Natural Science (song)

"Natural Science"
Neil Peart's handwritten lyrics sheet for "Natural Science"
Suite by Rush
from the album Permanent Waves
Released	14 January 1980 [1]
Recorded	1979
Studio	Le Studio (Quebec)
Genre	Progressive rock [2] hard rock
Length	9:20
Label	Mercury
Composer(s)	Geddy Lee Alex Lifeson
Lyricist(s)	Neil Peart
Producer(s)	Rush Terry Brown
Rush suite chronology
"La Villa Strangiato" (1978) "Natural Science" (1980) "The Camera Eye" (1981)

"Natural Science" is a suite of three movements ("Tide Pools", "Hyperspace" and "Permanent Waves") by the Canadian rock band Rush. It was released as the final track on their 1980 album, Permanent Waves .

Background

Guitarist Alex Lifeson said:

Once we had the guitar track down, we stuck a speaker cabinet outside—this was up at the studio in Morin Heights, Quebec—and we recorded the natural echo off the mountains in combination with the sound of splashing water and Geddy's voice. We didn't use any sort of synthetic echo on the water track. ^[3]

Parts

No.	Title	Starts at (approx.)	Length
1.	"Tide Pools"	0:00	2:18
2.	"Hyperspace"	2:19	2:49
3.	"Permanent Waves"	5:09	4:08
Total length:			9:20

References

1. "About Permanent Waves". Rush.com. Retrieved 1 January 2016.
2. Murphy, Sean (22 May 2011). "The 25 Best Progressive Rock Songs of All Time". PopMatters . Retrieved 30 January 2019.
3. "Natural Science". 5 February 2011.

Further reading

• Berti, Jim; Bowman, Durrell (2011). Reisch, George A. (ed.). Rush and philosophy: heart and mind united. Popular Culture and Philosophy. Vol. 57. Open Court Publishing Company. ISBN   9780812697162.
• Popoff, Martin (2017). Rush: Album by Album. Voyageur Press (The Quarto Group). ISBN   9780760357699.