Subdivisions - RUSH | First Time Reaction!

[@metalteen.]

Can we hit 2025 Subscribers before 2025?! Hahah

[@johncampbell756]

There are a LOT of places in the US and Canada like this. A small example is near me. If you have seen The Karate Kid, the apartment he moves to is at 19223 Saticoy St., Reseda, CA 91335. Put that in Google Maps. Set it to satellite view and look at the cluster of identical houses directly to the right of it. The song is about two things that combine. The suburbs are boring places for kids, especially teens. There's not much to do. Then you add the tendency for kids to gather in small groups, cliques. If you don't have one, you end up an outcast.

[@beadybaby]

This song hit me like a brick when it came out on MTV. Changed my life. ❤ Imagine being 14 years old living in a suburb when you first see and hear this on MTV. I don’t think their audience was 14 year-old girls but it definitely worked for me.

[@laurakali6522]

I was 14 or so when I first heard them. Circa 1977. They always spoke to me as well. The ongoing joke with the band was always how many females would be in the audience. I was one!

[@revdmcspumcsb]

I was a Civil Engineer for 20 years in Southern California and yes, we designed Subdivisions. A developer would purchase 200 acres and then design streets that were like what you saw in the video. There might be 5 models with multiple variations on the facade.A subdivision might be 25-200+ homes. Each one is a name to the subdivision and the streets and house plans would match the theme. The last project I did before changing careers was a 2,200+ master planned community that was subdivided into sections by different builders. It was in Southern California and the project is known as Audie Murphy Ranch.

[@Pixelologist]

Not to disaparage the work to which you devoted a couple decades (really!) but such subdivisions actually ARE pretty soul-deadening. lol. Sorry.

[@revdmcspumcsb]

@Pixelologist That's what the song is about. I lived in a subdivision midst of my life, and if that's all you know, it is what you assume everyone else desires. The ironic thing about life in the suburbs of Southern California was that the city eventually came to the suburbs. The city I grew up in was 14,000 when I moved there as a child. It grew to a city of over 200,000 within 20 years, and all the amenities of the city were within 30 minutes. I now live in rural East Texas, and life is much different here.

[@Pixelologist]

@@revdmcspumcsb I realize, of course, that that's the subject of the song. Just saying it jibes with my own personal perspective, having been raised in an area where subdivisions simply weren't a thing. But, moreover, as a designer and someone who notices, appreciates, and examines design in nearly every facet of my life, such tracts of repetitiveness make me weep. Not outwardly, to be sure, but for the culture that produces them and thinks of them as "normal".

[@egodzilla777]

THANK YOU!!! So many have (have had) no idea!!

[@RayEvans-j1q]

An anthem for those of us who were not part of the”in” crowd! And couldn’t get a prom date!

[@mctrashpedal]

Not fake! A row of same-looking houses is called a Subdivision. But a societal subdivision also exists in public schooling. I think Neil is conflating the two meanings, yielding some remarkable cross-sections where both meet, are in step, and sound like poetry, because it is--

[@sarastromseth-troy3323]

Thanks to reacting to the song and video that turned me into a Rush fan just earlier this year! While I am long out of high school, the meaning of this song resonates with me, because I was a shy loner. I went to a small school in the rural Midwest of the United States. The school was surrounded by farmland. Kindergarten and all 12 grades were housed in the same building, and I had almost the same 25 classmates all the way through ( a few moved away over the years). As for subdivisions, we do have them in America, and the houses look identical (I often wonder if anyone ever mistakenly drove into the wrong driveway or tried to enter a house that wasn't theirs, just because I don't know how you could tell them apart!). Anyway, I suggest checking out the music video to "Limelight." In that song, Neil's lyrics describe how an introvert like himself feels about fame.

[@stevedahlberg8680]

That kind of boredom breeds violence. It's amazing. Rush mostly had positive things to their music and I believe that this is as well, but they're not afraid to point out certain things that everybody's going through when you're young. And even sometimes when you're older. I don't know if you have listened to 2112 yet but that would be an adventure people it's the whole first side of a record album but a lot of people have reacted to it, so it must not get overly blocked. But it's one of those works of art like maybe going to a symphony except it really freaking rocks and it's so creative and thought-provoking.

[@bobbelleci9995]

True! Subdivisions. Yeah, there's actually a variety of homes or "trac homes" but they can be different like I've seen neighborhoods with 2-bedroom 1 car garage, front and back yards. There are 3 bedroom 2 bath homes with 2 car garages and there are custom homes along tree-lined streets where each home is different in design and appeal and construction. But yeah, lots of these in the USA.

[@steveschaff4620]

I LOVE 'Subdivisions'!!

[@KennyRansom-l5k]

I believe the Subdivision developments seen in the video are from the suburbs of Toronto where the band members of Rush grew up . The insight of the song & video are spot on for the era in which they were created .

[@lindaward5376]

I've always thought that the developments seen in this video are from Markham, a small town just north of Toronto; the opening shots and some of the closing shots are of the Don Valley Parkway/Highway 404 combination, one of our main north-south arteries. And yes, this song did speak to me as an accurate reflection of what I was going through in high school, when I never fit in with any of the cool crowd, just like Neil and his bandmates, but we all turned out okay.

[@Rob-oy2hr]

The voice you here that is a deep voice is a news anchor name Mark Dailey from Citytv in Toronto back in the 80s.

[@blueelem7372]

We have houses like that all over America they are called cookie cutters🏠🏠🏠

[@jonathanspahn7308]

Believe it or not, I grew up in a similar housing community. Modern housing here is even worse now. Good reaction, one of my many favorites from Rush 🤘

[@metalteen.]

I cant imagine living in households like that, feels so weird in a way. Thank you! :)

[@davidbradley3254]

Great choice

[@geoffreyb2391]

The video was filmed in Toronto. The downtown scenes are Yonge St and the subdivisions of houses from the Toronto suburb Scarborough.

[@pauldavis2535]

Yep and it’s hilarious

[@arsbadmojo]

Everyone's go to for showcasing Neil Peart's drumming is Tom Sawyer, but the drums in this song are just transcendent.

[@domenictagliola534]

a look at Toronto circa mid '80's! lots have changed since then- for one- there are now more subdivisions!

[@Macstick]

Teen kid it's not fake and it is subdivision city in the Americas this song is 45 yrs old !!! Best band ever !! 😎

[@ChronicExcessiveManliness]

Best band...ever.

[@markgettemeyer1145]

The synth is an Oberheim OBX - it has come into the possession of someone on KZbin.

[@CyFr]

Those really are the houses outside of Toronto. Built in mass with the same floor plans and few variations to them. Also known as cookie cutter homes. What's worse are the McMansions in the states. Low-budget big homes that look like they could be a castle until you see how shoddy they're built.

[@theG-man-p2h]

🏆🏆🏆🏆!

[@chiefbrody75]

And no matter what people have said, I would still put my money on it that it's drummer Neil Peart doing the "Subdivisions" voice

[@Mikey_Sea]

That's what it says on Wiki.

[@kimbarry4674]

Thats Canada🇨🇦 and yes that's what subdivisions looked like in the 80s

[@Pixelologist]

I'm pretty sure it actually IS guitarist Alex Lifeson doing the "Subdivisions" vocal in the chorus.

[@Rob-oy2hr]

Nope that voice is Mark Dailey who was a news anchor for Citytv chanel 57 back in the 80s, he had a deep voice much like James Earl Jones(Darth Vader) of the star wars movies.

[@Mikey_Sea]

According the Wiki page it's actually Neil. I'm sure they just used a pitch effect. ​@@Rob-oy2hr

[@cpmf2112]

The next song on the album is The Analog Kid, i think you will enjoy it.

[@OrangeMonkey2112]

Your gonna really want to listen to just about everything off “Moving Pictures” album then onto so much more. Rush and Dream Theater may be the two greatest bands EVER.

[@Jbissful]

What you saw for homes is real. This is more common in more populated cities where space is scarce but people want their own home. Large farm size chunks of land are bought by developers who then build what we call cookie cutter homes meaning they all kind of look the same.

[@e.jamesshepard7183]

In America at least there are construction companies who will buy land and build multiple houses that will look almost identical. They are called developments. All the houses in my development I grew up in here in Massachusetts came in one of 4 types, almost the same but each of the 4 styles had slight differences.

[@OrangeMonkey2112]

They are Subdivisions. England has them too just a different title if I remember

[@PaulZampieron]

They are filming in Canada where they are from; not America. Best band ever by the way 💥💥

[@pccougar895]

These subdivisions were filmed near Toronto Ontario Canada.

[@williamjones6031]

If this doesn't bring you back to High School nothing will. Unless you went to a very small school. RIP Neil😇

[@heyskipj]

Those properties are notorious for being cheaply made too. Worse today with large consolidated real estate companies buying up any remaining land to screw over home owners. Esp first timers.

[@indianajones3315]

We buy the homes that the deep state allows us to buy. Nothing more.

[@johnbrowne2170]

Those Canadian subdivisions are real. I assume you can also find them in rural America as well.

[@jeffreyanderson1420]

Go back to the 70's rush..check out "circumstances "

[@chiefbrody75]

Assuming this is actually Canada, since they're from there.

[@Mike-rk8px]

The video was shot in downtown Toronto and the suburbs around it in 1982.

[@caryd67]

It’s not fake. The subdivisions (a.k.a. the suburbs, or simply the ‘burbs) are real. And they’re depressing AF.

[@indianajones3315]

Nope, not fake. Lots of places like this in the US. 0.25 acre lots, 4-5 designs that you can customize with skylights, granite countertops, etc.

[@metalteen.]

What! Haha to me thats crazy

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[@debbieplato5107]

There are subdivisions like these all over Canada. Pretty awful. I am going to suggest Digital Man from the Snakes and Arrows tour The Trees official music video Cheers