First Time Hearing Rush - The Spirit Of Radio (Reaction!)
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Keep in mind that all this was made by 3 guys! The change ups were meant to imitate changing stations on your radio dial. The song celebrates all that was good about free radio at the time, but also cautioned about "corporate" takeover of the music business. "One likes to believe in the freedom of music, but glittering prizes and endless compromises shatter the illusion of integrity" Neil Peart was a lyrical genius!
Well said! Nice synopsis!
You have lots of songs from Rush to check out. The musicality and the lyrics are on a different level. Pure art and craft from three friends that weren’t in it for fame..not many can say that.
Can't explain why I get misty eyed every time I hear them now.
One of the finest things to ever come out of Canada, "RUSH"
Makes up for Brian Adams
Rush was a pioneer of prog rock. Odd time signatures and copious tempo changes are staples of Rush. The genius of that trio is undeniable. It can’t be understood by everyone, but glad you recognized it, Shon
When he says "the words of the profits were written on the studio wall" is a direct reference to Simon and Garfunkel song the sounds of silence And the sign said, "The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence"
I LOVE this song!!!! Next up ....... Limelight and Subdivisons!!!
Greatest 3 piece rock band ever. Period.
Hard to believe but there are only three people actually playing and making this great great music also love when people that haven’t heard music like this hear it and enjoy it especially when there fairly young
Each of those 3 guys is a virtuoso in their own right. Whatever song they made, they always brought their best.
"Subdivisions" would be a good one to hear next. It's spoken to anyone who felt like an outsider, since it was released.
Have an amazing day.
Yes sir, no one transitions like Rush. They do it flawlessly! Prog. Rock at it finest.
Seeing young people like you groove to the music of my youth makes my day. Keep up the good work, young sir!
Neil Peart is/ was/ and always will be, the epitome of having the honor of being a GOAT!!!! RIP Neil
Rush fans are unique in their appreciation of empathy and meaning woven together with top shelf orchestration. Get a Rush t-shirt and wear it around. You're one of us. You'll get nods smiles and good words. It's about love, my friend.
Check out YYZ live at Rio. One of the greats among Rush’s many great live performances. 9:08 Promise you’ll be blown away.
Ditto
Rush is a great band, so glad you like them sir. Some more suggestions for great Rush tunes... 'Fly By Night', 'Distant Early Warning', 'Red Sector A', 'The Enemy Within', 'Time Stands Still' and 'Subdivisions'. Plenty more but this is a good start. Cheers.
One of Canada's Best! So many Great Songs you can't go wrong!
LOVES Me a Good Trio.
Rush is a Canadian Band, “Lyrically, the song is a lament on the change of FM radio from free-form to commercial formats during the late 1970s…The song's name was inspired by Toronto-based radio station CFNY-FM's slogan” -Wikipedia
In 1980, when this Song was Released Radio was How the majority of people listened to music and heard New Music, but they had to Wait for It to be Played. Radio also drove Record Sales more than anything else, at that time.
The Internet changed everything. The Music Industry as it was before the WWW, is Gone. History. It brought a new paradigm.
Saw rush during their ,roll the bones concert series, and this was their encore song super long edition I’ve never seen so many air drummers in my entire life😂❤🎉 myself included🎉
The really incredible thing about Rush is... if you watch a live video of any of their songs, they sound just like the studio versions with only 3 guys
I’m always astonished Shon, how you know the meaning of the song after the first time listening. I love your enthusiasm too. You’re gonna go far in life my friend.
Dude. It was the first heard that captured my attention 40 years ago. Life long fan!
Rush: masters of the smooth transition!
This is a whole playlist in a single song, which is exactly what they intended… Kind of like switching through radio stations on scan. RUSH is pure unfettered MUSICAL GENIUS.
In the old days, you had to wait for your favorite song to come on the radio. Or you purchased albums. Most people had to do both. So yeah; that song. I get that vibe of what it felt like when 'that song' would come on the radio.
Your interpretations of songs are so smart. One of the best out there. Thank you! You are so bright.
We all love… The radio… let’s face it. Since time began… the radio has touched all of us in some way… bad, good, indifferent, …. We all have a “radio moment “. Even more than TV… the radio touches our soul at one point. In our youth, middle age, old age. We wonder about the DJs. They become our friends. We act like we know them on a personal level. Which? In fact we do. Neil Peart nailed all those feelings in this masterpiece
A couple more Easter eggs from the video: the car that Neil is driving in the first verse is a Red Barchetta, referring to a song from their subsequent album Moving Pictures, for which I recommend the Exit Stage Left performance; the young woman holding the Rush album is Donna Halper, a Cleveland area music director who put Rush on the musical map when she put on their song Working Man and the mainly working class listeners instantly identified with the lyrics - they performed it there as part of their 2011 Time Machine Tour, a performance that is pure 🔥. Cheers from Toronto!
🎤 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎸 🔥 🔥 🔥
Hello from Cody...you're awesome keep it up, you're my favorite reactor 😊 3 people, such talent. This is when artists actually played instruments...no Auto tune fellas. RIP neil
I think I saw somewhere that the transitions were almost like changing stations on a push button radio or perhaps even turning the dial on an analog tuner.
I used to listen to this song every morning on the way to work because it always put me in a good mood.
These musical poets! Still moves me still, and I was there when it first came out!
Geddy: It was like, okay, we need to stay fresh and change the way we do things ... And we could have a song deliver more - in terms of climax - in a shorter period of time. We could still tell a story in a song, but without hitting you over the head with it. And in terms of overall concept, we could also make the threads that connect each song a little more subtle. We were looking for more diversity ... Music was changing, and radio was changing. Our access to great music - the way we were getting it on FM radio, for example - was dying and becoming more commercialised. The Spirit Of Radio carries that feeling, and I think that people related to that song because of the way the music industry was going. It wasn’t about love and getting laid, the typical rock stuff. So it was fresh. And there’s a very positive sound to that song as well. There’s a life to it.
Alex: We still had a couple of long things for Permanent Waves. There was Natural Science, a very ambitious song, and Jacob’s Ladder. But we also had The Spirit Of Radio, Freewill and Entre Nous - shorter, punchier songs ... We felt that we’d really achieved something with that record. The songs were shorter, but still challenging for us as musicians ... The big thing about Permanent Waves was that the band changed - we moved forward. In that sense, it was really a big record for us.
Neil: The song itself, musically, is switching between radio stations, with a reggae section at the end, the second verse is new waves ... It’s about nineteen-eighty that I really start to like our music like a fan. Before that there’s stuff I like in an affectionate way, because we were brave, but as far as achievement I really think we started to bring it together a bit with Permanent Waves… - Louder Classic Rock
The whole 2112 album is fire!🎛🥁🎹🎸🎙🎶🔥
Fly by night will blow your mind
"Red Barchetta" and The Tree's are my fav. 1st concert I ever saw when I was 16 , that was 40 years ago.
Glad you loved this. Brings back memories.
Rush has a LOT of incredible songs, but Spirit of Radio is still my favorite.
My opinion has been that this one song better represents them more than any other they've done. It encompasses all the traits they show in their music. It's energetic, tight, complex time signatures, driving rhythms, great musicianship, switch-ups, thoughtful lyrics, and it's quirky. It's everything great about them condensed into one radio-friendly song.
Yes, this song is a masterpiece! It is the song that first made me a fan of Rush way back in the day. These guys are such talented musicians and songwriters and their lyrics are always meaningful. I don't think you have reviewed it yet, so I would recommend "Closer to the Heart" by Rush. "Free Will" is another classic of theirs that has a lot of change-ups during the course of its 4 minutes. If you want to check out something different that I think is really dope, check out "Superman is Dead" by Our Lady Peace. I think you would also get a kick out of "Institutionalized" by Suicidal Tendencies. It's not as harsh as you might assume from the name of the song and group, and the video is really good. Keep reviewing my brother!!!
"The Garden" Live on the 2012 or 2015 tour is fantastic!!!
Bro, imagine a time when only a transistor radio had that window to Music for young people. Our parents had record players but it was their stuff. Like Sinatra. But Rock n Roll or Motown was only on the radio. 1 station everyone listened to in Dc Suburbs. WPGC .No 8tracks or cassettes back then. It was magic to turn it on 1st thing and start draing batteries and moving around to get a good signal. The radio. So cool back then. It meant everything.
that little switch is very raggae in a very rock song. its beauty.
This is the song that got me hooked on Rush, 43 years ago!!! Still love the tune. More Rush bro! The Rush Army will support you!
Another three man band from Canada...Triumph and the song similar to this is "Magic Power"!!
first time i can ever remember hearing this was in the early 90s driving around at 17 in my old '81 buick skyhawk.
i still get that same feeling every time i hear it.
Hi Shon, Glad that Rush are doin it for you. The live version IN Canada 2002 or there abouts is one to look at for sound quality live performance. Cheers again bud.
We always find our way back to radio
Rush had some killer hits
A great great song! Rush has so many masterpieces. I’d suggest fly by night! I’d also love to see you react to some Van Halen!
2112- A passage to Bangkok- it’ll make your day- bet. 🎥❤️great reaction, go down this rabbit hole… Rush fans will light the way⚡️
Rush is so underrated. next from them limelight
Props to the roommate that can sleep through anything! ~( ^.^.
GREAT enthusiasm!!! You GET them! Fantastic reaction!
That's the way I felt back in 1982. This song was released earlier but I didn't hear it until a couple of years after the fact. I heard Stairway to Heaven in 1980. Needless to say, I'm a Rush, Led Zeppelin fan. But, I started on the Beatles..
Great song, and is a really good start to the day
Rush is timeless 🎸
Pumped up with excitement!📻🎶the Spirit does that🤘🏼🎶. And I knew that reggae breakdown was gonna blow your mind🤯. How 'bout a full view of you dancin' and gettin' down to this number?😎cool af
R I P Professor🥁🕯
"For the words of the prophets were written on the studio walls..concert halls."
Great reaction Shon, lucky You, hearing this for the first time..coming from someone that bought "Permanent Waves": the album this song came out
on, in the form of an 8 track tape, circa 1979... Rock On Friend.
8:10 you can hear that high pitch piano under the gutars. Always thought that was so cool...
Awesome reaction bro!!!!!!!! Rush was ahead of their time. Amazing
Shon excellent review- it is a supreme classic and it gets better with time! Another one of Equal force, on the same album, is Free Will. Drums galore and deep deep lyrics - really. Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World!!
One of their best certainly, but much greatness awaits from 40+ years of mastery, and one of music’s must rabid fan bases as well! When you get it, you get it. Cheers and Rush on!
Best...hands down, Rush.
If it hasn't been said already, allow me to announce you an honourary Canadian. You got it, you got it bang on, the only thing you didn't say out loud but I know you were thinking it was, "It's like changing the channel on the radio with the switch-ups". Feeling Rush like that, my friend, you're Canadian, haha!
You hit it spot on bruv
Great reaction!!! One of the top songs for me ever!
Youre 20 y/o right Shon? If so youre well on your way to being a member of a younger generation with an awesome taste in music. Im now subbed to this channel and your gaming channel. Big props my guy!
I agree with you 💯!!!! Shon is well spoken, funny, intelligent, spot on with relating to the words and music!!!
@@kathyohlson188 He says bro a bit too much for my taste but I'm older so those kind of words annoy me xD regardless it's nice to see a younger generation getting into classic music and video games. Shon is definitely a cool cat :)
This is their best song. Zero flaws.
#2 Freewill 1981
#3 YYZ RIO
#4 Leave that thing alone Rio
# 5 2112 Rio
#6 Bytor 1981
Rush rabbit hole. Just got down it. Your won’t be disappointed
Subdivisions is also a cool song. Yes - Roundabout is also from that era, early prog.
Please review YYZ live in RIO and Working Man live in Cleveland.
Fantastic.
3 guys from Toronto Canada that's been playing together since 1970's. Best band ever.Timeless
Also, FM transmission was still a relatively new and great sounding platform after decades of only AM transmission.
These guys opened many of their shows with this song, all the way to the end of the road. I saw them only once, on one of their last tours, and the whole show was a super life-affirming experience. The rapport they had with their fans was remarkable, you could really feel the love in the room.
Have all their albums.brilliant.made up with ur reaction.
The hand movement represents the endless yacking on the radio............the transition at the end is meant to be a radio changing to another station.
Kind of a unique Rush song to check out it “Time Stand Still” that’s one of the few times i think they ever teamed up with someone else. Aimee Manns voice really added something to the tone. The only other team up i can think of is “Take off to the Great White North” with Bob and Doug McKenzie
I've been a Rush fan since the release of Fly by Night (dates me!) Now I'd love to see you do a reaction to someone who Alex Lifeson greatly admired-both as a musician and as a man, the legendary Rory Gallagher. Rory was a multi-instrumentalist but was best known for his blues rock guitar skills rivaling Clapton and Page. Since you're checking our albums, try taking a listen to "Fuel to the Fire" from his album Photo Finish for a sample of his work. Thanks!
Neil wrote this song as a tribute to all that was great about radio when he was young, but also how the producers & salesman tried to get them to write just short, $$$ making songs for radio only. They obviously did a few, but went their own way. BTW, this video was done as a tribute to Neil after he passed. As always, RIP to the "The Professor".
subscribed, love your energy and positivity, open mind, i need more ppl like that in my life, good job bro
Every Rush fan knows the Joy you get from these 3 guys. It's soul candy!
"Working Man" is their greatest
i love this buddy. i love you. i love your reaction. keep your love for different music and you can enrich your spirit, enrich your heart and soul. Every song has something else to offer, not just what you might see or hear. Cheers mate.
Great reaction and commentary!! This song is amazing, as is, the whole album...it's fire. Freewill, Jacob's Ladder, Different Strings, and Natural Science. Check these out...see what you think.
Love the video and song❤
Watch YYZ live in Rio for a real musical treat. You won't believe your own eyes.
Just the tip of the RUSHberg.
glad to see you caught the Easter eggs spread through out the Video
Canadian genius ❤️
You're talking about new modern music, remember this song came out 43 years ago, I was in 10th grade 😂
Amazing indeed
That was a great reaction!!!
Rush is 🇨🇦🔥
rush= metal gods, please xanadu live stage (the number 1 song in the metal ever)
If you liked the guitar solo on. Best it listen to "jump" from van halen
You should really check out the live version of this song done at the SARS concert in Toronto in front of 500,000. people!
Great vid shon
Use a pair of great headphones. It will make a huge difference. You'll hear EVERYTHING!
We'll see you 'round, bro. 🍁🎸🇨🇦🔥🤯🐿️
You need to check out another Band that is similiar to Rush…check out Boston “Foreplay/Longtime” and get ready to be transported to another dimension of progressive/classic rock !! Keep up the great work man !!
You haven't even scratched the surface of Rush yet.
You get it 👍