Moving Pictures

Making the rounds on Facebook lately has been a post where you list your Top Ten albums from when you were a teenager, those you could listen to over and over and never get tired of... For me, my list would be as follows, in no particular order, except for #1, which will always be #1. Note not all of them were released when I was a teen, but these were the most influential to me. 

10 - Back In Black AC/DC
  9 - Led Zeppelin IV
  8 - Love Gun - Kiss
  7 - Have Arrived - The Oak Ridge Boys
  6 - At Folsom Prison - Johnny Cash
  5 - Greatest Hits, Volume One - Johnny Cash
  4 - Country Road - Blue Ridge Quartet
  3 - Energy - Blue Ridge Quartet
  2 - Chronicle, Volume 1 - Creedence Clearwater Revival
  1 - Moving Pictures - Rush

Rush's album, "Moving Pictures", 36 years after it's release, is still my all-time favorite. Flashback 1981: It was after midnight, and I was listening to my clock radio when I heard "Tom Sawyer" for the first time. Even playing on that tiny mono speaker, I heard the power of those drums and the intensity of the band, Rush. Things would never be the same for me. By the age of 4, my son Phil was able to answer 2 questions - "Who's the lead singer for Rush?", and "Who's the best drummer in the world?" Of course, his answers were Geddy Lee, and Neal Peart.