Rick N. Backer Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 It's an excellent album. I won't argue with anyone who considers it a masterpiece. But, if this it is a masterpiece what are the four or five albums that followed it considered? Super Deluxe Masterpieces? 2112: MasterpieceAFTK: Sacrosanct Magnum OpusHems: GreatPeW: Super Mega MasterpieceMP: Super MasterpieceSignals: Masterpiece ;) I would say Hemispheres - Moving Pictures are true masterpieces. Signals is a great album. AFTK isn't as good as 2112 or the 4 albums that came after it. Signals is full of songs weaker than anything off AFTK. Anything? Cygnus X-1 is really so atonal at times. Xanadu is really the only song from that album I LOVE. It's fine I am just really not into Signals. I've never liked that album. The songs all sound half baked to me. I like bits and pieces of some songs, but only Losing It do I love. As for AFTK it sounds terrific to my ears. I think if you're a prog fan in general, AFTK is a great Rush album. I like some prog, but I wouldn't call myself a fan. For me it's more the metal aspect. AFTK sounds to me like a classic seventies metal album (I actually think prog can be incredibly boring but I like metal tinged prog). I'd agree that it's more Rainbow or Deep Purple than Yes or ELP. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Segue Myles Posted August 4, 2018 Share Posted August 4, 2018 It's an excellent album. I won't argue with anyone who considers it a masterpiece. But, if this it is a masterpiece what are the four or five albums that followed it considered? Super Deluxe Masterpieces? 2112: MasterpieceAFTK: Sacrosanct Magnum OpusHems: GreatPeW: Super Mega MasterpieceMP: Super MasterpieceSignals: Masterpiece ;) I would say Hemispheres - Moving Pictures are true masterpieces. Signals is a great album. AFTK isn't as good as 2112 or the 4 albums that came after it. Signals is full of songs weaker than anything off AFTK. Anything? Cygnus X-1 is really so atonal at times. Xanadu is really the only song from that album I LOVE. It's fine I am just really not into Signals. I've never liked that album. The songs all sound half baked to me. I like bits and pieces of some songs, but only Losing It do I love. As for AFTK it sounds terrific to my ears. I think if you're a prog fan in general, AFTK is a great Rush album. I like some prog, but I wouldn't call myself a fan. For me it's more the metal aspect. AFTK sounds to me like a classic seventies metal album (I actually think prog can be incredibly boring but I like metal tinged prog). I'd agree that it's more Rainbow or Deep Purple than Yes or ELP. Gotta say I never quite got the prog label Rush got. I mean...yes long songs but they were never very proggy. Just lots of little songs meshed together in a nice way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 I would call the song a masterpiece, not necessarily the album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 I would call the song a masterpiece, not necessarily the album.:hi: Hi Eagle! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinwoodsman Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 It was an essential part of my yout! THEN, I had to grow up. Funny how Rand and Rush bent my mind at that time ... too much to digest, yet good food for thought, especially after APTB. I got nothin, really ... still wouldn't change a thing Was playing the acoustic on the porch tonight and Discovery was on the menu fwiw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steevo Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 I would call the song a masterpiece, not necessarily the album. :hi: Hi Eagle! All that really needs to be said. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 I would call the song a masterpiece, not necessarily the album.:hi: Hi Eagle! :hi: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LedRush Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 80% is perfect, 10% is funny and fun, 10% is mediocre. Stone cold classic album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeaveMyThingAlone Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 2112 is one of Rush's 6 or 7 timeless masterpieces within their catalog. The way music is going, they might be right on target with the story of the guitar being lost and forgotten. It seems I hear less and less great guitar on Rock music these days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taurus Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 Great Side 1Great album coverGreat album title1st appearance of the man in the star logo all this makes 2112 a timeless classic, oh and Side 2 ain't bad either Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fridge Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 (edited) There are the songs, and then there is what went into those songs and making that album It's not only a masterpiece musically, it is a landmark, and a defining moment in Rush's career in which they flipped the middle finger to not just the record execs who wanted something more sellable, but also to the peace and love commune mentality of music scene and pushed for being yourself, the individual, and rejecting the mass mentality .. I certainly hope that aspect will remain timeless Tears, Bangkok, Something For Nothing all could slip into my Rush Top10 on any given day ... 2112 will always be there .. Lessons and Twilight Zone aren't far behind There aren't too many albums that have this kind of history and impact in my book And love her or hate her, Ayn Rand was introduced to an entirely new generation and audience .. This. 2112 is a masterpiece not just for the stellar music, but also what it represented at the time...it truly was Rush's defining achievement, their "lightning in a bottle" moment. Edited August 8, 2018 by Fridge 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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