RUSH: Subdivisions 12″ UK 1982 w. Red Barchetta (live) + Jacobs ladder (live). Check video

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Rush  – Subdivisions
Label: Mercury  – RUSH 912
Format: Vinyl, 12″”
Country: UK
Released: 1982
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Prog Rock
Tracklist
A Subdivisions
B1 Red Barchetta (Live)
B2 Jacob Ladder (Live)

Producer – Rush, Terry Brown
Notes: Subdivisions’ taken from the album Signals’

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Rush ~ Subdivisions b/w Red Barchetta + Jacob’s Ladder. UK 12″ single Mercury Phonogram RUSH 912. Rare in any condition these days, but this copy has clearly been very carefully looked after by the previous owner. It would be a great final upgrade copy for Rush Collectors.

1.) Subdivisions
2.) red Barchetta
3.) Jacob ladder


If the first two Rush albums of the 80s showed the band becoming more streamlined in their writing, the third, 1982’s Signals, saw the band dive headfirst into the heady waters of new technology sweeping the decade. Predictably it didn’t sit too well with those hankering for Fountain Of Lamnethpart two, accusing the band of sounding like The Police on the single New World Man. The pulsating synth sound that drives Subdivisions on has become a staple of the band’s live shows. The song itself returns to themes of alienation present in Moving Pictures’ Limelight.

Absolutely one of our all-time favorite tracks from one of my all-time favorite bands! Rush is simply epic, and this snapshot of life in the 80 is oh so familiar. God I miss the 80s, the music, the videos, the good times.?

Ahhh, how this brings me back to the 80 as a kid watching MTV (when they actually played videos) and thinking hmm! Rush then and still today are by far the best three piece in rock history. Sorry Cream fans! I love them too but from a technical standpoint, nobody is better than Rush!


Jacob’s Ladder

Just to prove they hadn’t entirely broken with the past, Rush also featured a couple of epics on Permanent Waves. The best was Jacob’s Ladder, a song inspired by the natural phenomenon of the sunlight breaking through the clouds, itself an allegory for the Biblical vision of angels seen by Jacob.

Weaving through a myriad of time signatures, the song also nods towards the band’s fondness for Led Zeppelin, and despite Geddy Lee’s assertion on the R40 tour that the song hadn’t been performed live previously, it featured in the 1981 live album Exit… Stage Left.


Red Barchetta

Red Barchetta is here primarily because it highlights Neil Peart’s abilities as a story teller, which, as the 80s dawned, were taking on a more nuanced style. Here, inspired by Richard Foster’s 1973 short story A Nice Morning Drive, he tells the tale of a forbidden drive and high-speed chase, and the “gleaming alloy air car” always evoked memories of Luke Skywalker in his landspeeder. Barchetta, Italian for craft, also refers to two-seated vehicles in the motor world. Oh, it’s also got a killer riff.


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Weight 0.25 kg

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