predicting what's basically enrolling in our societies ... technocracy

Agreed. Also a work of art.

Even better is that they made this in response to their label saying "hey you guys need to make more songs that are radio-friendly" And they were like "Pfft how about no"

@@Havazik Was this song ever played on the radio?

Honk!

yeah, its a kick straight up the cornhole followed by an epic solo!

listening on 21/12/22

Epic🔔❤🎁🎈

Same :)

Agreed! Yet, the 'graphic novel' vid is about as Classic! as it gets!, eh? I love my friends from Canadia!

@@govetter First time I've watched this version with the drawings. I was SO glad to see that Rush made sure to show the protagonist still alive at the end, and able to witness the Elders come to tear the temples down! I was always a bit sad at the end of 2112 before, since that poor tortured man ended it all seemingly right before the fulfilment of his dream. It's really nice that he made it, and went on to see his World change to the way he wanted it

You know, it can be taken this way as well. Your thinking is well.above many folks pay grade!!!

Ohica? Sisterhood of Karn. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ip-GlsV-yJ3VkaM.html

The evil NWO will never prevail! HALLELUYAH come soon Yeshua ! Revelation 11:18.

@@markdemell3717 interesting it seems I have met a crazy in the wild

I don't know why, but I don't think most people have noticed Alex Lifesons use of the wah pedal in this song. He used it heavily to make a lot of white noise during his solo to represent the guitar being smashed into pieces by the priests.

Honestly I 100% agree. I’m thankful to live in a time where RUSH exists.

But what about Poutine? 🤤

@@harveybernstein9203 It's was a delicious item when purchased at Timmy Hortens in Kandahar AB back in the day. I'll allow that it should be in the Canadian Hall of Cuisine Fame!🍁

Damn right

I agree. I was asked is it really only 3 guys, yes it is. Best concert I've been to.

Yes.

Perfectly stated!

This is the first album I listened to front to back without skipping a song. This is a true masterpiece.

Privileged to see Rush open their gig with this classic many many years ago and I was literally 15 feet away from Geddy . Memorable

I think that there's a lot of dynamics, very different from heavy metal productions of the same or later times. A lot of subtle notes and softness.

My brother and I used to talk about an animated version for this song 35 years ago. My brother saw the priest jumping off the bench and smashing the guitar.

This is so accurately depicted of what our collective imagination invisioned!

IKR? Perfect!

I just LOVE this!! It’s very close to what I’ve always pictured in my mind too.👍

Yes and it's on the way!

True ,grew up listen to Rush ,seen em live ,such a loss ,today ,

@@billdysert7109 Me too. A sad day for Rush fans.. Saw them on the Permanent Waves tour... in Deaside (near Chester, UK).

Hard to believe...I grew up listening to Rush and Neil Peart's blistering percussion. He will be missed :( I am sad today. But as long as future generations have access to his music, that makes me happy. Perhaps they [percussionists] will have a great model to advance their careers.

I am with you Gunslinger. I've been jamming to RUSH since the news broke. This truly sucks, first Moon, then Bonham, and last year Baker, now Neil.

the will always be another

I still havent gotten that one down.

...And where can I get one of those Lifeson brand guitars! They really stand the test of time!

I learned "Tom Sawyer" in two weeks, granted I skipped the solo and only play it well enough that you can kinda hear that it's "Tom Sawyer".

Plus he coincidentally wrote it himself over of hundred years after it was originally written.

@Mike O'Lynn that's already happening

He's routinely cited as one of the best, no one in this band is under rated

Yeah. Even Neal Schon can play better than that guy. And don't get me started on Eddie Van Halen.

@@spectrumdisorder He said he was underrated not Jimi Hendrix (not that you need to list off all the guitarists that are better than hendrix either)

I think he's overlooked, not underrated.

@@spectrumdisorder Neal Schon is nowhere near Lifeson.

When my son was in high school he started listening to rap and one night we were alone and I asked him if he wanted to hear some real base I put rush in my stero and he was never the same .

+JPNDovahkiin Illuminazi confirmed ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

I did nazi this comment coming. (Aww, that's so bad...)

nice job.

Gleison Ferreira :D

+JPNDovahkiin 2+1=3 1+2=3 half life 3 confirmed

Exactly... I would like to add I think he was a real genius... RUSH left us a treasure!

And he was a kind and spiritual man. So rare in today's world. Sad he's gone. A great hole in my heart.

Add a class A Jerk

@@detzep33 Don't be so hard on yourself, as long as you know your faults you can overcome them.

Those animated shots in this vid are AMAZING!

Those days back in Canadia! Perfect!

The Holy Triumvirate

Yup. I like my Era! Musically, the Best of the Best!

@@banglin1985😂 in a manner of speaking!

The truth is they had no idea that Neil had such astounding lyrics writings skills. Actually Neil didn’t either. He was just auditioning to be a drummer. He got the job, then blew them away with his mind blowing lyrical skills. An incredibly coincidental, or blessed set of circumstances.

Yupp

Afterimage. One of my favorite songs.

I am here because of the news I received last night stating the professor had passed. This is and always has been my favorite album.

Well said!

Farewell to a King

I always heard it was about a dream that Alex had and he and Neil wrote the song together because Neil thought it sounded really cool.

The song is a lot of things, a criticism of authoritarianism and control, a tribute, and a big fat middle finger to the record company.

They made a conscious decision that they were going to make music their way, recording contract or not. They all felt that it might be their last album.

I have only one thing to say about that funny statement...... Tom Sawyer 👽

I think it's much deeper. The higher ones of Humanity. THE Origins of man. Mankind.

And I just love how they preserved the feedback on the final note. I've been listening to this album since it was on vinyl, and that's how its supposed to end!

“Attention all planets of the solar federation” x 3. “We have assumed control” x 3. 21-12

It took awhile for them to return

"Farewell To Kings" is my fave.. When that Tom Sawyer song came out I stopped buying Rush.. Vintage Rush is so much BETTER!

@@donnaedelen1199 Hemispheres is the Utopia for me, but Agreed!

@HuxleyVincentHitchcockPriceAlbertOrwell Certainly. But I think 2112 would be a more popular choice.

Right on!

As a dancer and Rush fan, I love this

@@liliajensen5429 He's actually studying dance in Vancouver BC. For his rhythm analysis class, he chose The Spirit of Radio!

It's been 7 months now, did he ever get any of it figured out?

when it came to musical compositions and technical ability....neils writtings and rush as musicians,well they are above others, 2112 was shere brilliance,but then so was many of neils writtings..... theres one i love as much as 2112... necromancer... some parts are so deep !!! as for music: RUSH took music to its highest extremities of its ambitions,beyond comparisons,to simplify in words RUSH reached the ultimate...PERFECTION !

@@leonardyardley771 2112 my favourite album by rush the more hear it the more I like. It was a bit before my time but I still discovered it probably by being Canadian and living in Ontario for a bit. Kids today are missing out that’s why I like to share stuff like this with younger people who don’t know it. Kinda how I got into it actually. But your comment is spot on my friend

3:02 best solo ever

@Syx yep same here and I like it as much or more than I did 20 years ago

@@leonardyardley771 Yes's Gates Of Delirium spanks this song like the infant it is.

That's a great idea! Dang!

I see what you did there

Ever since I first heard this song, I've wanted to make a mini movie of it. It would be such an amazing movie dude, it's already all set up and everything

RUSH and Pink Floyd...my two favorites of all time...and both bands way ahead of their time.

Don't forget Shine On You Crazy Diamond too

"this is majestic" words from a dream theater member while sitting outside a rush concert listening to rush. and thus began the bands first name Majesty...

Absolutely agree 👍

Almost sounds like the war of Lemuria and Atlantis, but that sounds like a conspiracy theory right ?

« Its »

✨✨✨Yes, and it's music at its very best. ✨✨✨

Back in 76 a tape or punch card computer usually filled an entire room, so they were on point when they filled the halls with the old Univac system.

Well... since we will be dead before the year 2112. I really hope people will listen to this album on that year.

@@goknighthawksgo And I hope that our world won't be like this one of the song.

@@DsantosGE4PA - It's already much, much worse.

@@twoshedsjackson6478 We'll just leave our old problems with the new generation and die, as always.

Kevin Ruppert I actually laughed out loud at this comment.

If course he was - they broke his guitar!

@@Torqueware Figures

Yeah I would think so.

My friends, I think we have found the joke of the century.

The deep state priests are now firmly in charge unfortunately.

If not more meaningful

​@@MusicissuperiorEVHROX316was gonna say same thing....definitely more so now I feel...from a song made 40 yrs ago. Proof Neil was an alien because no human can play like that dude 😂

Timeless. My Dad told me Rush was one of those bands that, while at their height, people either loved them or hated them .. there wasn't really an in between. And i feel the leading reason for that is because of how ahead of their time they were. They were visionaries. I'll be 36 on Monday. Dad passed in July 2021. I'm so thankful he was so into Rush that me and my siblings couldn't help but become fans.

@@grantmackinnon6449 Absolutely right. I mean, I respect Bonham and all the obvious ones, but in my own personal opinion, there are shite drummers, then bad drummers, then good drummers, then great ones, then fantastic ones, then amazing ones, and THEN there’s Neil Peart.

67 here

Saw Rush first time age 45 2002 , 2010, 2012, 2015 . Two Hour Forty Minute Long each time

That's what I'm saying!! Awesome album a Masterpiece.

Amen brother. Truer words have never been spoken.

Pranav Dwivedi haha that’s lucky

It's a masterpiece

@@markdemell3717 Take off the tinfoil hat

Best part of the whole song. Just think of what my life might be In a world like i have seen I dont think i can carry on Carry on this cold and empty life Oooooo noooooo

Imagine a world without Rush, and you will imagine a world like mythical 2112.

That is an epic story!!

Psychic Wars B.O.C.

I built a playlist on spotify called Symphonic Voyages that addresses that very thing. Check it out sometime. You might not enjoy all of my choices, but you will find that Rush is well represented. =D

​@UnYin99 I can't find the playlist :( do you have a link?

@Brad Martin...common mistake...pls correct the spelling of his name....great words!

🔈🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🔊🎶🎶🥂🎶🎶

Brad Martin sorry to correct you but in the song’s story, The Solar Federation are the evil guys. The good guys (which Neil Peart should be a part of) are the Elder Race of Men.

REVELATION 11:18 The NWO will never prevail! HALLELUYAH!

@@julianholland4009 Psychic Wars B.O.C.

Hey, Daniel! Your heart may not be kicking up steam but your soul might be! You still may have a lot to do!

Never give up, never give in, keep pushing on and on and on...

Thank you 😏

Imagine listening to this in 2112

@@chairylyme I would be 142 at that point. If I make it that long, it will be played and listened to.

Outstanding!!! The heart and soul connection, you never just listen to RUSH, you're along for the ride...

Technically...... NOPE!

i mean he was brilliant, but not the best.

@@mrslinkydragon9910 And that's your opinion.

@@heyscrewyouhippies7742 and thats your opinion to disagree with me, which i respect

*snorts line of cheeto dust*

Alex is a brilliant guitarist

All three of them are very musically talented.

Who said he was underrated?

wikiwikiwee I think that most people familiar with great guitarists would include Alex among them.

Whovian1029 In reality its a bit pointless to care if people like him or not, but when i see certain players being mentioned all the time i cant help but think of players like Alex. In every top list theres always Slash etc. Alex destroys most of them!

That sound really great, ive just discovered rush and already wanna learn all the songs on bass lol.

I was 18 in 2112

I was the same,, age too, Columbian red bud. Loved em all this time.. YAA oh YAA

Similiar memories, but early 80s discovering Rush, ELP and Yes. And no bong, I wouldnt dare at 13 in the living room, but bet your ass I walked the dog and blazed up before I got set up in the living room.

Me too:( miss the past. This was my favorite album, also, along with "The Song Remains the Same" Love your description of the" blinking red lights" from the broadcast towers.

I know 😂

IKR?

Well, this is true for me as well, but I find peace in the fact that there is a different 2112 hidden in the song. At the very end, the message from the Elder Race of Man: Attention, all planets of the Solar Federation. Attention, all planets of the Solar Federation. Attention, all planets of the Solar Federation. We have assumed control. We have assumed control. We have assumed control. The first sentence has 7 words. The second different sentence has 4 words. Both sentences are repeated 3 times. 7x3=21 4x3=12 2112.

same lmao

@@AJLord You are Awesome!, Ty!

Totally agree!!!

Had that same Supertuner in my Cuda.

And 8 track lol

Oh man !!! The Super Tuner !! Forgot about that unit. I had one also. That was a great time and we had no idea just how dense the quality of media/music was as we lived it. Bring back the musician.... and the 8 track ClaChunk lol

Steven Ford had that in my ford nova. Note the tense

I couldn’t agree more and Im 62🎉🎉

I'm 35, I've been listening to it since the cradle, while my sister has been listening to it since the womb, literally. RUSH is the best.

I’m 32 and I was introduced to RUSH by my dad too. He’d blast this while washing cars in the driveway. I was like 3 years old and wondering what this music was. 😂😂😂😂😂

You must have an awesome dad.

Amen.

this song is magical. i always picture a scene in my head. just brilliant

I usually picture the walking dead t.v. show in my head. Lol. But sometimes I picture being in another dimension/World.

Hey thanks for showing this, my older brother explained this album to me years ago and with the video you've shown it's exactly what he told me. Understand he went to the concert but this was back in the day before he would this video was out.

Huge Slime

No doubt!! This is my fav band and album ever!!

It’s okay I was thinking about this today, and the glory of music is that we a little slice of them at their fucking best at that’s all I need

Revelation 11:18 .The NWO's time is coming to an end!

Maybe he was needed back home. Perhaps he will visit again

Yes R.I.P. Neil. Probably one of the top three percussionists in music history.

Because rush

Just cause RUSH

Welcome to the club

+Damien Rogers I think you mean Geddy?

Thanks for proving my point!

David Urrutia Ha ha ha, thanks for proving my point! Alex plays the lead guitar.

+Union Blacksmith actually, Geddy himself said in an interview he doesnt think slapping reflects his style and chooses not to slap. Same with Picking. He uses his fingernail to get that fat, full tone we all know and love.

@@davidurrutia7495 lmao you proved his point....... Thanks for the laugh dude

Thanks

That is dope dude. Thank you!!

totally dop

thank you very much

Unvultured Swine Thank you.

Pretty sure it was implied exactly that in the song. I think the illustrator just wanted to keep the story less dark

@@voxatious3920 correct sir

his life blood spilled over he was beliving in the priests etc and he dicovered its all bullshit ..

It's all open to interpretation. There's no correct answer.

A masterpiece indeed! It's the first Rush songs I ever heard and They have been my favorite band ever since!

@@TheCanuck1962 your opinion. My opinion is that they can have more than 1 masterpiece in fact they have several masterpieces! I have been listening to Rush since 1976 when 2112 was released and I have seen them live 7 times I'm pretty sure that I know what their masterpiece is and in my opinion it's 2112 among many! Just sayin!

@@davidwood5124 Agreed.. this group of musicians will never have just one.. cheers!

@@davidwood5124 4sure, hell, there's 2 or 3masterpieces on every album they ever created!

This was his best up until that point, but "Subdivisons" and "Time Stand Still" surpassed it.

Absolutely agreed with you.

Personally, I preferred it more without it. I guess I like music better without or at least with minimal visual accompaniment (in terms of the lyrics, not concerts, music videos, etc.) Still, you can't deny that it's an awesome video.

I never really cared about the lyrics but now I understand ....every piece of music combines with the lyrics...just great

Daniel De Villa I must agree. I like being 1 out of like 5 kids in my school that like rock and metal.

Turtleturd I wouldn't really call it metal but I think I know what you mean I used to go to a school where I was also one of 5 where this girl named ebby and me would argue over if guns and roses was good with they are but she prefers AC/DC and Metallica I'm not even sher if she knows who rush is but I wish I had stayed at school there to tell her

I know dude it captures the despairing feeling so well "Sadder still to watch it die than never to have know it."

Yeah this and a lot of others give me that same experience

Agreed 100%. Don't forget Yes, Hendrix, and The Doors.

@@eugeneaxe Thank God you didn't mention The police!! Sorry to mention the name of that hack band in the presence of RUSH

Amen

iron maiden

The Who? Uriah Heep?

jondeare and Operation Mindcrime !

@@maxotto9877 Will you post on your channel or something? I subscribed anyway

That’s a great idea.

Today is a great day cause I thought I lost my mind but I found it right where I left it.

@@brettjones4300 I agree with both. Especially Operation, underrated concept album.

My first album ever bought a Kmart in Dubuque was all the world's a stage. My first guitar Rickenbacker Bass Stone music

The song in its entirety is incredible of course, but Soliloquy is so indescribably beautiful

May God bless you

thank you kind human

@@hemispheres789 j

Scotchman That’s pretty awesome you and your dad digging Rush together! I remember taking my kids to a Rush concert! One beautiful experience!

Good times.

@Chris B My kids at 12; TURN THAT DOWN!!! My kids at 21; TURN THAT UP!!!!!

I thought its Red Barchetta

well said. now put on your headphones and listen to "something for nothing" by Rush😁

Amazing what a little aging will do to perception. In my 60s now and I appreciate this even more than when I was voraciously consuming this 40+ years ago in college.

Fumanchu1 5150 you didn’t even spell his name correctly. Some fan you are.

@Gunter Schtubert That's a stupid "new" way of spelling their. It's both wrong and annoying. See this all.over the place 😠 Oh well....

learn to spell Their correctly

Neil, and Rush will live on and continue to share their music thanks to You Tube.

Yes! Thanks for pointing out.

Yes, ready to save the future AND the past!

It's oddly happening. I have been hearing the song "Twilight Zone" in my head that last few days. I guess my subconscious pulled it up as it relates to towns being empty with the covid-19 lockdown. That made me want to come to listen to all of the lyrics again with a new way of looking at them, wondering what else they may have "foreseen". First I noticed a Mandella Effect. No one played this album more back in the day, just saying and In Temples of Syrinx its " Father and Son" not common sons. Also, the oracle was a SHE, not he. Anyway, there is a "Galactic Federation" that is a negative ET bloodline posing as good, trying to take over control from another not so good ET bloodline and that is what this whole shut down is about as was the creation of Trumps Space Force. Take note that they even copied the logo symbol from the Federations in Star Trek. They are fighting up there and a lot is happening behind the scenes. They want AI to take over and the vaccine has synthetic DNA , patented voice to skull tech, that with 5G will give total mind control of all humans. The computers in the walls and temples ( our bodies) is 5 and 6 G nanotech. Humans will become good little worker biological slaves run by the AI computer and sold as such and no one will be the wiser. All human creativity will be snuffed out as the right brain will be shut down and inaccessible. AI is the only thing allowed to create music or art and it will suck as if you haven't noticed, it is already putting out much of today's garbage. And, a group called Annonymous as you all know, just called out Bill Gates and his vaccine and they called out Trump in the past. Anonymous has been calling out the whole Federation take over. Look at the album and who wrote the story of 2112. Its says - Annonymous You can't make this shit up. It's happening.

@@cosmicjumpgate3038 God I love KZfaq comments. No better place to safely interact with unmedicated Schizophrenics. Please keep commenting! You are fascinating.

That’s an awesome story. And thanks to the people who dumped that dresser !

Mark McFly Enjoy the ride

That's what she said

Most underrated comment in the thread.

DJ Honeypants of course kkkkkkkkkkk

Thats inappropriate, ill allow it.

bad taste taken into old age

Neil is both

Legends are remembered, too.

Jimi the Schmuck I like to think he did kill himself but his death caused the people to rise up against the priests and bring the ancient people back.

stockjonebills same

Totally and there’s enough music by them to fill an entire film not just from this one song/album

Guitar Hero: Warriors Of Rock actually had this implemented as a crucial story point!

It had a part in the novel ready player one

@Jack Burton Not a ripoff, Peart gave credit to Rand for the influence for 2112.

And how clever to play as a beginner would in Discovery. The solo in Soliloquy cries out in anguish and helplessness also. Kudos to Lifeson.

Ditto… & w/greater appreciation

2024, and keep going

2024 now. The legacy of truth and beauty and music shall never go extinct.

Crown Lands are trying.

If you love this, go to Fly By Night next. I was so lucky. Back in the 70's there used to be a record store called Licorice Pizza, and they would open and play any new album you brought up to the counter. So we took fulI advantage of that policy. I brought 2112 up to the counter and the guy said I could have it if I would just leave! So I did! I was so pissed because they refused to play any of it on the radio. I used to call in and request Lessons and Something For Nothing. They never played any of it. Or anything off Fly By Night. I'm so happy they were finally recognized.

Holty The styracosaurus there isn't any thing better then these guys man

Tu viens de faire une fabuleuse découverte!

Holty The styracosaurus Welcome! Glad you found love and appreciation for what is the gloriousness of Rush's music. Rock on!

You have good friends

My local radio station played Rush ALL DAY!

Paurric me too bro....❤️🖖

@@ddd228 get out of here. All day? You might get lucky in Tulsa to catch two for Tuesday on KMOD. And always the same ones. They so many cool songs , it would take all day. Envious

Soliloquy*

they were the nerdiest band in the 70, since they were in college, hear some of their fantasy stuff, like Fountain Of Lamneth, The Necromancer and By-Tor And The Snow Dog

This is my "get somethings done" tune...

Go smoke one, get in tune yourself. Replay 777 times, then you will know every vibration.

The management of RUSH told them right before 2112 "You have to make shorter and simpler songs to be more radio-friendly!" They always give a fuck. Well done, dudes.

@@corporalhikks5355 lol... Dear Mozart...

Docwho10th Alex lifeson’s birthday is on day before mine

Mind-bending. (I was half-hoping that the song would've been 21:12 long)

Also the day after September 11th. Perhaps an early foreboding of the event that should have happened but didn't? We're a laughing stock now because we didn't show then what an attack on American soil brings, a precedence we set back in WWII. I woulda nuked the bastards, just like in the video!

dethaddr - If that were the case, wouldn’t it make more sense if it was 2111, as opposed to 2112?

Also, look at the time on the Clockwork Angels album - 21:12..