Neil Peart's lyrics are poetry. All 3 are masters at their crafts, but I always think of how great it must be to be this successful with your BFF since middle school.
I love the fact that this is three guys producing incredible music. The lyrics are always powerful, intelligent, and thought-provoking. Rush will always be one of my top four bands.
Your 'ear' serves you well. Haha! This song is on "Grace Under Pressure" which is the album directly after Signals (which contains "Subdivisions"). They had a HELL of a time trying to find a producer for this record as they'd decided to cut ties w producer Terry Brown, who did Signals with them. They continued to write even as they kept up the search for a producer. They finally chose Peter Henderson to produce, but Peter wasn't quite the producing force they felt they needed. I think it was Geddy who said he ended up being more engineer than producer. In one sense, the band more or less produced this themselves, so that is probably the reason it has undertones of 'Signals', to it.
Great deep dive. Some of their lesser known songs (among newer fans) reveal how amazing Neil’s lyrics were. You’ll enjoy exploring some of their less celebrated songs. I encourage all newer Rush aficionados to do likewise. Cheers!
The original trilogy came out in reverse order. Part 3- Witch Hunt (from Moving Pictures, 1981) Part 2: The Weapon (Signals, 1982) Part one: The Enemy Within (Grace Under Pressure, 1984) Also, Rush pushed their songwriting along by making up fictional bands to write songs for. If I remember right,this song was "by" " The Frantics".
I love your reactions. Actually fear is not a trilogy, it’s 4 songs. Part one, the enemy within. Part two, the weapon. Part three, witchhunt. Part four, Freeze. You may have already reacted to one of the other songs. I definitely would recommend doing them all.
Great call out. It's actually a four part trilogy. I listened to the songs in order and all I could notice was the stylistic sound of each album. So distinct.
If you notice all four parts have different patterns that fit together too. The Enemy Within starts suddenly and fades out. The Weapon fades in and fades out. Witch Hunt fades in and ends suddenly. Freeze starts suddenly and ends suddenly.
This song is from Grace Under Pressure. Subdivisions was from the previous album Signals, so you're right! This was released a couple years after Subdivisions.
Ah another Rush great - love it 😎 Great reaction, good to see you getting into it 👍 So glad I got to see them live - such incredible memories. Priceless.
Damn! I was just re-listening the Grace Under Pressure these days and fell in love with this song. The bass line is damn sexy 😂 Try "The Weapon" another one from the Trilogy. P.S.: You still """owe""" Katatonia - Velvet Thorns. 😅
This might be the best reaction video I've ever seen. Besides the fact that this is one of my favorites songs by one of my favorite bands, I love that he actually just sat and listened to the whole song without stopping it every 20 seconds. He was reacting in real time to what the song was doing and then he spoke his thoughts afterwards, instead of interrupting the flow of the music 15 times like a neanderthal.
The song "Subdivisions" was released on the album "Signals" in 1982. This song (The Enemy Within) was released on the "Grace Under Pressure" album which came right after "Signals" in 1984. I have been a fan of Rush since their debut album, and I was remembering something that happened with my father. I was listening to the album "Thick as a Brick" by Jethro Tull on the old stereo at home, and my father came home and screamed at me to turn it off adding "That's terrible." or something to that effect. Yet when I got the Rush "Signals" album for Christmas in 1982 he said "I like that. It's got a great beat!" He then asked who it was and I told him. My father liked rock music, he had "The Who" and quite a selection of interesting classic rock in his truck. For some reason he hated Tull. Oh well, I guess to each their own.
Thanks for the reaction. This song is my favorite from the trilogy, although all the songs are great. Other songs to react to would be Circumstances and Cygnus X-1. Also, if you haven't already, A Farewell To Kings is an awesome song. See you on the other side.
You won't need to imagine what Neil looked like drumming this song, a live version from Grace Under Pressure tour exists and it's a most excellent cut. ua-cam.com/video/AQ4hfUDV3eo/v-deo.html Rush in their prime, playing 3 sold out nights in their home town of Toronto Sept 20-22, in Maple Leaf Gardens. Got the fortunate chance to see the Montreal show on July 14, '84 just two months before, at the age of 15 - my first ever concert (lucky me!!) - and was immediately blown away by that wall of sound. Still remember thinking quietly in the roar of cheers, "How can 3 humans create such a huge wall of sound"..., a nuclear punch is how I described it. I was immediately blown away by them and went on to see every show in Montreal from this one right to R40 Tour in 2015. There will never be another 3 piece band capable of pulling off this sort of thing again IMHO. Pure genius at every instrument level, but made even more impressive by the insightful genius of Peart's lyrcis. RIP Neil, you were GOAT.
I love all of the songs from this trilogy/quadilogy ... Since the fourth song was delayed by Rush's hiatus, many people got used to it being a trilogy and often forget 'Freeze' .... I'm mostly torn between The Weapon and Witch Hunt :-) Great reaction .....
@@firecatwess1794 Thanks ... I'm partial to The Fountain (Caress of Steel), but I'd be hard pressed to think of a Rush song that I would listen to ....
Hello TNT! A recent new listener and subscriber. I've been through your whole Rush playlist in the past few days (mostly for about 8 hours the first night) and half your Led Zeppelin playlist. I've left a couple of comments in older Rush reaction videos, I don't know if you still look for reactions to videos you did a year or two ago still, but this one is only a month old, so I'm catching up to you and hope you see this comment since the video is newer. I love seeing your first time reactions, especially with my favorite band, Rush. I remember some of my first reactions the first time I heard some of their songs and my mind is always blown. But the people so far giving you request must be posers or something, because there are so many great songs and even entire albums you have not covered yet. I have two requests I would love to see your reactions too. From one of my favorite Rush albums 'Caress of Steel,' The last two songs on the album, 'The Necromancer' and 'The Fountain of Lamneth.' The first is slightly over 12 minutes, IIRC, and the second, another "rock opera" over 20 minutes.
They write deep, complex, & progressive music that is accessible to the masses (if you give them an open-minded listen). This is a great tune and really shows off how much they were influenced by Reggae and what groups such as The Police did with it. 👍🏻🤘🏼🎸❤️
That's actually 2 kits that spin around him to face the direction of the audience depending on what songs they play it became a necessity after so many albums and sounds he needed to re=create live.
Actually it is four parts although I always liked this track, it pales in comparison to 'Witch Hunt' and 'The Weapon'. 'Freeze' was the most recent addition to the quadilogy, also not quite as strong as the other two. Witch Hunt is the most powerful statement against bigotry and hatred, and The Weapon confronts the themes of authorities using fear as a weapon, and knowledge being the most powerful 'counter-weapon'.These ideas are particularly relevant now.
U got it right!👍 This came out in 1984 from the "Grace under pressure" album ('Subdivisions' from the 'Signals' album was in '82) There is a live performance video of 'Enemy within' from Rush's '84 tour... U can hear more of Geddy's synthesizers on this record... 'Afterimage' is from this record... so is 'Distant early warning' ... 'Red sector A' ... The body electric' ... 'Between the wheels'... The album 'Grace under pressure' went gold, but was not a major hit. Still, Rush fans showed up to see them on tour... Rush brought even more electronic sounds and beats on the next album 'Power windows' in 1985.
Great song. I am a huge Rush fan. The lyrics here are about facing internal fear. My opinion is that the music was a nod to the Police. But, in their own way.
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The galloping bass line is unforgettable.
Omg I freakin love RUSH! 🤘🤘🤘
Neil Peart's lyrics are poetry. All 3 are masters at their crafts, but I always think of how great it must be to be this successful with your BFF since middle school.
Referring to Geddy and Alex? Peart joined later
Great song. Great album. Best band ever.
One of my favorite Neil drumming compositions - especially after the choruses, his tom, ride and china work. Just fantastic stuff.
This was a great tour . This album is beautifully done, the most underrated album by Rush , to me it’s in my top 5
I love the fact that this is three guys producing incredible music. The lyrics are always powerful, intelligent, and thought-provoking. Rush will always be one of my top four bands.
As a long time Rush fan I enjoy how much you enjoy discovering Rush music.
i love watching dudes get into songs that ive been into for 30 years 👍
Saw G.U.P. Live and when those synth bass notes hit they shake your soul...
I had forgotten about this one, and how much I really effing love the driving rhythm. One of my favorites to air-drum to.
Your 'ear' serves you well. Haha! This song is on "Grace Under Pressure" which is the album directly after Signals (which contains "Subdivisions"). They had a HELL of a time trying to find a producer for this record as they'd decided to cut ties w producer Terry Brown, who did Signals with them. They continued to write even as they kept up the search for a producer. They finally chose Peter Henderson to produce, but Peter wasn't quite the producing force they felt they needed. I think it was Geddy who said he ended up being more engineer than producer. In one sense, the band more or less produced this themselves, so that is probably the reason it has undertones of 'Signals', to it.
Great deep dive. Some of their lesser known songs (among newer fans) reveal how amazing Neil’s lyrics were.
You’ll enjoy exploring some of their less celebrated songs.
I encourage all newer Rush aficionados to do likewise.
Cheers!
All 4 parts of Fear are amazing. Witch Hunt, The Weapon, The Enemy Within, and Freeze which Neil added decades later a 4th part
It's actually part of a quadrilogy.
The Enemy Within
The Weapon
Witch Hunt
Freeze
I hope he does them all and does the live version of The Weapon with Count Floyd
oooooo scary halloween idea 🎃
But the fourth part was actually the fourth part, whereas the first three were released in reverse order.
The original trilogy came out in reverse order.
Part 3- Witch Hunt (from Moving Pictures, 1981)
Part 2: The Weapon (Signals, 1982)
Part one: The Enemy Within (Grace Under Pressure, 1984)
Also, Rush pushed their songwriting along by making up fictional bands to write songs for. If I remember right,this song was "by" " The Frantics".
The Weapon is timelessly brilliant.
I love your reactions. Actually fear is not a trilogy, it’s 4 songs. Part one, the enemy within. Part two, the weapon. Part three, witchhunt. Part four, Freeze. You may have already reacted to one of the other songs. I definitely would recommend doing them all.
There are four parts, but it was billed as a trilogy. Also, part 3 came first. That was probably Alex's idea.
Part 4 came about 20 years later, it was like the fourth Indiana Jones movie. The song is OK though.
Great call out. It's actually a four part trilogy. I listened to the songs in order and all I could notice was the stylistic sound of each album. So distinct.
It's called an Anthology...
If you notice all four parts have different patterns that fit together too.
The Enemy Within starts suddenly and fades out.
The Weapon fades in and fades out.
Witch Hunt fades in and ends suddenly.
Freeze starts suddenly and ends suddenly.
This song is from Grace Under Pressure. Subdivisions was from the previous album Signals, so you're right! This was released a couple years after Subdivisions.
Ah another Rush great - love it 😎 Great reaction, good to see you getting into it 👍 So glad I got to see them live - such incredible memories. Priceless.
Damn! I was just re-listening the Grace Under Pressure these days and fell in love with this song.
The bass line is damn sexy 😂
Try "The Weapon" another one from the Trilogy.
P.S.: You still """owe""" Katatonia - Velvet Thorns. 😅
This might be the best reaction video I've ever seen.
Besides the fact that this is one of my favorites songs by one of my favorite bands, I love that he actually just sat and listened to the whole song without stopping it every 20 seconds.
He was reacting in real time to what the song was doing and then he spoke his thoughts afterwards, instead of interrupting the flow of the music 15 times like a neanderthal.
they have to stop it, at least once, or else they risk copyright strikes.....
One of my favorites!
Another banger y’all, keep up the great requests!
Man I love Grace Under Pressure.
The song "Subdivisions" was released on the album "Signals" in 1982. This song (The Enemy Within) was released on the "Grace Under Pressure" album which came right after "Signals" in 1984.
I have been a fan of Rush since their debut album, and I was remembering something that happened with my father. I was listening to the album "Thick as a Brick" by Jethro Tull on the old stereo at home, and my father came home and screamed at me to turn it off adding "That's terrible." or something to that effect. Yet when I got the Rush "Signals" album for Christmas in 1982 he said "I like that. It's got a great beat!" He then asked who it was and I told him. My father liked rock music, he had "The Who" and quite a selection of interesting classic rock in his truck. For some reason he hated Tull. Oh well, I guess to each their own.
Thanks for the reaction. This song is my favorite from the trilogy, although all the songs are great. Other songs to react to would be Circumstances and Cygnus X-1. Also, if you haven't already, A Farewell To Kings is an awesome song. See you on the other side.
Good ear this was this was on Grace Under Pressure from 1984, the album right after Signals from 1982, which Subdivisions was on.
The cymbal work on this entire album is amazing. Some funky switch ups throughout. Great song. Great album.
You won't need to imagine what Neil looked like drumming this song, a live version from Grace Under Pressure tour exists and it's a most excellent cut. ua-cam.com/video/AQ4hfUDV3eo/v-deo.html
Rush in their prime, playing 3 sold out nights in their home town of Toronto Sept 20-22, in Maple Leaf Gardens.
Got the fortunate chance to see the Montreal show on July 14, '84 just two months before, at the age of 15 - my first ever concert (lucky me!!) - and was immediately blown away by that wall of sound. Still remember thinking quietly in the roar of cheers, "How can 3 humans create such a huge wall of sound"..., a nuclear punch is how I described it. I was immediately blown away by them and went on to see every show in Montreal from this one right to R40 Tour in 2015.
There will never be another 3 piece band capable of pulling off this sort of thing again IMHO. Pure genius at every instrument level, but made even more impressive by the insightful genius of Peart's lyrcis.
RIP Neil, you were GOAT.
Love your Rush reactions! Keep ‘em coming !!!!
"When you see this guys drum kit, you're like Holy Shit!" haha, ain't that the truth?!
I love all of the songs from this trilogy/quadilogy ... Since the fourth song was delayed by Rush's hiatus, many people got used to it being a trilogy and often forget 'Freeze' .... I'm mostly torn between The Weapon and Witch Hunt :-)
Great reaction .....
Thanks Lauri you saved me some typing, you explained it perfectly. 😁I love the fear quadrilogy
@@firecatwess1794 Thanks ... I'm partial to The Fountain (Caress of Steel), but I'd be hard pressed to think of a Rush song that I would listen to ....
Rush is so funky!
I love this band. And yes you can react to the rest please.
😎😎😎🤘🤘🤘.
I love that one........I vote yes for you finishing the trilogy.
Hello TNT! A recent new listener and subscriber. I've been through your whole Rush playlist in the past few days (mostly for about 8 hours the first night) and half your Led Zeppelin playlist. I've left a couple of comments in older Rush reaction videos, I don't know if you still look for reactions to videos you did a year or two ago still, but this one is only a month old, so I'm catching up to you and hope you see this comment since the video is newer.
I love seeing your first time reactions, especially with my favorite band, Rush. I remember some of my first reactions the first time I heard some of their songs and my mind is always blown. But the people so far giving you request must be posers or something, because there are so many great songs and even entire albums you have not covered yet. I have two requests I would love to see your reactions too. From one of my favorite Rush albums 'Caress of Steel,' The last two songs on the album, 'The Necromancer' and 'The Fountain of Lamneth.' The first is slightly over 12 minutes, IIRC, and the second, another "rock opera" over 20 minutes.
My favorite song (the live version) off of my favorite album.
Fav song on Grace Under Pressure !!!
Love thìs era, the music snaps and pops😊
They write deep, complex, & progressive music that is accessible to the masses (if you give them an open-minded listen).
This is a great tune and really shows off how much they were influenced by Reggae and what groups such as The Police did with it. 👍🏻🤘🏼🎸❤️
I just listened to this in the car the other day. This is my favorite band and my favorite album by them.
The album is Show of Hands
It's on Grace Under Pressure which was the album that came after Signals (with Subdivisions) and before Power WIndows (The Big Money) .
Yes! love this trilogy!
If you liked this, you should definitely check out Red Lenses, The Body Electric, and Kid Gloves. Keep up the good work!
Headlong Flight from the Clockwork Angels album is awesome
They did the original trilogy on the Grace under pressure tour. All three together in order.
That's actually 2 kits that spin around him to face the direction of the audience depending on what songs they play it became a necessity after so many albums and sounds he needed to re=create live.
Actually it is four parts although I always liked this track, it pales in comparison to 'Witch Hunt' and 'The Weapon'. 'Freeze' was the most recent addition to the quadilogy, also not quite as strong as the other two. Witch Hunt is the most powerful statement against bigotry and hatred, and The Weapon confronts the themes of authorities using fear as a weapon, and knowledge being the most powerful 'counter-weapon'.These ideas are particularly relevant now.
Good jam
Another Rush Banger !!
U got it right!👍
This came out in 1984 from the "Grace under pressure" album ('Subdivisions' from the 'Signals' album was in '82) There is a live performance video of 'Enemy within' from Rush's '84 tour...
U can hear more of Geddy's synthesizers on this record... 'Afterimage' is from this record... so is 'Distant early warning' ... 'Red sector A' ... The body electric' ... 'Between the wheels'...
The album 'Grace under pressure' went gold, but was not a major hit. Still, Rush fans showed up to see them on tour... Rush brought even more electronic sounds and beats on the next album 'Power windows' in 1985.
Check out Between the wheels,Middletown Dreams,Marathon,Digital Man,The analog kid,Emotion Detector,And Natural Science.
Great song. I am a huge Rush fan. The lyrics here are about facing internal fear. My opinion is that the music was a nod to the Police. But, in their own way.
Yes, “The Weapon” for sure
Great call, Doug!
Yea Rush has a die hard fan base that will forever be loyal. Either you love Rush or you're someone that just doesn't get it.
Try “Grand Designs” if you haven’t heard it yet.
Listen to the studio version if possible.
2112, sit back and listen...
Oh that baseline!
bassline 😜 ☮️
Do The Weapon next…that’s part II and it’s on the Subdivisions album…
Listen to The Analog Kid. You won't be disappointed.
Amazing song like Subdivisions 2.0 🤓.
The live version is the best... show of hands is the album
Anything from Hemispheres or 2112!
Watch the video version.
this is off the signals album same as subdivisions
This is off of Grace Under Pressure, the album after Signals.
Can you react to rush resist live different stages or discovery live from Toronto.
Do Natural Science. Some fine all around playing with lots of changes...
Rush still had me with Red Sector A and Distant Early Warning. Not this one though. Far from their best.
Lots of energy on this but not a lot of substance. Not a good Rush song.