Top Ten Underrated Rush Albums

The Top Ten

1 Caress of Steel

This is actually my favorite Rush album. Shame how people liked it so little that it nearly killed their career. This album just has the right sound, the right mood, the right songs, and some really brilliant works that took Rush to the next level, The Fountain of Lamneth and the Necromancer.

People don't like it cause it has long songs they don't have any patience this is my 5th favorite far from worst

This album is so underrated that it almost killed the band.

Agreed. Underrated, but not my fave.

2 Test for Echo

Don't understand why this album gets so much dislike aside from maybe lyrics from a couple songs.

3 Hold Your Fire

Second for me (only to A Farewell to Kings), I love every single bit of this album. Whereas most of their later albums have some good AND bad songs, Hold Your Fire nails every track. The best ones are Time Stand Still, Lock and Key, and Mission, I would say.

4 Power Windows

So many beautiful moments

5 Grace Under Pressure

This album rocks, it's full of energy and spirit

6 Vapor Trails

The Excursion fixed a lot of the problems

The Remix version fix a lot of problems.

7 Rush

8 Counterparts

Fantastic album. Best one since Signals

9 Signals

If you say NONE of the songs here are underrated, "Losing It" sure is.

Surely a pretty well known album... but still not praised enough!

10 Fly By Night

While Carress of Steel certainly gets a lot of undeserved hate, I feel like this one is usually just flat out forgotten, and honestly it shouldn't be. Because this is the album that introduced so many elements that would become staples of Rush albums, and doesn't totally come across as mindless experimentation like certain parts of Carress of Steel. From the mini-epic that is By-Tor and the Snow Dog, to the heavy riffs of Anthem, to the less heavy sounds of Best I Can, and the song that always reminded me of Closer to the Heart, Fly By Night. There are so many elements here that are clearly used to greater extent in later albums. And the best part is that this is a great album in its own right.

The Contenders

11 Clockwork Angels