After all of the " beer before liquor" phrases, A Passage to Bangkok just roars in unannounced, dragging in its dusty trail a couple of Zep knockoff riffs and almost silly lyrics about "golden acapulco nights" that Tool stole. But beyond the title track, the rest of the album more or less just comes in. of the Tinpolzzzz of Seereeenks!" with a voice humans can't even reach? Indeed, even with all the silly sci-fi references and the Geddyshriek, everything just feels right here. Who else could stand up and shriek "Weeee are the Preeests.
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2112 is Rush using their potential well right down to the rockin' fury in the second part of 2112 ( Temple of Syrinx) and the use of synths in the Twilight Zone knockoff track. They've got a crafty use of time signatures that would throw Oceansize a little off balance, an excellent use of instrumental passages, and accompanied by the correct mixture of instruments: the guitars, bass, organs, acoustics, pathos, they even threw in a mellotron that everyone started to abuse. First of all, Rush has definitely topped their progressive style here in the album. Truth be told, it's a very dopey story, one that sounds a little too much like the very real story of Joseph Smith finding The Book of Mormon. The hero then finds a six-string instrument that will bring peace - however, he has the instrument pretty much shoved up his ass and he drowned his sorrows in. Life kind of sucks for everyone there watching templevision or reading Temple Daily - WAY before the Templora or Templana spread. Based loosely on objectivst Ayn Rand's small little novella Anthem (though it's hard to say whether this was deliberate or not), it tells a story about a paranoid little citizen from a fake world named Megadon, another of those cautionary brave new worlds, controlled by its politico-religious leaders, the Priests of Syrinx. Their debut record, Rush, was a practice run Fly by Night showed some passing gleams of potential - and to a lesser extent, Caress of Steel - and finally, 2112 gives a great amount of light to Rush discovering their spot.
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(Obviously, this was far from true) But these players wielded their instruments of choice and on a rainy February morning made the album that finally got them back on track in the public's eye: 2112. That much is evident, and Rush was pretty much considered a trio of hippies who take their shirts to the dry cleaners, take hesitant sips of $7 beer, and who hid themselves in their mothers' basements to watch Rocky for the thirteenth time. Even with the release of really good albums like Fly by Night and Caress of Steel, it took Rush a good number of years to really catch on.