Rush "Spirit of Radio" REACTION & ANALYSIS by Vocal Coach / Opera Singer

welcome back to the charismatic voice a ton of you have been recommending that i listen to rush and i feel like it's a very big gap in my knowledge so we're gonna fill that gap today and i'm gonna be listening to getty these vocals for the first time and i'm also very excited to hear neil perch i hear he was just a legendary drummer so i think that'll be really fun to discover um and we're listening to the spirit of radio i have a quote about this because i was looking through the lyrics beforehand it was really touched by how much uh i believe is neil part that wrote the lyrics how much he just seemed to love the radio so he said that the spirit of radio was actually written as a tribute to all that was good about radio celebrating my appreciation of magical moments i'd had since childhood of hearing the right song at the right time the lyrics look so happy and wonderful with a couple a couple of sober moments of course and so i'm really excited how this is going to sound when put to music let's get to it [Music] [Music] uh a couple of really cool things to mention just in this intro i find it fascinating how quickly they're shifting in and out of tempos and even textures as well it's really the tempo overall even the time signature i think shifted at one point it it's very interesting it feels progressive yet somehow classic too yeah that's really fascinating to me to have happen in just the first 40 seconds i i don't know if we ever had uh more than five or ten seconds of a single tempo there's just tons of shifting happening uh additionally uh i did read about this before uh yeah there we go julie gullielmo marconi i believe he was one of the people responsible for inventing the radio so that's a fun callout it's also really cool to see how the sound waves turn into their names which is really helpful because i'm not familiar with their names very well yet so anyhow back to the beginning [Music] such a cool transition [Music] [Music] okay i'm gonna need to go back and catch these first few moments of his voice again several times was not what i was expecting it sits higher than i think i was expecting and um that the it doesn't have as much aggression in it either i guess i was kind of expecting a little more aggression because uh a lot of the things that people have recommended on the channel have been more aggressive lately and this has a certain smoothness to it it's um it almost could be sung by a contralto female in some ways that you know his sound is really really interesting to me so i'm going to go back and catch it again also the the overall vibe of this is really fun i like it it's got some uplifting uh feelings to it which i think pairs well with the lyrics that just seem to really love the radio [Music] [Music] [Applause] i can tell he's really specific about his consonant placement and he has a really interesting stylistic slide that he said a few times in here as well let's go back again a companion [Music] makes your morning mood [Music] [Music] [Music] so so far we don't have a really big range that i i've heard um but he's got so much clarity in this sound and that it's got um a lot of uh pep to the sound that's coming through and again that constant placement he's very very specific about it really what i'd call sort of chewing through the consonants he's giving them a lot of definition and that's part of what makes it have that that peppiness to it and at times he even seems to speak up like just give a tiny a tiny bit of like a speech inflection off of the words which is really fun um like he almost hollers on one that's really cool it works with the the style very very well i want to go back a little further yeah these animations are awesome [Music] [Music] father's favorite [Music] in your hair [Music] [Applause] [Music] invisible airways [Music] oh i i don't know why but i just really like this song already um and i really want to do this too is is this a thing that people do during concerts with fresh i i don't know but the the talking hands thing um or hand puppets i i don't know i used to make shadow puppets all the time so um i just it's very it's it makes you want to have fun along uh you know sometimes his voice is just i think it's also thinner than i expected uh i think i was expecting a more hefty sound and instead we have a sound that is much more pointed and specific that really works for this kind of peppy feel okay uh back a little bit why do i want to do this [Music] emotional feedback [Music] of your honesty so there we go a little more um a little more harshness a couple times in there and his attacks on honesty especially which is really interesting because this is one of the only spots in the lyrics um where i felt it might uh not have as much pep in it there's this uh incredible love of the radio throughout the lyrics right you begin the day with a friendly voice it sounds really lovely and the magic music makes your morning mood it sounds magical right um but then it's really just a question of your honesty yeah your honesty um i think that gets really interesting that he's repeating honesty and questioning it twice and he's talking about there's a coldly charted before and one likes to believe in the freedom of music so you start this idea that maybe he's questioning some interesting things about it and right after that we're going to shatter the illusion of integrity so there is a sort of uh undercurrent here of there's this incredible love for the radio but there's maybe some questioning of commerce behind it i'm not sure exactly what he's questioning but i found that the lyrics on top have that incredible happiness and sort of joy in them but then there's some really deep moments that make you consider okay what are these undertones here so anyhow really fantastic super fantastic lyrics um besides that i feel like this is very addictive for what feels like maybe early progressive music the way it's shifting a bunch it feels like it's moving into a lot of places it's uh yeah it's strangely addictive i'm starting to understand really caught it from the beginning actually why people like rush so much okay i'm gonna go back one likes to believe in the freedom of music really good enough [Music] with the energy [Music] [Music] he has moments where he sounds a little bit like bruce dickinson just it's in those top the ways that um the top uh pitches the way he sort of he almost um does a healthy yell on them to get them out it's more like a hauler a healthy hauler is the way to put it um it's it sounds very supported and connected so you're not hearing uh a lot of strain that's up there um just i think it'd probably be pretty loud um and i wonder if he was influenced at all by bruce i don't i don't know what his influences were please let me know in chat by the way if there are certain influences for him as a vocalist um it's it's really fascinating he is still staying in this more limited range but it's a pretty high range and he cuts right through it and he's got just a very specific sound that works so well in this overall style i'm kind of i'm surprised again i i really didn't expect this at all and i didn't expect to also just enjoy the instantly like i want to kind of dance and do weird hand puppets it's got it's got something so addictive about it immediately okay i'm going to go back a little bit let's go back to the hand puppet party okay right listen to the way he yells off of tender that's the part that reminds me of bruce dickens it's the placement too it's not just i think his mouth is very open for that too [Music] [Music] man the drumming in here is so so smooth in something that i think would normally sound slightly awkward um right this doesn't feel like a normal 4 4. it feels different yet neil pert makes it just flow that's very interesting i'm sure it's other elements of the musical composition as well but there's a very surprising flow in the drums unexpected [Music] [Music] so one point in there i think we had like a maybe a 7-4 that happened but there was also another shift that happened and of course we're back to i think a 4-4 here uh i'm a bit surprised how how undisturbing that shifting was [Music] [Applause] [Music] whoa what [Music] i didn't see this [Music] i i'm just i'm just surprised that that shift in there it was really cool and fun again and um it was different man i think it's just so unique to hear such a large daring shift in music like this um when it also feels so um so mainstream in some ways in the way that i could hear it on the radio and possibly addiction i don't know a fresh played very much on the radio it might be one of the reasons i'm not very familiar with them i'm not sure but this this changes it's really drastic yet still works [Music] all right that's coming back to the beginning nice job gets me all revved up for the next part so much [Music] [Applause] is there like a steel drums in here as well there's uh and the time shift is just so cool and the way it's flowing so easily [Music] got a little reggae [Applause] [Music] a salesman [Music] maybe i'm wrong i'm seeing with the um animations but this might be alex uh liffeson life son leaf's son um again i'm really not familiar with them so uh i think i think that that's a different singer he definitely has a different sounding voice here so i don't know maybe getty is able to really shift his tone a bunch [Applause] [Music] in that top cool it's like a radio dial [Music] [Music] i have a desire to try to make all of these guitar sounds with a voice right [Music] [Applause] [Music] i bet somebody can do really hard yeah i shout out there if anybody has ever made these kinds has ever duplicated this guitar solo with a voice i'd be fascinated to hear it because they would have to have like so much bite in the top you'd have to have harsh vocals distorting in there too and going so fluidly back and forth in between it i think that'd be a really really fun challenge someone someone send me an example of that being done okay [Applause] [Music] that ending i like the way they got that little bit from the beginning and she's like kind of inserted a tiny bit in there which really made me want more so i'm gonna go back and then i think i believe that there's a a little um memorial i want to say to neil part at the end of this [Music] this was such a fun introduction to a band i i really love all of these tempo and time signature shifts and how how fluid they are and how kind of out on a limb they go sometimes but still make it work the overall addictiveness of the song was really really high for me um yeah i i just i love the vibe of it too it really has a ah a peppy vibe i like it and then i love that the lyrics added that extra layer in it um i'm really curious if that was another singer at the end guys definitely let me know um and also i understand a lot more about why people talk about neil pert and the way he's uh such or was such a fantastic drummer definitely you know r.i.p neil pert this is this was incredible the fluidity of it was just amazing and that it was really fascinating to hear getty lee i have i had no idea what he was going to sound like and now i have this reference that is so much more specific than i thought it was going to be i i thought that he was going to be super rangy for some reason and have lots of depth and instead he's really focused in a particular area and i i think he is so perfectly suited for this sound i'm actually i'm shocked but he's not doing things that are incredibly crazy he's just doing something that is perfect for the sound and doing it really really well i i love that that peppiness that he has in his voice and i love the attention to consonants and little slides and details oh man overall this band just has me intrigued and i would love love to hear more so please sound off in the comments down below what song you would like to hear next and you can also find me here every monday tuesday and friday at 8 am arizona time that's when we have live premieres and by the way if you liked this video and you want to watch more like it there's a playlist right here i'll see you in the next one bye [Music]

Channel: The Charismatic Voice

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Keywords: rush reaction, rush spirit of radio, vocal coach reacts, the charismatic voice, neil peart, geddy lee, rush the spirit of radio reaction

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Length: 23min 43sec (1423 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 11 2022

Reddit Comments

[u/swedething]

It’s her first time listening to Rush, and she is very intrigued by the band. I’m really intrigued to which song she’ll choose for her next Rush reaction.

I’d love for her to listen to Circumstances, Limelight, The Trees, or Free Will.

[u/Adamkelt]

Thanks for posting this. I have been off and on watching her for a year or two now, and was stoked to watch her be introduced to Rush. We got to watch her mind get blown in REAL TIME, lol. Made me smile.

[u/pzeeman]

I've watched way too many Rush reaction videos over the last couple of years. This one is so clearly genuine. Her musical and vocal knowledge and her enthusiasm made me very happy.

She might actually like that SARStock live video of TSoR that was recently posted. For new music to her, I'd love to see her to Xanadu from ESL.