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Guitarist Reacts To RUSH!! Cygnus X-1, Book I: The Voyage (Studio Version Reaction!) Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2021
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Your favourite Rush song is going to change at least another 3 times buddy!! 👍🏼
i have so many favorite Rush songs.
They change for me almost monthly.
Or 30 times . . .
my favorite Rush song typically falls somewhere in the 1974- 1988 period
You got that right!
I am convinced that no band has ever rocked harder than Rush does @9:19-10:05
All roads led to this point... This album was in my opinion when RUSH became RUSH... No compromises no apologies no holding back... This... Is what they were capable of and l remember dropping the needle in '78 as a 17 year old and wow.... Just wow... Tim if you felt this was your favourite to date, hold on buddy Book II is going to blow you away.... Great reaction as always
Totally agree. I can't imagine anything better than this 😉
As a teen I picked up star charts and followed my way across the galaxy with the ship Rocinante learning about the Milky Way, X-ray at Cygnus, the constellations Lyra, Pegasus and deneb. If you have not looked at those check it out!! Got me hooked on space!!
That very well is arguable.. I say 2112 … when record studios were looking for 1 hit wonders … Rush said , how about a song a whole side of an album? !! Eat that
Wait until you get a load of Book 2: Hemispheres. Your life will change.
indeed I commented that too! great Minds!
I bring truth and understanding
I bring wit and wisdom fair
Precious gifts
Beyond compare
I'm torn. Book 2 was clearly more ambitious and better production and even more highs and lows. But this Book 1... a simpler but no less uniqe theme it cuts to the bone sonically. It's always been more impactful somehow. At least to me. Book 2 has some moments where I'm tempted to think "ok, that's a bit much" but again Book 2 has next level brilliance in so many ways as well
His head will essplode….
my head esspolded!!
That sound at the very end is his body being pulled apart as he goes through the black hole. He'll end up with memory and awareness but with no shape or form.
Dead and yet unborn
Cygnus-X1 "That time when Rush accidentally invented death metal." This was the 1st album I heard from Rush, I was 9. They've been my favorite band ever since.
Haha, are you talking about the chaotic ending?
I set a course just east of Lyra
And northwest of Pegasus
Flew into the light of Deneb
Sailed across the Milky Way
On my ship, the Rocinante
Wheeling through the galaxy
Headed for the heart of Cygnus
Headlong into mystery
The X-Ray is her siren song
My ship cannot resist her long
Nearer to my deadly goal
Until the Black Hole
Takes
Control
That is indeed roughly the direction to go if you want to visit Cygnus X-1, the first identified black hole (they were predicted by Einstein's Theory of General Relativity, and guessed at by earlier physicists, but that was the first time we detected something that fit the predictions precisely).
Lyrically, Cygnus X-1, Book One and Book Two are JUST Timeless. Storywise, Some of Neil's BEST writing!! "With the Heart and Mind United, in a Single Perfect Sphere"!!
What's more amazing is that Neil never attended "university" as they call it in Canada. But read books all the time. Reminds me of the old Mark Twain quote don't let school interfere with your education...
Two comments. 1) It’s easy to get lost in the structure of this song and over look how much Peart is going nuts on this track. 2) That fade out C# chord is so hauntingly beautiful. Leaves you wanting more.
My first reaction? Pick jaw up. Then listen to it again, and again. I can't wait for you to get to part II.
Do you know this song has a hometown feel for me? (A Torontonian) Now, I suppose that this is kinda nerdy trivia but, Cygnus X-1 was/is the first black hole ever identified. Before that black holes only existed in astrophysical mathematics. It just so happened that Cygnus X-1 was discovered by an astronomer working out of the University of Toronto. It was big news at the time and it appeared to have inspired a song by a Torontonian band, which you have just listened to.
Can I get an amen?
Rush changed my life ..with every album. I must have looked crazy air drumming and guitar at the same time🤣.
I dug that look on your face when the song ended... like "what the f**k did I just listen to?" Priceless, man...
The spaceship Rush were riding in to Cygnus X-1, the "Rocinante," was the name of Don Quixote's horse, from Cervantes' legendary novel published in 1605.
Thanks very much for the info brother. Never knew that, but I am very glad I learned it before the black hole🕳takes control.💫🪐
@@TommyLMason I only recently learned of this because I've been reading a sci-fi series called "The Expanse," and the main spaceship in the novels is called the "Rocinante." And I only learned of this sci-fi novel by watching RUclips clips of Amazon Prime's adaptation of these novels.
I thought about buying "Don Quixote," but man, it's a big fat one! I'll have to devote an entire summer to plow through it. It's been a vastly influential novel in the West. It was first translated into English in 1612, the same year that Miguel Cervantes published a sequel to his bestseller. By the way, Don Quixote's horse was a bony nag.
@@BroadwayJosh A bunch more interesting stuff man. Much appreciated.👍✌️
Great precursor, but the real treat is Hemisphere's Cygnus X-1 Book II
No band can take a concept of being consumed by a black hole and make you feel like you were experiencing it for yourself like Rush can. There were never any constraints or concepts that they were never willing to explore. as you were being mesmerized by the music you had to remind yourself that this was only 3 people creating this soundscape . Truly a masterpiece!
What other band would dare to fly you through a black hole musically.
No other band CAN fly you through a black hole 🕳, musically or any other fashion.
“Hold the Red Star proudly high in hand”.
A masterpiece! And thus ended my first 'new' Rush album, after first hearing them shortly after ATWAS was released. Rushed home, after queuing for AFTK, straight on the record player... and wow! Great days.
Its lovely to see someone else get a similar thrill, but I think the experience is possibly slightly dampened, for today's new listeners. You've got to try to imagine that we were getting this in 1977, without hearing everything that's been produced, since then. It must be difficult to imagine, or recreate.
Listening to Cygnus is like getting punched in the brain, but in a god way, lol. You don't listen to it so much as strap it on and hang on for the ride. Thanks for sharing!
One of my favourite Rush albums but the best is yet to come, Hemispheres is my top Rush album and I think you will have changed your mind about the best Rush track once you hear it.
This is my favorite Rush track. Epic in every sense of the word. Headphones are mandatory.🔥🤘🏻👍🎧
Just wait til you get to Book Ii - oh boy! Different album but even more phenomenal!
An album with Xanadu, Cygnus X-1, Closer to the Heart & A Farewell to Kings all on it. Masterpiece!
I was blown away too when I heard this song for the first time… I think I was 12 or 13 (1982 or 83)… masterpiece!
From 2112 to permanent waves …. They went from ( aside from us hard core) something cool to superstars .. then everyone found Rush, caress of steel, fly by night .. to see how the magical evolution came to be
MAN I have been waiting for you to get here! CX1 is definitely in my top 3 along with 2112 and Red Barchetta, not only because of the music, but the storytelling, and the visuals the music evokes. CX1 tells the story of a traveler on a ship, the Rocinante, named after Don Quixoté's horse. Don Quixoté is a literary character who, famously, was barking mad, and tilted (jousted) at windmills on his horse, thinking they were monsters. He is the symbol of foolish quests and delusions of grandeur. The Rocinante is on a voyage into the center of a back hole. "Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" completes the journey and the story.
Listen to this song again, and again. There are SO many musical themes from this song that are in Book II that so many people miss.
The only problem with calling it your favorite Rush song ever is that you’ll be saying that all over again in a few weeks when you listen to La Villa Strangiato. Then you’ll be saying it again a few weeks after that when you hear Digital Man, then a few weeks later….
My favourite is the very last song on the last album that Neil knew he was not living long and soon tend to his garden. 🥲🪦💔 💐Neil
I used to listen to this right before going to sleep 💤 with headphones 🎧 in 1983 when I was 17. The very first time I heard this song in 1978, it scared 😨 the living daylights out of me.
In my top 3 RUSH songs.
“Mesmerizing” is a good word for this song.
I headbanged to this,I should have been in traction!!The good natured joy on your face was brilliant.. 1977...what a year!!Many thank's for doing this classic!!
I love the generosity and humility of these three musicians. This is another song where the bass and drums carry the melody from the beginning.
Yes, I really liked this one growing up. And I loved your reaction to it. I heard something interesting a few years back. Cygnus X-1 is the last song on Farewell to Kings. It ends violently with Alex on a powerful C minor chord ( indicating fear, danger, and doom) that fades into oblivion as the Rocinante disappears into the black hole. The next album is Hemispheres, and the first event is a build up and then Alex suddenly explodes with a different chord, this time a major chord (indicating courage, renewal and hope), the idea being that the ship has burst forth into the alternate universe "on the other side" of the black hole. It's an F sharp major with a flat 7th, a bizarre chord that no one uses. I think it's cool they put that continuity in there from one album to the next, kind of trying to answer the question "What happened to him?!" At least to offer one possible explanation. Alex really seemed to love fringe chords. They do sound quite cool. You can just play one in your room and listen to it fade away slowly. Ah well, some people jump out of airplanes for fun. Playing weird chords doesn't cost anything, though...
I've listened to that since it first came out, and there was always something about it that made me think it was probably the oddest Rush song since it doesn't follow the conventions for songs (even Rush songs). I just now realized now that it's because it's not a full song, it's a prologue, setting the stage for the next album. Man, I love that album. I'm gonna pull out my 40th anniversary vinyl and put it on the turntable right now!
I first heard this song at age 13 back in 1992, and I listened to it over and over for about a month. It's not possible to wear out a CD, but I wore out my Farewell to Kings CD.
So glad you got to this one, Tim!! We told ya.. we told ya!! LMAO! See you in part II!!!!
Easily one of their best out of a catalog of brilliance.
One of my absolute favorites. The riffs are heavy and dirty. I might be talking trash here, but some of the guitar bits sound like black metal riffs. It just sets up this whole atmosphere and it feels as if you're travelling through the galaxy and then being swallowed by a black hole. The immersion in this is out of this world. Perfect. This song sounds a lot different from the whole Rush's catalogue and that's what makes it so special in my opinion.
This is the song that turned me into an absolute Rush fan !
First heard this over 30 years ago and remember it blowing me away.
They were really trying to take you on a trip through outer space to it’s a horrible ending of being helplessly sucked into the clutches of Cygnus X-1! Geddy’s bloodcurdling screams, the chaotic bass and guitar lines. The spacey intro, the galloping section when wheeling through the galaxy, the break right before the swirling descent into....? Well just you wait!
I’ve been really looking forward to the next one!!
Thankyou for your reaction. The same reaction I had in 1976, enjoy.
Best reaction to this song ever! You totally get it! Totally!
Hey Tim, Buzz is back!! I was blown away by this track after listening through this whole album, this was the topper and an epic cliffhanger. Xanadu was my favorite until I heard this one, the intensity of it. Like back in the day I can not wait for Book II. Please don't make me wait a year!! Great reaction, Tim.
I was 14 when I got this album......It was a different feeling back then , I must admit....Hard to describe when your listening to the sounds at that time and you are reading about them in your history books, no bullshit....RUSH, ANN MURRAY , GORDON LIGHTFOOT AND GINO VINALI....were in the music part of my Canadian history book in 1977....Who would have knew they were going to be progressive metal pioneers...a mere few years later I'm at Cobo Hall and Joe louis Arena in Detroit seeing the Permanent Waves tour and Moving Pictures tour !!!....Memoriessss!!!
Thanks Tim…. For sharing…. And for hanging tough on RUclips. Don’t you ever leave man! BTW, you should post more of your own playing. I love your stuff man. Rush rules. End of discussion.
Only Rush could use the open e string as effectively as they did in so much of their music. It's just one note and it sounds so damn good. The opening guitar sequence in this song and Xanadu come to mind.
The first time I heard this song, I saw all of eternity in front of my eyes…
The books (and Amazon tv series) The Expanse (it is AMAZING), has a spaceship called "The Rocinante" - no prizes to guess where they got that name from. ;)
Of course, Rush got the name from the horse of fictional character Don Quixote.
Glad to see you react this way to one of my alltime favorite Rush songs (and I think underrated). Great lyrics as well. Sometimes I wonder if Stephen Hawking would listen to this epic song about a black hole. XD
A favorite for sure. 1st heard this in the early 80s. Intrigued by the lyrics I went to the school library and looked up Cygnus X-1, and my journey into amature Astronomy began. Took me about 2 years of paper route and cutting grass to get an 8" Couter Optics Dobsonian telecope. Quite the scope in it's day. My buddy and I searched in vein for the object we could never find.. I now have a 12" dob and still enjoy exploring the regions of Cygus in the summer Milkyway under a Bortle 1 sky. I know know the exact location of the black hole (I set a course just east of Lyra, And northwest of Pegasus, Flew into the light of Deneb; rather accurate directions) and occasionally check the area out knowing what is there, but can not see.
I play a "sound track" of Astronomy songs during outreach on a speaker I have tucked in the dob base, and there are quite a few Rush songs in there......And it all started thanks to this song.
The camera eye! Mind blowing!
Your priorities are in order, man...golf before damn near everything! Really enjoy your reactions 😊
Each song by Rush I listen to is my favourite at that moment. Farewell to Kings and Caress of Steel need to be shown the love they deserve. Well done.
I cut my Rush teeth on this album around 1980 and I haven't been the same since
The part where the music starts.... Bars of 6, 7 , 6 , 8 . So cool
Saw this while I was tripping it sent us over the edge all those good old days
Sooo grew up on Rush back in the 70s. Especially loved that they are also Canadian. Saw them twice which was definitely not enough. Obviously one of my favourite all time bands
Have been waiting for you to get here for sooo long - and it was worth it. I couldn’t help grinning ear to ear watching you grinning ear to ear!
Still sounds as good as it did when I was first listening to it after it came out.
you know if hear only instrumental after 5 or 6 minutes....you know the song is going to be epic.
I love watching someone hear a great song like this. your reactions as the song played are the same as i still have.
I saw Rush for the first time on the Farewell To Kings tour in 1977 at the Ag building at the fairgrounds in Garden City, Kansas. Max Webster and UFO opened for them. what a show! I've commented before that they did all of 2112(they flashed a set of bright white lights on each side of Neil right at the end of the Overture, i felt myself being shoved back by the sound and light.
but this song. believe me, they flat out rocked it. I got busted for some weed on the way home and spent the rest of the night in the local jail with this song banging away in my head all night.
😎
Definitely one of their best! Features the most head-banging section of any Rush song...love it!
I’d say The Necromancer is tied with it.
In the constellation of Cygnus, there lurks a mysterious, invisible force: The Black Hole of Cygnus X-1.
Six stars of the Northern Cross, in mourning for their sister's loss, in a final flash of glory, nevermore to grace the night.
Many hard metal bands wish they were this good
I remember seeing them at Radio city music hall, 6th row. My best friend turned me on to Rush when I was 15. Back then they were not that popular and many people hated Geddys voice. After seeing that show I was hooked! Wasn’t a huge fan of some of their later stuff. I am also a guitar player. They started getting deep into synth and cutting the guitar solos.their sound evolved but not in a better way to me. But I have seen them 6 times!
The look on you face...priceless!!!!
You should have seen the video of this in concert....WOW!
Cygnus (the swan) X-1 is a black hole in that constellation. I still have an X-Ray pic from newspaper of it somewhere.
As Butthead said... "I I didn't think anything could kick this much ass."
This is one band where each member is what I can best describe as a craftsman on their instruments. As a vocalist Geddy Lee may have one of the highest male voices in rock music but he clearly communicates the lyrics and that adds to each and every Rush song because they are about the lyrics and the music and this song is a prime example of how they really put emotion into the song. You can really feel like you are on the journey and in the ship spiraling down into the depths of a black hole.
Just like with the Mighty Led Zeppelin, it's impossible to pick a favorite Rush song. IMPOSSIBLE
Tried to do this in my cover band last week.
JK lol. These guys together were other worldly.
My first reaction to that song the day of release was unreal
Watching your reaction supplements the memory of my first time dropping the needle, I'm from thier hometown so the memory of the experience is far between the sharing I spread and it is nice to see someone GET IT. Looking Forward to the battle of your hemispheres.
A trip into Xanadu
Not only is this song amazing, but it's also funny. After all the mayhem of the traveler plummeting into the black hole, and all the crazy instrumental sounds and high vocals, it's mysterious and funny how the song just ends with the guitar playing a few notes that drift away, along with all the empty, dark space that is Cygnus... {to be continued.........}
Geddy's Ric tone is fantastic
I give up. They rule. Flat out amazing track
Nice reaction. I’ve said it before and say it again my favorite Rush album. Which makes it my favorite album…period!
Hearing RUSH is one thing but to see them live gives you the ULTIMATE RUSH. Everyone seeing them for the first time will always say ...HOW CAN ONLY THREE MUSICIANS BE MAKING ALL THAT SOUND????
It certainly is mind-blowing, isn't it?
Pretty much sums up my first reaction to this song
In space there is no sound. RUSH gave space it’s own soundtrack, and convincingly so.
As with most of RUSH’s songs, both the lyrics and the music create the story: the lyrics narrate the story, and the music paints the mood, backdrop, and often the sense of action.
I had heard some RUSH in my early youth (2112, Closer to the Heart) but became a true diehard fan when Moving Pictures came out (first album bought), the Permanent Waves and Exit…Stage Left (2nd and 3rd bought).
It was all downhill from there. I snatched up every album prior, and couldn’t wait for new releases. I was 14/15. 40 years later I find myself checking out RUclips reactions to Rush daily. Your reactions are by far the best I’ve seen. Welcome aboard, Tim
My homeboys. This is as Canadian as it gets.
"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."
This is the moral of the story
“Armed” with sense and…
NO ill will intended. Everybody makes mistakes. No one is perfect. Except The Professor, with a couple of sticks in his hands.
@@TommyLMason Dude I just noticed! That's Google doing that crap! I know the lyrics. Thanks for pointing it out; I'll correct. 😎🎸
@@zeppelinfan9360 no biggie at all dude. I’ll have to correct my crap all the time here and everywhere else because of my southern drawl that I hate. Born and raised in Ohio, but moved into NC as a little kid. I adapted (involuntarily), but hey, my African girlfriend loves it, so I ain’t ABOUT TO COMPLAIN!🤣
BTW, Kashmir and The Song Remains The Same are 2 of my “other “ all-time favorites. Rock on bruh!✌️
Simply phenomenal from Rush ❤️☝️💫 thanks for the reaction guy ❤️☝️
Hands held high, speechless and mind blown 🤯 RUSH will do this to You!!!
From Fly By Night to this in 3 years only
Wait until you hear Cygnus X1 book 2 on Hemispheres!!!!!
More Brilliance from RUSH. As expected. 🎼🎶🎵🇨🇦🇨🇦
If I lived out there I'd probably play golf every day too. Especially if you're in the mountains.
Thumbs up for being honest! I respect that, unlike some others...
P.S. Your vids always have the best sound quality!
This is where the label of Prog band comes from, but they didn't stay with it very long.
Yep I have to say I've never thought of them as prog, I always thought they were a very adventurous 3 piece rock band.
my first reaction i cant remember that far back
Difficult to compare 2112 with anything (maybe Fountain) but you’ve listened already to a slightly more favourite song imo - The Necromancer. Maybe also By-Tor. But yeah the production on this song is mind blowing.
I see great minds think alike…woops….. That sounds too much like I’m tooting my own horn, But truth is truth. COS is my favorite Rush album. The drum roll in “Fountain” just before the trio yells “LISTEN!!”….😳NO drummer has EVER moved a pair of sticks faster. RIP Professor. 👏🐐🥁👑🎵🚀🕊😭🇨🇦
Awesome! Bring on Hemispheres!
ok, hey dude, if yer parents havent told you, RUSH put out a LIVE album every four albums. Go listen to All The World's A Stage(from 1976 2112 Tour, the opened for KISS during this era and blew em off the stage) you'll here songs from their first four albums. The way they perform their songs live is another total mind-blower onna whole nother level. Back in the day with no internet, every Rush album totally like fricken christmas, just couldn't wait to buy and bring home and play the new record and enjoy the ride with multiple listens just absorb it all, yeah fricken mind blowing bruh, every one, and their live shows holy crap amazing, enjoy!!
I've often eagerly listened to a new Rush album astonished and then wondering how in the fck are they gonna pull this off live??....and then leave the show mesmerized wondering wtf just happened...every fricken time.
It'll be your favorite until Book II. Well, this one is probably their most 'out there" song, and their most intense. Book II isn't quite as much of a punch in the face as this, but it's a masterpiece.
Wow big claim! 😊
I can never here enough of Rush and I like it all, but my favorite era is the 70's
4:00 this is the point in a Rush concert when the air drummers have their moment.