Rush, you either love ’em or you hate ’em. If you love ‘em, you can now pick up all their greatest hits on one CD. “The Spirit of Radio,” a collection of Rush’s greatest hits so you can “rush” out to the store to pick it up. Yeah, I said “rush” out to the store, but who could resist?

Spanning more than a decade of music, “Spirit” doesn’t fail to include all those Rush songs you either can’t stand or can’t wait to hear again.

-Starting in the mid ’70s with songs like “Working Man” and “Fly by Night,” the album ventures all the way to those horrible last Rush songs of the late ’80s like “The Big Money” and “Force Ten.” But what do you expect from a band that sounded like an ‘80s band even during the ’70s?

The highlights of the album come from songs from the “Permanent Waves”/”Moving Pictures” era. “The Spirit of Radio” (in song form) is memorable for its numerous time changes and its transformation from rock to reggae in seconds flat.

Perhaps Rush’s biggest hit, “Tom Sawyer,” sums up what Rush was at the peak of its career. Geddy Lee’s vocals were girlier than ever, but Neil Peart’s percussion was outstanding as always, and so was the instrumentation of Lee, who was guitarist and bassist, and Alex Lifeson.

After “Moving Pictures,” Rush made one last good album, “Signals.” From that we get “Subdivisions,” a mostly electronic song about adapting to the ever-changing society

(Subdivisions in the high school halls, in the shopping malls, conform or be cast out/ Subdivisions in the basement bars, in the backs of cars, be cool or be cast out.)

Also included on the album is a section of the brilliant 2112 overture, as well as other hits like “Freewill,” “Limelight” and “Closer to the Heart.”

Rush fans undoubtedly will go nuts over this album, while a lot of other people will laugh at the thought of it. I, well, I reviewed it didn’t I?