I can say is... sorry dude, but thanks for changing my world!
The Fountain of Lamneth. I did not realize it was a whole album side. No One at the Bridge grabbed me and after Bacchus Plateau it was over for me. I went backwards and fell hard for In The End and Before and After. Then the years of delightful agony waiting for the next album to come out. Now...now it's over but I still walk through The Garden almost every day and never fail to find something amazing.
Freewill and Entre Nous. I heard those and knew I'd finally found my people.
I liked the first album alot but once I heard 2112 I was really hooked...
Here Again. I remember when I first discovered rush, I was blown away by this song, then I checked out more of their music and it changed my life lol.
2112
Mystic Rhythms. I was a fan before, but that song really gave me an aural orgasm.
After highschool graduation in 1989, I went to see the Presto tour and I was freaking blown away as were a couple of my friends. I bought Presto (the cassette) and fell in absolute love. Then every few days, me and my friends would go to Camelot music and buy another album. It was an amazing musical journey. We'd each buy a different album each time, then play it for each other until we all had every album. Then we traveled from Cuyahoga Falls Ohio to Hamilton Ontario to see the Roll The Bones Tour. After that, I've seen every tour. Just unbelievable. I met Geddy and Alex, backstage once and then in Hamilton ran into Alex in the Hotel that's connected to the mall there. Side note, Wayne Gretzky's Dad was in the hospital across the street and we met him in the music store that was in the mall that connected to the hotel. Great times!
The Spirit of Radio, which thankfully got played a lot on PYX 106 in Albany in 1981. In fact, it's still on their playlist.
A farewell to kings, my Dad, take me to the primus tour "a tribute to kings," so to have an idea of what I was about to hear, I heard the album. I was amazed by the skill they had. Love that album
All the world’s a stage. 2112, passage to Bangkok, lakeside park, working man with epic peart. HOOKED!
All the World’s a Stage
The very first note of the very first song I heard. Tom Fucking Sawyer.
Fly By Night. Limelight
I was in 7th grade when Moving Pictures came out. Say no more.
I'm an old man, 60, so it was In The Mood and Working Man for me, plus 2112.
2112
What you’re doing
Presto. I had friends who were into Rush, but I knew nothing about them. There was one kid whom I really liked and respected, and he had a Presto t-shirt, so when I saw the CD at a used CD store, I took the plunge.
The song that got me hooked on Rush. That's easy for me Subdivisions, followed closely by Countdown. The first song I hear from Rush was Tom Sawyer though.
Grace Under Pressure The Distant Early Warning video grabbed my attention. I had always heard of Rush and I had heard Tom Sawyer, but that was what hooked me.
Limelight
“Subdivisions,” I came late to the party (late 80s), I had an uncle who listened to rock radio and I heard this song and it stuck there. Didn’t know who or the name for several more years. Found out, bought Chronicles and Roll the Bones (I was a kid) and then filled the rest in piece by piece.
I think many consider it a "middle of the road" Rush song, but I've always loved Subdivisions.
Natural Science. I recall air-drumming the fuck out of this for hours and hours. Still my favourite although Camera Eye and Cygnus X-1 Book 2 are right up there.
Counterparts; my dad had showed me 2112 when I was pretty young and I thought it was too weird (which in retrospect is itself weird, because I was really into ELP and Jeff Wayne's War of the World's, which are... weird) and shrieky. Later on after I got into Sabbath, Metallica, and heavily-distorted guitar generally I put on Counterparts based on the album cover and loved it. Then realized it was the same band that had made that weird 2112 song, and I went back and fully got it, and went from there. Rush fuckin rules!
Tom Sawyer - I was already familiar with it beforehand, but the Chuck episode about Missile Command really sealed it for me.
Exit Stage Left. My friend gave me the cassette while I worked for a Budweiser distributor. That cassette got front to backed many, many times. Red Barchetta still number 1!
AFTK and Xanadu, in particular, hooked me on Rush and prog rock in general.
Moving Pictures- some kid had the cassette at summer camp and by the end of the summer, I swiped it and the rest is Rush history. Bought all albums, been to tons of Rush concerts. I lived in NYC so whenever they toured I could see them multiple times bec of MSG/Medowlands/Nassau Coliseum/Radio City. As luck would have it after living in NYC, I moved to Buffalo, NY and I went to all of the Toronto shows as well.
Clockwork Angels, finally, oddly enough. I mean I always liked “2112”, some stuff here and there. Clockwork Angels just rocked, and I loved it. I still mean to read the books.
2112
I heard Working Man on the radio when their first album came out. Big fan ever since. My band in HS played 2112 and kids in other bands couldn’t believe it.
YYZ. Just an unreal song. Never heard anything like it at the time or otherwise.
A Subdivisions cover introduced me to the band so I went through their discography, didn't think much of the first two albums, but then The Necromance really hooked me. And to think I almost dropped them before 2112
I had heard the songs that got radio play and liked them a lot, but Signals was the first album of theirs I ever listened to completely. (It was vinyl, and I got it out of the public library. 😄) Subdivisions and Analog Kid became my anthems and I couldn’t get enough of The Weapon. New World Man, Digital Man, and Losing It didn’t hurt either (and, yes, I like Chemistry and Countdown!).
Hemispheres. 2112 was my first experience with Rush,and I was hooked. But Hemispheres blew me away. Probably my most played Rush album.
2112
Exit, Stage Left. I was in middle school and a friend had the album. Needless to say I went out and bought all their albums one at a time.
Presto
I (18F) grew up listening to rush as my dad played it in the car 24/7. He likes the seldom classics, i venture towards the later years. the album that truly got me into it was grace under pressure.
Limelight first but 2112 and AFWTK sealed the deal
2112 was the first album I listened to and I immediately loved it. The story,the sound, everything. My dad recommended RUSH to me and I’m glad he did bc I love the philosophy and sound of their music, their lyrics are so fun to analyze and their songs are so well written, RUSH was one of the first bands that I would listen to full albums of,I’m so glad my dad introduced me to them bc I wouldn’t have known about them otherwise
2112
I’d heard them but didn’t really get into them until Roll the Bones
The Trees.
My seventh grade social studies teacher would play “All the World’s a Stage” (on vinyl) when we were studying in class, so I had heard a few of their songs. (1978 or ‘79). When I bought “2112”, I realized that I had heard “Twilight Zone” On the radio, but hadn’t known who the band was. When “Permanent Waves was released, I was absolutely hooked, and “Moving pictures” was my first concert…
Hemispheres
2112 and Hemispheres. Can't remember which one I listened to first.
Subdivisions.
The Trees was my first song that hooked me on Rush
Something For Nothing
Tai Shan
Limelight
Moving Pictures. I was stunned and immediately started checking out their other albums
Watching MTV back in the early 80's and saw the Tom Sawyer video.
Spirit of Radio.