Stick It Out (Rush song)

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"Stick It Out"
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Single by Rush
from the album Counterparts
ReleasedOctober 1993
Recorded1993
Genre Hard rock, grunge [1]
Length4:30
Label
Producer(s)
Rush singles chronology
"Ghost of a Chance"
(1992)		"Stick It Out"
(1993)		"Nobody's Hero"
(1994)

"Stick It Out" is a song and single by the band Rush from their 1993 album Counterparts . The song debuted at number one on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, becoming the band's only number one debut of their five chart-toppers. The song also reached number one on the RPM Cancon chart. [2]

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A music video was made for the song. It was briefly featured on an episode of Beavis and Butt-Head . It was also featured on the Retrospective III: 1989–2008 DVD included in the two-disc version.

Background

Drummer and lyricist Neil Peart said of the song:

It’s just a play on the words, really. "Stick It Out" meaning both a kind of arrogant display, 'stick it out', but also the endurance thing; if you have a difficult thing to endure, stick it out and you get to the end. It was the pun on both of those, really, so again the duality in the song is a bit leaning both ways. The sense of forbearance, of holding back, and also the idea of fortitude: stick it out, you know, survive. But that was more of a piece of fun. That song, I would say, both lyrically and musically, verges on parody, and that was one I think we just had fun with, and lyrically I certainly did, too. 'Stick it out' and 'spit it out' and all that was just a bit of word play. [3]

Lead singer and bassist Geddy Lee said:

I love the riff. It’s a great riff song. I love playing it, and it’s a very bass-heavy song, which always makes me happy. Lyrically, it’s kind of so-so. I don’t know. I think the best thing about it is the vibe and that it’s stripped down to a trio, back to doing riff rock. [4]

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Stick It Out"Neil PeartLee, Lifeson4:30

Personnel

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Author Names Only Rush Song Inspired by Grunge, Talks How Band Felt About Hair Metal".
  2. ↑ "Canadian Content (Cancon) - Volume 58, No. 18 Nov 13, 1993". RPM . Retrieved July 15, 2021.{{cite magazine}}: Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  3. ↑ "Stick It Out". 13 February 2011.
  4. ↑ "Stick It Out". 13 February 2011.


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