The city is Toronto, and in the 70's, suburbs began to be built in the northern part of the city and continue to this day! There were rows and rows of identical or near identical homes on tiny lots much smaller than usual to build as many homes as possible! The bright lights street you see is Yonge St. (the longest continuous street in the world, as a matter of fact), and downtown Yonge Street is where many of us teenagers at the time went to cruise and hangout on a weekend night.
This is all of their story's all 3 were the outcasts, the dreamers. This is about their childhood and High School in the suburbs of Toronto their home town, where Geddy and Alex were in the same Suburb and the same school, and Neil's in St. Catharines. The city is Toronto in the video
It's really more about Neil than the other two - Alex and Geddy set themselves apart because they were mostly only interested in music, and hung out with John Rutsey and some of the older kids. Alex said they had lots of friends and thought they were the cool ones (they grew out of thinking that)!
The beauty of almost all Rush songs is you can hear the lyrics clear and can understand them, unlike a lot of rock bands where its often a screaming mess of jumbled words.
life as an awkward teenager in Canada's suburbs where the misfits/dreamers had to either "conform or be cast out", in basement bars-in the backs of cars, be cool or be cast out"...no truer words could ever be spoken back in the days....no different in the USA...Rush=legendary band....
Nope. You were not wrong. Go find your love and your passion and go after it. The cliques of high school basically end the moment you leave and lots of the “chosen” end up complete zeros despite their sports abilities, their looks, their popularity, etc. At the end, we’re all just people, and even those who appear to have it all, end up with nothing. Be yourself!
Love your reaction to the song. I'd like to answer your non-musical questions. Yes, I think we did look more mature back in the 60's & 70's. That was even more the case with generations before mine. My grandma graduated elementary school in Chicago a couple months before she turned 14 and went right to work. At 17 she was already married and had her first child. Her husband was 26. That was considered normal back then. As for food, yes it was way cheaper. In the mid to late 70's you could buy a McDonald's quarter pounder with cheese, fries, and a Coke for about $1.25 including tax. But it's all relative because salaries were much lower too. Minimum wage was $2.30 an hour.
I graduated 1991 high school. From 14 yrs of age till I graduated h.s. I would on average see my mom or dad 1 day per month. I partied every day and night but still made it to school everyday Jr. and Sr. year worked from 11:00a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Work program.
Dude, you totally hit the analysis of what Neil was trying to say. He felt like an outcast as a young man. Neil put a lot of himself into the lyrics he wrote. Terrible loss to the world when he passed. Thankfully, there is a lot on Neil Peart's wisdom on the internet.
I think you nailed it. If you want to hear the maximum of Rush don't mix, check out the last cut on side B of the 2112 album which is what they chose to end album with. Something for nothing. It's so fun and a fan favorite.
Try the live vesion from R 40 tour and compare after 40 years still performed accuratly. The town is Toronto Canada most likely being thats where they are from. Subdiisions is from the" signals" album done in the early 80's
i was a freshman in high school when this song came out.... I was a geek, read a lot of books, played dungeons and dragons, loved math, was a complete outcast. This song hit me hard... the right message at the right time... needless to say it was my anthem. It was uncanny. I was already a Rush fan too... so... this synchronicity was not lost on me. Yeah people looked a little old, crappy diet, no hair cuts, facial hair. There was a lot more "toxic masculinity" lol. Tempest was the game... great game for the day. This song basically opened up the universe for me... it was like ... hey kid... we get it.. we were there... don't let the your world close up to fit in... the plan has been written for the conformists... so just do your own thing... you are on your own baby
Maybe my fav RUSH song. That was me at that time. A nerdy outcast, until I got into playing guitar / bass. Changed my life. I'm now nearing 56, had a great run of experiences with bands, friends, music... Slowing down these days. RUSH was a huge influence on my life.
Back, probably about the time this song came out (1982), Denny's used to advertise their "Grand Slam Breakfast" for $1.99. I was a teenager at the time, and had a newspaper route. Where I finished my route was across a large field from Denny's, so every Sunday morning after I got done, I'd go and get breakfast at Denny's. The Grand Slam Breakfast as far as I can remember was 2 pancakes, 2 eggs, 2 sausage, and a drink. The video game at the end was called Tempest.
The hairstyles, makeup, and clothing fashions made people look twice their age back then. Some actors actually looked YOUNGER as they aged into the 90's and 2000's from the 80's. Linda Hamilton from Terminator looked twice as old in 1984, as she did in Dante's Peak in 1996. Sigourney Weaver looked like a middle aged woman in the first 2 Alien movies and Ghostbusters vs her 1990's and 2000's roles where she actually was middle aged.
Never decided if I was a Misfit or Dreamer after 40 years honestly, basically because both are one in the same. I grew up listening to them thanks to a friends older brother, as cliché as it sounds it's true, once you hear it your hooked
Hello AB, since you've gotten so many great suggestions for more Rush, I'd like to suggest another performance to give a listen, if interested. "Mark Broussard feat. Joe Bonamassa+Josh Smith - What Love Will Make You Do (Little Milton Cover)" with these three legends singing together you can only expect musical perfection. Bonamassa is one of the G.O.A.T guitarists, and he's certainly on my list of favorites. This is some great R&B, soul, AB. Great reaction thanks 4 sharing
I think of the success sequence: graduate from high school, graduate from college, get married, have kids. If you follow that sequence you may not get rich, but it is unlikely you will ever be poor. This song is kind of speaking out against that as the only way to move from youth to adulthood. Geddy and Alex both never graduated from high school. They quit when they were 16 or so and started working on being full time musicians. It drove their parents nuts (of course) but things turned out okay for the guys.
Great song, high school clicks were a ridiculous thing! 🤬 I would have been closer to the nerd side, I guess, definitely not the popular, not a sports person. I was in band, choir, computers, got good grades, math…friends with the other less popular people…. The popular people didn’t hate me, but I was not in their group. I tried to get along with everyone because I thought it was all so stupid!😠 A lot of those pics of students were 70’s high school students, I could tell, they looked different then when I was in high school in the mid 80’s. There were still the clicks though! Great reaction AB!❤. You should listen to ‘Welcome to the Machine’ by Pink Floyd, if you haven’t!🎶
Yes, teenagers looked so much older then. When I was 18, I was told I looked 30. At 14 I was hanging out in bars without getting carded. At 12, (12!) I was 6’1”, 200 and a biker friend of my mother asked permission for her to have sex with me. Biker chicks were so polite.
Talking about subdivisions as property and as territory and as human Togetherness or the opposite.. You got the nerds you got the sports guys you've got the pretty people Everyone is subdivited... Confirm or be cast out
Please bro , react to Rush - Red Sector A( with lyric ) = song about holocaust . Geddy Lee parents was survive to holocaust . Neil Peart deep lyric . 😎👍
