10 Perfect Rock Songs That Were Written By Accident

In the world of prog rock, what Rush have been able to pull off from an instrumental standpoint almost feels superhuman. Only a band like these Canadian icons could get away with writing a song like Cygnus X1, which ends their album Farewell to Kings and doesn't resolve itself until the first song on their next record Hemispheres. That could be a lot to take in all at once though, and Rush got a little bit more accessible by copying what they heard at the airport.

During the sessions for Moving Pictures, the band were returning home to Toronto when Neil Peart started to pick up on the strange rhythm of the Morse Code as the plane was landing. With the rhythm still in his brain when they got to rehearsal, Neil and Geddy Lee originally envisioned this instrumental as just messing around as a two piece, while Alex Lifeson was out of the studio.

Listening back to what they had though, they turned it into one of their most adventurous instrumentals, almost capturing that feeling of hustle and bustle that comes with being in an airport, as well as the funky reggae breakdown with drum and bass trading off to fill in the gaps. While YYZ is known as the airport code of where they came from, this is the kind of song that is the closest they've come to writing an instrumental that you can actually sing along to.