Closer to the Heart (A Farewell to Kings) I would consider their Baroque music phase produced in setting of classical England. This song is so deep and literal, it is a romantic poem of artists. I love this album in it's entirety! It is so conceptual sounding and written with so many classic stories in mind and ends in a Sci-Fi epic Cygnus X-1. Thank you for sharing
Rush is from my hometown area. They use to record at Metal Works studio in Mississauga and Scarborough Ontario Canada. The Mississauga studio was 5 miles from my house. I've seen them many times.
Le Studio in Morin Heights Quebec was the Canadian Studio more often used by Rush - in the beautiful Laurentians it was a cottage retreat that inspired creativitiy as the band memebers stayed in cabins along the lake - amazing facility - too bad it is gone now. Metal Works is more famously known as Triumph's studio and I don't recall Rush ever recording an album at Metalworks. Metalworks does show Rush as a client - so I had to dig a bit and found that Vapour Trails was recorded at Reation Studios in Toronto and mixed at Metalworks and some of the mixing of the Rush in Rio live was done there as well - cool! I didn't know that.
@@SergioSBloch Yes, part of the cursed process of getting Vapour Trails out the door. I think that was when Geddy took the reins and attempted a remix before finally allowing it to drop (ultimately to be remixed more successfully a few years down the road).
"Closer to the Heart is from the 5th studio album by Rush, "A Farewell to Kings" (released 29 August 1977). The song reached number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
My friend and I at age 13 in 1977 discovered the Album "A Farewell to Kings" and then went to see Rush in concert later that year. Check out the Album cover! We listened to the whole album over and over! ❤
Moving Pictures was when Neil said Rush became Rush…, and that was after 2112, Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, and Permanent Waves! 2112 was what gave the the freedom with the recording studio to be themselves. Moving Pictures probably was the biggest success on the Radio.
I've said that many a time, "It's not fair for someone to have so much talent!" I've always admired people who could create such incredible music. Sure, there are many people who can play an instrument, like me, but to create is beautiful. Enjoyed the reaction! Have a wonderful Winter Solstice ✌🏻
The crazy thing is " New World Man" is the highest charted Rush song. But this song or Red Barchetta always got the biggest applause live in Kansas City. ( Geddy hit #1 with Bob & Doug McKenzie with Geddy Lee on " Take Off " ). I
From my favorite album of RUSH,,,, A Farewell To Kings!!! Also the name of my favorite song!! Or CINDERELLA MAN? 😬 Great Reaction Bisscute oops I mean Charis! 😉 Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎🎸🤟🏼🎄
Methinks that Cinderella Man was only performed during the "KINGS" Tour. The Bonus Disc with DIFFERENT STAGES is the 1977 tour with Cinderella Man (as you probably know). Peart's drumming on that live version is astounding!
@@allengray5748 Simply UA-cam RUSH CINDERELLA MAN LIVE AT THE HAMMERSMITH ODEON February 20th, 1978. There are other live recordings on UA-cam, but they're bootleg quality. MERRY RUSH-MAS!
One of the few songs (post- their debut album) that Neil Peart didn't write, but still one of my favourite! So glad you hit this classic (from their "white kimono" phase)
I am surprised to hear it's their biggest song, but it is from my favorite album, "A Farewell to Kings". This is obviously the studio version of the song played on top of concert video. Vinyl records couldn't hold much...about 23 minutes per side. This album had two long (over 10-minute) concept songs: Xanadu on side A, and Cygnus X-1 on side B. So, smaller songs like Closer to the Heart and Madrigal fit nicely. Cinderella Man, also from the same album, would be a great Rushmas song!! It's based on the movie Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Yes, please do Cinderella Man.
They played this on the radio a lot back in the day, it was the first song I heard of theirs that met approval with everyone in my school and became a stàple at house parties and put Rush in the same pantheon as Zep and Floyd so while it may not be their greatest or longest it was important in making them acceptable to the mainstream listener. That said id like to hear Dreamline on Merry Rushmas. 🎄😊
Hmmm. Recommendations, you say? Well, I just have to let you know that kitty was telepathically signally to us that you really still need to hear The Garden, played live in Dallas in 2012. Cat's obviously got excellent musical taste.
That's all most of us had back then pal, records and the radio and if you were lucky you lived within driving distance of a town they were touring. This one got a lot of airplay back in the day and exposed more people to the band, unlike 2112 which struck a cord with the more hardcore fans but never got mainstream coverage. This was the first song that I heard of theirs that was popular with my social group and the reason I bought A Farewell To Kings and that in turn got me hooked on the band so while 2112 was more important musically in creating a whole new genre it was songs like Closer To The Heart that reached the masses. 😊
One thing about recording an album is that you had limited space per side of a vinyl record. When recording, you had to pick the first and last song on the album for content and then you had to look at the rest of the album and develop song lengths based on how much space would work to fill that side of the album. Sometimes song choice and length can be determined by album space.
Not sure if this is 'Rush's most popular', but it probably would have had increased radio playtime because of it being so short. And as much a Neil's kit is huge and he plays everything percussion, and Geddy sings, plays bass, keyboards and foot pedals, Alex playing guitar.pedals is no slouch and shouldn't be overlooked, he is a virtuoso at his craft as well.
If you listen to the title track from A Farewell To Kings, you may notice how it can be considered as a prequel to this one and how much more relevant its lyrics are in today's political climate than when Neil first wrote them. Happy Rushmas everyone! 🎤 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎸 🐐 🐐 🐐
It really wasn't the song that put them on the map. It garnered reasonable radio play in a few markets (e.g. Toronto and Cleveland) but only became ubiquitous with the advent of classic rock radio (terrestrial and later satellite). If you think back to the documentary you've watched, they built their fanbase through relentless touring and becoming progressive metal gods. It wasn't until Moving Pictures, with Tom Sawyer and Limelight, that Rush began to expand beyond its original fanbase (and, of course, absorb most of those new fans into that base). So, yes, while songs like Closer to the Heart or Fly by Night (on the 2nd album) were obviously attempts to appeal to FM radio DJs (primarily because of song length and catchy hooks), neither of these two awesome tunes broke them as singles. Hell, the best performance they ever had on the Billboard Hot 100 was New World Man, which reached No. 14 in 1982.
The video looks like Geddy said “Let’s do this in a 40 foot by 40 foot acoustically sound box room and make it look Live but it’s the actual recording of it”. Then Neil said “My Bells will be bouncing off the walls while I crush this beast of a song”. Alex replies “Fuck yeah, let’s take off to the Great White North you Hosers”.
This is when you do the studio version, then a live version! Three minute song, X2 will give you 6 minutes. This was the studio version, with some video added! How can you tell, you say? There is rhythm guitar playing while Alex is doing a lead solo!
Awesome reaction! Could you please react to HammerFall - The End Justifies, they are a swedish band formed in 1993, they are old school, catchy, melodic. Good and clear vocals
This isn't a full live performance. There is no audience present. Any official video's shot during a farewell to kings and hemispheres was shot at this soundstage minus an actual audience. Videos for Moving Pictures were recorded at Le Studio.
LOL,..there weren't videos back then. Usually anything older you are seeing performance footage with the song dubbed over. Done much later this was done from the slightly edited radio version of the song. Mainly they are overdubbed because the sound from the footage would be awful in terms of the music.
'Closer to the heart'... was written for their 1977 album 'A farewell to kings'... which was the follow-up to their hit record '2112' in 1976. It became Rush's first top 40 single in the UK and broke big on radio in N. America, something '2112' could not do...
@@dan.vitale 'Working man' became a radio hit (in Cleveland, OH) and it was 7+ minutes long... 'A passage to Bangkok'... and "Something for nothing" (from '2112') were under 4 min and got zero airplay at the time.
@@sumonjamal1653 I do think if Something For Nothing had a less screeching vocal delivery/phrasing on the studio version, it could have been more acceptable to radio. I really love the live soundboard versions from the Hemispheres Tour where it appears to me that Geddy toned down his vocals for the song which makes it sound better to me.
@@robertdendooven7258 Robert Plant had screeching vocals on Led Zeppelin's radio hits like - 'In the evening'... 'Rock and roll'... "Babe I'm gonna leave you"... Ian Gillan of Deep Purple had screeching vocals on their radio 'Highway Star'... That logic makes ZERO sense. There was no excuse for refusing airplay for Rush... Ramones... Thin Lizzy... in America.
contracts stipulations of 2:30 songs for radio production which RUSH trashed back with the Spirit of Radio Lyrics Pink Floyd spoke out against this with the song Have A Cigar and the entire Animals album 2:30 songs allows for optimal advertisements per hour $$
I sent you an e-mail through the link on your channel home page about one more video you might like to add to the Rushmas song list. This is something different, but Rush related in the truest sense. But I just mention it here to double the chances of you noticing as I think you will find it to be something you will love and want to add to the Rushmas list, regardless if you make room for it or discard something to make room. I don't want to spoil it for the audience, so I only ask you to check your e-mail linked with your UA-cam channel and open my e-mail. The name on the e-mail is the same as my name here, minus the number at the end, so you know what to look for besides the e-mails descriptive title.
NO... ha ha. are they telling you to think about people, dictators, political movements, anything specific???? NO. They are telling you just to think. Don't Assume. Look to what has been decreed, but think for yourself... decide what is right for you, just based on the reality of what is, not what you have been told. helps to be (and probably why I have been such a fan) someone in the middle with no expectations, nor pigeonholed into an expectation of one side or the other. Sad thing, at least from a US standpoint.... is that we are soooo far from that point of view. peace out.
Charis, please do a reaction to all-female band *Plush* . This is their most recent single "Run" . (I've been trying to get folks to check them out, but they only seem to be interested in The Warning or Band Maid. 😞 ) ua-cam.com/video/ywr9RBxnFGU/v-deo.htmlsi=Fvcy7N03RPaODzh1
Think of the world leaders as…Scrooge. Doing better as the lessons learnt from the 3 ghosts of Christmas time, and Neil, Geddy, and Alex as the Muppets lmao😂
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Closer to the Heart (A Farewell to Kings) I would consider their Baroque music phase produced in setting of classical England. This song is so deep and literal, it is a romantic poem of artists. I love this album in it's entirety! It is so conceptual sounding and written with so many classic stories in mind and ends in a Sci-Fi epic Cygnus X-1. Thank you for sharing
The fact it's short also makes it closer to heart than most of their music too.
These guys are legends.
Rush is from my hometown area. They use to record at Metal Works studio in Mississauga and Scarborough Ontario Canada. The Mississauga studio was 5 miles from my house. I've seen them many times.
Le Studio in Morin Heights Quebec was the Canadian Studio more often used by Rush - in the beautiful Laurentians it was a cottage retreat that inspired creativitiy as the band memebers stayed in cabins along the lake - amazing facility - too bad it is gone now. Metal Works is more famously known as Triumph's studio and I don't recall Rush ever recording an album at Metalworks. Metalworks does show Rush as a client - so I had to dig a bit and found that Vapour Trails was recorded at Reation Studios in Toronto and mixed at Metalworks and some of the mixing of the Rush in Rio live was done there as well - cool! I didn't know that.
@@SergioSBloch Yes, part of the cursed process of getting Vapour Trails out the door. I think that was when Geddy took the reins and attempted a remix before finally allowing it to drop (ultimately to be remixed more successfully a few years down the road).
Isnt that the studio started by Gil Moore of Triumph?
5 miles away from Gil Moore's Metal Works studio you mean!? 🥁
@@Henry-eg2fp u are full of shit rush never recorded at metal works u are a disgrace
The mustache plays a crucial roll in a mans life. It showes that he has matured and it puts a smile on his wife.
"Closer to the Heart is from the 5th studio album by Rush, "A Farewell to Kings" (released 29 August 1977). The song reached number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.
A truly timeless song, that will probably never not mean something to every generation.
This song, Different Strings and Time Stands Still...... Intellectual and meaningful lyrics.
My friend and I at age 13 in 1977 discovered the Album "A Farewell to Kings" and then went to see Rush in concert later that year. Check out the Album cover! We listened to the whole album over and over! ❤
Rushmas is one of my favourite times of the year.
Moving Pictures was when Neil said Rush became Rush…, and that was after 2112, Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres, and Permanent Waves! 2112 was what gave the the freedom with the recording studio to be themselves. Moving Pictures probably was the biggest success on the Radio.
I've said that many a time, "It's not fair for someone to have so much talent!"
I've always admired people who could create such incredible music. Sure, there are many people who can play an instrument, like me, but to create is beautiful.
Enjoyed the reaction!
Have a wonderful Winter Solstice ✌🏻
The crazy thing is " New World Man" is the highest charted Rush song. But this song or Red Barchetta always got the biggest applause live in Kansas City. ( Geddy hit #1 with Bob & Doug McKenzie with Geddy Lee on " Take Off " ). I
From my favorite album of RUSH,,,, A Farewell To Kings!!! Also the name of my favorite song!! Or CINDERELLA MAN? 😬 Great Reaction Bisscute oops I mean Charis! 😉 Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎🎸🤟🏼🎄
Methinks that Cinderella Man was only performed during the "KINGS" Tour. The Bonus Disc with DIFFERENT STAGES is the 1977 tour with Cinderella Man (as you probably know).
Peart's drumming on that live version is astounding!
@JasonSmith-jr7jh Never heard that. Missed that tour. Seen Hemispheres,, Moving Pictures,, Snakes and Arrows and Vapor Trails. ☮️
@@allengray5748 Simply UA-cam RUSH CINDERELLA MAN LIVE AT THE HAMMERSMITH ODEON February 20th, 1978. There are other live recordings on UA-cam, but they're bootleg quality.
MERRY RUSH-MAS!
@JasonSmith-jr7jh Awesome! Thanks! 🎄🎁⛄
Simply the...best band ever.
When I was in 7th and 8th grade (1980-81) we had a juke box, in our lunchroom. This song was on it! This, was my introduction to Rush !
My first concert was Rush a farewell to kings tour. Thanks for the rushmas
you have to hear Great White North a Christmas song sort of.
Take off eh... ✌️
@@seanpaula8924you beat me to it. I had that response in my head before I finished reading the original comment. 😅
@@michaelmacdonald334
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You hoser!
$10 bucks is $10 bucks.
One of the few songs (post- their debut album) that Neil Peart didn't write, but still one of my favourite! So glad you hit this classic (from their "white kimono" phase)
Merry Rushmas from Northern Ontario Canada.
I am surprised to hear it's their biggest song, but it is from my favorite album, "A Farewell to Kings". This is obviously the studio version of the song played on top of concert video. Vinyl records couldn't hold much...about 23 minutes per side. This album had two long (over 10-minute) concept songs: Xanadu on side A, and Cygnus X-1 on side B. So, smaller songs like Closer to the Heart and Madrigal fit nicely. Cinderella Man, also from the same album, would be a great Rushmas song!! It's based on the movie Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. Yes, please do Cinderella Man.
“It probably did really good on the radio.”😂😂😂
They played this on the radio a lot back in the day, it was the first song I heard of theirs that met approval with everyone in my school and became a stàple at house parties and put Rush in the same pantheon as Zep and Floyd so while it may not be their greatest or longest it was important in making them acceptable to the mainstream listener. That said id like to hear Dreamline on Merry Rushmas. 🎄😊
Hmmm. Recommendations, you say?
Well, I just have to let you know that kitty was telepathically signally to us that you really still need to hear The Garden, played live in Dallas in 2012.
Cat's obviously got excellent musical taste.
Happy Holidays Charis 🎅 🤘 🌲
12:34 . . . Looks just like my cat named "Scout".
14:35 . . . I have 3 sibling cats & they really do each have their own personality.
This only blew up RUSH for people that get their musical opinions from radio. The big song in Rush's career was 2112
That's all most of us had back then pal, records and the radio and if you were lucky you lived within driving distance of a town they were touring. This one got a lot of airplay back in the day and exposed more people to the band, unlike 2112 which struck a cord with the more hardcore fans but never got mainstream coverage. This was the first song that I heard of theirs that was popular with my social group and the reason I bought A Farewell To Kings and that in turn got me hooked on the band so while 2112 was more important musically in creating a whole new genre it was songs like Closer To The Heart that reached the masses. 😊
One thing about recording an album is that you had limited space per side of a vinyl record. When recording, you had to pick the first and last song on the album for content and then you had to look at the rest of the album and develop song lengths based on how much space would work to fill that side of the album. Sometimes song choice and length can be determined by album space.
Check out Patty PerShayla's cover on ukulele ❤ One of my favorite things on UA-cam. Have a great day.
Not sure if this is 'Rush's most popular', but it probably would have had increased radio playtime because of it being so short.
And as much a Neil's kit is huge and he plays everything percussion, and Geddy sings, plays bass, keyboards and foot pedals, Alex playing guitar.pedals is no slouch and shouldn't be overlooked, he is a virtuoso at his craft as well.
Legendary bands making timeless music sad those days been gone for 45 years happy holidays😎 🤟🏻
Thank you Charis, right in the feels!🤘🎸
Thanks for another from my favorite band
The cam is very zoomed in. Extreme close up
Love this more than words can pronounce 😀❤️❤️❤️
Beautiful song..I Love Rush. Grazie gorgeous Charis 🌹
I'm pretty sure "Working Man" was the song that blew Rush up back in the day.
If you listen to the title track from A Farewell To Kings, you may notice how it can be considered as a prequel to this one and how much more relevant its lyrics are in today's political climate than when Neil first wrote them. Happy Rushmas everyone!
🎤 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎸 🐐 🐐 🐐
It really wasn't the song that put them on the map. It garnered reasonable radio play in a few markets (e.g. Toronto and Cleveland) but only became ubiquitous with the advent of classic rock radio (terrestrial and later satellite).
If you think back to the documentary you've watched, they built their fanbase through relentless touring and becoming progressive metal gods. It wasn't until Moving Pictures, with Tom Sawyer and Limelight, that Rush began to expand beyond its original fanbase (and, of course, absorb most of those new fans into that base).
So, yes, while songs like Closer to the Heart or Fly by Night (on the 2nd album) were obviously attempts to appeal to FM radio DJs (primarily because of song length and catchy hooks), neither of these two awesome tunes broke them as singles. Hell, the best performance they ever had on the Billboard Hot 100 was New World Man, which reached No. 14 in 1982.
The young Geddy vocals tho,powerful as fuck❤
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"I don't think that's going to affect the sound, but it feels like it will."
The video looks like Geddy said “Let’s do this in a 40 foot by 40 foot acoustically sound box room and make it look Live but it’s the actual recording of it”. Then Neil said “My Bells will be bouncing off the walls while I crush this beast of a song”. Alex replies “Fuck yeah, let’s take off to the Great White North you Hosers”.
This is when you do the studio version, then a live version! Three minute song, X2 will give you 6 minutes. This was the studio version, with some video added! How can you tell, you say? There is rhythm guitar playing while Alex is doing a lead solo!
They needed some radio friendly songs that hit quick and brought attention to the band. It worked.
Now I wish we could have seen sushis reaction as well
Awesome reaction! Could you please react to HammerFall - The End Justifies, they are a swedish band formed in 1993, they are old school, catchy, melodic. Good and clear vocals
It was also made to be a little ore radio friendly time wise.
Merry Christmas to you and your family 🎄😎👍🎄
To me, it says it takes everyone to help everyone.
This isn't a full live performance. There is no audience present. Any official video's shot during a farewell to kings and hemispheres was shot at this soundstage minus an actual audience. Videos for Moving Pictures were recorded at Le Studio.
It is a short song in studio, but for live performances they extend it a bit...
Now your getting in the spirit, red eye shadow and a Santa hat.🧑🎄 Much better look than a bean 😊
EVERYONE LOVES THE BEAN
@CharisSellick Of course, but it's time to be festive, so can you be a green and red bean? 😊
12:36 - CAT
Sushi Cat
Rush most iconic song the song that catapulted them to greatness the rest is music history
LOL,..there weren't videos back then. Usually anything older you are seeing performance footage with the song dubbed over. Done much later this was done from the slightly edited radio version of the song. Mainly they are overdubbed because the sound from the footage would be awful in terms of the music.
'Closer to the heart'... was written for their 1977 album 'A farewell to kings'... which was the follow-up to their hit record '2112' in 1976.
It became Rush's first top 40 single in the UK and broke big on radio in N. America, something '2112' could not do...
2112 could never chart as it was 20 minutes long. A typical radio track is around 4 minutes.
@@dan.vitale 'Working man' became a radio hit (in Cleveland, OH) and it was 7+ minutes long...
'A passage to Bangkok'... and "Something for nothing" (from '2112') were under 4 min and got zero airplay at the time.
@@sumonjamal1653 I do think if Something For Nothing had a less screeching vocal delivery/phrasing on the studio version, it could have been more acceptable to radio. I really love the live soundboard versions from the Hemispheres Tour where it appears to me that Geddy toned down his vocals for the song which makes it sound better to me.
@@robertdendooven7258 Robert Plant had screeching vocals on Led Zeppelin's radio hits like - 'In the evening'... 'Rock and roll'... "Babe I'm gonna leave you"...
Ian Gillan of Deep Purple had screeching vocals on their radio 'Highway Star'...
That logic makes ZERO sense.
There was no excuse for refusing airplay for Rush... Ramones... Thin Lizzy... in America.
@@sumonjamal1653 OK mister know it all. Other opinions are not valid to you, I guess.
Watch this from Different Stages and you will never watch this one again!!!
Did you know his name is actually Gary? His Russian grandmother pronounced it Geddy
contracts stipulations of 2:30 songs for radio production which RUSH trashed back with the Spirit of Radio Lyrics
Pink Floyd spoke out against this with the song Have A Cigar and the entire Animals album
2:30 songs allows for optimal advertisements per hour $$
Next, it's time for a long song-2112. A great story and a great use of instrumentation, voice, and emotion.
Needs more vibraslap! (In Christopher Walken voice)
Until today I didn't know that my favorite Romanian reactor had a long-lost American sister.😳
I’m Biss putting on an accent
@@CharisSellick Who the hell is "Biss"? I meant Marian Mihailescu.😕
Polka version next
I sent you an e-mail through the link on your channel home page about one more video you might like to add to the Rushmas song list. This is something different, but Rush related in the truest sense. But I just mention it here to double the chances of you noticing as I think you will find it to be something you will love and want to add to the Rushmas list, regardless if you make room for it or discard something to make room. I don't want to spoil it for the audience, so I only ask you to check your e-mail linked with your UA-cam channel and open my e-mail. The name on the e-mail is the same as my name here, minus the number at the end, so you know what to look for besides the e-mails descriptive title.
This song is shockingly short for Rush. It's almost punk.
Someone actually once labeled Rush as "The best bad band in rock."
That person would be a moron.
Someone? Just about every critic, proving once again that people who write about it for magazines don't know their 🫏 from a hole in the ground. 😊
@@Fred-vy1hm Rolling Stone Magazine hated Rush. Now no one pays any attention to Rolling Stone.
Live Rush is the best. Go for the live versions now. You will love them. Check out working man... ua-cam.com/video/sI5VuBzo-Qc/v-deo.html
NO... ha ha. are they telling you to think about people, dictators, political movements, anything specific???? NO. They are telling you just to think. Don't Assume. Look to what has been decreed, but think for yourself... decide what is right for you, just based on the reality of what is, not what you have been told. helps to be (and probably why I have been such a fan) someone in the middle with no expectations, nor pigeonholed into an expectation of one side or the other. Sad thing, at least from a US standpoint.... is that we are soooo far from that point of view. peace out.
Charis, please do a reaction to all-female band *Plush* . This is their most recent single "Run" . (I've been trying to get folks to check them out, but they only seem to be interested in The Warning or Band Maid. 😞 )
ua-cam.com/video/ywr9RBxnFGU/v-deo.htmlsi=Fvcy7N03RPaODzh1
Cute girl, scatter brained, but cute.
Think of the world leaders as…Scrooge. Doing better as the lessons learnt from the 3 ghosts of Christmas time, and Neil, Geddy, and Alex as the Muppets lmao😂
Now I wish we could have seen sushis reaction as well