SecondNatureRush.ogg (Ogg Vorbis sound file, length 26 s, 109 kbps, file size: 345 KB)

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Description A 26-second portion near the start of Canadian rock band Rush's Hold Your Fire deepcut "Second Nature" (1987).
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Anthem Records
Source (WP:NFCC#4) Hold Your Fire
Date of publication September 8, 1987
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7) Second Nature (Rush song)
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8) The 26-second clip presents several important aspects of the song discussed in the article in one:
  • The song's multiple genres: the pop rock of the chorus, the new age in the keyboard sounds, the world music in its African percussion and Asian flute and the heavy usage of keyboards typical of Hold Your Fire
  • Some of the song's lyrics about environmental and making a compromise.
  • Lee's soft baritone singing
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The software or website from which the screenshot is taken is copyrighted and not released under a free license, so creation of a free image is not possible.
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textual coverage because
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The song and only the copyrighted song can illustrate itself, nothing else. To try to present the music with a completely different recorded version would mislead readers.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3) This will ONLY be used in the article about the song this audio file is a snippet of.
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The use of a low resolution screenshot from software or a website will not impact the commercial viability of the software or site.
Other information (c) 1987 Anthem Records. "Second Nature" was lyrically written by drummer Neil Peart and composed by bassist and lead vocalist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson.
Fair useFair use of copyrighted material in the context of Second Nature (Rush song)//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SecondNatureRush.oggtrue

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current15:52, 10 February 202526 s (345 KB)HumanxAnthro (talk | contribs)Audio is now 27 seconds. Apparently now it has to be 10% of the song instead of just 30 seconds max. These new rules, man.
23:13, 9 February 2025No thumbnail30 s (185 KB)HumanxAnthro (talk | contribs)Uploading an excerpt from a non-free work using File Upload Wizard

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