Obnoxious as hell, but the world needs to hear it.
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Listening to YYZ makes me want to cruise around small-town Canada with the windows rolled down and the stereo cranked up to 11. I can’t help but tap along with the dit-dit-dahs as the song spells out Y-Y-Z over and over again. The guitar geek in me loves the atypical modes and scales, as well as the precise, logical structure. It’s fun, funky, and features absolutely amazing musical performances by all three members. But unlike Tap’s “new direction,” YYZ gets a big thumbs up. What is there not to love about YYZ? It uses morse code, it’s fun to play on guitar hero, and it kind of reminds me of Spinal Tap’s Jazz Odyssey. “2112” is twenty of the finest moments in music Cara Cross Favourite song: “YYZ”
Somehow, Rush sews what should be a Frankenstein monster of metal, classic rock, and progressive rock into an alien creature of exotic beauty that bears within its exquisite shell a science fiction fable warning of the consequences of stifling human creativity. And oh, those explosions, those explosions that leave an indelible mark upon mind and body alike. However, the song as a whole deserves recognition for its stunning and perfectly timed alternation between restraint and explosion. The second of seven parts, “The Temples of Syrinx,” stands as the most perfectly metallic moment in Rush’s catalogue. Tate Bengston Favourite song: “2112”Ī giant among epics and an epic among giants, “2112” was the song that made me a Rush fan. I was in the ninth grade, by then numbed and broken, when I heard those eloquent lyrics, atop a spartan arrangement of keyboards, that left me devastated.ĭetached and subdivided in the mass production zone / Nowhere is the dreamer or the misfit so alone.Īny escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth / But the suburbs have no charms toįor once it actually felt like I had an ally.
I missed it completely, and was subsequently ostracized and mercilessly bullied for two hellish years. When you move in the middle of the year from a friendly town to the toughest junior high in a city, you have a very narrow window of time in which to fit in. That certainly was the case the first time I heard “Subdivisions” in 1984. Neil Peart has often been criticized as a rather stilted, excessively logorrheic lyricist, but when he stopped writing bloated sci-fi epics and started focusing on more personal observations it was a watershed moment, and from then on, his lyrics could, from nowhere, come along and hit you like a ton of bricks. STAFF picks Adrien Begrand Favourite song: “Subdivisions” we also asked some guests, all of which are Rush fans, to chime in with theirs too. All of the albums mentioned are indeed worthy of the nod and worth checking out if you have never heard them before. We asked Hellbound’s regular contributors to write a paragraph or two about their favourite Rush song of all time, the results of which follow below. Happy Canada Day! July 1st is our nation’s official birthday here in Canada, so we thought we’d try to do something to pay honour to arguably the greatest and most famous band that our ten provinces and three territories have given birth to.
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