Rush’s early albums were themed. The first was a plain rock album, but after that were theme based. Their fantasy themed albums were

• Fly by Night
• Caress of Steel
• A Farewell to Kings

2112 was more sci-fi, and then after that they were more mixed, with albums containing fantasy or sci-fi, or just political or contemporary topics. But there’s a lot of material to listen through.

Aside from their historical or political stuff, none of the fantasy is tied to any particular folklore; it’s just fantasy stories. You won’t find, like, songs about Merlin, or Achilles, or whatever

I’d absolutely put Hemispheres in there too. The first track of Hemispheres is a direct sequel to the last track of Farewell to Kings. Also Xanadu from Hemispheres is very much a fantasy song.

Yeah. The CD only has 4 tracks, though ;-)

Clocking in at 37 minutes. Don’t judge prog by the number of tracks… pretty typical album runtime for anything released in the vinyl era.

Also, it’s fantastic.

I thought the smiley face was sufficient to express that I was joking.

Oops ;-)