Closer To The Heart (track) by Rush

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Closer To The Heart by Rush
Year: 1981
From the album Exit... Stage Left (track #5)

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82/100 (from 13 votes)

     

Closer To The Heart appears on the following album(s) by Rush:

• A Farewell To Kings (track #3) (1977)
• The Spirit Of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974-1987 (track #4) (compilation) (2003)
• Different Stages · Live (track #9) (1998)
• Exit... Stage Left (track #5) (this album) (1981)
• Chronicles (track #10) (compilation) (1990)
• Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland (track #22) (2011)
• Rush In Rio (track #12) (2003)
• A Show Of Hands (track #15) (1989)
• Retrospective I 1974-1980 (track #9) (compilation) (1997)
• R40 Live (track #19) (2015)

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Rating	Date updated	Member	Track ratings	Avg. track rating
90/100	06/27/2025 03:08	brent13	10,762	85/100
80/100	01/11/2025 07:11	Exist-en-ciel	17,035	76/100
90/100	07/31/2023 21:01	AlexMai	374	92/100
70/100	05/13/2022 14:09	Squonk007	3,098	73/100
85/100	05/03/2022 21:36	LosWochos	307,856	80/100

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This track is rated in the top 3% of all tracks on BestEverAlbums.com. This track has a Bayesian average rating of 82.1/100, a mean average of 86.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 86.5/100. The standard deviation for this track is 7.2.

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From Squonk007 05/13/2022 14:10

Always a highlight.

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From Goliath 11/03/2018 12:46

Rush's greatest sing-a-long song.

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