Rush - 2112 Deluxe Edition '1976/2013

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Artist	Rush Related artists
Album name	2112 Deluxe Edition
Country
Date	1976/2013
Genre	Classic Rock
Play time	00:49:42
Format / Bitrate	24 BIT Stereo 2429 Kbps / 96 kHz
Media	WEB
Size	324 / 1078 mb
Price	Download $8.95

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Tracks list

Tracklist
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01. 2112: Overture / The Temples Of Syrinx / Discovery / Presentation / Oracle /
Soliloquy / Grand Finale (Medley)
02. A Passage To Bangkok (Album Version)
03. The Twilight Zone (Album Version)
04. Lessons (Album Version)
05. Tears (Album Version)
06. Something For Nothing (Album Version)
07. Overture (Live)
08. The Temples Of Syrinx (Live)
09. A Passage To Bangkok (Live)


Originally released in 1976, Rushâ€™s epic, landmark release 2112 was their
creative and commercial breakthrough as well as one of the bandâ€™s most
highly regarded releases among both fans and critics alike. With lyrics written
by Neil Peart, and influenced by author Ayn Rand, 2112 kicks off with the
ambitious seven-suite title track (side one), set in a futuristic world run by
the â€œPriests of the Temples of Syrinxâ€ who regulate â€œevery
single facet of every life,â€. â€œ2112â€ conveys the story of
humanityâ€™s instinctual, inner need for oneâ€™s free will. 

After the mythological journey through â€œ2112,â€ side two brings you
back to the present and continues with five stand-alone tracks. From
hard-rocking tracks such as â€œA Passage to Bangkok,â€
â€œLessons,â€ and a trip to into the fourth dimension with â€œThe
Twilight Zone,â€ to the albumâ€™s soaring conclusion, â€œSomething
For Nothing,â€ 2112 is the album that ushered in the next stage in their
continuing evolution as artists. 

Rush have always been one of rockâ€™s all-time great argument starters.
Anywhere North American males gather, itâ€™s possible to ignite a fierce
debate just by name-dropping these Canadian prog sages. You can quibble over
Geddy Leeâ€™s voice or Alex Lifesonâ€™s guitar chops. You can dissect
how drummer-librettist Neil Peartâ€™s philosophy has changed drastically
over the years. You can question the way they malign wolves in the
â€œDionysus: Bringer of Loveâ€ section of â€œCygnus X-I: Book
IIâ€ from Hemispheres. 

But most of all, you can always start an argument over 2112, the 1976 rock opera
that made them stars. Rush made more-popular records, more-succinct records, but
2112 â€“ newly reissued in expanded form â€“ is their most extreme,
grandiose and Rush-like record, and thus their greatest â€“ the definitive
20 minutes and 34 seconds of the Rush worldview (plus five extra songs on Side
Two, which nobody has ever played twice). 

It might have made sense to reissue 2112 a year ago, so everyone could drunkenly
download it on New Yearâ€™s Eve. But that would have been obvious and
predictable, which isnâ€™t Rushâ€™s style. Thatâ€™s why on their
2012 tour, with their popularity at an all-time peak, they chose to highlight
their Eighties synth-pop phase, which Rush fans regard the way Zeppelin fans
regard Jimmy Pageâ€™s Death Wish II soundtrack. Rush like to keep people
mystified. 

The deluxe version of 2112 features remastered music (although, philosophically
speaking, not mastered at all). It adds three live tracks and a digital
comic-book version of the story, which goes like this: In the futuristic society
of Megadon, where music is outlawed, a kid finds an old guitar. He figures out
how to play it, which makes him a criminal to the evil priests from the Temples
of Syrinx. Can his innocent strums revive the ancient spirit of music? Can he
escape the tyranny of the elders? Will they let him rock? (Spoiler alert:
Noooo!) 

Although Peart was still in his long-since-abandoned Ayn Rand phase, 2112 has
really nothing to do with the New York speed-freak author. Instead, it has an
authentically grubby dork compassion. 2112 doesnâ€™t try to emulate the
lame upscale respectability of other rock operas. The abrasively distinctive
sonics, from Peartâ€™s busy tempo shifts to Leeâ€™s squawk of doom,
keep it from ever fading into the background. Nobody will ever turn it into a
Broadway show. 

Itâ€™s built to be played loud on headphones, late at night, all alone,
staring at the wall and wondering when your life is going to stop feeling like
imprisonment in the towers of Megadon. What are Rush but a three-headed
â€œIt Gets Betterâ€ statement for generations of messed-up adolescents,
dreaming of a better world but unwilling to give up on this one? 

So what will people argue about now that Rush have been voted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame? Donâ€™t worry â€“ Rush fans can just move on to
debating why their heroes are deprived of knighthoods or the Nobel Prize in
economics. Rush fans love to argue. And Rush obviously like it that way. (Rob
Sheffield, Rolling Stone) 

2112 is, more than anything, a record about being Rush: loving music, moving it
forward and taking it to the world, whatever the price. And it is perfect.
(David Fricke) 

Geddy Lee, vocals, bass & keyboards
Alex Lifeson, guitar
Neil Peart, drums & percussion 

Original recording credits: 
Produced by Rush and Terry Brown 
Engineered by Terry Brown 
Arrangements by Rush and Terry Brown
Recorded and stereo mixed at Toronto Sound Studios, Toronto, Canada 
Roadmaster Howard (Herns) Ungerleider 
Roadcrew Major Ian Grandy, L.B.L.B., Skip (Detroit Slider) Gildersleeve