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Rush – YYZ (4:26)

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“YYZ” (pronounced “Y-Y-Zed” Anglican, “Y-Y-Zee” American) is an instrumental rock piece by Canadian rock band Rush, from the 1981 album Moving Pictures. Following its initial release, it became one of the band’s most popular pieces and has been a staple of the band’s live performances. It appears on all live concert video recordings following its release (except R30 where it was performed during that show, but omitted from the DVD, and “Exit…Stage Left” concert DVD, where the song is not performed live, but rather used as a backdrop during a brief talk set by the band). It is also not on “All the World’s a Stage” due to it not having been released yet. On both the live album Exit…Stage Left (1981), and the concert video recording A Show of Hands (1989), a version of the track is played with drummer Neil Peart integrating his full-length drum solo. (On all later live Rush recordings featuring a drum solo, the solo is its own separate track.) This song also appeared as the 2nd last encore in the game Guitar Hero II and appears as a downloadable song for Rock Band, along with the rest of the Moving Pictures album.

YYZ is the IATA airport identification code for Toronto Pearson International Airport, of Rush’s native area of Toronto. It is common practice for air navigation aids to broadcast their identifier code in Morse Code using VHF omnidirectional range (VOR). A plane using VOR equipment would then always know it’s tracking the right station. The song’s introduction, played in a time signature of 5/4, repeatedly renders the letters “Y-Y-Z” in Morse Code using various musical arrangements.
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  • Moving Pictures
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  • Different Stages (disc 2)
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  • Rush in Rio (disc 1)
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  • Different Stages: Live
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  • TextureTank

    Excellent track. All members are superb.

    9 days ago

  • luciafaria19

    That bass...

    17 days ago

  • POOlgie

    100th Rush song!!!

    20 days ago

  • kemp678

    :o) amazing :o) no matter how many times I hear it! :o)

    21 days ago

  • Wuzzly

    My 2nd favorite instrumental, 1st being Call of Ktulu

    26 days ago

  • gleisdreieck

    Yao !!!!!

    last month

  • sebadagostino

    Epic Masterpiece

    last month

  • Haradadan

    This one always puts a smile on my face

    last month

  • gleeh0rt0n

    If im listening to yyz then i like villa better,but if im listening to villa then i like yyz better. its a very odd thing.

    last month

  • Distron

    Perfection Everywhere!!!

    March 2012

  • KingsAndQueen

    Favorite instrumental track of them so far.

    February 2012

  • nitehawk868

    Watch their DVD Rush In Rio....Look at the crowd in this video..... during the middle of this song......damn....!!!!!

    February 2012

  • nitehawk868

    Because Megatron-1 ....their will only ever be one Rush!!!!!!

    February 2012

  • xtwntraphq

    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥RUSH♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

    February 2012

  • davidbowiegirl

    Great <3

    February 2012

  • emerau7

    Damn I love this song!!

    February 2012

  • Distron

    Always amazed !!!

    January 2012

  • vinicorrea

    Best bass performance ever [4]

    January 2012

  • robotron_2084

    The bass production is to fucking kill for on this. Perfection!

    January 2012

  • kissesneverdie

    La Villa Stangiato > YYZ [2] Still one of the best instrumentals of all time.

    January 2012
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