Writer Reacts to Rush - Natural Science (REACTION) First Time Hearing It
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Having Neil's lyrics to reflect on as i grew up really set a foundation for the person i am today.
I can definitely see that. Amazing and thought provoking lyrics.
I’m 57, a Rush fan since 1980. I have actually dreamed multiple times of meeting Neil Peart. Invariably, I walk up to him, shake his hand and say Thank You. The two words convey all my appreciation for so many deep and poignant lyrics, so many perfect drum fills . He understands how many times I have been brought to tears listening to what he has created. There are lots of good songs, lots of good bands, but very few who have truly enriched my life. In that capacity, Neil is unmatched.
Thanks so much for sharing your experience 🙏🏽❤️
I'm 57 as well. I totally agree.
The best Rush album of them all for me. I know others go elsewhere, especially Moving Pictures, but this is the one for me. Seeing them on the Permanent Waves tour at the Hammersmith Odeon in 1980 was one of the highlights of my life. Loving your reactions and thoughts on this one and so many others from Rush and other bands and artists. Thank you.
I agree completely!!! I love love love Permanent Waves!!! Natural Science is one of my all time favorite RUSH songs and wow 🤩 do I wish I could have seen this tour!!!
I worked across the street from the Hammersmith Odeon from 2011 to 2014. It was not longer a concert hall but a Cinema. I looked at it and fantasize about all the great concerts that took place on that venue. Especially Rush.
me too man
I called this the Rush’s perfect album. I agree
Absolutely agree! This is their best full album. Happens to be the first I heard in 1980. I was 11 and got hooked immediately!
“Computerized clinic for superior cynics who dance to a synthetic band. In their own image their world is fashioned, no wonder they don’t understand.” R.I.P. Neil 😢
So many great lines in this song.
@@SaeedReacts. Neil is mainly recognized for his drumming excellence but he was also a brilliant lyricist.👍
I've never shed a tear for any celebrity. But when Neil passed I cried serious tears. This band was part of my life. It still is, I listen to them 90% of the time when I'm chilling to music.
I feel that! Some artists and their work seem to become part of your life and integral to who you are. When they pass on it is like part of us does as well.
@@goldenretrieverdad I still do
I did the same thing!
Neil was as gifted a lyricist as he was a percussionist.
We miss you Neil😢❤
Of all the great lyrics that Neil wrote over the years, none are greater than that which says ::: The most endangered species?? The Honest Man
Incredible line.
@@roberthussey595 it's good, but the all time greatest has to be "some will sell their dreams for small desires, or lose the race to rats, caught in ticking traps....."
A band full of integrity that writes about the need for it everywhere. 👣
Can I steal that!?! Awesome
@@jujugar9442 absolutely!
I wouldn't argue with anyone who says that 'Moving Pictures' is their favourite Rush album, but for me Permanent Waves just tops it. Mainly because of the production. I think this was Rush's best sound - guitar, bass and drums sound so raw & still as fresh as when it was released in January 1980.
I love how, at the end of the story, and Neil circles back to the beginning, the chaos of the music mirrors the chaos of the approaching tide as it washes over the tide pools, and begins the epic cycle anew. It suggests that in spite of our technology and our significant impacts on planet Earth, in the big picture relative to the extensive life of our planet and the universe we are but a blip, a nanosecond.
This song defined this album... I don't care if you like it or not at this point...
"Wheels within wheels in a spiral array - a pattern so grand and complex. Time after time we lose sight of the way; our causes can't see their effects." More brilliance from Neil Peart set to music!
The whole album is a lesson for life 😊
Neil is my #1 dinner guest, in the who would you wanna have dinner and chat with (dead or alive). And, as long as I could restrain my fangirldom, I think he would enjoy the conversation. 😮 I am no musician, but I have even watched his drum lesson videos. They were actually super entertaining and helped me understand how the drummer writing the lyrics actually worked. I couldn’t understand how Neil writing the lyrics and Geddy and Alex writing the music could end up with such cohesive, intricate music. It’s mind blowing to me.
That is definitely something i am interested in as well. Just how all the elements come together.
The album - Permanent Waves. The first song on the album - Spirit of Radio. Radio waves go on forever or are permanent. The last song on the album - Natural Science. The song ends with the sound of waves crashing on the shoreline. As long as there is an ocean and moon, waves, like change, will be permanent.
From the album Permanent Waves and it starts and ends with the sound of waves
If you think about it, the album opens to the sound of radio waves and ends with ocean waves....
Think about how timeless RUSH music is. This was written and recorded in 1979. STILL extremely relevant today.
They were geniuses. Neil Peart is one of the greatest lyricists that ever lived.
You should watch some of his interviews. They’re all over RUclips.
RUSH The greatest rock band that ever was or ever will be.
Nice job.
You get it!
Thanks! Appreciate it. Incredible song.
This might be their BEST song from their BEST album! I don't think you are overthinking it, your insights are very interesting! This is a song that you wish would never end! Up next, "Red Barchetta", from the MOVING PICTURES album!☮
Amazing song. Looking forward to many more!
A lot of people don't care much for honesty ... Lovely reaction to a spectacular song
Very true. Amazing song. Thanks for watching! And have a wonderful day.
35 years on, I am still learning new interpretations and meanings in these lyrics. From a tidal pool, to human societies all the way up to the infinite cycle of the Big Bang’ universal expansion and ultimate contraction. Mind blowing. You do need the waves at the end of the song (permanent waves) to reflect on the masterpiece you just listened to. Thanks.
Incredible band and what an amazing song. Really enjoying this journey and learned so much already.
Jimmy Page Of Led Zeppelin cited Rush as one of his favorite new bands of 1976 after he heard 2112. In early 1980, Permanent Waves was released. It was an Anomaly unto itself. Unchecked an Unleashed upon the world... Their finest hour.
Rush has always been so much more than the sum of its parts. When Geddy and Alex took Neil to the band, it was match made in another galaxy ❤
I’m SO GLAD that I found your channel. I’ve never watched someone so intelligent and well-read “react” to Rush. I so thoroughly enjoy watching your content and listening to your analyses. It’s like no other on RUclips. I’m 💯 with you in the choice of “who would you like to sit down and have a conversation with…living or dead”. Neil Peart would be my choice, hands down. I would’ve LOVED to pick his HUGE brain. What a master lyricist, and SO philosophical. And he wasn’t so bad on the drums either.🤯What a mind-blowing trio these guys were. Rush on brother. We’re all loving it. ✌️
Thanks so much for the kind and encouraging words. Your comment made my day!
It's incredible he was that great of a writer and drummer. Mindblowing 🤯 An extraordinary human being.
There’s about fifty RUSH songs the leaders and Big Money needs to hear!!! Closer to the Heart to start I could go on and on but supper is getting cold 😁
So glad I saw this! It's rare to find someone who listens to and analyses Rush lyrics during a reaction. Most reactors get lost in the music, understandably so.
My brothers and I discovered Rush with their 1977 album, A Farewell to Kings (amazing album!). I was 13. Three years later, I introduced my brand new boyfriend to Rush. He loved them too, so I decided to keep him, and we're still going strong. 😊
We've been life-long fans and have seen Rush many times: no opening band, just 3 guys killing it for almost THREE hours. Every time. Incredible musicians and a world-class lyricist.
When Neal Peart (pronounced like the fruit) passed away, we had a Rush Party like we used to have in the past, playing their music non-stop, nice and loud. We toasted Neal with 15-year Macallan scotch (only the best for Neal). Oh, and we might have cried a little (or a lot 😭) between the reminiscing, the most excellent music, and the understanding that this was the end of an era.
Thanks so much for sharing part of your story and experience. Its beautiful you have been together so long and both fans of Rush.
I can definitely understand it hurt a lot when Neil passed away. An amazing artist and human being from everything i have heard and read. And Rush is an epic band!
@@SaeedReacts. ❤️ thanks for reading it.
The combination of lyrics, music, and paying on this song represents top tier Rush for me. Incredible and it still hits hard every time.
Luv your Rush reactions.
Rush is Timeless. RIP Neil Peart 🙏
God, I love watching the creation of a new Rush fan!
Been enjoying this journey so much!
My favorite Rush track (along with Cygnus X-1). This piece really shows what Rush was all about, in my opinion. Smart, progressive, rockin'.. chef's kiss
I have a feeling that you and Neil would have gotten along famously.
Would have been amazing to have chat with him. I was born in the wrong decade!
Yeah the lyrics in this song really hit the analytic thinker. Neil hits hard and also drums his ass off.
What a guy! Master lyricist and drummer 🤯
My favorite line is "Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea"
Great line!
React to RUSH'S song - Ghost of a Chance. 😮
Will add it to the list. Thanks.
I love how much you are loving this song!!! One of the greatest songs ever written!!!
Amazing song!
Another great song. FYI: The seagull sounds present in the intro, are not in the outro. No one notices/mentions the missing birds.
That's interesting. I never noticed that before.
Oooh! Great observation !
The most endangered species, the honest man! Neil wrote these lyrics in the late 70's! So true today! RIP to the brilliant Neil Peart. Sorely missed 😢
Timeless music! What an incredible line.
This has always been a favorite for me when it’s done live! Great reaction.
Definitely want to see a live version too. Thanks for watching.
My absolute favorite RUSH song.
Such a good song!
Beyond awesome 😎 aren’t they 😂💜💕💗❤️
So good! Epic band.
My favorite RUSH album is 1974-1985
Lol
"Science, like nature, must also be tamed
With a view towards its preservation
Given the same state of integrity
It will surely serve us well"
I watched a little speech a little while ago from Nayib Bukele, re-elected president of El Salvador. The theme was medicine and science. He used the specific language of returning to doing science and medical research within a "moral framework" that used to characterize scientific developments and discoveries centuries ago. He explicitly called out the modern tendency for dogma and vested interests to dictate the funding, operating, and results of what we now call science. It was powerful. The country is putting energy into projects to (a) place emphasis on validating the truthfulness and utility of research, (b) protect the general welfare of the people before all things when it comes to the deliverables from tech, science and health care.
NOT a Utopia, just proof of work, in action.
Very fascinating man. Just watched a few of his interviews as well.
If you like Natural Science you will probably like Jacobs Ladder from the same album, along with Freewill, The Spirit Of Radio, and Entre Nous among others, Permanent Waves is easily one of their best albums. 😊
Definitely will check those out!
There is one thing you must understand when Rush creates their music. Neil creates the lyrics while Alex and Geddy create the music that goes perfectly with the subject. You`ve witness such creation when you reacted to Witch Hunt, 2112, Cygnus X1 books 1 and 2, etc. I suggest your reacting to Jacobs Latter, Red Barchetta, Vital Signs, and so on. It`s simply magical what these three dudes could do.
Its mindblowing. Definitely looking forward to more of their music.
Freewill, Exit Stage Left - more thought-provoking lyrics off Permanent Waves, and another crazy-good solo from Alex. Cheers from Toronto!
🎤 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎸 🐐 🐐 🐐
Looking forward to many more of these types of songs.
Loving your Rush journey Saeed. My favourite of all the albums this one. This song epitomises the greatness of Rush.
Thanks so much for joining me on this journey! Definitely will check out more of this album.
🎵💎👍 Takes me back to the summer after highschool!!😎
There is nothing more exciting to Rush fans than watching someone become a Rush fan! We don't care about the pauses. It gives us a chance to see or hear something in the song in a new light.
I have been enjoying this journey so much! Thanks so much for joining me!
Quintessential-Rush! This song represents what they were, are, and always have been about. Musically, lyrically, stylistically ALL OF IT!🤘🖖✌️🎸🥁🎤🎹🥇🇨🇦🎼
Amazing song.
ONE OF THEEEE BEST GUITAR SOLOS OF ALL TIMES, OF ALL PLAYERS ON EARTH. PERIOD.
You must listen to “Jacobs Ladder” from the same album but my suggestion is watching Jacobs Ladder live on the R40 tour.
It’s amazing to watch them play it live almost 40 years from when they wrote it.
Jacobs Ladder R40 live. It on RUclips.
RUSH FOREVER.
I wish you could have experienced seeing them live.
"Most endangered species the honest man" that line got you dude! You are getting it, keep it up!
Incredible line! That one will stick with me.
"No, no, no, no..." Yes. There is a reason this one of my top five Rush songs.
Amazing song. Love it.
My favorite song off a phenomenal album. There are so many reasons this song is awesome and you hit on a lot of them. I was a HUGE Rush fan in my high school and college years (30+ years ago), then kind of lost interest in music for a while, even them. Rediscovering them in my 50s through reactors like yourself. Keep it up! 🎉 (sooooooo many great songs to choose from, but do A Farewell to Kings, very very relevant to today!)
Such a great song. Definitely will re listen to this one a few more times to catch more of the nuances.
The music, with its triumphant crescendo, completes the text giving this continuous sensation of evolving, changing at every chord progression, always adding something new, giving a sense of growth as in a Fibonacci sequence: wheel within wheels, time after time, a quantum leap forward, wave after wave, tide after tide. The use of all these "epanalepsis" amplifies the lyrics emotionally... and the song ends with the sound of the sea as it began (will flow and recede leaving life to go on as it was). "Art as expression - Not as market campaigns" takes up the Spirit of Radio (the beginning and end of the album merged togheter).
you are the best RUclipsr when it comes to rush. because of your explanations and intelligence you really do understand what this band is all about. a lot of people don't have a clue. incredible reaction. AGAIN!!
Wow! That is a humbling statement. Thanks so much! Looking forward to more of their music.
You're exactly right the song musically evolves to track the lyrical themes: looking at the grand sweep of evolution from simplicity to complexity, from a pure oblivious state to a chaotic world and inflated sense of self. And where human reason and creativity, and morals, emerge and struggle along that whole trajectory.
This is the closest musical equivalent to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Beautifully said! And wow, that is a great comparison. Musical equivalent of 2001.
You aren't going crazy, Rush really is this good.
Incredible music! What a journey so far its been.
Another gem off this album is Freewill. Your interpretation on the lyrics and music is genuine. Keep these coming.
Looking forward to that song! Thanks so much for watching!
Incredible song Incredible band
Oh yeah, all those computer sounds under the main music, were replaced with R2D2 sounds when they played it on their last tour R40 in 2015.😳😎🤯and the line about “our causes can’t see their effects” that’s a history lesson for all of time.👍👌💯
Thats awesome!
Do many great lines in their music. Its incredible.
Might have been already said, but fun fact on this song: The first verse vocals (and perhaps acoustic guitar, not sure) were recorded outdoors with the natural reverb of the Quebec countryside echoing back.
No need to apologize for the pauses. Yes, you lose a bit from not hearing it as a whole for the first time, but the breaks are well-placed and your input is cogent, insightful and entertaining!
Thanks so much for this comment. Much appreciated 🙏🏽❤️
_"In their own image, their world is fashioned.... no wonder they don't understand!"_ That could apply to all of human history, right there.
100%. Incredible line
You must see them perform this live! Snakes and Arrows tour 2008.
Definitely want to hear this one live too. Must be insane!
Neil was an incredibly insightful individual an incredible lyricist, and amongtst the greatest drummers ever.! A genius.
Great reaction. Pretty much nailed it on the first listen.
More Rush Please!
Thanks so much! Definitely checking out more.
That song is an absolute masterpiece
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I know every 3rd time I talk to you the list gets longer but the band Queensryche is considered one of the big three of early progressive metal and their album Operation Mindcrime is a rock opera ( one big long story) with a Manchurian Candidate vibe… one of the best albums ever made … also all great musicians with a singer who has 5 octave range…
A reaction to Silent Lucidity is coming today 😃
Also recorded a reaction to Pull me Under from Dream Theater but its currently blocked. Should be released in the next few days 😃
Can’t wait to hear you thoughts!!!
In my humble opinion one of the best songs ever by the best band ever.
Epic song!
TX for introducing me to this. Greetings from South Africa
Thanks so much for watching! Always great to discover new things together. Really been enjoying the music of Rush. Incredible storytelling. Greetings from Belgium.
Saeed, Natural Science will always be my favorite song Rush did Live. I saw Rush 5 times. The first time I heard this song Live. I was literally put in a trans like state. Please do a Live version. R30 tour 2004 or Test for Echo tour 1997. Mind blowing. Other songs I love are Grand Design and Territories on the Power Windows album from 1985.
Its an amazing song. Definitely want to see how they do this one live.
Great reaction of a great band! Nice to see you get it and feel it as we do. That deserves a sub, I’d say! Cheers from🇨🇦
Epic band! Thanks so much for subscribing! Greetings from Belgium.
Now do the live version to see that these guys can really play live
You should check out the documentary Beyond the lighted stage it will give you a great insight into the band and I think you will really enjoy it
Will see if i can find it.
If only we as humans would listen and enjoy the earth we only have one money will never replace it
First album I bought when I was 10 years old. Still my favourite 40 odd years later. Great reaction again, thank you. I subscribed to you recently so I could catch more of your Rush reactions. Keep em coming friend. Love your insights and appreciation of their art. Art as expression! 😁
Always remember the first 😃. And what an album to be a first! Thanks so much for subscribing!
A friend gave me this album when it was new and the first 3 songs were literally the 3 best songs I’d ever heard.. RUSH fan born that day
Thats the gift that keeps on giving!
love your reaction to RUSH.. love your breakdowns of the lyrics.. keep pausing all you want.
Thanks so much! Appreciate it!
Well said. I'd keep the people in it. They're most of the most beautiful things on the planet to preserve as well.
God bless, brother.
I would definitely keep the people, because you are right, they are beautiful. Its more of a thought exercise how life would be if humans werent here. Take care, my friend!
RIP Neil🤘🎸
The Permanent Waves tour was my first concert when I was 15 with 38 Special opening, such a good show
Awesome! Memories to cherish!
Fountain Of Lamneth.. lyric version with pictures by David Molnar.. next please..
Thanks for the recommendation! And the advice about the lyric video.
That was really enjoyable watching your understanding of the song evolve. So much more RUSH out there for you to dive into.
Epic song! Its been a great journey so far. Looking forward to more Rush
Check out the live version from 1997. Crazy good!
What you said is true. You should hear Something for Nothing!!! From Moving Pictures. Well;all of that album is great 😊 😅❤
Will add it to my list. Thanks
I love your reactions and yes, RUSH actually had message in their songs and even their songs about relationships and love were on point and maybe the best example of this is the song 'Counterparts' also one of the heviest songs they ever wrote. And these guys knew the history like in oner of their best known song 'Xanadu' where the Xanadu means same as paradise, but the lyrics are telling us the Mongolian ruler Kublai Khan who conquered almost all the far east and got in the borders of Europe where these battle hardened 'christian' knights defeated them as they had done centuries before when they took Jerusalem from the muslims by the knights of the European Churches like Knights of The Hospitallers and so on. But this is almost the same time line like in this song. This era if history came to an end when defending Konstantinopoli arab forces led by their new religion Islam eventually after a long siege and battles broke the defence and that was the end of the Knighthoods in Europe Kublai Khan reach the same territories. The point is that RUSH and definately Neil peart about the history of mankind among other things. Nice mix to be the best drummer ever and an philosophic too...
Thanks so much for taking the time to share this. Much appreciated.
The songs i listened to are all amazing.
Xanadu is epic!
Check the live version from the Molson Theatre, they will blow you away!
Definitely want to see a live version of this song.
Check out a live performance of this song. Even more epic live!
At 10:10. My favorite bass riff of all time.
Back in the day, critics used to tear Rush apart...what assholes!
That is crazy to me! Must have had some sort of an agenda.
Ain't Neil just wonderful?! I too wish I could have discovered Rush and especially Neil, a lot sooner in my life. But hey, better late than never. When asked who I'd like to meet, alive or deceased, the answer is always the same: Neil. Great song, great choice..ahhhh.....what a masterpiece. 🎵 Thank you! I live for Rush Reactions!
Just amazing! Incredible song and beautiful writing once again. Looking forward to more. Thanks for watching and have a wonderful day.
This is one of my favorite Rush songs, both lyrically and musically. If you ever want to check out a live version, my personal favorite is the one from the Molson Ampitheatre in 1997. (There is a live version from later in their career, too, but they slow down the tempo for that performance). I like the faster tempo in the 1997 performance, and Geddy's vocal at the beginning is especially good.
Definitely want to hear a live version of this. Just to see how they do it. Amazing! Thanks for the recommendation.
I do enjoy your RUSH reactions!!!
Thanks so much!
Another fun to watch reaction, Saeed. I've been unpacking this song for decades finding new meaning and greater depths of understanding with each listen. I'd really like to see your reaction to the song, "Freewill" from the same album. Will you please add it to your list? Thank you!
That one is definitely on my list. The title alone is already making me excited to listen to it 😃. Thanks so much for watching.
I’ve had this on my “watch later“ list for a month or more. Great reaction, brother. New sub.
Thanks so much for watching and subscribing! Much appreciated!
@@SaeedReacts. Sir, you are very welcome.
most endangered species....the honest man!
What a line!
Now, you gotta react to the live version 1997 tour. Even better live. Very few bands can do that. The guitar in that show is mind blowing. I don't know what Álex added to his repertoire, but that guitar is The Loudest of all their versions of this ageless master piece...keep on rocking with Rush.
Definitely want to hear a live version of this song as well.
Ooooh, 🤗 just in time for dinner! ☺️🥰🐰