What's the best track on "2112"

I'm afraid none of us will be around to see the results, but the suite will of course win anyway :)

haha.

I really like "Tears" but the suite would have to win if only for the intro.

This would've been more interesting if you had broken down the suite into its individual parts.

I would go with "...Bangkok," but I prefer the live version on Exit Stage Left, so I'm going with the whole ridiculous 2112 suite. Everybody now....'WE ARE THE PRIIIEEESSTS.....'

Do not start the 'In The Year 2525' poll, Geir...

Of course it's the suite - no contest.

Hmmm.. Now there's an idea... :)
That song doesn't end until 9595 though.... ;)

You're kidding with this poll, right? I love the whole thing, but the suite is just fucking sick. The version on All the World... is even better, if that's possible.

You're kidding with this poll, right?

Well, you could always look at the deadline ;), but I am very serious about the suite being obviously best. The rest I don't like much at all.

"2112" itself, obviously. If the suite were broken down to its components, I'd probably say "Temples of Syrinx" (Geddy Lee at his most hysterical.)

i like the part of the suite where he takes the guitar to the priests and they shoot him down, I forget the title, "presentation" maybe?

I'd probably rank "Temples Of Syrinx" as my least favourite moment in the suite. Way too heavy rock for my taste.

No way. Syrinx is the record's high point. Separating Rush from "heavy rock" is just insane.

"Discovery"/"Presentation"

The problem with voting for the suite as a whole is that it has its great moments (Syrinx) and it's irredeemably silly ones ("when I touch it...it gives forth a sound..."). But for the whole Ayn-Rand-dickshittedness of it, colossal dud.

^^^ BANISH

Apart from the heavy rock, the Ayn Rand thing is my main problem about "2112".

I prefer their slightly later works (1977 to 1982 in particular), but did this poll mainly as a joke anyway :)

Since there was about 10 years between me first hearing "2112" and first hearing of Ayn Rand, I reckon you can enjoy the former with any impact from the latter.

"without any impact from the latter", soz.

Yes, I can. I do have more problems with Geddy Lee's heavy metal screaming. Which is why I prefer their slightly later output to this.

To condemn 2112 for its "Objectivist" sympathies is unfair (and so dated as to be kinda funny). Sure, it's an anticommunist parable, but so's Vonnegut's Harrison Bergeron, and they're similarly inoffensive, even laudable.

Right, i couldn't care less about Ayn rand, and Peart has said that her influence on him has been overrated anyway. All that matters is the album kicks truckloads of ass.

When you're 14 it's just a cool dystopian sci-fi story, right?

we have assumed control we have assumed control we have assumed control

Zactly. Like Red Barchetta.

I'm afraid none of us will be around to see the results

you will still be here!

Well, OK, I guess I'll still be around at 141 in the beginning of 2112. But will ILM be around then? :)

Peart has said that her influence on him has been overrated anyway.

Well, he dedicated 2112 to her, and pretty much based it (and a bunch of other songs) on her writings, so what did he expect?

Anyway, I only listen to it now for Geddy's "Try THIS, Robert Plant!" singing, which is the perfect test of the limits of the absurdity of that style; and to play "we have assumed control" backwards, because it says "I sing for Satan."

my favorite Rush album remains the first, sans Peart...where art thou, John Rutsey?

2112 easily wins this. I love the live version of 2112 on Different Stages. Somehow, 25 years later, they managed to rock this even harder than the original.

Reminding you there is still a way to go until the deadline....

When I first heard this album, I didn't realize that the concept ended with side 1. I assumed that after the elder race (or whoever) assumed control of all planets of the solar federation, a small band of music lovers fled through Bangkok to start a new civilization, etc....

Syrinx is what actually got me to realize that Rush is awesome.

Bangkok is the one I Dj from this album.

Soliloquy (from the suite) is a current fave.

Side B deserves more credit than it gets, but what can you do when your Side A is that fucking awesome?