Before surround sound Rush was the closest thing to surround. it was headphone rock. rock that could also put you to sleep even though it's fast paced. not that its boring but its hypnotic.
I started listening to Rush's prog stuff heavily a while back and that was around the time I started to count out songs. what is the time signature for 3:55 - 4:20? so far, I've come up with alternating 6/8, 8/8, 6/8, 7/8. the bottom number may not be correct, but I'm pretty sure the top ones are. any confirmation/suggestions? that part is extremely interesting and I'd love to know if I have the counting down correctly
@2Joaog I disagree with Rush not being progressive, every rush song I listen always conjures a story that seems to be apart of that album. Each album being very different to the last.
I like that slow echo-y bit. I think it's called across the styx. I remember when first I heard this, I used to picture Geddy being festooned with cobwebs, being how he seemed to pluck the open string once every three-hundred years. I love this song it has so many priceless memories attached to it, for me :) Thanks to you for posting it up.
I want this album cover painted on the hood of my car, so I can look bad ass as I drive down the street blasting this song. However, my car is far from bad ass.
@3xWink Rush, nothing to do with metal? I don´t think so. Have you heard Overture/Temples/Something For nothing/ Bastille Day? Those themes are pure metal.
@michaelnight67 I respectfully disagree, at least in the modern sense. Rush really is almost a genre unto themselves. I think it dimishes their uniqueness somewhat to categorize them as metal. That being said, I am sure they have been models for many metal bands.
Brother,don't forget "Anthem". And EVEN MORE on Caress, "The Necromancer,"
I mean it's the precursor to Thrash Metal! And to solidify everything: All The World's A Stage. There's a Guitar magazine I believe in 92' that has thrash metal players naming their top 10 influences/fav albums and Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) Trey Azagathoth (Morbid Angel) and Alex Skolnick (Testament) ALL had Rush in their top 10. PLUS Hammet, Vinny Paul, Zakk Wylde,and Danny Carey spoke on Rush's behalf in the BTLS movie
@163388416 Probably more than you think! 70s Rush opened the floodgates for prog metal. I've introduced lots of my buds to Rush through this song, Cygnus X-1 Book 1, 2112, Xanadu, etc. I love all their stuff, and saw them live during the Snakes and Arrows tour.
This is a prime example of tthe genius of Rush...taking the heaviness of the hard rock bands (Zep, Sabbath, Purple) and fusing it with the extravagance of the progressive rock bands of the time (Genesis Yes ELP Floyd)..creating an incredible sound that makes you think and head bang in the same song!!!
@96gummyworms Rush's road manager Howard Ungerleider came up with the title at a party. There were two dogs at the party, one a German shepherd and the other a tiny white nervous dog. Howard used to call the shepherd By-Tor because anyone that walked into the house was bitten. The other dog was a snow-dog (white). So from that night on Howard called the pair of dogs "By-Tor and the Snow Dog." The dogs belonged to Rush's manager
@crazypenny94 you are a dumbass its not whats up ladies sniff my nipple! its the tobes of hades lit by flickering torchlights!!!!! fucking scrub how dare you insult this great song!!!!!
@papercut1111f Retard, IDIOT!!! You are gay. Do you know anything. I KNOW THAT! I'M NOT STUPID. YOUR TO STUPID TO THINK I THOUGHT THAT!!!!! THAT IS AN INSULT TO ME AND RUSH
I figured out what geddy is singing on the distortion mic during the jam. If you listen carefully this is what he's saying at 1:53 " Alright you wanna fight--good I'll hit you--comon-you wanna fight-come on now I'll hit you-Ohh i wanna hit you--Inaudible-- bytor yeah-oooohhhh man i wanna hit you- inaudible-at 3:07-- bytor--snowdog-- I -am -by -tor." I swear thats what it sounds like. Shoot me a message if you agree. Maybe i'm crazy. These guys are from another planet. Their jams are unmatched.
@blake30615 Geddy is playing his old teardrop Fender Precision and running it through FX processors. I'll quote Geddy: "I put my Fender bass through a fuzztone -I can't remember what kind-and then into the board. It was distorted all to ****, so we added phasing, and ultimately put in everything but the kitchen sink. I had all that sound going through a volume pedal, so every time the monster was supposed to growl, I would lean on the volume pedal." He triggers it live with his Taurus pedals.
@RushFanatic87 But he is talking at 1:53 min. " Alright you wanna fight--good I'll hit you--comon-you wanna fight-come on now I'll hit you-Ohh i wanna hit you--Inaudible-- bytor yeah-oooohhhh man i wanna hit you- inaudible-at 3:07-- bytor--snowdog-- I -am -by -tor." I swear thats what it sounds like.
This songs is important as it represents the direction the band will move in up through Moving Pictures., much the same as Vital Signs, from Moving Pictures, showed us their digital 80's transition direction.
It may have taken a couple of years to bond with Geddy (and Alex) but it's apparent on this first album of the three that Geddy and Neil had an instant musical bond and had met each others musical soul mate.
I to have a question. if by-tor is evil in this song then why dose by-tor save the travelers in the necromancer and portrayed as a good guy in that song?
@balls1231994 maybe because he saw the error of his evil ways after having is arse handed to him by the snow dog. Or maybe he had an old grudge against the necromancer. I am not certain we have ever heard an explanation from the band regarding By-Tor's second appearance as a hero on Caress of Steel.
Or Hades is the necromancer and By-tor was corrupted by him and many years after this battle snow dog was defeated/ corrupted and somehow By-tor fought the corruption and fought The Necromancer.
Is the snowdog represented by the high guitar and by-tor by the low bass, or the other way around? Because I've heard it both ways that the low 'growling' sound is supposed to be the snowdog growling and the high guitar is supposed to be by-tors shrieking, but I've also heard that the guitar is the snowdog and the low bass is by-tor, which is what it is in the Necromancer (good - guitar, evil - bass)
Heard this song live first of all on the 'Exit.. Stage Left' concert. The recorded version just doesn't seem to stand up the live version. There just isn't the same energy or direction. Anyway, I'd recommend taking a look at live version over this any day; it's also minus the weirdy troll noises that seem to detract from Alex Lifeson's great guitar work.
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I came here because I read on the video for Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream that Billy Corgan borrowed the main riff for it off of this track. Siamese Dream rocks, so I wanted to check it out. Kinda regret doing it though... Rush makes me mad. A little of it is the "fantasy themes," I mean Robert Plant and Jimmy Page could do that shit because they were otherwise the coolest guys around, but this sounds like rock for playing Dungeons and Dragons to. And what's with the Rush guy's voice?
I'd like to see ANY nowadays band come up with something this original, this rocking and with this great of musicianship. Not one could ever do it...I guarantee you.
i truly like Tales from Topographic Oceans and what is important to remember is that all these Prog bands had the freedom and space to experiment... and some record companies who were still willing to back this kind of experimentation.
Sure there were some oddball and self indulgent moments... but who is recording stuff like this nowadays... and don't kid yourself, many of these bands were an influence on bands like Rush.
@Cash2112 Not really. Prog Rock was well established by 1974 with the likes of King Crimson & Yes as well as Emerson ,Lake & Palmer, but this is a a wonderful piece of work - one of many from thie greatest 3 piece band in the land!
@thisismusic38 Those prog bands all had good chops, but their music didn't have the engaging feel, drive and energy that Rush had at the time. Their ponderous works were just flat out boring and tiring to the point of being unlistenable IMHO (Re: "Tales from Topographic Oceans").
@Cash2112 Tales From Topographic Oceans is brilliant. One of Yes' absolute best. If you you think it's "boring and tiring to the point of being unlistenable"...honestly, try getting high and listening to it. Or better yet, take some LSD. If you're perspective on the album doesn't change after that, that I don't know what to tell you. lol
@cptbootleg The point I'm trying to make is that you don't have to get high!!! However, maybe taking LSD will change your perspective on why you don't like the music to begin with.
Also, are you saying that Yes sucks at making music? If so, then you should realize that if it weren't for Yes, Rush wouldn't have ever became the band that they did. Geddy Lee himself says that Relayer is in his top 5 rock albums of all time list.
@JimSVoit I have to disagree here. Lee might have Relayer as one of his top 5 albums but that doesn't mean he and the others would not have become what they are. I hate those general assumptions. The Beatles also did not open the gateway to all the music we have today either. Someone else would have come around. I play music and have a myriad of tastes. My music would be the same despite my top 5 choices. It comes from me, not others.
@Cash2112 Yes and their like made it possible for bands like Rush to indulge themselves. "The Gates of Delirium" is not boring, it's an epic and never lets up, totally engaging and Pink Floyd had everything inspades and never wasted a note. Yes, if you'll pardon the pun, TFTO is a tad over long and not their best.
@Cash2112 Good call on pointing out that Rush is a groundbeaker. @thisismusic38 Obviously you have the art appreciation skills of of a one cell organism. I suggest you seek treatment for you ADHD.
Before surround sound Rush was the closest thing to surround. it was headphone rock. rock that could also put you to sleep even though it's fast paced. not that its boring but its hypnotic.
tumcast 23 hours ago
Rush can be called Progressive Rock, Metal, and any number of other genres.
Truth is they are in a genre of their own.
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My dogs name is ByTor xD, he is an Akita.
felipemaiden13 1 week ago
If you leave out RUSH when it comes to actual rock musicians, just check out this precision jam first.
TheMav41 2 weeks ago
the solo near the end gets me every time. (Breaks out the air guitar)
GreasyBalls418 3 weeks ago 2
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SuperMegaUberGenius 1 month ago
Billy Corgan from the Smashing Pumpkins openly admitted that he ripped one of the riffs in this song to make Cherub Rock.
RoflBeer 1 month ago
Seriously? They're 3 guys making the sounds of 5 guys minimum and are STILL denied into the rock and roll hall of fame. Seriously?
ElChevelle 1 month ago
@ElChevelle They don't want to be in the hall of fame.
LibertarianThunder 1 month ago
@ElChevelle
Neil peart pretty much is a one man band remeber
jfarrar19 8 hours ago
Look at the category. Pets and Animals.
LedZepPwnsBieber 1 month ago 3
@LedZepPwnsBieber Well that's accurate to some extent...heh heh heh.
ubertrooper6300 1 month ago
I started listening to Rush's prog stuff heavily a while back and that was around the time I started to count out songs. what is the time signature for 3:55 - 4:20? so far, I've come up with alternating 6/8, 8/8, 6/8, 7/8. the bottom number may not be correct, but I'm pretty sure the top ones are. any confirmation/suggestions? that part is extremely interesting and I'd love to know if I have the counting down correctly
JsRf13 1 month ago
ragged lines of ragged grey
/watch?v=gfjQ_EF_8U0
SuperMegaUberGenius 1 month ago
that has got to be the cuttest owl EVAAR !!!
makantang 1 month ago
Rush is not metal, hard, progressive or other. Rush is rock and roll!
2Joaog 1 month ago
@2Joaog I disagree with Rush not being progressive, every rush song I listen always conjures a story that seems to be apart of that album. Each album being very different to the last.
Rush is progressive AND rock and roll.
rocky5768 1 month ago
@2Joaog actually yeah, no, you pretty much have to use rush and prog in the same sentence..
69hockeyman69 1 month ago
@2Joaog so is corgan
rated steel
SuperMegaUberGenius 1 month ago
I like that slow echo-y bit. I think it's called across the styx. I remember when first I heard this, I used to picture Geddy being festooned with cobwebs, being how he seemed to pluck the open string once every three-hundred years. I love this song it has so many priceless memories attached to it, for me :) Thanks to you for posting it up.
tidalpoolreflection 2 months ago
what an epic, kick ass song, They are awsome live!! I've seen them 3 times and it was so great, I couldn't hear for a week each time!
hippiestan 2 months ago
That owl is fucking AWESOME.
magna4100 2 months ago
Hellyeah! Super!
Ted
BobSegerLikeaRock 2 months ago
I want this album cover painted on the hood of my car, so I can look bad ass as I drive down the street blasting this song. However, my car is far from bad ass.
carradine69 2 months ago
3:56 - 4:15 is why Neil Peart is fucking amazing
Knooblet 2 months ago
it hard to find metal heads who ike power windows
randyrhoads21122112 3 months ago
Fanatstic music by early Rush
srtyxczewlsrolkid 3 months ago
@3xWink Rush, nothing to do with metal? I don´t think so. Have you heard Overture/Temples/Something For nothing/ Bastille Day? Those themes are pure metal.
michaelnight67 3 months ago 9
@michaelnight67 Circumstances
nkmcfrln 3 months ago
@michaelnight67 I respectfully disagree, at least in the modern sense. Rush really is almost a genre unto themselves. I think it dimishes their uniqueness somewhat to categorize them as metal. That being said, I am sure they have been models for many metal bands.
JasonWB007 2 months ago 3
Brother,don't forget "Anthem". And EVEN MORE on Caress, "The Necromancer,"
I mean it's the precursor to Thrash Metal! And to solidify everything: All The World's A Stage. There's a Guitar magazine I believe in 92' that has thrash metal players naming their top 10 influences/fav albums and Dave Mustaine (Megadeth) Trey Azagathoth (Morbid Angel) and Alex Skolnick (Testament) ALL had Rush in their top 10. PLUS Hammet, Vinny Paul, Zakk Wylde,and Danny Carey spoke on Rush's behalf in the BTLS movie
negtype13 3 weeks ago 3
@negtype13 goddamn right. rush, the godfathers of speed metal. and still untouched
stlmadgreek1 1 week ago
you ain't no fan if you don't know....
MsShadowgirl123 3 months ago
6:28 is just incredible
163388416 4 months ago 4
I'm a Metalhead, but have always loved old Rush.
signofsatan 4 months ago
@signofsatan God bless you, it's so hard to find metalheads who love old Rush. I wish there were more.
163388416 3 months ago
@163388416 Probably more than you think! 70s Rush opened the floodgates for prog metal. I've introduced lots of my buds to Rush through this song, Cygnus X-1 Book 1, 2112, Xanadu, etc. I love all their stuff, and saw them live during the Snakes and Arrows tour.
RedPaladin 2 months ago
True Rush Head Here
dfontana109 2 months ago
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!!
Rubenchoo97 4 months ago
Great song!
WyattC78 4 months ago
My first "HIGH!"
back in '75-'76
elMONGOreal 4 months ago
This is a prime example of tthe genius of Rush...taking the heaviness of the hard rock bands (Zep, Sabbath, Purple) and fusing it with the extravagance of the progressive rock bands of the time (Genesis Yes ELP Floyd)..creating an incredible sound that makes you think and head bang in the same song!!!
Rowdyrecords55 4 months ago 3
1:23-1:48 sheer genious!!
tubedudeT2000 4 months ago
noooooo I thought By-Tor was good
MrKunglol 4 months ago
0:01 - 0:05 - Tom tom ladies sniff my nipple ring , touch Light!
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@ThrashIsBack100 "0:00 - 0:03 is what's up ladies sniff my nipple.
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Shadic159 4 months ago
Tobes of Hades, lit by flickering torchlight
The netherworld is gathered in the glare
Prince By-Tor takes the cavern to the north light
The sign of Eth is rising in the air
By-Tor, knight of darkness
Centurion of evil, devil's prince
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parkman35 4 months ago
So who's the Snowdog? Who's By-Tor? Geddy? Alex? NEIL? WHO?!
jerrythepotato1919 4 months ago
@jerrythepotato1919 The song was inspired by the shenanigans of two dogs at a party at Howard Ungerleider's house. Musta been some party!
AnthroWoman 4 months ago
@jerrythepotato1919 Alex was the Snowdog and Geddy was By-tor.
96gummyworms 3 months ago
@96gummyworms OOHH... okay LOL thanks.
jerrythepotato1919 3 months ago
@96gummyworms Rush's road manager Howard Ungerleider came up with the title at a party. There were two dogs at the party, one a German shepherd and the other a tiny white nervous dog. Howard used to call the shepherd By-Tor because anyone that walked into the house was bitten. The other dog was a snow-dog (white). So from that night on Howard called the pair of dogs "By-Tor and the Snow Dog." The dogs belonged to Rush's manager
coldfarted 2 months ago
trippy tune y i love it!!
sonicsteev 4 months ago
Neil is not my fave drummer, but that 3:50 lick is cool.
CapZug 4 months ago
3 people have been bitten on their arses by a Snow-Dog!!!
bagpuss170363 5 months ago
@bagpuss170363 But the snow dog lost so wouldn;t thy be happy?
lunkheroofnuts 4 months ago
The fight is awesome!
DreamInTheMagma 5 months ago
in the description there is a link for tickets to buy at a concert in my city for rush, but its a dj called ED Rush.
jamirosmajicrocks 5 months ago
0:00 - 0:03 is what's up ladies sniff my nipple.
crazypenny94 5 months ago 21
@crazypenny94 the tomb of hades lit by flickering torch light is the correct lyrics but it does sound like Geddy says sniff or lick my nipple
MrPiemaster123 4 months ago
@crazypenny94 you are a dumbass its not whats up ladies sniff my nipple! its the tobes of hades lit by flickering torchlights!!!!! fucking scrub how dare you insult this great song!!!!!
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@papercut1111f Retard, IDIOT!!! You are gay. Do you know anything. I KNOW THAT! I'M NOT STUPID. YOUR TO STUPID TO THINK I THOUGHT THAT!!!!! THAT IS AN INSULT TO ME AND RUSH
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crazypenny94 4 months ago
@papercut1111f how the hell could 2 people like this did those retards READ MY COMMENT. DDDDDDDDDDUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
crazypenny94 3 months ago
@crazypenny94 Trolololololol.
Radonwings 3 months ago
@crazypenny94 Whyyyyyyy!? Now thats all I hear! >:[
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@crazypenny94 LOL!
Maximus1097 2 months ago
@crazypenny94 It was "Totes up, ladies rip my nipple."
Rush3524 1 month ago
There will never be a song as weird and awesome as this one. But wait...The Necromancer, Xanadu, Cygnus...Rush, you're amazing!
LegionOf3 5 months ago
Uh hello Gummyworms... its not Snowdog... and By-Tor!
revenant666vids 5 months ago
I always played this whenever I played Soul Calibur 4.
tehwat94 5 months ago
For Super drumming go to 3:52, 3:59, and 4:10. Damn Neil Peart is good
crazypenny94 5 months ago
@crazypenny94 Good ... Duh!!!
ThePokerman66 5 months ago
@crazypenny94
God would need to take drumming lessons rom Neil Peart if they were not the same being
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crazypenny94 5 months ago
This and anthem, I feel, are the first prog-metal songs
Rowdyrecords55 6 months ago
By far my favorite of their album covers
gultain 6 months ago
one dislike, hmm...By-tor??
joakorush2112 6 months ago
@joakorush2112 actually it was one of the priests that disliked it. Jerks
Rowdyrecords55 6 months ago
this is a keeper
richyl23 6 months ago
killer
mattaroggen 6 months ago
I figured out what geddy is singing on the distortion mic during the jam. If you listen carefully this is what he's saying at 1:53 " Alright you wanna fight--good I'll hit you--comon-you wanna fight-come on now I'll hit you-Ohh i wanna hit you--Inaudible-- bytor yeah-oooohhhh man i wanna hit you- inaudible-at 3:07-- bytor--snowdog-- I -am -by -tor." I swear thats what it sounds like. Shoot me a message if you agree. Maybe i'm crazy. These guys are from another planet. Their jams are unmatched.
blake30615 6 months ago
@blake30615 Geddy is playing his old teardrop Fender Precision and running it through FX processors. I'll quote Geddy: "I put my Fender bass through a fuzztone -I can't remember what kind-and then into the board. It was distorted all to ****, so we added phasing, and ultimately put in everything but the kitchen sink. I had all that sound going through a volume pedal, so every time the monster was supposed to growl, I would lean on the volume pedal." He triggers it live with his Taurus pedals.
RushFanatic87 3 weeks ago
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@RushFanatic87 But he is talking at 1:53 min. " Alright you wanna fight--good I'll hit you--comon-you wanna fight-come on now I'll hit you-Ohh i wanna hit you--Inaudible-- bytor yeah-oooohhhh man i wanna hit you- inaudible-at 3:07-- bytor--snowdog-- I -am -by -tor." I swear thats what it sounds like.
blake30615 3 weeks ago
there instrumental breaks are far too awesome! All prog spawned off this i believe
nokroblosho 6 months ago
This songs is important as it represents the direction the band will move in up through Moving Pictures., much the same as Vital Signs, from Moving Pictures, showed us their digital 80's transition direction.
It may have taken a couple of years to bond with Geddy (and Alex) but it's apparent on this first album of the three that Geddy and Neil had an instant musical bond and had met each others musical soul mate.
PookieDooky 6 months ago
Rush kicks ass!!
jeffs1000 6 months ago
@jeffs1000
So does Snowdog
96gummyworms 6 months ago
lol i love how the category is pets and animals
Locoroco2fan 6 months ago
@Locoroco2fan Too Funny!!! =O
drmr007 6 months ago
One of the finest songs to exist in Hard Rock/Progressive rock/Heavy Metal!
daemonWithin 6 months ago
Anyone else sing along to the bass line cause ITS SO FREAKING EPIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!
mattymanten 6 months ago
this song + the necromancer need to be translated in a fantasy movie/TV show etc.
foxhunter1414 6 months ago
DID THIS SONG INVENT DUBSTEP OR IS IT JUST ME
GloriaChiever 6 months ago
Neil Peart <3
MrLildrummerboy56 7 months ago
If anyone asks me if I'm a Rush fan, I always reply with
"Did the Snowdog defeat By-tor?"
96gummyworms 7 months ago 51
@96gummyworms i think in necromancer the story continues, no?
Shadic159 5 months ago
@Shadic159 Well, It's By-tor and the Necromancer
96gummyworms 5 months ago
Rush ROCK!!!
If rush didn't exist, we'd have to invent them.
Unlike any other band to date. F'N AWESOME!
IronRobM 7 months ago
this album is amazing
astrosjake 7 months ago
can someone please help me out?
balls1231994 7 months ago
I to have a question. if by-tor is evil in this song then why dose by-tor save the travelers in the necromancer and portrayed as a good guy in that song?
balls1231994 7 months ago
@balls1231994 maybe because he saw the error of his evil ways after having is arse handed to him by the snow dog. Or maybe he had an old grudge against the necromancer. I am not certain we have ever heard an explanation from the band regarding By-Tor's second appearance as a hero on Caress of Steel.
smaug86 7 months ago
@smaug86
Or Hades is the necromancer and By-tor was corrupted by him and many years after this battle snow dog was defeated/ corrupted and somehow By-tor fought the corruption and fought The Necromancer.
jfarrar19 7 hours ago
Yes, I think you need some help, but I'm not the one to give you it.
Marxman0603 7 months ago
Can someone answer this for me?:
Is the snowdog represented by the high guitar and by-tor by the low bass, or the other way around? Because I've heard it both ways that the low 'growling' sound is supposed to be the snowdog growling and the high guitar is supposed to be by-tors shrieking, but I've also heard that the guitar is the snowdog and the low bass is by-tor, which is what it is in the Necromancer (good - guitar, evil - bass)
Can someone help me out here?
gabejdb1234 7 months ago
@gabejdb1234 Alex is The Snowdog and Geddy is By-tor.
mrjonesy2112 7 months ago
@gabejdb1234 i believe the bass is the snowdog growling
caseyjones67 7 months ago
@gabejdb1234 mrjonesey2112 is correct. Alex is identified as "Snow Dog", and Geddy Lee is identified as "By-Tor" on the back of the album.
smaug86 7 months ago
Greatest Canadian band of all time. Neil Peart. Are you kidding? Fantastic!
rfw45 7 months ago
Best solo ever...
norrefol 7 months ago
Light Up!
Bhaltazhar 7 months ago
Beyond space and time. More than the sum of it's parts.
eggnogfrog 7 months ago
Heard this song live first of all on the 'Exit.. Stage Left' concert. The recorded version just doesn't seem to stand up the live version. There just isn't the same energy or direction. Anyway, I'd recommend taking a look at live version over this any day; it's also minus the weirdy troll noises that seem to detract from Alex Lifeson's great guitar work.
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Let the show begin!!!
farshorestrade 8 months ago
Friggin best band ever.
cptgaryklein 8 months ago
SO F*CKING EPIC!!!!!
jjcjammer 8 months ago
my favourite song of all time, just ahead of "here, there and everywhere" by the beatles, and "easy" by the commodores.
vladtepes97 8 months ago
in the description your for getting about the necromancer being a fantasy theme
wattack6 8 months ago
Ive been listening to rush since 1983, the year i was born haha, my dad was a huge fan, thank god i was brought up listening to great music.
jamesJulian1 8 months ago
3:50 - Cherub Rock
MassiveKiller2 9 months ago
@MassiveKiller2 Corgan admitted it :D
Hogwee 8 months ago
AMAZINGLY CLEVER FILLS
SiameseDream4321 9 months ago
Geddy and Neil are gods among men!
Shar1179 9 months ago
@Shar1179 What is Alex, chopped liver?
goofyGAguy 9 months ago
@goofyGAguy No! Sorry I just like Geddy and Neil more....but you are right he deserves his due!
Shar1179 9 months ago
Still good~Saw them in Austin back in 76~WOW~what a show~Podunk Austin and they played a double oncore~What a band!!!
mobeers1 10 months ago
@mobeers1 Was that at the Paramount Theater? I heard they experienced some structural damage after that show. ;)
Cash2112 9 months ago
@artillerybreath1 Rebecca is going to end up with a fat black dick in her anis and one in her mouth - makin' her airtight - if she does not shut up.
HumblePie76 10 months ago
of course i mean Geddy Lee,i`m just incredulous at the previous posters` ignorance!!
snallavnai 10 months ago
the Rush guys voice ????????? WTF
snallavnai 10 months ago
the Rush guys voice????????? wtf
snallavnai 10 months ago
@snallavnai You mean Geddy Lee?
TruthHaunt 10 months ago
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I came here because I read on the video for Smashing Pumpkins- Siamese Dream that Billy Corgan borrowed the main riff for it off of this track. Siamese Dream rocks, so I wanted to check it out. Kinda regret doing it though... Rush makes me mad. A little of it is the "fantasy themes," I mean Robert Plant and Jimmy Page could do that shit because they were otherwise the coolest guys around, but this sounds like rock for playing Dungeons and Dragons to. And what's with the Rush guy's voice?
myplaceintime 10 months ago
@myplaceintime
This song beats anything Led Zeppelin ever recorded....
supergroup 10 months ago
@supergroup ...and some men prefer taking hot black cocks up their puckerholes to tearing wet pink pussies to smithereens...
myplaceintime 10 months ago
@myplaceintime I prefer leaving their wet pink pussies gaped and filled with my man come.
HumblePie76 10 months ago
I'd like to see ANY nowadays band come up with something this original, this rocking and with this great of musicianship. Not one could ever do it...I guarantee you.
JimSVoit 10 months ago
What band could possibly rock harder and steadier than Rush?
jmpilcher 10 months ago
@ 6:29, the best guitar tone ever committed to tape.
goofyGAguy 10 months ago
This song is awesome!!!!!!!! Can anyone tell me: What instrument makes that low sound that begins at 1:53 and what is it supposed to symbolize?
gabejdb1234 10 months ago
@gabejdb1234 I think that's Geddy on a bass pedal synthesizer.
goofyGAguy 10 months ago
@gabejdb1234 It is guitar, i dunno what it's called but that thing where they can run the feedback into their mouth or however it is done...
myplaceintime 10 months ago
Combine the best qualities of Led Zeppelin/Black Sabbath and the best qualities of Yes/Genesis and this is what you get. RUSH
Rowdyrecords55 10 months ago
the solo at 6:30 is the best
n1GibsonGuitarist 11 months ago
I pick Rush over any art or progressive band
Cultridens 11 months ago
Light Up!
Bhaltazhar 11 months ago
i truly like Tales from Topographic Oceans and what is important to remember is that all these Prog bands had the freedom and space to experiment... and some record companies who were still willing to back this kind of experimentation.
Sure there were some oddball and self indulgent moments... but who is recording stuff like this nowadays... and don't kid yourself, many of these bands were an influence on bands like Rush.
Lewis1key 11 months ago
ART!!! with AWESOME Music!
MrKeyboardDK 11 months ago
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MrKeyboardDK 11 months ago
I'm going to go out on a limb and state that this tune was a little ahead of its time in 1975.
Cash2112 1 year ago 57
@Cash2112 Not really. Prog Rock was well established by 1974 with the likes of King Crimson & Yes as well as Emerson ,Lake & Palmer, but this is a a wonderful piece of work - one of many from thie greatest 3 piece band in the land!
thisismusic38 11 months ago
@thisismusic38 Those prog bands all had good chops, but their music didn't have the engaging feel, drive and energy that Rush had at the time. Their ponderous works were just flat out boring and tiring to the point of being unlistenable IMHO (Re: "Tales from Topographic Oceans").
Cash2112 11 months ago 21
@Cash2112 i think it can sometimes but not all the time.
happyface4444 11 months ago
@Cash2112 Tales From Topographic Oceans is brilliant. One of Yes' absolute best. If you you think it's "boring and tiring to the point of being unlistenable"...honestly, try getting high and listening to it. Or better yet, take some LSD. If you're perspective on the album doesn't change after that, that I don't know what to tell you. lol
JimSVoit 11 months ago
@JimSVoit If your listeners have to get high to understand your music, YOU SUCK AT MAKING MUSIC.
cptbootleg 10 months ago 8
@cptbootleg The point I'm trying to make is that you don't have to get high!!! However, maybe taking LSD will change your perspective on why you don't like the music to begin with.
Also, are you saying that Yes sucks at making music? If so, then you should realize that if it weren't for Yes, Rush wouldn't have ever became the band that they did. Geddy Lee himself says that Relayer is in his top 5 rock albums of all time list.
JimSVoit 10 months ago
@JimSVoit I have to disagree here. Lee might have Relayer as one of his top 5 albums but that doesn't mean he and the others would not have become what they are. I hate those general assumptions. The Beatles also did not open the gateway to all the music we have today either. Someone else would have come around. I play music and have a myriad of tastes. My music would be the same despite my top 5 choices. It comes from me, not others.
vovin1969 6 months ago
@cptbootleg Agreed
vovin1969 6 months ago
@cptbootleg afraid?
spyderkat 6 months ago
@cptbootleg Why? It is another way to create and understand music. Dont tell people what to do.
joakoPRIMUS 6 months ago
@cptbootleg It was the times we were in. There was always music to get stoned to. This album was one of them.
nailers99 5 months ago
@Cash2112 yes, Tales was very boring. yes was just working too hard.
FuyuAkiWorld 9 months ago
@Cash2112 Yes and their like made it possible for bands like Rush to indulge themselves. "The Gates of Delirium" is not boring, it's an epic and never lets up, totally engaging and Pink Floyd had everything inspades and never wasted a note. Yes, if you'll pardon the pun, TFTO is a tad over long and not their best.
unaperrson 9 months ago
@Cash2112 It's a shame. I actually liked alot of the parts on Tales. If each song was about half as long, it would be a very listenable album IMO.
DSCRAPRE 9 months ago
@Cash2112 Good call on pointing out that Rush is a groundbeaker. @thisismusic38 Obviously you have the art appreciation skills of of a one cell organism. I suggest you seek treatment for you ADHD.
idiotcallout 9 months ago