Subdivisions (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Subdivisions


Artist = Rush
from Album = Signals
Released = 1982
Format =
Recorded =
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 5:33
Label = Mercury Records
Producer =
Writer = Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, Neil Peart
Chart position =

#3 (Modern Rock Tracks)

Last single = "New World Man" (1982)
This single = "Subdivisions" (1982)
Next single = "The Analog Kid" (1982)Extra tracklisting
Album = Signals
Type = studio
prev_track = Beginning of Album
prev_no =
this_track = "Subdivisions"
track_no = Track 1
next_track = "The Analog Kid"
next_no = Track 2

"Subdivisions" is a Rush song that describes peer pressure for teenage life in the suburbs.

"Subdivisions" was released on the 1982 album "Signals". Aside from being a perennial fan favourite and a staple of live performances, the song appears on several greatest hits compilations, was released as a single in 1982, and despite doing little serious business in the UK charts, it gained a lot of radio airplay in Britain at the time.Fact|date=July 2008 In the US, it charted at #8 on the Album/Mainstream rock charts.Fact|date=July 2008 It was also played live prior to its release. Pre-release live versions exist on the internet. Geddy Lee plays an Oberheim OB-X synthesizer, and the two synthesizer solos were done on a Minimoog.

Video

The promotional video scenes were filmed in the Toronto area. The downtown scenes were filmed in downtown Toronto, while the suburbs scenes were filmed in Scarborough, Ontario, near Warden and Finch Avenues. The high school scenes were filmed at L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute, in the same area. The video also features scenes of the Don Valley Parkway and a busy TTC subway station. The student that walks downtown in the video is Dave Glover, a student at the L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute at the time. Near the end of the video, Glover is seen playing the video game Tempest at an arcade, which was reportedly his favourite video game at the time.Fact|date=July 2008