Caress Of Steel
by Rush
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Rush bestography
Caress Of Steel is ranked 13th best out of 38 albums by Rush on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Rush is Moving Pictures which is ranked number 163 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,628.
(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).
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Caress Of Steel track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Caress Of Steel rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 5 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 94/100 | 1 |
| 2026 | SethGunde | Top 8 Music Albums of 1975 | 1/8 | 5 |
| 2026 |  ExTeaSea | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s | 85/100 | 3 |
| 2026 |  JR | Rush | 8/10 | - |
| 2026 |  Fischman | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 25/100 | 4 |
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 100 Music Albums of 1975 | 45/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | steve397 | Top 15 Music Albums of 1975 | 13/15 | 1 |
| 2026 |  identifer | Top 45 Music Albums of the 1970s | 25/45 | 9 |
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 14 Music Albums of 1975 | 10/14 | 2 |
| 2026 | CripplingAutism | Top 89 Music Albums of the 1970s | 13/89 | 17 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 105 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 268 | |||
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Caress Of Steel ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 5 days ago |  Keltron1 | 11 | 83/100 |
| ! | 09/24/2026 01:47 | Yurls | 23 | 88/100 |
| ! | 06/30/2026 04:42 |  nextorgd | 1,230 | 84/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.2/100, a mean average of 72.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 73.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 16.2.
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Caress Of Steel forum mentions
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This album may be a little underrated, but I don't think it's one of Rush's best. Still, it's an important release because it shows a band stretching their prog rock wings. We have true epics for the first time in the Rush catalog ("By Tor and the Snow Dog" from FBN was like a mini epic) in the form of "The Necromancer" and "The Fountain of Lamneth". Sadly, Necromancer is extremely uneven (even boring during the first half), and the three shorter tracks are inconsistent. "Bastille Day" is a great rocker through and through, but "I Think I'm Going Bald" is poor and "Lakeside Park" is kind of bland except for the guitar solos.
Overall it's a little above average, thanks to the ball-crunching "Bastille Day" and sweeping "The Fountain of Lamneth". Probably somewhere in the back half of my top 100 albums of the 70s...and it might just crack my top 10 albums of '75.
Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 12/14/2016 22:22 | #180163 | TOP COMMENT
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This was a very ambitious project and Rush learned a lot from it, as evidenced by the follow up, the unbeatable '2112.' Nevertheless, this one is excellent in its own right.
souplipton 06/10/2016 03:42 | #168341 | TOP COMMENT
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Caress of Steel is Rush's most underrated album. Coming right before their breakout album 2112, this album features Rush playing somewhat harder rock, while still featuring their mostly fantasy and philosophically influenced songwriting. "Bastille Day" is one of Rush's best songs, and "I Think I'm Going Bald" and "Lakeside Park" are pretty good songs. That brings us to the album's longer, multi-part songs. "The Fountain of Lamneth" has its ups and downs, but is a good song, while "The Necromancer" is of their best multi-part songs. A personal favourite of mine, "The Necromancer" elevates this alvum to their first great work in my opinion.
With the exception of I Think I'm Going Bald, this album is great throughout. Definitely underrated.
According to the Rush documentry, Caress was almost the end of the band.........how sad would that have been
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