Moving Pictures is one of the albums that I can listen to from start to finish without stopping. I was at the Time Machine tour where they played Moving Pictures straight through from beginning to end in concert. What a great show - I saw it both times they came through here.
@@karlwilliams8397 : I was lucky enough to see the Moving Pictures tour as a kid. I'd never even heard of a band that could faithfully recreate the sound of their albums live. I was so struck by that, and became determined to perform that well live in the bands I was in too. Every performance should be as good or better than the album if at all possible.
For me it's Rush all the way, they have recorded so many different types of music, tool are good but will never dare to venture outside of their genre. Rush have the biggest balls of any band.
I can tell that you have watched a screen in the last 5 years and believed what you saw. Truth is, this song takes place when those things were the reality.
One of Rush's best songs lyrically. I'm always amazed how Neil can write such vivid and impactful words and then the guys package it beautifully into a 5 min rock song. No one else could ever do it like them.
One of my favorite rush songs for sure , and they have so many. Always been my fav since the 80s when I was in high school , still listening to it right now.
So powerful and so relevant to today's world. My favorite Rush song. I remember lying in bed as a kid with headphones on and the light out listening to this covered in goose bumps. Neil's own comments on the lyrics leave no room for ambiguity. This is a song highlighting the dangers of ignorance and bigotry in our society.
@@XHuntinatorX Neil saw the cruelty/hypocrisy/racism prevalent all across the GOP party. Even though he is Libertarian by title, Neil said the ONLY choice you are left with is Democrat.
Find myself welling up every time I listen to this. Written almost 40 years ago and we're still in the midst of it. Neil shared so many life lessons with us. Thanks for reacting to this!! I'll go and wipe my eyes now... 🙏😭
Amen. The whole song is today's American Politics . Those who know what's best for us must rise n save us from ourselves. So many parallels. They create chaos, then take our rights to make us feel safer. Ha. Rush was so far ahead of their time.
@@erikvaldur3334 I have always understood that line to mean...they feel they must rise and save us from ourselves for our own good. Complete opposite of the bands own view point. imo
@@camanojim Yes, I'd agree: the complete opposite of the band's viewpoint. The only person who knows what is best for you is you. The only person who can save you from yourself is you. "Still goin' on today, ain't nothing changed." I'd say its gotten worse.
My favorite song from Moving Pictures! Thanks for the reaction! "those who know what's best for us, must rise and save us from ourselves!" a classic history warning still relevant today in modern life boys n girls. And one of Rush's best "shorter" songs ever. I bought this brand new back during its release...on cassette. Back then we got gems like this album on a weekly basis.
I'd love to see him do a reaction to Rush' Red Sector A from grace under pressure. OR do some more songs in the Fear series. The Weapon, Or Enemy Within.
I loved his voice from the start and the music was amazing. Back in the 80's I tried to get my wife into Rush but she always said "I hate his voice" without listening to the beauty of it all. Then guitar hero came out and we played it together and after she actually played along with Rush and learned to appreciate their massive talent we went together to see them live in Hershey and she loved it!
Rush had a few songs that seemed to be ahead of their time lyrically. This one seems so applicable now. Another one is "A Farewell to Kings". When I hear the lyrics for that one, it almost gives me a chill. I remember listening to it when it was released in the late '70s, and never imagined then that the lyrics could be so applicable to 2019.
Written in the early 80s it resonates even more today with all the hatred being spun out there by a certain politician! This was the first Rush album I heard and it had just come out and I was hooked and a fan ever since. Thank you for these videos!!
I love these. Rush has been my favorite band for 40 years. I love seeing someone hearing them for the first time and feeling the same way I did. It is like living it all over again.
Amazing how all these reaction videos keep popping up. So many are RUSH driven. I always knew they deserved a bigger fan base. Had no idea it would comes 40 years later.
@@thedarkness97 Understood. I've seen 43 sold out shows, "a few empty seats in the mid 80's". Was thinking a popularity level that rates with a Zepplin, Pink Floyd, Beatles. They should be in that conversation. Thx. for the reply.
I have the feeling Rush is bigger than ever, and will continue to grow. When I started to listen Rush, when Exit Stage Left was NEW album, Rush was not well known. None of my friends understood it at all 😀. I love all the attention and love Rush is getting nowadays.
I was so excited when I saw that you had done a review of this song. I knew that these lyrics would blow you mind and speak to you. Neil just said the things that needed to be said. 1980 was the year and Neil had grown up in the 60s witness to the civil rights unrest, he saw the things that happened and at that time were still going on. And the song is still relevant today. No matter what your political convictions are, those in power always think they know what is best for us...they need to remember that they work for us and they need to take their ques from us, not the other way around. Sorry I will jump off my soap box now!! Thank you for this video and your reactions! Spot on man!! Bravo!!
@@garytorborg8200 exactly. Alex solo's are amazing. The whole album is a live masterpiece. Every song out-did the studio version. Why? Because in 2 short years they got so fluid.
I have warm memories of sitting on a cold porch listening to this on a portable tape player. Anyone remember portable tape players? I used to sit out there with my cat that had an amputated leg. I sat there for hours listening to this album over MANY times with her after school. Made me feel important.
I was just watching your Vital Sign reaction and was gonna say do this and I click on again and here it is. And it sounds crazy because the crowds are gathering for the Witchhunt.
This has been my most favorite RUSH song ever. It creeped me out and it made me think. I related to it. The music gave me goosebumps and the fur on my arms stood up. Of course my mother did not get the point. And she had the exact attitude of those “vigilantes”. So convinced that only a certain way to think or be was the only right way. This was why I as a closeted teenager kept quiet about a LOT of things. And why that song meant everything to me. I can never get tired of listening to it. Those Obie synths sang gloriously.
I couldn't name a more perfect commentary on our current political and societal landscape. As true now as it was when Neil wrote it, and as repeatedly shown through all of history! Jamel - now you HAVE TO complete the Fear Trilogy! You've just listened to Part III (which speaks of mob mentality), time to move on to Part II, The Weapon (off Signals album), which speaks of how fear can be used as a weapon against us (again, speaking for our times?!), and then Part I, The Enemy Within (from Grace Under Pressure), which speaks how we can be our own worst enemy - our fears, distrust, prejudice, etc. All three songs are incredible, both in musicianship and lyricism!!
Not only are they masters of their respective instruments but they also have lyrics with a conscience. I get chills watching you react to the lyrics and seeing them reach you inside your mind. Peace brother
Well, many people felt that same way about themselves, you see plenty of geniuses and brilliant minds left a huge mark on history, and they died before that happening. You see, Van Gogh killed himself and his art was going to be appreciated so much time after that. Just live your life as you wish, so many did that and tried doing things in their own way and changed the world
"Manhattan Project" - Another song that gives me goosebumps - I'd also like to see how you react to some of their later stuff where Geddy's voice mellows somewhat. "The Wreckers" is a great song from their latest album.
I am loving your Rush videos. The expressions on your face are priceless and it’s almost like getting to experience my favorite music for the first time again.
Rush “the Necromancer “ ..no one ever does it...early album ..song is sabbathesque ...raw , aggressive and strange ...their most underrated song ...prelude to 2112
It's kind of a tribute to the backstory of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, when "the Necromancer" - Sauron in disguise - was at th3e tower of Dol Guldur in Mirkwood. There was a little self-insert in the fanfic, of course, with "the three travelers, men of Willowdale" (Willowdale was the suburb of Toronto that Geddy and Alex lived in as boys).
...And thank YOU, for getting to the (foolishly) "less popular side" of RUSH's Moving Pictures!! [I think you need to get to "The Camera Eye" as well, now🤘🔥🤘] -Yeah: 38 years into the future (from when this was released) and, despicably!!!!, the world seems MORE ignorant, careless ...and locked-in to such things and all related, than it was back then, even. 😡🤮😥 It's heartbreaking (and more-than-disturbing.). It's, just, WRONG! {Oh and: not to diminish or alter all of the aspects addressed by/alluded to by/encompassed by the images painted by and used in the song, but: the core, driving inspiration for the lyric was the idea of censorship and "mob think" ...and how easy it is to accept horrors happening around you, esp. when everyone else claims they are not horrors and if you don't believe that you will be made to suffer, as well. Rush ALWAYS spoke from an inspired, informed and intelligent place. 💜]
Now you can see why there's a few million of fanatical Rush fans!! And you have heard 4 of the 7 songs on arguably their seminal album, "Moving Pictures" released wayyyy back in 1981!! All you have left is the phenomenal instrumental YYZ, the car story Red Barchetta and the 11+ minutes piece, The Camera Eye. Lyrically, there are songs after the "Signals" album (of which you've heard Subdivisions) that stand up to any song on "Moving Pictures." I can name at least a dozen or so more....
Rush should be done with lyric videos, especially their 80s material. React to Red Sector A. As you listen, understand that both Geddy Lee's parents were in German Concentration Camps during WWII. You want impactful lyrics???
@@chiefbrody75 Yeah, this one's more about the Satanic Panic of the '80s. TV, movies, music, role-playing games, it was all supposed to be part of some massive Satanic plot. And of course those who believed all that crap felt it was their sacred duty to "rise and save us from ourselves"...
Typically reaction channels that do rush NEVER do deep cuts... witch hunt and vital signs are both awesome songs and highly under rated. Im glad you did these ones brother! if this request came from brother nate, I have full trust in nates judgement.
I learned so many lessons about life and respect, tolerance, acceptance from listening to RUSH as a kid than just about any other source. They have a gift for talking very plainly and simply about very complex issues. I love Witch Hunt. It doesn't get near enough play. Here's a few of my favorites I'd love to see you listen to. Dreamline Marathon The Pass Test For Echo Far Cry The Garden
I can tell you really like Rush now...:)...In 20 years, you'll love them even more...in 40 years, you'll beam ear to ear when you see someone hearing it for the first time like you...:)...Prog has all the messages of life exposed for all to see, hear and live... I'll send you 10 bucks if you react to; King Crimson...Starless and Bible Black...
@@scottandrysik7924 From a great album too with Greg Lake on Vocals...Epitaph is killer from that as well! I'm glad I was a teen in the 70's...That stuff was on FM radio every day...Those days are long gone...I was listening to Red last week on an early Sunday morning and it saddened me that I was most likely the only human on EARTH listening to that at that time...
My brother I grew up listening to Rush as a brother that's as you say there's a message in that song and it's so old beautiful music you just got to listen
if you want to keep on some rush I highly recommend "Red Sector A" and "Red Barchetta" next. otherwise beyond reaction video territory seriously watch the rio full concert. mind blowing.
Jamel I'm saying it right now, your rush reaction vids are the best reaction vids out there.. hands down. Your reactions are so obviously genuine and are a pleasure ro watch.
