Rush - The Body Electric

[jj75ism]

One of my favourites by Rush, love the spacious guitar in this album.

[bassmanjoe]

None of the Rush albums suck, will all have are favorites. My favorite period is Hemispheres, Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures. I really think that Terry Brown was the best them in my opinion.

[maggot1111666]

quite possibly the best album put out by rush, besides their new one which seems like it will kick ass, or their first.

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

MARDI GRAS 02212012

[snowman4440]

My kids are 7 and 11 and they sing this song to me I love it, Rush full circle!

[eezyrider65]

LOOK OUT!!! GUITAR SOLO AT @2:55!!!

[ElectroMecca]

Whenever I hear "bows it's head and prays to the mother of all machines", I think of the BBC TV show Red Dwarf and how a robot talking about whether or not there is a machine afterlife asks "Where would all the calculators go?"

[fearsomesnow]

1001001 - i

i sos

i in distress

The Body Electric- Describing a robot.

if you know what the letter i means, you are sentient.

The robot is sentient. Law of syllogism.

[tamatamrogers]

Astral and heavenly and cp30!

[stratovani]

One-zero-zero, one-zero-zero, one, SOS!

One-zero-zero, one-zero-zero one, IN DISTRESS!

One-zero-zero, one zero-zero!

[kostasxrysogelos]

Is the title influenced by Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" (where the poem "I sing the body electric")? Anyone know?

[TheBgaddy]

I had Geddys autograph but a so called friend took it !!! Met him twice, once on Grace tour and once on Power Windows! Seen them over 20 times and they have never disappointed!

[17pbboy]

Explosively amazing!!!

[mikezes]

Excellent! What a gem!

[fearsomesnow]

I'm 15, heard Rush since I was like 6, (heard it in the car ALL the time) now I am really into it.

[MegaVergan]

wow! this is awesome! Actually i never heard of a Rush song that was'nt good! Rush forever!

[fearsomesnow]

1001001 actually is one letter in binary code: I.

It means the robot knows what I means, as in it is sentient.

It fits perfectly.

[TheTherese3]

"Body " works on many levels.One,There is the anthem sound of Lifeson.Two Geddy knows his dynamics.Three well Peart just knows his running game!

[probrojeffro]

My favorite song on the album. Bliss.

[dragonslave660]

the best band of all time



[Xeivous]

i love that addicting chours: 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 SOS!!!

[DarwinBlinks]

my Mom's fave Rush song

[Heartbeats2song]

I've always loved this album. And I'm a teenager. Progressive is the best!

[MrBillybones999]

Loved it then,love it even more now.....

[TheChrisbk]

When this came out i was just a new teen and now you know why we rushers called everyone wannabees, Understand

[troy0351]

now i am at 17 shows.met geddy the highlight of my life. been 5th row in indiana the last show of the tour for snakes and arrows. cant wait for more. i loved them since i was an 8 year old girl

.

[troy0351]

this was first rush concert i was 14

[mattymanten]

Hey guys im 14 and i listen to........OH WAIT IM NOT A TOOL!!

[NIKKZIITRIXZII]

I spent a few months listening to this album without three songs including this :::((( but when i gotthe other off itunes it was remastered and the picture is absolutely gorgeous

[codern]

hey kids of today...now this is band!!!

[tjm707]

@codern Hey I'm 16 and I love RUSH my best friend and I listen to them all the time we all most have all of there albums just 4 more to go. But RUSH is one of the best band ever to have formed.

[jerrythepotato1919]

@codern I'm 12 and I know every Rush song there is, and I have Geddy Lee's autograph. Not all of us have bad taste in music.

[codern]

@jerrythepotato1919 thats awesome, and im happy you have good taste...but remember, generally speaking the statement holds true. Keep listening to awesome music. Listen to floyd too.!

[jerrythepotato1919]

@codern I already do listen to Pink Floyd.

[codern]

@jerrythepotato1919 well then you clearly are just someone who knows good music :P

[gumbyonacid]

@jerrythepotato1919 no way do you know every rush song...come clean kid- lol

[arnolddrummer]

@jerrythepotato1919 if your 12 years old then you're too young to have a Youtube account

[jerrythepotato1919]

@arnolddrummer No, that's just YouTube's stupid rule. It actually depends on if you're really uploading anything or if you just wanted an account to post comments. And even look at my channel if you want to. I upload Rush bass covers. I might be doing The Enemy Within this week!

[arnolddrummer]

@jerrythepotato1919 i know just messing with ya

[terrorofdeath93]

@jerrythepotato1919Same, though in my case I'm 18 and have all of their autographs.

[zonker400]

@jerrythepotato1919

[GOLIATHdominates]

@jerrythepotato1919 I'm only -3 years old but I can recognize good music. Don't stereotype the unborn... I'm not like the rest of my generation, listening to crap like lady gaga circa 2024.

[CobainStJohns]

Geddy Lee, not Walt Whitman, sings The Body Electric.

[lopergrad]

Been a fan since 1975 and this is my favorite song. The lyrics.....

[Kaduguariente]

The Best Cover Album of Rush History..i remember the when my brothers brough to me this album..i was fascinated..more people must be considered this album a weak and verys 80's Rush album..but thats is the reason of this album to be great. He was produced in the 80's..if you remember the Back of YES, Genesis you remember this album...

[EvolvingMindBody]

Some of Neil's greatest lyrics right here.

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

using neil gracie

friedrich nietzsche one ayn rand

stuck in dualsized crapsapoloplous

[MrBillydoo]

I turned in these lyrics as part of a paper for a college class years ago and that dumbass gave me a C on the paper. I think he must have been into boy george.

[TheSonsofHorusx]

the best opening line ever "a humanoid escapee"

[SuperMegaUberGenius]

@TheSonsofHorusx how wrong about everything about dat is a kind of thing to say ffs

[TheTherese3]

Upload this immense structure!

[MrDAVIDEO84]

Notice the " EYE " in the sky ! On the cover of the album .

[BassOMatic76]

@MrDAVIDEO84 I actually did a pretty in-depth report on this album cover for one of my art classes. Always glad to use something Rush-related.

[CaptGage]

Kick-ass shit! Neil Peart laid down a distinct beat to say the least.

[TheBgaddy]

First Rush show on this tour!. (met Geddy Lee and got his autograph)!!!!!!!!!!!!GOOD MEMORIES! No one has or will ever touch the masters!

[hitopsful]

this is defeinatly one of alexs greatest guitar solos...am i right?

[123rushfan1]

rush and muse are the only bands that matter nowadays.

[Ryu12543]

@123rushfan1 No they're not, though they're both amazing.

[MaelstromGuy]

My favorite band is dream theater, they are my band idols, so, these guys are my idols' idols, math would say i love them equal or better, i really can't tell both are my 1st place now

[fijiboy68]

"Mother of all machines"

[ghkdtjdguq1]

man!! this track is awesome. feels like seeing tron movie.

[mysterywhiteboy72]

"Bows its head and prays to the mother of AUBERGINES!"

Come on, you know that's really what he says...

[MrMapb]

EXCELENTE GRUPO.

DE LO MEJOR SIN DUDA.

[biggerbigd]

...and, one of Alex's best solos ever!

[shaneinkster]

1001001

[shaneinkster]

1984

[probrojeffro]

Personally, I love all Rush. Early, Middle, Late, but this is one of my fav. Rush albums. I love it, and I love the way Rush changes and adapts never getting boring or stagnant. Isn't that what music and artistry is all about? Peace!

[dwilmer7]

This allbum was Neil Pearts apex as far as lyrics go imo.

"An ill wind comes arising across the cities of the plain" is just poetic perfection.

[foreverbells]

I'm a little sad that I was born after most of Rush's stuff. I feel like I missed so much, but I'm thankful that my dad played Rush when I was very little. Now, they are my favorite band, and they have completely changed my life.

[biggerbigd]

@foreverbells As long as you found them and listen now. None of the song subjects have been resolved yet.

[rcafasso1]

I want SOMEONE to tell me how he arrives at his guitar tone...PLEASE !!!!

[SpikeCBT1]

From the theme of the lyrics, and also recall some wiki on this, didn't Neil Peart base this song off Issac Asimov's novel "I, Robot"?

[Cash2112]

@SpikeCBT1 Actually, Peart saw into the future and based this song on the obot phenomonon of 2008. This political song captures the behavior of 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.

[Hypnails]

@Cash2112 So it that part a quote or original lyrics?

[Hypnails]

@Cash2112 Who is Dinglebarry Soetoro?

[Cash2112]

@Hypnails Google it.

[Hypnails]

@Cash2112 I see.

[kingxsmoothy]

Rush was at their greatest in the eighties P/G for life

[zandogx1]

one humanoid escapee...

[LivingInTheLimeligh7]

@coptersoisoi 1. Geddy Lee is not a chick, he is a manly man,

2. Heart's singer sounds completely different

3. Not in many cases a same singer is in 2 bands

[hovanti]

@coptersoisoi It's a guy singing the vocals; Geddy Lee.

[Kenebutch]

Not too many songs start off with a great drum beat like Neil's at the beginning which is so unique. That is why Rush is such a Great F****ing Band!

[beerjitsu]

One of the best songs Rush ever recorded. Which is to say one of the best songs ANY band has ever recorded. I don't know why this song(or this album for that matter)doesn't get more recognition for being among their best work. Brilliant drums (a given), great bass line, very understated yet tasteful guitar, and some of the best lyrics Neil has ever written IMO. Not just a message but a STORY. It's like all those early concept albums compressed into one song.

"In a clenching plastic fist!"

[nodrush]

Fuck, I'm sick of hearing how RUSH went down hill in the late 80's and 90's. They made some of their best music then(and now),some people just don't get it. I'm glad they experiment, the most balsey band that has ever been. Who makes more interesting music today, more modern music, and this was over 20 years ago! There are a few interesting bands out there (ie porcupine tree), but for the most part, it's unimaginative shit! Long live the kings!

[HaroldroughShin]

that is the coolest album art ever

[Cash2112]

The robotic drum beat, lyrics and Alex's rock guitar clinic puts this song in the musical genius category. Actually, the entire P/G album is in this category.

[piper131313]

I think one of the most underappreciated Rush albums. With the aid of 26 years hence... . I can still remember listening to this intently as the lonely outcast boy of subdivisions.... and giving into the lyrics and music. Amazing then (although no Rush fans would admit it.....) and I think stands up pretty good now....

[vettedreams]

1001001001001001 in distress..........take me back in time to when this album was playing in my car 24/7............1984.......gre­at year to be a Rush fan.

[gil72ful]

THAT DRUM BEAT! DAMN! AWESOME

[MrMapb]

EXCELENTE ROLA.

[Pictor100]

One thing that made Rush so different and successful in the 80s, is that they had an identifiably '80s sound', and yet didn't slavishly follow the musical trends and fashions of the time. They could never be accused of being just another one of dozens of 'haircut bands' that polluted the airwaves back then.

'Grace Under Pressure' was a pretty apt title, not just because of the thematic content, but because the members of the band weren't getting along, and the band almost didn't survive.

[Phantasmo77]

@Pictor100 No mention of issues during the GUP period in "Beyond the Lighted Stage." Source?

[beccaLol0800]

Whoever said that this is Signals 2 is spot on. If you are a Rush fan, this vintage hits you on an emotional level that is like Signals but is so different than the earlier stuff.

There's nothing like it!

[wolfhound338]

Fav...........thats all I need to say as albums go.

[eje657west]

Love it!

[Rushguitarist1]

awesome song. fdjsu9fyuhwe7ufhv.....sorry i had to get that out after watching this

[tacosalad98]

I always saw this album as Signals 2, it probaly would've made a great duoble LP, anyone remeber those?

[Over9000Wolf]

For whatever reason, I associate this song with a Japan-only game known as Mother 3. It had animal-robot hybrids, a desert environment, and all kinds of things taht just hearken back to this song.

[lifeson241]

without rush my life would be in shambles..GO RUSH !!!!

[cisco9x]

I wish I could play half as good as Alex Lifeson

[alanboro]

@cisco9x me too dude

[Markcip1]

It's strange!!! I was a person who grew up on Rush's 1970s musics and after Hemispheres I thought they went down hill with this Progressive Bull. However, now that I am in my 40s, I seem to appreciate this album more than ever.

[hemispheres3]

yes it's easy to forget how much it rocks because of the synths. But I'd say it resonates with me because I in high school during the mid-late 80's instead of Def lepppard or hair music I reverted back to Rush and it seemed to fit. This albumn in particular rocks and carried me.

[MCGETRICK2]

@Markcip1 right on brother me too!

[AlexxxStrykr]

@Markcip1 this album is a TIGHT follow-up to the masterpiece that is Signals. (Tough to follow that one...)

[ezernut9mm]

@Markcip1

it's funny. i quit buying rush albums after this one because of where they were heading musically. now it seems my tastes have matured and i love all of rush's music.

[collartrance]

NO BAND IS BETTER THEN RUSH!

[Apockiller]

@collartrance I couldn't have put it better myself!! OH SO FUCKING TRUE! I am going to make sure my coffin is lined with speakers and mp3s of every song Rush has done when I die!

[hifivintage1968]

Rush is the best group in the Galaxy!!!

[lanamally]

@collartrance THAN...jeezeus



[ChanelBankierPerry]

@collartrance *Than

[marcusdolby1]

1:39 for life..... Thanks niel

[TheBleech]

it's just a song...but yes we do...

[Godlovesrockmusic]

This song reminds me of "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" or as its known, "Bladerunner."

[joltzkrieg]

@Godlovesrockmusic very good movie, looking for the book

[ViciousAlienKlown]

The lyrics on this album are so so, not their best work. I prefer 2112/Moving Pictures/Counterparts...better lyrics. The "Terminator" lryics fits the music though.

[piper131313]

do androids dream............

[PoPoNellie]

No...We put a stop to that long ago!

[paulatreides123]

Watch bladerunner and find out.

[billybobsmusic]

it replays each of the days a hundred years of routines. bows its head and prays to the mother of all machines....

[fanofthemusic1090]

This is so great, man. Now I don't have to pay a dollar to hear this song on Itunes. Thanks, man.

[eliwire]

I have the original video of this released in the 80s on VHS. I was sad to not find it on here. I always liked the marching women police (they were so calm cool and collected) and the red flashing wrist band locating the guy's whereabouts even though he was running away. Has anybody seen this version around on the internet???

[GordonYYZ]

That video used to be on here, but youtube removed it, even this video was removed but I was able to get it back. Rush made the best music videos.

[ruleta74835]

@GordonYYZ

Rush's videos were pretty well known as being terrible, despite many of their songs being cool. I couldn't watch their videos from this album, either in 1984 or now. Oh well, I just didn't expect to hear an opinion that Rush made the best videos. Cheers....

[conkareno]

yea its on here somewere

[WilAzzamEdison]

@eliwire  11vlmjvxxdw&feature = related

[1lhotstuff]

you 2 r so funny! w/ your new Rush language! so how do u say GEDDY LEE l/g or e= mc - 12?

[DigitalMan93]

p/g is rush's best 80s album.its so incredible and this song always stood out 4 me

[GordonYYZ]

What does p/g stand for?

[DigitalMan93]

its rush inner circle fans nickname 4 grace under pressure.think of it as pressure/grace

[GordonYYZ]

I just call it Grace Under Pressure, but when typing I just say GUP.

[DigitalMan93]

ya if im talking bout it i say grace under pressure.i dont think any1 would say p over g outloud

[GordonYYZ]

Ya, that'd be kinda stupid.

[Cash2112]

The p/g logo is on the right side of the album cover!

[FlyingBurritoMan]

Thanks.