I'm very drawn to Xanadu live but each time at the end I get a bit emotional because I know that I will be experiencing that one less time before I take my ride into whatever TF is awaiting...(Question: When the baby is born...and it's liquid world is ending....does the baby think it's being born....or that it's dying?)
Watch their Rio concert (the whole thing is on TH-cam), and listen to Portuguese speaking people sing every word to every song, it definitely shows how much love around the world there is for this amazing band
I remember when & where I was when I was 1st entranced by RUSH...Late spring day 1976 me a bud skipped school & both his parents worked so we hung out in his basement Toking & Drinking the day away when my bud says "wanna hear the new album my brother just bought"...MIND BLOWN & I swear 2112 rewired & changed my brain chemistry & although other Bands have come & gone from my playlist over the decades RUSH has been the only musical constant for the past 48+ years...I am 64 years old now & RUSH sounds as awesome today as it did way back when...
@@Mt.MoreRUSH thank you for sharing that memory, I’m so glad you had those experiences with this phenomenal band that left a profound impression on you🙏🏼
Similar experience myself . Getting high and just being immersed in the lyric. Changed a 17 year old kids opinion of the world . Had the fortune of seeing them a dozen times . Greetings from YYZ 🇨🇦
And to think how young they were when they created this!🤯As a 60 year old man that has been listening to RUSH since I was 13 it makes me happy to see young people discovering the greatness! Rock on!!!!
Now, sit down and spend some time with the album jacket...like we did back when this originally came out. Then listen to it straight through a few hundred times. This is why we old Rush fans are so damned fired up about watching all you young folks discover "our band"!
I had just started listening to Rush in 1980 when I was 13, and I first heard this album a year later in 81. Not only did it change me from a fan to a fanatic, it more or less changed how I listened to music.
@@stevedockeray I have to agree. I, similarly, have been rockin' to Rush since high school, in my case once I caught their 1st album in '74. All their stuff is special, they're so talented, but their heavy stuff is the best. I'd like to add, though, that on more than one occasion throughout the subsequent three decades an album would contain a surprise hearkening back to their initial heavier '70s work. In that vein, I really enjoy, and recommend, Headlong Flight from their final album Clockwork Angels. (If anybody wants to check it out, there's a superbly appropriate and cool fan-released music video on TH-cam, themed on wingsuit action. It's a …. head rush ... no doubt. 🤭)
@@edanielgreen Yes have to agree - & Farewell to Kings was a 1977 Christmas gift in 8 track form for the Craig 8 track player in my 1968 Falcon Sports Coupe
Rush did 2112, because the record company wanted Radio friendly songs! Glad you enjoyed the album, seeing this live was a RUSH!! 😀👌👍✌ Hello from Nova Scotia, Canada!
I think it's time for you to see one of Neil's live drum solos; my favourite is Malignant Narcissism/De Slagwerker from the Snakes And Arrows Tour. Have a great evening, and Rush on! 🎤 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎸 🐐 🐐 🐐
It was a F.U. to the recording Industry & how their record Label wanted them to produce music for the Average person ( Like the Priests wanted ) . So this Album is their reply to their Label .
Dec 31,1978 Maple Leaf Gardens ,Toronto 🍁. One of the greatest Rush concerts ever 2112 in its entirety plus a bunch more . One of a dozen X . RIP Professor Greetings from YYZ 🇨🇦
There’s lots of transitions in the opening because it’s a true symphonic overture. The overture was typically the opening movement in an opera or orchestral suite. It was a medley that would introduce the audience to the primary musical motifs that would come in later movements. When you go back and listen to it again, it’s fun to try and figure out which part is being played during the opening.
I was born the year Rush formed. I grew up through grade school jamming to rock & roll with my older brother and sister, in high school at the time, either on the family console hi-fi at home when the parents were away, or when they gave me rides in their first car (they went 50/50 sharing), a 1968, metallic maroon Ford Galaxy 500 muscle car with chrome side-pipes. They turned me onto all the best rock, Zeppelin, AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Kansas, Boston, Van Halen, Supertramp Styx, Yes, Genesis, Jetro Tull, etc, I was meant to be a life long Rush fan, who was supposed to have gone to at least one concert for every album from when I was old enough to do such things. The thing I've always been denied. An early promise that somehow died. But for some reason my bro and sis never listened to Rush, unless it was on the radio, and that was a rarity, since Rush "radio friendly" singles, like Tom Sawyer, The Spirit of Radio, Freewill, Closer to the Heart, Fly By Night, Limelight, Red Barchetta, were a rarity to hear even on the radio. But that was about it, A few of their songs spanning their first decade, a couple more from the late 80's early 90's. But hearing all of these songs on the radio took place over a decade. I just figured that must be all their good material, and though I loved it all, I wasn't going to go buy albums for one or two great songs and a bunch of average run-of-the-mill songs not good enough to even be played on the radio. My brother and sister didn't own any Rush albums either. For forty years of my life (not counting the grade-school years) I thought I knew what and who was the best Rock and Roll bands and the best of rock and roll music was, through the 80's, 90's and 2000's. I kept up with the times and listen to bands like Tool, Dream Theatre, Alice in Chains, Sound Garden, Stone Temple Pilots, Staind, Foo-Fighters, etc. A true connoisseur of everything Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Prog Rock, Prog Metal. I suppose I better mention a couple of Metal bands too, like Iron Maiden, Slayer, Metallica, etc., just to round things out a bit more. Then during the pandemic, I rediscovered Rush through TH-cam, and soon learned I almost missed out on the TRUE Rush. That I had almost missed out on the greatest Prog Rock/Prog Metal band of all time, with the greatest rocking trio of all time in Alex, Neil and Geddy Lee. I thought I knew what greatness in rock was, like the classic composers Beethoven, Straus, Mozart of Old. I thought I knew the worlds greatest, but I was ignorant, completely and utterly ignorant and lost in the world of music. Oh what a fool I was, falling for illusions once again. The moment of true clarity came just a few short years ago when I first stumbled upon, and heard 2112 at the age of 53. Since then my musical life has exploded just like the Grand Finale...Rush has assumed control, Rush has assumed control, Rush has assumed control (musically speaking). Like 'The Discovery' of the guitar in 2112, so was my true discovery of Rush through 2112. But, that does not mean that 2112 is Rush's best, arguably, yes, but not necessarily what I consider their best, It's hard to have favorite songs or albums with Rush, because it turns out, every time you hear one of the 178+ Rush songs spanning 20 albums, the current song and album you are listening to seems to become your favorite, until you hear the next. They never failed to surprise me, until I finally heard them all any way. Now I just listen in continual awe and relive the first times vicariously through reaction videos like yours. Because 99% of reactions have the same reactions I did. But now I have had several years listening to and studying Rush, Master's degree equivalent knowledge of Rush, now owning 90% of their discography, the analog HQ vinyl albums, the limited edition and box set re-releases that cost a small fortune each. But though I wouldn't have as large a collection, if I could buy Rush albums on studio-grade reel-to-reel analog tape, but it doesn't exist. Yes, I have a reel-to-reel recorder/player. Matt @mattbaker5757
@@mattbaker5757 Matt, thank you so much for always taking the time to comment and share your experiences! This is awesome, I’m glad that you share a massive love for rock and metal music ever since you were old enough to listen too it! I hope you were able to make it to as many shows as possible while they toured! I’m also glad that TH-cam and 2112 were able to reignite and reinvigorate your passion for this band! They truly are amazing and you can tell that everyone who came after them was heavily influenced! Thank you for sharing all of that, thankful to have you apart of the community. Hope you enjoy the Rush videos as well as all the other awesome bands we will be diving into:)
As the saying goes "Better Late Then Never"...I have always thought that their penchant for Song lengths of 5 minutes+ was the main obstacle to getting the Radio Airplay that "The 3 Men of Willowdale" most assuredly deserved...
I made my 15 year old son skip school for a lottery on front row center stage for rush . Got them and took the whole family, was my 5 time seeing them but having the boys right in front of Geddy Lee was something we all will never forget
Summer, 1976: I'd just bought this newly released album by Rush and had immediately copied it to cassette. I was very careful with my vinyl back in the day, usually only played once, for copying; well, actually, copied again ≈15 years later when CD burners came out. Anyway, it was a beautiful warm July afternoon, I'd just graduated from high school, was plannin' to party the short summer away then fly off to attend Royal Military College (🇨🇦) the next month, and I was washin' my car in my parent's driveway. Blasting from my rear dashboard Jensen Triaxials (anybody remember those? I was the envy of all my buddies! 😁) out the open windows and trunk was this: 2112. I was in bliss. 'Tis a memory that is forever cemented in my brain! 🤟😊 I knew you'd love it! 🤘
@@edanielgreen thank you for sharing that experience and memory! I am so happy this band and this album left you a lifelong memory! It will be playing in my truck tomorrow😎 thank you for taking the time to write that all out! Glad you enjoyed the video as well my friend:)
💪Masterpiece is the perfect word to describe this epic composition! RUSHs' record label was threatening to part ways with the band if they didn't start writing more "commercial" songs. They responded with this Progressive opus! 😄
It's particularly gratifying to see this album being reacted to and enjoyed by people going on 50 years after it's release. It wasn't really well received by `critics` at the time. It was the fans that refused to let it, or Rush go. Here we are all these years later with the album being considered one of the top iconic albums of all time, and who were those critics again?
At the end, the voice says "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation". Seven words, and it is said three times. So 21. Then the voice says "We have assumed control." three times. Four words, three times is 12. Hence the title 2112.
We have consumed a troll! We have consumed a troll! 😁 Thanks for the reaction. The story behind it: On the Clockwork Angel's tour in NJ at the end of 2112 when the song ends with, "We have assumed control", Alex pointed out to Neil a person in the crowd holding a banner that read: "WE HAVE CONSUMED A TROLL," which caused Neil to burst into laughter. 😂
At 5:58 of your video…Alex plays the the most recognizable section of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. (the final). 2112 - 1812 = 300 yrs. Welcome to the RUSH family…enjoy the ride! More like movements…less like tracks.
An interesting side note The last words "Attention all planets of the solar federation" is spoken 3 times as is "We have assumed control" 7 words 3 times =21 4 words 3 times =12 2112
It’s funny to me that newer Rush fans will listen to this song, and earlier sons …. And also listen to their classic 80’s tunes…… but then hear their last album and wonder why it is so heavy. That’s because their roots are heavy. To a lifelong Rush fan nothung on clockwork angels is surprising, but rather a comfortable sit down with old friends .
Ric, Rush's 3rd album had a couple long, saga tracks. The album didn't sell well, so the record company told Rush to stop making those long songs and just make regular, radio songs. So, their 4th album was...2112. 😂 That's what's called a big, middle finger to the boss.
They were basically just kids here. What 23yos are writing shit like this lol. So supremely talented at a young age. They were prog when prog was popular. They changed with the times for decades after this. They were only prog from like 75-78. After that they stayed complex but changed as music changed around them.
@ they were very unique right from the start. Thats why their popularity has endured all these decades later. I met geddy at his book signing in NJ in 2018. He was 68 at the time. There was a couple thousand ppl there in the freezing cold wanting to see him and some of them were crying like hes michael jackson lmao. Rush has had a huge impact on generations of people. For a band so complex, intellectual and nerdy in ways they have left a huge imprint on music. They deserve all the success they had
0:58 my suggestion is to hear a song furctge first time as the studio recording. Thatvusxwhwrvthe band carefully crafted to be remembered by. Then subsequent live versions are a joy to hear to hear how they olay it live without layers and mixed tracks . One exception: the live version of Xanadu from the Exit stage Left video .
This is one of the heaviest Rush songs and is truly an epic in every sense. Interestingly, they returned to their heavy sound at the end of their career. There is a great live version of the song 'Caravan' from their Time Machine tour. It shows that they never lost that heavy and intense quality to their music.
@@sarastromseth-troy3323 I love that they kind of just have it all, melodic, heavy, groovy, pulled back, and all of it sounds amazing! Nice to see you in here again, thanks for the support! Hope you enjoyed the reaction as well:)
My second favorite of their side long epics next to Cygnus X1 book ll hopefully you will react to that and The Fountain Of Lamneth each is amazing in their own right. Attention all planets of the solar federation Seven words repeated three times =21 We have assumed control Four words repeated three times =12 2112. 😊
@@Fred-vy1hm thanks for all the information letting me know that’s how the song got its name, that’s badass! I’ll definitely do my best to get that video up!
From 1980 to 1985 they released 5 albums and they are ALL BRILLIANT in my opinion. Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, Grace under pressure and Power Windows. There is but a few songs (3 or 4) in there that are not Hall of fame worthy songs but the rest is stellar in every possible way.
@@jacquesjrviens3384 thanks for the insight and recommendations, definitely will be checking more out from these albums, hope to see you around the channel🙏🏼
There are a few 'better', more inciteful, or technically brilliant Rush releases, but without doubt it is legendary and THE most important piece of music because this gave them the latitude to do whatever they wanted from this time forward. I also think this is Geddy's best vocals in his career. By the way... That is Neil doing the voiceover when the Elder Race returns at the end.
🙋🏿♀️ May I suggest 💦 'Natural Science' and/or 📸 'The Camera Eye'. 🏎️🚓🚓 'Red Barchetta' is another Rush song that takes you on a fun/interesting journey. 🖖🏿🥰🐰
excellent reaction Ric. VI soliloquy stays with me since 1977 the whole is a masterpiece. the next elevated masterpiece, in my opinion is hemispheres has 70s technology but the sound, they were looking for fits just right for the super lyric's sure you'll love, like this also. next time
Wow! You are doing the big dog! 2112! Yeah, boy! You should listen to Clockwork Angels after this. It's their final album and heavy like 2112. Honestly I don't know which I like better.
Here's the basic story behind 2112. Their record label Mercury wanted them to do radio friendly songs. This was a protest. They said we're not doing this for you. We're doing it for us. So they made the first half of the record all one song (kinda) and gave them the finger and created this MASTERPIECE This is the story of that battle. Neil Peart, after he joined the band, wrote all of the lyrics to Rush music. We lost our GOAT. He's playing for GOD now. 😇That was the last time I cried (Sorry Christine. When Stevie goes I'm going to lose it) I'm jealous because you have the cool earphones like I had with my old turntable in the day. Now all I have is my little computer speaker. This version has the cool graphics telling the story, in the 1970s we were hit with both barrels(3?) with this, and only our imagination. " Listen to my music". "Hear what it can do". "Tere's something here as strong as life". "I know it will reach you." Thank you so much for making this GOAT enjoyable again. Happy belated 4/20.
Thank you for all the information and support on the channel! It’s always great to have more insight and information about this amazing band! Thankful that you are able to reminisce and enjoy the music with me:) there’s a new video up now if Led Zeppelin peaks your interest, but I’ll definitely be uploading more Rush soon!
Rush is number 1 !!!! Check out Middletown Dreams from the 1985 album Power Windows which is one of their best. Not a single bad song on the record. All cohesive and thematic, Brilliant music, greater lyrics... Magical.
2112 was RUSH's FU response to the record label execs that were demanding their next album sound more like Bad Company or they would be dropped. The whole song is an allegory for the situation: The label execs are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx, the record companies are the Solar Federation, the musicians who came before record companies seized control over popular music are the Elder Race, and our protagonist is RUSH. They're telling the execs "listen to our music and hear what it can do" who respond with "it doesn't fit the plan", they decide they would sooner kill the band than play mediocre music night after night on tour so they announced "attention all record companies, we have assumed control" and recorded what they wanted instead. If the record flopped, they were done and that would be that. Well, it sure didn't flop! The label execs backed off and RUSH flipped them another bird by forming their own label Anthem and dropping them, assuming total creative control. Fearless badasses from the very beginning! And we listened to their music, and heard what it can do! What a ride it's been!
Yeah, so the record company said we need lots of radio play singles 3-4 minutes long, or you're done. Rush said, no we're going to go out doing what we do. HOwever, the B side contains a lot of radio play songs. The rest, as they say, is history........
Don't sleep on side 2. I don't know who gave you the impression it was a smash hit. It was too long for radio in total but Temple of Syrinx got some play. What it really was is a middle finger to their record label who wanted a more commercial album full of singles so they made sure to go the opposite way for side 1 at least.
I was going to suggest the animated version. It gives you an idea of what the song is about. I'm sure someone has already told you that the song has two messages. It's a metaphor for the record company (they are the priests) and it's a song about a dystopian communist society and the struggle for freedom. Eventually, you need to do Cygnus X-1 book 1 of of farewell to kings and Cygnus X-1 book 2 of off Hemispheres. They also have animated video you should do when you review those incredible songs. You can do a two part video.
There’s lots of transitions in the opening because it’s a true symphonic overture. The overture was typically the opening movement in an opera or orchestral suite. It was a medley that would introduce the audience to the primary musical motifs that would come in later movements. When you go back and listen to it again, it’s fun to try and figure out which part is being played during the opening.
This isn't a song, its a once in a lifetime experience
That you can experience over and over My first was in the late 70s
@@garya7893 FWIW I've been to 11 RUSH concerts. They only played this twice.
I'm very drawn to Xanadu live but each time at the end I get a bit emotional because I know that I will be experiencing that one less time before I take my ride into whatever TF is awaiting...(Question: When the baby is born...and it's liquid world is ending....does the baby think it's being born....or that it's dying?)
This isn't a song. This is... music! :-)
Welcome to the RUSH family. The most talented humble band with the most loyal fans ever! Keep going, there is A LOT more amazing music!
@@robrodarme1730 love the community and band, thanks for letting me join the Rush family:)
Watch their Rio concert (the whole thing is on TH-cam), and listen to Portuguese speaking people sing every word to every song, it definitely shows how much love around the world there is for this amazing band
I remember when & where I was when I was 1st entranced by RUSH...Late spring day 1976 me a bud skipped school & both his parents worked so we hung out in his basement Toking & Drinking the day away when my bud says "wanna hear the new album my brother just bought"...MIND BLOWN & I swear 2112 rewired & changed my brain chemistry & although other Bands have come & gone from my playlist over the decades RUSH has been the only musical constant for the past 48+ years...I am 64 years old now & RUSH sounds as awesome today as it did way back when...
@@Mt.MoreRUSH thank you for sharing that memory, I’m so glad you had those experiences with this phenomenal band that left a profound impression on you🙏🏼
Similar experience myself . Getting high and just being immersed in the lyric. Changed a 17 year old kids opinion of the world . Had the fortune of seeing them a dozen times .
Greetings from YYZ 🇨🇦
HA! .. very very similar story for me as well!
And to think how young they were when they created this!🤯As a 60 year old man that has been listening to RUSH since I was 13 it makes me happy to see young people discovering the greatness! Rock on!!!!
@@patcandelora8496 amazing how young they were, unbelievable! Thanks for the channel support!
Now, sit down and spend some time with the album jacket...like we did back when this originally came out. Then listen to it straight through a few hundred times. This is why we old Rush fans are so damned fired up about watching all you young folks discover "our band"!
I had just started listening to Rush in 1980 when I was 13, and I first heard this album a year later in 81. Not only did it change me from a fan to a fanatic, it more or less changed how I listened to music.
@@jimtatro6550 I could only imagine!
been listening to this since it's release -- 70s Rush is the heaviest Rush & my Fav era .
@@stevedockeray I love to hear that, I need more of this haha🤟🏼
@@stevedockeray I have to agree. I, similarly, have been rockin' to Rush since high school, in my case once I caught their 1st album in '74. All their stuff is special, they're so talented, but their heavy stuff is the best. I'd like to add, though, that on more than one occasion throughout the subsequent three decades an album would contain a surprise hearkening back to their initial heavier '70s work. In that vein, I really enjoy, and recommend, Headlong Flight from their final album Clockwork Angels. (If anybody wants to check it out, there's a superbly appropriate and cool fan-released music video on TH-cam, themed on wingsuit action. It's a …. head rush ... no doubt. 🤭)
@@edanielgreen Yes have to agree - & Farewell to Kings was a 1977 Christmas gift in 8 track form for the Craig 8 track player in my 1968 Falcon Sports Coupe
Rush did 2112, because the record company wanted Radio friendly songs! Glad you enjoyed the album, seeing this live was a RUSH!! 😀👌👍✌ Hello from Nova Scotia, Canada!
@@stephenpublicover8818 nice to see you again Stephen! Thanks for the support! I could imagine this Live would be insane!!
I've listened to rush for 40 plus yrs. This is only my second time I listen to this track. Great job on the reaction vidz.
@@johnaragon2182 thank you for the support, I’m glad we were able to enjoy this track together!🙏🏼
A classic experience
@@charlesmclaughlin3578 🫡❤️
Canada should have a Mount Rushmore with the members of Rush of course 👍
@@cbf63 haha love this😂🙏🏼
I think it's time for you to see one of Neil's live drum solos; my favourite is Malignant Narcissism/De Slagwerker from the Snakes And Arrows Tour. Have a great evening, and Rush on!
🎤 🎹 🎸 🥁 🎸 🐐 🐐 🐐
@@lindaward5376 thanks for the support as always Linda! I’ll do my best to check those out:)
The album was released in March of 1976. Rush's fourth record.
2112 rescued RUSH’s career!
This reaction makes me so happy. 2112 is just an amazing piece of music. Thanks Ric.
Thanks for the support always:) glad you enjoyed! New reaction posted today🙏🏼
Hey Rick, Check-out another 3-man Canadian Rock Band "Triumph" Great live band too!!😀👌👍✌
Agreed - Triumph is well worth a listen.
@@stephenpublicover8818 thanks for the suggestion and support as always!
It was a F.U. to the recording Industry & how their record Label wanted them to produce music for the Average person ( Like the Priests wanted ) . So this Album is their reply to their Label .
2112 🍿🥤 Let's Go! 🖖🏿🥰🐰
@@stevedockeray love it, lyrical and musical geniuses who listened to each other and no others, quiet amazing!
The engineering in this song makes it a masterpiece.
@@michaelschroeck2254 I could only imagine, it is a masterpiece!
You absolutely did this the right way
@@scottlaughlin9897 thank you Scott, I appreciate that🙏🏼🙏🏼
Dec 31,1978 Maple Leaf Gardens ,Toronto 🍁. One of the greatest Rush concerts ever 2112 in its entirety plus a bunch more . One of a dozen X .
RIP Professor
Greetings from YYZ 🇨🇦
There’s lots of transitions in the opening because it’s a true symphonic overture. The overture was typically the opening movement in an opera or orchestral suite. It was a medley that would introduce the audience to the primary musical motifs that would come in later movements. When you go back and listen to it again, it’s fun to try and figure out which part is being played during the opening.
@@matthewhoag2609 I’ll definitely try to pick up on this on my next listens🙏🏼🙏🏼
I was born the year Rush formed. I grew up through grade school jamming to rock & roll with my older brother and sister, in high school at the time, either on the family console hi-fi at home when the parents were away, or when they gave me rides in their first car (they went 50/50 sharing), a 1968, metallic maroon Ford Galaxy 500 muscle car with chrome side-pipes. They turned me onto all the best rock, Zeppelin, AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Kansas, Boston, Van Halen, Supertramp Styx, Yes, Genesis, Jetro Tull, etc,
I was meant to be a life long Rush fan, who was supposed to have gone to at least one concert for every album from when I was old enough to do such things. The thing I've always been denied. An early promise that somehow died. But for some reason my bro and sis never listened to Rush, unless it was on the radio, and that was a rarity, since Rush "radio friendly" singles, like Tom Sawyer, The Spirit of Radio, Freewill, Closer to the Heart, Fly By Night, Limelight, Red Barchetta, were a rarity to hear even on the radio. But that was about it, A few of their songs spanning their first decade, a couple more from the late 80's early 90's. But hearing all of these songs on the radio took place over a decade. I just figured that must be all their good material, and though I loved it all, I wasn't going to go buy albums for one or two great songs and a bunch of average run-of-the-mill songs not good enough to even be played on the radio. My brother and sister didn't own any Rush albums either.
For forty years of my life (not counting the grade-school years) I thought I knew what and who was the best Rock and Roll bands and the best of rock and roll music was, through the 80's, 90's and 2000's. I kept up with the times and listen to bands like Tool, Dream Theatre, Alice in Chains, Sound Garden, Stone Temple Pilots, Staind, Foo-Fighters, etc. A true connoisseur of everything Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Prog Rock, Prog Metal. I suppose I better mention a couple of Metal bands too, like Iron Maiden, Slayer, Metallica, etc., just to round things out a bit more.
Then during the pandemic, I rediscovered Rush through TH-cam, and soon learned I almost missed out on the TRUE Rush. That I had almost missed out on the greatest Prog Rock/Prog Metal band of all time, with the greatest rocking trio of all time in Alex, Neil and Geddy Lee. I thought I knew what greatness in rock was, like the classic composers Beethoven, Straus, Mozart of Old. I thought I knew the worlds greatest, but I was ignorant, completely and utterly ignorant and lost in the world of music. Oh what a fool I was, falling for illusions once again.
The moment of true clarity came just a few short years ago when I first stumbled upon, and heard 2112 at the age of 53. Since then my musical life has exploded just like the Grand Finale...Rush has assumed control, Rush has assumed control, Rush has assumed control (musically speaking). Like 'The Discovery' of the guitar in 2112, so was my true discovery of Rush through 2112. But, that does not mean that 2112 is Rush's best, arguably, yes, but not necessarily what I consider their best, It's hard to have favorite songs or albums with Rush, because it turns out, every time you hear one of the 178+ Rush songs spanning 20 albums, the current song and album you are listening to seems to become your favorite, until you hear the next. They never failed to surprise me, until I finally heard them all any way. Now I just listen in continual awe and relive the first times vicariously through reaction videos like yours. Because 99% of reactions have the same reactions I did.
But now I have had several years listening to and studying Rush, Master's degree equivalent knowledge of Rush, now owning 90% of their discography, the analog HQ vinyl albums, the limited edition and box set re-releases that cost a small fortune each. But though I wouldn't have as large a collection, if I could buy Rush albums on studio-grade reel-to-reel analog tape, but it doesn't exist. Yes, I have a reel-to-reel recorder/player.
Matt
@mattbaker5757
@@mattbaker5757 Matt, thank you so much for always taking the time to comment and share your experiences! This is awesome, I’m glad that you share a massive love for rock and metal music ever since you were old enough to listen too it! I hope you were able to make it to as many shows as possible while they toured!
I’m also glad that TH-cam and 2112 were able to reignite and reinvigorate your passion for this band! They truly are amazing and you can tell that everyone who came after them was heavily influenced! Thank you for sharing all of that, thankful to have you apart of the community. Hope you enjoy the Rush videos as well as all the other awesome bands we will be diving into:)
As the saying goes "Better Late Then Never"...I have always thought that their penchant for Song lengths of 5 minutes+ was the main obstacle to getting the Radio Airplay that "The 3 Men of Willowdale" most assuredly deserved...
I made my 15 year old son skip school for a lottery on front row center stage for rush . Got them and took the whole family, was my 5 time seeing them but having the boys right in front of Geddy Lee was something we all will never forget
@@trevorhagen6612 totally worth the core memory and experience, that’s great:)
Now with this in mind, listen to BU2B and Headling Flight from their last album
I've seen these guys four times in concert. The three first times they opened with this song. Badass!!
That’s great🙏🏼
Summer, 1976: I'd just bought this newly released album by Rush and had immediately copied it to cassette. I was very careful with my vinyl back in the day, usually only played once, for copying; well, actually, copied again ≈15 years later when CD burners came out.
Anyway, it was a beautiful warm July afternoon, I'd just graduated from high school, was plannin' to party the short summer away then fly off to attend Royal Military College (🇨🇦) the next month, and I was washin' my car in my parent's driveway.
Blasting from my rear dashboard Jensen Triaxials (anybody remember those? I was the envy of all my buddies! 😁) out the open windows and trunk was this: 2112. I was in bliss. 'Tis a memory that is forever cemented in my brain! 🤟😊
I knew you'd love it! 🤘
@@edanielgreen thank you for sharing that experience and memory! I am so happy this band and this album left you a lifelong memory! It will be playing in my truck tomorrow😎 thank you for taking the time to write that all out! Glad you enjoyed the video as well my friend:)
💪Masterpiece is the perfect word to describe this epic composition! RUSHs' record label was threatening to part ways with the band if they didn't start writing more "commercial" songs. They responded with this Progressive opus! 😄
@@theG-man-p2h I love that, truly a power move! And a phenomenal one at that! Nice to see you again:)
Canada!
It's particularly gratifying to see this album being reacted to and enjoyed by people going on 50 years after it's release. It wasn't really well received by `critics` at the time. It was the fans that refused to let it, or Rush go. Here we are all these years later with the album being considered one of the top iconic albums of all time, and who were those critics again?
@@somersetcace1 exactly, who were they?! Who cares! Rush bet on themselves and I think it’s safe to say that was the right call🙏🏼
At the end, the voice says "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation". Seven words, and it is said three times. So 21. Then the voice says "We have assumed control." three times. Four words, three times is 12. Hence the title 2112.
@@kentgreer1079 thank you for letting me know that, that’s wild! Thanks for informing on how the track name came about:)
We have consumed a troll! We have consumed a troll! 😁 Thanks for the reaction.
The story behind it: On the Clockwork Angel's tour in NJ at the end of 2112 when the song ends with, "We have assumed control", Alex pointed out to Neil a person in the crowd holding a banner that read: "WE HAVE CONSUMED A TROLL," which caused Neil to burst into laughter. 😂
Try Natural Science live in Toronto (1997) next.
At 5:58 of your video…Alex plays the the most recognizable section of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. (the final). 2112 - 1812 = 300 yrs.
Welcome to the RUSH family…enjoy the ride!
More like movements…less like tracks.
@@dsum4563 thanks for the information and taking the time to comment:) I like that! More like a movement than a song🙏🏼
An interesting side note
The last words
"Attention all planets of the solar federation" is spoken 3 times as is "We have assumed control"
7 words 3 times =21
4 words 3 times =12
2112
It’s funny to me that newer Rush fans will listen to this song, and earlier sons …. And also listen to their classic 80’s tunes…… but then hear their last album and wonder why it is so heavy. That’s because their roots are heavy. To a lifelong Rush fan nothung on clockwork angels is surprising, but rather a comfortable sit down with old friends .
@@michaelschroeck2254 thank you for that insight and input! Also for supporting the channel, thank you!:)
🤗 Back for a re-watch! 🦃 Happy Thanksgiving! 🥰🐰
Thankful for you and your support:)
Ric, Rush's 3rd album had a couple long, saga tracks. The album didn't sell well, so the record company told Rush to stop making those long songs and just make regular, radio songs.
So, their 4th album was...2112.
😂
That's what's called a big, middle finger to the boss.
Just starting your reaction, know you'll love it! 😎
@@TreysLosingItRapidly Trey back again with the support🙏🏼
They were basically just kids here. What 23yos are writing shit like this lol. So supremely talented at a young age. They were prog when prog was popular. They changed with the times for decades after this. They were only prog from like 75-78. After that they stayed complex but changed as music changed around them.
@@trenken it’s amazing they were so young writing this amazing music. Words can’t even describe!
@ they were very unique right from the start. Thats why their popularity has endured all these decades later. I met geddy at his book signing in NJ in 2018. He was 68 at the time. There was a couple thousand ppl there in the freezing cold wanting to see him and some of them were crying like hes michael jackson lmao. Rush has had a huge impact on generations of people. For a band so complex, intellectual and nerdy in ways they have left a huge imprint on music. They deserve all the success they had
That first mini solo, was actually taken from Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture.
@@davidmonk4814 wow! I can understand why they used it haha!
Plus the cannons.
If you haven't seen it yet, check out Neil's drum solo. Recommend Live In Frankfurt
Thanks for the suggestion and support! I’ll add it to the list! New video up now:)
Great album!! You keep bumping your headset which sounds like thuds. 😊
@@jackteppo9633 I need to stop bumping my headset my apologies, I’m working on buying an actual mic instead of this one at the moment:)
0:58 my suggestion is to hear a song furctge first time as the studio recording. Thatvusxwhwrvthe band carefully crafted to be remembered by. Then subsequent live versions are a joy to hear to hear how they olay it live without layers and mixed tracks .
One exception: the live version of Xanadu from the Exit stage Left video .
This is one of the heaviest Rush songs and is truly an epic in every sense. Interestingly, they returned to their heavy sound at the end of their career. There is a great live version of the song 'Caravan' from their Time Machine tour. It shows that they never lost that heavy and intense quality to their music.
@@sarastromseth-troy3323 I love that they kind of just have it all, melodic, heavy, groovy, pulled back, and all of it sounds amazing! Nice to see you in here again, thanks for the support! Hope you enjoyed the reaction as well:)
My second favorite of their side long epics next to Cygnus X1 book ll hopefully you will react to that and The Fountain Of Lamneth each is amazing in their own right.
Attention all planets of the solar federation
Seven words repeated three times =21
We have assumed control
Four words repeated three times =12
2112. 😊
@@Fred-vy1hm thanks for all the information letting me know that’s how the song got its name, that’s badass! I’ll definitely do my best to get that video up!
@@RidiculousRic it's name refers to the year, that's just a little Easter egg Neil planted in there. 😊
From 1980 to 1985 they released 5 albums and they are ALL BRILLIANT in my opinion. Permanent Waves, Moving Pictures, Signals, Grace under pressure and Power Windows. There is but a few songs (3 or 4) in there that are not Hall of fame worthy songs but the rest is stellar in every possible way.
@@jacquesjrviens3384 thanks for the insight and recommendations, definitely will be checking more out from these albums, hope to see you around the channel🙏🏼
There are a few 'better', more inciteful, or technically brilliant Rush releases, but without doubt it is legendary and THE most important piece of music because this gave them the latitude to do whatever they wanted from this time forward. I also think this is Geddy's best vocals in his career. By the way... That is Neil doing the voiceover when the Elder Race returns at the end.
@@donhadfield2835 thank you for all the information and input, Lee really shined here, as did the entire band! Phenomenal!
🙋🏿♀️ May I suggest 💦 'Natural Science' and/or 📸 'The Camera Eye'. 🏎️🚓🚓 'Red Barchetta' is another Rush song that takes you on a fun/interesting journey. 🖖🏿🥰🐰
@@cityhonors1 of course, I’ll be touching on these soon hopefully:)
Now watch it live...good stuff.
@@donmcewan8807 I got you🫡
Each section was like several chapters in a book or a movie. Side 2 is also great. I did see them live in the 70s
The Necromancer is Rush's best jam. This album was released in 1976. You just listened to Side 1.
@@MrThumbs63 ooooh perfect, I’ll keep listening and get that uploaded, I’ll take more Rush any day!
excellent reaction Ric. VI soliloquy stays with me since 1977 the whole is a masterpiece. the next elevated masterpiece, in my opinion is hemispheres has 70s technology but the sound, they were looking for fits just right for the super lyric's sure you'll love, like this also. next time
@@FlightinDarkness-eb7uh thank you for the insight, suggestion, and support! I’ll do my best:)
@@RidiculousRic no worries brother take your time you are the most important person on your channel everyone eles are lucky to get your attention lol👌
Go Wisconsin,,Wisconsin here!!!
Love that🙏🏼 new video out now!
By-Tor and the Snow Dog or La Villa Strangiato are killer tracks.
@@scottlaughlin9897 sweeet, thanks for the suggestions!
Watch 2112 live in toronto 1997... I was at this concert, Alex was on fire.
The meek shall inherit the earth... Cheers!
Cheers, thanks for the support and checking out the channel! New video up now🙏🏼
Wow! You are doing the big dog! 2112! Yeah, boy! You should listen to Clockwork Angels after this. It's their final album and heavy like 2112. Honestly I don't know which I like better.
@@alleyeditor ooooh sounds like a good time waiting to happen, I definitely enjoyed this so I’ll try my best to check that out:)
💯🔥🔥🔥
@@AnitaCavalieri-u7x thank you for the support:)
Here's the basic story behind 2112. Their record label Mercury wanted them to do radio friendly songs. This was a protest. They said we're not doing this for you. We're doing it for us. So they made the first half of the record all one song (kinda) and gave them the finger and created this MASTERPIECE This is the story of that battle.
Neil Peart, after he joined the band, wrote all of the lyrics to Rush music. We lost our GOAT. He's playing for GOD now. 😇That was the last time I cried (Sorry Christine. When Stevie goes I'm going to lose it)
I'm jealous because you have the cool earphones like I had with my old turntable in the day. Now all I have is my little computer speaker. This version has the cool graphics telling the story, in the 1970s we were hit with both barrels(3?) with this, and only our imagination.
" Listen to my music".
"Hear what it can do".
"Tere's something here as strong as life".
"I know it will reach you."
Thank you so much for making this GOAT enjoyable again.
Happy belated 4/20.
Thank you for all the information and support on the channel! It’s always great to have more insight and information about this amazing band! Thankful that you are able to reminisce and enjoy the music with me:) there’s a new video up now if Led Zeppelin peaks your interest, but I’ll definitely be uploading more Rush soon!
Rush is number 1 !!!! Check out Middletown Dreams from the 1985 album Power Windows which is one of their best. Not a single bad song on the record. All cohesive and thematic, Brilliant music, greater lyrics... Magical.
Btw...side two is very good too...the whole album is great!
Saw this on R40
Now watch the live version.😮😮😮😮😊
@@jackteppo9633 I got you🫡
2112 was RUSH's FU response to the record label execs that were demanding their next album sound more like Bad Company or they would be dropped. The whole song is an allegory for the situation: The label execs are the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx, the record companies are the Solar Federation, the musicians who came before record companies seized control over popular music are the Elder Race, and our protagonist is RUSH. They're telling the execs "listen to our music and hear what it can do" who respond with "it doesn't fit the plan", they decide they would sooner kill the band than play mediocre music night after night on tour so they announced "attention all record companies, we have assumed control" and recorded what they wanted instead. If the record flopped, they were done and that would be that. Well, it sure didn't flop! The label execs backed off and RUSH flipped them another bird by forming their own label Anthem and dropping them, assuming total creative control. Fearless badasses from the very beginning!
And we listened to their music, and heard what it can do! What a ride it's been!
@@scottdpublic rush bet on themselves with this and damn right it paid off!🙏🏼
Hopefully you will enjoy Rush Cygnus Book 1 and Book 2 soon 😁
@@cpmf2112 thanks for the suggestion and support:)
If you want to see the best Live version, 1997 molson amphitheatre toronto. It's hard to fathom that it's even better but I was there and can attest.
The whole side is ONE song broken down into 7 parts like an opera
Yeah, so the record company said we need lots of radio play singles 3-4 minutes long, or you're done. Rush said, no we're going to go out doing what we do. HOwever, the B side contains a lot of radio play songs. The rest, as they say, is history........
@@curtisburns1357 I love it, stick it to the man but at the same time gotta make your money haha!
Don't sleep on side 2. I don't know who gave you the impression it was a smash hit. It was too long for radio in total but Temple of Syrinx got some play. What it really was is a middle finger to their record label who wanted a more commercial album full of singles so they made sure to go the opposite way for side 1 at least.
I was going to suggest the animated version. It gives you an idea of what the song is about. I'm sure someone has already told you that the song has two messages. It's a metaphor for the record company (they are the priests) and it's a song about a dystopian communist society and the struggle for freedom. Eventually, you need to do Cygnus X-1 book 1 of of farewell to kings and Cygnus X-1 book 2 of off Hemispheres. They also have animated video you should do when you review those incredible songs. You can do a two part video.
@@Lemmingadventures thanks for the input as always! I’ll definitely try to get to this very soon🙏🏼
rush-freewill
@@zerglilngvet5428 will definitely get a reaction up to this soon:)
This is a Rock opera , Opusv
@@squamishfish haha that’s a great way to put it🙏🏼
No not the live you need to get the full song with Lyrics so important
your volume is low brother come on , love the reaction though.
Fürst!
According to google translator Fürst means Prince. 🤔
@Fred-vy1hm I'm glad I didn't offend anyone! I'm just abusing spelling...
Watch your mic noise.
You need to work on your sound quality, bro…
@@johnlongdong56 trying to have this upgraded by Christmas, trying to buy an actual mic soon!
This isn't a song, its a once in a lifetime experience
@@scott4482 was a phenomenal experience!
There’s lots of transitions in the opening because it’s a true symphonic overture. The overture was typically the opening movement in an opera or orchestral suite. It was a medley that would introduce the audience to the primary musical motifs that would come in later movements. When you go back and listen to it again, it’s fun to try and figure out which part is being played during the opening.
@@matthewhoag2609 wow, that is so awesome! I’ll definitely try to pick up on that the next listen:)