Song · Rush
“Driven” by Rush
From the album Test for Echo (1996)
“Driven” by Rush appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 1997. It was first released in 1996 on the album Test for Echo. Its best result is #13 on the WRCX Top 103 Songs of 1997. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #41 hard rock song of 1997 and #47 of the '90s.
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"Driven" sits on Test for Echo, the 1996 album from Canadian rock band Rush, and it's a bass player's song through and through. Geddy Lee built it on three separate bass tracks, laid down as placeholders until the guitar parts arrived, but when he played it for Alex Lifeson, the guitarist told him to leave all three in. Lee has said his answer was simply that he loved him.
The result is a low-end stampede, riffs stacked on riffs, with Lee, Lifeson and Neil Peart sharing the composing credit and Peter Collins producing. It was the third of five singles pulled from the album and climbed to No. 3 on the US Mainstream Rock chart, and Rush later put it on the compilation Retrospective 3 in 2009.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 13 | WRCX Rock 103.5 Chicago, IL | WRCX Top 103 Songs of 1997 | 103 |
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