Rush
YYZ is an instrumental showcase built around the Morse-code rhythm for Toronto's Pearson International Airport identifier, which…
homecoming and travel technical virtuosity Canadian identity
Traffic
This is a road-worn touring song, a loose, groove-driven complaint and celebration about the grind of life on the move. It…
touring exhaustion displacement vs. home alienation from ordinary life
Al Green
A young man addresses a train conductor directly, pleading for the impossible: reverse the train's direction so he can return to…
regret and reversal longing/separation loneliness
Cream
This is Cream's electrified rework of Robert Johnson's Delta blues standard, compressing the original's verses into a lean live…
isolation and abandonment desperation and pleading the crossroads as fate/damnation myth