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"Vital Signs" is a song by progressive rock band Rush. It is the closing track from their eighth studio album Moving Pictures. The lyrics of the song are about individuality and the pressures of conforming. [3]
"Subdivisions" is a song by Canadian progressive rock group, Rush, released as the second single from their 1982 album Signals. The song was released as a single in 1982. In the United States, it charted at No. 5 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
The Norm Show is an American television sitcom that ran on ABC from March 24, 1999, to April 6, 2001. Starting in September 1999, the show's title was shortened to Norm . [ 1 ] The series starred Norm Macdonald , who created the series with Bruce Helford .
The series premiered at midseason in 1999, on March 24, and ran for three seasons, airing new episodes through April 6, 2001. While titled The Norm Show during the show's first season, a legal conflict with Michael Jantze's comic strip The Norm forced the show's title to be shortened to simply Norm for the series' second and third seasons. [1]
Peart said that the lyrics are related to a tendency that people have for idealizing the lifestyle of others. People tend to imagine that those who are rich and famous are to be viewed as people who have fewer personal issues than ordinary people. However, he argues that every life has its own level of "toughness."
As is the case with a vast majority of Rush songs, Peart wrote the lyrics for this song. In an interview, he explained that "Show Don't Tell" is an example of his trend from the album Grace Under Pressure onward from writing concepts and abstractions to a more concrete, first-person viewpoint, or as he noted when interviewed a perspective with a "stance and a good attitude". [6]
The show also launched concert tours. After the show's first and second seasons completed filming, the cast toured around the country. In 2011, Glee: The 3D Concert Movie was released.
The song was a staple of Rush's live performances, having been played on every tour since its release, up until the Grace Under Pressure Tour, when it was removed. It was then brought back for the following two tours, and was then removed again for the Presto Tour. It was then put back in all further tour setlists, until the R40 Live Tour. [9] [13]