2112
Rush
Mercury 1079
Released: March 1976
Chart Peak: #61
Weeks Charted: 34
Certified Platinum: 2/25/81

This is Rush's first successful stab at a concept album. Like many of Rush's albums during the '70s, this one deals with a futuristic scenario where an individual triumphs over an impersonalized high-tech society. * * * *

- Rick Clark , The All-Music Guide to Rock, 1995.

2112 houses the sidelong title suite. * * *

- Gary Graff, Musichound Rock: The Essential Album Guide, 1996.

Waving in the metaphysical Rush, side one of the only sci-fi opera put to vinyl is devoted to the title track, a blissfully overblown 25-minute opus, inspired by Ayn Rand's novels, in which great literature and great rock collide. Fueled by Geddy Lee's howls, this conceptual album takes you to other planets and into oblivion. It was thinking man's metal -- or so we thought in 1976. * * * *

- Zagat Survey Music Guide - 1,000 Top Albums of All Time, 2003.

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