All The World's A Stage
by Rush

All The World's A Stage by Rush
(Live album)
Year: 1976
Release date: 1976-09-29
Overall rank: 6,859th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 86 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1976 (93rd)
Award Top albums of of the 1970s (1,036th)
Award Best albums of all time (6,859th)

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Rush bestography

All The World's A Stage is ranked 18th 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 8,731.

Rush album bestography « Higher ranked (6,303rd)
Snakes & Arrows
This album (6,859th)
All The World's A Stage
Lower ranked (7,326th) »
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All The World's A Stage rankings summary
Overall rank: 6,859th | 1970s rank: 1,036th | 1976 rank: 93rd  Overall chart history
(Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). (Last updated: 3 hours ago).

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Average Rating: 
76/100 (from 86 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.8/100, a mean average of 74.5/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.2/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.3.


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85/100
One of the very greatest live albums. When that guitar riff kicks in on 'In the End' is one of my favourite moments in music. (Weird huh?).
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90/100
Rough, raw, harsh, in your face, and . . . excellent! A great live album.
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Good introduction to their early albums with a sampling of the best tracks from each.
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75/100
Heavy rock bands usually do decent live albums and this is no exception. I also like Rush's predictability in the early days (lost now) of 4 studios, then double live album. This is a great summary of their early stuff - Bastille Day, By-Tor and 2112 get a good airing.
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