Artist: RUSH
Album: 2112 REMASTERED (CD)

Release date: 1975/ 1997
EAN/UPS: 0731453462625
Media type: CD

2112 ("Twenty-One Twelve") is the fourth studio album by Canadian progressive rock band Rush, released in 1976 (see 1976 in music). The Toronto dates of the 2112 tour were recorded and released as All the World's a Stage in September 1976.

The album 2112 features an eponymous seven-part suite with lyrics written by Neil Peart. The suite tells a dystopian story set in the year 2112. Since the album got its name from this suite, many fans think of it as a concept album. Technically it is not, as the songs on the second side are completely unrelated to the plot of the suite. Rush would repeat this arrangement in Hemispheres.

Main article: 2112 (song) :
In the year 2062, a galaxy-wide war results in the union of all planets under the rule of the Red Star of the Solar Federation. The world is controlled by the Priests of the Temples of Syrinx, who determine the content of all reading matter, songs, pictures - every facet of life during the year 2112 ("The Temples of Syrinx"). A man finds a guitar and learns to play new, different music from what he has ever heard. When he goes to present this to the priests of the Temples, they destroy the guitar. He goes into hiding and dreams of music; upon awakening he becomes severely depressed and commits suicide after a few more days in hiding. As he dies, another planetary battle begins ("Grand Finale") resulting in the (perhaps deliberately) ambiguous ending "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation: We have assumed control." (this spoken section was created by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson reportedly "messing around with a tape recorder")

A Mercury Records remaster was issued in 1997.

The tray has a picture of star with man painting with THE RUSH REMASTERS printed in all caps just to the left. All remasters from Rush through to Permanent Waves are like this. This is just like the cover art of Retrospective I.
The remaster album art has all of the elements including the back cover, the story of 2112, lyrics and gatefold shots of the band and the star with man logo which were absent from the original CD.

TRACKLIST:

"2112" (Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, Neil Peart) – 20:37
"I: Overture" – 4:32
"II: The Temples of Syrinx" – 2:13
"III: Discovery" – 3:29
"IV: Presentation" – 3:42
"V: Oracle: The Dream" – 2:00
"VI: Soliloquy" – 2:21
"VII: Grand Finale" – 2:14

"A Passage to Bangkok" (Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee, Neil Peart) – 3:34
"The Twilight Zone" – 3:17
"Lessons" – 3:51
"Tears" – 3:31
"Something for Nothing" (Geddy Lee, Neil Peart)– 3:59

All songs written by Neil Peart, except where noted.

LINE-UP:

Geddy Lee - bass, keyboards, vocals
Alex Lifeson - guitar
Neil Peart - drums, percussion
Hugh Syme - mellotron on "Tears"