1511 - Rush Bastille Day 1975

"Bastille Day" is the opening track from Rush's third album "Caress of Steel". The music was written by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, and the lyrics were written by Neil Peart. It is about the storming of the Bastille in the French Revolution, which is now celebrated as Bastille Day, the French national holiday. Some good riffs present themselves with Geddy Lee's supportive bass playing along with Neils precise drumming. Alex Lifeson’s regal guitar melody on the chorus is also unforgettable.

1297 - Rush Headlong Flight 2012

This track from Rush‘s ‘Clockwork Angels’ record, ‘Headlong Flight,’ is a seven minute tour-de-force, opening, perhaps unsurprisingly but no less impressively, with an intricate bass line from vocalist-bassist Geddy Lee. The song flows extremely well, which is not always an easy feat to accomplish with all their complex changes. At the 4:35 point of the song, Peart takes center stage with a mini drum solo of sorts, accompanying Lee’s dominant bass lines while Lifeson solos over the two. As the song winds down during the final 90 seconds, one realizes Rush are the masters of making a seven minute song feel as though you’ve only spent three or four minutes in their company.

1146 - Rush Roll the Bones 1991

"Roll the Bones" is the fourteenth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1991. It marks further transition from the band's 1980s style to their sound in the 1990s. The roles of the instruments have generally been reversed; guitar is beginning to creep to the front of the song arrangements, while bursts of keyboard and organ are played in the background. The title track was a popular radio staple of the early 90s.

"But the bottom line...is to take the chance, roll the bones
if it's a random universe and that's terrifying
and it makes you neurotic and everything, never mind.
You really have to take the chance or else nothing's going to happen."

1098 - Rush Subdivisions 1982

"Subdivisions" is a Rush song often considered to be describing feelings of isolation, boredom, conformity, and sadness springing up from teenage life in the suburbs.
"Subdivisions" was released on the 1982 album Signals. Aside from being a perennial fan favourite and a staple of live performances, the song appears on several greatest hits compilations, was released as a single in 1982, and despite doing little serious business in the UK charts, it gained a lot of radio airplay in Britain at the time. It was also played live prior to its release.

989 - Rush 2112 1976

"2112" is the title track from Canadian progressive rock band Rush's album of the same name, released in 1976. The overture and the first section, "Temples of Syrinx", were released as a single and are still popular among Rush's setlists today. The "sci-fi" sounds in the beginning of the song were created using an ARP Odyssey and an echoplex. Today, when performed live, the song is tuned down 2 keys.
"2112" commences with a lengthy instrumental section ("Overture") which concludes with the spoken phrase "And the meek shall inherit the Earth" (a reference to the Beatitudes of the New Testament and Psalm 37:11.) The "2112 Overture" contains a guitar adaptation of a familiar part of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.

822 - Rush The Trees 1978

"Hemispheres" is the sixth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1978. The album was recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales.
This album continues Rush's trend of using the fantasy and science fiction lyrics written by Neil Peart. Neil Peart has remarked that the inspiration for penning "THe Trees" simply came from a humorous comic strip he read which depicted trees arguing like people. The song is penned as a fable in verse, featuring a libertarian-themed moral at the end.

732 - Rush A Farewell to Kings 1977

This awesome song begins with a serene, medieval-sounding ditty played by Lifeson on classical guitar, before opening into a full-out rocker. Most notably, is the song's distinct mid-section, containing a tricky alternating 5/8, 7/8 time signature. Geddy Lee and Neil Peart hold a constant rhythm over this, while Lifeson performs a unique guitar solo, showcasing some of his best attributes: heavy use of the tremolo bar, pinch harmonics and lightning-fast arpegios.

424 - Rush Fly by Night 1975

By this second album Rush had changed personnel in which previous drummer John Rustsey was replaced by Neil Peart. This line-up has never changed since then until now. By the time the band was still categorized as heavily influenced by legendary heavy metal band Led Zeppelin. However, with this album Rush had pushed their music boundary not limited only to hard rock music but the had injected some prog elements into their music. The excellent “Fly by Night” is a hard rock classic.

344 - Rush Red Barchetta 1981

This song is about a guy who burrows his uncle’s Ferrari 166 MM Barchetta for a Sunday drive, the song was inspired by a short story called "A Nice Morning Drive".
Neil Peart, Rush drummer/lyricist, who had joined Rush a couple of years earlier, and who has been a sports car enthusiast all his life, decided to write a song for the band featuring a science fiction story line inspired by an article he read about Modern Safety Vehicles (MSV's) that could damage older, pre-safety-bumper cars without incurring any harm themselves. He also portrayed a more extreme, futuristic setting involving a man-and-machine confrontation with The Man and a totalitarian world that had outlawed cars altogether. "Red Barchetta" first appeared on the "Moving Pictures" album and became one of Rush's top ten all-time songs.

220 - Rush Distant Early Warning 1984

"Grace Under Pressure" is the tenth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush, released in 1984. The album's opening track is "Distant Early Warning", which deals with the pressure involving the aftermath of nuclear holocaust. In a 1984 interview Neil Peart describes writing "Distant Early Warning":
"I think that threat (the threat of superpowers and the nuclear annihilation) does loom somewhere in everyone's subconscious, perhaps. And then it deals with the closer things in terms of relationships and how to keep a relationship in such a swift-moving world, and it has something to do with our particular lives, dealing with revolving doors, going in and out, but also I think that's generally true with people in the modern world where things for a lot of people are very difficult, and consequently, work and the mundane concerns of life tend to take precedence over the important values of relationships and of the larger world and the world of the abstract as opposed to the concrete, and dealing with all of those things with grace. And when I see a little bit of grace in someone's life. Like when you drive past a horrible tenement building and you see these wonderful pink flamingos on the balcony up there, or something like, some little aspect of humanity that strikes you as a beautiful resistance if you like".

135 - Rush Red Sector A 1984

In the midst of the 80s there was the threat of Nuclear War and Reganomics and synthisizers. Rush took advantage with their musical prowess and kept heading forward as they released "Grace Under Pressure". "Red sector A" is a brilliant song, written about concentration camps, the closest Rush have ever come to discussing what happened to some of Lee and Lifeson's family in Nazi Germany. This song contains a stark clarity that Neil portrays in the lyrics.

105 - Rush YYZ 1981

Rush´s Moving Pictures is undeniably one of the greatest hard rock albums of all time. The whole entire first side is perfect their most renowned song, "Tom Sawyer," kicks things off, and is soon followed by the racing "Red Barchetta, or " the amazing instrumental "YYZ". There is a sense of freedom in "Yyz" as well, a show case for guitarist Alex Lifeson. It begins with Peart and Lee attacking their respective instruments, each generating a big, thick and heavy sound which gives way to Lifeson's guitar. In the bridge section, things throttle back a bit while Lifeson plays an especially sinewy phrase.

73 - Rush Closer to the Heart 1977

On 1977's "A Farewell to Kings" it quickly becomes apparent that Rush had improved their songwriting and strengthened their focus and musical approach. Synthesizers also mark their first prominent appearance on a Rush album, a direction the band would continue to pursue on future releases. With the popular hit single "Closer to the Heart," the trio showed that they could compose concise and traditionally structured songs.

6 - Rush Tom Sawyer 1981

Rush is a Canadian rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist, and vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. Rush was formed in the summer of 1968. Musically, Rush has changed its style dramatically over the years, beginning in the vein of blues-inspired heavy metal on their eponymous debut to styles encompassing hard rock, progressive rock, a period dominated by synthesizers and, more recently, modern rock. Rush's popularity reached its pinnacle with the release of Moving Pictures in 1981. The lead track, "Tom Sawyer", is probably the band's best-known song.