Although I consider myself a pretty big Rush fan (the name of my blog should make that clear), there are a lot of Rush albums and songs I don't know. Seems kinda strange now that I didn't look into them before now.
The Sector sets feature CDs packaged as mini LPs, which is pretty cool. Looking at the sets, I realized Rush generally has some pretty groovy cover art and, hey, that's a blog post waiting to happen.
So, here are my Top Five Rush album covers (I was going to do 10...but, let's face it, a few of them are real dogs and there are really only eight or nine solid candidates anyhow).
From 5th to 1st:
A Farewell to Kings
Dystopian...apocalyptic....spooky. Yep, this album cover has all that.
Roll the Bones
I remember seeing concert posters for the Roll the Bones tour when I was in Frankfurt. Always stuck with me. Love how most of the die are set to "3".
Exit...Stage Left
An item from each of Rush's previous eight studio album covers can be seen on the front and back cover of this live album, though each has been modified in some way. Here's the rest of it so you can see:
The owl from Fly by Night flies above Apollo, the man in the suit from Hemispheres, who stands next to the woman from Permanent Waves (right side of the image). The puppet king from A Farewell to Kings sits atop a box stenciled with the "Rush" logo from Rush. Next to him is a painting of the Caress of Steel album cover, held by one of the movers from Moving Pictures, with another mover standing behind. Next to this is Dionysus, the nude man from Hemispheres. Behind this scene, the starman from 2112 hangs in the background, next to an "EXIT" sign. This entire foreground scene is on the left side of the stage, thus Exit...Stage Left.
Moving Pictures
Visual pun...dramatic background. A little cheekiness from everyone's favorite Canadians.
Signals
Striking image of a Dalmatian and a fire hydrant focuses on the connotations of "signals." Clever.
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