![]() ![]() Pierce, FlSome great comments and personal views on one of the most perfectly choreographed instrumentals every written and performed. If you don't want to believe that, then go call Geddy Lee a liar. You will see Geddy say in an interview, they wanted to record it in 1 take but couldn't. Ken from Toronto, OnSo many people repeating incorrect information.They can help you see that their is even a bigger picture that most have a hard time accepting. If you got all of that by putting those pieces together you need to speak to Jehovahs' Witnesses. Even today it's considered number one out of all the rush songs. For a song with no vocal lyrics it tells an interesting tale. Drake from Huntington Beach, CaIt's true that the song was token in three takes and represents up to almost 12 different stories in one.Hopefully this brings light to misconstrued ideas. Working Man is about the average working man Theres other details but you can look that up on your own.īastille Day is about the french revolution ONLY La Villa Strangiato is about alex lifesons dreams and nightmaresĢ112 is about a futuristic world where all music and other stuff is banned, then the hero finds a guitar and then shows it to their leaders, they smash it then the hero kills themself. Hemispheres is about when Apollo and Dionysus are fighting using intelligence and love and then the hero comes and ends the fight with a scream and telling them to realize what they're doing to the world, then they make him a god so he can keep balance and order in the universe.Ĭloser to the heart is about government officials.Ī Farewell to kings is about breaking free from your oppressor The Trees is about Canada and the two political parties (or something like that)Ĭygnus X-1 is about the journey to a black hole on a rocket ship named after a racehorse ![]() (I believe) Something for Nothing is about when you give but don't get. The white dog eventually got into a fight with the biting dog and won. Nathan from HuhPart of this song must be unconsciously based on this scene, īy-Tor and the snowdog is about one of Neil's friends who had a dog that bit people (By-Tor=Biter) and a white dog (Snowdog) who took many of the bites.The lyrics are nonsensical to him - not to me. I really don't like the writer's interpretation of this. Geddy was clearly singing a song too which brought memories of slumber and dreams. She would raise her voice as she sang "red cheeks." La Villa Strangiato is an instrumental that tells a story - largely from dreams and nightmares experienced by the guitarist, Alex Lifeson. Baby's going to have red cheeks." It is a rhyme that my mother, who like Geddy Lee's mother, was a holocaust survivor, sang to me before bed. In fact, Geddy Lee, at the top of his lungs, in an instrumental, is actually singing a children's song IN YIDDISH which rhymes in Yiddish, and translates to: "Patty-cake - Cookies. Stage Left contains some "nonsensical lyrics" in the "Danforth and Pape" segment and that the CD contains a "loose translation" of these lyrics. Ezra Glaser from Brooklyn, New YorkThe writer says that the live version of the song, from the CD Exit.For additional information visit FAQ at. Under the settlement, they were not required to accord Raymond Scott partial songwriting credit on the piece. All involved were happy with the resolution, and Rush has no further financial obligations. Scott (Raymond was still alive at that point), and being the class act that they are, offered a one-time "penance" payment, feeling it was the ethical thing to do. But Rush's management, out of deference to Mr. By the time Raymond Scott's publisher notified the band's management of the infringement, the statute of limitations had expired on the challenge. Rush didn't give credit to Scott for their use of "Powerhouse" either. Yet not only was "Powerhouse" used in the old "Merrie Melodies" and "Looney Tunes" cartoons, it has been sampled more recently by other bands such as Devo and They Might Be Giants more recently cartoons including The Simpsons, Ren & Stimpy, Duckman, Batfink and Animaniacs, also the Cartoon Network's theme song, and throughout the Disney film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids! (without crediting Scott - Disney was threatened with a lawsuit and the matter was settled out of court). The music wasn't originally written for cartoons, publishing rights for a limited catalog of Raymond Scott's titles were sold to Warner Brothers in 1943. Warner Brothers music director Carl Stalling used "Powerhouse" in his Warner Brothers cartoon scores during the '40s and '50s. The song that inspired the "Monsters!" section was the 1936 song "Powerhouse" by Raymond Scott. ![]()
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