I was a Rush fanatic as teenager-as an old man I still buy their records and go to the gigs.
My honest opinion is that the production on Rush's records are mostly mediocre and even the classic era stuff doesn't particularly shine.
Maybe that's had an impact in the type of people drawn to their music-maybe not as I don't think you can make that comparison.
As for the recent releases including the softened up Vapour Trails-they aren't great records to listen to on a high end system-also VT is a terrible record in terms of songs.
The remasters-just about everything are merely ok.
Clockwork Angels is a decent record certainly never a top 5 Rush record...imho of course.
My honest opinion is that the production on Rush's records are mostly mediocre and even the classic era stuff doesn't particularly shine.
Maybe that's had an impact in the type of people drawn to their music-maybe not as I don't think you can make that comparison.
As for the recent releases including the softened up Vapour Trails-they aren't great records to listen to on a high end system-also VT is a terrible record in terms of songs.
The remasters-just about everything are merely ok.
Clockwork Angels is a decent record certainly never a top 5 Rush record...imho of course.