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  • Seems to me the producers of the Hunger Games movie must've used this video as an influence, the robot security guards look alike.

  • Chris72572, I hate to burst your bubble mate but he is a "HUMANOID ESCAPEE" not an ANDROID ESCAPEE.

  • I love how the android is a 80's metal headbanger 8D

    

  • 1001001=73 -or- 1001=9 -or- 100=4...

  • Kicks maximum ass

  • @G4ste This video was shown on 'Incident at Channel Q' so I guess it was technically released there?

  • a healthy dose of influence from "THX-1138" in this video for sure, man i love this tune! Grace is still one of my all time fave Rush albums, fucking amazing stuff!

  • "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" 1968 novel about a man who chases down android escapees who have assumed Human identities.The movie "Blade Runner" was based on this where androids were trying to crack their termination codes. RUSH "One humanoid escapee one android on the run seeking freedom beneath the lonely desert sun, trying to change its program, trying to change the mode, crack the code"

    Gee- I wonder if Neil read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" or saw "Blade Runner"!! :))

  • 1 0 0 1 is a binary code which indicates a malfunction has happened. Apparently the cyborg in this song experienced this kind of breakdown. Bring me more songs about malfunctioning machines!

  • @MultiMarkle That is why Rush kicks ass. They always have songs based on scifi stories or some clever idea and are able to rock the hell out of it. Cant say that about most bands these days.

  • Binary!! He's singing in binary!! This is why is almost only listen to rush, they're so imagnitive!!

  • I love this song

  • this video and quite a few from Grace Under Pressure can be found on the Chronicles DVD

  • This video was also featured in the movie INCIDENT AT CHANNEL Q.

  • My friend James pointed me to this video. Nice stuff. :D

  • 0:19 OH SHIT.

    They'll be hunting his arse down like a pack of wolves.

  • took me fucking forever I been searching for this damn song for so damn long ! way befor youtube and even google for fucks sake!

  • " IT'S A BRAVE NEW WORLD ! "

  • @MrDAVIDEO84 ??? THX 1138 ... Cheers.

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  • very bad ass

  • they sound good...i understand that this kind of deviant rock n roll ...i mean deviant... by their very original sound...not like the other...their sound can really trouble people (as xyz said)... like a band who try to go in a very own and new aera in music... it probably won't really surprise people who have a real wide rock collection...and specially in prog music... but for all the others (so the large marjority) ...it will be like a "waooowww" to themselves...at least at the begining...

  • awesome!

    i can't wait for May to see these brothers live at the O2 Arena.

    brain-warping!

  • This album fits the Cold war vibe of the times so well

  • Anyone seen "The Body Electric" cartoon on TV? I think it's from Canada and had a pretty much all Rush soundtrack. It's about a domed city with two humans, dodgy robots and a fat kid running the show from memory. Anyone know where I can get this cartoon?

  • my first view - that was frickin cool. i like the escape into the sunset - beautiful. so great to see a band that wants to entertain and not just have some "hip" and outrageous image.

  • Hey, no one likes a cynic! I like Mr. Roboto, Styx, Rush, and, for that matter, Sesame Street!!!! Rofl.

  • This song makes Mr. Roboto seem like a Sesame Street promo. Long live Rush!

  • Well, i for one would wait to see how it turned out with the hot robochix....

  • so good... so very good

  • That was amazing, I loved it.

  • RUSH---"The Body Electric"

  • Video looks like it was inspired by THX1138.

  • @RCAvhstape good call.

  • This is actually a political song about the obots who replay each of the days, a hundred years of routine. . . They bow their heads and pray to the mother of all machines. . . Dinglebarry Soetoro.

  • awhh this song brings back memories . Rush bring back the Syth.

  • I saw them perform this at Radio City Music Hall in late '83 or early '84, prior to the release of 'Grace Under Pressure' in April of '84. I don't know if they do it anymore, but Rush used to hit the road just before a new album would come out and test out the new material before anyone had heard it. As I remember, this song got a very positive response from the crowd. It still holds up today. Awesome song. Awesome band.

  • for some reason I like the 80's ness of this music video, it has an almost Bladerunner feel to it.

  • @alexcheetah79

    Video reminds me of Blade Runner the movie, but not so much the song.

    Now, the song + video together, remind me of Philip K. Dick, which is close enough (not specifically 'Androids', if you read his stuff, more along the line of his short stories).

    Oh, also reminds me of Logan's Run.

  • Rush needs to put this back into their live set.

  • @loooooooo65432 I 100% agree!!! You have great taste I wanna say it was the Presto tour 90? they played this song and also wanna add Countdown but i heard they did it on the Vapor Trails tour and some old stuff they almost ended their tour in the USA and then to Europe to close it out I always get worried it maybe their last im thinkin of a rodie and seein them before they leave the USA RUSH always gives you your moneys worth awesome shows full 2 hours plus take care

  • Obama has sent his goon squad for ya there is no hope

  • My question with this song is:

    Is it 1 0 0 or 1 O O? Neil is pretty smart to use 'zero' instead of 'oh' xD Hafhaha!

  • The question I have is with this song is:

    Is it 1 0 0 or 1 O O?

  • Great,it never seizes to amaze me how 3 guys can make such powerful music.I discovered them roundabout 2 decades ago when I was more into Saga.So Rush was a swell completion of bands I just had to tune into.Funny how I listened so many times to this song & dived deep into it and finally seeing this video.The '' Grace Under Pressure '' album is still one of my favorites.But then again I haven't listened to all albums yet.They've made a lot of good music & lyrics,that's for sure.Thanks a lot.

  • @Ace4Tree1 the amazing thing is.. they sound just as good live! I've never heard a band sound live...just like they do on the studio album. They sound so rich, so harmonized, so orchestrated.. So COOL!!!

  • So ahead of their time!

  • This is probably one of there best songs

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  • just a moment .. what I am about to say -you will not believe..this band has not only seen a space shuttle take off in life but also they know about programed generated life forms..In which military has been involved in human abductions -also the grays and the reptilians who extract information from the military and vice a versa who in turn screw each other as I might say..Niel seems to after the death of his daughter and come along wife has interacted with the elite..who are going to kill us..

  • @TheErnst1969 What the hell are you talking about Cartman???

  • 585 sos :)

  • @sify11 1001001 into text code from binary means " i ". In the context of the song as if said by an android, its god damn amazing. But hey that's just the power of Rush, and the power of Neil Peart's sandvich, that gives him the ability to write bad ass lyrics.

  • I miss that futuristic image Rush had at that time....their peak I think

  • HA HA I SAW THIS ON VH1 CLASSIC!! I was like what the hell theres a video to this fargin song!? Rush shits gold thats all there is to it(maby on the music side more than well, this video ha ha)

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  • i just feel so much compassion for all the robots out there

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  • The final part it seems George Lucas´s movie THX-1138

  • @magerbio2 Very true Rush always had a fascination of anything space age

  • i don't understand what people are talking about these videos are great and are what videos are suppose to be and capture a time and era in music that we will never get back and are so lucky to have been a part of..........if your lookin for shanin booty go fuckin click somewhwew else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This morning on I was channel surfing and there's an exercise show on PBS called Body Electric!

  • how the guys of Rush ever let these terrible videos go to MTV i'll never know!

  • lol looks like they did this right after the enemey within

  • This song always reminds me of that part of star wars when C3PO and R2D2 were stuck on tatooine.

  • always were ahead of their time!  Love em.

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  • This album could have been so much more with better production. It is a very good document of the rock "art form" in the Western world during the Cold War. And, yeah, this tune fucking jams.

  • Completely agree! I always thought the production on this album was lousy and didn't do the band's performance and the songs justice. Compared with the amazing production on the previous albums, it sounded like this was recorded on wax cylinder using Dubly ;-). It's such a great album material-wise though and very much of it's time. Remember the good old 1980s? We all thought the end of the world was nigh!

  • Looks like a commodore 64 keyboard.  Neon and early video effects....I liked the song when it was new...loved it ten years later.

  • No other band sounded like this. Literate and technical

    with amazing content. So many people missed the boat on this band. I remember playing this for my sister and she looked totally confused. She later admitted hearing songs coming from my room and stopping to listen. She now totally appreciates them..

  • @xyz321123 nice case, i can remember of my grand mother when i listen rush

  • @xyz321123 I hate it when you play people older rush like this and they wont give it a chance when they hear the synthesisers and such. I try to get them to listen to the MUSIC but they just don't have taste most of the time, dicks.

  • @xyz321123 Never saw them in concert but they are the best I've ever heard. Getty Lee has an amazing voice and their style and sound differs from others. Agree with you.

  • Hey RUSH Nation, video concept alone was very very cool. My Bro Eric and I loved this one big time. MTV was gracious enough to play it on a liberal basis, but we managed to crank it over and over! 2112.

  • from 4:27 to the end

    Oh My God listen to that bass and everything.

    It's just spiritual... and mystic.

    Anyone got same feeling?

  • @goldrush255 Of course...it comes from Rush's best era of music 1980-1986. Not saying the other era's weren't good as well but this was a time when everything they did was flawless. Anyone who thinks otherwise is a total tool. When I hear people comparing Snakes and Arrows to anything off of Grace Under Pressure or Power Windows or Signals or Moving Pictures or Permanent Waves, I automatically know they have no clue what the fuck they are talking about.

  • I totally agree with you the best Rush era was in those years!

  • Signals rocks

  • @georgenoory

    Agreed, and so does Grace Under Pressure :p

  • Learn about "chemtrails". Wake up, sheeple!

  • I have a question hopefully someone can answer. This video and song was one of a many variety of songs from different bands in a movie. The first time I saw this video was in that movie. It was about some young guys who played videos on a TV program. The movie was some low grade movie from what I remember of it, .Does anyone know the name of it? I would like to find it to see it again! Thanks!

  • @dcrane62 Incident at Channel Q is the movie. I own it on VHS.

  • vaportrails44- thanks for the reply! I'll have to go look for it now. I went to Amazon and ordered a new copy of it for less than $3.00. Thanks!~

  • In ASCII, 1001001 represents the capital letter "I" (eye, as in me, myself and I).

  • I sing the Body Electric + I, Robot...

  • Same people that made this video produced the Max Headroom series. And the cops in the video are obviously female. Ooooo, sexy cops.

  • Dude. This false reality has existed as long as civilization has existed, and you have only noticed it now?

  • I have noticed it, and now im aware of it.

  • A timeless video for those who havent awakened yet to the 'false reality' around us.

    It reminds me of George Lucas - THX1103 -- his first sci-fi film.

  • @SamStuart07

    That was my first thought when i saw the video, the plot is almost the same as the movie's.

  • The robot is played by my uncle's brother in law.

  • @kylejamie06 AWSOME

  • @kylejamie06 sooooooo lucky

  • @kylejamie06 Yeah I know. A friend of a friend of a friend told my brother in-laws retarded half sister.

  • @kylejamie06 awesome!

  • Great awakening for abductees

  • Kudos to VH1 Classic for playing this video during their Rush marathon yesterday...

  • "1001001" is part of computers

  • Its the digital binary code that form bits and bytes used in computer data transmission (1=on, 0=off). 32 bit binary code is the current state of the art.

  • That's what I'm talking about. Tear down dis wall, dis wall, and dis fargin wall...

  • That's it. Dis is fargin war!!!!!

  • well, i pick team fargin.

  • @lareow58 my mother tore down my fargin wall once lareow58,

    just once

  • The "robotic" drum beat makes this a classic.

  • Somehow I had a very different mental image of this song, of the android stuck in a desert, unable to move because it's out of dying, out of power.

  • me too..... funny how different people see different symbolism.......

  • 1001001, SOS, 1001001,  in distress.

  • One of the best songs they did, in my opinion. I also happen to think that Grace Under Pressure is one of their best albums. I remember seeing them on the Power Windows Tour at 7 and being dismayed that they did not play this song, which was my favorite at the time.

  • You spelled Neil wrong! Calm down!

  • This song allways makes me think of Blade Runner cuz of the lyrics "One humanoid escape one android on the run"...oh well Great Movie and Great Band!

  • YES! I totally agree. One of the best movies ever as well as song/band. Blade Runner is the reason I fucking love 80's rush.

  • rush rocks. PERIOD dont like it dont see it dushbag

  • Great Song!!!

  • Great song. To bad the video has nothing to do with what the song is about. ie after man is gone robots/computers trying to make it and survive where we could not.

  • Oh dear, a reprise of the Ayn Rand period.

  • all rush albums wear good i mean they did have a litldown fall but they still kick ass be case the are rush good for him for likeing thous you are just a dush for not likeing the 80 albums

  • fuck u all that say any thing bad about rush they rock you suck if you say any song is bad f u! go to hell all rush is good and if you like rush god bless!!

  • I like the way they tried to put sience fiction in it... But this song alone is just awesome, A-Wsome!

  • Dude are you some kinda retard? Didn't your mother gave you engough love?

    First of all, i gave MY opinion...

    second: I'm a rush fan, mabay more fan than you. And if you think this song sucks, what the fuck are you on this channel?

    fucking lozer, go get aids motherfucker

  • I knew you'd go off about that. When i say majority i mean look at all the comments of the people who are saying that its a good song/video and everything. If you calm yourself down you'll notice that most of these people like the song and band.

  • Lemme get this straight,you say we can have our own opinion yet you still go rambling on about how we're alll "FUCKING STUPID." Fucking hypocrite. YOU think you know everything?? I went to one of Rush's recent concerts (6/15 in Boston, MA). And you say that Rush doesn't play Grace Under Pressure because its so bad?OH YEAH? Well i have video proof that they played Between the wheels, Distant Early Warning, The Enemy Within. So yeah your totally wrong if they're playing those songs 24 yrs later.

  • permanent waves, and moving pictures.

    best Rush albums EVER

    YOU LOSE.

  • Actually I was also at the 6-15 show at the Comcast and they only played "Between the Wheels."

  • Hey fucking jakkass! This is a good song stupid fuck, and indeed i dont like all Rush songs, but 70% are good. So shut the fuck up when you're talking about something you dont know jagg about it

  • You must be some sort of purist or something. Come have you lsitened to Grace Under Pressure. Seriously? It's so good, and they DO play those songs live (moron), obviously not every song is fantastic but so what?

  • who really gives two shits what you think if you're just gunna flip out on what the MAJORITY thinks???

  • MAJORITY?! Who the FUCK have you been talking to about rush!

    The main reason it's bad, is because it's like Rush, without the distinct Rush sound!

    Rush isn't so mellow, and Niel Peart is almost ALWAYS drumming more impressively than that. It's PROG ROCK, it's supposed to be complex!

    That song has abandon all of the great aspects of Rush.

  • Dude you must not like to think because this songs great, just because its not exactly prog doesnt make it suck.

  • This is one of their "sleeper hits".Not alot of radio play, but the drums, guitar and vocals are on point as always.One of my favs, and my 3 year old boy will not singing 1001!!

  • will not stop that is..

  • I can't help but wonder if the song/song title may have been partly inspired by the 1962 Twilight Zone episode "I Sing The Body Electric". The episode was written by famous sci-fi writer Ray Bradbury (Farenheit 451). Neil Peart is famous for having been inspired by sci-fi and fantasy writings.

  • Oh yeah - that episode was about androids.

  • You're right - I checked song facts :D

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  • I LOVE RUSH

  • me too can't forget them ever -_-

  • use your illusion (imagination) to fill in the blanks, because this song is a masterpiece

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  • Amazing song. Lousy video.

    Sorry, I am about asa big a Rush fan as they come, but I never thought they were good at videos. hehehee lol

  • It was the dreaded '80's!

  • I don't mind the videos.

  • one of the greatest bands ever

  • I so wanna go to that android bar

  • Rush. Best band worst videos.

  • What can I say? This video was made during the early to mid eighties. Video was still very primitive back then.

  • no, even recent videos to their songs are equally lame. They never had the cinematic vision thing down ...

    like I stated before, I am a HUGE fan and have been to every show since Roll the Bones (my first concert), so I am allowed to critique :p

  • Well, I doubt they direct the videos.

    I like Subdivisions, Driven, and The Big Money.

  • Well, I doubt they direct the videos.

    I like Subdivisions, Driven, and The Big Money.

  • @g4ste MTV was 3 to 4 years old then I think.

  • @StKittsDave Yeah they have a number of bad videos but I would say most of them fall under mediocre. Plus they do have a couple of very good videos, Mystic Rhythms is one that comes to mind.

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  • You're assuming ASCII: He's Assuming Morse Code. (and guess what, . --. --. is 'egg' in Morse Code!)

  • grammy award nomination finally zero one 001001 spell malnar

  • Rush !!!!  just to awesome!!!

  • rush eh muito phoda

    prabens ao trio geddy , alex e neal

    os cara soh fazem musicão

  • ESSA MÚSICA É FODA PRA CARALHO

  • frida and diego below GUP or above.

    rosetta stone.

  • it sounds like RIKER and gargonzola cheese

  • that was an amazing video. you really need to have a more open mind to really appreciate the work of Rush in the 80s and 90s.

  • I saw bits of the "Enemy Within" video in there. Great song, but I'm not much a Rush video fan. They always seem somewhat corny to me, especially "Time Stand Still" lol.

    Does anyone know what 1001001 actually means in binary?

  • 1001001 means EGG...Hence the "egg" in the vice on the inside cover of the album...

  • um no - actually it means nothing since it's only 7 characters and not 8. You'd need 8 for a single character. If the last character was a zero then it'd mean ' and if it was a one then it'd mean "

    Egg BTW is: 011001010110011101100111

  • Also: 7-bit Ascii is still very common

  • that was GOP, how many doses of cheese did alexander the great eat at one sitting?

  • not enough

  • u have the best name