Probably my favourite album by any band ever , discovered Rush at the age of 11 I’m now 56 . Still love them , loving Geddys rickenbacker sound on all of this album
Literally no other Rock band on earth could even come close to approaching their level of musicianship, composition, and lyrical content when this came out. Rush served notice to ALL of them... RIP Professor
Right On! Yet still, they've been & were many kick-azz bands who were on another level back then. Just saying... I mean maybe if your preference in music is narrow minded only focused on prog rock. However, groups like "Tower of Power" "Genesis" & "Pink Floyd" are pretty good talented skilled musicians, IMO anyway. ✌️😜
I would put the 1970’s Yes right up there, especially for bass and guitar, and certainly keyboards. Wakeman, Squire, and Howe were incredible musicians, not to mention the great Alan White, who was one of Neil Peart’s inspirations.
Neal Peart said in one of his rare interviews that he wanted to take the listener on a journey through each song..thus the build, the time signature changes. This song showcases that so perfectly. It's been one of my favorite Rush songs since this album came out when I was in junior high.
One of his best. But thank goodness for his sense of humor that he laughs at him just being " the other guy that plays in Rush. Good ear, great comment.
I commend you for having the sensibility to allow yourself be moved by this band. You definitely get it. To me, the way they play with time signatures, melody and lyrics is so musical and dynamic. A perfect balance of complex arrangements but super catchy yet meaningful . These guys did everything by their own rules never giving into trends but only wanting to evolve in their own art. They have had the "perfect career" in my opinion as a ex-professional musician. A huge cult following. Truly, an amazing band. You are so right! This is not music you play in the background. When you put on Rush, you have to listen to Rush.
Loving this journey through one of my most favourite ever albums. I would love to be able to listen to this for the first time again. A true privilege x Cant wait for you to get to 'Witch Hunt'!
Neil used to live in London in the 70s. In the early 90s I boarded a train on the London Underground and found a book called ‘Rock Wives’ on a seat. It’s a compilation of essays by famous Rock stars’ wives. I read the one by Neil’s wife wherein she said that Neil found much of his lyrical inspiration after he found an abandoned book left on a London Underground train…
Funny thing. I discovered Rush in 8th Grade with Moving Pictures. I purchased this album and Journey Escape as my very first two albums! I went to my Dad's house to listen to this album for the first time on his awesome turntable. I still remember the 1st side as an event! At some point I flipped the record over and started Camera Eye and couldn't get into it - Wasn't ready for it. It was too long. I was only in 8th grade I guess, so I only played side one for 3 years. Finally in 11th grade after getting into Signals and Grace Under Pressure - Rush's next two follow up albums, something had me go back to side 2 of moving pictures. I played the side 2 and really got into Witch Hunt and Vital Signs - Especially my senior year. But still couldn't get The Camera Eye. Well, forward from 1986 to 2010 and Rush toured with Moving Pictures in its entirety and this song finally clicked as a 42 year old! Never too late to discover and rediscover Rush. As you so aptly alliterated the lyrics to us in your camera, I even now in 2024 realize on an even deeper level how poetic this song is and calls to me to play on Rock Band (yes still play that) when I'm in the possibility that the world has to offer rather than focusing of lenses on its short comings! This is the longest post of my youtube life. I share my thoughts as to thank you Rosalie for taking the time with us to share your amazing 1st time reactions to a band I followed faithfully from 1981 till their final show here in LA in 2015 and still come back to in 2024.
Your reactions and assessment of the songs are awesome. It's fun to see you stress because I still stress all these year later on how they put these compositions together. I never get tired of their music. Hope you will become a lifelong fan you won't regret it. Looking forward to more reactions. 👍
At this point in time we were all used to 10 minute Rush songs, even longer. I will say my favourite is still their song off permanent waves called natural science. Great reaction ❤
Natural Science one of their best songs that you never heard on the radio because it was too long. Permanently Waves right up there with Moving Pictures as one of their best vinyls! Maybe Rosalie will react to PW someday?!
Of all of the greatness that is Rush, permanent waves will always be my favourite. Freewill jacobs ladder come on. Ok we all have our favourite Rush, but this is mine or maybe 2112 signals clockwork etc 😂@JohnEverts-vo5wo
@@stevepreece2931 lol, yep! It was a lot easier to pick a favorite back in 1976 when I first heard them on 2112. Pretty much a no brainer. Whooosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! …… DaDUM!!! … and the rest is history. And how many of their songs have the completely changed up, like LVS flamenco intro (HEM) vs all electric on ESL? Or going Reggae on Working Man? Like, WTH? After nearly 50 years of listening to them, it’s just a lot easier lighting up phatty and enjoying every song than picking a favorite tune. Hey, wanna really blow Rosalie’s mind? Challenge her to pick her favorite Neil drum solo video!! 😂😂😂
@JohnEverts-vo5wo how do you pick the best of the professor there all perfection. I know what I would like the entire grace under pressure lyrics reaction. And then watch to the live video of between the wheels 😅😊🤘
When I was 15, I had to beg my best friend to go see Moving Pictures Tour @ Oakland Coliseum 1981. Blew our minds. Played all their best songs. Peart threw his drums sticks 1 1/2 stories high to the top of the coliseum and caught it midway in the drum fill in this song. Crowd went nuts !
@@lorcazola Had that same kind of experience seeing them in Albuquerque. Friends and I standing just a few feet behind front barricade, Neil flinged his stick up so high it disappeared in the lighting. Had to have been over 20 feet. It came down perfectly timed. For like a flash of a second he had a surprised look on his face like “Oh shit, I didn’t mean to throw it that high”. Can’t remember the song, but I can only guess most other drummers never would have even caught it and / or their timing would have been interrupted enough to be noticed. Not Neil. He was the greatest!!!
After all the mindless drivel has faded away and Rush cuts through the bullshit with its aural and lyrical genius, I feel alive again, full of hope and promise, a sense of home and purpose: Rush
This was always a great driving song! Geddy lee playing Keyboards with his feet, while playing Bass& lead vocals, Alex Going nuts, Neal Peart, what can we say! "The Professor On Drums" Canada's Progressive Rock Gift to the WORLD!!😀❤👌👍✌🤘!
Not many know this but the songs lyrics were based on a novel by Jon Dos Passos called U.S.A. Trilogy. That was comprised of 3 different story lines one called “The Big Money”, which happened to be the name of another Rush song. But in one of the storylines was a stream of consciousness writing called “The Camera Eye” which this song reflects the feelings from the perspective of an new immigrant in NYC at the turn of the 20th century walking the city streets at night and the overwhelming feelings on possibility in this new world and great city. It is one of the great American novels.
So evocative. The city as a living organism and Neil moving through it as an ever erudite observer of human nature. I feel the sense of possibilities… I feel the wrench of hard realities. Ach. This song just continues to grow in Majesty with each listen over the years.
It was once pointed out to me that when Geddy isn't singing all 3 are soloing...just got to love Rush. The perfect soundtrack to my life. Keep up with the Rush reactions its such a deep rabbit hole. Great reaction again.
Best reaction to this song ever!!! Thank you. I appreciate the way you tied the album cover to the theme of the song. I have always noticed that Tom Sawyer and The Camera Eye are the most deeply related. Those two songs define each other. I can't help but notice how The Camera Eye inspired Analog Kid on the next album Signals. It basically points out that you need to stop and smell the flowers once and a while. The Signals album is extremely deep as well and I hope you take time to examine it. Subdivisions is the perfect overview, but 3 songs sort of create a story. The Analog Kid is living in the moment. Living in Now The Digital Man is living in the future. Always looking ahead to better days. Losing it is about living in the past. Remembering your glory days as you fade away in old age. I hope you take time to explore more Rush songs.
What an amazing work of art this song is.. thank you for sharing this masterpiece with us Rush fans and music fans in general…great commentary/feedback…✌️👍
Listening to a Rush album is not for the faint of heart. We always played a be album 3 times on first listen. Had the album cover with lyrics in front of us. Always a journey
The cover art is a triple entendre: First, obvious level: guys moving pictures. Second level: onlookers being moved by the pictures. Third level: back cover, we see that it's actually a film set. Fun fact: they actually did shoot this on a movie camera on film, and the cover shot is one of the frames from it.
You are correct about the album cover having multiple meanings; guys moving pictures, onlookers showing moving emotions while looking at the pictures being moved, but then also...well, the rest is on the backside album cover... My second favorite song on the album, after Red Barchetta. The Camera Eye always seemed to me like it should be a part in a Broadway production. I hate to use the term "rock opera" with Rush, because they aren't quite like other "rock opera" songs of the era. A rock musical might be more appropriate. With other long Rush songs though, I definitely think of them as rock symphonies, not operas or musicals. Just serious artsy genius from 3 prime examples of master class musicians and artists.
I use to listen to this album on low volume when I was younger during studies for exams, or working on projects for school or even work, having Rush playing in the background seemed to help me concentrate LoL!
Thank you Ms.RE. you ARE my favorite reaction person now on this one. For you not to stop every 20 seconds and actually sit there and listen AND THINK brought me to tears. They are known, since maybe 79 or 80, as " the thinking persons" bank. So I thank you for your lyric observation. As well as your over all opinion on my favorite band since 78. Great bedspread! Thanks, Jeff, known as Chepe in Bogota.
Rush are the Steinbeck of rock, in the way his words and their words and music paint a picture in your mind. You feel you are walking in the different cities.
I have heard this song one thousand times since I was 15. Your insights and reflections on this song strike me as both new (to me) and true. Well done and beautifully said.
I appreciate you so much! Thank you for bringing your heart, mind and soul to the music of one of my favorite bands! You are really in for some great lyrical and musical art! Plus amazing jams!
How animated insightful and passionate you become in your analysis. Over 40 years of listening to this beauty and i still get that way. RUSH was life changing at twelve and is incorporated into my personal foundation. A "Guiding Light"! I was fortunate(and passionate) enough to see them 25 times. The last with my then teenage daughter.
Three men. Only three men created these masterpieces. Three men wrote the lyrics and the music and arranged them into compositions of pure art. Then, only three men performed these songs with precision, passion, and energy that had to be experienced live to fully appreciate. These shows were indeed moving.
@@mlinderict The Time Machine Tour. One of my top three of all the shows I saw. Moving Pictures is one of the best albums ever made by any artist or group.
hey @Rosalie Elliott . . . I admire your courage For me these songs are a fact, a part of my daily life, a part of my landscape Thank you for analyzing each song and really reminding me how deeply these guys saw and described the world and accompanied my adolescence This whole RUSH series should be called: "Who will let the drummer write the lyrics?"
I discovered your channel by a "suggested video" of your reaction to "Limelight", and immediately subscribed. I absolutely love living vicariously through people discovering Rush for the first time! I've been playing drums since I was about 11, and 36 years later I still find new things to appreciate about Neil's work -- despite the fact that I can play several of Rush's songs note-for-note. But watching your reactions and hearing your interpretations of their work is a beautiful thing for me. I know I can't go all "Eternal Sunshine" and delete their music from my brain just so I can experience it for a second first time, but THANK YOU for doing this (especially this particular record)!
The Camera Eye is a cool transition track to side B, a good reset of the energy the way that records had playlists designed where each records' side was it's own self contained world of music. I remember the time I ever heard this: It was definitely a new Rush on a new and unique path. A Fantastic track that infused what people call now Prog music :)
I really appreciated your reaction, especially because you underline not only the content of the lyrics, but the quality of Neil's writing. The next "picture" opens with a few rapid caravaggesque brushstrokes, a chiaroscuro description of the vigilantes with torches in the night... The lyrics, as always, are so damn timely. Once Moving Pictures is finished, I would recommend my favorite album, the previous one: Permanent Waves. These songs in particular: Freewill with the three coming together in a screaming solo; Jacob's Ladder, a suite where the expressive and evocative capacity of their music reaches very high peaks. Finally, my favorite: Natural Science. A continuous vortex of musical variations.
Signals is the next album in their catalog. Lyrically I think that entire album is the most accessible, and the songwriting is at their best. I honestly think every track on that album you would enjoy musically because their skill is fabulous, but the lyrics I think would be the highlight for you . The stories/pictures he narrates are next level.
The other thing to consider is remember when this was written back in 1981 we didn't have cell phones with cameras. Back then a camera was kind of a big deal that people only used to take special pictures... now with cell phones we take pictures of everything. Back then seeing things through the camera I was it different experience I think that it is in today's world but still relevant
You get it! Rush is a thinking person's band through and through. From their lyrics to their musicianship, it's truly amazing that three men came up with 40 years of such great music.
That was a perfect interpretation of Camera eye! It’s is my favorite on this album with YYZ in a very close 2nd. It was a blast watching along side with you. 😊
The mixing and the great implementation of sound you have to give a shout out to Terry Brown, their producer. He was instrumental and helping the creation of probably their best selling albums. The late 70s - early 80s were masterpieces in production and their best work overall.
The bells at the end of the song are the chimes of Big Ben in London. I love listening to what Geddy's bass is doing during Alex's wonderful solo on this song.
Spot on Rosalie! You have a gift to understand the meaning of their music. Been a fan since 1979 and all of us life time fans understood them long before they were cool. But we knew!
spot on sister!! As a drummer myself who learned to emulate Neil Peart when I was 17 (when this album blessed my senior year of high school), I was and still am forever changed as a human being since I first heard this album. Yet your rendition of what's happening here with the lyrics gives me pause, and feel the moods I missed, probably because I am always trying to keep up on drums. This song is so fun to play on a big drumset just like Neil's strapped into some sweet headphones. OMG. Crawling into these drums sets was like crawling into a cockpit of a big jet and taking off. And yes, Neil also wrote the lyrics you speak so eloquently of........ Thank God for Rush. Nice work Rosalie for the reminder!! thank you very much.
Rosalie, if you haven’t read a little about Neil’s life, London became bittersweet after the tragic death of his daughter in a road accident and his wife’s subsequent grieving. Neil wrote books even about this until his untimely death from brain cancer. One of the greats ❤️
@@rosalieelliottofficialfor many his book Ghost Rider helped to shine ✨ a light for those who also lost wives, husbands children to trauma or tragedy, inspiration and reality that loss is not simple or even straightforward.
I love how your young eyes look at a time and music that I took for granted and a time that had far more innocence for us than you can realize. Your analysis is refreshing and thought provoking. I love this and find it renewing. thank you for insight that is eye opening to my era that’s not yours but inspirers you to apply thoughts and understanding of your own to a time to ours,which is also yours
Such a perfect album, every song is amazing and takes you on a journey. I was 13 when it came out and listening to it over n over on my Sony Walkman. Great times
Every time I go to Toronto I always get my kids to take a picture of me on the front steps of the old Toronto City Hall which is where the album cover from Moving Pictures was created. What a classic album!!!!!!! (Rush fan from 11 years old, just turned 59 )
My favourite Rush track There's the visual pun from 'moving pictures' as in 'movies' and them physically moving some pictures but also there's the emotive response seen in the bystanders that these pictures are 'moving' them emotionally
Rosalie - this album really builds from front to back. The way they planned and programmed this album is just as important as the songs themselves. NOW - you get treated to Witch Hunt and Vital Signs, two fantastic songs with just timeless lyrics.
As I remember, they were inspired by the band 'Yes' which were incredible as well. I remember when moving pictures came out, we were all blown away. I saw them in concert more times than I can count. You could do Starship Trooper by 'Yes'.
Before Neil eventually joined rush, he was pursuing a career as a professional drummer and a band. Not being successful in Canada, he moved to London and lived there for a year. London and the British invasion seem to be the epicenter of music at the time.instead of finding work as a drummer, he worked at a local shop was unsuccessful. He decides to move back to Canada and eventually audition for rush after their original drummer had to quit the band for medical reasons. The rest is history.
Imagine in an alternate or multi universe Neil was in a bar\club and ended up joining Led Zeppelin or a random rock band in London on that time before he headed back? That would be a wild twist nobody would understand but accept! Im loving her reaction to this album!
This band of brothers - Rush has been a soundtrack for my life as it has been for millions worldwide. This band was considered for nerdy, isolated people but more so a thinking persons band. Their story is captivating and fascinating from their childhood upbringing and how they came together to form such a magnificent band ! Mr. Neil Peart (The Professor) is a major missing piece to this trio of master musicians and story tellers. They ARE MISSED greatly by their fans both young and OLD ! Peace 🕊️
Thanks for your love for an often overlooked song. Because of it's length, it didn't get nearly as much airplay, but the fans know this as one of their many masterpiece works.
Rush played this song on exactly ONE tour - the Time Machine Tour in 2011. They performed Moving Pictures in its entirety, and it was spectacular! So glad I was there to see it - twice! So glad you’ve discovered my favorite band since 1978. 😊
Subscription added. Your great breakdown of this legendary track sealed it. keep up the good work:) Maybe rush's most "artsy" record so you were spot on there as well.
Still have this song on my playlist. There was never a match for a band playing live like Rush. Saw them in concert and they were fantastic. Yes i am old. 😁👍💪
It is a lot to take in and is why it holds peoples interest 43 years later. I love that people still discover this now as it reminds me of how I felt when i first listened to it then.
![The Camera Eye (Studio & Live 4K) [Rush Reaction] - UHD 2160p - Cleveland 2011 - First time hearing](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/19mNZPccBxQ/mqdefault.jpg)
Wild to think, the first time I heard this I was 16. I am now 62! They were the soundtrack of most of my life. I’m grateful to those 3 guys!!
Ditto .. exactly same here!
Same here, bro :-) Still as good as it was back then.
I’ve been listening to this at least once a month since 16❤
Probably my favourite album by any band ever , discovered Rush at the age of 11 I’m now 56 . Still love them , loving Geddys rickenbacker sound on all of this album
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Literally no other Rock band on earth could even come close to approaching their level of musicianship, composition, and lyrical content when this came out. Rush served notice to ALL of them... RIP Professor
Waters and Gilmour though... but I take them out of any conversations about 'best of...' when it comes to music.
Right On! Yet still, they've been & were many kick-azz bands who were on another level back then. Just saying... I mean maybe if your preference in music is narrow minded only focused on prog rock. However, groups like "Tower of Power" "Genesis" & "Pink Floyd" are pretty good talented skilled musicians, IMO anyway. ✌️😜
They were yrs ahead of their time
The lyrics in witch hunt will give you chills
/Yes and King Crimson have entered the chat.
I would put the 1970’s Yes right up there, especially for bass and guitar, and certainly keyboards. Wakeman, Squire, and Howe were incredible musicians, not to mention the great Alan White, who was one of Neil Peart’s inspirations.
If YYZ and Camera Eye were exhausting, I can't wait to see what you make of Witch Hunt! 😊
I so agree with Anthony. The lyrics to "Witch Hunt" from 1981 are timeless, and never more relevant than they are now.
@@markstromberg1148 - Yes... It could've been written yesterday, and very few would fail to see its relevance.
How about Xanadu from ESL??
Neal Peart said in one of his rare interviews that he wanted to take the listener on a journey through each song..thus the build, the time signature changes. This song showcases that so perfectly. It's been one of my favorite Rush songs since this album came out when I was in junior high.
I would add that Red Barchetta is another example of Neil's storytelling.
Greatest poet of my lifetime, drum genius aside.
Lifeson's guitar work on this song is phenomenal.
Absolutely, definitely agree.
One of his best. But thank goodness for his sense of humor that he laughs at him just being " the other guy that plays in Rush. Good ear, great comment.
I commend you for having the sensibility to allow yourself be moved by this band. You definitely get it. To me, the way they play with time signatures, melody and lyrics is so musical and dynamic. A perfect balance of complex arrangements but super catchy yet meaningful . These guys did everything by their own rules never giving into trends but only wanting to evolve in their own art. They have had the "perfect career" in my opinion as a ex-professional musician. A huge cult following. Truly, an amazing band. You are so right! This is not music you play in the background. When you put on Rush, you have to listen to Rush.
Loving this journey through one of my most favourite ever albums. I would love to be able to listen to this for the first time again. A true privilege x
Cant wait for you to get to 'Witch Hunt'!
Yeah, Witch Hunt will blow her mind.
@@ChronicExcessiveManlinessGood one
Geddy, Alex and Neil ❤ The soul, the heart and the mind of Rush ✨️
Camera Eye doesn’t get enough love. One of Alex’s greatest pieces.
Been listening to Rush for almost 50 years and it never gets old
My high school years were full of RUSH
Neil used to live in London in the 70s. In the early 90s I boarded a train on the London Underground and found a book called ‘Rock Wives’ on a seat.
It’s a compilation of essays by famous Rock stars’ wives. I read the one by Neil’s wife wherein she said that Neil found much of his lyrical inspiration after he found an abandoned book left on a London Underground train…
Damn!
This music fed my brain.... and still does. 'Moving Pictures' is one of the most perfect albums I know.
Funny thing. I discovered Rush in 8th Grade with Moving Pictures. I purchased this album and Journey Escape as my very first two albums! I went to my Dad's house to listen to this album for the first time on his awesome turntable. I still remember the 1st side as an event! At some point I flipped the record over and started Camera Eye and couldn't get into it - Wasn't ready for it. It was too long. I was only in 8th grade I guess, so I only played side one for 3 years. Finally in 11th grade after getting into Signals and Grace Under Pressure - Rush's next two follow up albums, something had me go back to side 2 of moving pictures. I played the side 2 and really got into Witch Hunt and Vital Signs - Especially my senior year. But still couldn't get The Camera Eye. Well, forward from 1986 to 2010 and Rush toured with Moving Pictures in its entirety and this song finally clicked as a 42 year old! Never too late to discover and rediscover Rush. As you so aptly alliterated the lyrics to us in your camera, I even now in 2024 realize on an even deeper level how poetic this song is and calls to me to play on Rock Band (yes still play that) when I'm in the possibility that the world has to offer rather than focusing of lenses on its short comings! This is the longest post of my youtube life. I share my thoughts as to thank you Rosalie for taking the time with us to share your amazing 1st time reactions to a band I followed faithfully from 1981 till their final show here in LA in 2015 and still come back to in 2024.
@@scsiking same here…once I heard that album in the 8th grade, I was hooked for the next 40+ years and beyond…🔥👍
I used to skip it too lol.
Cool story
Your reactions and assessment of the songs are awesome. It's fun to see you stress because I still stress all these year later on how they put these compositions together. I never get tired of their music. Hope you will become a lifelong fan you won't regret it. Looking forward to more reactions. 👍
At this point in time we were all used to 10 minute Rush songs, even longer. I will say my favourite is still their song off permanent waves called natural science. Great reaction ❤
My favorite ever.
Natural Science one of their best songs that you never heard on the radio because it was too long. Permanently Waves right up there with Moving Pictures as one of their best vinyls! Maybe Rosalie will react to PW someday?!
Of all of the greatness that is Rush, permanent waves will always be my favourite. Freewill jacobs ladder come on. Ok we all have our favourite Rush, but this is mine or maybe 2112 signals clockwork etc 😂@JohnEverts-vo5wo
@@stevepreece2931 lol, yep! It was a lot easier to pick a favorite back in 1976 when I first heard them on 2112. Pretty much a no brainer. Whooosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! …… DaDUM!!! … and the rest is history. And how many of their songs have the completely changed up, like LVS flamenco intro (HEM) vs all electric on ESL? Or going Reggae on Working Man? Like, WTH? After nearly 50 years of listening to them, it’s just a lot easier lighting up phatty and enjoying every song than picking a favorite tune. Hey, wanna really blow Rosalie’s mind? Challenge her to pick her favorite Neil drum solo video!! 😂😂😂
@JohnEverts-vo5wo how do you pick the best of the professor there all perfection. I know what I would like the entire grace under pressure lyrics reaction. And then watch to the live video of between the wheels 😅😊🤘
When I was 15, I had to beg my best friend to go see Moving Pictures Tour @ Oakland Coliseum 1981. Blew our minds. Played all their best songs. Peart threw his drums sticks 1 1/2 stories high to the top of the coliseum and caught it midway in the drum fill in this song. Crowd went nuts !
Also watched them live in Los Angeles, “Moving Pictures Tour”. I watched the next 8 Rush concerts after that!
@@lorcazola Had that same kind of experience seeing them in Albuquerque. Friends and I standing just a few feet behind front barricade, Neil flinged his stick up so high it disappeared in the lighting. Had to have been over 20 feet. It came down perfectly timed. For like a flash of a second he had a surprised look on his face like “Oh shit, I didn’t mean to throw it that high”. Can’t remember the song, but I can only guess most other drummers never would have even caught it and / or their timing would have been interrupted enough to be noticed. Not Neil. He was the greatest!!!
After all the mindless drivel has faded away and Rush cuts through the bullshit with its aural and lyrical genius, I feel alive again, full of hope and promise, a sense of home and purpose: Rush
I'm sure somebody already posted this....
RUSH - it's your favourite bands favourite band!
This was always a great driving song! Geddy lee playing Keyboards with his feet, while playing Bass& lead vocals, Alex Going nuts, Neal Peart, what can we say! "The Professor On Drums" Canada's Progressive Rock Gift to the WORLD!!😀❤👌👍✌🤘!
Let's not forget Alex playing the Tarus bass pedals as well.
Ladies and gentlemen
The Professor on the drum kit.
Not many know this but the songs lyrics were based on a novel by Jon Dos Passos called U.S.A. Trilogy. That was comprised of 3 different story lines one called “The Big Money”, which happened to be the name of another Rush song. But in one of the storylines was a stream of consciousness writing called “The Camera Eye” which this song reflects the feelings from the perspective of an new immigrant in NYC at the turn of the 20th century walking the city streets at night and the overwhelming feelings on possibility in this new world and great city. It is one of the great American novels.
So evocative. The city as a living organism and Neil moving through it as an ever erudite observer of human nature. I feel the sense of possibilities… I feel the wrench of hard realities. Ach. This song just continues to grow in Majesty with each listen over the years.
It was once pointed out to me that when Geddy isn't singing all 3 are soloing...just got to love Rush. The perfect soundtrack to my life. Keep up with the Rush reactions its such a deep rabbit hole. Great reaction again.
Best reaction to this song ever!!! Thank you. I appreciate the way you tied the album cover to the theme of the song. I have always noticed that Tom Sawyer and The Camera Eye are the most deeply related. Those two songs define each other.
I can't help but notice how The Camera Eye inspired Analog Kid on the next album Signals. It basically points out that you need to stop and smell the flowers once and a while. The Signals album is extremely deep as well and I hope you take time to examine it. Subdivisions is the perfect overview, but 3 songs sort of create a story.
The Analog Kid is living in the moment. Living in Now
The Digital Man is living in the future. Always looking ahead to better days.
Losing it is about living in the past. Remembering your glory days as you fade away in old age.
I hope you take time to explore more Rush songs.
What an amazing work of art this song is.. thank you for sharing this masterpiece with us Rush fans and music fans in general…great commentary/feedback…✌️👍
Listening to a Rush album is not for the faint of heart. We always played a be album 3 times on first listen. Had the album cover with lyrics in front of us. Always a journey
When Rush plays a "solo" it is all 3 of them playing solos, at the same time. And they did it live.
These darn bands that make you stop and think... 😅 Awesome reaction!
The cover art is a triple entendre:
First, obvious level: guys moving pictures.
Second level: onlookers being moved by the pictures.
Third level: back cover, we see that it's actually a film set.
Fun fact: they actually did shoot this on a movie camera on film, and the cover shot is one of the frames from it.
I love Rush! "It's a lot to process!", yes and it's so worthwhile and timeless. ❤
Enjoy the ride and thx for your lovely analysis.
You are correct about the album cover having multiple meanings; guys moving pictures, onlookers showing moving emotions while looking at the pictures being moved, but then also...well, the rest is on the backside album cover...
My second favorite song on the album, after Red Barchetta. The Camera Eye always seemed to me like it should be a part in a Broadway production. I hate to use the term "rock opera" with Rush, because they aren't quite like other "rock opera" songs of the era. A rock musical might be more appropriate. With other long Rush songs though, I definitely think of them as rock symphonies, not operas or musicals. Just serious artsy genius from 3 prime examples of master class musicians and artists.
I use to listen to this album on low volume when I was younger during studies for exams, or working on projects for school or even work, having Rush playing in the background seemed to help me concentrate LoL!
the best study nights ever!!! a long with zappa´s you are what you is album & the clash combat rock albun
Thank you Ms.RE. you ARE my favorite reaction person now on this one. For you not to stop every 20 seconds and actually sit there and listen AND THINK brought me to tears. They are known, since maybe 79 or 80, as " the thinking persons" bank. So I thank you for your lyric observation. As well as your over all opinion on my favorite band since 78. Great bedspread! Thanks, Jeff, known as Chepe in Bogota.
I remember when this came out, radio stations could only play The Camera Eye on the graveyard shifts.
It was too long to play during the day.
Did they really spin this track on the radio? I never had the pleasure of hearing it on the air.
@@brentwalker8596 I've only heard it after midnight
The energy between Old England and New England. Paints a perfect movie in your head. One of my favs to drum along to. Thanks Rosalie!
After all these years, I never linked old England and New England. Well done.
Capitol of the old world and of the new.
Rush are the Steinbeck of rock, in the way his words and their words and music paint a picture in your mind. You feel you are walking in the different cities.
I have heard this song one thousand times since I was 15. Your insights and reflections on this song strike me as both new (to me) and true. Well done and beautifully said.
Love your channel!
It is art.
They were the Beethoven's of their day. Complex but still packing an emotional punch 👊
I appreciate you so much! Thank you for bringing your heart, mind and soul to the music of one of my favorite bands! You are really in for some great lyrical and musical art! Plus amazing jams!
How animated insightful and passionate you become in your analysis. Over 40 years of listening to this beauty and i still get that way. RUSH was life changing at twelve and is incorporated into my personal foundation. A "Guiding Light"!
I was fortunate(and passionate) enough to see them 25 times. The last with my then teenage daughter.
Three men. Only three men created these masterpieces. Three men wrote the lyrics and the music and arranged them into compositions of pure art. Then, only three men performed these songs with precision, passion, and energy that had to be experienced live to fully appreciate. These shows were indeed moving.
Correct me if I get the tour wrong, but they did this ENTIRE ALBUM, sequentially, on the R-30 (?) tour. It is amazing to watch! So gutsy!
@@mlinderict The Time Machine Tour. One of my top three of all the shows I saw. Moving Pictures is one of the best albums ever made by any artist or group.
I saw the Time Machine tour twice in Chicago. Once outdoors, then indoors. Great show. Then other bands started doing full albums on tour also.
Please don't leave out the production of Terry Brown and engineering of Paul Northfield. This was a seasoned team at the very top of their game.
hey @Rosalie Elliott . . . I admire your courage
For me these songs are a fact, a part of my daily life, a part of my landscape
Thank you for analyzing each song and really reminding me how deeply these guys saw and described the world and accompanied my adolescence
This whole RUSH series should be called: "Who will let the drummer write the lyrics?"
Your analytical observations of this song are the probably the best I’ve ever heard . Loving your enthusiasm for Rush
Rosalie, I appreciate your work. Your analysis of Rush and Zeppelin has made me a fan 😃
This was my first Rush concert tour when I was a teenager. So may excellent songs on this album and terrific tour!
Lucky you! I missed the Moving Pictures tour because I was a kid and I had no one to take me. It would have been May 31, 1981.
Thanks for your insight. Saw them 2x in my life and was overwhelmed by them and their musicianship.
I discovered your channel by a "suggested video" of your reaction to "Limelight", and immediately subscribed.
I absolutely love living vicariously through people discovering Rush for the first time!
I've been playing drums since I was about 11, and 36 years later I still find new things to appreciate about Neil's work -- despite the fact that I can play several of Rush's songs note-for-note.
But watching your reactions and hearing your interpretations of their work is a beautiful thing for me. I know I can't go all "Eternal Sunshine" and delete their music from my brain just so I can experience it for a second first time, but THANK YOU for doing this (especially this particular record)!
i LOVE your interpretation of this song! You're right that there is so much going on, but I think you absolutely nail the nature of this song!!
You're doing well young Rush fan! 👏 There is so much more.....❤ love your reactions!
The Camera Eye is a cool transition track to side B, a good reset of the energy the way that records had playlists designed where each records' side was it's own self contained world of music. I remember the time I ever heard this: It was definitely a new Rush on a new and unique path. A Fantastic track that infused what people call now Prog music :)
Brilliant observation. The Professor would be happy to know you get it.
I really appreciated your reaction, especially because you underline not only the content of the lyrics, but the quality of Neil's writing. The next "picture" opens with a few rapid caravaggesque brushstrokes, a chiaroscuro description of the vigilantes with torches in the night... The lyrics, as always, are so damn timely.
Once Moving Pictures is finished, I would recommend my favorite album, the previous one: Permanent Waves. These songs in particular: Freewill with the three coming together in a screaming solo; Jacob's Ladder, a suite where the expressive and evocative capacity of their music reaches very high peaks. Finally, my favorite: Natural Science. A continuous vortex of musical variations.
Thanks, Rosalie. I really enjoy your in-depth analysis of the lyrics. ❤
Signals is the next album in their catalog. Lyrically I think that entire album is the most accessible, and the songwriting is at their best. I honestly think every track on that album you would enjoy musically because their skill is fabulous, but the lyrics I think would be the highlight for you . The stories/pictures he narrates are next level.
H2O...no flow without the other!
The other thing to consider is remember when this was written back in 1981 we didn't have cell phones with cameras. Back then a camera was kind of a big deal that people only used to take special pictures... now with cell phones we take pictures of everything. Back then seeing things through the camera I was it different experience I think that it is in today's world but still relevant
Keep it going! Love your reactions and analysis. Only 18 more studio albums to get through! :)
You get it! Rush is a thinking person's band through and through. From their lyrics to their musicianship, it's truly amazing that three men came up with 40 years of such great music.
Thank you for this one! I LOVE IT! OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH YEAH!!!!!
That was a perfect interpretation of Camera eye! It’s is my favorite on this album with YYZ in a very close 2nd. It was a blast watching along side with you. 😊
One of the very best tunes ever written!🤘🏻It gives me goose bumps every time I hear it!
Your reactions are amazing.
Wow Rosalie!! You are amazing. You breathed life into this amazing song 🎵 with your beautiful, descriptive thoughts. That was fun!
This is my 4th favorite album. My top 3 are 2112, Hemispheres, and A Farewell to Kings
The next song will really blow you away
@@johnnorman7180 oh yes! Looking forward to THAT reaction 👍
A contemplation on New York and London. I love this song.
The mixing and the great implementation of sound you have to give a shout out to Terry Brown, their producer. He was instrumental and helping the creation of probably their best selling albums. The late 70s - early 80s were masterpieces in production and their best work overall.
The bells at the end of the song are the chimes of Big Ben in London. I love listening to what Geddy's bass is doing during Alex's wonderful solo on this song.
Spot on Rosalie! You have a gift to understand the meaning of their music. Been a fan since 1979 and all of us life time fans understood them long before they were cool. But we knew!
spot on sister!! As a drummer myself who learned to emulate Neil Peart when I was 17 (when this album blessed my senior year of high school), I was and still am forever changed as a human being since I first heard this album. Yet your rendition of what's happening here with the lyrics gives me pause, and feel the moods I missed, probably because I am always trying to keep up on drums. This song is so fun to play on a big drumset just like Neil's strapped into some sweet headphones. OMG. Crawling into these drums sets was like crawling into a cockpit of a big jet and taking off. And yes, Neil also wrote the lyrics you speak so eloquently of........ Thank God for Rush. Nice work Rosalie for the reminder!! thank you very much.
Rosalie, if you haven’t read a little about Neil’s life, London became bittersweet after the tragic death of his daughter in a road accident and his wife’s subsequent grieving. Neil wrote books even about this until his untimely death from brain cancer. One of the greats ❤️
oh wow! I did not know. thank you for this info.
@@rosalieelliottofficialfor many his book Ghost Rider helped to shine ✨ a light for those who also lost wives, husbands children to trauma or tragedy, inspiration and reality that loss is not simple or even straightforward.
I love how your young eyes look at a time and music that I took for granted and a time that had far more innocence for us than you can realize. Your analysis is refreshing and thought provoking. I love this and find it renewing. thank you for insight that is eye opening to my era that’s not yours but inspirers you to apply thoughts and understanding of your own to a time to ours,which is also yours
Innocence, but also far more depth, soul, sophistication, and humanity than are possible living in the cybernetic web.
Awesome reaction as always ,thank you so much, Rosalie...the best is to come with the next two tracks, can't wait !!! Todd from Ohio...
Such a perfect album, every song is amazing and takes you on a journey. I was 13 when it came out and listening to it over n over on my Sony Walkman. Great times
I think you did a masterful breakdown of the lyrics of the song and what Rush was trying to convey
My favorite song on this album of favorites.
Do the live version of these songs. You’ll love it. Welcome to the journey!!
Every time I go to Toronto I always get my kids to take a picture of me on the front steps of the old Toronto City Hall which is where the album cover from Moving Pictures was created. What a classic album!!!!!!! (Rush fan from 11 years old, just turned 59 )
Fan of 45 yrs. This is one of their top 5 songs. The dual solo jam between Ged n Alex alone is just magical.
My favourite Rush track
There's the visual pun from 'moving pictures' as in 'movies' and them physically moving some pictures but also there's the emotive response seen in the bystanders that these pictures are 'moving' them emotionally
great reaction, great comment, on camera eye this is a great song it calls, u when it wants, to be listened to lol, take care
Rosalie - this album really builds from front to back. The way they planned and programmed this album is just as important as the songs themselves. NOW - you get treated to Witch Hunt and Vital Signs, two fantastic songs with just timeless lyrics.
As I remember, they were inspired by the band 'Yes' which were incredible as well. I remember when moving pictures came out, we were all blown away. I saw them in concert more times than I can count. You could do Starship Trooper by 'Yes'.
Another awesome song, another awesome Alex solo! 😊😎
Watching you listen to the soundtrack of my teen years brings tears of joy to my eyes.🥲
Before Neil eventually joined rush, he was pursuing a career as a professional drummer and a band. Not being successful in Canada, he moved to London and lived there for a year. London and the British invasion seem to be the epicenter of music at the time.instead of finding work as a drummer, he worked at a local shop was unsuccessful. He decides to move back to Canada and eventually audition for rush after their original drummer had to quit the band for medical reasons. The rest is history.
Imagine in an alternate or multi universe Neil was in a bar\club and ended up joining Led Zeppelin or a random rock band in London on that time before he headed back? That would be a wild twist nobody would understand but accept! Im loving her reaction to this album!
@@batman1169or schlepping hardware at his father's store!
Excellent review of a classic tune
i just love their solos. all 3 of them at the same time. BRILLIANT!!!
This band of brothers - Rush has been a soundtrack for my life as it has been for millions worldwide. This band was considered for nerdy, isolated people but more so a thinking persons band. Their story is captivating and fascinating from their childhood upbringing and how they came together to form such a magnificent band ! Mr. Neil Peart (The Professor) is a major missing piece to this trio of master musicians and story tellers. They ARE MISSED greatly by their fans both young and OLD !
Peace 🕊️
Thanks for your love for an often overlooked song. Because of it's length, it didn't get nearly as much airplay, but the fans know this as one of their many masterpiece works.
Luv your analysis
Rush played this song on exactly ONE tour - the Time Machine Tour in 2011. They performed Moving Pictures in its entirety, and it was spectacular! So glad I was there to see it - twice! So glad you’ve discovered my favorite band since 1978. 😊
They actually played it on their Moving Pictures tour as well. I saw them play it in 1981.
Every time I hear this songs it reminds me me to the introduction to exit stage left concert video love this song
I absolutely love your reactions, thank you!
Subscription added. Your great breakdown of this legendary track sealed it. keep up the good work:) Maybe rush's most "artsy" record so you were spot on there as well.
Still have this song on my playlist. There was never a match for a band playing live like Rush. Saw them in concert and they were fantastic. Yes i am old. 😁👍💪
Peart wrote the lyrics of his experiences in both cities of his impressions of the rhythms and feel of them at the time.
My personal favorite track from Moving Pictures. Thanks for sharing this treasure piece of music.
The picture in the background was perfect
It is a lot to take in and is why it holds peoples interest 43 years later. I love that people still discover this now as it reminds me of how I felt when i first listened to it then.
Rosalie, need to watch the live version of these songs on moving pictures...