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“Time Stand Still” by Rush
From the album Hold Your Fire (1987)
“Time Stand Still” by Rush appears on 13 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 1994 and 2025. It was first released in 1987 on the album Hold Your Fire. Its best result is #446 on the Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #1,974 classic rock song of all time.
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"Time Stand Still" led Rush's twelfth studio album, Hold Your Fire, out the door in 1987, and the Canadian prog band let an outside voice in: Aimee Mann sings lead alongside Geddy Lee. It was the first song Neil Peart wrote for the album, and his lyric looks back on the band's '70s, when life on the road flew by and friends and family got neglected. His answer is to stop and enjoy the moment without getting lost in the past.
Lee, also on bass and synthesizers, wrote the music with Alex Lifeson, Peart plays drums and percussion, and Peter Collins produced with the band. Zbigniew Rybczyński directed the video. It reached No. 3 on the US Mainstream Rock chart, and in June 2026 Mann joined Rush onstage to play it live, for the first time with no backing track.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
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All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 544 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 625 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 622 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 746 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 824 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
| 2002 | 940 | KISW | KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) | 999 |
| 2013 | 958 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Grand Jam 1000 (2013) | 1000 |
| 2014 | 924 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX 1K Countdown (2014) | 1000 |
| 2015 | 967 | 100.7 WZLX | 100.7 WZLX Top 1007 Classic Rock Countdown (2015) | 1007 |
| 2019 | 724 | 102.5 KZOK | KZOK Top 1025 of 2019 | 1025 |
| 2021 | 867 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2021) | 1043 |
| 2022 | 455 | 99.1 PLR | 99.1 PLR Big 500 (2022) | 500 |
| 2025 | 446 | Q104.3 | Q104.3 Top 1,043 Classic Rock Songs of All Time (2025) | 1043 |
Also listed as: Time Stands Still.
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