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Music : 2112
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2112 by: Rush |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0015775159020 Format: Gold CD Label: Mobile Fidelity Manufacturer: Mobile Fidelity Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Mobile Fidelity Release Date: November 15, 1993 Studio: Mobile Fidelity Sales Rank: 120003 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com essential recording: Only Rush could have pulled this off, and only in the '70s. 2112--the title suite of the band's 1976 breakthrough album--is a comically pretentious, futuristic rock opera written by a nerdy drummer and sung by a whiny-voiced geek. It also happens to be a great piece of rock & roll that lifts the listener through a variety of moods and textures from genteel acoustic ("Oracle") to thrilling metal ("The Temples of Syrinx"). Perhaps realizing that they had taken conceptualism about as far as it could go, even these guys backed off on the epic hero stuff for later releases. 2112 still stands as one of the great signposts of the prog-rock era. --Michael Ruby Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A very good mid-70s hard rock recordThe album opens miraculously. Cheesy sci-fi sound effects give way to a staccato guitar attack. There are really too many cool riffs in the Overture to count and it is one of Rush's best hard-rocking instrumentals. "Temples of Syrinx" - with Geddy Lee's vocals heading to the rafters - is just as good, if not better. This is easily the most resounding 7 minutes of music Rush would produce in the 70s. After that there are a few lulls ("Discovery" especially), but they don't bother me too much. One does get the sense that Rush has bitten off a bit more than they can chew. The story is fairly melodramatic, and if anything, the songwriting here isn't pompous or bombastic enough. Queen was always better at melodrama and one can only imagine what Freddy ... Read More: Rating:  - Memories of innocenceI was driving home from a friends house and listened to this CD that I had stuck in my console. I remember purchasing 2112 on a whim, as an LP, in 1977( freshman year in high school). I played this over and over and made a cassette recording to play in the under dash player I had mounted in my dad's car. It brought back ALOT of memories of fun times and innocence, a time when there were no cell phones, internet, computers,CD's, high def. etc. Going to second base in the back seat of your dad's car was exciting and dangerous, hiding beers in the woods and lying about whose house you were sleepng at. This was truly played over and over and over, whether it was at a friends house on the turn-table singing along and trying to match Geddy's high notes ... Read More: Rating: - Good but not great3 1/2 A very decently ambitious classic progressive rock album in my opinion, but largely overrated as one of the flagpoints in the genre. Probably unnecessarily elevated for it's conceptual arch and epic introduction suite, 2112 is still a worthwhile investment for those dabbling in prog via classic rock. The emphasis however does not lie in complex melodic manipulations and challenging time signatures but in fluid, unpretentious rock and roll with a slightly nerdier angle, undoubtedly "enhanced" with these acquired high pitched, in tune shrieks. Rating: - Outstanding!I can't believe anyone would give this a 1 star review!! They must be tone deaf!! "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation. We have assumed control!" Rating:  - I like disagreeing with the massesThis album, if I may be blunt about it, is a complete and utter flying dog turd. The big hype is the "epic" 20-and-a-half minute self-titled track. I wanted to take it safe and just hear it on Youtube before I considered buying. WOOOOOOOOW am I glad I didn't waste my money on this garbage! Nothing stuck out at all, except for the whiny, annoyingly high-pitched vocals, and that I was completely wasting my time. Everyone I know on Yahoo! Answers seems to rave Neil Peart's "superior drumming." Where the hell is it? I don't hear nuthin' superior from ANY of the instruments. I didn't even bother to listen to the lyrics, knowing I'd have to try and interpret what the horrendous singer was saying, and I didn't feel like listening. Apparently, ... Read More: |
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