Rolling Stone has posted a best album list that favors bands with longevity - such as Rush. It's a list of the 50 Best 10th Albums of All Time (thanks RushFanForever) - studio albums only. Only bands that have been around long enough to produce 10 albums are eligible, so that limits the playing field significantly. Rush's 10th studio album was Grace Under Pressure, which came in at #41 on the list:

An outspoken contingent of Rush fans look down at the group's mid-Eighties albums when Alex Lifeson's guitars took a backseat to Geddy Lee's synthesizers. To these people, 1984's Grace Under Pressure marked a key turning point since it's their first album without producer Terry Brown since their 1974 debut, and Lifeson is mixed so far down that his guitar is sometimes barely audible. But fans willing to leave 2112 and Motion Pictures in the past recognized that Grace Under Pressure is a remarkable collection of songs that tackled subject matter as serious as the Holocaust ("Red Sector A") and the death of band associate Robbie Whelan ("Afterimage"). Rolling Stone's Kurt Loder was underwhelmed ("If you like Rush, you'll love it; if not, then Grace Under Pressure is unlikely to alter your assessment of the band as a lumbering metal anachronism"), but time has been kind to Grace Under Pressure. It's a document of a band at a turning point, unafraid to try new things even if it means alienating some of their core followers.