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where is part 2 ?:)
"Little Green Bag"
By the: George Baker Selection..."The Ocean" by Led Zeppelin
Are 2 you should hear
By the way, did you notice the riff from Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture towards the end of the guitar solo in Part 1 “Overture”?
Nifty, eh?
Here’s the answer to your question about engineers used on the track (from Wikipedia):
2112 was recorded in February 1976 across four weeks at Toronto Sound Studios, with longtime associate Terry Brown assuming his role as producer.[18][16][12] The studio was fitted with a 24-track machine manufactured by Studer. Lifeson plays a 1968 Gibson ES-335 for the majority of the electric guitar parts on 2112, with some lead parts played on a Gibson Les Paul Standard. For the acoustic sections, he plays a 12-string Gibson B-45 and a six-string Gibson Dove. His amplifiers were the Fender Super Reverb and a Twin Reverb.[14] A section of "Discovery" features Lifeson playing a Fender Stratocaster that he borrowed from a friend.[13] At the time of recording 2112, Lee was using a Rickenbacker 4001 bass with stereo output; Brown fed one channel directly into the mixing board and then into a compressor, and the other was channelled into Lee's Electro-Voice speakers turned up to the maximum.[12] Upon completing the album, the band expressed an interest in recording in another studio to explore different sounds.[19] Their next album, A Farewell to Kings, was recorded in Wales.
In my opinion Rush 2112 is the best album ever made.
Been my go to rock album since I was 14. I am now almost 60
It's a fact.
That and crime of the century by supertramp
I think Dark Side of the Moon is #1, but 2112 is right up there.
@@Another_User_Name_ Animals is a great Pink Floyd album.
This album changed everything for me musically as a 13 year old in 1980. I became a drummer and a diehard Rush fan immediately. 41 years later and Rush continues to bring so much joy to my life. 👍🤘🏻🔥🎧
I'm several years older than you and agree. My first album that hooked me was fly by night (and caress of steel). Mine was also around age 13 in 1976. About the same time I discovered the magical leaf of panama
This all relates to the story at the beginning. It tells of a new society/ world led by the Priests of Syrinx. Then, the individual discovers a guitar.
Neil Peart said that he wrote this after reading Ayn Rands book
"Atlas Shrugged"
I hope you listen to this as one piece and then broke it into smaller videos instead of listening to it over several sittings, because I think the impact is lost when that approach is used. This was their big F U to those that wanted them to write radio friendly songs and the angst is palpable. Many have said this is THE piece of music that allowed them to do things their on way from then on. Please listen to it as a whole for the full effect. Have a great day and keep the Rush reactions coming.
48 year Disciple here. My GF gave me their self-titled debut immediately upon US release in June 1974. The instant stylus contacted vinyl I was hooked for life at age 13. When I heard that incredible voice perfectly match the music as a fourth instrument I was blown away. Saw them for the first time in January 1977 front row center arms on stage on their ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE tour. I was 16 and attended solo. To say it was a magical evening would be the understatement of the Century. Saw them again in 1980 on their PERMANENT WAVES tour. They billed themselves as THE WORLD'S SMALLEST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. And as crazy as it sounds (and I have said this since FLY BY NIGHT was released in 1975) THE LYRICS ARE EVEN BETTER THAN THE MUSIC! To truly experience, and more importantly, UNDERSTAND their genius you MUST have the lyrics in front of you. That's why every album since FLY BY NIGHT has included the lyrics. The are the GOAT...
This is truly classic prog rock. The words you first saw are part of the "story". On the original vinyl album when you opened it up, each section of 2112 was prefaced by an excerpt from the protagonist's diary, followed by the actual lyrics to that part. The opening piece (and closing piece) are instrumentals with no lyrics. It all combines in a single work that is considered a classic. It's prog-rock, but leans more on the "rock", making it very accessible. It's passionate and seamless and a wonderful piece! It's closer to an operetta than anything else, being a story with multiple characters singing their parts.
2112 is like a national anthem, you should never only do part of it 🐵
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I didn't notice anyone below explaining this: The words you were reading in the beginning are actually part of the overall story that is INCLUDED in the lyrics on the album but meant to be READ by the listener. They are just a framework to help the listener understand what is going on in the actual SUNG lyrical passages that might not be as clearly stated. Neil Peart added an unsung written description before each section of the song (printed in the album jacket) for that reason.
High school Technics Reciever and giant Bong Hits! I loved RUSH and still do! ALL THE WORLDS A STAGE!
This is a great song but it needs to be taken in in one sitting.
I think that there is only a part 2. It is only 20 some odd minutes long. 2112 is what broke Rush and is one of the albums that everyone must hear before they die.
At 4:00 you're talking about lyrics. So far the words you've seen are the liner notes from the album. They appear throughout the entire story, typically introducing each new part of the story. They provide background on the story being told. At this point in the song the "lyrics" and singing has not yet started.
THIS!!!
This song is awesome...its a 20 minute story...Neil Peart, was the lyricist as well as the drummer...I'm a musician and think it's genius. The song was cut off. Its side 1 of 2112...retry Van it's a music must!
If it's one song, with different parts, it's still one song brah. Never break up a Rush song. :) Keep on keepin' on now! Dig your work! Sending love yall
When this album came out like we did with all new albums we played both sides non stop. I wasn't sure if I liked this as much as other music I was into. So we played it again and I learned that RUSH was doing music in a different way than most 70sbands. Needless to say it is now one of my all time favorite albums. Even got to see them live
It's literally written like an orchestral piece brush always said they wanted to be the world's smallest symphony orchestra and they definitely did it with this piece
I would suggest watching this all in one sitting. As someone else said this was the finger given to the record company that was not allowing them artist freedom and wanted then to do more radio friendly songs. The priests in the the song were the record label.
I chuckled about the college reference as all the members of Rush dropped out of high school to play music. Neil Peart who wrote the majority of the lyrics was an avid reader and later on in life wrote a number of books as well. They all were picked on in high school more for being hippies and their musical interests than anything else. I suggest watching Beyond the Lighted Stage which is an excellent documentary on the band and also gives you an insight into the music industry back in the day. Hope your wife is doing OK and kudos to your son on writing the book. Cheers
Well stated
"10 minutes! Well I can relax with this one! Let's learn something!" Love that attitude 🥰🥰🥰
LFR … old school Rush fans know where you were and what was going on in your head. 2112 is set in the future, when the population has become cattle, living happily, just as they are told. There is no music that is not provided by the rulers and masters of the society. A man finds a guitar hidden in a cave and intrinsically knows the liberation it can bring to his fellow man and woman. Naively, he takes it to the priests for their approval. Calamity ensues. I bought this album on the day it was delivered to our local record store. The album was written as a last ditch effort for Rush to play the music they wanted, instead of being forced to create radio hits for their record label. It succeeded. They succeeded. I tortured girlfriends with it for years (…) You were simply in the wrong gear to listen to this story. Trash this attempt, and try again some other day. Best regards to you and yours….
"Girls" paid the price for dating us RUSH nerds!
Girls didn’t date Rush nerds.
Those words at the beginning are a narrative prologue to set up the story. It's like at the beginning of Star Wars when it goes, In a galaxy far far away ...
This is still my favorite Rush album although just about everything they did was pretty good. It shows how hard they can rock but it's still so creative. Side A is the concept side, which tells the whole story of 2112, of which this is only the first half of it I think. As others have said, really should be listened to in one 20 minute setting. Side B of the record album is all individual songs unrelated to 2112 but they grew on me over time and they are incredible individual songs, each different from the other.
Thanks for reacting!
Ready for your mind to be blown away. The Last two lines of the song hold a special meaning. A hidden gem so to speak. First line: "Attention all Planets of the Solar Federation" and then the second:. "We have assumed control". Both lines are repeated 3 times each. First line has 7 words the second has 4. Repeating them 3 times each you first get 3x7= 21 and then 3x4=12 or 2112
RIP PROFESSOR !
I just heard Peart as a teenager blown away by his talent. What was permitted with his drumming was the main driving force, plus his literary background, providing the lyrics. What he played was perfect for Rush. Listen to there earliest catalog for 400 miles tripping back from Spokane today. Ice covered roads. Damn, I still love that early Rush.
BAAHAAHAA! His eyes when the lyrics happened. It grows on you, saturates, and you'll never be the same when you get it.
The requester of the song should maybe have supplied a link so you would know this is a 20+ minute, 7 part epic. 2112 is an incredible orchestration and story and should always be heard in its entirety. 👍
2112 (pronounced "twenty-one twelve") is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on 1 April 1976 by Anthem Records. Rush finished ... this song is about the future 2062 i believe it said
2062? In the storyline "... we've had peace since 2062..." meaning, 'we've had peace for the last 50 years'. I don't mean to be a smart-ass, but the setting for the story IS 2112. I didn't know it (the Album) was released on April Fool's Day, however. Also... I don't mean to be a creep, but you are a very beautiful woman!
This is a piece that could easily be made into a play. Artistry with amazing music and a story like Shakespeare wrote. Most just miss the genius Nothing like Rush. My first concert as teenager was 2112 Rush and it was epic
Thank you for your patience to react to this long music. Rush are big nerds, a little different than may seem. To my knowledge, they did not earn college degrees. When they were each about 20, they hit the road with their first label contract, 200 or so shows each of the first two years. Each of the guys developed technical experience musically or in other endeavors. I think Alex is a registered pilot.
I am not sure they finished HS. I know there was discussion of them dropping out and focusing on music. Having said, they definitely could have done well in college if they had chosen that route.
All three dropped out of High School. Original drummer John Rutsey also didn't finish High School.
There are so many albums I wish I could listen to again for the first time. Any pink floyd and 2112 is definetly one of them. You just can't stop it, it had to go all the way through without stopping
you nailed Rush in one phrase. “They are the master geeks”. that all other geekdom look up to. All about humanity. right up my alley.
The album was based off a futuristic book titled Fountainhead. Fountainhead was little deep for a 15 year old boy but album was mind blowing.
I enjoy watching people discover something that I have loved for many years.
Neil Peart was the GOAT (RIP)😭 GOD has him now😇
Neil wrote all the lyrics for the band.
"Listen to my music. Hear what it can do"
"There's something here as strong as life. I know that it will reach you"
Get in to the story. It's worth it.
That was side 1. Side 2 has other very good songs too.
There's videos on TH-cam with a serious cool video to go with the song. Enjoy!
Not only is this my favorite RUSH song it's my GOAT from anyone.
The band was at war with their record company/publishers because they wanted shorter more radio friendly music.
So the band pretty much gave them the finger and said, "We're doing this for us not you." They didn't need to
include their fans because they knew we were already onboard. Thus the20+ minute song. The entire side of 2112.
The song is about that war between what THEY want and what WE(collectively) want.
Songs that don't get reviewed enough are:
Workin' Man
Manhattan Project
Red Sector A
😎
One producer 1 engineer and this incredible band. This is a masterpiece fool
They billed themselves as THE WORLD'S SMALLEST SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
Saw this tour. San Antonio, June '76. A fantastic experience at 16 years old!
The first side of 2112 is an entire song/story. It's just broken down to parts on the album. The drummer Neil Peart was a nerd, and that's why Rush is nerd rock that's their calling. RIP Neil Peart. He even names his drum solos tour to tour. This was released in 1976. I saw RUSH 23 times, pissed it wasn't 50.
The lyrics at the beginning of the the song Overture is a foreword to the album to set up the listener so they can immerse themselves in the universe Neil is describing.
this is the BREAKOUT album that RUSH DOUBLED DOWN on after the RECORD COMPANY didn't want them to produce another "epic". This was also what freed RUSH to let them continue to explore their music....n
First off---RUSH was never a dance band. When I was a kid back in the late 70's listening to this it took a few listens to realize it was a story----a futuristic science fiction story---I did not have the LP lyrics. Then I got the LP and read the backstory that you had posted, and the music and songs on side 1 were a portion of that futuristic story about evil (well-intended) priests who took control of how people thought and acted (governmental control and dictatorship). They outlawed music. Then this guy (the main character) finds an "ancient" guitar in a cave (sewer tunnel) and not knowing what it is messes with it. He finds the musical sound it creates amazing and wants to share it with his leaders (the priests) and the world. But, they shut him down and send him away. He is so sad, because in the past the people and their righteous leaders embraced music. The ending is sad, but the old leaders come back from their wisdom seeking journey in space and crush the controlling priests and take control again. A sci-fi story.
Right on.
YES! With the ending(?) (I think) of the story taking place in the year 2112. Just rest a moment on the how utterly imaginative and insightful Neil was to have dreamed up a story like this back (at LEAST) as early as the mid1970’s! (It was first released in 1976) That alone, is pretty crazy but we have no idea how long he’d been kicking around ideas of these sorts in his head so, for all we know, he could have thought about this in the 60’s.
There’s also a chance that the whole subject of space, life in space and planetary interaction came from an outside source rather than being completely dreamt up from scratch in his brain. I say that not to take away from his brilliant imagination and lyrical talent that he not only proved himself above and beyond SOOO many times thru this song as well as ll their other songs thru their illustrious 40+ yrs careers, but I mention it as a curiosity from an observation I’ve made from that time period- the 1970’’s and it’s music.
I don’t know how many of you were either alive and paying attention to music during the 70’s or have taken any interest in what that era offered since-but whether it was FUNK or some DANCE or ROCK ( today better known as progressive-rock), there was a THICK preoccupation with outer-space connected to many of them. It was in their style of synthesizer use , their stage costumes, the art on their album covers and even their lyrics sometimes. I was just a little girl at the time so I wasn’t aware of where that heavy 🎶 “🎤SPACE IS THE PLACE🎵” influence was coming from. Since then though, I noticed it and was always real curious. I just never took a deep dive into figuring it out. The ONLY thing that comes to mind is the moon landing from 1969. Could THAT have really done it!?? 🤨🤔
@@gingeroo5765 Apparently Neil was influenced by Ayn Rand's book "Anthem" or one of her other ones...can't remember exactly. A few other songs were influenced by Rand's writings as well.
@@davidaullery ohYeah!! I do vaguely remember something about him and Rand! You’ve got SUCH a great memory!!😃 Do you happen to know what I’m referring to in terms of how much people (bands) seemed to be influenced by some kind of outer space or spaceship fixation? In the early to mid- 70’s especially. Blacks and Whites. I’m just wondering . If you didn’t that’s okay. Not everyone listened to the same music.
@@gingeroo5765 I know what you mean...David Bowie with "Mayor Tom"...Elton John with "Rocket Man," and then Def Leppard commented on both of those in their song "Rocket," Then there was Blue Oyster Cult with E.T.I. (Extraterrestrial Intelligence) along with Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon."
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YES!!! Now for another mind blowing experience, try All The World's A Stage. Live concert, 70's, featuring 2112, live. Ridiculous talent. Rush is in my dna. Hello from Spokane.
Then u and I must be related!😂
I saw the 2112 tour and yeah, it was great live. UFO opened for them. Still my favorite Rush concert.
@@Choctaw468 I did too.
Listen to the whole 20 min..... it won't change you're views on music....it will just expand your love of music. Great video
1 Overture
2 Temples of Syrinx( that is where the lyrics begin)
Then Discovery, Oracle etc.
It's a masterpiece
True, they are a "bunch of nerds"! They just never got there, they went into music instead of scholarly work. They initially disappointed their parents with their musical quests - but in the end they became so big that it made it all right.
FYI this is not info from anything about the band, but I know the following: "Syrinx" is a Greek word which refers to the spine of any mammal, but also this same Greek word is used for the "spine" or "channel" in a Greek (ancient era) stone artillery (Greek: Lithobolos: Stone Projector/ Roman Latin: Ballista). Basically, the "barrell" of the Stone Projector.
/Nerd.
I loved watching you read the words to catch up!!! (They're important, it's a story)
Actually Alex and Geddy were high school drop outs. I won’t argue the nerds except to say they were music nerds. And clearly genius level musicians!
The overture is made of snippets of each section of the pice that’s why the words don’t really come in until the end of it. This is a fantasy novel in song, the priest are the leaders and he discovers a guitar and brings it to show them and they brush him aside “ we don’t need the ancient way’s, everything you need we provide.”
Dude the words in the beginning when you first started listening where you said they were not singing is the story that gives you the reference to the lyrics. If you pause the song during each section where there are words you'll understand. The story is amazing trust me
The year is 2112!! It’s a concept album, post apocalyptic piece in which music is “rediscovered” and frowned upon by the “government”, the priests!
Van, The drummer Neil wrote this song, as he did 99.9% of all their songs. And YES.. they were/are highly intelligent/well-read guys. To get a glimpse into what they’re talking about in any given song, just look up a key word or two that you’ve never heard of before and it will open up a whole other world to you- it’ll instantly put context to the song you’re listening to. Neil read a lot about ancient worlds and ancient eastern civilizations , religions, and astrology. Btw, NO ONE understands Rush the first time around nor may EVER fully understand everything they do or say.. I think that might be impossible. But I can tell u with 100% confidence that everyone who digs their talent even a little bit learns to LOVE any given song of theirs the more they listen to it and it doesn’t take too many listens to get there. It starts growing on you pretty quickly if you try it and it never stops impressing you no matter how many times you hear it.
Julie in Texas
"neil wrote this song". you are correct regarding the lyrics, which neil always wrote. geddy and alex were just as involved as neil in writing the music, and the music is integral to the "song". neil was their lyricist, not their composer or song-writer.
Bullshit. Neil Peart always wrote the lyrics and his own drum parts. Alex Lifeson & Geddy Lee always wrote the chord structure, melodies, riffs, etc. I.E. - the brunt of the actual music. Neil himself would never claim to have written anything for Rush by his lonesome. And neither would Geddy or Alex. It was always a 3-way collaboration. Anybody who tells you differently doesn't know what they're talking about.
@@IZZY_EDIBLE yes your response to her comment is just as correct as mine, though less diplomatically worded lol.
@@IZZY_EDIBLE I meant the lyrics. Calm down you maniac!
@@IZZY_EDIBLE And if you two PERFECTIONISTS want to get so TECHNICAL about everything- NO HE DIDN’T write ALL the lyrics to ALL their songs. Alex, Geddy, and their first drummer, John Rutsey wrote lyrics before Neil ever came onto the scene.u fuks
There's only one way to listen to this the whole song at once.
First concert I ever went to in 8th grade. NY the palladium. Small venue before they were ever played on the radio. Over the decades seen them 4 more times. Also a song you smoke to
i've always enjoyed this album.... released april 1976 before oracle got started with relational databases.. amazing, as if Neil could look into the future and see how computers would influence our world. today, computers can construct gnome sequences that only exist within computers... and computers help seal the walls of pandemics when no one one earth has isolated a virus.
By the way The members of Rush never went to university, they just went into the band straight from high school
It’s awesome your son wrote a book. Think of 2112 As a book put to music. You are correct that Rush is like an orchestra and they are nerds. They always said they want to be known as a three-man orchestra. And while many rock artists party while they’re on the road, rush read books. I would recommend if you’re going to do a long song from progressive rock band, And you want to break it up into parts, title it part one part two etc. and listen to it all the way through.
Good review man. And CONGRATULATIONS to your son for his book!! 👍😎👍
Thank You Jim!!
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Anytime brother. 👍
Your kid wrote a book?! That's so impressive :) congrats! And I agree so much with you, just because we don't understand the stuff, it doesn't mean we can't appreciate it. I've listened to Rush for about 20 years now, and I still don't understand all their lyrics lol, but I don't really care. I appreciate them for their musicianship and I just feel like their music is for me. And also sometimes we don't have to take the music so serious :)
Now you're playing it! A masterpiece...enjoy the ride my friend! Wrong version to get the story. Must listen to the whole song otherwise, it's like reading one chapter in a great book...so sad you didn't go further and get the whole book/song...then you'd understand the entire song.
Their drummer Neal Peart was heavily into science fiction and futuristic thought. As others have pointed out in the comments, what you are first seeing are not lyrics but liner notes from inside the album. Neal had a brilliant mind and I think he could have been a brilliant writer if he hadn't been the drummer extraordinaire that he was.
The early writing was a set up - explaining the situation, a prelude to the story. A long story, with the undertone of the Music Industry trying to push them to do commercial rock
You need to listen to all of the “parts” together that total 23 minutes to get the whole 2112! There is a comic style video gives you the story. RUSH HAS ASSUMED CONTROL!
R.I.P. NEIL PERT
Had this album on 8-track. It was my first real introduction to the genius that is Rush.
BTW... recently found this channel and subbed. Love the honesty in your reactions . Well done my friend.
Rush is a jam band and you must sit , relax and enjoy the words and music. Love this song....I listen to it as many times over as I can. Just enjoy the music. It's a classic. They had many best albums, but this was " the one" and only.....
This song , actually it’s an album side, it one of the best ever written but you need to see the words and understand the story to fully appreciate it completely. This starts with the nuclear apocalypse, you hear the nuclear explosion in the first song just before the first line “ the meek shall inherit the earth “afterwards the world is run by priests and computers. The Temple’s of Syrinx. This guy finds a guitar behind a waterfall and not knowing what it is discovers it’s beauty. He takes it to the priest who turn him and it away as an evil item. He goes home in pure disbelief. The elders return to destroy the temples and resume control of the planets of the federation. That’s the short story. Please the next time you listen please pull up the words and listen
I remember them playing this whole album on the radio on 2/1/12
Oh my gosh... your son Van Hall Jr got published... looks like! It's a beautiful cover, it's just with title, that's gonna sell. Cha-Ching I might buy it!!!!
Seems to me your son has talent! It's perfect you brought up the book, because as you know, he created a new world from his imagination as Rush also has done here. It's SciFi also known as Science Fiction... it's one of the most creative aspects of things the human mind can create. You folks might get rich!!! I know you are soooo proud of your son!!! It's also you.... you are creating this... things beyond previous belief of what you thought was possible!!!! Congratulations to you n your Fam!!!! 😁😁😁😁😁
The song is about the apocalypse and a new world in 2112 and a guy found a guitar from the old world and the priest of syrinx deemed it evil and the cause of the old worlds destruction and told him to get rid of it. Theres more to it but thats the basis of the song
It's a story of a future authoritarian society who's leaders(priests) control societies actions, ideas, influences- incl music( no guitar) & the young man's attempt to question their inflexible decision to ban something so good.
At the time Rush's management were trying to force them to make songs that would be shorter, simpler, more pop music. They stood their ground and made an album of music they wanted and used the story to symbolize their( little guy) fight to against a big corporation trying to direct what kind of music they would make.
In the end the album 2112 spoke to listeners and became a break thru for Rush.
2112 is a futuristic journey into the year 2112.
Read what the story is about then listen to the record a few times. You'll begin to appreciate its greatness.
At the time, Rush wasn't doing too good. The record company threatened to axe them if they didn't write more appropriate radio music. They answered with a middle finger raised in the air and came out with 2112. Its the record that drove their success forward.
The opening piece in 2112 is called ‘overture’, which in classical music format (Opera), is a term exclusively used to announce to the listener of the intro (beginning), and is always an instrumental. There are some famous, very recognisable overtures - several that most people have heard but are unaware of the composition, composer or origin.
If at all interested: Do have a listen to the overture(s) for the operas, Carmen or The Barber Of Seville (Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Yep, Emperor Nerds. But you’re completely off track on college. None of them went to university (as we refer to them up here) and two of them were high school dropouts!
Now, to be fair, the lyricist/drummer, the late Mr. Neil Peart, OC, apparently was skipped forward two grades in primary school and so finished high school really early (as a lanky, self-described “freak” two years younger than his peers). He would wind up being a multiple best-selling author and - of - course inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for his drumming and lyrics.
The WORDS are part of the LINER NOTES that are part of the STORY.
Spirit of the Radio........Rush............inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame..........fyi/ Anothe great one is The Best Intro Ever.
THE Spirit of Radio
Ok, you should do the full song in one sitting, sir. Breaking it up is like having a Little Van with no head :D
Rush 2112 is a dystopia future tale. The whole thing has to be sat through and taken in. The priests rely on their computers for their knowledge. Notice how Geddy's voice changes to play both parts.
the extra words fill in the story
Look at the verse and read and understand what they are saying. " equality our stock in trade, come join in the brotherhood of man. Oh what a nice contented world, let the banners be unfurled..hold the RED STAR proudly high in hand. It's a very deep and significant message... or a warning, of what can happen if all of us are looked at as the same. Devoid of art music, culture and differences at all.... as referenced with the lyric, equality our stock in trade, come join in the brotherhood of man. It means we sacrifice our individual self for equality for all. There is a certain political ideology that touts this message... and it even sports a red star.
Patience!! Lol! This is a journey!! 👍
Immediately do the vevo official video version - don't worry if we can't see it. You owe it to yourself; you owe it to your viewers. Thank you!!
It’s a concept Album. Alien Take over. It’s a start to finish Album
"is this song an instrumental....."
Oh... just you wait.....
"...and the meek shall inherent the earth....".
This is a future shock story about a totalitarian theocracy in the year 2112. They control every aspect of society and culture. The protagonist discovers a guitar from a long lost era ( our own perhaps)
He takes it ti the priests and they smash it, claiming that it was a destructive element of the elder culture. The man slips into despair after having a vision of how free the world once was. He takes his own life too soon, the elder society returns after having left the planet long before, to reclaim the earth from the oppressive regime...
"Attention all planets of the solar federation...we have assumed control.."
They always take u on a journey !
the words at the beginning are the prelude to the story
Sometimes songs grow on you after a couple of listens. If you don't ever hear it, that's the way it goes.
The first words are the story line on the album cover. the lyrics start soon. Listen on
i had friends that could play this in their band perfectly in 77.they were in 8th grade.jr high
Considering the journey you have been on seeking knowledge and allowing yourself to question what you have know to be truths, 2112 is a great album for you to dig deeper into. Neil was influence by Ayn Rand when he was younger, I think later in life he sort of distanced himself from those ideals....she developed the philosophy of Objectivism. Think of Objectivism as living your life and making choices you think are good for you the individual. Vs Collectivism think "greater good" principle. Less personal freedoms for the great good argument. This is the most simple way to put it. I think looking deeper would help you with the path you have been on. I was lucky to have a very cool English teacher in HS, early 90s...he had us dissect 2112. It wasn't until 20 years later that I really understood what he was trying to teach us as young teenagers.
my man neil had culture and he read thousend books, and one by one about folclore and culture , he is a genius ok the letters are magic
Gotta do the whole 2112….all at once. Then it’ll make sense. 🤘😎🔥❤️🎼🎶❤️
Part 1? It’s meant to be listened to as one song 🇨🇦✌🏻🇨🇦
I was Nineteen when this album came out and I bought it and played it on my turntable over and over and over again. I think the needle went through to the other side of the album since I wore it out
My favorite Rush song!
LFR reppin’ DC high school….👏
The words are from the beginning of a corresponding Graphic Novel of 2112.
Need to do the full song!
You have to listen to the whole song
This has always been one of my favorites. You have to listen to all at one time like others have said. I think I read the words with the music so much way back then I actually started hearing the music speak the words. Rush is brilliant. If you want something shorter try Limelight.