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Neil Peart's Essential Songs


Remembering Neil Peart, A Monster Drummer With A Poet's Heart

Like the best songwriting, Peart's body of work was also malleable enough to grow with its listeners — his songs often mused about aging and ...

Merry-Go-Round's Tribute to Neil Peart

In some ways, “The Spirit of Radio” is the quintessential Neil Peart song. His performance on the kit is simply monstrous, effortlessly jumping ...

Column: Most songs are about love, sex or heartbreak. Rush ...

The words are from the song “The Camera Eye,” written by Neil Peart, the drummer and lyricist of the Canadian progressive-rock trio Rush. It's ...

The Songwriting Interview: Neil Peart - Rush

There's no way I'll ever like the lyrics to a song that I don't like. It's an essential relationship. So I never really paid a lot of attention to lyrics until ...

Geddy Lee on Neil Peart and the Best and Most Epic of Rush - Vulture

I really like that song, even if it's one of the lesser songs in the Rush catalogue. It sparked an idea that we came back to. “Vital Signs” and ...

The Top 10 Greatest Rush Songs - musicfestnews

The song clearly showcases Lifeson's masterful guitar skills along with the rapid-fire drumbeats of Peart. “Freewill” was initially overshadowed ...

My Thoughts on the Passing of Neil Peart - School of Rock

So, I said I would give you my thoughts and here they are. Neil was both the drummer and lyricist for Rush. If you've never really listened to ...

Neil Peart's love, pain and thoughts on playing live before Rush ...

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Neil Peart: What he meant to me - Neel Modi

I was in a band many years ago and we decided to cover a Rush song. Presto was the album that had just come out at the time. The drummer and ...

Songs played by Neil Peart on V-Drums? - VDrums Forum

There are some other songs where Neil may also make use of electronic drum sounds more sparingly, e.g., The Big Money, Roll The Bones (e.g., rap ...

Was Neil Peart of Rush the greatest lyricist in the history of popular ...

And on top of Rush's success, Peart was widely regarded as one of the most skilled and influential drummers and percussionists in modern music.

Neil Peart retires from music | Page 2 - SevenString.org

My Rush collection goes from Fly by Night through Exit... Stage Left on vinyl and I love all of it. And on that note, All the World's a Stage ...

REDEF MusicSET: Neil Peart Was Prog Rock's Philosopher King

From “2112” to “Tom Sawyer,” we look back at some of the legendary drummer-lyricist's high-tech highlights.

Opinion | Neil Peart, Beyond the Gilded Cage - The New York Times

My all-time favorite Rush lyric, “I can't pretend a stranger / Is a long-awaited friend,” is from the song “Limelight,” a meditation on the ...

Neil Peart Tribute - Drum Talk TV

One of those tracks was “By-Tor & the Snow Dog.” Divided into eight sections, the only ones with lyrics are “At the Tobes of Hades,” “Across the Styx,” and “ ...

Rush - Apple Music

Top Songs · Tom Sawyer. Moving Pictures (Remastered) · 1981 · Limelight. Moving Pictures (Remastered) · 1981 · Closer to the Heart. A Farewell to Kings (40th ...

Wow, Neil Peart kinda sucks... | Drummerworld Forum

... best shot, can't fault a guy for that. ... The electric/digital era made some great songwriting and catchy (radio) songs, but even the guitarist ...

Peter Dabbene: Neil Peart — inspiration, influence, mirror, echo

His lyrics on early Rush albums fed my love of fantasy and science fiction with long story-songs influenced by writers like Samuel Taylor ...

How Neil Peart's Perfectionism Set Him Free - Rolling Stone

Like the Neil Peart aesthetic as a whole, the song's drumming is at once profoundly nerdy and totally exhilarating. Editor's picks. The 100 Best ...

R.I.P. Neil Peart - Tom Hipskind

Jan. 10, 2020 Growing up in the 1970s and 80s, I heard a lot of rock music on the radio. I was inspired by hearing the Beatles, ...