This song epitomizes everything about Rush, musicianship, story telling, lyrics. Interestingly it has no chorus.

The entire "Moving Pictures" album is just amazing. Every song is a work of art. Then again, I think I say that about every Rush song on every album.

This album is incredible. I was 15 years old when it came out. Greatest band on the planet! 🤘

There will never be a song like this about a Prius.

Geddy, in my humble opinions is one of the greatest musicians to grace the stage. To sing like he does, with killer base lines an playing synth foot pedals, an then switching to the keys, an playing base pedals an singing… the dude is a master!!! The band as a whole puts so much into the composition of every song, truly 3 masters… that sound like a symphony of 10

“You think I’m not going to go back?” Love it! More Rush please!

for me (being a bass player) one of the hallmarks of Rush is that the solo section is almost always shared equally between geddy & alex. to hear them both solo out in harmony or counterpoint is pretty unique in the rock world.

This song is based on a short story, 'A Nice Morning Drive' published in Road and Track magazine in 1973. It;s available online and worth the read.

This is probably my favorite Rush song, it just perfectly captures everything I love about the band and my love of cars all together. Such a masterclass of narrative songwriting it really feels like you are taking a sportscar for a spirited country drive.

Yeah, that riff is truly a brain melting chord progression. You can feel the power rising in your soul when it rolls in.

THis was my Favorite Rush SOng by all time. When I was young, i would listen to this over and over again.

The reason why this one chills out at the end is because the song after it on the album is notoriously explosive.

Rush never lets us down!! One of the few instances where Neil wrote about an 'object' (and a typical rock subject at that), but still made it meaningful, poignant & thought provoking! (see The Trees for another notable song about objects!) Highly suggest not playing this while driving - the tendency to put foot to floor and go ballistic is very real! While the visualizer really added nothing to this song, it did allow you to focus on the lyrics, and immerse in the music! Make no mistake, this is a heavy track, and it indeed absolutely rocks!! You might as well do a full-album review of Moving Pictures (of which Red Barchetta is but one track of seven on) - it's full of complete perfection!

I was 14 years old when this came out and this song painted such a picture in my mind the first time I heard it. It’s my favorite song on Moving Pictures (which is a perfect album btw).

Such a beautiful, thrilling blend of the soft melody, the crunching metal, and ingenious lyrics--all performed by three of the finest rock musicians who ever lived.

He nails it, Rush could never be put in any box. Metal, pop, progressive, might as well say reggae! They were just incredible.

This definitely Prog Rock at its finest, and radio-friendly to boot! The video is a neat little visual addition that corresponds with the release of the 40th Anniversary of Moving Pictures. That disc (I had to buy the CD because I couldn't afford the full, extras-loaded package) is awesome! Moving Pictures has never sounded so good, and the live concert recording (from Toronto) is fantastic! Great reaction, SalvoG! Thanks for getting back to Rush! Hm...what's going to be the next song, sir? Have you done "The Analog Kid" yet? Great song!

Great reaction! This song has always been a audio vacation since the first time I heard it. Priceless.

It's cool how you emphasize Geddy's voice. The vast majority of folks pick out the drums, the guitar, the bass or how they all work together. Most folks seem to have to get used to the vocals. You relish them. That's Rush. It's everything together...nothing more, nothing less.

My personal favourite Rush tune.

You can't handle it???! I get a whole story tearing round my head. I just wish I had the talent to share it with y'all. Perfection .. Can't be analysed by mere mortals. IT just IS...

greatest driving song ever. Sunroof open, windows down, V8 floored, winding country road, Premium Sound, cranked.

When I discovered RUSH I know I,ve be caught in a Musicians Master that's happen in 1979 some people toldme that's Is only noise. Now there are fan of the band every song Is unique, a master piece of three Musicians Master. Thank for bringing again, I really sad for the people that's can't feel the performance live again. Thank for a sincerly reacction. Now Rush Is inmortal

Geddy’s feels and emotion in this song are phenomenal…

Now, watch it live. That’s the real magic! The tour for this album was documented on video. Amazing.

This is in my top 3 of Rush songs (others are 2112 & Xanadu). I once got so into this tune while driving that I got a ticket for doing 160 km/h in a 100 zone. Thankfully, the cop dropped it to 120 km/h. Totally worth it!!

My favourite Rush tune. Saw them in concert twice in Toronto. Subdivisions and Grace under pressure tours.

This is my favorite Rush song. Puts me back in time to my parents’ basement, headphones, and my older brothers’ amazing stereo. Thanks, older brothers for being so cool with music!

These guys are the best. I'm glad you are enjoying your RUSH journey.

There is so many Rush masterpiece songs. It's hard to choose wich one is better than others. For me, Red Barchetta doesn't need deep analysis or explanations. IT'S JUST "PERCECT". Endless love at first listening.

No band perfectly blends both heavy and melodic passages better than Rush, in my opinion. Red Barcheta is the perfect blend of rock, metal, and folk all in one.

First of all, Moving Picture's is probably if not there best album of all time. Second, this song is by far in my top 5 songs of Rush. Great reaction!!

Not racing through town, but speeding through the countryside; twists and turns and sweeping bends! Fantastic...🥰🥰 Great reaction video, thanks!

I just love the joy you exude while listening! This makes me so happy, yet it's so bittersweet knowing I won't see them live again. 😥 You picked one of the BEST with this one!! ♥️✌

Played drums since age 7. Found Rush at age 15. Finally found a guitarist who loves and plays Rush in my 50s. I’m a drummer. This one is really fun to play. We have so much fun. He can play Xanadu, nat science, La villa. I muscle through lol.

Beautiful , your are hooked , thanks for that 40 yr.fan ,the only band I truly feel , runs music through my soul is rush ,keep climbing the album chain

For "Hard" Rush songs, try the whole album "Counterparts": Counterparts, Animate, Stick it out... all pretty hard and awesome.

Always my favorite Rush song :) Good journey...Peace!

I'm right there, jumping off the train, running to meet my uncle.... love the lyrics.

The feeling Rush gives me is 🇨🇦

You are such a Rush Geek. Welcome to the club! You'll learn that Rush frequently rocks VERY hard.

I was in a Rush Tribute band this song always goes over well. Great song and car Ferrari's are the best cars period.

Red barchetta was my favorite song to see them do live in concert.

This song is prophetic; with everything happening in Canada how strange that this song is so relevant! Weird! My brother was 8 years older than me and loved RUSH! It was his favorite band of all time growing up in the late 70’s and early eighties. Didn’t get it at the time but now I know why he loved RUSH so much!! Awesome!!

probably my favorite rush song

This album was my introduction to Rush when I was 14… 40 years ago. It formed the foundation of my Rush fandom, and I love every song on it. Alex’ harmonics are just 😘

Thank you for your work and interest in my long time favorite band!

Yup .....I know exactly what your talking about .when you say ...its a "feeling" ....thats what music does ....even instrumental music ...can touch you & make you feel something...and Red Barchetta definitely takes you somewhere

Skirted away from the chasing 'Gleaming Alloy Air Cars' at 9:03 - "Laughing out loud with fear and hope, I got a desperate plan. At the one-lane bridge, I leave the Giants stranded at the Riverside. Race back to the farm, to dream with my Uncle, at the fire-side." are some of the best interpretive of a moment in time lyrics of any song that I have ever heard. Bravo, Geddy, Neil, and Alex on such brilliant lyrics.

Yes… you nailed it my brother… when you hear a Rush song the music literally washes over you like warm radio waves. Now imagine how I felt, a 12 year old boy living in the Pocono Mountains listening to Rush 2112 for the 1sr time ever… it was like listening to the high priest of progress Rock… and even at that young age I could see on the Event Horizon the legacy this band.

When I listen to this song, I shut my eyes, and I swear I'm there .

Hearing a Ferrari engine rev being done by guitar and bass... is just way too cool. Feeling the music follow the engine accelerating decelerating, going around curves in the road. Enjoying the open air or running from the police. This song is pure RUSH.

Neil used to work with his Dad , who was an auto mechanic in St. Catherines, Ont. He must have inherited some of his father's passion for cars.

Priceless reaction, and I really mean it. Red Barchetta is in nearly everyones TOP5 Rush song, along with The Spirit of Radio, Yyz, Xanadu, La Villa Strangiato, Free Will. I would throw in Lakeside Park, Closer to the Heart, Subdivisions, Losing it. Etc Etc.

I just love the expression on your face as you are barraged with musical perfection. The wonder as the time signature changes and the guys just blow you away continually. I don't know if you have listened to 2112 yet, but you need to check that out soon!

Everytime I hear this song I feel like I'm driving that car and I feel the excitement of the wind and speed of the car car

Even though nobody has ever compared musically Rush and Led Zepplin as for their place in history they have much in common. Both are completely unique musically to the point they are their own genre and both have all members as equally savant at their positions.

The surprise at the end was the bass solo.

The joy that fills your face when you hear are hearing this for the first time reminds me of when *I* heard this for the first time. My friends and I were like "What? How?" I am always thrilled to hear of a newly-minted Rush fan.

Phenomenal guitar tone on his solo...

The lyrics, listen to the lyrics. This is great futuristic storytelling....

Fan from the beginning. This my favorite.

one of they greatest driving songs ever!

You had me at 6:56. "You think I'm not gonna go back????"

One of my favourite Rush tunes. Someone did a mashup of this with scenes from another favourite of mine, Back To The Future. It’s 🤌🏼 and worth a watch!

The song was inspired by the futuristic short story "A Nice Morning Drive", written by Richard Foster and published in the November 1973 issue of Road & Track magazine. The story describes a similar future in which increasingly stringent safety regulations have forced cars to evolve into massive Modern Safety Vehicles (MSVs), capable of withstanding a 50-mile-per-hour (80 km/h) impact without injury to the driver. Consequently, drivers of MSVs have become less safety-conscious and more aggressive, and "bouncing" (intentionally ramming) the older, smaller cars is a common sport among some. Rush drummer and lyricist Neil Peart made several attempts to contact Foster during the recording of but did not have an up-to-date address and Rush were forced to settle for a brief "inspired by" note in the lyric sheet mentioning the story. In July 2007, Foster and Peart finally made contact with each other. Foster later posted on his website an account of their journey by motorcycle through the backwoods of West Virginia between stops on Rush's 2007 Snakes and Arrows tour. Barchetta literally means "small boat" in Itallian, is the diminutive form of ("boat" or "craft"). In the automotive industry, the term is used for a two-seat car without any kind of roof. The proper Italian pronunciation is (bar ketta), although it is sung with /t/ in place of /k/ by Geddy Lee Neil Peart's favorite car was the 1948 Ferrari 166MM. Lyrics explained: The song's lyrics tell a story set in a future in which many classes of vehicles have been banned by a "Motor Law." The narrator's uncle has kept one of these now-illegal vehicles (the titular red Barchetta sports car) in pristine condition for roughly 50 years and is hiding it at his secret country home, which had been a farm before the Motor Law was enacted. Every Sunday, the narrator commits a "weekly crime" of sneaking out to this location and going for a drive in the countryside. During one such drive, he encounters a "gleaming alloy air car" that begins to chase him along the roads. A second such vehicle soon joins the pursuit, which continues until the narrator drives across a one-lane bridge that is too narrow for the air cars. The song ends with the narrator returning safely to his uncle's farm.

As a long time Rush fan who has heard every Rush song, this is one of my favorites. Top 10, maybe even Top 5.

Their heaviest song from the early 80’s is probably jacobs ladder. That song is pretty much a metal song

Great track from a perfect album.

TURN IT UP when Alex starts that pre-chorus guitar work and then when the riff drops you can actually feel your consciousness elevate. No, trust me.

And to think, “Red Barchetta” was pretty much written and recorded in not much more than 24 hours. I remember Neil mentioning that it was pretty amazing how Red Barchetta comes together with ease and Witch Hunt was written and re-written for at least a month before he was satisfied with the end product

The pace of the music is in relation to how hard he was driving the car.

RUSH BEST BAND IN THE GALAXY 🌌

LOL... you were SO close when you were looking for the sound effect. You missed it by a few seconds. The tire screeching effect is at the 6:48 mark on YOUR video, but I'm not sure where on the one you're watching. This song rarely got radio play but has always been a cult favorite among Rush fans. I think it's one of the greatest driving songs, up there (if not above, even) "Radar Love" (Golden Earring), "Highway Star" (Deep Purple), "I Can't Drive 55" (Sammy Hagar), and "Panama" (Van Halen).

Saw them twice. Both great shows. Wish I could have seen them even more. Their music lives on!

The car is a Ferrari 166 MM ( Mille Miglia) Barchetta . A pure and Legendary racecar from the time FORD still build dull sedans. This machine won 24 hours of Le Mans and the gruesome 1000 miles through the Italian country Mille Miglia in 1949 .

If your parents gave you those Rush albums, you would be playing these tunes at band practice.

Geddy was such a great vocalist. He could serenade or rock it at will. He kept it pretty well even in his later years.

This was my favorite Rush song, to the point that I wore this out on my first vinyl copy of Moving Pictures. Once I heard "Analog Kid" from the "Signals" LP, it moved to that. It's hard to pick a favorite now in my old age, I love it all.

5:30 in your vid for the peelout solo.

Most of us are "Geddy fans". It isn't just the solid pitch, it's the extension of vowels, the emphasis on key words, the emotional investment in the story the song is telling. It's a common theme whenever they were interviewed, that while Neil is the primary lyricist, Geddy wouldn't let a song go to publication unless he could completely feel the intent of the lyrics. It's pure craftsmanship, and it is worthy of how you feel about it.

One of my favorite Rush songs. Just cooks all the way through.

One of my top 3 songs from Rush. Great reaction. You get it. Cheers.

Awesome as always SG...Todd from Ohio... Love the site!!!

One of my favs

among my favorite songs of all time. from anyone

Everytime you expect them to do something, they don't. Lol

I love Geddy's bass outro...

I envy your Rush musical journey! They are the soundtrack of my entire life. I see a future Rushianista in the making. 🌎

That was Awesome!!! You think I’m not gonna go back! lol I luv it Salvo. This is my fav tune from these icons!!! Rock on!!¡

@3:24 Same, my friend. Same.

Heard this song 300 times. Never seen the video. Thank you 😊 Sorry, I meant Thanks Eh! Take’r easy (I’m Canadian)

That skidding sound effect comes in at 6:48 in your video here. That I believe was just Alex scratching his guitar strings with his pick. It's supposed to simulate tires squealing. And I agree, this is probably one of Geddys better vocal performances.

Jam On, Salvo G 🤘

I have to watch myself if I am driving with this song playing. I soon find I'm speeding badly if I let the song take me.

I can count on one hand how many speeding tickets I got while listening to Moving Pictures in its entirety 😜😝😛🤘🏻🤟🏻🔥

One of their absolute best, hands down.

While I had heard and listened to Rush before Moving Pictures came out, this album was what pulled me in fully. This song is (and always will be) one of my favorites. TBH, there are sooooo many fantastic songs on the album, picking one favorite is just impossible to me.

I love how the bass comes in , then it just calms and the story starts. Rush is different

Reading comments I'm in agreement. Welcome aboard what"Pratt,Lerxt, and Ged" have given to us. No others respect their listeners when working on new music. U should check out Foo Fighters indicating Rush to the Hall of Fame!!🎵🎵 Rock on!! Great reactions. ...Hemispheres is amazing full album side greatness. Neil Peart the drummer wrote all lyrics. The 1st album with Working Man self produced in Toronto...original drummer and back up vocals was John Rutsey. Neil was chosen to replace John due to diabetes and alcohol, which saved his life because they knew he wouldn't survive the 1st tour in U.S.