For My Sunday Song #384, we have Tim’s fourth choice with “You Can’t Fight It” by Rush. This is about as early as you can get with Rush and isn’t on any studio album. It is the first professional studio recording the band had ever done. It was done in Toronto, Canada with David Stock producing. In fact, this is part of the very first single the band ever put out with the song “Not Fade Away” which is a great Buddy Holly cover. But we are here to talk about the B-Side which was written by Geddy Lee and then drummer, John Rutsey.

It was written back in 1971 by the two gents, but Geddy ended up getting kicked out of the band, but cooler heads prevailed and John called Geddy and asked him to come back and by March of 1972, the band was set and ready to progress forward. No one would release the record so the band formed Moon Records and released it themselves, mainly in Toronto. It is extremely rare and a probably worth a fortune if you can actually find one. There is one for sale on Discogs as of my writing this for $1,500 if that gives you any idea of the value.

The song seems to be about the band just rocking you hard and you won’t be able to fight it. The song is short at under 3 minutes because according to Alex Lifeson, radio would only play songs that were around 3 minutes. A song that completely and utterly rocks out. A great bar sounding song with some wicked guitar riffs and soloing by Alex. Just Stellar!! John’s drum rolls on this song were killer as well as he would go nuts during his fills. Both Alex and John fed off each other with this one. Geddy’s vocals were perfect for this song as well as he slayed with the confidence and cockiness needed for a beast of a rock song. This might be a new favorite song of mine for Rush. Simply fantastic!!

Give the song a listen and let me know what you think? Have you ever heard this one before? I hadn’t and I absolutely love it! Thanks to Tim Durling from Tim’s Vinyl Confessions  for picking this track. Go check out his YouTube channel for some great content, you won’t be disappointed. Thanks for stopping by and I hope you all have a Happy Sunday.

“You Can’t Fight It”

Rock and roll ’til you lose control
Go down, fall down, not too far
You can’t fight it! You can’t fight it!

Now that you move you can do my part of pounding!

Well rock your shoes ’til you lose your cool
Shake your soul, yeah, lose control, yeah
You can’t fight it! You can’t fight it!

Now we are gonna see some real pounding!

Well I said yeah!

Rock and roll ’til you lose control
Go down, fall down, not too far
You can’t fight it! You can’t fight it!

Now we are going to see some real pounding!

Written by Geddy Lee and John Rutsey