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This album is a great rocker.I guess many Rush purists say after 2112 or say ''Hemispheres'' they sucked-nonsense.They just evolved in their way & used more synth but creatively,Lost fans & gained new ones but back to 2112: it's definetely as heavy as metal got back in '76.They listened to UFO, Genesis,the whole 9 yards & came with this killer opus.I was 13 when I got the vinyl copy in '79,was crazy for peart's drumming.Went thru the first ''black spine'' cd & recently got this cause the cd reached the end of it's lifespan.No comparrison in sound quality.This album always has,always will be welded into my life's playlist.It's great.
As for 'nerdy drummers'. Very much recommended for a taste of Rush's early, and better, works. I have been a Rush fan since 'All The World's A Stage', their breakthrough live album back in '76-77. If they play as well as Neil Peart, I should say we need more nerdy drummers in this world. Prog-Rock On, guys. That album was basically the 2112 tour. Sure, they've matured over the years, 35 to be exact.
In any case, it was a great jam session, with a story, and early on, defined Rush's music, as the power trio, of Progressive Metal, from Canada. This record was a departure for the band, willing to experiment with a song that takes up one side, of a vinyl record.
It meanders like crazy, all too apparently trying to burn up time. The singer sounds like a girl, the guitar player can only play atonal solos completely lacking any musicality & the drumming exists, nothing more.I heard Rush was called the thinking man's band. This isn't comedy is it.
Life sucks now in a world with no freedom nor imagination. That's true if you think that gazing at your navel lint can lead to a profound experience. Rush are like the bad guys, they have no imagination.
After reading the lyric sheet, especially to side 1, I had to laugh. Supposedly, he kills himself because the bad guys win.
After the dopey, much too long instrumental, the 'story' starts like a bad sci-fi movie & goes downhill from there. Our "hero" is a puss, who dreams & cries, cries & dreams some more, wah wah wah.
DV They were one of my favourite groups when I was a kid. and still are now.
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