1989Released
3:59

Did You Know?

Interesting facts and trivia about Anagram - 2004 Remaster. By Songfacts®.

Within each line of the song is a word that contains letters from another word. For example: "There is no safe SEAT at the FEAST Take your best STAB at the BEAST The NIGHT is wearing THIN The SAINT is turning to SIN"

Geddy Lee (from "Rush Profiled!"): "It doesn't really say one thing; it says a bunch of little things, and I think that's OK as long as it sounds good. You know, as long as it rolls off the tongue kind of thing? So I think different songs are different exercises, to a degree, and I think that if they feel like exercises, then there's something wrong with the song. But if they can slip by in a kind of cohesive and fluid way, or if the effect is to be disjoint, and sometimes that's what you're after. Sometimes you want it to be jarring and disjointed and nonsensical. I think it depends on what you're trying to do, and whether you've achieved it in your mind, and whether it actually worked, and 'Anagram,' I think, did work, even though it's a game - the whole song is a game. The choruses are quite smooth and quite interesting, and they have a nice sound to them and they kind of mock the whole song itself, so I think it was effective there."

(for Mongo) Is added to the name of this song title on the album. It's a joke from the movie Blazing Saddles, referring to the "Candygram for Mongo" scene, according to Geddy on Rockline, December 4, 1989.

Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Anagram - 2004 Remaster.
CKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
126BPM

Album

The album Anagram - 2004 Remaster is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Anagram - 2004 Remaster.
Atlantic Records
© 1989 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International for the world outside of the United States.
℗ 1989 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the United States and WEA International for the world outside of the United States.

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