What's your favorite Rush song?

Marathon is fun. Vocals really soar.

Red Sector A has a real sci fi vibe to it that I like a lot, but how many songs by Rush don't have a sci fi vibe?

Of course, I have 30 favorite Rush songs.

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La Villa Strangiato.

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I have to put that one right up there with 2112 and YYZ.

2112

Tom Sawyer was the first Rush song I ever heard. I was in Panama City Beach Florida for our high school band competition and we were at an amusement park. There was a ride called "The Abominable Snow Man" that was a "scrambler" inside an enclosed dome. It was pitch dark, the walls were lined with mirrors, and they kept it cooled down to about 50 degrees. They had an awesome sound system but they had been playing some crappy music as we waited in line to get on the ride. When my buddies and I got on, and the attendant checked to make sure we were locked in, my buddy saw that the attendant was wearing a Rush concert T. He said "Badass T man, can you play some Rush?". The dude smiled and started the ride in pitch black with Tom Sawyer cranked to eleven. As we spun up to speed, jamming to Rush, the strobe lights started and turned an incredible ride in to something from another dimension. I've never forgotten that ride, or that song.

Red Barchetta would be second for me.

La Villa Strangiato is certainly one of my favorites. But here I will have to go with Witch Hunt.

Fly by Night

Closer to the Heart

Working man is my jam

YYZ