Rush ~ Vital Signs ~ Time Machine - Live in Cleveland [HD 1080p] [CC] 2011
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"Vital Signs" is the 7th and closing song from Rush's 8th studio album "Moving Pictures" recorded at Le Studio Morin-Heights, Quebec, Canada in October and November 1980. The album was released on February 12, 1981. After touring to support their previous album, Permanent Waves (1980), the band started to write & record new material in August 1980 with co-producer Terry Brown. They continued to write songs with a more radio-friendly format, featuring tighter song structures and songs of shorter length compared to their early albums.
Moving Pictures received a positive reception from current and retrospective music critics & became an instant commercial success, reaching number one in Canada and number 3 in the United States and the United Kingdom. It remains Rush's highest-selling album in the United States after it was certified quadruple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for over 4 million copies sold. "Limelight", "Tom Sawyer" and "Vital Signs" were released as singles across 1981, & the instrumental "YYZ" was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance.
Opening with a persistent sequencer sample, this reggae-flavored piece is a taste of what is to come on the band's next album, Signals. Heavily influenced by The Police, this songs deliberately thin arrangement is a world away from the powerful proto-metal that Rush were so well known for only a few years prior.
The lyric to Vital Signs is another of Peart's powerful calls to action, encouraging persistence in difficult circumstances. The lyric compares humanity & our daily actions and interactions to those of the machines we have created. Using the "techno-speak" of the emerging digital world to represent these fundamental parts of humanity, it is an unusual lyric, but one that rewards multiple listens.
The song was composed, according to a hyperbolic Geddy Lee, "in about five minutes" at Le Studio. This perhaps explains the immediacy of the piece. While the structure of the song is fairly traditional, the rhythmic approach is unprecedented in a Rush song. Perhaps because of this, fans were initially unconvinced by the song when it was performed live. The band, excited by their new direction & determined for the song to receive the recognition it deserved, decided that instead of dropping the song, they would in fact put it in the most exciting part of the set & begin their encore with it. It is now looked upon as a vital part of the Rush catalogue; the song pinpoints a moment of transition for the band that would impact their career forever.
Neil Peart (Guitar for the Practicing Musician, 1986): "At the end of an album it's impossible for us to judge which songs will truly be popular and which won't. We're inevitably surprised. And then there are songs like "Vital Signs" from our Moving Pictures album. At the time it was a very transitional song. Everybody had mixed feelings about it, but at the same time it expressed something essential that I wanted to say. That's a song that has a marriage of vocals & lyrics I'm very happy with. But it took our audience a long time to get it, because it was rhythmically very different for us and it demanded the audience to respond in a different rhythmic way. There was no heavy downbeat; it was al counterpoint between upbeat and downbeat, and there was some reflection of reggae influence and a reflection of the more refined areas of new wave music that we had sort of takes under our umbrella and made happen. That song took about three tours to catch on. It was kind of a baby for us. We kept playing it and wouldn't give up. We put it in our encore last tour-putting it in the most exciting part of the set possible-and just demanded that people accept it because we believed in it. I still think that song represents a culmination-the best combination of music, lyrics, rhythm. It opens up so many musical approaches, from being very simplistic and minimal to becoming very overplayed. Everything we wanted in the song is there. So that song was very special to us. But we had to wait. We had to be patient and wait for the audience to understand us."
In the Moving Pictures tour book, Peart added: "'Vital Signs' was the ultimate result, eclectic in the extreme, it embraces a wide variety of stylistic influences, ranging from the sixties to the present. Lyrically, it derives from my response to the terminology of 'Technospeak,' the language of electronics & computers, which often seems to parallel the human machine, in the functions and interrelationships they employ. It is interesting, if irrelevant, to speculate as to whether we impose our nature on the machines that we build, or whether they are merely governed by the inscrutable laws of Nature as we."
Geddy Lee recalled in a 2011 interview: It's the quirkier side of Rush's sound, & I think there's always a need for that, to give your sound diversity." 
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*Lyrics* *[Click on "CC" icon for Closed Captioning] (Lyrics on Screen)*
Unstable condition
A symptom of life
In mental and environmental change
Atmospheric disturbance
The feverish flux
Of human interface and interchange
The impulse is pure
Sometimes our circuits get shorted
By external interference
Sig, sig, signals get crossed
And the balance distorted
By internal incoherence
A tired mind become a shape-shifter
Everybody need a mood lifter
Everybody need reverse polarity
Everybody got mixed feelings
About the function and the form
Everybody got to deviate from the norm
An ounce of perception
A pound of obscure
Process information at half speed
Pause, rewind, replay
Warm memory chip
Random sample, hold the one you need
Leave out the fiction
The fact is this friction
Will only be worn by persistence
Leave out conditions
Courageous convictions
Will drag this dream into existence
A tired mind become a shape-shifter
Everybody need a sharp filter
Everybody need reverse polarity
Everybody got mixed feelings
About the function and the form
Everybody got to elevate from the norm
Everybody got mixed feelings
Everybody got mixed feelings
Everybody got to deviate from the norm
Everybody got to deviate from the norm
Everybody got to elevate from the norm
Everybody got to elevate from the norm
Everybody got to imiginate from the norm
Everybody got to escalate
Everybody got to elevate from the norm
Bizarrely, my fav Rush album is Signals. Absolutely blew me away when I was 14. I heard New World Man on a compilation album. That was me, hooked. BOOM. 🇨🇦🥰
@@scottallison9659 Signals is a lot of people's favorite, to be honest! I think it's a great album with some great songs. There are a few songs on it I don't particularly care for, such as "Chemistry", but Subdivisions and Countdown are awesome as are "The Analogue Kid" and "Digital Man". The album signaled a shift in style for them. Rush were always pressing forward, never content to rest on their laurels.
This masterpiece is the perfect ending to a perfect album that Rush released back in 1981: "Moving Pictures". This is a trio of perfect musicians at what they do. I always enjoyed listening to Vital Signs when it first came out. It's so amazing live, that it makes you want to think you are listening to the original studio record. I just can't say enough of how these amazing guys, never lose a single step through each of these great songs. That's why they are the greatest band ever assembled. This must've been one great concert to experience. RIP to Neil Peart, the best drummer ever.✝️🙏
Everybody got to deviate from the norm. From the professor's words straight to Geddys RUSH. Excellent choice I haven't heard this since the late 80s early 90s. Thanks great post
This is such a cool song and so different than most of their other works. The lyrics are just off the chart! The Professor was the master of drums and lyrics. Thanks David!
This track always reminds me of The Police.
It was interesting seeing Alex with a Telecaster.
Thanks again Dan.
There can be no argument that this song was heavily influence by The Police, especially Alex's guitar parts. I can only deem it "Progressive Reggae" as it transcends typical reggae music, both instrumentally and lyrically. Only Peart could have written the lyrics for a song like this!
The Telecaster was the perfect guitar for this song as it has a very bright tone and fit the reggae sound very nicely. A Les Paul would not have done the song justice. One thing I like about this concert in particular is Alex's choices for guitar on each song; he always played the instrument that fit the tonality needed for the tune, and he switched off quite frequently to accomplish that goal. I'm really enjoying this concert so far. I don't know if you noticed but after about 2-3 songs in I found a player that accented the bass frequencies much better. I think it does a better job at fleshing out all of the frequencies so less tinkering is needed.
Stay cool and stay safe, my friend!
Elevate exponentially. Whoa
This song will elevate you! LOL!
Hello Dan..Great video and music ♫ From Rush Bic Like #5# Thanks for sharing !!
Hello Annie! I hope you are doing good and things are going well with you. I appreciate your kind words and support of this channel. I'm so glad you enjoyed the share!
BTW, you have this song on your Rush Moving Pictures album...it's the last song on the album!
The Fabulous Men, hard at work.
One of my fav Rush tunes ever. 🥰🥰
This song has grown on me big time since hearing (and seeing) this version. Their production of this song live is just incredible!
@@MysticRhythmsLiveRush in Rio got me back into Rush after 14 years!! Got bored after Presto, TBH. 🇨🇦😂🥰
@@scottallison9659 Rush in Rio could just as easily be named "Rio's audience featuring Rush" LOL! I understand the Presto statement...
I am in the back ground of this song you can bearly hear me singing live
Alex Lifeson with a Tele!
Typically reggae music has a very bright guitar sound, and a Telecaster is a very bright sounding instrument. Most likely that's why he used it here. You don't see Alex with a Tele very often!
...and a tie!
@@jamesweldon9726 LOL!
everybody got to deviate from the norm.. another classic Peart lyric.. The best live version is the B side of New World Man, the two song special LP that I bought in 1983 at an import record shop. still have that record.