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[HIGHLIGHT] Why Neil Peart’s Lyrics Still Hit So Hard - From EP 380 · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a clip from our latest episode of Book don Rock.
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  Speaker 1: Richard James, the author of Rush nineteen eighty four to
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, Every album, Every song. Eighty nine had the
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  Speaker 1: live album of Shordthands, but then Prestoes from that same year,
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  Speaker 1: which I am a big fan of that might be
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  Speaker 1: my favorite of the latter eighties albums. Yeah. Yeah, Rupert
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  Speaker 1: Hein is the producer Showed Don't Tell kicks it off,
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  Speaker 1: and Neil seems to be critiquing empty rhetoric here with
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  Speaker 1: this aimed at politics, media or was it something more universal?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think on Show Don't Tell?
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  Speaker 2: I definitely got the politics and the media the people
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  Speaker 2: in the now from that. Again, you read his words,
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  Speaker 2: you think, yeah, I could interpret that into my own life.
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  Speaker 2: I can see it in a broader context. That's the
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  Speaker 2: skill of the man. He just manages to make the
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  Speaker 2: brain work more than perhaps it normally does. And Show
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  Speaker 2: Don't Tell is another good pop rock opener. It's the
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  Speaker 2: stripped back sound. I think. I'm sure they say they
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  Speaker 2: wish they'd remixed Presto. I think they feel the the
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  Speaker 2: sound doesn't do the songs justice.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a sucker for great pop rock, so as you
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  Speaker 1: can tell you as we're.
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  Speaker 2: Now, they're just well the past.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I mean that's I was going to go next,
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  Speaker 1: the past.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that is just that's the song of the album.
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  Speaker 1: It's so powerful, and I mean he's tackling serious topics
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  Speaker 1: teen suicide. This is in a direct way that Rush
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  Speaker 1: hadn't done before. I don't think I mean, there's no
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  Speaker 1: metaphor here, it is. This is straight to the point.
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  Speaker 1: Was that a deliberate shift in how Neil was approaching songwriting.
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  Speaker 2: I think so, yeah, wanting to make the lyrics more
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  Speaker 2: personally relatable. It's there's a quote that I spent a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time refining it, doing more research, so I
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  Speaker 2: really work to find true stories. You think, wow, so
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  Speaker 2: you're not just spouting forth your opinion. You've you've read
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  Speaker 2: up about these people. You've tried to understand their lives
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  Speaker 2: and their troubles and their circumstance, and then you've written
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  Speaker 2: a song about it, and that grounds it makes it
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  Speaker 2: even more effective.
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  Speaker 1: I think I was seventeen when that song came out,
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  Speaker 1: and Subdivisions is the Rush song that pulled me in
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  Speaker 1: and really connected with me because in high schooling, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you're you got all the call.
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  Speaker 2: Or be kicked out right. Yeah there, yeah, there it is.
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  Speaker 2: Most of us have been there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You either a long or you don't listen to
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  Speaker 1: the full episode. Wherever you get your podcasts.