It’s certainly up there among Rush’s best tracks. I think I read in the Album by Album book on Rush, Martin Popoff said Cygnus x-1 just didn’t work. Yes it did and then to be followed by Hemispheres, fuck it worked, it worked amazingly.

Studio version done in one take! Holy eff!

Something I never really got about Alex's soloing until I was older was how unique it is. Usually when I hear a solo I personally put it into 1 of 2 categories. Noodling, or Structured. Noodling solos are solos that are very loose and chaotic, and they don't tend to impress me as often as structured solos, which I consider to be more melodic, and very tight on the timing. Alex somehow manages to sit perfectly on the line between them, which is something that I consider very rare in most of the music I hear.

Are you okay? It’s been a year!! I hope everything is alright

Once you journey through the Rush library you will never look at music the same again.

Bass and keyboards at the same time!? Geddy Lee is legendary. This entire Band is legendary.

This album is seriously off the charts!

I was thankfully able to see them 4 times! Wish I had seen them more... they are amazing!

RUSH is so incredibly TIGHT when they play live. It is amazing to me. They absolutely just NAIL it. I was so fortunate to have been able to see the 18 times in my life. Always the best show on Earth, ALWAYS! .. the ONLY glitch I had ever seen was at a concert back in the 80's, they used to open a lot of their shows with The Spirit of Radio, and as soon as Alex hit the first bend of his guitar solo in that song, his string broke. He was not pleased and threw his guitar to a stage hand while his guitar tech scrambled for a replacement. But even then, even when his solo got mucked up because of it, they didn't miss a beat. It was incredible. And Alex came back into the song absolutely PERFECTLY on the first note after what would have been the solo. I have never seen a band ever be able to do that so incredibly flawlessly like that. It was absolutely the least amount of disruption to the song that you could ever do. Jaw dropping!

What about Alex?

This is my favorite track on the album, barely beating out Middletown Dreams. And the live version from Cleveland on the Time Machine tour is the absolute pinnacle.

This is a song I loved from the beginning, for the first time I heard it. Now it's even better. I notice things I didn't before. Incredible. This and Marathon and Territories are amazing pieces of work from an unbelievable band.

so many of us kids learned to play in 7/8 before we learned how to count it.

Thought you were going to the end with Rush! What happened?

I had the privilege of seeing them 14 times. From 1976: All The Worlds A Stage tour to their last tour. Just a moving experience always. 🤩

They knew how to play. ❤

Man I love this set up with the videos. I hope you get back to making these. They are about to transition in the next few albums to a harder sound when they leave the 80s. I’m curious what you’ll say about them. I hope you’re doing well

This is kind of why I quit listening to radio music around 1991, there wasn't much that could top the 1980's progressive rock. This was one of my last vinyl albums that I ever purchased, and the clarity and silkiness was at the very top, then most record companies quit making any vinyl and moved to Compact CD only. Glad you did the reaction on this, I could see it in your eyes that you really enjoyed this one!

tarja the best with marko!!!!

thank you for listening the song and not stoppong all the time😊😊😊😊😊

I love how Alex pulls us into a false sense of security-and then he drops the shit hammer!

Bless this 3 man band PERIOD RIP THE PROFESSOR

One of my favorites...from the best band...ever.

It's a masterpiece. It nails it musically and lyrically.

Bro you're almost at my favourite Rush song as a 35 year + Rush fan and drummer/producer. It's the last song on Presto - Available light. You have 2 albums left to get there (Hold your fire and then Presto). You are gonna love some songs for sure but Show don't tell and Available light will floor you.🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Rush! Softly divided and synthetic . Oh my.

Rush...Signals!

The spreading of a low black cloud...6200 ft per second.

One of Rush most beautiful songs. This is my everyday album by RUSH.

Damn right...RUSH! Another lost generation.,.

Rush! BTW...handle with kid gloves. HEY!

A Farewell to Kings!

Moving Pictures is such an important album. To the fans it marks the end of 1 phase of the band. To the band it marks the start of the second phase. And that’s really what it is - the bridge from one genre to the next.

My favourite Rush track - just amazing from start to finish and then the lyrics… The incredible thing is that they used to record the tracks in one take in those days - not piece together a series of clips. So we are hearing it as they played it. They wrote, practiced and then recorded.

Well it has been a year + but this song helped me get through a great many things

I appreciate all the musical analysis, but really, all I care about is the lyrical meaning of this song...I find it secondary (but great). Listeninig to the three sections of life in the song are poignant for me.

What is the meaning of transulate

seen them 7 times

have you read Geddy's book? If not, you should get it (autobiography)

Sickest album, musically. The musician's Rush album.

Massive amounts of jazz cabbage consumed. Rock on!

What a gorgeous track. So lush sounding. Absolutely evocative of that feeling of suburban isolation, knowing you're not living your best life, wishing you could be somewhere else.

I notice your smile every time you hear Neal Peart offbeat Drumming. He was an absolute legend.

Some of the 80's Rush albums are great to listen to on headphones. They really embraced the production values of the day and became more experimental studio musicians. You can hear the influences of The Police and U2. Hold your Fire was the only weak one for me and I really didn't get many albums other than A Show of Hands (a must have) until Presto came out and I love that album.

I’ve watched several of your Rush reactions now and I’ve been enjoying your analysis. Agree that Red Lenses sticks out a bit on the album, though it’s not really *that* much of a departure. Aside from it just being really cool, I find it a nice break from the heaviness of the rest of p/g. It’s always been a favorite of mine. And the album is one of my favorites as a complete work.

Tension, release, tension, release, soaring high, release, tension. This song literally defines Grace Under Pressure. The solo is absolutely amazing, possibly Alex's best... it's so clever... he hardly ever plays a 4th but it still floats so effortless. The lyrics define living in the Cold War era, people sitting in their homes, soaking up the cathode rays (TV for you youngsters), reeling by on celluloid (how clever is that lyric?) and a constant in the back of your mind is the realisation that all our achievements could vanish almost instantly... something captured by the fire and brimstone guitar at the end.

This song defines Grace Under Pressure... in any way you want it defined!

Great job ,rush will never let you down.😊

Those crazy canucks❤😂.😊

70 year old here.wore out more than one cassette of this album