Rush - Subdivisions (REACTION)
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I think this is one of their best songs. So relatable and entrancing. It is about growing up in the suburbs of Toronto, detached from the life of the city and isolated by the industrial society which includes a school system designed to mold you into a efficient worker and consumer, losing the race to rats, caught in ticking traps, dreaming of a better life.
I agree that this is one of their best moments but Witch Hunt's timeless lyrics will always be my favorite.
@@MrLedotsonAgree. Trees as well. 😍🤩
They were influenced by Ayn Rand so a bit of Libertarianism made it into their songs. Songs stressing individualism and being self sufficient and songs railing against collectivism. Tom Sawyer and Trees come to mind.
@@dsvet You're well-read on your Rush facts. #Anthem
Neal Pert the drummer did write all of the songs.
“Conform or be cast out” what a f*cking great line!!
This is about feeling isolated as a teenager, not being able to join " the cool kids ", which applies to 99% of us, the reason this song is so beloved
Perfectly described!
More like 85% - 90%. As far as the song goes, it's okay, but nothing great like their earlier work. Rush sold out with Signals.
@@Cosmo-Kramer tell us you're a sanctimonious, snotty, self-righteous sack of S#!T without telling us you're a sanctimonious, snotty, self-righteous sack of S#!T
@@Cosmo-Kramer someone just doesn't like keyboards
@@LyonHall1 Not when they're over-used, I don't.
Greatest reaction comment of all time-" If you're dumb as a board, you can't listen to this music!"
You guys do the best job. No joke.
😂 thank you so much!!
I laughed so hard after you said that man! 😂 Yes, Rush can be considered "A thinking man's band" for sure.
This is one of the few songs where I think watching the official video really helps us understand the song, in this case the loneliness of the kids who feel like outcasts.
I agree. The video is pretty straightforward & aligns with the message of the song quite well.
@@goldenageofdinosaurs7192 Plus, the "outcast" kid in the video looks SO MUCH like the younger brother of my best friend at the time, who, just like the kid in the video, walked the halls alone.
I agree to a point. but back in 1982 when we just played it on our car stereos we just got it. Then we saw the mtv video. Great music though
Read the lyrics - no video req'd
Most people first listening to Rush are consumed by the music, when you can comprehend the lyrics is when you realize that you are listening to absolute perfection!
The drumming in this song is insane. High hat work is outstanding
There is a reason people call Rush "nerd rock." It's complicated, poetic, and well structured but still surprising.
True but this is one of their most straight forward songs lyrically lol.
It's about the soul-killing conformity demanded in suburban life. The title refers to both housing "subdivisions", or neighborhoods, and the way we divide up into cliques for self-preservation and status. So many great lines. Worth a read.
Indeed. Become the black and white or be a nobody. And if your a nobody who dreams of a better life or a way to break from the same blank routine, you can't because your trapped in the uneventful repetitiveness of life of a small suburb town
Having the lyrics in front of you when listening to a Rush song is a must have, in my opinion
my daughter's first rush song........she was hooked on rush.
It’s this song that helped me get through high school at a time in my life when I felt very alienated. Rush music will always be almost sacrosanct to me in that respect.
Yes, it’s Neil who wrote the lyrics. He was very intense. Not only was he the most innovative and influential progressive rock drummer writing the blueprint for countless others to follow, he wrote all these amazing lyrics. Neil, man, there won’t be another quite like him.
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His passing gave me PTSD, and I'm still not over it. It crushed me. RIP Neil. 😪
Lots of people feel the same way you do about Rush
The subdivisions of society is what this sound is about.
Greatest rock band ever
A brilliant commentary on growing up in the suburbs, especially if you weren't one of the popular kids at school. "In the high school halls, In the shopping malls, Conform or be cast out". Another great choice - much love from Canada!
Take off, hoser!!
Bass, drums, guitar, lyrics, compositions .... pure, utter mastery.
RIP to the Professor Neil Peart one of the finest Drummers who ever lived.
And one of the best lyricists that ever lived!!
The signals album is tremendous
It's aged very well. Didn't get the respect it deserved when it 1st came out.
My favorite RUSH album.
@@TRANZEURO mine too!
This song gives me chills sometimes. There's actual beautiful melodies, unique rhyme schemes, great drum fills, and the haunting theme of adolescent lonliness - either occasional or a daily dread. A complete song. I'll always remember once catching a homely, quiet female HS classmate studying something with her eyes. She was looking up and down with just a hopeless lonely look on her face. She was studying a group of 'popular' girls, with all their makeup, fashion and friendship. I've never forgetten that look on her face to this day - 40+ years later.
The musicianship in this song is crazy......
I was a 15 year old when this came out and I felt the lyrics were written specifically for me. Neil became a huge inspiration to me and I still mourn him everyday even though we never met.
This is definitely in my top 5 Rush songs! All 3 guys are geniuses! Rest in peace Neil Peart!
Great song about growing up in housing subdivisions. I was a teen during the 70s in a rural area on the edge of subdivisions so I went to school and hung out in the subdivisions. This song captures the boredom and anxiousness of youth perfectly for my friends in the subdivisions.
I'm a year younger than Neil. I was born in the same hospital as him in Hamilton. I say this because I know exactly what he's talking about. I lived in a sub-division just outside Toronto and saw the same thing he did. Explosive growth. A very relatable song. Signals is a very cool Rush album as well. 'New World Man' was the other single off the album. Always watching...
Cool and Geddy lived in Rosedale in Toronto. I use to chat chat with Geddy and Alex on their walks. 🙏🍁
Hands down my favorite Rush track... Signals came out when I was in HS in Phoenix.
Thanks gentlemen!!
This song is about being a teenager growing up in the suburbs. The cookie cutter houses, the expectation that you will grow up and join the cookie cutter job ranks.
All the guys in Rush grew up in the suburbs and all felt like they didn't fit in. They all quit school in high school to play music.
If Neil's words made you think, he'd be pleased.
This song was my best friend when I was 14. I didn't fit in anywhere in school. I was that "weird kid". Needless to say this song spoke to me. I used to dream about getting the hell out and moving to a city....."any escape might help disprove the unattractive truth,but the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth"
It's basically about the structured life in the suburbs.
Great reaction, fellas! One of my favorite Rush songs. ME: How many different beats can you play in one song? NEIL: Yes! 😁
About growing up and the different "subdivisions", the cool kids, the outcasts etc.
The Professor was a VERY deep thinker.
I lived in the inner city and was bussed to a school in the suburbs of Los Angeles. I instantly related to this song. Picture me leaning against the window of a school bus with my Walkman listening to this song over and over.
Neil
Peart one of the goats on drums. Whole band crazy talented
Love you guys. And all this from just three guys. The best rock drummer, arguably the very best bass player ever, and one of the most creative and inventive guitarists.
".....if you are dumb as a board, you can't listen to this music" 🤣🤣🤣🤣 you guys are a trip, keep on keeping on....
Love this song! One of my favorite Rush songs.
One of my favorite songs of theirs and actually not so obscure. The lyrics are pretty direct with regard to the feelings of isolation people go through as teenagers. Subdivisions referring to how we divide ourselves into different cliques of us against them. One of the most concise conceptual songs Neil wrote. And of course all three gents are killing it on this song musically! Those drums! That bass! Perfection.
They didn’t call Neil The Professor for nothing
The Rush rabbit hole is a lifetime of listening. Ironically, one needs not rush getting to all of Rush's catalog. There's something in it for every ear. And every thought.
My first Concert was RUSH Signals! I was just 16 and it was amazing! And the song really hits home with being a teenager in school with all the different clicks and divisions in school and carries over to adulthood. Cheers,
This song is about youth growing up in the suburbs and how they're forced to conform under the guise of peer pressure and how things are handed down to some of the rich kids and how they're parents sometimes want to relive their dreams vicariously through their children by trying to shape them to be like them and grow up and do the same things and/or go to the same schools. It's their parents view of what they think their children's lives should be instead of giving them more freedom to be who they want to be like the lyrics where he says:
"Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Attached and subdivided in the mass production zone
No where is the dreamer or the misfit so alone"
In that last lyric it means that if you think differently and/or want to go down your own path in life instead of what is considered to be normal or outside the box your considered a misfit.
This is one of my favorite Rush songs period.
Loved their music for forty years now, amazing talent all of them, more please, RIP Neil, three cheers to you two thanks
The follow up to Moving Pictures. And the start of the keyboard era of the band
You should definitely go through this album. The last song countdown makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Listen to it LOUD and read the lyrics.
Some will sell there dreams for small desires, that line stays with me for over 40 years now. Thats what most of us do
My favorite Rush song, by far
"Sprawling on the fringes of the city
In geometric order
An insulated border
In between the bright lights
And the far unlit unknown
Growing up it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass production zone
Nowhere is the dreamer
Or the misfit so alone
Subdivisions -
In the high school halls
In the shopping malls
Conform or be cast out
Subdivisions -
In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out
Any escape might help to smooth
The unattractive truth
But the suburbs have no charms to soothe
The restless dreams of youth
Drawn like moths we drift into the city
The timeless old attraction
Cruising for the action
Lit up like a firefly
Just to feel the living night
Some will sell their dreams for small desires
Or lose the race to rats
Get caught in ticking traps
And start to dream of somewhere
To relax their restless flight
Somewhere out of a memory
Of lighted streets on quiet nights…"
Its talking about our Canadian subdivisions. Cookie cutter neiubourhoods.
In the high school halls in the bathroom stalls in the shopping mall be cool or be cast out! The restless dreams of youth.
Cheers
Not unlike todays HOA neighborhood developments.
The video they did for this song was like they put cameras into the brains of all of the bookish quiet guys who were Rush's fanbase.
Millions of us saw ourselves in that video.
Good job guys!
I've been a Rush fan since the mid-70s and it's so refreshing to see all the reaction videos the younger people are putting up.
City Kid, Suburb Kid, Ghetto Kid, Country Kid....doesn't matter. The social "clicks" and subdivisions of classes, people, ideals, expectations from parents and relatives, etc. affect us all. The "dreamers, the misfits so alone". The ones who won't or will not conform to what so-called society dictates to us as the "norm". To quote another Rush lyric from 'Vital Signs'...."everybody got to deviate from the norm"...
Raise your glass to the individual thinkers out there!
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Great reaction guys! I'm a tad surprised you didn't directly pick up on the lyrical content dealing with conformity, societal pressures to 'fit in' & the difficulties for the individual free-thinkers, especially as teenagers, to find a place, then the struggles of the rat-race as one gets older. Honestly, this one is pretty 'on the nose' lyrically for Neil. I get he's pretty cryptic sometimes & requires interpretation, but this one, at least for me, I got immediately! Course I was the target audience - nerdy loner, never part of the cool crowd - this song resonated on first listen.
May also be due to hearing it thousands of times (no exaggeration) - it is my de facto #1 Rush song, followed closely by 2112. I get chills every time I hear that opening synth drone! Perfection!
It's talking about how we feel so detached from the world we live in at times. It's questioning everything we ever grew up thinking or knowing.
It's literally a song about living in the suburbs, (like in a subdivision). The word subdivision serves as a double-entente, explaining how suburban life allows us to separate from each other, leading to mistrust and singling out those who don't conform. Think of the old man yelling "get off my lawn", or the "nerd" who sits alone in the cafeteria. We head to the city for excitement, but as we get older, we decide to settle down to a place like that in which we grew up, back to the suburbs.
Love this song since my days in high school… Neil Peart (RIP) writing a song about the struggles teenagers go through in Canada (since the band is from Ontario) and how the struggle to fit into society is so demanding…The band members considered themselves to be misfits when they were younger, and found a way through music to overcome those struggles…great reaction video!😊👍✌️😎🎤
I think this song resonates with anyone who grew up or is currently growing up in a suburb. Neil was always on point with his lyrics.
The members of Rush were basically outcasts in school, growing up in Toronto in the 1960's... Geddy Lee (bass/ keyboards/ vocals) and Alex Lifeson (guitar) were both children of immigrants in Canada; Geddy was Jewish... So, they both would have bullies threatening violence against them after school... Neither fit in w/ the 'popular crowd' and neither wanted to grow up to do a 9-to-5 job... In fact, Geddy and Alex both quit school before graduation to focus on Rush and their music, which upset their parents back then...
Neil Peart (drums) who wrote the lyrics had the same problems growing up - he was tall, awkward and shy... not athletic or into sports ...and a bookworm, so he would get picked on a lot in school... He started playing drums as a kid and it was the first time he was ever admired for anything, so it was an instrument of self-esteem... He also started playing in bands and even went to England to be a professional musician, but was unable to make a living there. Peart returned to Canada and worked at his dad's parts shop when he got a call to audition for Rush in 1974... He joined the band and felt like he had found his place - Peart was kindred spirits w/ Geddy & Alex and liked them and their management right away... On tour, he was always reading books... and Geddy & Alex felt that he would be a better lyricist for Rush... It turned out that they were right... 'Subdivisions' was written in 1982 as Neil Peart was looking back at his youth experiences, being an outcast in society w/ dreams of being something that was not the traditional adult life.
Growing up as a misfit kid in the endless suburbs of New Jersey, this song was kind of a personal anthem for me.
You guys are geniuses!
I listened to this for 30yrs only heard it 5yrs ago. Became my favourite.
+ “be cool or be cast out”
That’s what the song is basically about. That North Atlantic world suburban aspirational dream was already crumbling down in the early 80…
You are absolutely correct that Rush is definitely more cerebral than a lot of it out there. If you really want to "get it " with Rush, I suggest having the lyrics pulled up on your phone or something. Geddy Lee (Lead guitar, keyboard, lead vocals) has a voice that is kinda hard to follow when you are first getting to know the group. They put out a lot of sound for only being a 3 man band eh? Geddy had a special setup where he could press pedals with his feet to play keyboard while he played lead guitar and sang (talk about multitasking). The drummer Neil Peart (RIP) was on a whole new plane compared to others at the time. He wrote the majority of their music and could play percussion like nobody I have seen before or since. Just do a quick search for him on here. There's a video of him doing a drum solo and his percussion kit is amazing... literally surrounded by drums, cymbals, cowbell, pipes, all sorts of stuff and he is amazing
My impression has always been that they are describing the sheltered suburban youth, who has to live in their insulated world, subdivided from what they might really want: living in a vibrant city, exploring life outside the confines of their social circle. By feeling that way, they are outcasts and alone even in their own families.
This is about the plight of kids growing up in the SUBURBS and all o f their CLICKS - to be put in boxes and told that you will never make it out there...This hit when I was in HIGH SCHOOL and it spoke VOLUMES to me about growing up...
Rush music is 80's, different from 70's music, you can already see more commercialism in the music, I like that too, about the lyrics, I think they sang about strumming in private schools, where upbringing, discipline, relationships were the main problem of schoolchildren in adolescence, on my opinion is relevant to this day, Geddy Lee clearly pronounces the text, in rhyme with the music, this only complements the song, which makes his vocals and the Rush team as a whole fly, drums, synthesizer, guitar and vocals, they seem to compete with each other who is better , all the time trying to get ahead, I like it, I think this song is in the top 10 best songs of Rush.
I've been a die hard Rush fan since the early 80s. And in high school this song was so true. All the different "clicks" in school and the subdivision you grew up in. Such a great song.
I was only 8 when this came out, so it didn't do much for me... but man, when I discovered Rush in high school it really hit me, and this was the song that got me into them. The lyrics were so relatable, and even though I heard it years after it came out, it sounded like it was from the future. The keyboards just sounded so cool.
You guys reeeeeally need to react to all Rush pre-2112 albums! I believe you won't regret it!
Thanks for the reactions, don't miss one!
Cheers!
Neil's cymbal rides are just so f'ing tasty
"Be cool or be cast out!" This came out when I was in high school. I just thought it all related to being a teenager in the suburbs. High school halls, shopping malls, backs of cars, etc.
You should check out the video. It’s the studio version. The video illustrates what it’s about. I was a young teen when it came out. Ultimate teen age “let me be free” song. All over the radio & still a radio favorite.
You definitely have to read the lyrics to this. It's deep. It says you life is pre decided according to the way society wants it.
Saw them in a stadium what a group
The greatest trio of one group in history. Sadly Alex Leifson is a master on the guitar, but he is playing with two guys who some say are the greatest at their instrument in history.
Listen to La Villa Strangiato next to hear the guitarist blow your brain.
"But the suburbs have no charms to soothe the restless dreams of youth." Come on, man. Rush is poetry.
These were some of Peart's most direct lyrics. It's about growing up in suburbia, the sterility of it, and the lack of imagination of many of the kids who grow up there. It's not a place for those who think differently. Conformity was (is) considered the rule. Suburban cities are often divided into subdivision housing, with cookie cutter homes. When they were growing up outside of Toronto, they all lived in one of these suburbs, and experienced that sense of isolation. Watch the original video that they made for it. It will give you the real sense of the song.
I'm a singer/guitar player (a hack one)
..but, when I listen to this song, I'm listening to the drums the whole time 😎👍
You guys are on fire this morning! Rush fan here since they began and this is my favorite Rush album. Start to finish every song is gold.
Genius song…the music video gives you a better look into their deepness of this.
thanks so much for getting to my request guys!
Read the comments guys, my friends will tell you everything you need to know about the song 😊
Awesome, we need more of this rock now!
The song is truer today then when it was written almost 50 years ago
Yeah, Rush's lyrics have definitely questioned my intelligence at times, but their songs and their instrumentation are so intricate, how can their lyrics not be? It's part of what makes Rush, Rush.
😆 OK, I secretly thought folks used "not liking his voice" as an excuse because they were too 🤔😏 "unobservant" to get Rush! 🤗 But you just came right out and said 🤭what A LOT of people thought ..... and still think! 😍 Just made me LOVE you guys all the more!!!!! 🥰😁🐰
Guys
Song is about some teens who are outcasts from cliques or groups growing up. Official video of this song will help your understanding the meaning of this classic.
You have to watch the video to get the idea. It's a lot of Rush fans memories during this time.
Simply awesome music, RIP NEIL !! 😎
You may find Red Sector A by Rush from the Grace Under Pressure album interesting. It was partly inspired by Geddy Lee's mom's 1st person account of life in a Jewish concentration camp during WWII.Lee's mom survived that ordeal.
That's why it's "Geddy." It's how his mom pronounced, "Gary."
ROFLMAO, nailed it. if you ain't got no smarts then Rush is not your band. Rush is definitely "thinking mans rock". The official video focuses on kids growing up in the suburbs but it's so much deeper than that addressing all subdivisions in society.
not sure what all Rush songs you've reacted to but one of my favorites that doesn't get enough attention is "The Trees" check it out.
To me this song has always represented coming of age. Trying to figure out where you stand in society and whether to conform to societies standards or whether to rebel. It's much like "School" from Supertramp, or "Another Brick in the Wall Pt. 2" by Pink Floyd.
Ok now you have listened to a few rush songs. You are really ready for 2112 now. The video version. So you can read the screen get the story... really discover the awesomeness of the perfect 24 mins of all time.
Cheers
Yeah! 2112, original studio recording, that suite would blow their minds?
subdivisions: living in the cookie-cutter zone between downtown and 'the sticks', and the pressures of the cliques that often take hold there - no room for those different, dreamers, in this 'mass production zone' - mass production of goods, but especially personalities and culture. The larger message would be applicable to the subdivisions created in society at large, and I'm sure Neil/Geddy/Alex had that in mind as well.
The lyrics are pretty deep, it’s about feeling isolated by the subdivisions which naturally form in a vast sea of homogeneity.
They have been called "the thinking man's band".
Rush are a can of worms … great band and react’
The Lyrics of Rush are predominately written by Neil Peart "The Professor". The lyrics are NEVER abstract. The lyrics are Specific, Deliberate, and intended to inspire reflection on predetermined social expectations and social norms. Critical thinking mans' Music and Lyrics. Neil Pearts social commentary from his observations inspired by the huge volume of books that he had read.
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It's more about growing up in the 80's in the suburban "subdivisions", and fitting in with the "cool" crowd. "Be cool, or be cast out."
This song is about so many different things but the lyric “the future pre-decided” all about our education system in the “mass production zone”
4:25 I spat out my coffee laughing! Great reaction! This is a classic. Thanks for making my day. That should go viral it was so good ....5:16 too double tap!!!
The video for the song explains it all
Gotta watch a live version of this and check out how complex Neil’s drum part really is…