Personal story with this one; I was in New York City in 2011, tabling at the MoCCA Festival. Total wash. Walked away with $70 in revenue. But I had Rush prints I'd made, and someone who happened by said Rush was playing at Madison Square that night and they had an extra ticket. They asked if I wanted to go. I think I said "Yes" before they got the full question out. Rush was on the Time Machine Tour, meaning they were going to play Moving Pictures front-to-back, including this song (for the first time since 1983). When Geddy started singing about New York, the rear projectors brought up footage of Grand Central Station and the crowd cheered. I thought "I'm seeing this song in the one place it was made to be played, and I got in for free."
Thanks for sharing your memory with us. Pure GOLD! P. S. I love the fact that you have Patrick Troughton as your page picture! Early Dr. Who up until Tom Baker is awesome!
Great choice of song. I have always said that "Camera Eye" is Rush's most technically brilliant piece of music. Every note, every nuance is perfectly placed and perfectly played.
One if the most underrated guitar solos ever. I always found it haunting yet beautiful. Geddy's bass work on this song and the albums Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves and Signals is just brilliant. Rush could do no wrong during the period.
Funny enough, this was just one of Alex’s toughest solos to compose. They were recording at Le Studio and he wasn’t able to come up with something he was happy with. So he decided to go outside and gaze at the moon for inspiration Just as he looked up, a big cloud rolled by and covered up the moon, so he had to go back inside and just work the solo. He called it the most difficult he had ever written.
@@joconnell8145 That doesn't change the fact that "Witch Hunt" is 39 years old and has never been timelier. We don't have to get more specific than that.
Your reactions to Rush are some of the best I've seen. A lot of people don't "get" Rush... the details, the imagery, the depth. YOU, my friend, seem to "get" it. Enjoy your RUSH journey. There's a lot of music left to go!
Countdown, The Weapon, The Body Electric, Head Long Flight and many many many more!!!! I spent hours trying to learn Neil's parts... He was a monster!!!! Rip Brother.
This is and always will be my favorite Rush song. It presents everything that is Rush and is in my opinion, if forced to choose, the one song that tells you everything you need to know about Rush.
On a side note. I've been watching you for a while now. It was this reaction that made me subscribe. You actually understand the genius that is... Rush.
Very happy you’ve come across this song. I’m old enough to remember when Moving Pictures was new. It was my “gateway drug” to Rush. The entire album was a brilliant revelation but I played “The Camera Eye” over, and over, and over... Thank you for taking me back and I’m very happy you’ve discovered an album (and a band) I have loved for decades. Peace.
Watching you react to these songs makes me feel exactly the way I did when I first heard these tunes almost 20 years ago... Rush truly is one of the best bands ever, not just rock bands... ALL BANDS ALL MUSIC! Unbelievable musicianship and in tegrity
Well done getting into RUSH. You will discover they strayed away from being mainstream and stayed as they were. My favourite band since I was 13 , I am now 53. They are quite unique in their music and friendship. Enjoy the rest of the Albums. We all have different favourites. SIGNALS is mine as its a heavy Synth LP But all of us have our personal faves. The Camera eye is a work of art.
I was 12 years old when got into Rush & im 54 now lol. We share a lifetime of listening to these three musical gods! I remember, when i was 16 years old, i hitch hiked 200 miles to see them live in London.. Well worth it, before the 200 miles hitch hike back home lol. Was the Signals tour. Rush are & always will be .. Legendary!
Just the structure of Alex's last solo in this song and how he approaches it winds it out and then exits out of it is just stunning to me. One of the best solos ever written on a guitar in my opinion. He is just an effing phenomenal guitarist in his writing and composition
Out of their entire library of music..this is my favorite Rush song...Musically a masterpiece and I think Geddy's signature song. The flow of this tune is awesome. The main riff just drives the song and all three are at the pinnacle of their game on this one.
Kudos for checking out this classic track by Rush (one of my faves from Moving Pictures). You're the first person I've seen to-date to check out this particular progressive rock gem! Keep up the good work/keep on exploring! LL
Check out sometime their last album Clockwork Angels. It's a concept album based on a novel with the same name that Neil Peart wrote. The only time they used backup musicians (string septet) other than when Aimee Mann (Til Tuesday) sang backup on Time Stands Still.
as a Rush fan for going on forty years, I always tell people that I could not pick a favorite Rush album. But being that Moving Pictures was my introduction to this band, I can say that it may be my favorite album on the the strenght of the Camera Eye alone.... every time I hear it blows my mind like no other Rush song. Don't get me wrong lots of Rush songs blow my mind, thats why I'm forty years in.....
My favourite Rush song ever. When I finally got to hear it live on the MP 30th anniversary tour, I stood there grinning and crying like a baby. Sweet memories. . . flashing very quickly by.
One of their most epic tunes for sure, glad to see this one happening!! Those are actually police whistles, but not knowing the context of the song would make it easy to confuse...this tune is about the 2 cities, New York and London. VERY trippy and cool background video you got goin' on there!! YES!!! You nailed it about the title!! If you listen carefully, in part II after the line "A quality of light unique to every city's streets" there is a pause between lines and you can faintly hear a "arrup....good one Tom" in the background. GREAT reaction, you really nailed this one down. Thanks!! Another great song is the last track called Vital Signs, give it a listen!
You should check out the song finding my way by rush. It’s the first song off their first album. For their first album they had a different drummer named John Rutsey who left the band after their debut album due to an illness stemming from diabetes, he sadly passed in 2008.
Yeah, man... This song is a gem. EVERY song on Moving Pictures is. Love your stuff, man... It's like we're hanging out, chillin' with great tunes. Keep on keepin on Jay Rah! 😁
Thanks for this. Rush moved away from writing lots of longer songs once the 80s came around, but when they did write one, they were like this. "Camera Eye" has a nice flow to it. They were not trying to cram a ton of technicality into it.
Now check out the Nobody's Hero song of them. A piece of work from another different era in terms of style and musical approach, and again - with a good message in it.
Such an awesome track. Funny story: my vinyl copy of Moving Pictures developed a legendary scratch on this track. Skipped perfectly making the text THE FOCUS IS SHARP IN THE CITY into THE FOCUS IS SHITTY. Always cracked me and my friends up.
Bravo my man. You have passed the Rush standard songs like Tom Sawyer, YYZ, Spirit of Radio, Limelight, Freewill, 2112, Subdivisions, the drum solo... You are in Rush next level territory now. Time for Cygnus X1 Book 1, and then Cygnus X1 Book 2 (which is the full A side of the Hemispheres album). But...Oh man, we will have so much more for you to enjoy. Dont forget, they have 19 studio albums ;)) Always great to see u doing the do.
Last song Rush composed lasting more than 10 minutes but could be 2 minutes it's so seamless you just want more. Neil lived in London for 18 months or so before he joined Rush in the very early 70's possibly even 1969.
I used to trick my local radio station in to playing this (via call-in request) to see if they’d let it go the entire run-time. Daytime....nope (fade out about halfway). Night? 100% success.
Good to see another young person discovering Rush. Keep up the great work and enjoy the lads from Toronto. I've always said there's Rush and bands that wish they WERE Rush!!
One of my fave songs of al time...I cant help but feel or compare this to LA Woman by The Doors the way they start and build and finish... just structurally
My favorite song off of The Moving Pictures album.. also check out WitchHunt off the same album , it describes the world today and written 40 years ago..
im 56, i travel..i just walk around cities. ..thats what i do.. from russia to honolulu...i listen to RUSH , as i do this. ive been everywhere....followed rush on tour for 8 months...
The entire "Moving Pictures" album is top-shelf no dust. Neil Juxtaposed New York City and London here. Great song but was rarely playing in concerts. I'm running out of superlatives to give this band.
![Kodak Black - Catch Fire [Official Music Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/A4ch-olIuZo/mqdefault.jpg)
![YoungBoy Never Broke Again - Sneaking [Official Video]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1ILUps2zDFU/mqdefault.jpg)
Personal story with this one; I was in New York City in 2011, tabling at the MoCCA Festival. Total wash. Walked away with $70 in revenue. But I had Rush prints I'd made, and someone who happened by said Rush was playing at Madison Square that night and they had an extra ticket. They asked if I wanted to go. I think I said "Yes" before they got the full question out.
Rush was on the Time Machine Tour, meaning they were going to play Moving Pictures front-to-back, including this song (for the first time since 1983). When Geddy started singing about New York, the rear projectors brought up footage of Grand Central Station and the crowd cheered. I thought "I'm seeing this song in the one place it was made to be played, and I got in for free."
That's a pretty neat story, sir!
Thanks for sharing your memory with us.
Pure GOLD!
P. S.
I love the fact that you have Patrick Troughton as your page picture!
Early Dr. Who up until Tom Baker is awesome!
Great choice of song. I have always said that "Camera Eye" is Rush's most technically brilliant piece of music. Every note, every nuance is perfectly placed and perfectly played.
It is in my opinion the perfect song that epitomizes Rush.
@D M It's the first song on my "Chill Pills" playlist. The whole vibe is just soothing to me.
Well said. It is a masterpiece. Proof that Alex is the real riff master and soloist. Just brilliant.
Such an underrated song, I know they have so many classics but this one and new world man don't get much love.
"Camera Eye is most technically brilliant piece of music.".... No Way!! "Marathon" is Bar None...
One if the most underrated guitar solos ever. I always found it haunting yet beautiful. Geddy's bass work on this song and the albums Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves and Signals is just brilliant. Rush could do no wrong during the period.
Funny enough, this was just one of Alex’s toughest solos to compose. They were recording at Le Studio and he wasn’t able to come up with something he was happy with. So he decided to go outside and gaze at the moon for inspiration
Just as he looked up, a big cloud rolled by and covered up the moon, so he had to go back inside and just work the solo. He called it the most difficult he had ever written.
Go right into "Witch hunt". Don't stop now.
lol
He's gotta do Fear for that.
ESPECIALLY TODAY ON ELECTION DAY.
@@joeday4293 This channel is about fun and music, let's keep the political nonsense elsewhere.
@@joconnell8145 That doesn't change the fact that "Witch Hunt" is 39 years old and has never been timelier. We don't have to get more specific than that.
The precision of these guys and the amount of music 3 people can produce still amazes me.
Your reactions to Rush are some of the best I've seen. A lot of people don't "get" Rush... the details, the imagery, the depth. YOU, my friend, seem to "get" it. Enjoy your RUSH journey. There's a lot of music left to go!
Always been one of my favorite Rush songs. I love everything about it.
Great comments and love the way you express your appreciation for the incredible genius of their work.
Countdown, The Weapon, The Body Electric, Head Long Flight and many many many more!!!! I spent hours trying to learn Neil's parts... He was a monster!!!! Rip Brother.
This is and always will be my favorite Rush song. It presents everything that is Rush and is in my opinion, if forced to choose, the one song that tells you everything you need to know about Rush.
On a side note.
I've been watching you for a while now.
It was this reaction that made me subscribe.
You actually understand the genius that is... Rush.
One of my all time favorites. This is an incredible song live. I hope you enjoyed it.
The whole Moving Pictures LP is GOLD!
just listen to that bass bobbing & weaving behind Alex's amazing guitar during that solo. Geddy certainly knows how to 'slap that bass'
"Slappa da bass" !! Yes we know that movie! Lol 👍
Epic song off of an epic album from an epic group!
Such a fantastic song. I love every Rush song.
Very happy you’ve come across this song. I’m old enough to remember when Moving Pictures was new. It was my “gateway drug” to Rush. The entire album was a brilliant revelation but I played “The Camera Eye” over, and over, and over... Thank you for taking me back and I’m very happy you’ve discovered an album (and a band) I have loved for decades. Peace.
An older song about a spring time carnival. LAKESIDE PARK You'll love it .The lyrics will bring you there. Its amazing
Listen to rush from beginning to end.. You will be transformed.. I promise you will be blown away.. Pleas I beg go deep. With rush
I totally agree, I've listened to everything they have composed for 40+ years.
When you still get the chills.... it was definitely done right!
I’m gonna keep saying it until we get it: CYGNUS X-1 BOOKS 1 AND 2 WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE. we need those next!
Absolute favorites!
This is the next logical step
@@jb8653 exactly
How many bands have Part 2 on the next album? Just my thought; Part 2 is early mankind and Part 1 is the ultimate demise of humanity.
In my opinion Book 2 is Rushes best song
Rush. Smoking. Fantastic musicians. Nice interpretation. I agree
You are a man of your word!
Thank you! RUSH is the shit!!!
Watching you react to these songs makes me feel exactly the way I did when I first heard these tunes almost 20 years ago... Rush truly is one of the best bands ever, not just rock bands... ALL BANDS ALL MUSIC! Unbelievable musicianship and in
tegrity
I love the atmospherics they create in this song, especially the raindrops falling off of Alex's guitar during "a soft spring rain."
This tune LIVE from time machine tour is MIND BLOWING
Well done getting into RUSH. You will discover they strayed away from being mainstream and stayed as they were. My favourite band since I was 13 , I am now 53. They are quite unique in their music and friendship. Enjoy the rest of the Albums. We all have different favourites. SIGNALS is mine as its a heavy Synth LP But all of us have our personal faves. The Camera eye is a work of art.
I was 12 years old when got into Rush & im 54 now lol. We share a lifetime of listening to these three musical gods! I remember, when i was 16 years old, i hitch hiked 200 miles to see them live in London.. Well worth it, before the 200 miles hitch hike back home lol. Was the Signals tour. Rush are & always will be .. Legendary!
All keen observations my friend. This is the song that in 1983 turned me from a peripheral fan of Rush, to a die-hard, life-long fanatic.
Just the structure of Alex's last solo in this song and how he approaches it winds it out and then exits out of it is just stunning to me. One of the best solos ever written on a guitar in my opinion. He is just an effing phenomenal guitarist in his writing and composition
Rush never fails to impress with their music.
Enjoying your RUSH journey!
Out of their entire library of music..this is my favorite Rush song...Musically a masterpiece and I think Geddy's signature song. The flow of this tune is awesome. The main riff just drives the song and all three are at the pinnacle of their game on this one.
Thanx for having the balls to cover this one. Kudos Dude
This and Hemispheres are my favorite Rush bass songs.
Kudos for checking out this classic track by Rush (one of my faves from Moving Pictures). You're the first person I've seen to-date to check out this particular progressive rock gem! Keep up the good work/keep on exploring! LL
This song will grow on you every time you listen to it... Every time. It's now my favorite on the album and that is saying ALOT.
This song is a gem and not many have reacted to it.... so glad you did !
It really does transport you there!
A true masterpiece from the 3 Canadian gods.
Excellent choice
Check out sometime their last album Clockwork Angels. It's a concept album based on a novel with the same name that Neil Peart wrote. The only time they used backup musicians (string septet) other than when Aimee Mann (Til Tuesday) sang backup on Time Stands Still.
For sure, man. I would go a step further and do The Garden, live, from said album. Their last song and what a send off
I love the way you interprete the songs, theyre lyrics are worth it, great work
as a Rush fan for going on forty years, I always tell people that I could not pick a favorite Rush album. But being that Moving Pictures was my introduction to this band, I can say that it may be my favorite album on the the strenght of the Camera Eye alone.... every time I hear it blows my mind like no other Rush song. Don't get me wrong lots of Rush songs blow my mind, thats why I'm forty years in.....
Check out Rush: Vital Signs.
No one ever reacts to that banger.
My friend any RUSH tune will bring ya outta a funk in a heartbeat!
And that is indeed a banger!
@@MkVIIIMaus you nailed it brother. Whenever I feel the weight of the world crushing down on me these guys pull me right the fuck out of it.
So would you say that he needs to deviate from the norm and make a reaction video to that?
My favourite Rush song ever. When I finally got to hear it live on the MP 30th anniversary tour, I stood there grinning and crying like a baby. Sweet memories. . . flashing very quickly by.
Always enjoy your reactions, I can tell you truly like the song, and you getting into understanding the song and it's lyrics is so 👍 true.....
One of their most epic tunes for sure, glad to see this one happening!! Those are actually police whistles, but not knowing the context of the song would make it easy to confuse...this tune is about the 2 cities, New York and London. VERY trippy and cool background video you got goin' on there!! YES!!! You nailed it about the title!! If you listen carefully, in part II after the line "A quality of light unique to every city's streets" there is a pause between lines and you can faintly hear a "arrup....good one Tom" in the background.
GREAT reaction, you really nailed this one down. Thanks!! Another great song is the last track called Vital Signs, give it a listen!
Great choice!!! The song cooks.
You should check out the song finding my way by rush. It’s the first song off their first album. For their first album they had a different drummer named John Rutsey who left the band after their debut album due to an illness stemming from diabetes, he sadly passed in 2008.
Yours are the most genuine reactions and insightful commentaries that it has been my delight to watch!
Yeah, man... This song is a gem. EVERY song on Moving Pictures is.
Love your stuff, man... It's like we're hanging out, chillin' with great tunes.
Keep on keepin on Jay Rah! 😁
Your reactions to Rush are always on point...thank you for loving them as much as we do!
rush-jacob's ladder
That is indeed why the song is title The Camera Eye, a snapshot of New York & London. 🎶🎸🥁🎸🎶🔥🙂
I love your Rush reactions. They are what brought me here a few months ago. You however is what has gotten me to stay.
Thanks for this. Rush moved away from writing lots of longer songs once the 80s came around, but when they did write one, they were like this. "Camera Eye" has a nice flow to it. They were not trying to cram a ton of technicality into it.
Natural Science is 9 minutes long and was on Permanent Waves, although it was written in the late 70s.
Genius!
Thanks for sharing your reactions. It is always great to see how music stirs emotions and thoughts in each of us. Have a great one.
Have to give it to you the way you break down the lyrics you are a smart guy. Agree, love Alex's solo on this, such an underrated guitarist!!
Really ties into Red Barchetta IMHO. Such a cool ass groove that's both powerful and delicate at once. Love me some 80's Rush
Masterpiece.
Probably my favorite song on this epic album; this or Red Barchetta!!
Great react, one of Rush's finest tracks. Watch them play it live. Unreal.
You rock! I enjoy your personal insight and the new green screen is killer!!
Spot on with the lyrics... I've always loved this underrated song. Great reaction... Visionary-Nation... O-U-T ! ! !
Now check out the Nobody's Hero song of them. A piece of work from another different era in terms of style and musical approach, and again - with a good message in it.
Bring tissues.
Such an awesome track. Funny story: my vinyl copy of Moving Pictures developed a legendary scratch on this track. Skipped perfectly making the text THE FOCUS IS SHARP IN THE CITY into THE FOCUS IS SHITTY. Always cracked me and my friends up.
What time signature is that, Professor?
"Yes."
That Alex solo!
"Witchhunt" please! It's an amazing song but even better the subject of the son is so relevant still to this day. ☮❤🙏🏻
😷One of their ‘BEST’ deep cuts ever. Imagery was the goal of the lyrics while the music evokes the feelings that the imagery conveys.🤘🖖✌️🎸🥁🎹🎤👌🥇🇨🇦🎼
Top class
Bravo my man. You have passed the Rush standard songs like Tom Sawyer, YYZ, Spirit of Radio, Limelight, Freewill, 2112, Subdivisions, the drum solo...
You are in Rush next level territory now.
Time for Cygnus X1 Book 1, and then Cygnus X1 Book 2 (which is the full A side of the Hemispheres album).
But...Oh man, we will have so much more for you to enjoy. Dont forget, they have 19 studio albums ;))
Always great to see u doing the do.
Last song Rush composed lasting more than 10 minutes but could be 2 minutes it's so seamless you just want more. Neil lived in London for 18 months or so before he joined Rush in the very early 70's possibly even 1969.
THE CAMERA EYE is truly a masterpiece.
I used to trick my local radio station in to playing this (via call-in request) to see if they’d let it go the entire run-time. Daytime....nope (fade out about halfway). Night? 100% success.
One of my top 5 rush tracks
Good to see another young person discovering Rush.
Keep up the great work and enjoy the lads from Toronto. I've always said there's Rush and bands that wish they WERE Rush!!
For some reason, this is just about my favorite song from Rush.
One of my fave songs of al time...I cant help but feel or compare this to LA Woman by The Doors the way they start and build and finish... just structurally
Rush's songs take your mind on an audio and visual like journey....
Neil lived in London for a spell before he joined RUSH!!!
Prog Rock at its finest
You’re only at the start of your Rush journey my friend.. Enjoy!!
My favorite song off of The Moving Pictures album.. also check out WitchHunt off the same album , it describes the world today and written 40 years ago..
im 56, i travel..i just walk around cities. ..thats what i do.. from russia to honolulu...i listen to RUSH , as i do this. ive been everywhere....followed rush on tour for 8 months...
@Jay Rah Visions
I ............. *TOLD* you man ....... and the bells at the end are the ones in Big Ben.
Big Ben is the great bell in the tower!
@@Paul-hl8yg
Fair enough but the whole tower is called Big Ben and is known as such by the general public.
great song :)
Man I knew you'd love this song, on my first listen back in the day, the song was like ear candy. Cheers, enjoyed the reaction.
Good choice! Not an obvious pick.
The bell sounds at the end are from Big Ben in London.
So many facets of this song are magnificent... great reaction and appreciation.
Beautiful breakdown of the music and lyrics.
The whole album is a super experience. Thanks Jay!
I believe I speak for everyone when I say 2112 is a must. Be sure you have time though, that song takes a commitment.
Hell yeah J! I've come back to this react many times, you're the best! Yeah, RUSH!
Sweet miracle. Highly recommend. About rising up from despair and the beauty of life. Neil was a genius.
The entire "Moving Pictures" album is top-shelf no dust. Neil Juxtaposed New York City and London here. Great song but was rarely playing in concerts. I'm running out of superlatives to give this band.
Loved this reaction, Brother. This is one of my favorites from Rush. So many great songs from them.
Pretty good, huh? I respect how YOU respect the immensely amazing RUSH. Kudos, my man!
Well done, sir!
A play on the lyric from "Limelight". Moving Pictures has to be in the top 10 best albums ever, hands down.
Great reaction. Alex guitar solo just mode trippin sonic nectar. 💛