Every Rush Studio Album Released in the 80s, Ranked

The 1980s were a period of wide-ranging change for Rush, a decade when the trio stretched its sound, embraced new technology and tightened song structures. Drummer Neil Peart emerged as a defining lyricist and developed complex polyrhythms and a powerful, smooth style—"it's like running a marathon while doing math equations." The band scored its career-defining hit with "Tom Sawyer" from Moving Pictures, even as it sometimes strayed into the excesses of big 80s production.

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