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I've been watching the Rush documentary on Netflix. What a shock! Neil will be missed by all Rush fans. I bet Geddy and Alex are struggling right now. RIP also.
This news has utterly devastated this 50 year-old American Rush fan. Neil Peart was an amazingly talented musician and author. I grew up in a house that played Rush all the way back to the mid-70’s and my siblings and I grew up adoring their music.
A sad day indeed. He led the public to believe he was suffering from arthritis, when the reality was much more cruel.
This lyric will always be pure poetry to this 80’s era suburban kid;
Growing up, it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass-production zone ...
As a young teen hearing that song, I felt like those guys really got us.
This news has utterly devastated this 50 year-old American Rush fan. Neil Peart was an amazingly talented musician and author. I grew up in a house that played Rush all the way back to the mid-70’s and my siblings and I grew up adoring their music.
A sad day indeed. He led the public to believe he was suffering from arthritis, when the reality was much more cruel.
This lyric will always be pure poetry to this 80’s era suburban kid;
Growing up, it all seems so one-sided
Opinions all provided
The future pre-decided
Detached and subdivided
In the mass-production zone ...
As a young teen hearing that song, I felt like those guys really got us.
RIP.
My favorite Rush song! Saw them in concert as a teen in Montréal with my friends back around 1984, and when they sang this, the crowd went wild.
Of course, that was partly because Montréalers believed the song was specifically about the banal suburbs in the city they love to hate -- Toronto.
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The video for Subdivisions portrays that banality so wonderfully, through the eyes of a high school boy navigating life through the endless suburbs and city streets of Toronto. It could have been any large city in North America.
I’m still so damn sad about this - as trite as it sounds, I truly feel as though an era of my life is *poof* nothing but written memories now. Man getting old sucks.
Great article in the New Yorker about Peart, and the unique sound and story of Rush. My favorite quote by the author:
“If you can’t have a good time blasting “Tom Sawyer,” then some awesome part of you has withered. I say, raise a joint to Neil Peart tonight, and go get it back.”
Remember when this was the worst thing to happen in 2020?
...it still is...
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