Signals
by Rush
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Rush bestography
Signals is ranked 6th 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 8,625.
(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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Signals track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 81 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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Signals rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 |  RockyRaccoon | Top 51 Music Albums of 1982 | 9/51 | 4 |
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 22 Music Albums of 1982 | 12/22 | 3 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 1982 | 15/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | fabm0 | List 1982 Pt 2 | 12/17 | - |
| 2026 | daCritic | Top 25 Music Albums of 1982 | 18/25 | 2 |
| 2026 | RockyRaccoon | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 85/100 | 3 |
| 2026 | BoxFL | Top 46 Music Albums of the 1980s | 16/46 | 13 |
| 2026 |  AAL2014 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 12/100 | 18 |
| 2026 | MasterOfPuppets | Top 500 Albums: 401-500 | 28/100 | - |
| 2026 |  btener11 | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s | 44/100 | 11 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 233 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 1,105 | |||
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Signals ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 09/24/2026 01:45 | Yurls | 23 | 88/100 |
| ! | 06/07/2026 21:48 |  JR | 1,125 | 81/100 |
| ! | 05/30/2026 07:34 |  Leonard | 6,629 | 70/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 78.7/100, a mean average of 77.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 78.9/100. The standard deviation for this album is 14.2.
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Signals forum mentions
BestEverAlbums 08/15/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5405): By AAL2014View latest topic →
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Signals comments
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Fischman TOP 100 COMMENTER 10/28/2016 15:09 | #177637 | TOP COMMENT
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I was disappointed when this album was first release: it's so electronic! Not heavy at all! Where's the guitar?!? I felt like my favorite band had betrayed me. As the years went by, though, I began to see the great strengths of this album. There is some stellar songwriting, lots of great layering of sound, and marvelous creation of mood. Despite being a synth-heavy product of it's time, it has held up well and in the final analysis is well in the upper half of my Rush list.
AAL2014 TOP 100 COMMENTER 03/20/2014 02:47 | #106944 | TOP COMMENT
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Excellent album. I think it's incredibly underrated. I like it a lot because I view it musically as the bridge between the heavier progressive rock and the more keyboard heavy Rush of the albums after this. It's a nice mix with very good songs and tasteful playing from all three members.
Still keeping the 70s rock elements, the progressive touches but adding more 80s synth and melody that they would develop further. What a great record.
Rush moving into the 80's sound, more synths. Most Rush fans hated this turn the band took. I really liked the new direction myself. Very very good album imo. I like 7 of the 9 tracks. MEZ
This was one of my most favorite Rush albums, needs more recognition. Digital Man, Subdivision, The Analog Kid, Chemistry, and New World Man are my favorites
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