Rush - The Trees || Jana's First Reaction and Song REVIEW
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- Welcome to ‘Prog Song Sunday’, where we listen to a Progressive Rock song together and then discuss our thoughts about that particular piece of music. In each episode, you get two different perspectives- the seasoned Prog fan who has 20 years of experience listening to the genre (Nathan), and the fresh new listener who is only now discovering the world of Progressive Rock (Jana).
In this episode, we are featuring "The Trees" by Rush! Please listen along with us, and continue on to our discussion to see how Jana feels about her first dedicated listen to this prog rock gem and Nathan’s background and history with this particular piece of music!
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So relevant for today... and I'm sure the future too... Great Band.
Great reaction y’all!! When asked..Neil said it really was just about “trees”! He was thinking about if trees could walk around like people what would they be like! But Neil has always been known to relate the “careful what you wish for” theme! Be well and God bless… from Texas!!
He had seen a cartoon which is where it all started, he didn't have any political intent when he wrote the lyrics just a reaction to the cartoon he had seen.
This was a great one Nathan! You and your wife are such a sweet couple. Reminds me of my wife and I in the early years before kids turned us into, well, our parents lol 😂
Happy Sunday Nathan and Jana! RUSH❗️Trees❗️Great things come in small packages❗️Awesome song❗️🌳🌲🌴👍😎
The Maples win out in the fall. 😮😮😮😮 Beautiful colors😮
Hi Shufflers. Dave from London. One of my favourite Rush songs. Clever lyrics and nice variety in the instrumental sections.. And Hemispheres vies with Grace Under Pressure as my go-to Rush album. Another great reaction.
There's a right to-do in the forest. Love this. Have a great Sunday Nathan and Jana. 😍
Hi Nathan, Hi Jana, Your sound setup is perfect, You guys are great and have more confidence in yourself Nathan, this is a great podcast. I am not sure if you have looked at Best intro ever yet, but that is my recommendation for Jana to see the guys in action. Cheers
good choice u can escape for a few so many bars into the guitar strumming arpeggio as if 2 guitars r playing listen close, in the instrumental with Taurus pedals accompaniment gives that great spiritually lift trees always a rush favorite great reation
Elegant and spot on. A masterpiece. Neil Peart's incisive genius shines through clear as daylight in the deep dark forest. Great reaction!
Great choice. Great reaction. Great track!
We are all anticipating the new look, after you move into your "studio". Oh, the excitement and the choices...
If I am not mistaken, this is the song that got me into Rush. It was the first song I could actually understand what the lyrics were, both saying and meaning, but mostly, it was the music. I always get a renaissance feel to the music and I had never heard a song like this without some visual accompaniment. Your Rush videos are very enjoyable and you two are a very cute couple. Keep up the great work.
Sometimes spin it up with Broone's Bane intro. :) Love it all! Hemispheres is also on my top list but I can't promise what number it is until the day I play it.
The whole Hemispheres album only had 4 songs and each and every one is the band at the very apex of their musical abilities. 😊
Great choice! It's a bit more on the nose than most of their lyrics, but it's still very clever. I had a feeling that Jana was really going to like this one, and was glad to see that she did. 👍🌳🤟
Thanks for another fun reaction
The funny thing is that there is no symbolism here. Neil is on record stating the song was literally about some animated trees he saw in a diner. According to Songfacts: "Though it seems to be steeped in meaning, according to lyricist/drummer Neil Peart, there is no meaning at all in this song. When asked in the April/May 1980 Modern Drummer magazine about whether there is a message to this song, Peart said, 'No. It was just a flash. I was working on an entirely different thing when I saw a cartoon picture of these trees carrying on like fools. I thought, 'What if trees acted like people?' So I saw it as a cartoon really, and wrote it that way. I think that's the image that it conjures up to a listener or a reader. A very simple statement.'"
RUSH⁉️⁉️ I'm There! Haters Ye be warned!! 3 Awesome things. #1 RUSH. #2 Been recommending this to all RUSH reactions. #3 You are reading the LYRICS!! THE CAMERA EYE on the album behind you is Great and NATURAL SCIENCE 💖 The lady loves the Bass? DUDE!! Great favorite album though mine is A FAREWELL TO KINGS 👑 Ok!! I'll be keeping an eye 👁️ for you two! Great GREAT REACTION!! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎
Love anything and everything done by Rush.
Always saw analogies with the French and Russian revolutions where the underclass rose up against the greedy nobility of the day. Apparently Neil denied there was a deeper meaning but I very much doubt that, the guy was a genius.
Like a lot of people I started seeing more meaning in the song than is really there (I saw 'oaks' = United States and 'maples' = Canada). But poor Neil Peart -- I wish he was still with us to explain for the millionth time what his lyrics *really* mean. 😄
Hey, Nathan. I don't know if you will consider this for your channel, but has anyone introduced you yet to a new rock band called The Warning? I am a lifelong Rush fan and The Warning are already my 2nd favorite band (which says a lot, like, hello Yes and Boston and etc.). I think of them as Rush 2.0 because they appear to be following the Rush blueprint (plus Neil Peart is one of the drummers' inspirations). They are extremely talented, humble, independent, defiant of the record industry. Three sisters from Mexico, they started their band over ten years ago and none are above 24 years of age (do the math 😮) and most of their music is in English. Though they don't sound the same, I feel any lover of Rush should give this band a listen. Best rock trio in over 20 years, hands down, maybe even since Rush! If you choose to give it a shot, I'll recommend the song Evolve Live at the 2023 MTV VMA's. I promise, you won't be disappointed. 🤘👋⚡️
I've definitely heard of them, but I need to check it out! I will make sure to do that!
There is a bit of whimsy to this song in the musical part.
One of my faves. ❤
"....careful what you ask for"? You need to do Xanadu which is just that sentiment.... BUT, first read the unfinished poem by Samuel Coleridge named Kubai Kahn to understand Neil's inspiration....
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It's the opposite, it is saying that's it is wrong to forcibly create equality. There should only be equal opportunity.
Alternatively, it's saying that if you leave a group desperate enough, suffering from inequality, they will willingly sacrifice themselves to take you down out of spite. The oaks do, after all, "ignore their pleas."
Remember that the maples aren't getting light because of the oaks. That will eventually kill them within this metaphor. If they're going to go down anyway, might as well take some oaks with them.
@@HollowGolem you could but Neil the author was heavily influenced by Ayn Rand at the time.
@@HollowGolemalso the maples don't take them down, they are made equal by noble law, so the oaks are altered or held back. Like in 2112 when Neil wrote how the priest make people equal ' what use does the average have in you' because everyone can't make music no one can.
This history of so..ci@..lism
Little known fact and even less spoken about but Neil was quoted as saying he wrote these lyrics whilst going through a nationalist phase. It's about Canada wanting to break away from the British Commonwealth and wanting full independence and a clear break from British colonism. The oaks being the British and The Maples being Canadian. He penned it around the same time as he wrote the lyrics on 2112,which was inspired by the fascist writer Aynn Rand ,the Norwegian right wing activist. Neil was drawn to her work apparently.
It’s not about trees. It’s about people. It’s a metaphor.
Thought this was a political song
The (Canadian) maple being crushd by the (US) Oak.
Its an allegory for communism. Not equality, but equity.
Jana mostly nailed it. The original pretense involves trade union versus the corporation, but can be expanded into race, ethnicity, and gender. As we're currently experiencing, some of these issues have gone too far in the other direction. You only have to look at the current trend of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion practices and their effects.
The Trees is about equality.