The Cult of Original
Rush got a brief flurry of attention a couple weeks back when they announced that they would be going out on tour again in 2015. The news quickly went from their press release to Rolling Stone, who immediately threw together a readership poll asking for the ten best Rush albums -- no doubt to get a bunch of people to give their contact infoso that Rolling Stone could spam their Facebook pages with ads. The irony of RS showing enthusiasm for Rush is, I'm sure, not lost on Rush. I did not answer that poll, but a friend on Facebook asked the same question on his own Facebook page, sparking a small discussion in which no one mentioned any album later than Signals and most gravitated towards either Hemispheres or the first three albums. (Confession: my response was Moving Pictures , but even that fairly populist response felt risky in the context of so many responses that trended even earlier than Hemispheres . There's a weirdly reactionary, curmudgeonly impulse that has woven