It’s not cheating if you print out the lyrics… that’s how we used to learn the songs when they released new albums, by following along with the lyrics printed on the liners. 😂 Great reaction, to one of my top 5 Rush faves, and don’t sweat the rewinds.
Whenever I see this video, I’m immediately brought back to my seat that night on the crowded, grassy knoll between the amphitheatre seats and Lake Ontario. Oh to be 29, back living in Toronto, and enjoying Rush down by the lake again!
To answer your first question James about the end of the 1st of 3 movements - entitled “Tide Pools” - if memory serves me correctly. Geddy sings, “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the SEA.” Following the previous part of the verse… “All the busy little creatures chasing out their destinies.” You had the right idea about the meaning, I think… the many tidal pools are all separate and distinct… but they all are parts of a larger collective and came from a much larger source. Yet, in their own existence they lose sight of the expanse of the Sea from which was a common source to ALL the pools. We often get caught-up in our present and the minutiae of our own lives that we can easily forget from where we came and to where we are heading… and the contrast between the microscopic existence within the enormity of the universe… and our place within… To be fair to you… the lyrics use somewhat uncommon words and as the production is from a live show, it isn’t the clearest to hear. Listening to the studio (3rd song on “Permanent Waves”) will also help… and in my opinion, will add another dimension to the whole piece as it represents what the band intended to be heard… not to subtract from this powerful LIVE performance. I hope this helps…
Metaphysics and existentialism in your rock gods, analyzing society and our interplay with science and human nature, this band is the philosophers and psychologists for the modern age. So glad I saw them live, 1980 to 2011. Wishing Geddy and Alex would do an unplugged tour
I always started with the music. It would be weeks or months before I’d bother to check whether the words I sang along with the song were at least similar to the actual lyrics!
Been a huge Rush fan since i was a little kid. Best rock band in history. Once you go down the rabbit hole of Rush, there is no coming back. R.I.P Neil "The Professor" Peart" The GOAT!
☺️ Definitely a fan favorite any chance we got to see them perform this live. Later in the early 2000's 🤯 they started playing songs we hadn't heard played live in like 15 yrs. 🥰🐰
@@ericvonsteuben7533 Went to a KISS Concert & left a Rush fan. 'New World Man' was my jam. 🤗 I wore that 45' out. 😏 No one ever reacts to that song. 😁🥰🐰
I think his phrasing makes the lyrics hard to pick up in this performance. Even the studio version is challenging to understand each line. But, the song is kind of impossible without this phrasing. Part of the genius in the song structure. Great reaction!
Skipped verse: "Art as expression, not as market campains, Will still capture our imaginations, Forming a world, state of integrity, it will surely help us along..."
"I'm gonna pause it just because of TH-cam." Dude that was the 497th pause at that point, certainly wasn't necessary to throw in another just for TH-cam!
Thanks for letting me know. Sometimes in the middle of the REACTION I get caught up and don't remember everything. Since it's my first time EVER hearing the song. I like to pause as much as needed. If you for some reason would rather watch the video instead of my reaction, I have a link to it in the description. I appreciate your feedback.
@@JimJamFam Suggestion: Bring up the lyrics in advance in another browser window, and/or just go over them in advance. Or even use the closed caption function in YT and overlay them. Def hard to follow by ear only.
The original recording and the lyric video include the following verse from the third movement, which was omitted from this performance, and IMO really adds to the song's meaning: "Art as expression, Not as market campaigns, Will still capture our imagination; Given the same state of integrity, It will surely help us along..." Their performance of the track Animate from their 1993 album Counterparts is another top pick from this same show, and highlights how their sound evolved through the 1990s as they dropped the synthesizers in favour of a more guitar-driven hard rock sound. Cheers from Toronto! 🎤 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎸 🐐 🐐 🐐
I am a new Rush fan and this song (and especially this live performance) is a favorite. Like you, I struggle to understand the lyrics, so I called them up while listening and was able to follow along. Here are the lyrics: When the ebbing tide retreats along the rocky shoreline It leaves a trail of tide pools in a short-lived galaxy Each microcosmic planet, a complete society A simple kind of mirror to reflect upon our own All the busy little creatures chasing out their destinies Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea Wheel within wheels in a spiral array A pattern so grand and complex Time after time we lose sight of the way Our causes can't see their effects Wheel within wheels in a spiral array A pattern so grand and complex Time after time we lose sight of the way Our causes can't see their effects A quantum leap forward in time and space The universe learned to expand Mess and magic, triumphant and tragic A mechanized world out of hand Computerized clinic for superior cynics Who dance to a synthetic band In their own image their world is fashioned No wonder they don't understand Wheel within wheels in a spiral array A pattern so grand and complex Time after time we lose sight of the way Our causes can't see their effects Science, like nature, must also be tamed With a view towards its preservation Given the same state of integrity It will surely serve us well The most endangered species, the honest man Will still survive annihilation Forming a world, a state of integrity Sensitive, open, and strong Wave after wave will flow with the tide And bury the world as it does Tide after tide will flow and recede Leaving life to go on as it was
“Wheels within wheels in a spiral array, “A pattern so grand and complex. “Time after time we lose sight of the way “Our causes can’t see their effects.” On of my favorite Peart lines. Cheers!
Don't worry about the pauses, James. This is your channel. Have you had a chance to listen to the studio version yet? A suggestion for the future, check out Headlong Flight from their 2012 Clockwork Angels album
If you focus just on the bass playing it’s incredible! It’s melodic and rhythmic, and every note is perfectly placed. You can hear the articulation better on the studio version from the Permanent Waves album.
Yeah, I will probably do that. It kind of takes the fun out of it for me. Because, I like to HEAR a song and then determine what it means. Sometimes when I read the lyrics it can give them a different meaning to me. I dunno why, it's weird.
Rarely do I become agitated watching Rush reactions, but this is bad. In 1978 when I got this album I listened to every song while reading the lyrics printed on the inner sleeve. You don't have that, but my goodness, download the lyrics to be able to read them along with his singing. Geddy Lee is probably the rock singer who enunciates his words the best. Probably due to Canadian speech pattern. Anyway, as with most Rush songs it requires multiple times listening to the song to understand the meaning of the lyrics. The music itself requires multiple times hearing the song to take it all in. I used to listen to the songs honing in on each instrument, that is, one time concentrating on percussion, the next time Lifeson's guitar, then Bass/synthesizers frome Geddy.... I've been listening to Rush since I was 13 and sometimes 40 years later I'll catch something new I hadn't heard before. Maybe start with the studio versions before listening live, where it is harder to understand the lyrics at times due to multiple factors.
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I’m surprised more reactions don’t printout the lyrics especially on live music. I think it would be a better experience for both the reactionary as well as the listener as not having to pause so much.
You should listen to the studio version first because Alex deletes his second guitar solo live. Geddy thought it flowed better without it, I disagree, but that’s what Geddy thought anyway.
♥ Maybe check out NEIL PEART Buddy Rich HONOR?????!!!!!!!!! :) ♥AND, or... Victor Wooten bass magic????????? :) “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” ~ Romans 15:13
To ill prepared to evaluate, so why start. Should have lyrics in hand or in your video!, otherwise you’re just wasting time, nobody wants you to stop and wait for you to figure out the lyrics.
"Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea."
So many gems from Neil over the years. So many...
It’s not cheating if you print out the lyrics… that’s how we used to learn the songs when they released new albums, by following along with the lyrics printed on the liners. 😂 Great reaction, to one of my top 5 Rush faves, and don’t sweat the rewinds.
One of the 10 or 15 of their songs in my top five!
lol! I agree!
Always use lyrics when listening to RUSH. As much as their music is complicated, so are the lyrics. True masters in all aspects 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
Rush...3 guys, with way too much talent, ahead of their time.
“Time after time, we lose sight of the ways our causes can’t see their effects.”
Lol. Don't worry about the stops and rewinds. This song deserves analysis!
Whenever I see this video, I’m immediately brought back to my seat that night on the crowded, grassy knoll between the amphitheatre seats and Lake Ontario. Oh to be 29, back living in Toronto, and enjoying Rush down by the lake again!
That sounds amazing!
One of Rush's finest.. You should listen to the studio version for the full effect.
To answer your first question James about the end of the 1st of 3 movements - entitled “Tide Pools” - if memory serves me correctly.
Geddy sings, “Living in their pools, they soon forget about the SEA.”
Following the previous part of the verse… “All the busy little creatures chasing out their destinies.”
You had the right idea about the meaning, I think… the many tidal pools are all separate and distinct… but they all are parts of a larger collective and came from a much larger source.
Yet, in their own existence they lose sight of the expanse of the Sea from which was a common source to ALL the pools.
We often get caught-up in our present and the minutiae of our own lives that we can easily forget from where we came and to where we are heading… and the contrast between the microscopic existence within the enormity of the universe… and our place within…
To be fair to you… the lyrics use somewhat uncommon words and as the production is from a live show, it isn’t the clearest to hear.
Listening to the studio (3rd song on “Permanent Waves”) will also help… and in my opinion, will add another dimension to the whole piece as it represents what the band intended to be heard… not to subtract from this powerful LIVE performance.
I hope this helps…
Metaphysics and existentialism in your rock gods, analyzing society and our interplay with science and human nature, this band is the philosophers and psychologists for the modern age. So glad I saw them live, 1980 to 2011. Wishing Geddy and Alex would do an unplugged tour
I always started with the music. It would be weeks or months before I’d bother to check whether the words I sang along with the song were at least similar to the actual lyrics!
Been a huge Rush fan since i was a little kid. Best rock band in history.
Once you go down the rabbit hole of Rush, there is no coming back. R.I.P Neil "The Professor" Peart" The GOAT!
Maybe their deepest lyrics. Layers of meaning to unpack on top of an incredible jam. Cheers.
☺️ Definitely a fan favorite any chance we got to see them perform this live. Later in the early 2000's 🤯 they started playing songs we hadn't heard played live in like 15 yrs. 🥰🐰
Or longer! As well as songs they had never played live, like Enter Nous, Between Sun and Moon, How It Is, Losing It, etc.
@@ericvonsteuben7533 Went to a KISS Concert & left a Rush fan. 'New World Man' was my jam. 🤗 I wore that 45' out. 😏 No one ever reacts to that song. 😁🥰🐰
Los mejores del mundo!!!
I think his phrasing makes the lyrics hard to pick up in this performance. Even the studio version is challenging to understand each line. But, the song is kind of impossible without this phrasing. Part of the genius in the song structure. Great reaction!
Skipped verse: "Art as expression, not as market campains,
Will still capture our imaginations,
Forming a world, state of integrity, it will surely help us along..."
"I'm gonna pause it just because of TH-cam." Dude that was the 497th pause at that point, certainly wasn't necessary to throw in another just for TH-cam!
Thanks for letting me know. Sometimes in the middle of the REACTION I get caught up and don't remember everything. Since it's my first time EVER hearing the song. I like to pause as much as needed. If you for some reason would rather watch the video instead of my reaction, I have a link to it in the description. I appreciate your feedback.
@@JimJamFam Suggestion: Bring up the lyrics in advance in another browser window, and/or just go over them in advance. Or even use the closed caption function in YT and overlay them. Def hard to follow by ear only.
The original recording and the lyric video include the following verse from the third movement, which was omitted from this performance, and IMO really adds to the song's meaning:
"Art as expression,
Not as market campaigns,
Will still capture our imagination;
Given the same state of integrity,
It will surely help us along..."
Their performance of the track Animate from their 1993 album Counterparts is another top pick from this same show, and highlights how their sound evolved through the 1990s as they dropped the synthesizers in favour of a more guitar-driven hard rock sound. Cheers from Toronto!
🎤 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎸 🐐 🐐 🐐
I am a new Rush fan and this song (and especially this live performance) is a favorite. Like you, I struggle to understand the lyrics, so I called them up while listening and was able to follow along. Here are the lyrics: When the ebbing tide retreats along the rocky shoreline
It leaves a trail of tide pools in a short-lived galaxy
Each microcosmic planet, a complete society
A simple kind of mirror to reflect upon our own
All the busy little creatures chasing out their destinies
Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea
Wheel within wheels in a spiral array
A pattern so grand and complex
Time after time we lose sight of the way
Our causes can't see their effects
Wheel within wheels in a spiral array
A pattern so grand and complex
Time after time we lose sight of the way
Our causes can't see their effects
A quantum leap forward in time and space
The universe learned to expand
Mess and magic, triumphant and tragic
A mechanized world out of hand
Computerized clinic for superior cynics
Who dance to a synthetic band
In their own image their world is fashioned
No wonder they don't understand
Wheel within wheels in a spiral array
A pattern so grand and complex
Time after time we lose sight of the way
Our causes can't see their effects
Science, like nature, must also be tamed
With a view towards its preservation
Given the same state of integrity
It will surely serve us well
The most endangered species, the honest man
Will still survive annihilation
Forming a world, a state of integrity
Sensitive, open, and strong
Wave after wave will flow with the tide
And bury the world as it does
Tide after tide will flow and recede
Leaving life to go on as it was
Welcome to the family.👍
“Wheels within wheels in a spiral array,
“A pattern so grand and complex.
“Time after time we lose sight of the way
“Our causes can’t see their effects.”
On of my favorite Peart lines. Cheers!
Record the lyrics video. We'll watch again.
Don't worry about the pauses, James. This is your channel.
Have you had a chance to listen to the studio version yet?
A suggestion for the future, check out Headlong Flight from their 2012 Clockwork Angels album
Hey Google "show me the lyrics for Natural Science by Rush" 🤗
Keep them coming my friend. You have 40 years of greatness left to explore. Cheers! 😎
Ya have great taste; welcome to the Rush family. ❤
Thank you!! 😊
If you focus just on the bass playing it’s incredible! It’s melodic and rhythmic, and every note is perfectly placed. You can hear the articulation better on the studio version from the Permanent Waves album.
If you liked this one you will probably like Jacobs Ladder off the same album. They're different but similar. 😊
Thanks! I'll check it out!
Dude! Just pull up the lyrics on the internet while you are watching like so many reactors do:) Love ur channel.
look up the lyrics online and follow along
maybe from now on you could pull lyrics to read from the internet.
Yeah, I will probably do that. It kind of takes the fun out of it for me. Because, I like to HEAR a song and then determine what it means. Sometimes when I read the lyrics it can give them a different meaning to me. I dunno why, it's weird.
It’s been too long brother. Rush on!
We are back!
More deep lyrics by the Professor.
Tha lager picture eh?
Rarely do I become agitated watching Rush reactions, but this is bad.
In 1978 when I got this album I listened to every song while reading the lyrics printed on the inner sleeve.
You don't have that, but my goodness, download the lyrics to be able to read them along with his singing.
Geddy Lee is probably the rock singer who enunciates his words the best. Probably due to Canadian speech pattern.
Anyway, as with most Rush songs it requires multiple times listening to the song to understand the meaning of the lyrics.
The music itself requires multiple times hearing the song to take it all in. I used to listen to the songs honing in on each instrument, that is, one time concentrating on percussion, the next time Lifeson's guitar, then Bass/synthesizers frome Geddy....
I've been listening to Rush since I was 13 and sometimes 40 years later I'll catch something new I hadn't heard before.
Maybe start with the studio versions before listening live, where it is harder to understand the lyrics at times due to multiple factors.
Thanks for your feedback. I hope you come back for the next one and let me know if it's gotten better. :) Please leave a like and a comment! Oh and subscribe so you can catch the next one!
Had to give up after the 10th pause/rewind
I’m surprised more reactions don’t printout the lyrics especially on live music. I think it would be a better experience for both the reactionary as well as the listener as not having to pause so much.
I haven't owned a printer in 20 years. 🤷🏻♂️
The Professor is on drums. Rip.
You should listen to the studio version first because Alex deletes his second guitar solo live. Geddy thought it flowed better without it, I disagree, but that’s what Geddy thought anyway.
You can always pull up the lyrics first.
♥ Maybe check out NEIL PEART Buddy Rich HONOR?????!!!!!!!!! :) ♥AND, or... Victor Wooten bass magic????????? :) “Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” ~ Romans 15:13
Nothing wrong with the live performance , but try the studio version on your own time to get the lyrics
Lol. Put on subtitles!
I just do lyric videos now. :)
Hei paman ..
Bisakah kau selesaikan dulu lagu nya ...
Setelah ituh baru kau analisis kembali...
You must do some reading
Of the lyrics or in general?
man just bring up the lyrics for gods sake
I don't have a printer, only one screen for recording, and use my phone as my camera... I'm kinda stuck...
To ill prepared to evaluate, so why start. Should have lyrics in hand or in your video!, otherwise you’re just wasting time, nobody wants you to stop and wait for you to figure out the lyrics.
Sorry I had to cut out after all the stops. No Sub from me. UNWATCHABLE. Pull up the lyrics!!!
Thanks for checking me out! :)
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