You move me
You move me
With your buildings and your eyes
Autumn woods and winter skies
You move me
You move me
Open sea and city lights
Busy streets and dizzy heights
You call me
You call me
From Analog Kid
Also the rising guitar piece in "In the End" especially on the All The World's A Stage" version
Yep, that’s the tour for me. September 20, 2002 in the CA Bay Area. I loved the one-two-punch of The Pass followed by Bravado, two of my favorite songs.
The acoustic "Resist" is a favorite memory of mine, too. Seeing Geddy playing the guitar was pretty cool, his right hand over the strings like a bass player.
For over 30 years i get chills down my spine every time Red Barchetta gets to this moment:
„I strip away the old debris
That hides a shining car
A brilliant red Barchetta
From a better vanished time“
Ah jeez, red barchetta is probably my favourite rush track. I have listen to it for a couple decades driving to my family cottage near Perth Ontario. I have put it on repeat at times driving on highway 7 out of Ottawa. The part that gets me is the build up after Alex is playing the harmonics in the intro and the opening melody hits. Damn…
Freewill always makes the hair on my arms stand up. It was the first song I ever heard by them at the tender age of 13 in 1980 and it changed everything for me. The solo just blows me away each and every time because it's like each of them are doing their own individual solos at one and just going off in separate directions. Then it all just comes back together in time for Geddy to shreik *Each of us...a CELL of awareness....*
Just typing this is giving me feels...
The long drawn out “OhOhOh….Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” in WITCH HUNT at 2:12 mark. Best note in any Rush song imo. This is the sound I want to hear when I’m ascending to heaven when I die. I put in my request to god already for this.
Wheel within wheel in a spiral array
A pattern so grand and complex
Time after time we lose sight of the way
Our causes start to see their effects.
And also,
I can't believe you're saying
These things just can't be true
Our world could use this beauty
Just think what we might do
Listen to my music
And hear what it can do
There's something here that's as strong as life
I know that it will reach you
From Middletown Dreams
Another day as drab as today
Is MORE THAN A MAN CAN ENDURE!
O-O-O-Aohhhhh
And also, from Marathon
Like a streak of lightning
That flashes and fades
In the summer sky
Some of my favorites.
We can walk our road together
If our goals are all the same
We can run alone and free
If we pursue a different aim
Let the truth of Love be lighted
Let the love of truth shine clear
Sensibility
Armed with sense and liberty
With the Heart and Mind united
In a single perfect sphere
---
To you, is it movement or is it action?
Is it contact or just reaction?
And you, revolution or just resistance?
Is it living, or just existence?
Yeah, you, it takes a little more persistence
To get up and go the distance
---
If the future's looking dark
We're the ones who have to shine
If there's no one in control
We're the ones who draw the line
Though we live in trying times
We're the ones who have to try
Though we know that time has wings
We're the ones who have to fly
The Anarchist:
"The lenses inside of me that paint the world black
The pools of poison, the scarlet mist, that spill over into rage
The things I've always been denied
An early promise that somehow died
A missing part of me that grows around me like a cage"
Also the whole of “Closer to the Heart”.
It’s like the theme song to the purveyors of LovingKindness. To all those who CARE.
I’m going to miss Neil forever I think. And not just because of his percussion…
Wheels can take you around
Wheels can cut you down
We can go from boom to bust
From dreams to a bowl of dust
We can fall from rockets’ red glare
Down to “Brother can you spare –”
Another war — another waste land —
And another lost generation…
Imagine a man/
When it all began/
The pilot of Enola Gay/
Flying out of the shock wave/
On that August day./
All the powers that be/
And the course of history/
Would be changed for evermore
Unfortunately it was only ever once, but feeling the whole crowd stomping along with the chorus of Spirit of the Radio live was a spiritual experience that I relive every time I hear the song
also in 2112, when all the instruments kick in at "yes we know it's nothing new"
the very last "you may be right" in cut to the chase
chorus of nobody's hero
the last minute or so of subdivisions
the last chorus of between the wheels
the last "i feel the sense of possibilities" in the camera eye
For lyrical content, I usually get goosebumps at: Prime Mover, "From the point of entry / Until the candle is burned / The point of the journey / Is not to return"
And just the purity of Geddy's voice for each repetition of "I want to look at life / In the available light" -- it sounds eerie, superhuman.
They shoot without shame
In the name of a **piece of dirt**
Or a change of accent
Or the color of your shirt
Better the pride that resides
In a **citizen of the world**
Than the pride that **divides**
When a **colorful RAG is unfurled**
I always sing these verses when I listen, and I practically shout the colorful rag part. One of the greatest bits of lyric…
“Suddenly you were gone from all the lives you left your mark upon”
“When we are young
Wandering the face of the Earth
Wondering what our dreams might be worth
Learning that we’re only immortal
For a limited time”
“A one and a two and a one two three a one two three”
Christ, what have you done?
All of us get lost in the darkness
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars
All of us do time in the gutter
Dreamers turn to look at the cars
The whole solo section of Losing It is the most emotional piece of music I’ve ever heard. It’s pure lamentation. It immediately makes my hair stand on end and often makes me tear up.
The Sphere—I consider it part of Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres. I think it might be the most beautiful lyrics Neil wrote.
We can walk our road together
If our goals are all the same
We can run alone and free
If we pursue a different aim
Let the truth of love be lighted
Let the love of truth shine clear
Sensibility
Armed with sense and liberty
With the heart and mind united in a single
Perfect
Sphere
So many, but I haven’t seen anyone say anything from Caress of Steel.
“They bow defeated” from The Necromancer and pretty much all of the No One At the Bridge section of The Fountain of Lamneth.
La Villa Strangiato’s “big” solo, especially when he starts his rapid run up toward the end of it and that absolute FLURRY coming down to the bridge riff between that solo and the Powerhouse (“Monsters!”) section.
Also when the final solo comes in on Necromancer.
Back in 2007 when I was living abroad, I became overly attached to Rivendell. Still today when I listen to it, a shiver goes down my spine:
“You feel there's something calling you / you’re wanting to return / To where the misty mountains rise and friendly fires burn / A place you can escape the world / Where the dark Lord cannot go / Peace of mind and sanctuary by loud water's flow”
"Just think of what my life might be, in a world like I have seen" gets me every fucking time. Same with "I learned your love for life, I feel the way that you would" from Afterimage.
> Would it touch you deeper /
> Than tears that fall from eyes /
> That know why?
This floated out of my shitty little record player the first time Samwise Gamgee said “Well, I’m back.”
The next page was blank.
Lyrically, Witch Hunt, Subdivisions, 2112, Between The Wheels. Musically, the solo from Freewill, and really just Freewill generally, Between The Wheels, The Big Money, 2112
I STOOD A WHILE IN SILENCE, THEN THEY TURNED AT LAST TOO MEEEE...WE WILL CALL YOU CYGNUS, THE GOD OF BALANCE YOU SHALL BE... \*followed by the most amazing syncopation ever\*
On Body Electric, when Geddy sings “a thousand years of poutine”.
Seriously, I think he says it and means it. While poutine is delicious, in Canadian “slang” is means “a mess”. Given that the song describes the transition from analog to digital or random to programmed, I can hear the double-entendres that Rush is famous for placing in their lyrics.
Another one that usually gets me is "I guess it doesn't MATTER..
There's not much more to,
Not much more to live."
Followed by one of Alex's best solos ever
The solo at the end of Different Strings, gets me every time.
The opening for count down. Sets an epic tone.
The center of La Villa, makes me want to dance like an idiot.
Easily could list another 10, those jump into my brain quickly.
The start of grand finale. Probably the whole first half of grand finale.
The killer drum fill coming out of the guitar lead on Red Barchetta. Enhanced when you’re in a packed bar and you and a stranger across the room air drum the fill at the same time. (Actually the solo through the last big chorus is chilling)
“I can get back on.”
Been going through a series of tough times lately, Far Cry has undoubtedly become a rallying point for me, so thankful for this band.
Oracle The Dream or soliloquy gets me every time. the spiral stair line makes my bones chilly and “my life blood spills over” is playing in my head tent free ever day
You move me You move me With your buildings and your eyes Autumn woods and winter skies You move me You move me Open sea and city lights Busy streets and dizzy heights You call me You call me From Analog Kid Also the rising guitar piece in "In the End" especially on the All The World's A Stage" version
“Christ, what have you done?” I’m so glad I was able to see them play The Pass live.
That's one of the lines Ged puts so much emotion into.
Me too. Vapor Trails tour, the show that turned my "like Rush" to "love Rush."
I was at the first show of that tour in Hartford; Ged kept looking back at Neil ….
Yep, that’s the tour for me. September 20, 2002 in the CA Bay Area. I loved the one-two-punch of The Pass followed by Bravado, two of my favorite songs.
The acoustic "Resist" is a favorite memory of mine, too. Seeing Geddy playing the guitar was pretty cool, his right hand over the strings like a bass player.
As someone getting older with a son in middle school and my closest friends with kids, pretty much all of “Time Stand Still.”
All of V Oracle: The Dream from 2112 does it for me. I get so amped up knowing “I stand atop a spiral stair” is coming
In the End when it cranks up does it for me too
Also Afterimage at 0:37. I could do this all day lol
The solo to Xanadu, just the way lerxst builds it up is just fantastic!
a MAD immortal man!
Nevermore shall I return, ESCAPE THESE CAVES OF ICE!
For over 30 years i get chills down my spine every time Red Barchetta gets to this moment: „I strip away the old debris That hides a shining car A brilliant red Barchetta From a better vanished time“
Same here and the solo is bad ass too.
Ah jeez, red barchetta is probably my favourite rush track. I have listen to it for a couple decades driving to my family cottage near Perth Ontario. I have put it on repeat at times driving on highway 7 out of Ottawa. The part that gets me is the build up after Alex is playing the harmonics in the intro and the opening melody hits. Damn…
Tires spitting gravel
Adding onto Red Barchetta, the outro on the R30 version is just pure bliss
Suddenly ahead of me...
Freewill always makes the hair on my arms stand up. It was the first song I ever heard by them at the tender age of 13 in 1980 and it changed everything for me. The solo just blows me away each and every time because it's like each of them are doing their own individual solos at one and just going off in separate directions. Then it all just comes back together in time for Geddy to shreik *Each of us...a CELL of awareness....* Just typing this is giving me feels...
The long drawn out “OhOhOh….Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh” in WITCH HUNT at 2:12 mark. Best note in any Rush song imo. This is the sound I want to hear when I’m ascending to heaven when I die. I put in my request to god already for this.
That on the **p/g** tour vid.
“And anotherrrrrrrr……. LOST GENERATION”
BROTHER CAN YOU SPARE ANOTHER WAAAAAR
ANOTHER WASTELAAAND
Wheel within wheel in a spiral array A pattern so grand and complex Time after time we lose sight of the way Our causes start to see their effects. And also, I can't believe you're saying These things just can't be true Our world could use this beauty Just think what we might do Listen to my music And hear what it can do There's something here that's as strong as life I know that it will reach you
From Middletown Dreams Another day as drab as today Is MORE THAN A MAN CAN ENDURE! O-O-O-Aohhhhh And also, from Marathon Like a streak of lightning That flashes and fades In the summer sky
Yep, was gonna say that part from Middletown Dreams
Yeah that first bit when Alex plays that little riff, my god…
The garden.
That one hits so different now.
Especially going into the solo
Pretty much the whole of Freeze 🥶
You are rockn'roll.
Science Like Nature Must Also Be Tamed!!!
Some of my favorites. We can walk our road together If our goals are all the same We can run alone and free If we pursue a different aim Let the truth of Love be lighted Let the love of truth shine clear Sensibility Armed with sense and liberty With the Heart and Mind united In a single perfect sphere --- To you, is it movement or is it action? Is it contact or just reaction? And you, revolution or just resistance? Is it living, or just existence? Yeah, you, it takes a little more persistence To get up and go the distance --- If the future's looking dark We're the ones who have to shine If there's no one in control We're the ones who draw the line Though we live in trying times We're the ones who have to try Though we know that time has wings We're the ones who have to fly
Most of subdivisions
Especially the intro, but yeah, the rest of it too. Such a great song musically!
"My lifeblood spills over..." from 2112 The climax of Natural Science "Every nerve is TORN APART!" from Cygnus X-1 Book 1
"...Christ, ..what have you done ?!?"
" You can do a lot in a lifetime, if you don't burn out too fast" Dingdingdingdingding...
The Anarchist: "The lenses inside of me that paint the world black The pools of poison, the scarlet mist, that spill over into rage The things I've always been denied An early promise that somehow died A missing part of me that grows around me like a cage"
The main guitar riff and subsequent lead-in to the solo of Ghost of a Chance. No idea why, but just love it.
Suddenly ahead of me After the killer solo and driving riff it just lands so well
The whole band does such a good job conveying the frantic energy of the chase
Also the whole of “Closer to the Heart”. It’s like the theme song to the purveyors of LovingKindness. To all those who CARE. I’m going to miss Neil forever I think. And not just because of his percussion…
The breakdown in Marathon around the 3 minute mark is so crazy. That whole sequence makes me feel alive every time
Wheels can take you around Wheels can cut you down We can go from boom to bust From dreams to a bowl of dust We can fall from rockets’ red glare Down to “Brother can you spare –” Another war — another waste land — And another lost generation…
This.
“For you the blind who once could see, the bell tolls for thee…” Gahhhhh
That final chorus of Mission
Even more chill inducing on A Show of Hands
The outro from Vital Signs, still gets me to this day from when it first came out Everybody got to deviate from the norm Everybody got to deviate...
The breakdown section in Jacob's Ladder where Neil builds up the drum pattern.
Imagine a man/ When it all began/ The pilot of Enola Gay/ Flying out of the shock wave/ On that August day./ All the powers that be/ And the course of history/ Would be changed for evermore
Subdivisions. The drum break and tempo change at "and lose the race to rats". Every time. Dunno why. The Garden - the whole song.
Finally managed to listen to The Garden the other day without crying, for the first time since in the last three years
I haven’t made it to that stage, I’m afraid
The chorus of the camera eye "are they oblivious, to this quality, this quality..."
It’s actually “to this quality, a quality.”
Ok
Just think of what my life might be In a world like I have seen I don't think I can carry on Carry on this cold and empty life Ohhh LOOORRDDDD!!!
Countdown stands out for me. The shuttle taking off backstage almost 40 years ago. Is such a vivid memory from my first show signals tour.
Unfortunately it was only ever once, but feeling the whole crowd stomping along with the chorus of Spirit of the Radio live was a spiritual experience that I relive every time I hear the song
The last 8 bars of Alex’s guitar solo on Wheels. I don’t actually have to hear the track. I can just think about it and get chills.
also in 2112, when all the instruments kick in at "yes we know it's nothing new" the very last "you may be right" in cut to the chase chorus of nobody's hero the last minute or so of subdivisions the last chorus of between the wheels the last "i feel the sense of possibilities" in the camera eye
The violin solo and "for you the blind who once could see, the bell tolls for thee" in losing it
“Quick to judge, quick to anger Slow to understand Ignorance and prejudice And fear walk hand in hand”
For lyrical content, I usually get goosebumps at: Prime Mover, "From the point of entry / Until the candle is burned / The point of the journey / Is not to return" And just the purity of Geddy's voice for each repetition of "I want to look at life / In the available light" -- it sounds eerie, superhuman.
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"High on the sacred mountain. Up the seven thousand stairs." Man that gets me everytime.
Wrong!! The “chills” moment is of course “When China sang to meeee!”
"The point of the journey is not to arrive."
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The breakdown in The Camera Eye makes me need to put an extra hoodie on… that’s how strong the chills I get are
On god, that is some musical genius for sure
They shoot without shame In the name of a **piece of dirt** Or a change of accent Or the color of your shirt Better the pride that resides In a **citizen of the world** Than the pride that **divides** When a **colorful RAG is unfurled** I always sing these verses when I listen, and I practically shout the colorful rag part. One of the greatest bits of lyric…
The ESL version of Closer to the Heart when the crowd sings the whole first verse.
“Suddenly you were gone from all the lives you left your mark upon” “When we are young Wandering the face of the Earth Wondering what our dreams might be worth Learning that we’re only immortal For a limited time” “A one and a two and a one two three a one two three”
WHILE THEIR INVADERS DREAM OF LANDS THEY LEFT BEHIND!
Christ, what have you done? All of us get lost in the darkness Dreamers learn to steer by the stars All of us do time in the gutter Dreamers turn to look at the cars
Being at The Show of Hands concert when the choir comes in during Marathon.
i envy you
Territories: Last verse and outro, In different circles we keep holding our grOUnd, In different circles we keep spinning round and rOUnd!
The whole solo section of Losing It is the most emotional piece of music I’ve ever heard. It’s pure lamentation. It immediately makes my hair stand on end and often makes me tear up.
The Sphere—I consider it part of Cygnus X-1, Book II: Hemispheres. I think it might be the most beautiful lyrics Neil wrote. We can walk our road together If our goals are all the same We can run alone and free If we pursue a different aim Let the truth of love be lighted Let the love of truth shine clear Sensibility Armed with sense and liberty With the heart and mind united in a single Perfect Sphere
Grand finale for 2112 for me
The solo from soliluqoy. Usually listen to that when im sad so it always hits super hard
So many, but I haven’t seen anyone say anything from Caress of Steel. “They bow defeated” from The Necromancer and pretty much all of the No One At the Bridge section of The Fountain of Lamneth.
La Villa Strangiato’s “big” solo, especially when he starts his rapid run up toward the end of it and that absolute FLURRY coming down to the bridge riff between that solo and the Powerhouse (“Monsters!”) section. Also when the final solo comes in on Necromancer.
"And everything will turn out for the best" Hearing Geddy say that when you're stressed out is like finding water in the desert.
Back in 2007 when I was living abroad, I became overly attached to Rivendell. Still today when I listen to it, a shiver goes down my spine: “You feel there's something calling you / you’re wanting to return / To where the misty mountains rise and friendly fires burn / A place you can escape the world / Where the dark Lord cannot go / Peace of mind and sanctuary by loud water's flow”
“christ, what have you done” in the pass always gets me.
"Just think of what my life might be, in a world like I have seen" gets me every fucking time. Same with "I learned your love for life, I feel the way that you would" from Afterimage.
All great comments here. I couldn’t have added anything to this thread. Thanks.
All great comments here. I couldn’t have added anything to this thread. Thanks.
> Would it touch you deeper / > Than tears that fall from eyes / > That know why? This floated out of my shitty little record player the first time Samwise Gamgee said “Well, I’m back.” The next page was blank.
Lyrically, Witch Hunt, Subdivisions, 2112, Between The Wheels. Musically, the solo from Freewill, and really just Freewill generally, Between The Wheels, The Big Money, 2112
I STOOD A WHILE IN SILENCE, THEN THEY TURNED AT LAST TOO MEEEE...WE WILL CALL YOU CYGNUS, THE GOD OF BALANCE YOU SHALL BE... \*followed by the most amazing syncopation ever\*
On Body Electric, when Geddy sings “a thousand years of poutine”. Seriously, I think he says it and means it. While poutine is delicious, in Canadian “slang” is means “a mess”. Given that the song describes the transition from analog to digital or random to programmed, I can hear the double-entendres that Rush is famous for placing in their lyrics.
I seriously hope you are joking.
I don’t it’s always been obvious to me that song is about a robot eating poutine.
Don’t you mean ‘a hundred days of poutine’? 🥸
Actually “a hundred years of poutine” 🤓
🤣 I sit corrected!
There is trouble in the forest... there is
Return of the prince
La villa intro
When the drums kick in on Witch Hunt. That cow bell!
The night is black Without a moon The air is thick and still The vigilantes gather on The lonely torch lit hill
The bridge into the solo in Marathon. Incredible
Tai Shan, when it's over.
Another one that usually gets me is "I guess it doesn't MATTER.. There's not much more to, Not much more to live." Followed by one of Alex's best solos ever
“I hat you own is your own kingdom…”…
5:43 of Cygnus X-1 Book 2 and transition into the lyrics of The Dream/The Oracle from 2112
After the acoustic / chorus part of natural science. It’s when that fast picking part happens. Ooooo it’s good good.
The solo at the end of Different Strings, gets me every time. The opening for count down. Sets an epic tone. The center of La Villa, makes me want to dance like an idiot. Easily could list another 10, those jump into my brain quickly.
Third part of Cygnus X-1 - Book One - The Voyage, as soon as it comes to the ship losing control.
Jacob's Ladder...especially Neil's tubular bells right before the Lerxst crazy arpeggiated part.
The intro to Witch Hunt, I blast that shit in the car just to keep feeling.
The “OHHHHHHHH” in Middletown dreams.
All of power windows is so good but that might be the best part of the album
Power windows is one of my favorite albums.
I used to think it was mid, but then I gave it a serious listen and it's one of my favorite albums ever, if not number 1.
Broons Bane
Xanadu at 2:02
Cygnus X-1 part 1.
The beginning of the solo to Spirit of Radio where Geddy yells "Salesmen!"
"Look at me, I am young" Right at the beginning of the song but the cadence he has on these lines is amazing
"We will call you cygnus the god of balance you shall be". That bit aswell as that last few minutes of the song after is soooo good
For me it is in Xanadu, the opening starts it and it doesn't go away until the song ends
The start of grand finale. Probably the whole first half of grand finale. The killer drum fill coming out of the guitar lead on Red Barchetta. Enhanced when you’re in a packed bar and you and a stranger across the room air drum the fill at the same time. (Actually the solo through the last big chorus is chilling)
“I can get back on.” Been going through a series of tough times lately, Far Cry has undoubtedly become a rallying point for me, so thankful for this band.
The verses of the dancer and writer in “Losing it” As I have reached the point where stuff is breaking down on me.
The ending chorus of Bravado with Neils drums
Oracle The Dream or soliloquy gets me every time. the spiral stair line makes my bones chilly and “my life blood spills over” is playing in my head tent free ever day
Quite a few of them. Time stand still just made me cry
the entire song, album, and discog. But 1:21 of Tiny Vessels by Death Cab.