"When do the lyrics come in?" Rush fans- "heh."

Watching random people discover something I’ve loved and cherished my whole life is quite entertaining.

Rush is what happens when a band is formed by people who are absolute masters at their instruments.

I’m a 55 year old Black lady and my brothers and I have been listening to RUSH since, aaah 76ish. This reaction video kind of saddens me. I had no idea there were people in the world who hadn’t heard Rush. Anyway, welcome aboard to the RUSH ride.

Rare to find people who are so open to different genres of music and it comes naturally to you guys, doesn't seem forced. 👍

Boys, you've discovered Rush. Welcome to the rest of your life.

Play YYZ in RIO to SEE what RUSH means to its fans. RIP Professor.

Geddy is a legend on bass, this song is basically 100% showing off

*Fun fact:* YYZ is the IATA airport identification code of Toronto Pearson International Airport, near Rush's hometown. The band was introduced to the rhythm as guitarist Alex Lifeson flew them into the airport. A VHF omnidirectional range system at the airport broadcasts the YYZ identifier code in Morse code. Peart said in interviews later that the rhythm stuck with them. Peart and Geddy Lee have both said "It's always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags." The piece's introduction, played in a time signature of 10/8, repeatedly renders "Y-Y-Z" in Morse Code using various musical arrangements

RUSH....The greatest 3 piece in rock history.....these guys stayed together for 40 years....DAMN

BTW, that off timing at the beginning is Morse Code for YYZ, Toronto Pearson Airport

"Everybody's getting crazy!" Rush fans: "It's three dudes!" ^_^

The opening rhythm is Morse Code for YYZ, which is the 3-letter code for their hometown airport in Toronto. The band were in a small aircraft landing there and heard the morse code over the comm system. That morse pattern inspired the song. Great videos guys, welcome to metal!!!!

YYZ was recorded in 1981 and Beat it was recorded in 1982 so if anyone was influenced it was Michael

"That Canadian guy, Geddy Lee, is the funkiest white man I ever heard." ~ George Clinton

I came back here after Neil passed and it makes me feel good to see you guys get excited about hearing Rush for the first time…it reminds me of how excited I was finding Rush, they became my go to band when I needed something to just make me feel good and take me away from the days problems a few glorious minutes, Neil was a gift, to us..his incredible drumming and lyrics made him such an important component of the band…he is missed…

Guys, Rush is a 3 piece. All 3 are considered to be some of the greatest ever. The bass player is also the vocalist and keyboardist. In concert, he does all 3 simultaneously.

"when we gonna get to the lyrics though" LOL!

“I feel cool as hell listening to this.” I’m not even sure any Rush fan ever has said that if we’re going to be completely honest here.

RIP Neil. I am using reaction videos to cheer me up after the terrible news.

Anyone who discovers Rush for the first time wins. I wish I could hear them for the first time again.

I want to say thank you. I have had one of the worst days i can remember and i saw a notification from youtube. Low and behold my favorite youtube artists are listening to a song from my favorite band. It may not mean much but you made a terrible day great. Thank you. Also more Rush and iron maiden please. Thank you.

“When do the lyrics come in?” *Top 10 Things Said Moments Before Disaster*

"That sounds like a finale" Rush fans, "they're just warming up."

You guys immediately understood why RUSH fans are RUSH fans. Excellent work, gentlemen.

By far the best music reaction/review channel on the internet.

"This is culture-bending." There cannot be a more accurate description of Rush's music.

As a life long Rush fan, whenever I'm feeling down, I watch your video. It is so amusing to watch you two get all goo-goo for one of my favorite songs. Always puts a smile on my face!

“When are we going to get to the lyrics though?” *evil snickering*

3 Guys and they sounds like there's 10 guys in the studio. Rush, dudes.

Guys...as a Rush fan...your review is frikkin awesome..the music is amazing as seeing you rock is so cool..peace and love to u both...

Thanks for all the memories, Neil. You are missed.

I appreciated their musicianship was not a big fan but my husband is die hard! For his Birthday 3 years ago got him tickets to see Rush. I now bow to the alter of Rush. These guys kick serious ass and I had a great time at the concert. ❤️ the channel you guys rock! A Perfect Circle "The Doomed"

"The drummer and the bass!" Welcome to Rush, gentlemen.

“It doesn’t sound like metal, this doesn’t sound like progressive-prog metal, this doesn’t sound like R&B”....just say it...it sounds like Rush ; )

"Keeping a groove while going in and doing different progressions." Yep, that's the magic of RUSH. :)

“When are we gonna get to the lyrics?” Hahahahahahaha

No other band with only 3 musicians can create this type of sound. Progressive rock is Rush... they weren't always but they defined it for certain. Widely viewed as the best drummer and bassist alive. Check out Pearts kit and Geddy's style, and Lifeson often is overlooked, but solidly in the top 10 lead guitarists of all time.

RIP Neil Peart aka The Professor. He was truly a man without peers.

RUSH is in a class of their own....truly creative, funky, progressive. and there's only 3 of them! its insane.

The weird beat at the beginning is morse code for YYZ, which is the airport code for their hometown Toronto Pearson airport.

“When are we going to get to the lyrics, though?” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

Watched this again in memory of Neil Piert. One of the best drummers to ever hold a pair of sticks. May he rest forever in peace.

R.I.P. Neil Peart

Neil Peart (drums) and Geddy Lee (Bass) have been the Drum and Bass gods for a generation of musicians. Rush is easily one of the best bands to ever walk the planet. BTW This album predated Beat It. lol

awesome to see the acceptance as well as the insightful observations. You can not deny the raw power of rush.

Rest In Peace Neil,you will always be remembered!🙏

I can only hope Geddy, Alex and or Neil has seen this.

The song is called YYZ because Rush is from Toronto Canada, and the beat at the beginning of the song is based on the morse code beeps of the letters YYZ, which is the airport code for the Toronto airport.

"I feel cool as hell listening to this!" Heck yeah. I've been feeling cool since 1981. Thanks for giving the Canadian power trio a shot.

You guys....Neil Peart died. There needs to be tribute.

That snapping you are hearing is neil breaking a piece of wood. The engineer then processed that sound with some delay. There you go, now you know!

I fucking died and accidentally clicked off the video when they asked when the lyrics kicked in.

And the great thing about Rush is they hung it up when their time came, they stayed true to friendship and musical integrity. They didn't drag it out through endless nostalgia tours, screwing over bandmates over money, exploiting fans, and carrying on without essential band members. They went out on top with dignity.

I had to revisit this video after the passing of The Professor. Thanks for the wide-eyed eagerness I similarly felt when I heard this song for the first time 😎

Actually prog rock peaked out in the early 70s. Rush were not the beginning of prog but they carried it gracefully through late seventies and eighties when other artists were shying away from it. And also, they ROCKED hard, so they preserved the coolness and heaviness of prog-rock. Respect.....

"What the hell was that?" That was Neil Peart!

Don't forget... All this music is made by just 3 guys. And they perform this live with no backing musicians, no pre-recorded tape, just the three of them performing it exactly how it was originally recorded. Geddy Lee is playing bass, while playing keyboards with foot pedals/controls! It's always fun to see someone discover Rush beyond the few mainstream hits they had.

This doesn't sound like anyone. A different animal, a different breed. Like no other

been a rush fan all my life, enjoyed watching you fellas listen for first time. im a subscriber now. ill keep watching. fortune and fame your way. thank you for the content.

YYZ came out before Beat It...just saying

Thank you for loving what an era of us Rush fans have loved forever. Your expressions, laughter, and headbangs, made my heart swell. Love you both. ♥

Rush and Zepp, The Foundation Layers of every single genre of “hard rock” / “metal” made n’ played til’ this day. This is where it all started. This an absolute indisputable statement. Sincerely, A Man Born in 1991.

I became a Rush fan right before this came out. I remember listening to the radio and hearing that they were putting out an album called Moving Pictures and I couldn't wait for it it drop. Hearing that for the first time was amazing, but that's something that's only gonna happen once in a lifetime. This song and the rest of the album has become so familiar over time and repeated listening that it's like I know it's awesome but that feeling of awesomeness isn't as intense as it was when I first heard it. To watch two guys who didn't grow up in the rock culture that I grew up in critique it, dig it, and analyze it in their unique way felt amazing. I love watching stuff like this because it brings me back to a time when I would discover a band I never heard before or a band I liked would release a new album which I would get and I just couldn't wait to see if my friends would be as blown away by hearing for the first time like I was. Thank you guys!

You guy's are saying Michael Jackson's thriller was an influence. Rush's "Moving Pictures" was released in early 1981. Michael Jackson's "Thriller" wasn't released until a year and a half later.

Watching two dudes hear this song for the first time and **LOVE** the hell out of the song...it makes my cold dead heart beat a little happy (irregularly timed) beat.

so much fun watching you guys discover this!

It's awesome to see you guys appreciate what an amazing band they have been all these years.👍🏽👍🏽

YYZ is the airport code for the city of Toronto. It is an ode to going home from touring. One could say that the original prog. rock bands were YES and Genesis. Alex Lifeson and Getty Lee are huge fans of YES and their playing is definitely a reflection of that.

Hell yeah! Neil Peart is one of the best drummers ever!

Love you guys!! It was an absolute pleasure watching you discover this. I must have watched this fifty times already...

Found you guys on a recommendation, glad I did and got to see you jam out to my favorite band. Rock on!!

I love when y'all get swept away in the music and your stank faces just pop up! Thanks for featuring Rush! #shoutouttofreethinkers

Almost Everyone said NO Instrumental Reviews, WRONG, You two crushed it! Perfect time for #ORION Metallica. 👍

I love you guys, love that you do these. It's so nice to see a fresh perspective from someone in a different musical world, different age group, different ethnicity appreciating a completely different style of music. Your honest and enthusiastic reactions to these songs from the era I grew up in (the 70s/80s - best decades of Rock music, IMO) are infectious and a joy to watch. Thank you again for making these videos.❤

The best version has the drum solo in the middle and comes right back into the main song. Privileged to see it live in the mid 80's. RIP Professor.

Look for Rush in Rio- this song freaking kills it! You won't see many crowds moving like that to any band.

As a Rush fan of 20 years, this brought tears to my eyes. Loved it!

“I feel cool as hell listening to this”

RIP Neil Peart!! ......one of my biggest role models and an idol to this day!!!......

This band is only 3 members. The bass player is playing the bass and keys at the same time. Also the opening groove is Morse Code for “YYZ”

What will blow your mind is that RUSH is a 3 piece band.

This started out when Neil and Geddy was just jammin. Initially didn’t even need guitar. But boy does Alex add so much to this track

You guys are me in high school hearing Rush on their album I had just purchased.. :)

Listen to La Villa Strangiato, that will blow your minds

this vid is incredible. pure, honest reaction to musical genius. I love these guys 🎸😂

I am getting so much joy watching how much joy you guys are getting from something that brings me so much joy!

*Neil isn't dead, god just wanted drumming lessons*

Finally, RUSH YYZ (YYzed) Gentleman thank you for finally getting to Rush, the greatest band ever (In my opinion). Many people criticize Rush for not having groove you proved their observation wrong! Just a note, in case you guys were unaware, Rush is a power trio, yes, three guys make the glorious sound that is Rush. Notice the Keyboard section. There are times when Geddy Lee is playing bass, keyboards and singing at the same time! Let's see Led Zeppelin do that! (A reference when I heard that Rush lost out to them in the vote for songs). You comment about the lyrics in the song, well if you want to hear people singing YYZ go to Rush in Rio and you will hear and see 60000 Brazillian fans singing and dancing to YYZ. It will blow you away. Indeed there is glass breaking in the song. After the Bass/Drum tradeofff, there are three times that you hear glass breaking in the song. The great thing is two of the three are not played on beat one, which as you have noticed give a funky feel to the song, among other riffs. YYZ is the airport code for Toronto, which is where Rush is from (yes just another great Canadian Band! LOL, like Devin Townsend, and I know how you feel about him!) Just for reference Rush is the 3rd largest selling band of all time. The song was inspired by the Morse code for YYZ (written in 5/4 time), as Rush used to fly into the Toronto airport and Neil Peart (Drummer) heard the pattern and decided to use it in the song. So the opening which is played on Crotales is YYZ, and shows up as a theme throughout the song. YYZ was the first (and maybe) only Canadian instrumental song ever nominated for a Grammy, it lost to Behind my Camel by the Police. During the Exit Stage Left tour (the tour for Moving Pictures, from which this song comes) Neil would insert a 6 minute drum solo after the last breakdown, it would send many Rush fans crazy and it is what helped solidify Neil Peart's position as one of the greatest drummers in Rock Music. I have played this song many times live (I am a drummer and Neil is my hero) and it ALWAYS gets the audience moving. Although not one of Rush's more complex songs, it does pose some challenges, particularly the triplet feels in the Bass/.Drum trade off section. The song is a wonderful nexus (as you pointed out) of various styles of music. Their entire catalogue is a mixture of musical influences from all over the world. If you listen to songs like Tai Shan, Mystic Rhythms, Roll the Bones (which has a rap section), Rush does it all and still ensures that the music is complex enough to satisfy musicians like me. Rush's quintessential song is Tom Sawyer which does have lyrics. Neil Peart the drummer, is not only an accomplished drummer but also a published author, and many of Rush's lyrical content (which Neil writes) is used in poetry classes to demonstrate simile and metaphor (I know this because I have taught using his work). There are so many great songs by Rush that I cannot even begin to list them. Check out more of them, and you will see their earlier stuff (up to Permanent Waves (album title) 1979) is far more progressive. With Permanent Waves to Grace Under Pressure (1984) you are more in a "pop" period. From Grace Under Pressure onto Test for Echo you get into African, R&B and Rock. While their final albums Vapour Trails to Clockwork Angles is an amalgam of all the above. Again, thanks for playing Rush, I NEVER get tired of hearing them. My wife sent me your link on this one because she knows I listen to you all the time, and always complain that you dont play any Rush! Keep up the great music and now play Count of Tuscany by Dream Theater (Metropolis does not cut it). Cheers Karl Sloman Drummer

Ah to be able to hear Rush again for the first time

One of my favorite rush tunes!! Loved this reaction video

Congrats on 1 million views here guys. This was the first of your videos that I saw and I've been hooked ever since. Keep up the great work!

The drummer and the bassist are neck and neck for the best musicians in all of rock music. People saying this isn’t metal are right, but Rush is an undeniable influence on metal.

I never enjoyed this song so much! It's like watching a movie you love with someone whose never seen it. Awesome!

Sadly their drummer just died about a week ago. :(. Regarded by many as one of the top drummers in history.

You guys have an excellent ear for music, that's what it takes to truly appreciate Rush. Awesome video and commentary!

Not gonna lie I got a huge smile on my face when you said "this doesn't sound like anything we've heard" That's Rush for ya.

Thanks for an excellent and entertaining video. My first time watching a video by you guys and I immediately subbed. Great breakdown of such a timeless classic by a fantastic band.

RIP Neil Peart. 💔

You guys and your reactions are great. R.I.P. Neil.