2112 is where my brain goes to when I think Rush, but Xanadu's what made me a fan when a friend loaned me the album. I think it has just the right 'journey' as a listening experience. Lots of solid, heavy, pounding rock has never done anything for me, but the mix here's perfect.
I'm rediscovering a lot of my old musical pleasures, at least partly thanks to this channel https://www.youtube.com/c/rdouglashelvering. Watching him listening so some classic rock tracks reminded me I never stopped enjoying a lot of music, I just stopped listening to it.
I've said in other threads that my only Rush concert was at the NEC in 1984, but checking their history, it must have been May '83. And I'm afraid I didn't get on with the whole stuck-at-the-back-of-a-big-stadium experience... or so much Rush in one chunk. Probably didn't help that I should have been revising for university exams! Of course I'd love to repeat that experience now... though I may need a toilet break halfway through.Saw them live at Bingley Hall in Stafford, can't remember if it was 79 or 81. One of the bands the likes of which we're unlikely to see again.
