List of songs recorded by Rush

This is a list of songs recorded by members of the Canadian rock band Rush. The members of Rush were Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, and Neil Peart.

List
Song Album Year Notes Ref.
"Losing Again" Unreleased song 1969 Played by the band as early as February 1969; their first original tune [1]
"You Don't Love Me" Unreleased song 1969 Played by the band as early as February 1969; a cover of a John Mayall's Bluesbreakers tune (remake of Willie Cobbs original) that featured then-keyboardist (and future brother-in-law of Geddy Lee) Lindy Young singing lead vocals [2]
"Child Reborn" Unreleased song 1969 Played by the band as early as November 1969; an original notable for its multiple time changes that seemed to guarantee a hostile reaction at high school dances [3]
"Feel So Good" Unreleased single 1970 Played by the band as early as September 1970 [4]
"Keep in Line" Unreleased single 1970 Played by the band as early as September 1970 [4]
"Love Light" Unreleased single 1970 Played by the band as early as September 1970 [4]
"Marguerite" Unreleased single 1970 Played by the band as early as September 1970 [4]
"Mike's Idea" Unreleased single 1970 Played by the band as early as September 1970 [4]
"Morning Star" Unreleased single 1970 Played by the band as early as September 1970 [4]
"Number One" Unreleased single 1970 Played by the band as early as September 1970 [4]
"Run Willie Run" Unreleased single 1970 Played by the band as early as September 1970. Southern R&B song about a young guy who's running from the law. [4][5]
"Sing Guitar" Unreleased single 1970 Played by the band as early as September 1970 [4]
"Slaughterhouse" Unreleased single 1970-3 Played during the band's bar period, approximately 1970–1973 [4]
"Tale" Unreleased single 1970 Played by the band as early as September 1970 [4]
"Not Fade Away" Non-album single 1973 Drummer: John Rutsey; First single released and Buddy Holly cover [6]
"You Can't Fight It" Non-album single 1973 Drummer: John Rutsey; First original song released and B Side of Not Fade Away; Music: Geddy Lee; Lyrics: John Rutsey [7]
"Finding My Way" Rush 1974 Drummer: John Rutsey
"Need Some Love" Rush 1974 Drummer: John Rutsey
"Take a Friend" Rush 1974 Drummer: John Rutsey
"Here Again" Rush 1974 Drummer: John Rutsey; Lyrics: Alex Lifeson [8]
"What You're Doing" Rush 1974 Drummer: John Rutsey
"In the Mood" Rush 1974 Drummer: John Rutsey
"Before and After" Rush 1974 Drummer: John Rutsey
"Working Man" Rush 1974 Drummer: John Rutsey; First song with US radio play (WMMS radio in Cleveland, Ohio) [9]
"I've Been Runnin’" R40 1974 Drummer: John Rutsey; Previously unreleased early song, featured as bonus material on the 2014 compilation R40. Disk 6 Bonus Disk. [10][11]
"The Loser" R40 1974 Drummer: John Rutsey; Previously unreleased early song, featured as bonus material on the 2014 compilation R40. Disk 6 bonus disk. [10][11]
"Fancy Dancer" Rush ABC: Live from Cleveland’s Agora Ballroom 1974 Officially released in 2011; released as a bootleg in 2001; recorded in 1974; About a love gone bad [12]
"Bad Boy" Rush ABC: Live from Cleveland’s Agora Ballroom 1974 Officially released in 2011; released as a bootleg in 2001; recorded in 1974; Larry Williams cover [13]
"Garden Road" Rush ABC: Live from Cleveland’s Agora Ballroom 1974 Excerpt played at the very end of "Working Man" on the R40 Tour in 2015; Officially released in 2011; released as a bootleg in 2001; recorded in 1974; played by band in 1970; Alludes to finding happiness with an early love [4]
"Anthem" Fly by Night 1975 "...the name of our record company, which is Anthem Records in Canada, came from this song. Neil was in an Ayn Rand period, so he wrote the song about being very individual. We thought we were doing something that was different from everybody else." ~ Alex Lifeson [14]
"Best I Can" Fly by Night 1975 Played by band as early as 1974, prior to Neil Peart being a member, although Peart is the drummer on the studio release. [15]
"Beneath, Between, and Behind" Fly by Night 1975 First song co-written by Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart [16]
"By-Tor and the Snow Dog" Fly by Night 1975 I. At the Tobes of Hades; II. Across the Styx; III. Of the Battle (a. Challenge and Defiance, b. 7/4 War Furor, c. Aftermath, d. Hymn of Triumph); IV. Epilogue
"Fly by Night" Fly By Night 1975 Considered the most pop-like piece on the album [17]
"Making Memories" Fly by Night 1975 Written on the road where the band got lost somewhere around Indiana.[18]
"Rivendell" Fly by Night 1975 Inspired by Rivendell, a fictional realm created by author J.R.R. Tolkien
"In the End" Fly by Night 1975 A song about coming home after being on the road [19]
"Bastille Day" Caress of Steel 1975 Inspired by the storming of the Bastille in French history.
"I Think I'm Going Bald" Caress of Steel 1975 Discusses aging. Neil Peart chose the title of the track based on Alex Lifeson always being worried about his potential hair loss. [20]
"Lakeside Park" Caress of Steel 1975 Inspired by an amusement park in Port Dalhousie, Ontario [21]
"The Necromancer" Caress of Steel 1975 I. Into the Darkness; II. Under the Shadow; III. Return of the Prince; Inspired by the fictional character Sauron from The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
"The Fountain of Lamneth" Caress of Steel 1975 I. In the Valley; II. Didacts and Narpets; III. No One at the Bridge; IV. Panacea; V. Bacchus Plateau; VI. The Fountain
"2112" 2112 1976 I. "Overture"; II. "The Temples of Syrinx"; III. "Discovery"; IV. "Presentation"; V. "Oracle: The Dream"; VI. "Soliloquy"; VII. “Grand Finale"
"A Passage to Bangkok" 2112 1976 Inspired by A Passage to India by E. M. Forster, the song describes a dreamlike journey around the world in search of marijuana fields, with an allusion to Acapulco Gold. [22]
"The Twilight Zone" 2112 1976 Inspired by The Twilight Zone television anthology series written and hosted by Rod Serling.
"Lessons" 2112 1976 Alex Lifeson has sole songwriting credit which is rare for the band. [23]
"Tears" 2112 1976 Keyboards: Hugh Syme; Lyrics: Geddy Lee [24][25]
"Something for Nothing" 2112 1976 Inspired by writing found on a building near Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, California that read: "Freedom isn’t free". [26]
"A Farewell to Kings" A Farewell to Kings 1977 Title adapted from Ernest Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms. [27]
"Xanadu" A Farewell to Kings 1977 Inspired by the poem Kubla Khan written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Closer to the Heart" A Farewell to Kings 1977 Lyrics co-written by Neil Peart and Peter Talbot [28]
"Cinderella Man" A Farewell to Kings 1977 Inspired by Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.[29]
"Madrigal" A Farewell to Kings 1977 A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition
"Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage" A Farewell to Kings 1977 Inspired by a Time Magazine article on black holes.[30]
"Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres" Hemispheres 1978 I. "Prelude"; II. "Apollo"; III. "Dionysus"; IV. "Armageddon"; V. "Cygnus"; VI. "The Sphere"
"Circumstances" Hemispheres 1978 Written by Neil Peart about his experience on his own at 18 years old in England.[31]
"The Trees" Hemispheres 1978 Inspired by Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax.[32]
"La Villa Strangiato" Hemispheres 1978 I. Buenos Nochus, Mein Froinds!; II. To sleep, perchance to dream...; III. Strangiato theme; IV. A Lerxst in Wonderland; V. Monsters!; VI. The Ghost of the Aragon; VII. Danforth and Pape; VIII. The Waltz of the Shreves; IX. Never turn your back on a Monster!; X. Monsters! (Reprise); XI. Strangiato theme (Reprise); XII. A Farewell to Things. An instrumental based on dreams of Alex Lifeson
"The Spirit of Radio" Permanent Waves 1980 Inspired by a slogan of Toronto radio station CFNY, which was the first station to play a Rush song over the air.[33]
"Freewill" Permanent Waves 1980 "[Musically], the song is a new thing for us in terms of time signatures. [The piece is mostly in 13/4.] We experiment a lot with time signatures. We work in nearly every one of them that I know of that's legitimate: all of the 5s, 7s, 9s, 11s, 13s, and combinations thereof." ~ Neil Peart[34]
"Jacob's Ladder" Permanent Waves 1980 Inspired by crepuscular rays, also known as Jacob's ladder.
"Entre Nous" Permanent Waves 1980 French expression translated as "between us"
"Different Strings" Permanent Waves 1980 Piano: Hugh Syme[24]
"Natural Science" Permanent Waves 1980 I. Tide Pools; II. Hyperspace; III. Permanent Waves
"Tom Sawyer" Moving Pictures 1981 Co-written by Pye Dubois.[35] Inspired by the fictional character Tom Sawyer created by Mark Twain; The quintessential Rush song.[36]
"Red Barchetta" Moving Pictures 1981 Inspired by 'A Nice Morning Drive', by Richard S. Foster[37]
"YYZ" Moving Pictures 1981 Inspired by the International Air Transport Association airport code for the Toronto Pearson International Airport; Pronounced Y-Y-Zed.[36]
"Limelight" Moving Pictures 1981 Inspired by the experience of being a touring musician.[38]
"The Camera Eye" Moving Pictures 1981 Comprises two movements, focusing on New York City and London, respectively.
"Witch Hunt" Moving Pictures 1981 Fear: Part III
"Vital Signs" Moving Pictures 1981 Inspired by the language of electronics and computers.[39]
"Broon's Bane" Exit...Stage Left 1981 Guitar solo; Named after long-time producer Terry Brown whom the band had nicknamed "Broon".
"Subdivisions" Signals 1982 About growing up in the suburbs.[40]
"The Analog Kid" Signals 1982 About growing up in the age of analog.[41]
"Chemistry" Signals 1982 First time all three of members of the band collaborated on the lyrics.[42]
"Digital Man" Signals 1982 "The digital man character was running in the fast lane, faster than life." ~ Neil Peart[43]
"The Weapon" Signals 1982 Fear: Part II
"New World Man" Signals 1982 Billboard Hot 100 highest charting single for the band (#21; 30 Oct 1982)[44]
"Losing It" Signals 1982 Electric Violins: Ben Mink[24]
"Countdown" Signals 1982 Inspired by the STS-1 Space Shuttle flight.
"Distant Early Warning" Grace Under Pressure 1984 Title refers to the systems that are part of the North American Aerospace Defense Command.[45]
"Afterimage" Grace Under Pressure 1984 In memory of Robbie Whelan (a friend of the band) who died in a car accident near the studio where the band recorded the album.
"Red Sector A" Grace Under Pressure 1984 Addresses imprisonment in Nazi concentration camps.
"The Enemy Within" Grace Under Pressure 1984 Fear: Part I
"The Body Electric" Grace Under Pressure 1984 Title derived from the poem I Sing the Body Electric by Walt Whitman and a novel of the same name by Ray Bradbury.
"Kid Gloves" Grace Under Pressure 1984 "1983 was a tough year for us. The last tour was a grind, and everybody had been going through some changes. Before Peter [Henderson, the producer of Grace Under Pressure] we had a couple of other people in mind we wanted to work with [namely, Steve Lillywhite, producer of U2], but things got screwed up along the way and there was a bit of a panic. ‘Kid Gloves’ is our response to rolling with the punches during pressure." ~ Alex Lifeson[46]
"Red Lenses" Grace Under Pressure 1984 Song that uses alliteration regarding the word "red".[47]
"Between the Wheels" Grace Under Pressure 1984 "The idea of ‘Between the Wheels’ was really kind of the opposite of ‘Digital Man,’ where life goes faster than a person does." ~ Neil Peart[48]
"The Big Money" Power Windows 1985 Inspired by the U.S.A. trilogy book The Big Money written by John Dos Passos.[49]
"Grand Designs" Power Windows 1985 Inspired by the District of Columbia trilogy book The Grand Design written by John Dos Passos.[50]
"Manhattan Project" Power Windows 1985 Inspired by the Manhattan Project research and development project which produced the first atomic bombs.
"Marathon" Power Windows 1985 "The song ‘is about the triumph of time and a kind of message to myself, because I think life is too short for all the things that I want to do. There's a self-admonition saying that life is long enough. You can do a lot, just don't burn yourself out too fast trying to do everything at once. ‘Marathon’ is a song about individual goals and trying to achieve them. And it's also about the old Chinese proverb: ‘The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.'" ~ Neil Peart[51]
"Territories" Power Windows 1985 Inspired by New Territories in Hong Kong.[52]
"Middletown Dreams" Power Windows 1985 Inspired by writer Sherwood Anderson and painter Paul Gauguin.[53]
"Emotion Detector" Power Windows 1985 Originally intended to be a ballad.[54]
"Mystic Rhythms" Power Windows 1985 Inspired by astrology.[55]
"Force Ten" Hold Your Fire 1987 Co-written by Pye Dubois.[35] Inspired by the Beaufort scale wind speed rating.
"Time Stand Still" Hold Your Fire 1987 Vocals (additional): Aimee Mann[24]
"Open Secrets" Hold Your Fire 1987 The lyric ‘That's not what I meant at all’ is from the T.S. Eliot poem, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.[56]
"Second Nature" Hold Your Fire 1987 Articulates a moderating of Neil Peart's environmental goals over time (according to his book Roadshow).[57]
"Prime Mover" Hold Your Fire 1987 Inspired by Aristotle and Plato.[58]
"Lock and Key" Hold Your Fire 1987 Inspired by the killer instinct found in humanity.[59]
"Mission" Hold Your Fire 1987 Inspired by the struggles of Vincent van Gogh, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald.[60]
"Turn the Page" Hold Your Fire 1987 "I had a major problem with playing ‘Turn the Page’ live on tour. It's a very busy bass part, and the vocal part doesn't really relate to it very much. Eventually I got it, but it took a lot of practice." ~ Geddy Lee[61]
"Tai Shan" Hold Your Fire 1987 Inspired by Mount Tai.
"High Water" Hold Your Fire 1987 Inspired by mankind's evolution from water-dwelling creatures.[62]
"The Rhythm Method" A Show of Hands 1989 Drum solo[63]
"Show Don't Tell" Presto 1989 Neil Peart's voice is mixed in low in the background on the lines, "I will be the judge / Give the jury direction."[64]
"Chain Lightning" Presto 1989 "...the whole idea of the song was response and how people respond to things...a lot of the thrust of that song is how things are transferred, like chain lightning or enthusiasm or energy or love are things that are contagious, and if someone feels them, they are easily transferable to another person,...‘Reflected in another pair of eyes’ is the idea that it's a wonderful thing already,...but if there's someone else there with you to share it, then it multiplies, you know, it becomes exponentially a bigger experience..." ~ Neil Peart[65]
"The Pass" Presto 1989 Speaks to the friends of those who have committed suicide.[66]
"War Paint" Presto 1989 Refers to cosmetic makeup and the psychological masks of youth.[67]
"Scars" Presto 1989 "I think it's part of everyone's experience that a certain record reflects a certain period of their life, and that's a pleasurable scar, you know, there's a mark left on you, a psychological fingerprint left by a very positive experience. And music is an easy one, but it translates to so many other parts of life where it's a given that, for instance, the sense of smell is one of the strongest forces in your memory, where a given smell will suddenly conjure up a whole time of your life, and again, it triggers another scar, it triggers another psychological imprint that was left by a pleasurable thing..." ~ Neil Peart[68]
"Presto" Presto 1989 "I had used ‘Presto’ in an ironic sense, in wishing that I had magic powers to make things right. And I really just liked the word."[69]
"Superconductor" Presto 1989 The line That's Entertainment! refers to the film on musicals with the same name.[70]
"Anagram" Presto 1989 Subtitled For Mongo as a tribute to the Mel Brooks film Blazing Saddles which contains a scene when the character Bart calls out "Candygram for Mongo".[71][72]
"Red Tide" Presto 1989 Inspired by the phenomenon known as a Red tide.[73]
"Hand Over Fist" Presto 1989 Inspired by the game Rock-paper-scissors.[74]
"Available Light" Presto 1989 "On a tune like ‘Available Light,’ where the bass just provides some simple, low-end support, I'd rather play the keyboards and sing. It's just a question of what instrument will be rewarding to play from a player's point of view..." ~ Geddy Lee[75]
"Dreamline" Roll the Bones 1991 Inspired by The Trinity Paradox by Kevin Anderson.[76]
"Bravado" Roll the Bones 1991 "We will pay the price, but we will not count the cost" is a line from the book The Tidewater Tales by John Barth.
"Roll the Bones" Roll the Bones 1991 Geddy Lee performs the rap section using a digitally lowered version of his voice.
"Face Up" Roll the Bones 1991 Inspired by card games with a wild card option.[77]
"Where's My Thing?" Roll the Bones 1991 "Gangster of Boats" Trilogy: Part IV
"The Big Wheel" Roll the Bones 1991 "...It's where I’ve looked for a universal of that trade-off between innocence and experience, and (The Big Wheel) certainly addresses that...." ~ Neil Peart[78]
"Heresy" Roll the Bones 1991 Inspired by the falling of the Berlin Wall.
"Ghost of a Chance" Roll the Bones 1991 ...‘Ghost of a Chance’ fit right in with my overall theme of randomness and contingency and so on, but at the same time it was a chance for me to write about love in a different way, of saying, ‘Here are all these things that we go through in life and the people we meet, it's all by chance.... ~ Neil Peart[79]
"Neurotica" Roll the Bones 1991 "Some people can't deal with the world as it is, or themselves as they are, and feel powerless to change things—so they get all crazy. They waste away their lives in delusions, paranoia, aimless rage, and neuroses, and in the process they often make those around them miserable, too. Strained friendships, broken couples, warped children. I think they should all stop it." ~ Neil Peart[80]
"You Bet Your Life" Roll the Bones 1991 "I particularly like the lyrics in ‘You Bet Your Life.’ I wove together all the different religions and musical styles and everything. Those kinds of things are really fun and satisfying...." ~ Neil Peart[81]
"Animate" Counterparts 1993 Addresses man's anima as defined by Carl Jung.[82]
"Stick It Out" Counterparts 1993 "I love the riff. It's a great riff song. I love playing it, and it's a very bass-heavy song, which always makes me happy." ~ Geddy Lee[83]
"Cut to the Chase" Counterparts 1993 "Genius is the fire that lights itself." ~ Neil Peart[84]
"Nobody's Hero" Counterparts 1993 Orchestration: Michael Kamen;[24] Inspired in part by the death of a friend of Neil Peart,[85] named Ellis.
"Between Sun and Moon" Counterparts 1993 Co-written by Pye Dubois.[35] "Pete Townshend can make an acoustic sound so heavy and powerful. I’ve always admired that. On ‘Between Sun and Moon’ there's a musical bridge before the solo that's very Who-ish. I even throw Keith Richards in there. The song is really a tribute to the ’60s." ~ Alex Lifeson[35]
"Alien Shore" Counterparts 1993 The voice in the beginning of the song is Alex Lifeson holding his nostrils closed, saying 'out of my nose'.[86]
"The Speed of Love" Counterparts 1993 "...a song about love, about the subject of it....demythologizing, debunking." ~ Neil Peart[87]
"Double Agent" Counterparts 1993 "...it's one of the goofiest songs I think we’ve ever written, but I’m quite happy with the result. In its own way, I think it's an interesting little piece of lunacy." ~ Geddy Lee[88]
"Leave That Thing Alone" Counterparts 1993 "I think this is the best instrumental we've ever written." ~ Geddy Lee[89]
"Cold Fire" Counterparts 1993 "I had been inspired, I think, by a Paul Simon song, where I wanted to couch song lyrics in conversation—he said, she said, and all that. Simon has a song, maybe on Rhythm of the Saints, where it's in conversation." ~ Neil Peart[90]
"Everyday Glory" Counterparts 1993 "This song ended up being an analog-tape mix. For the last few years I’ve mixed only to digital, because I figured it was just a better tape recorder. But certain songs have a heavier midrange content, and on playback the analog recorder softens the midrange a bit, giving it a more likable sound." ~ Geddy Lee[91]
"Test for Echo" Test for Echo 1996 Co-written by Pye Dubois.[92] "The lyrics give a video-view of this wacky world of ours and offers this tacit response: ‘Excuse me, does anybody else think this is weird? Am I weird?’ While the answer to those questions might be ‘Yes!’ it's good to know that you're not the only one, that you're not alone." ~ Neil Peart[92]
"Driven" Test for Echo 1996 "...is just from a bass player's point of view. I wrote that song with three tracks of bass. I brought it to Alex and said, ‘Here's the song; I did three tracks of bass, but I just did that to fill in for the guitar,’ and he said, ‘Let's keep it with the three basses.’ So, I said, ‘I love you.'" ~ Geddy Lee[93]
"Half the World" Test for Echo 1996 "...is one of our finest moments as songwriters as far as writing a concise song without being wimpy or syrupy. It's got a little bit of everything: nice melody, and yet it’s still aggressive. It’s hard for us to write that kind of song, really. You’d have to go back to ‘Closer to the Heart’ to find an example of that."[94]
"The Color of Right" Test for Echo 1996 Inspired by the legal term: colour of right.[95]
"Time and Motion" Test for Echo 1996 Inspire by music artists Soundgarden and Smashing Pumpkins.[96]
"Totem" Test for Echo 1996 "The choruses in ‘Totem’ are really interesting. I created a soundscape by using harmonics with a kind of Celtic melody over it that's quite distant. In the song, in terms of dynamics, it's a really beautiful shift." ~ Alex Lifeson[97]
"Dog Years" Test for Echo 1996 Inspired by the aging profile of dogs.
"Virtuality" Test for Echo 1996 Inspired by the concept of virtual reality.
"Resist" Test for Echo 1996 The instrument played at the beginning of the song is a hammer dulcimer.[98]
"Limbo" Test for Echo 1996 Instrumental with the inclusion of the line "Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?" from the song Monster Mash by Bobby "Boris" Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers.[99]
"Carve Away the Stone" Test for Echo 1996 Inspired by Sisyphus.[100]
"The Rhythm Method 1997" Different Stages 1998 Drum solo[63]
"One Little Victory" Vapor Trails 2002 "We fiddled with the order of the songs on Vapor Trails right up until the last minute. However, we never doubted which song would open the album, for "One Little Victory" made such an uncompromising announcement: "They’re ba-a-a-ack!"" ~ Neil Peart[101]
"Ceiling Unlimited" Vapor Trails 2002 Inspired by the weather and aeronautical term referring to the height of the lowest obscuring cloud layer above the ground.[102]
"Ghost Rider" Vapor Trails 2002 Based on the self-imposed exile of Neil Peart after losing both his daughter and wife within a 10-month period.[103]
"Peaceable Kingdom" Vapor Trails 2002 Inspired by the Peaceable Kingdom series of paintings by Edward Hicks.[104] Inspired by the 9/11 tragedy.
"The Stars Look Down" Vapor Trails 2002 Inspired by the title of a novel with the same name written by A. J. Cronin.[105]
"How It Is" Vapor Trails 2002 The line "foot upon the stair, shoulder to the wheel" was inspired by Thomas Wolfe.[106]
"Vapor Trail" Vapor Trails 2002 Inspired by the long thin artificial clouds that sometimes form behind aircraft known as a contrail.
"Secret Touch" Vapor Trails 2002 The line "secret touch on the heart" comes from Joseph Conrad’s Victory and "there is never love without pain" comes from Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.[107]
"Earthshine" Vapor Trails 2002 Inspired by the reflected light phenomenon of earthshine.[108]
"Sweet Miracle" Vapor Trails 2002 "The lyrics I felt were very moving, and the melody just came out of me." ~ Geddy Lee[109]
"Nocturne" Vapor Trails 2002 Inspired by the issue What Do Dreams Want?[110] in the periodical Utne Reader.[111]
"Freeze" Vapor Trails 2002 Fear: Part IV
"Out of the Cradle" Vapor Trails 2002 Inspired by Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking by Walt Whitman.[112]
"O Baterista" Rush in Rio 2003 Drum solo[63] Translates as "The Drummer" in Portuguese.[113]
"Summertime Blues" Feedback 2004 Eddie Cochran cover song[114] from Neil Peart's early pre-Rush career reproduced for the album.[24]
"Heart Full of Soul" Feedback 2004 The Yardbirds cover song.[115]
"For What It's Worth" Feedback 2004 Buffalo Springfield cover song[116] from Alex Lifeson's early pre-Rush career reproduced for the album.[24]
"The Seeker" Feedback 2004 The Who cover song.[117]
"Mr. Soul" Feedback 2004 Buffalo Springfield cover song[118] from early Rush band reproduced for the album.[24]
"Seven and Seven Is" Feedback 2004 Love cover song.[119]
"Shapes of Things" Feedback 2004 The Yardbirds cover song[120] from early Rush band reproduced for the album.[24]
"Crossroads" Feedback 2004 Robert Johnson cover song[121] from Neil Peart's early pre-Rush career and early Rush band reproduced for the album.[24]
"R30 Overture" R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour 2005 I. "Finding My Way"; II. "Anthem"; III. "Bastille Day"; IV. "A Passage to Bangkok"; V. "Cynus X-1: The Voyage"; VI. "Cygnus X-1: Hemispheres"
"Der Trommler" R30: 30th Anniversary World Tour 2005 Drum solo; Translates as "The Drummer" in German.[122]
"Far Cry" Snakes & Arrows 2007 "It was almost like we already knew the song when we wrote it. We just played it. And that was really cool. That doesn't happen very often. We were high-fiving and the whole thing, because it's a relief when something like that happens, for sure." ~ Alex Lifeson[123]
"Armor and Sword" Snakes & Arrows 2007 "Spiritual yearnings are natural to many people and may give them solace or hope, but extremists of any kind are not content with faith as armor, they must forge it into a sword." ~ Neil Peart[124]
"Workin' Them Angels" Snakes & Arrows 2007 "I didn't think I was foolhardy or irresponsible, but a certain level of risk in life seemed worthwhile for the promised return—excitement and treasured experiences—and though I didn't really believe in ‘them angels,’ if I had them, I guessed I kept them pretty busy." ~ Neil Peart[125]
"The Larger Bowl" Snakes & Arrows 2007 Pantoum.[126]
"Spindrift" Snakes & Arrows 2007 Inspired by Robert Frost’s epitaph, "I had a lover's quarrel with the world."[127]
"The Main Monkey Business" Snakes & Arrows 2007 Title inspired by a conversation Geddy Lee had with his Polish mother.[128]
"The Way the Wind Blows" Snakes & Arrows 2007 Compares the way our views are shaped as children to the way trees are shaped by the force of the wind over the years. If we grow up with extremist, intolerant views among our parents and others who are influential in our lives, then we can expect our views to reflect that extremism and intolerance.[129]
"Hope" Snakes & Arrows 2007 Instrumental for twelve-string guitar performed by Alex Lifeson.[130]
"Faithless" Snakes & Arrows 2007 Strings: Ben Mink;[24] "To me there were two kinds of faith: a good kind that could be protective and help people, and a bad kind that was militant and you wanted to kill people." ~ Neil Peart[131]
"Bravest Face" Snakes & Arrows 2007 Discusses personality dualism.[132]
"Good News First" Snakes & Arrows 2007 "I kind of couch the lyrics in the traditional relationship song of a quarrel between two people, but, again, it's in fact me arguing with these whole masses of people who just happen to disagree with me." ~ Neil Peart[133]
"Malignant Narcissism" Snakes & Arrows 2007 Inspired by the antisocial personality disorder known as malignant narcissism.
"We Hold On" Snakes & Arrows 2007 The line "measured out in coffee breaks" is from T.S. Eliot.[134]
"De Slagwerker" Snakes & Arrows Live 2008 Drum solo; Translates as "Drummer" in Dutch.[135]
"Moto Perpetuo" Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland 2011 Drum solo; Title is defined as a fast instrumental passage made up of notes of equal length.[136]
"O'Malley's Break" Time Machine 2011: Live in Cleveland 2011 Guitar solo
"Caravan" Clockwork Angels 2012 Single released 2010; album released 2012; The line "In a world lit only by fire" comes from the title of a history of medieval times by William Manchester.[137]
"BU2B" Clockwork Angels 2012 Single released 2010; album released 2012; A soliloquy and pantoum.[138]
"Clockwork Angels" Clockwork Angels 2012 Contains a "bluesy bar band section" midway through the song.[139]
"The Anarchist" Clockwork Angels 2012 Strings arranged and conducted by David Campbell.[24]
"Carnies" Clockwork Angels 2012 Inspired by Robertson Davies and Herbert Gold.[140]
"Halo Effect" Clockwork Angels 2012 Strings arranged and conducted by David Campbell.[24]
"Seven Cities of Gold" Clockwork Angels 2012 Inspired by the myth of the Seven Cities of Gold.[141]
"The Wreckers" Clockwork Angels 2012 Strings arranged and conducted by David Campbell.[24]
"Headlong Flight" Clockwork Angels 2012 Inspired by Freddie Gruber.[142]
"BU2B2" Clockwork Angels 2012 Strings arranged and conducted by David Campbell.[24]
"Wish Them Well" Clockwork Angels 2012 "We always loved the lyrics, but this was a tough song to figure out," ~ Alex Lifeson[143]
"The Garden" Clockwork Angels 2012 Strings arranged and conducted by David Campbell;[24] Piano: Jason Sniderman[24]
"Here It Is!" Clockwork Angels Tour 2013 Drum solo
"Drumbastica" Clockwork Angels Tour 2013 Drum solo; interlude during "Headlong Flight"
"Peke's Repose" Clockwork Angels Tour 2013 Guitar solo; lead-in to "Halo Effect"
"The Percussor" Clockwork Angels Tour 2013 Drum solo; I. "Binary Love Theme"; II. "Steambanger's Ball"
"The Story so Far" R40 Live 2015 Drum solo; interlude during "Cygnus X-1"

Solo projects

Victor (Alex Lifeson)
Song Album Year Notes Ref.
"Don't Care" Victor 1996 Vocals: Edwin; Drums: Blake Manning [24]
"Promise" Victor 1996 Vocals: Edwin; Drums: Blake Manning [24]
"Start Today" Victor 1996 Vocals: Dalbello; Drums: Blake Manning [24]
"Mr. X" Victor 1996 Bass: Peter Cardinali; Drums: Blake Manning [24]
"At the End" Victor 1996 Vocals: Edwin; Programming: Adrian Zivojinovich [24]
"Sending Out a Warning" Victor 1996 Vocals: Edwin; Drums: Blake Manning [24]
"Shut Up Shuttin' Up" Victor 1996 Bass: Peter Cardinali; Drums: Blake Manning [24]
"Strip and Go Naked" Victor 1996 Drums: Blake Manning [24]
"The Big Dance" Victor 1996 Vocals: Edwin;Bass: Les Claypool; Programming: Adrian Zivojinovich [24]
"Victor" Victor 1996 Bass: Peter Cardinali; Horns: Colleen Allen; Drums: Blake Manning; From collected poems of W.H. Auden [24]
"I Am the Spirit" Victor 1996 Vocals: Edwin; Drums: Blake Manning [24]

Geddy Lee (Geddy Lee)
Song Album Year Notes Ref.
"My Favorite Headache" My Favorite Headache 2000 Drums: Matt Cameron [24]
"The Present Tense" My Favorite Headache 2000 Drums: Matt Cameron [24]
"Window to the World" My Favorite Headache 2000 Drums: Matt Cameron; Steel Guitar: Waylon Wall [24]
"Working at Perfekt" My Favorite Headache 2000 Drums: Matt Cameron; Cellos: John Friesen [24]
"Runaway Train" My Favorite Headache 2000 Drums: Matt Cameron [24]
"The Angel' Share" My Favorite Headache 2000 Drums: Matt Cameron [24]
"Moving to Bohemia" My Favorite Headache 2000 Drums: Matt Cameron [24]
"Home on the Strange" My Favorite Headache 2000 Drums: Jeremy Taggart [24]
"Slipping" My Favorite Headache 2000 Drums: Matt Cameron; Vocals (backward): Pappy Rosen [24]
"Still" My Favorite Headache 2000 Drums: Matt Cameron [24]
"Grace to Grace" My Favorite Headache 2000 Drums: Matt Cameron [24]

Neil Peart (Neil Peart)
Song Album Year Notes Ref.
"Momo's Dance Party" Anatomy of a Drum Solo 2005 Drum solo audio track
"Pieces of Eight" Anatomy of a Drum Solo 2005 Drum solo audio track

Collaborations

Duo projects
Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee
Song Album Year Notes Ref.
"O Canada" South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut 1999 With Terrance and Phillip [144]
"I Fought the Law" Trailer Park Boys: The Movie 2006 The Big Dirty Band; Supergroup formed by Alex Lifeson [144][145]

Trio projects
Song Album Year Notes Ref.
"Battle Scar" Universal Juveniles 1980 Max Webster featuring Rush [145]
"Tough Break" Unreleased single 1981 "The Fab Pros" (Rush and two crew members: Tony Geranios; Skip Gildersleeve) [146]

Alex Lifeson
Song Album Year Notes Ref.
"Crying Over You" Alien Shores 1985 Guitar solo for Platinum Blonde [144][145]
"Holy Water" Alien Shores 1985 Guitar solo for Platinum Blonde [144][145]
"Beyond Borders" N/A 1987 Guitar for Canadian Guitar Summit for Guitar Player Magazine. Written by Rik Emmett. [145]
"In the Danger Zone" Serious Business 1988 Guitar solo for Greenway. Features Aldo Nova on keyboard. [145]
"Smoke on the Water" The Earthquake Album 1989 Guitar for Rock Aid Armenia [147]
"All the Lovers in the World" Lost Brotherhood 1990 Guitar for Lawrence Gowan [148]
"Lost Brotherhood" Lost Brotherhood 1990 Guitar for Lawrence Gowan [145][148]
"Call It a Mission" Lost Brotherhood 1990 Guitar for Lawrence Gowan [145][148]
"The Dragon" Lost Brotherhood 1990 Guitar for Lawrence Gowan [145][148]
"Love Makes You Believe" Lost Brotherhood 1990 Guitar for Lawrence Gowan [145][148]
"Fire It Up" Lost Brotherhood 1990 Guitar for Lawrence Gowan [145][148]
"Out of a Deeper Hunger" Lost Brotherhood 1990 Guitar for Lawrence Gowan [145][148]
"Tender Young Hero" Lost Brotherhood 1990 Guitar for Lawrence Gowan [145][148]
"Message from Heaven" Lost Brotherhood 1990 Guitar for Lawrence Gowan [145][148]
"Holding This Rage" Lost Brotherhood 1990 Guitar for Lawrence Gowan [145][148]
"Just Scream" Ragged Ass Road 1995 Guitar solo for Tom Cochrane [144][145][149]
"Crawl" Ragged Ass Road 1995 Guitar for Tom Cochrane [144][145][149]
"Will of the Gun" Ragged Ass Road 1995 Guitar for Tom Cochrane [144][145][149]
"Like a Girl" Scenery and Fish 1996 Guitar for I Mother Earth [144][145]
"The Little Drummer Boy" Merry Axemas: A Guitar Christmas 1997 In collaboration with multiple hard rock artists [150]
"March of the High Guard" Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda 2000 Television series soundtrack composed 2000; released 2002 [144][151]
"Wasted Me" The Better Life 2000 Guitar and producer for 3 Doors Down; released on special Australian 2 CD set and B-side import single of Kryptonite. [152]
"Dangerous Game" Away from the Sun 2000 Guitar and producer for 3 Doors Down; released in 2002. [152]
"Dead Love" Unreleased single 2000 Guitar and producer for 3 Doors Down [152]
"Star 24 (No Apologies)" Born 4 2006 Guitar for Jakalope [144]
"Anesthetize" Fear of a Blank Planet 2007 Guitar solo for Porcupine Tree [144]
"Sacred and Mundane" Fly Paper 2008 Guitar for Tiles [144]
"Don't Look Back" The Double 2011 Outro for the movie The Double [144]
"Losin'" All is More Than Both 2012 Guitar solo for Jason Plumb [144]
"Once A Warrior" Disconnect 2014 Guitar solo for John Wesley [153]
"End of the Line" RES9 2016 Guitar for Rik Emmett [154]
"Human Race" RES9 2016 Guitar (twelve-string) for Rik Emmett [155]
"On That Note" Borrego 2017 Guitar/co-written for Marco Minnemann [156]
"South End" Borrego 2017 Guitar for Marco Minnemann
"Il Monstro Atomico" Clone of the Universe 2018 Guitar for Fu Manchu [157]
"Evil and Here to Stay" Nobody Told Me 2019 Guitar for John Mayall [158]
"Lovers Calling" Lovers Calling (EP) 2019 Guitar with Marco Minnemann; featuring Mohini Dey (Bass) and Maia Wynne (Vocals) [156]
"One Day" Atheists and Believers 2019 Guitar for The Mute Gods [159]

Geddy Lee
Song Album Year Notes Ref.
"Take Off" Great White North 1981 Vocals for comedians Bob and Doug McKenzie; Highest charting Hot 100 single for any member of Rush (#16; 27 Mar 1982) [144][145][160]
"All the Horses Running" Vignettes 1983 Bass for Marie-Lynn Hammond [145]
"Over Queen Charlotte Sound" Vignettes 1983 Bass for Marie-Lynn Hammond [145]
"Tears Are Not Enough" We Are the World 1985 Vocals (supporting) for Northern Lights [144][145]
"Good for Sule" Blue Green Orange 1999 Bass for I Mother Earth [145]
"When I Close My Eyes" Transylvania Avenue 2010 Bass for The Black Sea Station [144]
"March of the Shikker" Transylvania Avenue 2010 Vocals for The Black Sea Station [144]
"Territory" The Great Detachment 2016 Bass for Wintersleep [161]

Neil Peart
Song Album Year Notes Ref.
"Champion" Champion 1985 Drums for Jeff Berlin [144][145]
"Mariba" Champion 1985 Drums for Jeff Berlin [144][145]
"Cottontail" Burning for Buddy Volume 1 1994 Tribute to Buddy Rich [144][145]
"One O'Clock Jump" Burning for Buddy Volume 2 1997 Tribute to Buddy Rich [144][145]
"Save Me From Myself" Burning the Days 2009 Drums for Vertical Horizon [144]
"Welcome to the Bottom" Burning the Days 2009 Drums for Vertical Horizon [144]
"Even Now" Burning the Days 2009 Drums and Lyrics for Vertical Horizon [144]
"Instamatic" Echoes from the Underground 2013 Drums for Vertical Horizon [144][162]
"South for the Winter" Echoes from the Underground 2013 Drums for Vertical Horizon [144]
"The Impulsive Type" Untold Tales 2017 Drums for Glass Hammer [163][164]

See also

References
  1. Banasiewicz, Bill (1 November 1990). Rush Visions: The Official Biography. Omnibus Press & Schirmer Trade Books. p. 5-6. ISBN 978-0711911628.
  2. Banasiewicz, Bill (1 November 1990). Rush Visions: The Official Biography. Omnibus Press & Schirmer Trade Books. p. 6. ISBN 978-0711911628.
  3. Banasiewicz, Bill (1 November 1990). Rush Visions: The Official Biography. Omnibus Press & Schirmer Trade Books. p. 7. ISBN 978-0711911628.
  4. "Garden Road". Rush Vault.
  5. "Run Willie Run". Rush Vault.
  6. "Not Fade Away". Rush Vault.
  7. "Background and Commentary". Rush Vault.
  8. "Here Again". Rush Vault.
  9. "Working Man". Rush Vault.
  10. "R40 – 40th Anniversary Collectors Boxset to be released November 11". Rush.com. 17 September 2014.
  11. Ryan, Patrick (17 September 2014). "Rush to release 40th-anniversary live box set". USA Today.
  12. "Fancy Dancer". Rush Vault.
  13. "Bad Boy". Rush Vault.
  14. "Anthem". Rush Vault.
  15. "Best I Can". Rush Vault.
  16. "Beneath, Between, & Behind". Rush Vault.
  17. "Fly By Night". Rush Vault.
  18. Making Memories
  19. "In the End". Rush Vault.
  20. "I Think I'm Going Bald". Rush Vault.
  21. "Lakeside Park". Rush Vault.
  22. "A Passage to Bangkok". Rush Vault.
  23. "Lessons". Rush Vault.
  24. "Album liner notes". Rush Vault.
  25. "Tears". Rush Vault.
  26. Something For Nothing
  27. AFTK
  28. CTTH
  29. Cinderella Man
  30. Voyage
  31. Circumstances
  32. The Trees
  33. The Spirit of Radio
  34. Freewill
  35. Between Sun and Moon
  36. 'Moving Pictures' track by track: Geddy Lee breaks down Rush's landmark 1981 album
  37. A Nice Morning Drive author recounts cycle ride with Neil Peart
  38. Limelight
  39. Vital Signs
  40. Subdivisions
  41. The Analog Kid
  42. Chemistry
  43. Digital Man
  44. Billboard Legacy
  45. DEW
  46. Kid Gloves
  47. Red Lenses
  48. BTW
  49. The Big Money
  50. Grand Designs
  51. Marathon
  52. Territories
  53. Middletown Dreams
  54. Power Windows Tour Book
  55. Mystic Rhythms
  56. Open Secrets
  57. Second Nature
  58. Prime Mover
  59. Lock and Key
  60. Mission
  61. Turn the Page
  62. High Water
  63. Soloing In The Shadows Of Giants
  64. Show Don't Tell
  65. Chain Lightning
  66. The Pass
  67. War Paint
  68. Scars
  69. Presto
  70. Superconductor
  71. IMDB
  72. Candygram for Mongo
  73. Red Tide
  74. Scissors, Paper, Stone
  75. Available Light
  76. Dreamline
  77. Face Up
  78. The Big Wheel
  79. Ghost of a Chance
  80. Neurotica
  81. YBYL
  82. Animate
  83. Stick It Out
  84. Cut to the Chase
  85. Nobody's Hero
  86. Alien Shore
  87. Speed of Love
  88. Double Agent
  89. LTTA
  90. Cold Fire
  91. Everyday Glory
  92. Test for Echo
  93. Driven
  94. Half the World
  95. Color of Right
  96. Time and Motion
  97. Totem
  98. Resist
  99. Limbo by Rush
  100. Carve Away the Stone
  101. One Little Victory
  102. Ceiling Unlimited
  103. Ghost Rider
  104. Peaceable Kingdom
  105. The Stars Look Down
  106. How It Is
  107. Secret Touch
  108. Earthshine
  109. Sweet Miracle
  110. Night Eyes
  111. Nocturne
  112. OOTC
  114. Summertime Blues
  115. Heart Full of Soul
  116. FWIW
  117. The Seeker
  118. Mr. Soul
  119. 7 & 7 Is
  120. Shape of Things
  121. Crossroads
  122. Der Trommler
  123. Far Cry
  124. Armor and Sword
  125. WTA
  126. The Larger Bowl
  127. Spindrift
  128. TMMB
  129. TWTWB
  130. Hope
  131. Faithless
  132. Bravest Face
  133. GNF
  134. We Hold On
  135. De Slagwerker
  136. Moto Perpetuo
  137. Caravan
  138. BU2B
  139. Clockwork Angels
  140. Carnies
  141. 7COG
  142. Headlong Flight
  143. Wish Them Well
  144. Collaborations
  145. Guest Appearances
  146. "Stories From Signals". 2112.net.
  147. Smoke on the Water Rock Aid Armenia 20th anniversary re-release
  148. Gowan.org
  149. Ragged Ass Road
  151. Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda (Music from Original Soundtrack)
  152. Alex Lifeson Produces 3 Door Down
  153. ALEX LIFESON Of RUSH To Guest On JOHN WESLEY’s New Album
  154. Lyric video for Rik Emmett's new song End of the Line featuring Alex Lifeson
  155. Rik Emmett performs Human Race from his upcoming album featuring Alex Lifeson
  156. Alex Lifeson and Marco Minnemann to release limited edition EP featuring new track Lover's Calling
  157. FU MANCHU's 18-Minute Psychedelic Stoner Epic Features RUSH Guitarist Alex Lifeson
  158. Listen to John Mayall's Evil and Here to Stay featuring Alex Lifeson from his upcoming Nobody Told Me album
  159. The Mute Gods reveal video for One Day featuring Alex Lifeson of Rush
  160. Billboard History
  161. Hear Wintersleep’s Soaring Song With Rush’s Geddy Lee
  162. Peart Fills It Up
  163. "-High-profile concerts give Glass Hammer option of being choosy". Times Free Press. 13 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  164. "UNTOLD TALES: Glass Hammer's Tolkienian Prog". Progarchy. 16 October 2017. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
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