ラッシュのお気に入りソングを40名のミュージシャンがセレクト、テイラー・ホーキンス、ニッキー・ワイアー、スティーヴン・ウィルソン、マイク・ポートノイ他

●TERRY BROWN
“The Twilight Zone is a little gem with a very strong lead guitar motif from Alex, Ged’s verse vocals up in the stratosphere and then the chorus slipping into an eerie flanged vocal that is in the ‘zone’. This is all held together by Neil’s very concise, driving percussion closing with the airy guitar solo which makes this one of my favourite Rush tunes.”

●TAYLOR HAWKINS - Foo Fighters
“The live version of A Passage To Bangkok off Exit… Stage Left is probably my favourite Rush moment of all time. I like this more than the album version; the feel is a bit funkier and some of the drumming is absolutely not of this world. Exit… Stage Left is probably my favourite Rush record, and this is definitely my favourite track from this record.”

●NICKY WIRE - MANIC STREET PREACHERS
“A Farewell To Kings is my favourite Rush album, along with Moving Pictures. Xanadu is one of the greatest instrumental sections of all time. The drumming’s phenomenal and the bass playing is as funky and cool as anything. Geddy’s got the strongest fingers. It sounds like he’s whacking the shit out of that Rickenbacker, the hardest bass to play.”

●STEVEN WILSON
“I’d go for The Camera Eye from Moving Pictures. For me, this is Rush continuing in the tradition of their incredible 70s epics, but achieving something more structured and lyrically mature. As with the whole of the Moving Pictures album, it strikes a perfect balance between the power trio format of the 70s and the more layered keyboard- dominated sounds to come. It’s also got one of the great Alex Lifeson guitar solos ? among so many!”

●LAWRENCE GOWAN - STYX
“For 14 years, I was under the same management company as Rush, and therefore was aware of their musical development at relatively close range. Their song Limelight caught me immediately, and still does to this day. It’s so well crafted and at the time it stood apart melodically from their earlier work. To my interpretation, the lyric expresses something profound on the delicate subject of trying to balance fame with ‘real life’. That’s a tricky topic to put into perspective and still remain entertaining.”

●MIKE PORTNOY
“If I had to pick the quintessential Rush song, it would have to be La Villa Strangiato. When I was a teenager in the early 80s and in the heat of my deepest Rush influence, that was the benchmark for instrumental prowess. Not only for us drummers, but also for fellow bass players ? that quick bass and drum breakdown ? and guitarists ? perhaps still Alex Lifeson’s greatest recorded solo.

“As I also stated in the Beyond The Lighted Stage film, to us blossoming musicians at the time, La Villa… was the ultimate musical challenge to learn, as no other instrumental song in rock history had that level of technical precision.”

●MICHEL ‘AWAY’ LANGEVIN - VOIVOD
“If I have to name one song that combines all the elements I like from Rush, it would be Natural Science from Permanent Waves. It’s a multi-part epic with a sci-fi quantum physics theme, and a touch of militant environmental consciousness.”

●JACK BLADES - NIGHT RANGER
“Tom Sawyer shows the absolute ability of those musicians to be completely restrained when they want to be, and over-the-top unleashed when they want to be. It’s clever, it’s brilliant, it’s everything a song should be coming from great musicians.”

●BARNEY GREENWAY - NAPALM DEATH
“I’d go for 2112, despite its length. The track’s so catchy and has some very heavy moments. There’s a riff in there that’s really powerful.”

●JOE ELLIOTT - DEF LEPPARD
“I saw Rush play Xanadu live at their first ever UK gig. This was at the Sheffield City Hall back in 1977. It was the solitary new song they played on that tour, and as I already had the live album All The World’s A Stage, which is pretty much what they played, the only thing I wasn’t familiar with. But it stood out as an epic piece. It’s 11 minutes long and musically meandering from quiet to very loud all the way through… Amazing stuff.”

※以下、人名のみ（以下のリンク先でセレクトが見れます）

DAVE BROCK - HAWKWIND
JOHN MITCHELL
CLAUDIO SIMONETTI - GOBLIN
SEAN REINERT - CYNIC
DOUG OTT - ENCHANT
MATT YOUNG - HEKZ
JAMES MONTEITH - TESSERACT
JOHN MIDDLETON - SYLOSIS
FRANK VAN BOGAERT - FISH ON FRIDAY
JAIME GOMEZ ARELLANO - MESSENGER
PHILL JUPITUS
STEVE ROTHERY
KIM SEVIOUR - TOUCHSTONE
MATT STEVENS
GRANT NICHOLAS - FEEDER
ALAN STRAWBRIDGE - SCHNAUSER
MIKE WEATHERLEY, MP
DAVE KERZNER
STUART NICHOLSON - GALAHAD
DANNY CAVANAGH - ANATHEMA
ROSS JENNINGS - HAKEN
ARJEN LUCASSEN - PAT CASH
MIKE HOLMES - IQ
ROBERT REED
MATT HALPERN - PERIPHERY
NIALL MATHEWSON - PALLAS
GRUTLE KJELLSON - ENSLAVED