Awesome Reaction To Rush - The Big Money
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Geddy’s bass line on the Big Money is insane!!
Always liked this song a lot. The power, the bass, and oh yes, the drumming-wow
It's just so powerful, that section right after the solo just makes you want to dance!
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The whole album, mate. I've stopped listening to everyone else -- and PWs is the BEST...
Love that fool on TV, Avatar!
Cheers
WHAT A JAM! Perfection! RUSH are GODS!
How Geddy plays those insane bass lines, sings and plays the keys just boggles my poor brain.
👽👽👽 ?? 🤔🤫
Neil was a master at writing timeless lyrics that still apply today and will continue to be true in the future.
I miss Rush so much. Thanks for checking this one out T!
Probably my favorite Rush album. You should explore this entire album… “Power Windows.”
Agreed. Most early Rush fans bailed when the boys got synthy
Love 80s Rush!!! They were killing it! Thanks for doing this one!
This is my jam. Hence my avatar. The interplay here between Lee, Lifeson, and Peart is about as good as it gets. That bass work is from another planet, that guitar solo is easily in Lifeson's top 5 best ever, and drumming wise I would say Peart's top 3 moments of his career. Just a perfect song. Neck and neck for me with Subdivisions on the perfection scale.
I love the interplay on this track, it is a straight-forward song but they are challenging each other as they always have, and Peart doing those tight snare rolls instead of the tom rolls he was known for in the '70's, he still finds room for cool embellishments, and one of Geddy's harder songs to play too
even the edited version for MtV packs a lot of punch. I like the album version where there's just a little bit more insutrmental space to enhance the atmosphere though.
I'm sure Alex would have been a lot happier at the time if many more of their 80s songs were like this in terms of synths and guitar mix where he could still rock out as well as be textural
@@katskillz you can hear Alex is frustrated by his guitar playing but that gave it more edge when Rush got a bit soft sounding with all the layered digital synths
Same here haha
Listened to the song with ear buds. Wide open. My hearing is a little off. Am I concerned? Nope. After all it is RUSH.
The 1985 graphics!!!! Neil's 1985 'tail' which was quite popular for the time. I saw this tour at the Meadowlands Arena and was a Sophomore in high school. This album is in my 'Top 3' favorites of their entire catalog. You should also know, this is an edited version of the song - which always sucks!! LOL! Happy New Year to you and yours.
And it saved, what, 10 seconds? What was the point of the edit??
Story to that tail:
I’m from Montreal and during the summer of ‘85, unbeknownst to me an friend listening to Trees (ESL) on his ghetto blaster one afternoon on his porch, this man riding on his touring bike slows to a near crawl, listening intently to the wood block section of the song, amused by our air drumming. Well, he looks up and smiles and raises his right hand and gives us the V sign then waved to us and impressed, we teens immediately wave back and salute him - thinking to ourselves “ how cool is that older guy to know this song 🤔”. Then he rode on, and that’s where that tail can into view! I immediately remembered it for I had been to GUP and PW tours, and he sported it. Well, Trees finishes and I ask my buddy to put on the radio, and against his will he does and that’s when we heard the announcer proclaim that the phones were red hot with people calling in to ask whether Neil Peart was in Montreal, and he confirmed that it was the case and that he was last spotted in east end Montreal, rising his bike.
The professor, had graced us, on our street. I’ll never forget that serendipitous moment.
RIP NEP, you were and remain a legend among men.
@@robertpinazza4043 what a great story. He hated rock star attention but of course he'd still do what he could to show appreciation to those who appreciated his work
I was there too March 31 and April 1st 86. April 4th at Nassau Colessium
Did anyone notice near the outro Neil tossed his stick up, caught it, then took a bow, Love it.
MASTERCLASS! Incredible musicianship and songwriting!
Big money got No Soul, but Rush does! 8:45 "Aww YEAH, it's there"! AND its good to see people as excited about Rush as I am.
Nice review sir. I love this era of RUSH when they used synths and utilized technology of the time. Of course being a huge fan... I love all eras of this band and was always excited for the next journey they took us on. RIP prefessor!
Once upon a time, I was a bass player. I wasn't great, but I was good enough. One day, I took this song to my bass teacher. He said, 'Are you sure?'. I said, 'Yes'.
Two months later, I could play this, at speed..ish. The most convoluted bass line I have ever learned in my life! Every time I played it right, I felt like I was fucking GOD!!
A Farewell to Kings would be another good along with Natural Science. Neil's lyrics always hit the mark. My favourite band!! ❤
Rush is so great. So nerdy and just humble and honest This song is so goofy and fun. But I'll be damned if I don't find myself singing it when I find a dollar in my pocket.
Love This Song. Alex's Big Chords Are Insane. So Much Sound. 😁❤🤘
This is where I sort of tuned out from Rush when I first saw this video. I thought they changed too much from what I liked about them. I was just a 15 year old kid getting into Maiden and Metallica at the time. But later on in the 90's I got back into them and rediscovered this period of their music. This album is great start to finish.
it's so very Rush of them that just when entering the 80s and they're being known as the "philosophical" heavy metal band inspring a new generation of metal shredders, they started taking clues from Talking Heads and XTC and all sorts of New Wave and bring the synths to 11. Headbangers wept
The solo section is ridiculous. Such cool drum fills, using the temple blocks and some sort of drum pad. So unique and cool sounding, then the temp increases and the tom fills kick in. Of course Alex and Geddys playing is matching the drums every step of the way. Its just SO good. 80s Rush is criminally underrated.
I love this song due to fact that this
was the 1st song I heard while I was in Marine Corps boot camp in 1985. A week before we graduate from boot camp
we were allowed to go to the PX( that’s a store for you civilian’s)!!😂😂 Once we got there I went to the music section and I found the new Rush cassette Power Windows. I bought a cassette player and popped that cassette in and all of my boot camp miseries went away. Thank you RUSH!!!!🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿😊😊😂
When live, a lot of the sound effects are triggered by Neil. For instance that "clap" sound is called a "clap trap" and is triggered by a pedal on his left foot..there is also another trigger slightly behind it that triggers a trumpet sound during his solos. The other effects are spread around the drum pads and MalletKat .
Geddy is a damn great bassist. Very talented individual. Hell , they all are.(understatement for sure)
You really should check out more Rush, a great rabbit hole to go down. I suggest "Red lenses","Distant early warning","The Body electric"
For being right smack in the middle of the “keyboard era” of Rush, Geddys bass lines on this song are sick. you have to listen a little harder for them as the guitar plays over the top with that metallic ringing style, but no idea how Geddy can do anything at the same time as he’s playing that bass line , it’s crazy
Haha yes! As an old bass player and Rush fan myself, I can say without hesitation that Geddys best bass work on albums as a whole was definitely during the "keyboard era".
Great reaction! One thing to point out about Neil's amazing drums- if you listen to his parts during each of the verses, he never plays the same pattern from verse to verse. Simply brilliant.
Yes the video is very 80’s cheesy but I personally loved this evolutionary phase of Rush. The sound was softened yet thicken with more synths but still completely unique and all their songs tell individual stories.
Great bassline great chords amazing drum parts.......fantastic song!
Great song from a great album. The production is excellent and their music has such a big sound on this record. One of their best.
Here's what's so inspiring and great about RUSH... they were that band in the 70's wearing kimonos sing By-Tor and The Snow Dog to moving into the 80's wearing suits and singing BIG MONEY, and still have that rock at thier core. I as a fan was always excited riding that RUSH train to see where they were headed next. They weren't afraid to do anything and I love that in this band. Name any other band that grew like Rush did, not a single band had the growth and diversity of these three pioneers...never will again.
And then in the 90s during the gangsta rap craze, they had the freakin balls to rap on roll the bones 🤣
Rush music is definitely the sound track of my life
Headlong Flight is a MUST in your Rush journey. From their last release, Clockwork Angels. The song is an absolute tour de force.
One of my top five Rush songs. How about A Farewell to Kings next, the lyrics fit perfectly into our present day politics...
And it also has an official video! ✌
Love Rush, love the song, love your Rush reactions!!
T you have now graduated to reacting to the entire 2112 song (20 min), if you feel you need more Rush, then I recommend "Red Sector A", "Entre Nous", "Closer To The Heart", "Limelight", and "Roll The Bones".
Watching Neal jam out is such a healer.
Neil's lyrics are always thought provoking
i remember when i started drumming in 1990, i would practice most of the time to rush music. i was also into metal, but i was more interested in technique. i had friends drummers who only focused into metal drumming. and they noticed i was far more advanced than them. i told them to listen to rush and neil peart. if you can play most of rush musical catalogue on the drums, you can play pretty much anything. the quest for musical excellence never ends. nowadays you have drummers like gavin harrison who push the enveloppe further again. this is amongst rush hardest songs to play on drums. it is insane. neil was a drum god. when i learned of his death, i cried for 3 days. he was my hero.
This album always had a special place for me because it was my firs tour seeing them live. I think you should explore other songs on this one, especially Grand Designs, Marathon, and Territories. Definitely an under-rated album by most Rush fans in IMHO.
my all time favorite band is RUSH. the wisdom of Neil Peart's lyrics is off the chart and unmatched.
Oh, Rush!!! They played to the times and they played it well! While I am a up to moving pictures Rush fan, I understood what they did, to this day, the soundtrack to my life... but Big Money! A pop song with the chops! Geddys bass is insane, Neil, as usual, and Alex lights it up. It shows you can play "pop" and still knock it out of the park with talent and make a song the masses will like!
Power Windows one of my favorite albums.
It has no flaws. Def my fav rush album next to moving picture and test for echo
Alex Lifeson is so underrated which I think is so wrong because he is a master on any 6 or 12
string guitar 🎸 RUSH ROCKS RIP PROFESSOR 🙏 😢
Great reaction!! This is a great song, but somewhat underrated. Check out Manhattan Project, from this album. Also...Marathon.
Rush opened their show w/ 'The big money' on the live record 'A show of hands' in 1988, which was recorded (and filmed for concert video) on the tour for the album 'Hold your fire'. I was lucky to see them perform it on the 2012 tour for 'Clockwork angels'...
This album was 'Power windows' in 1985, and Geddy Lee was fully into writing on his keyboard, while Neil Peart was into electronic samples and beats... that left guitarist Alex Lifeson grumbling about how he was struggling to incorporate guitars into their music. 'Marathon' is one of my faves from that record... and 'Mystic rhythms'.
This song is underrated. That lead (and the bass Geddy plays during it) are savage...
This song and video are Dope, that sound your talking about reminds me of Mario cart before the race starts lmao, I would usually turn it after I hear that part but now that I've listened to the whole song this is now one of my favorite Rush songs, thanks for the reaction man I like how you explain thing's!!!
another great Canadian band in the Hall of Fame..
A musician knows this song and the engineering mixdown is off-the-chain.
Oh Neil's rat tail! Love this song, very much ignored. We were in our 20's when this came out.
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Me too...i was 20. Great times and totaly great music.
Hands down one of Geddy's best.... the bass on this song is just absolutely effing sick.... and he would pull this shit off live effortlessly and sing. Mind-boggling
Saw them 3 times and the last 2 times they opened up with this song.
The lyrics were influenced by John Dos Passo’s USA trilogy from the 1930s. One of the books is called The Big Money. Neil was a fan of Dos Passo.
Always loved this song...just be aware this is the edited version. The album release is longer. Be sure to check that out...
LOVE RUSH PERIOD!!!👍😎
That solo and jam are 🔥
You should enlarge the screen all the way for a larger viewing screen for your audience. That being said, Thanks for reacting to this video! Very relevant for today! More reactors need to see thus one! The lyricism of Rush is unmatched. The content and flow is unlike any other band out there. Then AND now.
Great song and great band
Those lyrics...wow.
Great review dude! Love all your Rush reactions!
Check out Territories or Manhattan Project from this album, both have incredible lyrics.
Rush toured extensively with the band Mr Big opening. I remember Mr Big finishing their set with the song Addicted to That Rush. Then, Rush would start off with this song... Clever...
The live version to is extended at the end into a 2 minute jam worth checking out
That was Bass Master Geddy Lee.
These guys play better in there fifties than most bands in there prime
Really underrated song of theirs
"The Big Money" opens the 1985 album, 'Power Windows.' The album contains only 8 songs, each of which resonates to humanity and either the lack or fulfillment of empathetic understanding. Their are other powerful songs from the record like "Marathon," "Manhattan Project," "Territories" (my personal favorite) and closes with the spiritual "Mystic Rhythms." ❤✌
Mystic Rhythms is my favorite RUSH song.
Underrated album. Their first new release after I got turned on to them, and saw that tour.
@@davidtingley9978 Underrated? Nah...those of us who know KNOW!! 😉✌🤗 I'd already been a fan of Rush for 10 years by then. Best rock band EVER!! (Sorry, not sorry Beatles and Stones fans!) 🎸🥁🎹🎤🎼🎶
I love Territories also. I wish I would have heard that one live. Unfortunately I think this is the album in which the production and sound was not as good as some of the other albums. there were 5-6 albums or so in a row in which I did not like the production/ sound. Love the songs live but on the album they do not sound as good.
and middletown dreams, how could you forget middletown dreams !
If you listen closely, you can hear the best drummer in the world using only a single smack per measure in the second stanza. No frills, no trills, no nonsense, just bam bam. You may not notice this because Geddy's fat percussive bass is out of its mind.
You picked another good one. RARELY reacted to, but no worries, some ignorant Rush fan will recommend Xanadu for the 11,348th time in the comment section.
Only one sentence need to be said, and said enough times:
Tax the Rich! :D
I got this album on christmas in 1998 in cd-form from my brother. Power Windows is amazing.
Also, my brother used to drum Rush songs with his band when he was like 14 years old. Yeah, he was that good.
Great reaction. Thanks!
the lyrics are going back and forth about the good things big money can bring, and the bad things it can bring, each line the opposite of the one before
So many bands rely on songs about relationships. Rush says we'll take other, more interesting topics.
Neil was a genius
Love this song. The wordplay that Neil uses is so good, but that's not uncommon, he writes in a way no other rock lyricist did. On the comment about this song not being that complex, listen closely to the bass line Geddy plays, it's super busy. Imagine playing those lines and singing on top, unbelievably hard.
And keys and pedals, man is a machine .
Love Rush, especially this song. BTW, please react to Saxon - Circle of Light (NWOBHM)
Man I freakin love Rush 🤘🤘🤘🤘
For a month or two i caught this from a Canadian radio station. Id shut my Priest and Maiden down just to hear what Toronto had on the horn.
I wasnt disappointed. Still great. I already had Moving Pictures in hand
This is why they are The Power Trio. So much from three people. You are right of how relevant this song is today. I had just graduated high school when this song came out in the days of Reganomics and make all the money and buy all the toys and you will be happy. In the end of course it wasn't true. It just shows what happens when we allow Big Money to control our personal lives.
Their lyrics where well ahead of the times...
Love watching people react to some of my old favorites. EVERY time that line "getting paid to play the fool..." comes along, that squirrly face of Darren from 'Bewitched', always pops in my head. (and so many others!) As we know (hopefully by now) there's NOTHING positive about this song. Killer tune though, sad as the message is. Another great 'pop' like song of theirs, with equally great lyrics; is Subdivisions.
Stick it out..
Counterparts
Great reaction! That's all :)
One hell of a album
Roll the Bones is another great tune from the same era.
Roll the Bones is a funky, lesser player song around this era of Rush
Give OPEN SECRETS a listen.
Rush put out an album called HOLD YOUR FIRE. and it has so many great songs on it. OPEN SECRETS is one of those. Personally I love the whole album, somehow it got a bad rap from alot of Rush fans, but the whole record is fire.
Geddy works out on bass with this one.
Neil's fills are dynamite!
It's way more complexed than you think. Try playing that bass line and singing at the same time. lol
Anyways, Rush is the best. Since you like the rush 80's sound try "Turn the page" from hold your fire.
That solo section tho....omg
The music video is an abridged version of the song. It cuts the intro and the ending.
"Greed is good" according to Gordon Gecko. The 80's were filled with this misconception that the super rich would bail out the rest of society. This song, and history, says otherwise.
You should give I Think I'm Going Bald a listen. Not one of their bigger songs, but has a very cool syncopated beat.
I think he knows already ?
yeah i checked out the Macross track you mentioned it sounds very similar but different enough to be respected.
well it was an orchestrated version it`s actually very cool!
Great reaction
Rush is probably my favorite band ever. Sadly, they never made very good videos...lol. "The Big Money" is based on a John Dos Paasos trilogy titled "USA." I did enjoy the Monopoly board, though. The guitar is jangly and pushy at the same time. Geedy singing and playing that base line? Crazy. Neil's snare is also crazy. Great tune!!
Youre a great reviewer
I wish someone would explain to me (sounds very 80s). I grew up in the 80s, and I watch all sorts of reaction videos on youtube these days. I've heard so many reviewers say "sounds so 80s" about songs that dont sound anything like other songs that suposedly "sound so 80's". Please tell me EXACTLY what you think the 80s sound is, when you describe so many songs as sounding 80's that dont sound anything like any other song. I wouldnt say Metallica sounds anything like Bon Jovi or Rush, or Rush sounds anything like Van Halen. Yet according to reviewers they sound soooo 80's. pfffft...... I dont get it.
The fact that he could instantly tell it was from the 80's says something. Lots of 80's songs added sound effects not from instruments. Also many songs from then used drum machines rather than real drums. Most 60's and 70's songs strictly used all real instruments
Technology was the big game changer. Digital recording was coming in, it was the beginning of the CD era. Recording became less about the room you were in and more about the desk you were using. Alex Lifeson stopped using amplifiers in the studio and plugged straight into the mixing desk. Synthesizers were becoming increasingly prevalent, specific sounds to that era, as well as drum machines. Recorded sounds were becoming increasingly compressed with the use of electronic effects, drums were louder in the mix, guitars were squealier.
@@delorangeade I've heard songs from the 2000's with all the elements you described, and they are not referred to as "very 80's" sounding. So that does not answer the question. There is something that is different in those 80's sounding songs that is catching the ears of reviewers. Maybe the songs in the 80's were just way better than the crap out there now.
I see a lot people mention that "80's sound" too. But they get it. The above comments are spot on. The 80's really had it's own unique sound, but it was especially prominent within the pop/pop rock genres. Yes, the heavier rock bands were a bit different because the guitars and drums were primarily in the forefront, and with very little if any synths or keyboards. But almost everyone, no matter what genre of music, were using the same studio technology, and digital effects (tons of reverb) and midi were the IN thing. At the same time, even if you have just a tiny bit of experience discerning the different sounds or trends decade to decade, you can probably at least detect which era that particualar sound or artist came from. To me, every decade spanning back to the 50's had it's own indentifiable style in culture and music.
80s "Sound": shift from analogue synthesizers to digital; introduction of (and arguably overused) gated reverb drums; minimalist production; New Wave; Big Hair bands; beginning usage of sequencers/drum machines. At an admittedly uneducated guess, maybe the quality that's different from the last twenty years is that compression wasn't in heavy usage yet--songs still had a dynamic sound and weren't artificially made louder as done in the mp3 era--something that the original mix of Vapor Trails suffered (and as good as that album was it always made my ears bleed) that was fixed in the later remix.
I suggest you try a few more songs from Power Windows in the future
This is the Radio version. Do the album version LIVE reaction.
Ugggggggggggggg, the beginning of the end.