I'm NOT kidding: first time I heard ANALOG KID I was laying on my back in a field of grass at my grandparents farm with a Walkman playing the Signals cassette. I have a special place for this song.
Signals as an album didn't immediately resonate with me, but this song and Loosing It instantly struck a chord with me, and I really enjoyed Countdown. Over the years this album has grown on me and one really enjoy.
Yeah, special place for me, too. I remember doing a road trip with my parents and listening to this album again and again on my Walkman. As I said in another comment, wore the tape out. Had on on vinyl, too, of course.
My spot was in Central Park 'Sheeps Meadow' Section. 😆 There are actually old photos of Sheep grazing when the park was created, where we laid out with our Walkmans 😒 that only ⏭️ Fast Forward hoping I didn't get hit with a Frisbee cause I was blasting Subdivisions and couldn't hear a "Heads Up!!" until it was too late! 😏🐰
This album came out when I was in High School (along with Moving Pictures). Rush helped me realize I wasn't alone. "Losing It" is one of the most poignant songs ever written, and as I approach 60 it hits harder every year.
You should do POWER WINDOWS next. Signals and Power Windows are two of my post Moving Pictures Rush...Permanent Waves will always be my personal favorite.
This is one of my favourite Rush songs. The movement in it. When Geddy is singing you move me I can see the trees swaying in the breeze. Neil's lyrics here are beautiful and poetic. I see a young teenager out enjoying the beauty of nature dreaming of a larger life in the city. His thoughts are interrupted by his mother calling him. He loves where he is but there is something bigger calling him. I read once that the fawn eyed girl was one he had a crush on when he was younger but he was too shy to ask out. Alex's guitar work is insane here. Cheers
For me, this song was always about a boy on the edge of manhood feeling all of the emotions and excitements that come with that… Feeling a longing to move to a big city and explore his future and torn between that and the idyllic comforts of home and the fear of the unknown… All that and girls! It’s a lot for a young man to think about so why not lay in the grass ignore your mom for a few more minutes and watch the Hawks soar by and feel the wind blowing through the trees. Live in the moment while you can… You’re right,! poetic and beautiful and Broadly identifiable for a young man first listening to Rush as I was 35 years ago :-)
If you start at the beginning of their discography catalog and listen to everything in a progression you see and understand their music and the direction their music went in. They experiment at certain points of their career and albums have distinct sounds to them. Signals was the start of using keyboards more as a main instrument instead of more of a smaller sampling. The album after this saw a lot of use of keyboards as main instrument on almost every song. Then they reigned it in again and go back to guitar/ base being the main instruments. Some fans didn’t like this time period. Others of us just went with it as they seemed to be experimenting and eventually came back to their roots.
Hemispheres was my first Rush album (at age 10), and I love it to this day. Signals came out when I was in high school, and I wore out a cassette tape copy of it in my Walkman. Might be my favorite Rush album. Certainly in my top 3, anyway.
On first listen back in 1982, the standout tracks for me were 'The Analog Kid' & 'Losing It'. I still think 'Losing It' is possibly Neil's finest lyrically.
John, absolutely loving your Rush reactions. You are killing it!! So glad to see a musician appreciating and discovering this incredible band and the musical and lyrical gifts that their legacy has left us long-time fans as well as for current & future generations of real music discovery and appreciation. I’d highly suggest listening to 1980’s Permanent Waves & 1984’s Grace Under Pressure next. Then go back and listen to their 70’s stuff more such as Caress of Steel, 2112, & A Farewell To Kings. I suggest this because I believe many true Rush fans need to feel and grasp more of their 80’s musical growth and approach, and once a comfort level is achieved, their amazing 70’s era catalog is even more wondrous! They never made music for others, it was for themselves, and each one of them are true masters at their craft, humble yet masters, almost wizard-like.
The song seems to be about how we all long to take the hero's journey and test ourselves against the larger world when we're young, but when we get trapped in the matrix and suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, we long for the simpler and idyllic times of our youth.
This tour was the first concert I ever went to, I was 15. As a young drummer my life changed forever. I was lucky enough to see them another 14 times through the years and only wish I could see them live once more. 🥲🔥🤘🏻🤘🏻🎧
I love the driving rhythms in this song. They inspire motion and emotion. I interpret this song as representing the wide spectrum of feelings, infinitely variable (analog) that youth experiences; the dial that gets spun back and forth, from zero to 10 and back again. As we age and mature, take on more responsibility, things settle down and become more rigid, more black and white, more digital, as in Digital Man, a track on this album. ;) There is a kid living a simple life, lying in the grass, watching the skies pass by, but dreaming of bigger and better things, exciting life in the cities, the fawn-eyed-girl dancing on the edge of his dream, a muse, inspiring him to leave this place and go explore, but then his mother starts to call him and wrenches him back to reality, which he tries to ignore by pulling his cap down over his eyes, and the hawk, representing the opportunity seen in the dream, goes soaring by, out of reach. But I could be full of shit. ;)
The beauty of Neil Peart's words when put to song never fails to amuse me, but the beauty of his lyrics when read without the music never fails to amaze me.
Your rush journey has only just begun!! This band is so deep, they take you on journeys with every song… Seriously can’t wait too see your reaction too 2112, not to mention about a hundred others!! Lol lol Enjoy the ride
One of my all-time favorites of theirs. Great memories associated with its release (I got Signals as a birthday present right after it was released). This song takes me places; the transitions are masterfully executed. And yeah - that solo…
Great reaction! Interesting you mentioned the guitar sounds. This was by far the biggest jump into the use of synthesizers by Rush to this point in their career and Lifeson had difficulty fitting in with the similar frequencies from the keyboards. He played rhythm guitar in lots of places on Signals to the "lead' of Geddy's keyboards. But that's one of the great (many great) features this band had. They always did what was best for the song with each of their instruments. No ego, just all about the music.
My favorite (and subjectively, the best) era of Rush, starts with the album after this - Grace Under Pressure. This was Rush experimenting with synth/New Wave, the 3 albums after this, are Rush really harnessing that vibe and it will absolutely blow you away - Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, and Hold Your Fire. Make sure you have lyrics handy!!! Neil moved away from abstract ideals and phantasy stories, and really hit close to home with some very human feelings during this entire era... which is the reason I cried my eyes out for several weeks in 2020; not just the loss of a drummer, but the loss of a writer that could really touch hearts and change lives with his words.
It's been four weeks since I listened to this whole album. Our! I only knew a few Rush songs, but listening to it, I just thought it was amazing. That song "Analog Kid" was pretty surprising because the drums are so impactful for me. The synths, everything, really. Impressive.
When Signals first came out I was a little disappointed after Moving Pictures. As the years went by I listened to all 19 studio albums. I must say Signals is one of their best no doubt it.
What a great song !! One of my favourites. Amazing guitar solo... What a ride. Can't wait for you to react to losing it. Some of the finest lyrics ever.
Signals is one of my favourite albums they did. Personal favourites of mine include Subdivisions (of course), The Analog Kid, Chemistry, Digital Man and New World Man.
While Subdivisions got the majority of the air play on the radio I've still always loved this song more and then Losing It just shreds me at the end. Solo Alex always so good to hear him and it is rare that I don't find his solos fitting the song - this was certainly a prime example. :)
Such a departure from Moving Pictures, and nothing like Grace Under Pressure. This record's songs and sonic sound, stands on it's own, from their whole catalog
All the songs are connected on this album. Subdivisions captures the overview of the youth living in the suburbs longing for life in the city, only to dream about living in the suburbs again when older. The Analog Kid is just starting his journey and he is living in the "now." The Digital Man is the workaholic (in a "ticking trap") who is hoping "tomorrow" will be better as he "plays fast forward." Losing It completes the three songs by living in the "past" as the dancer and writer reflect on their glory days. Chemistry is about defining the technical nature of love as humans make contact with each other. The New World Man is about America. The Old World is Europe and the Third World is the lesser developed countries. The Weapon is about how fear. Countdown is about the space shuttle Columbia. The one word that prevails throughout the album is "dream." Every song is connected. I could go on and on about this album's meaning, but I hope you catch the drift.
Great insight, Kent. Neil actually had something else in mind to weave the album together. A journalist pointed it out to him and Neil expressed surprise that the journalist got it right. Every song is about escape: peer pressure, suburbs, work, fear, age and (finally) escape from this planet with Countdown. I heard this during the Something For Nothing podcast when they reviewed Rush's Signals album. I was floored when I heard this and it makes so much sense. I'm surprised Rush chose Signals rather than Escape... maybe because it had been used recently by Journey.
@@derekbacharach Wow! Thanks for that! It does make more sense from that perspective of seeking escape and it definitely ties it together. I believe that they titled the album Signals because they were transitioning into a new experimental sound. They described 2112 and Moving Pictures as their "arrival" albums. So, like A Farewell to Kings, Signals was indicating a change or new direction in their sound. Thanks again, Derek.
'Signals' (1982) was a very different record from 'Hemispheres' (1978)... Geddy Lee said that Rush had maxed out on their old sound & wanted to go in a more 'fun' musical direction... that change resulted in their biggest record 'Moving pictures' (1981). Going into 'Signals', Geddy Lee was getting more into keyboards & synthesizers... Neil Peart also started getting into samples and electronic beats... I think wrote the lyrics to 'Analog kid' about being on vacation in the British Virgin Islands, visiting exotic locations and taking in the scenery... he also wrote a companion song - 'Digital man'.
This is the first album I purchased by Rush in the eighth grade. It's kind of a interesting story I suppose because Rush is such a dynamic band and none of their albums sound exactly the same by any stretch. Especially when they merged into the 1980s. The first record I heard was 2112 and the gate fold sleeve had the band and kimonos and looking very wizened 1970s prophets of Prague vibe.. And of course I was just floored I never heard anything like this. I had just started playing guitar in the seventh grade and so the stuff was just phenomenally beyond the scope of what I had been listening to previously obviously. So anyway I buy the most recent Rush album take it home look at the band photo and say who the f*** is this? Because in the ensuing five or six years since 21:12 the band had changed a lot and physically changed their look, because you know the 80s. Anyway it was a bit of a shock sound wise and image-wise but the material is just overwhelming the good and I was a fan for life. I just got used to the fact that any new rush out my purchase was going to be a pretty polarizing shift the stylistic lie but it really shaped my appreciation for bands that took chances. Cheers hope you enjoy this.
If you love this album you will love: POWER WINDOWS by RUSH. Signals and Power Windows go hand in hand for me...Permanent Waves is my favorite album it teeters old Rush with hints of what they will become in the 80's.
Hemispheres then to Signals. Interesting....I would argue those are the bookends of one of the greatest 4 album runs in rock n roll history. I would also argue Permanant waves and Moving Pictures are thier best two albums. Although Hemispheres will always be my fav.
Permanent Waves to Power Windows is such a fantastic run for Rush. Hot take: Their second-best run of five albums is Counterparts to Clockwork Angels. There I said it.
I just realized!! at 8:00 minutes when Geddy plays his synths that it sounds like a live chorus of people. I think they eventually did that live on stage for Clockwork.🐕
The Analog Kid is just a song about a young boy's longing to see the world. Young kids think they know everything, and they think that adults impose their will on them. Adults impose their will on their time, ("Too many hands on my time") and this boy is longing for freedom.
Really appreciate you trying to comprehend Neil Peart 's lyrics... Once you understand what these songs are trying to convey and the context in which they were written, you'll find yourself being more inspired to learn more about Rush... Neil (RIP) was sort of a "book worm" at first in that he loved to read books to pass the time away between shows before turning his interests towards bike riding and motorcycle (which he really enjoyed, especially riding between shows in search of new topics to write about or find new stories to tell through his eyes and also his drumming.)... The band was always searching for new ways to challenge themselves as a band, and each other so that they can give their fans something to enjoy..... They loved their fans tremendously!!!!
The song is about a boy who wants to leave his small hometown and explore the world he's heard about or seen in magazines, etc. The restless youth, ignoring the safety of home.
When your done with Signals move right on to Grace Under Pressure. When your done with that Power Windows is next on the list. One song in particular epitomizes the band. RUSH wasn't sprinting through the halls of rock history, they were running a MARATHON.
Cool choice. Signals is not the usual pick for newcomers in Rush reactions, especially because of its predecessor album. But god that I love this album. Waiting for your your next video.
You would really love rush album grace under pressure. They got into some heavy synth by then..it was 1984. I really love the song red sector A (it's powerful, it's about the Holocaust). Rush was guitar heavy up until the mid to late 80s. By the mid 90s, they were getting back to less synth and more guitar
The Weapon is number 2 in the book of fear. Number one is Witch Hunt. The album Grace Under pressure concludes the book of fear. The weapon is perhaps the most profound. Control through fear, information, the cold war and "war profiteering" (thy kingdoms will be done). The "He" is both you and I and the messenger who has personal experience and insight. Thank you for the video.
On the leg of that tour I saw in July 2013, their retro album was Power Windows. They played every track from it. The startling coincidence was that I had been listening to that CD lately in the car, including on the way to the concert, and had no idea that was part of their plan for the evening. It was amazing.
It's not one of their deep deep songs. Just about yearning. A yearning for something away from his family's homestead. A beautiful and poetic song indeed.
Neil had some stellar lyrics on this album;some of my favorites. I think Alex wrote the lyrics to Chemistry though and it had one of his best guitar solos to that point in his estimation.
Ready for this? That “nice synth” you were referring to is played by geddy’s right foot live while playing bass and singing. You have to check that out!!!
Check out Rush Farewell to Kings, Moving Pictures, and Roll the bones. All are well worth it! To be honest I have never heard a Rush song I did not love! Just sayin!
Ok, well in my later years I realize the greatness of the music they created in Signals, but at the time I was a Freshman in college and back then we didn't have Spotify or RUclips or even internet actually, so all I heard of signals was "New World Man" and Subdivisions over the cafeteria speakers. It was a radical departure from the Rush of my Youth and I quite frankly did not like it at all. But we never heard those great guitar riffs in Analog Kid and Digital Man. Those were not played. But Even Subdivisions now I recognize the genius that it is. I didn't then.
And I have to say, I even think New World Man is an awesome tune. It was the one they had to write to cover the time requirement of the album and when I was young, that was my impression of it, but that ROCK-Reggae Rush creation is a true thing of beauty.
Good reactions, Rush my favourite band, check out Animate!! Can i reccomend you an Argentinian band called Seru Giran? Listen to the song “La Grasa de las Capitales”, you wont be dissapointed
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I'm NOT kidding: first time I heard ANALOG KID I was laying on my back in a field of grass at my grandparents farm with a Walkman playing the Signals cassette. I have a special place for this song.
Signals as an album didn't immediately resonate with me, but this song and Loosing It instantly struck a chord with me, and I really enjoyed Countdown. Over the years this album has grown on me and one really enjoy.
Yeah, special place for me, too. I remember doing a road trip with my parents and listening to this album again and again on my Walkman. As I said in another comment, wore the tape out. Had on on vinyl, too, of course.
My spot was in Central Park 'Sheeps Meadow' Section. 😆 There are actually old photos of Sheep grazing when the park was created, where we laid out with our Walkmans 😒 that only ⏭️ Fast Forward hoping I didn't get hit with a Frisbee cause I was blasting Subdivisions and couldn't hear a "Heads Up!!" until it was too late! 😏🐰
I don't believe you.
Kidding, I do. 😃
That had to of been so moving!!!
I Love Rush,
Love this song!!
: )
This album came out when I was in High School (along with Moving Pictures). Rush helped me realize I wasn't alone.
"Losing It" is one of the most poignant songs ever written, and as I approach 60 it hits harder every year.
One of my favorite guitar solos from Rush. Analogue Kid is a hidden gem. The band is at another level. Best trio ever.
Who's ready for an album journey??
Yes please any rush album. I'm sure you will enjoy and appreciate the talent these three guys have.
yes!!!🎉
Go!
You should do POWER WINDOWS next.
Signals and Power Windows are two of my post Moving Pictures Rush...Permanent Waves will always be my personal favorite.
My favorite line in the whole song - " TOO MANY HANDS ON MY TIME - TOO MANY FEELINGS - TOO MANY THINGS ON MY MIND" - this is true..
I'm so pleased you're doing the whole Signals album. It's mind-stupefying. I just know you'll love it.
I’m also a Signals Fan. Love Subdivisions, Analog Kid (my fav on these album) Chemistry and New World Man. The rest are also very solid.
This is one of my favourite Rush songs. The movement in it. When Geddy is singing you move me I can see the trees swaying in the breeze. Neil's lyrics here are beautiful and poetic. I see a young teenager out enjoying the beauty of nature dreaming of a larger life in the city. His thoughts are interrupted by his mother calling him. He loves where he is but there is something bigger calling him. I read once that the fawn eyed girl was one he had a crush on when he was younger but he was too shy to ask out. Alex's guitar work is insane here.
Cheers
I think you are right on! lol
@@somecallmetim2112 LOL 😆
For me, this song was always about a boy on the edge of manhood feeling all of the emotions and excitements that come with that… Feeling a longing to move to a big city and explore his future and torn between that and the idyllic comforts of home and the fear of the unknown… All that and girls! It’s a lot for a young man to think about so why not lay in the grass ignore your mom for a few more minutes and watch the Hawks soar by and feel the wind blowing through the trees. Live in the moment while you can… You’re right,! poetic and beautiful and Broadly identifiable for a young man first listening to Rush as I was 35 years ago :-)
If you start at the beginning of their discography catalog and listen to everything in a progression you see and understand their music and the direction their music went in. They experiment at certain points of their career and albums have distinct sounds to them. Signals was the start of using keyboards more as a main instrument instead of more of a smaller sampling. The album after this saw a lot of use of keyboards as main instrument on almost every song. Then they reigned it in again and go back to guitar/ base being the main instruments. Some fans didn’t like this time period. Others of us just went with it as they seemed to be experimenting and eventually came back to their roots.
Hemispheres was my first Rush album (at age 10), and I love it to this day. Signals came out when I was in high school, and I wore out a cassette tape copy of it in my Walkman. Might be my favorite Rush album. Certainly in my top 3, anyway.
Youre lucky you got turned on early you born in 68?
On first listen back in 1982, the standout tracks for me were 'The Analog Kid' & 'Losing It'. I still think 'Losing It' is possibly Neil's finest lyrically.
John, absolutely loving your Rush reactions. You are killing it!! So glad to see a musician appreciating and discovering this incredible band and the musical and lyrical gifts that their legacy has left us long-time fans as well as for current & future generations of real music discovery and appreciation.
I’d highly suggest listening to 1980’s Permanent Waves & 1984’s Grace Under Pressure next. Then go back and listen to their 70’s stuff more such as Caress of Steel, 2112, & A Farewell To Kings. I suggest this because I believe many true Rush fans need to feel and grasp more of their 80’s musical growth and approach, and once a comfort level is achieved, their amazing 70’s era catalog is even more wondrous!
They never made music for others, it was for themselves, and each one of them are true masters at their craft, humble yet masters, almost wizard-like.
The song seems to be about how we all long to take the hero's journey and test ourselves against the larger world when we're young, but when we get trapped in the matrix and suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, we long for the simpler and idyllic times of our youth.
This tour was the first concert I ever went to, I was 15. As a young drummer my life changed forever. I was lucky enough to see them another 14 times through the years and only wish I could see them live once more. 🥲🔥🤘🏻🤘🏻🎧
ANALOG KID IS MY GO TO SONG WHEN IM FEALING DOWN, ALWAYS BRINGS ME UP AGAIN. BUT ANY RUSH SONG GIVES ME MOTIVATION TO GET THROUGH THE ROUGH TIMES.
I love the driving rhythms in this song. They inspire motion and emotion. I interpret this song as representing the wide spectrum of feelings, infinitely variable (analog) that youth experiences; the dial that gets spun back and forth, from zero to 10 and back again. As we age and mature, take on more responsibility, things settle down and become more rigid, more black and white, more digital, as in Digital Man, a track on this album. ;)
There is a kid living a simple life, lying in the grass, watching the skies pass by, but dreaming of bigger and better things, exciting life in the cities, the fawn-eyed-girl dancing on the edge of his dream, a muse, inspiring him to leave this place and go explore, but then his mother starts to call him and wrenches him back to reality, which he tries to ignore by pulling his cap down over his eyes, and the hawk, representing the opportunity seen in the dream, goes soaring by, out of reach.
But I could be full of shit. ;)
I think you are right on!
The beauty of Neil Peart's words when put to song never fails to amuse me, but the beauty of his lyrics when read without the music never fails to amaze me.
Your rush journey has only just begun!! This band is so deep, they take you on journeys with every song…
Seriously can’t wait too see your reaction too 2112, not to mention about a hundred others!! Lol lol
Enjoy the ride
Alex kills it in this song! A young man's dream.
Dude,I've been listening to Rush and Subdivisions since 1982 and I have never gotten tired of them and never will.❤️
Such a great track from a terrific album. Geddy is absolutely killing it on the bass! I'm so enjoying your RUSH reactions !😄☮
One of my all-time favorites of theirs. Great memories associated with its release (I got Signals as a birthday present right after it was released). This song takes me places; the transitions are masterfully executed. And yeah - that solo…
Great reaction! Interesting you mentioned the guitar sounds. This was by far the biggest jump into the use of synthesizers by Rush to this point in their career and Lifeson had difficulty fitting in with the similar frequencies from the keyboards. He played rhythm guitar in lots of places on Signals to the "lead' of Geddy's keyboards. But that's one of the great (many great) features this band had. They always did what was best for the song with each of their instruments. No ego, just all about the music.
My favorite (and subjectively, the best) era of Rush, starts with the album after this - Grace Under Pressure. This was Rush experimenting with synth/New Wave, the 3 albums after this, are Rush really harnessing that vibe and it will absolutely blow you away - Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, and Hold Your Fire. Make sure you have lyrics handy!!! Neil moved away from abstract ideals and phantasy stories, and really hit close to home with some very human feelings during this entire era... which is the reason I cried my eyes out for several weeks in 2020; not just the loss of a drummer, but the loss of a writer that could really touch hearts and change lives with his words.
It's been four weeks since I listened to this whole album. Our! I only knew a few Rush songs, but listening to it, I just thought it was amazing. That song "Analog Kid" was pretty surprising because the drums are so impactful for me. The synths, everything, really. Impressive.
When Signals first came out I was a little disappointed after Moving Pictures. As the years went by I listened to all 19 studio albums. I must say Signals is one of their best no doubt it.
What a great song !! One of my favourites. Amazing guitar solo... What a ride. Can't wait for you to react to losing it. Some of the finest lyrics ever.
🤗 Wait! I need snacks! 🥰 This is gonna be awesome! 😍 Thanks John! 😁🐰
Peart's poetic imagery and genius really shines on this one
Signals is one of my favourite albums they did. Personal favourites of mine include Subdivisions (of course), The Analog Kid, Chemistry, Digital Man and New World Man.
The guitar solo is like being launched in a rocket ship.
I remember when this album came out. I was in high school and this was my first Rush concert.
While Subdivisions got the majority of the air play on the radio I've still always loved this song more and then Losing It just shreds me at the end. Solo Alex always so good to hear him and it is rare that I don't find his solos fitting the song - this was certainly a prime example. :)
Such a departure from Moving Pictures, and nothing like Grace Under Pressure. This record's songs and sonic sound, stands on it's own, from their whole catalog
All the songs are connected on this album. Subdivisions captures the overview of the youth living in the suburbs longing for life in the city, only to dream about living in the suburbs again when older. The Analog Kid is just starting his journey and he is living in the "now." The Digital Man is the workaholic (in a "ticking trap") who is hoping "tomorrow" will be better as he "plays fast forward." Losing It completes the three songs by living in the "past" as the dancer and writer reflect on their glory days. Chemistry is about defining the technical nature of love as humans make contact with each other. The New World Man is about America. The Old World is Europe and the Third World is the lesser developed countries. The Weapon is about how fear. Countdown is about the space shuttle Columbia.
The one word that prevails throughout the album is "dream." Every song is connected.
I could go on and on about this album's meaning, but I hope you catch the drift.
Great insight, Kent. Neil actually had something else in mind to weave the album together. A journalist pointed it out to him and Neil expressed surprise that the journalist got it right. Every song is about escape: peer pressure, suburbs, work, fear, age and (finally) escape from this planet with Countdown. I heard this during the Something For Nothing podcast when they reviewed Rush's Signals album. I was floored when I heard this and it makes so much sense. I'm surprised Rush chose Signals rather than Escape... maybe because it had been used recently by Journey.
@@derekbacharach Wow! Thanks for that! It does make more sense from that perspective of seeking escape and it definitely ties it together. I believe that they titled the album Signals because they were transitioning into a new experimental sound. They described 2112 and Moving Pictures as their "arrival" albums. So, like A Farewell to Kings, Signals was indicating a change or new direction in their sound. Thanks again, Derek.
I like to joke that the Analog Kid grows up to be the Digital Man two songs later
Keep that RUSH coming, John!
I enjoy watching you enjoy the album I most enjoy, you Sean to realy like it I’m happy you are fun to watch nice job brother!!!!
One of my favorites :)
I remember the summer of 83. This album. My neighbors heard it a few dozen times at least. I got compliments on my pieced together system
RUSH is art.
The Modern Mozarts
'Signals' (1982) was a very different record from 'Hemispheres' (1978)... Geddy Lee said that Rush had maxed out on their old sound & wanted to go in a more 'fun' musical direction... that change resulted in their biggest record 'Moving pictures' (1981).
Going into 'Signals', Geddy Lee was getting more into keyboards & synthesizers... Neil Peart also started getting into samples and electronic beats... I think wrote the lyrics to 'Analog kid' about being on vacation in the British Virgin Islands, visiting exotic locations and taking in the scenery... he also wrote a companion song - 'Digital man'.
PURE PERFECTION!!
whee! love this song. we've all been that boy. btw this song was how I realized why I liked drum and bass and dubstep. it's both.
This song makes the ordinary extraordinary. The common dreams and distractions of youth and a love affair with nature come to life in beautiful form.
This is the first album I purchased by Rush in the eighth grade. It's kind of a interesting story I suppose because Rush is such a dynamic band and none of their albums sound exactly the same by any stretch. Especially when they merged into the 1980s. The first record I heard was 2112 and the gate fold sleeve had the band and kimonos and looking very wizened 1970s prophets of Prague vibe.. And of course I was just floored I never heard anything like this. I had just started playing guitar in the seventh grade and so the stuff was just phenomenally beyond the scope of what I had been listening to previously obviously. So anyway I buy the most recent Rush album take it home look at the band photo and say who the f*** is this? Because in the ensuing five or six years since 21:12 the band had changed a lot and physically changed their look, because you know the 80s. Anyway it was a bit of a shock sound wise and image-wise but the material is just overwhelming the good and I was a fan for life. I just got used to the fact that any new rush out my purchase was going to be a pretty polarizing shift the stylistic lie but it really shaped my appreciation for bands that took chances. Cheers hope you enjoy this.
If you love this album you will love:
POWER WINDOWS by RUSH.
Signals and Power Windows go hand in hand for me...Permanent Waves is my favorite album it teeters old Rush with hints of what they will become in the 80's.
Hemispheres then to Signals. Interesting....I would argue those are the bookends of one of the greatest 4 album runs in rock n roll history. I would also argue Permanant waves and Moving Pictures are thier best two albums. Although Hemispheres will always be my fav.
This is in my top five Rush favorites!
Permanent Waves to Power Windows is such a fantastic run for Rush. Hot take: Their second-best run of five albums is Counterparts to Clockwork Angels. There I said it.
I just realized!! at 8:00 minutes when Geddy plays his synths that it sounds like a live chorus of people. I think they eventually did that live on stage for Clockwork.🐕
You feel like I do they are so good!! This album is so awesome new wave sound at least to me
Great song and album!
The Analog Kid is just a song about a young boy's longing to see the world. Young kids think they know everything, and they think that adults impose their will on them. Adults impose their will on their time, ("Too many hands on my time") and this boy is longing for freedom.
Really appreciate you trying to comprehend Neil Peart 's lyrics... Once you understand what these songs are trying to convey and the context in which they were written, you'll find yourself being more inspired to learn more about Rush... Neil (RIP) was sort of a "book worm" at first in that he loved to read books to pass the time away between shows before turning his interests towards bike riding and motorcycle (which he really enjoyed, especially riding between shows in search of new topics to write about or find new stories to tell through his eyes and also his drumming.)... The band was always searching for new ways to challenge themselves as a band, and each other so that they can give their fans something to enjoy..... They loved their fans tremendously!!!!
The song is about a boy who wants to leave his small hometown and explore the world he's heard about or seen in magazines, etc. The restless youth, ignoring the safety of home.
When your done with Signals move right on to Grace Under Pressure. When your done with that Power Windows is next on the list. One song in particular epitomizes the band. RUSH wasn't sprinting through the halls of rock history, they were running a MARATHON.
Don't keep us waiting... we are salivating !!!!
Losing It...
One of my favorites to evaluate my life with. The joys...the losses.
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Cool choice. Signals is not the usual pick for newcomers in Rush reactions, especially because of its predecessor album. But god that I love this album. Waiting for your your next video.
12:20 it's not trauma it's just growing up. He feels the need to go out into the world and experience.
You would really love rush album grace under pressure. They got into some heavy synth by then..it was 1984. I really love the song red sector A (it's powerful, it's about the Holocaust). Rush was guitar heavy up until the mid to late 80s. By the mid 90s, they were getting back to less synth and more guitar
The Weapon is number 2 in the book of fear. Number one is Witch Hunt. The album Grace Under pressure concludes the book of fear. The weapon is perhaps the most profound. Control through fear, information, the cold war and "war profiteering" (thy kingdoms will be done). The "He" is both you and I and the messenger who has personal experience and insight.
Thank you for the video.
Perfection, maybe my fav. Digitalman is also there. The whole album is perfect.
I saw them do The Analog Kid from second row center on the 2012-2013 Clockwork Angels tour.
It was amazing.
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On the leg of that tour I saw in July 2013, their retro album was Power Windows. They played every track from it. The startling coincidence was that I had been listening to that CD lately in the car, including on the way to the concert, and had no idea that was part of their plan for the evening. It was amazing.
Analog kid - Underrated
It's not one of their deep deep songs. Just about yearning. A yearning for something away from his family's homestead. A beautiful and poetic song indeed.
Neil had some stellar lyrics on this album;some of my favorites. I think Alex wrote the lyrics to Chemistry though and it had one of his best guitar solos to that point in his estimation.
Ready for this? That “nice synth” you were referring to is played by geddy’s right foot live while playing bass and singing. You have to check that out!!!
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Song is about a boy ready to leave his home for the big city.
YOUNG MAN RUSH IS THE BEST BAND EVER, RED BARCHITA WILL BLOW YOU AWAY, RED SECTOR A TOO.. YYZ , JACOBS LADDER
l believe that l actually saw your mind opening to new horizons..
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Check out Rush Farewell to Kings, Moving Pictures, and Roll the bones. All are well worth it! To be honest I have never heard a Rush song I did not love! Just sayin!
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Ok, well in my later years I realize the greatness of the music they created in Signals, but at the time I was a Freshman in college and back then we didn't have Spotify or RUclips or even internet actually, so all I heard of signals was "New World Man" and Subdivisions over the cafeteria speakers. It was a radical departure from the Rush of my Youth and I quite frankly did not like it at all. But we never heard those great guitar riffs in Analog Kid and Digital Man. Those were not played. But Even Subdivisions now I recognize the genius that it is. I didn't then.
And I have to say, I even think New World Man is an awesome tune. It was the one they had to write to cover the time requirement of the album and when I was young, that was my impression of it, but that ROCK-Reggae Rush creation is a true thing of beauty.
Now listen to the band that had a huge influence on Rush and that is Yes.
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John 2112, permanent waves.
Good reactions, Rush my favourite band, check out Animate!! Can i reccomend you an Argentinian band called Seru Giran? Listen to the song “La Grasa de las Capitales”, you wont be dissapointed
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2112 ?
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You need to hear Tom Sawyer if u havent already.