{"id":501,"date":"2010-03-11T20:05:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T03:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=501"},"modified":"2010-03-11T20:05:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T03:05:20","slug":"song-of-the-day-hemispheres-by-rush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Hemispheres” by Rush"},"content":{"rendered":"

YEAH!!!<\/p>\n

Man, this tune takes me back.\u00a0 All 18 minutes of it.\u00a0 See, I’m one of those weirdos who really likes long Progressive Rock songs.\u00a0 That might stem from all the symphonic Classical Music I listened to when I was growing up.\u00a0 It might also stem from the fact that I’m just a weirdo.<\/p>\n

I’m writing this as I sit on the bus going home from work, so I doubt I will find a YouTube link to share.\u00a0 We shall see about that.<\/p>\n

This song, from a 1978 album called “Hemispheres” is all about duality.\u00a0 And it tells a story too.\u00a0 Every picture tells a story donut<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>
\nThe specter of Rod Stewart haunts us all!<\/p>\n

Duality of mind, duality of spirit.\u00a0 Duality of philosophy.\u00a0 Cult of Personality<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No, actually.\u00a0 But Neil Peart, a very interesting and intelligent man, wrote these lyrics about Apollo and Dionysus vying for control over the fate of man.\u00a0 Should we get busy?\u00a0 Or should we party down?<\/p>\n

Let’s do both actually.\u00a0 This song even continues the last track from the previous album, 1977’s “A Farewell to Kings”.\u00a0 You see, (please read this in Bill Cosby<\/a>‘s voice) this man went through a black hole and ended up in Olympus with all the Greek gods.\u00a0 They were all LOL WTF?<\/p>\n

And he’s like “OH MY FUCKING GODS PLEASE DON’T BOIL ME IN A GIANT POT AND EAT ME ALTHOUGH YOU SURELY CAN”<\/p>\n

And they’re all “LOL, CHILL DUDE!”<\/p>\n

I’m not so sure Bill Cosby would have explained it like that.<\/p>\n

Bus stop, BRB.<\/p>\n

And here I am at home.<\/p>\n

Looky what I found!<\/p>\n

“Hemispheres” part 1<\/a><\/p>\n

“Hemispheres” part 2<\/a><\/p>\n

The first link is a live bootleg recording.\u00a0 Surprisingly good sound quality though.<\/p>\n

What the fuck was I going on about Bill Cosby up there for?\u00a0 Man, I say some stupid shit.\u00a0 If you have met me, you are nodding in agreement.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I got my Voivod t-shirt in the mail today.\u00a0 Zoy!\u00a0 I shall wear it tomorrow, and I shall end up saying “It says ‘Voivod’.\u00a0 It’s a band.” a lot.<\/p>\n

Where does the time go?\u00a0 Bedtime for me already.\u00a0 Meh.<\/p>\n

ZIP ZOP ZOOBITY BOP!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

YEAH!!! Man, this tune takes me back.\u00a0 All 18 minutes of it.\u00a0 See, I’m one of those weirdos who really likes long Progressive Rock songs.\u00a0 That might stem from all the symphonic Classical Music I listened to when I was growing up.\u00a0 It might also stem from the fact that I’m just a weirdo. I’m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[101,227,229,228],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-70s","tag-bill-cosby","tag-mythology","tag-rush"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}