i am amd becuase i cant find permanent waves on cd vinyl or cassete WTF also need vapor trails counter parts(i know where to get that) power windows and hold your fire then i have every album thats not live also i am missing alex lifesons solo album victor if u count that i guess
some people say this was one of their worst albums - I personally could not disagree more. I personally believe this was around their zenith in terms of innovation, creativity and progressivism - from her they fell off in my opinion, roll the bones was semi- interesting and I havent heard anything since that really impresses me from rush. of course that is my subjective opinion however.
I believe they caved to criticism and pressure to return to their more hard -edged sound, they went back looking to recapture it and it broke the creative flow of these 80's albums that was progressing so magnificently. The brilliance and genius was only enhanced when Geddy began adding the magical potential and power of MIDI and synth. they gave in to criticism of synth being to "poppy" too bad.
i can't imagine the music they would have created had they continued in the creative, progressive flow they were in, by now there's just no telling - they really were the supreme example of power fused with technology and intelligence - no one has ever approached matching their music.
@goooogrrr How did they 'cave' exactly? Vapor Trails and Snakes & Arrows are a continuation of that journey they're on. Certainly, since the hiatus and Neil's tragedies, the group has never been more cohesive. There's a joy to what they're doing now. I loved that Alex said that he used to hate playing this song, or that song, but since the hiatus, he plays each song like it'll be the last time he plays it. That says a lot as to where their frames of mind are at this stage.
alex didn't like competing with the keyboards and being in the background. and geddy didn't like being a "slave" to technology and always having to be on the keyboards and away from his bass
@goooogrrr I think it's more that they simply grew in a different musical direction, especially after the hiatus. Rush is hardly the kind of band to cave to any pressure or care about popular criticism. They make music they like, and they currently like making the "hard-edged" stuff. The proof is how consistently brilliant they've managed to remain, regardless of style or instrumentation.
I think Geddy Lee was quoted as saying that this was the best song Rush ever wrote. I can't remember were I heard it though. It may have been an interview in Bass Player Magazine.
Yea, I think it was mentioned in the Rush in Rio DVD. I think both he and Peart said it was one of their better crafted songs, Peart saying that it is a very emotional song for him.
I miss the Ruper Hine production work with this band. Presto and Roll the Bones had some great songwriting and arrangment to them.
@goooogrrr I agree, you can totally see the drop from Presto to Roll The Bones; as much as I like it, it really shows an inflexible, confined predictability among the arrangements, an infrequent phenomenon among their earlier works to say the least. Presto on the other hand draws from both what they had done and where they were going, and it's no large exaggeration to say it really was a zenith.
As a guy that saw them play in Toronto before they had an album, and listened to and has seen them in big venues for the last 35 years, this is my favourite Rush song of all time!! Keep it coming guys!!
"The Pass" is a song by the band Rush from their 1989 album Presto. The song addresses the issue of suicide among many teens. The lyrics, like the majority of Rush's songs, are written by drummer Neil Peart. The lyric "All of us get lost in the darkness/Dreamers learn to steer by the stars/All of us do time in the gutter/Dreamers turn to look at the cars" references a line from Oscar Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan.
Oua8 must stand for...I can't even be a pimple on the arses of any of a band that has spanned well over three decades of music filling venues around the world.
No actually the song The Pass refers to suicide. Look at the lyrics..eg.. "no salutes to ur surrender" "nothing noble in ur fate, christ wat hav u done" "Dont turn ur back and slam the door on me" Also people kill themselves by jumping off passes.
It's a Song about how not to give up, as a teen when you're just on the edge, to just push and don't stop trying, fight for what you are! "AS said by Geddy Lee" :D Good Day!
yeah...unfortunately no one is perfect....even Rush...missed the beginning a bit...one of the best Rush songs ever though! Ahhhhh 5th grade memories for me!!!!!!........
Quote: "what was the basis for this song ? It is quite mesmerizing."
If you mean the lyrical basis, it's about teen suicide. The message is basically an acknowledgement of the confusion, alienation and despair some teens feel, coupled with the reassurance that "all of us get lost in the darkness" and go thru rough times. It's basically saying yeah, life may suck for you right now, but "don't turn your back and slam the door on me." (In other words, don't give up, don't kill yourself.)
I'm sure they love the fans, but you pay for a ticket to a performance, not to be their friends. I think by the time they wrote Limelight they had already worked out the boundaries of what was business time and what was not.
If you're worried if they are cool or not, just think back to the days when Neil gave away his mega kits for Modern Drummer magazine readers. That is cool.
top 10 rush
execatty 1 year ago
i am amd becuase i cant find permanent waves on cd vinyl or cassete WTF also need vapor trails counter parts(i know where to get that) power windows and hold your fire then i have every album thats not live also i am missing alex lifesons solo album victor if u count that i guess
zackjp 1 year ago
Rush reminds me that somewhere, deep inside, I still have a soul.
Scholar013 1 year ago 3
@Scholar013 this song gave me a soul
freemanlisa445 8 months ago
all of you who love this song, count me in.
27mymoon 1 year ago 5
Wow. A live video of Rush with good audio? Nice one man. This actually sounds better then the studio version.
KingKulltheGreat 2 years ago 2
some people say this was one of their worst albums - I personally could not disagree more. I personally believe this was around their zenith in terms of innovation, creativity and progressivism - from her they fell off in my opinion, roll the bones was semi- interesting and I havent heard anything since that really impresses me from rush. of course that is my subjective opinion however.
goooogrrr 2 years ago 2
I believe they caved to criticism and pressure to return to their more hard -edged sound, they went back looking to recapture it and it broke the creative flow of these 80's albums that was progressing so magnificently. The brilliance and genius was only enhanced when Geddy began adding the magical potential and power of MIDI and synth. they gave in to criticism of synth being to "poppy" too bad.
goooogrrr 2 years ago 7
i can't imagine the music they would have created had they continued in the creative, progressive flow they were in, by now there's just no telling - they really were the supreme example of power fused with technology and intelligence - no one has ever approached matching their music.
goooogrrr 2 years ago 9
In conclusion, what is my opinion?? 'tis but a drop in and endless ocean of thought.
goooogrrr 2 years ago
@goooogrrr How did they 'cave' exactly? Vapor Trails and Snakes & Arrows are a continuation of that journey they're on. Certainly, since the hiatus and Neil's tragedies, the group has never been more cohesive. There's a joy to what they're doing now. I loved that Alex said that he used to hate playing this song, or that song, but since the hiatus, he plays each song like it'll be the last time he plays it. That says a lot as to where their frames of mind are at this stage.
obscuremedia 11 months ago 2
alex didn't like competing with the keyboards and being in the background. and geddy didn't like being a "slave" to technology and always having to be on the keyboards and away from his bass
sykochikn136 2 years ago
@goooogrrr I think it's more that they simply grew in a different musical direction, especially after the hiatus. Rush is hardly the kind of band to cave to any pressure or care about popular criticism. They make music they like, and they currently like making the "hard-edged" stuff. The proof is how consistently brilliant they've managed to remain, regardless of style or instrumentation.
dexeron 1 year ago
Check out Snakes and Arrows, their most recent work. Filled with excellence.
rebar34 2 years ago
I think Geddy Lee was quoted as saying that this was the best song Rush ever wrote. I can't remember were I heard it though. It may have been an interview in Bass Player Magazine.
Kkrouton 2 years ago 3
Yea, I think it was mentioned in the Rush in Rio DVD. I think both he and Peart said it was one of their better crafted songs, Peart saying that it is a very emotional song for him.
I miss the Ruper Hine production work with this band. Presto and Roll the Bones had some great songwriting and arrangment to them.
tremulo20 2 years ago 3
@Kkrouton I think from RIO he said it was one of the band favorites......
SLP1811 1 year ago
@goooogrrr I agree, you can totally see the drop from Presto to Roll The Bones; as much as I like it, it really shows an inflexible, confined predictability among the arrangements, an infrequent phenomenon among their earlier works to say the least. Presto on the other hand draws from both what they had done and where they were going, and it's no large exaggeration to say it really was a zenith.
Durandal1717 1 year ago
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goooogrrr 2 years ago
As a guy that saw them play in Toronto before they had an album, and listened to and has seen them in big venues for the last 35 years, this is my favourite Rush song of all time!! Keep it coming guys!!
jtoshawa 2 years ago 3
"The Pass" is a song by the band Rush from their 1989 album Presto. The song addresses the issue of suicide among many teens. The lyrics, like the majority of Rush's songs, are written by drummer Neil Peart. The lyric "All of us get lost in the darkness/Dreamers learn to steer by the stars/All of us do time in the gutter/Dreamers turn to look at the cars" references a line from Oscar Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan.
Source: Wikipedia
MizChereeB 2 years ago
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God this a REALLY horrible song,if i was about to jump off a bridge and heard this i'd jump!
0ua8 2 years ago
you are a douche, ou8
alexmassacre123 2 years ago
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Is this song about getting old and getting a bus pass?
0ua8 2 years ago
Oua8 must stand for...I can't even be a pimple on the arses of any of a band that has spanned well over three decades of music filling venues around the world.
philfrank22 2 years ago
Love this song! Its all about suicide that it isnt a heroic thing to do.
'Its not as if your all alone, in wanting to explode'
EMBOBZ2112 2 years ago
oh that's weird, I read the lyrics you wrote down as he was singing them.....
sgtpepper1138 2 years ago 2
hah cool!
Great song
EMBOBZ2112 2 years ago
Well mabye you should ask the band because they usually have 2 meanings
geddy9167 2 years ago
Just google Rush the Pass or go to song facts. Songs about suicide. Argument is over. A simple google search will prove that.
ashevillenchomes 2 years ago
doesnt any one hear the lyrics dreamers learn to stir by the stars everyone is for the suicide when it really means get over it and go on with life
freemanlisa445 2 years ago
My favroite Rush song of all time.
LaxForLife12341 2 years ago 2
mine to
freemanlisa445 2 years ago
No actually the song The Pass refers to suicide. Look at the lyrics..eg.. "no salutes to ur surrender" "nothing noble in ur fate, christ wat hav u done" "Dont turn ur back and slam the door on me" Also people kill themselves by jumping off passes.
joeltoth2 2 years ago
this song is not about suicide it's about dusting the dust off and following your dreams your dreams are the razors edge
freemanlisa445 2 years ago
ya i looked it up and it is about suicide, so get your shit straight before you come and tell me wat the song is about.
joeltoth2 2 years ago
im not the only one who thinks this song is about not giving up do your homework im older and know what this song is about
freemanlisa445 2 years ago
this song is about teen suicide it took geddy lee 10 years to write this song
bassist4lif3 2 years ago
Neil wrote the lyrics. Alex & Ged wrote the music.
alexmassacre123 2 years ago
It's a Song about how not to give up, as a teen when you're just on the edge, to just push and don't stop trying, fight for what you are! "AS said by Geddy Lee" :D Good Day!
Dust1n1268 2 years ago 2
yeah...unfortunately no one is perfect....even Rush...missed the beginning a bit...one of the best Rush songs ever though! Ahhhhh 5th grade memories for me!!!!!!........
BallisticScience 3 years ago
Best Rush song ever. Brilliant.
Munky81 3 years ago
what was the basis for this song ? It is quite
mesmerizing.
CoolOrb 3 years ago
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Quote: "what was the basis for this song ? It is quite mesmerizing."
If you mean the lyrical basis, it's about teen suicide. The message is basically an acknowledgement of the confusion, alienation and despair some teens feel, coupled with the reassurance that "all of us get lost in the darkness" and go thru rough times. It's basically saying yeah, life may suck for you right now, but "don't turn your back and slam the door on me." (In other words, don't give up, don't kill yourself.)
Ken5244 2 years ago
Geddy switched around the "life on a razor's edge" lines.
GrayLeader2184 3 years ago
great song!!!
sullysnet 3 years ago
Ive never heard of Rush being very fan friendy. I mean like after shows or in person and stuff, you never hear stories of if thier cool or not!
NateXXXX 4 years ago
well they're kind of private people, especially Neil
I can respect that, i'm sure fans can get really annoying
sgtpepper1138 4 years ago 2
I'm sure they love the fans, but you pay for a ticket to a performance, not to be their friends. I think by the time they wrote Limelight they had already worked out the boundaries of what was business time and what was not.
If you're worried if they are cool or not, just think back to the days when Neil gave away his mega kits for Modern Drummer magazine readers. That is cool.
tapkae 2 years ago
I love Rush, but what a bummer that they were out of sync when counting in the song...
ThomasMikaelsen 4 years ago 2
Dweeb
they've never played it better
dork
tubeguy2012 4 years ago
this album came out the day i was born.
shadowquest91 4 years ago
this album came out the day i went to college
tubeguy2012 4 years ago
my mom was there and had backstage passes. But then they were stolen from her. In the end, Rush ended up jumping in there bus and took off.
machoguy94 4 years ago
So are you trying to make sound like it was rushes fault the passes were stolen.
woloschuk123 3 years ago
i think it was 1991 to 1992
whatcolorisblue 4 years ago
Ahh Roll the Bones Tour...when was this? 1990-1991?
nagoura 4 years ago