Rush - Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres (Reaction) “Rush Fan recommendation from Jeff!”
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I listened to this album non stop for weeks in 1978 , i was 17 and had bone cancer ended up having my leg amputated . Rush helped get me through that tough time
Hope you're okay now.
God bless you. 45+ years since cancer. Living a full life even when it has given you a bad hand.
RUSH has always been a source of comfort and solace for me in tough times. I hope you're doing well now 🤘🏼💯
@terancepreston5269 ... incredible story man! Rush has helped so many people through difficult times!!
Hope you are OK my friend.
I-Ver-Mectin & Or Fen-Ben-da-Zole cures CANSOR!
Sending a prayer for your recovery.
Rush's masterpiece.
Geddy's base was amazing in this as well.
You said you'd never heard anything like this. And you won't again.
This is RUSH, the best rock orchestra in the world.
Things like this is why RUSH will still be played a hundred years from now.
RUSH The greatest band that ever was or ever will be.
I hear you and agree 100%.
True masters.
And their music never gets old.
Here it is
my
favorite album of all time
Love those early heavy prog years. Such a dystopian feel and texture! 🏄♂️
I listen to this whole song just to hear that one part-" And all at once the chaos ceased, a stillness fell a sudden peace"
I get chills literally at that part.
The trippy part is from Cygnus X-1 from a Farewell to Kings - you'll need to go back and catch the thread. About Neil's stick speed: it is said he could hold a quarter against the wall with rapid taps - incredible!
My first Rush show was this tour January 13 1979. It started a VERY long relationship with them. Nobody messes with your head like Rush.
A masterpiece that broke them, in a way. Geddy has said that the key this is written in made it nearly impossible for him to sing, even with his range at the time. When you look at the four years of work and touring prior to this, the musicians that wrote this were obsessed with perfection. A wonderful chapter of an incredible novel called Rush.
Well said. Unfortunately, since around 2011 or so, Ged's voice sounds awful, live.
Seeing this performed live in 1979 was greatest experience of my life related to music. Totally solidified my lifelong love of Rush. This was concert #3 of the 35 times I saw them.
In Neil’s book, he describes Hemispheres as the hardest recording experience for Rush. You guys mentioned how high Geddy is singing; well, they had recorded all of the bed tracks before they did the vocals, and that’s when they discovered they’d written it all in too high of a key; this forced Geddy to sing at the top of his register throughout the song. He and Alex had a huge fight about the whole thing, while Neil slowly backed away and made himself scarce. Eventually, they accepted the situation, Geddy got the job done, and Alex had the opening guitar chord of this song officially named after him, the “Alex Lifeson Chord”: F sharp major with the added 4th and flat 7. Great reaction guys, glad you enjoyed it as much as I did when I heard it for the first time, probably around 1982.
They were inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame as the godfathers of progressive metal and the high priests of high concept. This song is one of the reasons why. 😊
One of the very best heavy prog albums ever made and my favorite Rush LP.
Thinking the music is good is only a start. Wait until you fully comprehend the story then put the two together and then listen for another 40 years and find new surprises every time through.
This is my alarm for waking up. Cygnus X-1 part 1 is my ring tone.
Progressive metal at its best!!
Such a persistent message and timeless. Hits me, and has for decades, every single time I listen to it. What an emotional ride yet again.
Masters of the Universe Rush
An absolutely magnificent musical composition performed by 3 virtuoso musicians, utterly brilliant.
Seeing them play this live back in 1979 when they brought the tour to the UK was just brilliant, my go to Rush album is Hemispheres.
the ending was soo beautifully sadd and you talked through it!!
Hahahaha! "Jesus, Rush, I can't make it...." That's the best reaction ever....
Check out their reaction to Xanadu live, Exit Stage Left. Serious appreciation for this band!
Mindblowing to this very day.
For me this is Rush’s best song and was my gateway into all of my favorite music 🙏❤️
Top 5 Greatest rock bands ever.
My ATF album by Rush! Though my ATF song is and always will be “Losing it” This got me through HS way back then! This trio will never be duplicated!
I’m 64 my son is 24. He asked me which RUSH album to buy first.. permanent waves is my favorite.. but I said u gotta get Hemispheres, it’s their masterpiece. He loves it. My favorite Alex moment is in the song u just listened to- the solo after “to find out what they had lost”❤️❤️❤️
The genius of Neil and his lyrics were off the the charts
I miss him so much.
RIP my friend.
Prog rock at its best, musicianship phenomenal! But Alex’s tone is what catches my ear, unique and outstanding!😊
Stalking your Rush reactions! Geddy's bass playing is F****** off the hook; that Rickenbacker Sprang is unmistakable as well.
Still think this is one of the most difficult songs ever to sing. The sustained highs for 20 minutes is freakin brutal even when youre in your mid 20s like geddy was here.
I have been a Rush fan since the late 70s. They have many great singles, but this easily my favorite Rush album.
Such an energizing song and IMO a top 3 Rush song for me. This one has everything you need to hear
The one you all have missed is “ The Necromancer”… I think it will blow you away…..very hard with a sabbath feel, kind of strange with Neil reading narration about lord of the rings type story. Alex soloing is from another world and goes throughout the song , they admittedly smoked a lot weed for the album.
You made it! This is an amazing opus, only RUSH could pull this off. Give this one a few more listens and it will become one of your favorites. ☮️☮️
the bass work
This right here…
Lifelong fan, but this piece remains my very favorite of theirs. It all comes together so beautifully, but Ged is a MONSTER on the bass the entire way through.
It interesting how Rush first achieved a peak period with the real progressive hard rock epics, and then achieved, as you stated, a peak period in terms of commercial success. That is very rare, and that is what is so astonishing about them, they could take such incredible risks and change their sound from album to album without even blinking, and still keep the fans onboard, while gaining even more success with each release..
Truly enjoyed your reaction. This whole album is a masterpiece! This song is like a symphony with all the incredible change ups.
This is the 2nd part, I would recommend listening to part one. It is also amazing. 2 songs that join together from two different albums.
Cheers
you will loose your mind watching Rush "Greatest Intro Ever"
It's always enjoyable, watching your discovery of Rush songs. This is an absolute epic story/song, that I listened to day and night. It was years later, that I discovered that it's "part 2"(Book 2). You definitely have to go back and check out "part 1" or Book 1. It will make more sense. Another great reaction, keep checking out Rush.
One of my favorite songs from my favorite Rush album! Thanks for doing this one.😊
I was FIRST in line at the record store, the day this came out. I KNEW it was gonna be MIND-BLOWING. 🤯
If I could have only one album from any band, it would be Hemispheres. They are just astounding here. My favorite of all of Alex's prodigious and amazing guitar work. Every time I listen to this, I can imagine what Jimi Hendrix's (my other guitarist favorite) reaction to Lerxst's first solo in this would be. Grinning from ear to ear I think! Outstanding!
Part of it at the end has Jacob's ladder feeling on the following album Permanent Changes.
Waves, not Changes. FYI
If you haven’t already, you should listen to this again - and again and again and again :) - while reading and feeling the lyrics. It will reveal to you how truly epic and philosophic this “song” is. To paraphrase from 2112: “All the secrets of life, are held within this song”!
Incredible Song and Album.
One of my favorite Rush albums.
Great listen from start to finish
Should've done book 1 to know what the weird sound effects were and most importantly.... You should have red those beautiful lyrics. The battle between heart and mind, art and logic, that rages within every human being ! Brilliant ! Happy new year to you guys !! Please check out Available Light. One of Rush's most beautiful and underrated song. That song became my all time favourite after Neil passed away as it gives such insight on who HE WAS rather what his view of the surrounding world as we got used to. YOU WILL BE MOVED NO DOUBT !!!
A masterpiece!!!
I LOVE your Rush reactionssssss !!!! 🙌🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Greatest Canadian Rock Band 🤘😎🤘
One of my favorite albums from them. The bass Neil's drums every thing is amazing!
Happy belated Holidays to both of you! As a 60 year old Rush fan I was introduced to this amazing band early in their career. I've been blessed to have seen them live 47 times , the best 47 concerts I have ever attended. Rush fans some anyway, like to choose their favorite era of Rush since their music is so diverse. Let me state , I love every era of their music from their 1st album to their last. I can find Gems on everyone of their albums! In my personal opinion the release of A Farewell to Kings, Hemispheres and Permanent Waves is the trifecta to me with Hemispheres being my all time favorite. Just my opinion , any Rush is better then anything else out there. Good to see you both back , thanks jeff!
When I met other Rush fans, it was a great experience to share memories. When I used to wear a Rush tour shirts, I did get approached by fellow Rush fanatics. Nobody, had the fan loyalty of the Grateful Dead but most of their fans didn't have jobs. Rush fans were devoted but they had families to support and were responsible people.
@bobrush4217 Polite too! Both the fans and the band.
Hemispheres was an album that was so addictive, I think I listened to it everyday after school for months and months and with Rush, you can pick out all of the details in the mix, so i would listen to the whole thing just listening to the bass, then again just guitar, then just drums. I tbink this was intentional on their part. They were staying true to the power trio format in the production, kudos to Terry Brown!!
I first heard this the year it came out, 1978, and I still find something new 46 years later. The other day, I discovered the last second bend down that Alex does at the very end of his first big solo. It so quickly and effectively transitions your ear to that radical chord change. It's little things like that that makes him my favorite guitarist, even over the likes of Jimi, SRV, Jeff Beck and EVH. His work on this album is just otherworldly to me. My favorite guitar solo ever is the big one about a third of the way through La Villa Strangiato.
@@GoblinGuy333Is it just me or do the chord arrangements for 'The Sphere- a kind of dream' bear a close relationship to the ambient middle 'Cygnus' section?
If so, then I didn't notice until my last couple of listens, Lol!
Just another pice of incredible music from an incredible band
It was after this album that the boys decided to chart their own new course (much like this song's protagonist did in Cygnus X-1, Book II at the end of Farewell to Kings).
They began a shift towards shorter, more accessible songs - having recognized that their compositions had become so long and complicated that it had become difficult - even for them - to perform them each night.
The next album up after Hemispheres was Permanent Waves, and after that Moving Pictures and Signals - with these three albums arguably constituting "peak Rush," at lease from a commercial perspective.
Google “the Alex Lifeson chord”. This song is (I believe) its first incarnation.
My fave song and album from Rush
iGot this album the day it came out and saw them this tour and a farewell to kings a tour before.They're connected with 2112.Those 3 albums are kind of a trilogy.
Holy hell.. you guys have really taken on a major work this time and I have to say as soon as I saw this come up in my feet I was very excited because your take on Rush are always so enthusiastic and you let yourself get caught up in the music and this is simply their magnum opus when it comes to Progressive indulgence. It is a Masterwork and it says something that they never tried to recreate another album this dance again because it took so much out of them. Can't wait to dig in guys Happy New year.
Been hearing this track nonstop for weeks,
This was a “Swan Song”
Of sorts because they
Turned their backs on
This chapter of their
Career. They really
Squeezed the Orange
On this album 😁
Love It!!❤️❤️❤️
Yeah, we got ALL the pulp with Hemispheres!
My favorite Rush album. Grace Under Pressure second.
New subscriber here. Great reaction. For my money this was rush at their absolute finest. Got to see two shows from this tour as well. Amazing!
Thanks for the sub!
Hemispheres and Geddy's playing on it are what convinced me as a teen that I MUST learn to play bass.
The opening chord is my favorite chord ever! It is named after Alex and is just the right amount of dissonant!
You're hearing callbacks to Cygnus X-1 Book I in the ambient section, you should check that one out too, now that your ten minute cherry has been popped. You might be open to other longer masterpieces as well like "2112", "The Necromancer", and a few Dream Theater tracks like "The Count of Tuscany", "A Change of Seasons" and "Octavarium".
My first album from Rush!
Rush siad this was the hardest song to perform I saw this tour in 79 they never played it again in concert. just too hard took too much out of them A masterpiece of prog!
You guys are awesome.
You guys need to listen to the first part. Cygnus X-1 Book-1. it's on the album A Farewell to Kings. If you haven't already.
crazy you didn’t start with Book one. those riffs you heard during the floating through space part, were taken directly from part one. genius.
Great story about Rush's long musical pieces...
After "Caress of Steel" didn't perform well, their record label told them to stop making those long pieces and stick with short, rock songs.
So, their next album was...2112.
🤦
😂😂😂😂😂
Up yours, record label. And thank you to Geddy, Alex and our DEAR, departed Professor.
Rock in Peace, Neil.
lol, love it!
My favorite Rush album
Cygnus X-1 is the first acknowledged black hole. In this instance, it's used as the letter "X", not the Roman numeral 10
Sometimes the best thing to do is listen first, then present your thoughts.
Rush is the best RIP Neil
Some of this is going to be...inscrutable because you haven't heard Book I yet. But, it's still amazing so enjoy!
I knew this album inside out before hearing Cygnus X-1, was a nice addition to the full story
Tbh as much as I like both songs, there arent a lot of callbacks
I am also a fan of Niel's hi-hat and cymbol work.
The spacey stuff near the end is when he had just been sucked through a black hole.
The short version the album before this had a song called Cygnus X-1. About a astronomer flying a starship called the Rocinante into a blackhole called Cygnus X-1
Hemispheres is a war of the Olympian gods till the astronomer time travels back and saves the day becoming a god of balance
You should have started with the original cygnus X-1 .. part one, if you will.. there are a few chord progressions in here that you would have recognized if you had. No worries great reaction always love to see you two and keep up the great work👍🍻🇨🇦
Cygnus X-1 was the first black hole discovered due to it being a very bright source of x-rays coming from an otherwise empty part of the Cygnus constellation, thus the X-1 designation. It was speculated to be a black hole, but at the time of discovery, we didn’t even know if black holes really existed or not.
Cygnus x1 is the name of a black hole ….. excellent cruising music at its loudest
My favorite album all time. Now listen to Cygnus x1 book 1 for context
JAJJAJA 😂 Rush With Los Bukis T SHIRT, I love U. 🎉🎉🎉 Rush and Neil Peart forever.. PROG Rock in the real peak moment
10:40 I literally get goosebumps every time... F*ck!
The other side of Hemispheres is awesome too, you need to react to that…
It's too bad that they didn't do some work where they just said, we are never going to tour this because it's too complex, we just want to do some 'unrestricted' work, so that they could have continued further down this path.
🎉 Happy Holidays to you and the family! 🥰🐰
Thanks! Happy Holidays
Music and lyrics are dense, here. Can see why it'd take a listener multiple times to let it all sink in. But that's what albums were all about - especially Rush 70's prog rock! An experience to be appreciated... all... weekend... long! Then tell your friends about it Monday morning by your high school locker, whether they like it or not, bewildered and all ;-)! LL
You really need to listen to The Garden by Rush. It will make you think it’s Neil Peart’s swan song knowing that he was retiring.
Crazy things to think about regarding this album and the state of their professional career:
Just 4-ish years earlier, no Peart. Instead, Working Man, Need Some Love, debut Album.
Just 6 years prior to this album, Geddy was a 17 yo struggling, with Alex and others, to just get some gigs to play around town.
This is part 2. The first part was from the previous album where a space traveller fell into the black hole of Cygnus X1
I was 13 when this album was released! I couldn’t stop listening to it and it came with a small poster of each band member which I promptly hung in my school locker😂
As an amazing musical song as this is we should never overlook the simple message in the lyrics…the battle of heart and mind…love and logical. The two can certainly exist together but right now this world needs lots of love❤😊🇨🇦
The music is the first experience. The Lyrics ( the story) deserves another listen to get the understanding of the musical progression. Then thirdly this picks up and continues the story from X1 from the previous album starting with a back story and ending with what was really on the other side of the black hole. Mind Officially blown. ( Lyrical 2nd listening experience)
This is Rush's magnum opus. Forget "2112."
100% agreed, and that pfp of yours is their best album 😉
Thank you Dionysus
I loved this , 52 , plus 41 for drumming, I love ur feedback
Its just amazing they recorded this in 1979, it just shows they were/are absolute masters of their genre. Enjoyed the reaction guys. ❤
Hemispheres came out in 1978
@@user-yu8yz8rb8t ah sorry about that , I thought 1979
Awesome!! U should listen to By-tor and the Snowdog....good job guys!