The Philosophy Behind Rush's Lyrics
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00:00 Intro
00:47 Title Card
00:54 Neil Peart
01:11 Objectivism
01:33 Anthem
02:32 Their Own Path
03:01 Close Analysis: 2112
07:07 Permanent Waves
07:56 Moving Pictures
08:36 Tom Sawyer
09:26 Conclusion - Hudba
RIP Neil, one of the most underrated lyricists ever.
Until Presto... and then he became overrated.
@@nasticanasta Nonsense. If that's where they went past you, fine. I myself don't like the "dense" sound they took up in later years, preferring more the "clean" 70's sound of say "A Farewell to Kings" (my favorite Rush album)
But the lyrics got better and more emotionally relevant as Peart got older. You can't expect a 50 year old to write "By Tor and the Snow Dog".
Wat? All I hear of him is that he was one of the bes lyricist of all time and I’ve always thought that myself
@@nasticanasta David Westhoff, Author of the stupidest CZcams comment - ever.
David Westhoff, I used to think that until I got older and understood things with a different perspective.
I love the lyric in Freewill, “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!”
One of my favorites, also!
That concept should be taught in first grade.
I've always loved that line.
"Not making a decision, is a BIG decision!"
That's my own philosophy: Every time you don't do something, even if you're unaware of it, you make that choice yourself.
But if it doesn't ever cross your mind and you continue to do what you were doing before, past the time at which you could have done it, is it really a choice? Or the absence of a choice? Or is that a choice as well?!
Thank God For Neil Peart
Rest in peace, my good friend.
That gave me a headache
yyz probably has the greatest lyrics of all time
The version from Rio anyway!
I think La Villa Strangiato has better lyrics
Leave That Thing Alone
Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun
Especially the second verse!
2:55
Label: Let's try to be more radio friendly
Rush (lying): Aight
Later...
Neil: Hey. You wanna know a good idea.
Geddy: What?
Neil: Let's start with a 20 minute long song.
Alex: Dude. That's f*cking brilliant.
Instinct Bros Gaming ...a 20-minute weirdass SCI-FI song, ftw!
Would of loved to have been a fly on the wall when that conversation was going on.
william sherman What can this strange concept be? When I hear it, the impossible happens.
@@jenniferp1917 A really, REALLY good 20-minute weirdass SCI-FI song
Neil Peart isn't just a great drummer, he's a great songwriter as well. The man's a genius, as Geddy and Alex are.
I'm glad the Starman also enjoys Rush as much as I do.
Why do I seem to see you in the comments of like every freaking video these days? Not complaning, but just kind of a coincidence. But I totally agree, all Geddy, Alex and Neil are all geniuses in their own right and Rush are one of the few bands (along with Tool and Led Zeppelin) that doesn’t have a bad member.
Agree, how Neil has thought up of stuff like 2112, the Cygnus Books and Xanadu is mind boogling
I've seen him in the comment sections of Linkara videos, and ever since then he's just kept popping up. It's magic.
All 3 are bloody talented..
I WAS JUST LISTENING TO RUSH. It's not really a coincidence tho, I'm listening to rush most of the time.
Malik Ahmed It’s all I listen to. They’ve ruined it for me. All other music can’t compare to the RUSH collection.
Can we get a video on the life and legacy of Neil Peart? If anyone rocker deserves it, it's that man. RIP to the fallen legend.
Rush consistently wrote the most intelligent lyrics of any rock band ever with great music added as a bonus.
And I always thought the other way, a great set of musicians who had some superb lyrics.
The key word is 'consistently', they stayed true to the last song on the last album. Yeah, I realize they may not have recorded it that way, but from a fans perspective....
@@michelleisaacson6069 I still have a hard time believing there is no more Rush . They've been there my whole life . They are literally the soundtrack to my life . Every album brings different memories .
@@Mr.CliffysWorld Yeah, same here! Grace Under Pressure was the first album I heard from them when I was like 13. After that I bought all the albums before that and it was great just falling down the Rush rabbit hole. Loved them ever since!!
@@michelleisaacson6069 what year that come out ?
I find it amusing that Rush is constantly criticized by people who don't like them for there lyrics. Yet you would be hard pressed to find another band that writes about artistic expression like they do, a band that clearly only cares about the music they create, not the lifestyle or the money that comes with being famous musicians.
i agrre!
Well, I really don't see that many people don't like Rush for their lyrics at all. If there's a dislike, it's Geddys voice
Pink Floyd, Blue Oyster Cult, CCR, Santana, Grand Funk Railroad, Circle Jerks, Agent Orange, the list goes on
Nic Rush might be more popular today than ever. There is a whole new generation of Rush fans and they are just as engaged and committed as the previous. Quite remarkable when you consider they will never have the opportunity to see them “Live”
Robert Calvert
No love for Hemispheres? Cygnus X1 is my fav. The whole story of emotion vs. intellect we all battle with.
Hemispheres is without a doubt their best. My favorite and second favorite (La Villa Strangiato and Cygnus) is in that album
I was really hoping for Cygnus as well
Every soul a battlefield....
One of my favorites too. The fountain of lamneth is deep in itself too. One of my first college English papers was on that so g
Look into the left right brain duchotomy
To me Alex Lifeson is the most creative guitarist I've heard, the riffs are unique like it's pretty freaking good to be able to come up with for example the riff on The Spirit of Radio.
orange70383 right? He is so underrated. La Villa Strangiatto is a masterpiece
@@kevinwheesysouthward9295 is he the MOST underrated or the second, please send me the official scientifically overratedyness table
Brendan Roberts um, I don’t have that. I do have the official scientific this guy is a dick table. Want to know where you land on that?
The Objectivism element is also one of time.
Neil WAS an Objectivist in his twenties, but as he matured, he saw some of the cracks in the philosophy, and just picked and chose the elements of the philosophy that do make sense, like the focus on individual agency and curiosity.
In a recent interview he referred to himself as a "bleeding heart libertarian."
Well, yes. Any philosophy in its pure form is likely to be inaccurate as the universe is more nuanced than can be explained by one ideology. Neil has matured and realized this.
Thanks for your balanced comment. I have heard Peart say that politically he is a "Bleeding heart libertarian" ......think I like that party.
Yes, I am glad Peart matured philosophically. While I LOVE the music of their older stuff, I do feel a little odd singing out loud to certain songs where it's straight-up Ayn Rand nonsense.
2112Xeno I like that, too. I find it’s the closest label to describing what I am philosophically/politically. Basically, a bleeding heart libertarian (also known as a neoclassical liberal) is a person who values both personal freedom/civil liberties and social justice (fair and just relations between the individual and society, seeing to the needs of the economically vulnerable). I’ve recently been reading one of Ayn Rand’s novels, “The Fountainhead”, which I honestly was inspired to purchase because of Sebastian Bach (a metal singer in his own right and huge Rush fan) telling the story in the “Beyond the Lighted Stage” documentary of how Neil Peart’s liner notes in 2112 inspired a 12-year-old Sebastian to go and read “The Fountainhead”. (I’m 31 and that book is one long read, I’m only a third of the way through it right now; I’m trying to imagine a 12-year-old having the mental stamina to get through a book that long!) The “Starman” emblem does kind of remind me of the protagonist of “The Fountainhead”, Howard Roark (especially since the first page of the novel has him standing naked at the edge of a cliff on the day he’s expelled from architectural school because he refused to follow the then-popular Classical style in his assignments; with the plot beginning in the 1920s, he was a modernist way ahead of his time, which has driven much of the plot I’ve read so far). The narrator does mispronounce Ayn Rand’s first name (it actually rhymes with “wine”), but I find it interesting how much literature has played a role in Rush’s career as a band.
@@crystalp7242 The Fountainhead is one of my favourite books. They even made a movie of it years ago staring Gary Cooper as Howard Roark. The movie only skims the surface and I am glad I read the book first. The speech Roark gives at his trial is profound. You might even find a clip of it on You Tube. If you remember that scene, it makes sense that the members of Rush would like Rand's philosophy as the speech is all about artistic freedom and integrity.
Saw Rush in title... instantly liked
Was NOT disappointed :)
sucks how the media put Rush in a box last few years as a band for nerds or geeks or whatever. I been going to their concerts since 91, maybe 10 times and only thing I noticed unusual is way more guys then girls at their shows. the media has stuck them into this band for techies thing and that's just not true. always saw plenty of blue color types at their shows and plenty of any other types you could name. the media and critics have always been wrong about Rush and sorry but way too late to the party to have any credibility. only a small few journalists or commentators really get Rush.
jeff wolfe I know where you are coming from but the fact that music critics, journalists, etc were so dismissive of Rush is what’s so awesome (for me, anyway) about the band and those of us who love their music! Although I “discovered” Rush during their most commercially successful era of Moving Pictures (I was 12 or 13), I still relish the fact that another couple of decades went by before they were given their “due” by the critics and music press (ie RnR Hall of Fame, Rolling Stone, etc). These folks may be late to the party but I still don’t think they really get it they way we Rush-freaks always have! As Geddy put it, Rush may be the world's biggest cult band. So in a way the medias' putting us in the "nerd/geek" box may not be all that far off and no doubt the band has always considered themselves as such, lol. Cheers amigo!
Try Nicholson1968
What about the lyrics to YYZ? I've always found them very nihilistic.
la villa stragato is even more so
La Villa actually has "lyrics", if you listen to the Exit Stage Left version.
you must be a malignant narcissist
and yes...YYZ is to die for!
You clearly spent some time in limbo
I strongly believe that Rush made me a better person.
I can't imagine life without them!
Ditto.
In the early 80's, rock bands were very lucrative in the southeastern U.S. I was a road crew monkey for a regional band. Worked several RUSH shows. The audience, as well as the crews, were sometimes mesmerized by the performance. Neil was finishing his solo and we got in the way of a backstage prop move because everyone stopped to listen (very professional). I became an accountant. But I wouldn't have missed the end of that solo if you had set me on fire.
YEP! I couldn't agree more! But now that Neil is gone... I too don't know if I can carry on this cold and empty life? :(
Objectivism promotes selfishness
Ummm please clarify?
"The Trees" is one of their finest masterpieces!
It should also be noted that closing song for 2112 , Something for Nothing, is a great song that reinforces the epic side A. It's a warning that you can't have what you want or need without putting in effort and work. It's one of my favorite songs in Rush's Discography. Check it out if you haven't
The live version of that song on All the World's a Stage kicks so much ass. Geddy's singing in the 70s was unbeatable.
Amen dude, an amazing song.
Neil's stated that Rand was a passing influence, not a major one. Peart says that he read widely; he got serious about reading on hitting the road with Rush. 2112 was their third album. They had not had enough time on tour for Neil to have read much. Rand was among the first writers he read. This coincided with his writing their next lyrics. Peart paraphrased her on 2112, a record defying the record label -- this was meta. He gave attribution out of respect and to avoid plagiarism charges (there are videos on youTube where he says that). Their subsequent albums abandon Randianism. To say she is a ‘major influence’ contradicts Neil himself. It's more fitting to conclude that his love for being true to himself came from his exercise of it. Defying the record label proved, to him, that being true to oneself was the path to personal and artistic fulfillment. His advice to the rest of us is to do the same.
I have read a hitler biography and a churchill biography so I can be pigeonholed anywhere - and I am the most underrated person ever
2112 was their fourth album.
Rush
Fly By Night
Caress of Steel
2112
All the World's a Stage
Permanent Waves
Moving Pictures
Exit Stage Left
Signals
Then I get lost...
Mark Chidester their third with Pearl.
@@markchidester6239 After Signals came Grace Under Pressure, then Power Windows, and then I get lost LOL...
I'm glad you clarify this. As someone who is *not* amused by the toxic levels individualism (inspired partly by Ayn Rand's work) some societies have reached and still a fan of Rush, I'm frustrated that collectivist appeals like Closer to the Heart...
Philosophers and ploughmen
Each must know his part
To sow a new mentality
Closer to the heart ❤
... and The Trees (IMO, though the last line is a bit jarring)...
So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
"The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light"
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw 👀
... haven't been mentioned.
As a fellow CZcams content creator I gotta know: how the hell are you getting around music copyright claims on your videos?!?! Love your channel. Thx
MetalJesusRocks My understanding of "fair use" is that he uses small enough clips and actually does fundamentally change the meaning.
By the way, Leonard French on Lawful Masses has a great video on Fair Use for You Tube creators, you might want to reference.
MetalJesusRocks I don't think he is, they're not any ads running on his vids and they are all sponsored
Love the Metal Jesus channel!
Alan and KPT I liked both your comments because I think you both have valid points and good input well done not acting like little kids!!
sampling.
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw
Russell Flowers Trees is lyrically the most thoughtful and original writing that I’ve ever heard.
I love playing guitar to the trees. 56 years through their entirity my style is Alex's that simple.....got me through
More relevant now than ever.
Genius
A bit surprised that The Trees wasn't mentioned
RUSH made me think when I was a 16 year old girl. I'm 53 now and they never get old.
Amanda Arteno stop lying. We all know no women like rush 😂
Amanda:
You're the same age as me, and similarly they had a profound effect on my understanding of music, art, philosophy, and indeed all of life.
54 now. They blew my mind wide open when I was in high school and I’ve never looked back.
Your a little older than me, but if you truly like Rush your a keeper. Lol. Only met one other woman that liked Rush.
In the 1980's my future wife hated Rush and bacon, now in our 50's my wife loves Rush and bacon. I'm glad we got to see Rush live in Hershey together.
Rip to Neal, his lyrics will always be remembered
May Neil Peart, one of the greatest, most brilliant drummers of all time Rest In Peace. Your lyrics, music, and books have changed so many, including myself. I will think of you every time I connect stick to drum
You have to remember also that Peart later recanted his dedications to Ayn Rand as he had matured and learned of the faults of her philosophies. This doesn't negate the message of his lyrics; rather it makes them stronger as he still stands behind *them*, just not her. Rush was one of the first bands to get me into prog alongside another Canadian prog rock power trio from Toronto - Klaatu - and they remain one of my favourite bands to this day.
As does Klaatu, actually. If you've never hear their album Hope, I highly recommend it.
Thank you so much for doing something about Rush because they’re my favorite band
Red Barchetta always gives me the best vibes
Dima me speeding tickets
I'm actually surprised he didn't say anything about the song. It's basically the same concept of 2112, albeit in a quite shorter song.
I went over 120 mph because of that song without realizing it
Whenever I'm driving a vehicle illegally, I find myself singing Red Barchetta.
Same especially driving in northern New Hampshire it’s awesome
“Catch the mystery, catch the fish”
Sad day today. RIP to the Professor.
All members in Rush are wizards! I'm a melodic death metal musician and Rush are my biggest inspiration. As a bass player I worship them, and when I write lyrics I take great inspiration from Neil
please share them then----
I've never been so happy to see a notification from you guys
Joseph Bastidas its just one guy
Atlas Shrugged is my favorite book, and I found it through Rush's connection to Ayn Rand through 2112 and Anthem (the first of her books I read). Great video, sir!! Well done.
Freewill and Tom Sawyer are some of the best songs out there, Lyric wise and sound wise. Pure pieces of Art!
Rush is the greatest band ever!
I was pleasantly surprised by your quoting of vital signs. that song is so overlooked.
I know there are time limitations, but without them witch hunt would have been a perfect set of lyrics to feature as well.
Witch Hunt is part of the "Fear" series of songs, a sort of subplot Neil Peart created over time which spans several albums starting with Moving Pictures. Can't remember the other songs off the top of my head, but The Weapon is one of them.
woah... long time rush fan and I had no idea. I love this kind of thing, like Dream Theaters 12 step suite czcams.com/video/djKde1d2y60/video.html
Helium Road The songs in order are 'The Enemy Within', 'The Weapon', 'Witch Hunt', and 'Freeze'.
I love “Witch Hunt.” And “The Weapon.” The entire series.
"Those who know what's best for us... must rise and save us from ourselves. Quick to judge, quick to anger, slow to understand. Ignorance and prejudice and fear walk hand in hand." God I love that song.
I love you Neil Peart.
Rest in peace, Master.
I was at work when i heard about Neil's passing
I had to go in the bathroom and just think and i barely talked to any customers the rest of the night
This video is great
RIP Neil
I was at school in my second to last class, I looked at a notification on my phone where it said he died. At that moment I wanted to break down and cry, I told my grandpa who was a huge rush fan and we watched a documentary about the band. The next week at school my geography teacher played rush for the week out of coincidence, and we talked about it for the rest of the day (Geo is my last class of the day)
2112 also has some similarities with the book A Brave New World were there was a huge war and people who control society now baned every piece of art that was made before that war. Also the main protagonist in 2112 and ABNW have a similar fate
You should check out the book 'We' by Yvgeny Zamyatin. Heavily inspired 1984 and BNW, my favorite distopian book. Word of warning though it was translated from russian so some metaphors don't make a lot of sense, but it is still very good.
Excellent
Oh shit, it's Brian Fucking Tyler
Ghost of a Chance was the first song at our wedding reception
2112 is one of the most incredible albums ever made
Awesome video! I was really hoping that you would talk about "Subdivisions". It would have fit so well with the topic of this video. I relate to that song so much.
Scylla Totally agree, that is my favorite song of theirs lyrically.
Conform or be cast out!
"Be cool or be cast out" so true has that line been from 1982 to today.
Every time I hear about a school shooting, I think of that line.
I’ve asked for this video for months and you came through better than ever. THANK YOU POLYPHONIC
Robin, thank you for turning me on to Rush when I was 14 yrs old. I still rock out to them. I hope you are doing well wherever you are.
Amy Evans many people come and go in a persons life most barely memorable but you will never forget the person who first introduced you to the music of Rush!
My first Rush album was all the worlds a stage. Loved them ever since ❤️
The deepest philosophy I've found in Rush is in Hemispheres. An entire book can be written on the meaning contained in the lyrics of that album. Polyph, great job on this video, but I was surprised that you made no mention of Hemispheres. Perhaps you're planning a follow up.
Every soul a battlefield....
Rest in Peace Neil Peart.
This is my favorite Rush-related video.
“Ayn” rhymes with “mine.”
perfect
I don't know why hardly anyone can pronounce her name
Love all your videos, so glad I stumbled across your channel!
I still believe RUSH is the best ever band.....
"Philosophers and ploughmen, each must do his part. To sow a new mentality, Closer to the Heart."
A fantastic concise bringing together of the Peart philosophy through Rush lyrics. Kudos. This was a great masterpiece of a short form video. I'll be supporting ya from now on, that's for sure!
R.I.P. Neil Peart 💔
One of the reasons I love 2112 so much is because of my disagreements with the message and thoughts behind the story of the music, it made me think and got me further into politics, yes the opposite of what they were going for, but still through music I thought about things I had never really thought about. 2112 is an amazing piece and art and music that should be cherished forever.
I was about to comment that. being a communist and a rush fan is a beautiful struggle.
Glad I'm not alone on that!
I don't see how anyone could sympathize with the ideals of the antagonists of 2112's story, but its interesting that Rush's art is so good it resonates with that which it demonizes.
Attila The Pun
Well, obviously I don't support any type of authoritarian dictatorships, but Ayn Rand was very anti-socialist; that includes all government social programs including healthcare. So I don't like the antagonists, I just very much dislike Rand.
The aspects of randian philosophy portrayed in 2112 have nothing to do with socioeconomics. I think the moral intention can apply to communism.
Nicely done, as usual. I would have thought, though, that you had read recent interviews in which Neil Peart disowns Ayn Rand, clearly stating that he no longer espouses her philosophy, and adds "That was 30 years ago."
40 at this point.
I think a lot of the reason people like Peart, and others in the 70s counterculture, got attracted to Rand's ideas was the simple fact that the devastating consequences of her economic thoughts were still blissfully abstract, due to them not really being all that implemented yet. Reaganomics, and Alan Greenspan's "life's work" still hadn't happened.
So I can imagine it was easy to mainly focus on the aspects of Rand's "Philosophy" that were, and I guess still are, universally appealing: Namely those of individualism and freedom and so on and so forth. When you focus on those, and you've yet to see the incredible damage the implementation of the "virtue of selfishness" can wreak on a society, I get the appeal. Same as when people who have been effectively isolated from all us "Peasants" in an upper-middle class world and above can adopt the philosophy. You have the luxury of not getting the ugly side of it thrust in your face. That ugly side falls on the poor and the struggling, without them having any choice in the matter. But for those in the ivory towers, I can imagine the view is great, even if there is the occasional fire in the distance.
It's very easy to overlook how narrowly this kind of "Freedom" is defined, how selectively it is applied and how narrowly it is distributed when you're either among the fortunate, or the ugly consequences simply haven't happened yet.
He mentions in the video that he personally doesn’t adhere to the philosophy, this video is mainly showing how it influenced his work
Christian Friis Jensen Are you this delusional? You think that Firstly "Reaganomics" (not even a real thing btw) is what Ayn Rand wants? You think that Ronald Reagan and Alan Greenspan hurt the economy? That my friend is in every way empirically false.
Supply side economics (which is what he means by Reaganomics) has been shown to be a failure for anyone who was not already wealthy. Middle class income stagnated as their buying power fell. While it was a boon to the investor class, the working and middle class paid for it; are still paying for it.
You’re giving me serious goosebumps! Well compiled and narrated!!
This Video introduced Rush to me...and It keeps coming can't stop.!!!
I live in a 150k population city in an agricultural area in Brazil. So far I've only seen 3 fans of Rush here apart from me. Yet the fact they reached our souls all the way out here is no small feat.
Rush just hits differently
You totally made me play all those old Rush albums. Thanks.
Been listening to Rush for 45 years but I really like your approach to explaining the philosophy.
Great job on this video!! Nice work!
All right, I liked your conclusion. Peart (and Geddy and Alex) are really their own philosophy; informed by previous philosophers, but that is always the case. But more than being iconoclasts, Rush is inspirational. I would never have become a professor of philosophy is I hadn't listened to them when I was a teenager. And I still find the lyrics insightful even now.
Thank you for being up the topic...
Fantastic video. One of the most important bands in my life. Only wish it was 30 minutes longer!
Couldda been several hours and I'd be OK widdit.
The band that raised me. These lyrics profoundly influenced my life.
Great video, document and commentary! :)
I love Rush. That's all I have to say.
Rush was the original dream theater
Bodhi Ostellino well rush was a very big influence on DT. Pretty sure they're John Petrucci's favorite band.
Isn't that how time works?
Time and motion, to be precise
and don’t forget that Yes was the original Rush
But not really. Rush invented their own thing. Yes was more complex and even jazz fusion oriented, but Rush developed their complexity around a hard rock groove. They mixed both complexity and catchy rock grooves way better than any other progressive band, even if these other bands where more technically skilled.
Peart's wealth of literacy gave him a huge pool to draw from, read the lyrics to camera eye, they are superbly crafted, he is not only a poet but a drummer too!
I am in love with your channel
I was 17 reading the words to Limelight. I thought, wow, that is profound and true. 5 years later I learned that Rush had actually borrowed from Shakespeare. I know good writing and good music when I see it.
Red Barchetta fits this style perfectly.
“The treasure of a life, is a measure of love and respect. The way you live, the gifts that you give”
Thanks. I always felt that the music and songs introduced ideas and invited the audience to think. I never felt like they were telling listeners what to think or how to think but just to think.
Rip Neil Peart. The second great Canadian songwriter we've lost to brain cancer. The other one is Gord Downie
I’m a simple man. I see Rush, and I click.
I love this video, talks about the songs no one else talks about, the songs I love most for a reason.
As a musician, and someone who has always sought out interesting, and new sounds, Alex Lifeson’s guitar tone on “Spirit Of The Radio” is possibly one of the greatest in Rock History. He is not given enough credit for his monstrous, thunderous, and insanely complimentary tone. It’s such a perfect cap to the intensity, and power of the rhythm section of Rush. The man sounds like he is 3 guitarists. Having also seen Rush live, I can confirm he is but one man, with some sort of magical tonal power that drips from his fingertips to wash us, the musical masses in sweet sweet tone.
Anthem is my favorite songs of all time. Today, Rand is forgotten. I admire Ayn Rand, and Neil for making a song for ''us'.
please never stop doing what you do. this is so entertaining to watch and you just made me relisten 2112 again! Please do Jethro tull or alice in chains! Keep up the good work :)
Jethro Tull! Awesome suggestion!! 👍🏻
Really enjoyed your video, it was well put together.
Thank you so much! An excellent video! We miss Neil and his voice already.
One of my all time favorite bands.
Finally a video about Rush!!
Fantastic video! Thank you.
Excellent presentation. Thank you.
Rush:
Greatest Bassist (Geddy Lee)
Greatest Drummer (Neil Peart)
One of the Greatest Guitarists (Alex Lifeson)
One of the Greatest Singers (Also Geddy Lee)
One of the Greatest Keyboardists (Geddy Lee Once Again)
Greatest Songwriter (Neil F*cking Elwood Peart)
Greatest bassist, singer, guitarist, and songwriter can be debatable. But theres no doubt neil peart is the best drummer. There are more people that fit the bill for the rest of those categories. For example (these are just my opinions) for greatest guitarist is hands down jimi hendrix. Greatest singer would be freddie mercury from queen. Greatest songwriter(s) are either bob dylan or lennon/mccartney from the beatles. Greatest bassist (hoo boy this ones gonna be controversial) Flea from RHCP or john entwistle from the who.
@@beef9 Wait.......flea? Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.......wait you're serious?
@@BamaMatters11 i honestly forgot about this post what tf was i thinking
@@beef9 haha your comment makes it obvious that it all comes down to opinions. There is no objective standard for "best" guitarist, drummer, or bassist.
But we all were blessed to be able to enjoy the combination of talents that came together in theform of Rush.
Captain Deadeye yes indeed 🔥
My favourite band of all time!
Your analisys was so great!!!
Make more videos about the legendary Rush!!
Rip our dear *Neil.*
Very Cool! I'm from Toronto and grew up listening Rush from their debut album. Their music and Neil Peart's validated so much of my life from a very young age. I've seen them countless times and 2112 has always been my favourite album.
Fly By Night through Moving Pictures. Unparalleled era.
That includes the first album for me, gotta give Rutsy his due.
Thank you so much for properly pronouncing Peart
And yet he mispronounced Ayn!
@@sybo59 Bingo ☝️
Well done! I’m so inspired now! Rush is amazing!
The intro to your videos (showing the Polyphonic name and having that beatin the background) is really comfortable!
Too many people on YT use LOUD and BOOMING sounds, and end up whispering through the video. So thanks for having a proper, and sleek, intro.
Also; The analysis and the way you structured the video was really good. Subscribed!
The hero in 2112 only contemplates suicide and lives on to witness the return of the Elder Race.
That has always been my belief
you know he kills himself from the lyric "my life blood... spills over..."
@@orionmolaro3351 He missed it by that much!
"...my life blood spills over..."
I always thought the Priests were the ones who assumed control ?
I know I'm not the first to say as much, but Neil did move on from Rand's influence after a brief period. Specifically, he said that he found her worldview attractive in his youth and idealistically agreed with the idea of self-interest leading to more overall happiness, but that as he grew older he realized that people on the whole weren't good enough to each other for such a system to work. The end result is overall a philosophy that takes the wheat (healthy individualism and finding one's own purpose and happiness) and leaves the chaff (rejection of charity, self-centeredness, and the more political and economic aspects of Objectivism). It'd be hard to sell Peart as a full-on Rand advocate with some of his later lyrics, such as 1985's "Territories", 1991's title track to "Roll the Bones" or 2007's "The Larger Bowl". Or, for that matter, allowing the Lee-penned 1977 track "Cinderella Man", a retelling of Frank Capra's film "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" where the main character gives up his inherited fortune to provide aid to the homeless during the Great Depression. Peart's relationship with Objectivism is complex, but ultimately it's pretty safe to say he would not stand with those who purport her ideas most strongly today. (He also specifically has said he regrets writing "Anthem".)
Great video! Love your Ghost Notes podcast, so I'm coming around to check out your channel. As someone who grew up on Rush, I really appreciate seeing content on them, since they seem to not come up in the music-CZcams sphere so often despite their degree of popularity and success. Probably because Lee's vocals are so polarizing (I love them, for what it's worth) and the whole Rand issue. So it's great to see a take on Peart's lyrics that doesn't ascribe the worst of Objectivism to him and instead focuses on what the lyrics actually focus on: individual _expression,_ not individual _responsibility._
It brought tears to my eyes. Thank you.
The song "Grand Designs" off the "Power Windows" album is a great continuation of these ideals. It's an anthem to finding and preserving originality in a world craving familiarity and dictated by the bland and artless.
RIP Neil Peart
R.I.P Neil Peart, really lost a legend this time
Those 3 guys were written into the script of life. They stick out like a sore thumb among the musicians of the world. My favorite band.
Awesome video man