Test For Echo
by Rush
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Test For Echo is ranked 21st best out of 38 albums by Rush on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Rush is Moving Pictures which is ranked number 162 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 8,712.
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Test For Echo track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Test For Echo ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 05/27/2026 04:11 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,455 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/27/2026 15:24 | Leginlists | 3,755 | 83/100 |
| ! | 03/07/2026 20:03 | BoxFL | 2,766 | 51/100 |
| ! | 02/05/2026 22:29 | saltysurprise | 2,958 | 83/100 |
| ! | 01/23/2026 16:51 | hebbo137 | 199 | 79/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 69.2/100, a mean average of 67.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 68.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.1.
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Time and Motion, Test for Echo & Driven are excellent powerful tracks. Resist is one of my favourite and a hidden gem. Dog Years and Virtuality are mediocre, yet this is the last finest album produced by Rush, it goes downhill from here.
Keeping that hard edge going and some much more proggy tracks. Driven is great. Time and Motion wouldn't be out of place on a late 70s Rush record. Overall though, it feels a little bit stale to me.
Fischman 12/14/2016 22:32 | #180168
I found this to be a huge step up from Counterparts, which I found to be monotonous enough to not be able to listen to nonstop. This one I can hang with all the way through. There was some nice musical evolution back toward the heavy side as well, particularly in evidence on my favorite track on the album, 'Driven.'
It's...an average album. Pretty bad by Rush's standards. The production has taken a step back from Counterparts: it's kind of bland! It's sad, too, because this is easily one of Neil's best drumming albums. Geddy's basslines are fine, but I get the feeling the band was pretty uninspired here (as they were on Presto for the most part).
The first three songs are fine, and Limbo certainly had potential (though the "Wall of Sound" nature of the guitar really drives things down). Everything else is mediocre to downright bad. "Dog Years" and "Virtuality" are in the Rush song cellar.
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