Rush Streaming New Song, "Headlong Flight"
Stream the first single off Rush's new album, Clockwork Angels.
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Prog rock legends Rush debuted the lead single for their new album, Clockwork Angels, yesterday, the nearly seven-and-a-half-minute "Headlong Flight."
This morning, they released an official lyric video for the track, which you can watch below.
"'Headlong Flight' was one of those songs that was a joy to write and record from beginning to end," frontman Geddy Lee told Rolling Stone. "Alex [Lifeson] and I had blast jamming in my home studio one day before the second leg of the Time Machine tour, and I did not revisit that jam until a year later.
"Alex and I assembled the song to be an instrumental and its original title was 'Take That Lampshade Off Yo Head!," but once we saw the lyrics Neil [Peart] had written, I knew that the spirit of the lyrics matched the instrumental perfectly and it was just a matter of making them fit and writing the melodies."
Clockwork Angels will be released June 12.
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ytse_jam
April 21, 2012 at 1:57am
man they still make good stuff. that bass sound in the beginning was just awesome. and they still do it live. i got to see them at the cleveland show.
Fuzzsniffvoyager
April 20, 2012 at 10:09am
Rush is the greatest band ever. Nothing else can be said.
straightener
April 19, 2012 at 9:55pm
The video is great because it has the lyrics in it and some cool vintage footage of the guys in action. The song is wondeful and harkens back to some of their earliest prog-a-licious tunes. Several head banging moments are contained within, but the most joyous segment is when they let Alex out of his box for the first time in 20 years and he solos with a fantastic amount of passion and energy. Geddy never rests it seems between verses...he is an animal on the bass and busts out tight, sweet synchronicity throughout the song. Well done, Rush!
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