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| Released | April 1, 1976 | |||
| Recorded | February 1976 | |||
| Studio | Toronto Sound Studios (Toronto, Canada) | |||
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| Length | 38:42 | |||
| Label | Anthem | |||
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2112 (pronounced 'twenty-one twelve') is the fourth studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on April 1, 1976, by Anthem Records. After finishing touring for its previous album, Caress of Steel, in early 1976, the band was in financial hardship due to the album's disappointing sales, unfavorable critical reception, and a decline in attendance at its shows. The band's international label, Mercury Records, considered dropping Rush but granted the band one more album following negotiations with manager Ray Danniels. 2112 was recorded in February 1976 in Toronto with longtime producer Terry Brown. Its centerpiece is a 20-minute title track, a futuristic science-fiction song that takes up the entire first side of the album. There are five individual tracks on side two.
2112 was released to favourable reviews from music critics and quickly outsold the band's previous albums. It peaked at No. 5 on the Canadian Albums Chart and No. 61 on the U.S. Billboard Top LPs & Tape and was the band's commercial breakthrough there. Rush supported the album with a tour of the United States, Canada, and for the first time, Europe, from February 1976 to June 1977. 2112 remains the band's second-highest-selling album with more than 3 million copies sold in the United States. It is listed in 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die, and ranked second on Rolling Stone's reader's poll, Your Favorite Prog Rock Albums of All Time.[6]2112 has been reissued several times; a 40th Anniversary Edition was released in 2016 with previously unreleased material, including the album performed by artists including Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Steven Wilson, and Alice in Chains.
- 2Production
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Background[edit]
In January 1976, Rush ended its 1975–1976 tour to support the band's third studio album, Caress of Steel. The band members had enjoyed writing and recording the album, but Lifeson recalled the group in a state of confusion after the tour, sensing the disappointing reaction from crowds after playing songs from it on stage.[7] The progressive rock-themed album with lengthy, story-based songs, complex song structures, and hard-to-grasp lyrics, made it difficult to receive radio airplay and promote effectively.[7] Lee said the band could not understand the underwhelming response, and later dubbed the tour the 'Down the Tubes Tour' as the band members struggled to meet their $125-a-week salary while crowds declined.[8] Lee added, 'That really shakes your confidence. We were so confused and disheartened'.[7] In 1980, Lifeson picked this moment of the band's history as the only time he felt close to giving up.[9]
To make matters worse, Caress of Steel raised concerns for management at Mercury Records, the band's international label, which considered dropping Rush. Band manager Ray Danniels then flew to the label's head offices in Chicago to try to regain confidence in the band and spoke highly of the band's new ideas for a new album without hearing any of it. Mercury complied and gave the green light to one more album.[7] Despite pressure from the label and management to make a more commercial record, the band ignored the advice and proceeded with material as they saw fit.[7] Lifeson questioned the musical direction the band was taking at such a crucial time in the band's history. 'I remember having these conversations about, 'What are we going to do? Are we going to try to make another mini-Led Zeppelin record or are we going to do what we are going to do and continue forward and whatever happens, happens?' That's what we honestly decided to do. We fully intended to go down in flames but we were prepared to do that.'[7]
Production[edit]
Very interesting for the most part, but I'm not jazzed about the cover versions. I could not care less. If they released a CD of those covers on its own, it would sell 100 copies and be selling for a penny within a year.
Writing and recording[edit]
Rush began to put down musical ideas for 2112 in backstage dressing rooms, hotel rooms and in their touring van during the Caress of Steel tour.[8] As Peart started to write lyrics, Lee and Lifeson would write music that complimented the mood of what Peart was writing about.[10] Most of it was performed on acoustic guitars with the exception of some electric guitar passages with a portable Pignose practice amplifier.[7] They focused on writing music with little need for overdubbing, as they wished to recreate it on stage as much as possible.[11] Lifeson recalled developing 'The Temples of Syrinx' backstage at a gig in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in front of their opening act Mendelson Joe.[7] The album was written in approximately six months,[11] with 'Overture' being the final piece developed.[12] Rush made a conscious effort to exclude Danniels from the writing and recording sessions, and only played the album to him when it was finished.[7] Musically speaking, 2112 was the first album that Lifeson said 'really sounded like Rush'.[8]
2112 was recorded in February 1976 across four weeks at Toronto Sound Studios, with longtime associate Terry Brown assuming his role as producer.[13][11][7] The studio was fitted with a 24-track machine manufactured by Studer. Lifeson plays a 1968 Gibson ES-335 for the majority of the electric guitar parts on 2112, with some lead parts played on a Gibson Les Paul Standard. For the acoustic sections, he plays a 12-string Gibson B-45 and a six-string Gibson Dove. His amplifiers were the Fender Super Reverb and a Twin Reverb.[9] A section of 'Discovery' features Lifeson playing a Fender Stratocaster that he borrowed from a friend.[8] At the time of recording 2112, Lee was using a Rickenbacker 4001 bass with stereo output, which Brown fed one channel directly into the mixing board and fed into a compressor, and the other channelled into Lee's Electro-Voice speakers turned up to maximum.[7] Upon completion, the band expressed an interest to record in another studio to explore different sounds.[14]
Songs[edit]
Side one[edit]
Side one of the album is occupied by the 20-minute futuristic science fiction song '2112'. The seven-part track is based on a story by Peart, the band's primary lyricist, who credits 'the genius of Ayn Rand' in the album's liner notes. Rand, a Russian-born, Jewish-American novelist, and inventor of the philosophy of Objectivism, wrote the 1937 dystopian fictional novella Anthem, the plot of which bears several similarities to 2112, and all members read the book.[15] Peart added the credit to avoid any legal action. The credit caused the band significant negative publicity, with many labelling them right-wing extremists. In the British paper NME, Barry Miles made allusions to Nazism, which particularly offended Lee, whose parents were Holocaust survivors.[7] The first and last sections, 'Overture' and 'Grand Finale', respectively, are instrumental and borrows a short sequence from 1812 Overture by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.[7][8] The 'Overture' features an introduction from graphic designer and musician Hugh Syme performed on an ARP Odyssey synthesizer with an Echoplex Delay pedal. Music writer and professor Rob Bowman calculated that in the entire piece, 2:34 of the song contains improvised guitar solos.[7] 'Overture' contains the lyric 'And the meek shall inherit the earth', a reference to the Biblical passages Book of Psalms 37:11 and Matthew 5:5.[7]
'2112' tells a story set in the city of Megadon in the year 2112,[16] 'where individualism and creativity are outlawed with the population controlled by a cabal of malevolent Priests who reside in the Temples of Syrinx'.[7] A galaxy-wide war resulted in the planets forcefully joining the Solar Federation (symbolized by the 'Red Star'). By 2112, the world is controlled by the priests who take orders from giant banks of computers inside the temple.[16] Music is unknown in the world absent of creativity and individuality, but in 'Discovery', a nameless man finds a beaten guitar inside a cave and rediscovers the lost art of music.[10][16][10] In 'Presentation', the man takes the guitar to the priests at the temple, who say, 'Yes, we know, it's nothing new; it's just a waste of time', and then proceed angrily to destroy it and banish him. Next, in 'Oracle: The Dream', the man dreams of a new planet, established at the same time as the Solar Federation, where creative people live.[10] He awakens, depressed that music is part of such a civilization and that he can never be part of it, and commits suicide, in 'Soliloquy', originally titled 'Soliloquy of the Soul'.[7] Another planetary war begins in 'Grand Finale',[15] originally named 'Denouement',[7] resulting in the ambiguous spoken ending: 'Attention all planets of the Solar Federation: We have assumed control'. Peart described the ending as a 'double surprise ... a real Hitchcock killer'.[16]
Side two[edit]
Side two contains five individual songs that display the band's more traditional hard-rock sound and Lee's higher-pitched vocals featured on their previous albums.[10] Lifeson said having a title track more serious, the rest of the album was to be 'just a little lighter and a little more fun'.[7] Bowman wrote the variation of styles on side two offers 'a very different listening experience' in comparison.[7] Though the tracks are not specifically about the '2112' concept, they do contain ideas that can relate to its overall theme.[15] Lee wrote the lyrics for 'Tears' and Lifeson the lyrics to 'Lessons', while Peart wrote the rest.[17]
'A Passage to Bangkok' is a song about marijuana; Lee said it is 'a travelogue for all the places in the world that grow the best weed'. The track mentions a number of cities and countries, including Bogotá, Acapulco, Morocco, Bangkok and Kathmandu, Nepal.[12] Rush started to write 'The Twilight Zone' at a time when they needed one more song to fill both sides of the vinyl record. The band were big fans of the television series The Twilight Zone and based the track on the stories written for it from its host, Rod Serling.[12] 'Lessons' is one of the few Rush songs written solely by Lifeson. For him, the process of songwriting is more seldom and spontaneous in comparison to dedicating time to write, rehearse and scrap parts that do not work.[9] 'Tears' is a romantic ballad and is the first Rush track to incorporate the Mellotron, which Syme performs.[12] 'Something for Nothing' is a song about freewill and decision making.[12] Regarding this song, Peart states: 'All those paeans to American restlessness and the American road carried a tinge of wistfulness, an acknowledgement of the hardships of the vagrant life, the notion that wanderlust could be involuntary, exile as much as freedom, and indeed, the understanding that freedom wasn't free. In the mid-1970s, the band was driving to a show in downtown Los Angeles, at the Shrine Auditorium, and I noticed some graffiti splattered across a wall: 'Freedom isn't free', and I adapted that for a song on 2112.'
Artwork[edit]
Also known as the 'Man in the Star' logo, the Starman emblem was adopted by Rush fans as a logo since its first appearance in the gatefold of 2112. Peart described the Starman in an interview with Creem magazine:
All [the naked man] means is the abstract man against the masses. The red star symbolizes any collectivist mentality.
On the album art, the 'collectivist mentality' is depicted as the Red Star of the Solar Federation, which, according to the plot, is a galaxy-wide federation that controls all aspects of life during the year 2112. The figure in the emblem is depicted as the 'Hero'. Hugh Syme, the creator of many of Rush's album covers, commented on the design: 'The man is the hero of the story. That he is nude is just a classic tradition ... the pureness of his person and creativity without the trappings of other elements such as clothing. The red star is the evil red star of the Federation, which was one of Peart's symbols. We basically based that cover around the red star and that hero.'
The logo also appears on seven other Rush album covers: on the backdrop behind Peart's drumkit in All the World's a Stage, their first live album released in 1976; in one of the pictures that is being moved in Moving Pictures; on Retrospective I; on Archives, a compilation album released in 1978; on their 1981 live album Exit...Stage Left, in the background amongst symbols from all their previous work; on their 2003 compilation The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974–1987; and on their 2004 EP Feedback. It is also featured on the Canada Post stamp honouring Rush issued 19 July 2013.[18] It also was featured on the front bass drum heads of Peart's drum kit from 1977 to 1983, and again on the 2004 R30 and 2015 R40 tours.
Reception[edit]
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | [19] |
| Rolling Stone | (Deluxe)[20] |
| The Guardian | [21] |
| PopMatters | [22] |
Cashbox praised the album, calling it 'a valid and melodic tale ... the story/song is a definite cohesive listen'.[11] In an article about 2112 for Creem, Dan Nooger wrote the album 'features some significant Mellotron meanderings and amazingly eccentric lyrics'.[10]
- 2112 was included in IGN's list '10 Classic Prog Rock Albums'.[23]
- In a reader's poll held by Rolling Stone, it placed second on the list of favourite Prog Rock albums.[24]
- AllMusic's Greg Prato (4.5 out of 5): '1976's 2112 proved to be their much sought-after commercial breakthrough and remains one of their most popular albums.'[19]
The Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, a non-profit Canadian charitable organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of Canada's audio-visual heritage, has sponsored MasterWorks, which annually recognizes twelve culturally significant Canadian classics from the film, radio, TV and music industries. In 2006, 2112 was one of the albums chosen to be preserved.
In 2018, the album won the Polaris Heritage Prize Audience Award in the 1976–1985 category.[25]
Ultimate Classic Rock included the album on their list of the 'Top 100 '70s Rock Albums'.[26]
Commercial performance[edit]
2112 was released on April 1, 1976,[7][19] on vinyl, 8-track cartridge, and cassette tape. It received strong promotion from Polydor, the distributor of Mercury Records albums, who issued an advertising campaign based on graphics on the album sleeve, in major trade publications.[11] It became Rush's second album after Fly by Night to enter the top ten on the Canadian Albums Chart, peaking at No. 5.[27] In the US, it peaked at No. 61 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart, the week of May 29, 1976, during a 37-week stay on the chart. It also marked the band's first to crack the US top 100.[28]
The album sold faster than any of Rush's previous albums.[11] In June 1976, the album had outsold the band's past catalogue in Canada and the US,[15] selling close to 35,000 and over 200,000 copies, respectively.[29]2112 became a strong seller in the US; it reached gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) in November 1977 for selling 500,000 copies.[30] In November 1995, the album reached triple platinum for selling over 3 million copies, becoming Rush's second-biggest seller after Moving Pictures.[30][31]
Reissues[edit]
| Year | Label | Format | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Anthem | CD | [32] |
| 1993 | Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab | CD | As part of the 'Original Master Recordings' collection with a 24k gold-plated disc.[33][34] |
| 1997 | Anthem/Mercury | CD | As part of 'The Rush Remasters' collection.[35] |
| 2011 | Anthem | CD | Digitally remastered by Andy VanDette as part of the reissue of Rush's Mercury-era albums.[36] |
| 2012 | Mercury | CD, DVD, Blu-ray | Digitally remastered Deluxe Edition including a 5.1 surround sound mix and bonus content.[37][38] |
| 2015 | Anthem/Mercury/Universal | LP | Digitally remastered by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios on 200g vinyl and AAC digital format.[39][40][41] |
| 2016 | Anthem/Mercury/Universal | CD, DVD | 40th Anniversary Edition with bonus content, including new studio tracks featuring various musicians performing the album.[42] |
| 2018 | LP | Limited edition (5,000 copies) opaque blue vinyl |
Tour[edit]
Rush promoted 2112 with a concert tour of the United States, Canada, and for the first time in their career, across Europe, between February 1976 and June 1977. The tour saw the band perform over 140 shows.[7] To make their set tighter, 'Discovery' and 'Oracle: The Dream' were omitted from the performance of the '2112' suite. Rush would not perform the track in its entirety until their 1996 tour following the release of Test for Echo.[7] The shows at Massey Hall in Toronto in June 1976 were recorded and compiled for release as their double live album All the World's a Stage, released in September 1976.
Track listing[edit]
All lyrics written by Neil Peart, except where noted; all music composed by Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, except where noted.
| Side one | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | '2112'
| 20:34 |
| Side two | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 2. | 'A Passage to Bangkok' | 3:32 |
| 3. | 'The Twilight Zone' | 3:16 |
| 4. | 'Lessons' (Lyrics: Lifeson) | 3:51 |
| 5. | 'Tears' (Lyrics: Lee) | 3:30 |
| 6. | 'Something for Nothing' (Music: Lee) | 3:59 |
| 2012 Deluxe Edition bonus tracks | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 7. | 'I. Overture' (Live at Northlands Coliseum, 1981) | 4:31 |
| 8. | 'II. The Temples of Syrinx' (Live at Northlands Coliseum – Edmonton, AB, Canada, 25 June 1981[43]) | 2:19 |
| 9. | 'A Passage to Bangkok' (Live at Manchester Apollo – Manchester, England, 17 June 1980[43]) | 3:57 |
| 2016 40th Anniversary Edition bonus disc | ||
|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Length |
| 1. | 'Solar Federation' | 0:18 |
| 2. | 'Overture' (Performed by Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins and Nick Raskulinecz) | 4:01 |
| 3. | 'A Passage to Bangkok' (Performed by Billy Talent) | 3:37 |
| 4. | 'The Twilight Zone' (Performed by Steven Wilson) | 4:21 |
| 5. | 'Tears' (Performed by Alice in Chains) | 4:21 |
| 6. | 'Something for Nothing' (Performed by Jacob Moon) | 3:54 |
| 7. | '2112' (Live at Massey Hall Outtake) | 15:50 |
| 8. | 'Something for Nothing' (Live at Massey Hall Outtake) | 4:08 |
| 9. | 'The Twilight Zone' (Live 1977 Contraband) | 3:28 |
| 10. | '2112 1976 Radio Ad' | 1:00 |
Personnel[edit]
Credits are adapted from the album's 1976 liner notes.[13]
Rush
- Geddy Lee – vocals, bass guitar
- Alex Lifeson – electric and acoustic guitar
- Neil Peart – drums, percussion
Additional musician
- Hugh Syme – ARP Odyssey synthesizer on 'Overture', Mellotron on 'Tears'
Production
- Rush – production, arrangement
- Terry Brown – arrangement, production, recording, engineering, mixing
- Brian Lee – mastering
- Bob Ludwig – mastering
- Hugh Syme – graphics
- Yosh Inouye – photography
- Gerard Gentil – photography (band)
- Ray Danniels – management
- Vic Wilson – management
- Moon Records – executive production
Certifications[edit]
| Country | Organization | Sales |
|---|---|---|
| U.S. | RIAA | 3× Platinum (3,000,000)[44] |
| Canada | CRIA | 2× Platinum (200,000)[45] |
| UK | BPI | Gold (100,000)[46] |
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External links[edit]
- 2112 (Adobe Flash) at Radio3Net (streamed copy where licensed)
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10. Limbo
11. Carve Away The Stone
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01. One Little Victory
02. Ceiling Unlimited
03. Ghost Rider
04. Peaceable Kingdom
05. The Star Look Down
06. How It Is
07. Vapor Trail
08. Secret Touch
09. Earthshine
10. Sweet Miracle
11. Nocturne
12. Freeze (Part IV Of 'Fear')
13. Out Of The Cradle
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01. Far Cry
02. Armor And Sword
03. Workin' Them Angles
04. The Larger Bowl
05. Spindrift
06. The Main Monkey Business
07. The Way The Wind Blows
08. Hope
09. Faithless
10. Breavest Face
11. Good News First
12. Malignant Narcissism
13. We Hold On
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01. Caravan
02. BU2B
03. Clockwork Angels
04. The Anarchist
05. Carnies
06. Halo Effect
07. Seven Citites Of Gold
08. The Wreckers
09. Headlong Flight
10. BU2B2
11. Wish Them Well
12. The Garden
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02. Heart Full Of Soul
03. For What It's Worth
04. The Seeker
05. Mr. Soul
06. Seven And Seven Is
07. Shape Of Things
08. Crossroads
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01. Bastille Day
02. Anthem
03. Fly By Night / In The Mood
04. Something For Nothing
05. Lakeside Park
06. 2112
07. By-Tor And The Snow Dog
08. In The End
09. Working Man / Finding My Way
10. What You're Doing
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02. Red Barchetta
03. YYZ
04. A Passage To Bangkok
05. Closer To The Heart
06. Beneath, Between, & Behind
07. Jacob's Ladder
08. Broon's Bane
09. The Trees
10. Xanadu
11. Freewill
12. Tom Sawyer
13. La Villa Strangiato
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01. Intro
02. The Big Money
03. Subdivisions
04. Marathon
05. Turn The Page
06. Manhattan Project
07. Mission
08. Distant Early Warning
09. Mystic Rhythms
10. Witch Hunt
11. The Rhythm Method
12. Force Ten13. Time Stand Still
14. Red Sector A
15. Closer To The Heart
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CD 1
01. Dreamline
02. Limelight
03. Driven
04. Bravado
05. Animate
Rush 2112 Youtube
06. Show Don't Tell07. The Trees
08. Nobody's Hero
09. Closer To The Heart
10. 2112 - I. Overture
11. 2112 - II. The Temples Of Syrinx
12. 2112 - III. Discovery
13. 2112 - IV. Presentation
14. 2112 - V. Oracle: The Dream
15. 2112 - VI. Soliloquy
16. 2112 - VII. Grand Finale
CD 2
01. Test For Echo
02. The Analog Kid
03. Freewill
04. Roll The Bones
05. Stick It out
06. Resist
07. Leave That Thing Alone
08. The Rhythm Method
09. Natural Science
10. The Spirit Of Radio
11. Tom Sawyer
12. YYZ
CD 3
01. Bastille Day
02. By-Tor & The Snow Dog
03. Xanadu
04. A Farewell To Kings
05. Something For Nothing
06. Cygnus X-1
07. Anthem
08. Working Man
09. Fly By Night
10. In The Mood
11. Cinderella Man
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CD 1
01. Tom Sawyer
02. Distant Early Warning
03. New World Man
04. Roll the Bones
05. Earthshine
06. YYZ
07. The Pass
08. Bravado
09. The Big Money
10. Trees
11. Freewill
12. Closer To The Heart
13. Natural Science
CD 2
01. One Little Victory
02. Driven
03. Ghost Rider
04. Secret Touch
05. Dreamline
06. Red Sector A
07. Leave That Thing Alone
08. O Baterista
09. Resist
10. 2112
CD 3
01. Limelight
02. La Villa Strangiato
03. The Spirit Of Radio
04. By-Tor & The Snow Dog
05. Cygnus X-1
06. Working Man
07. Between Sun & Moon
08. Vital Signs
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CD 1
01. R30 Overture (Finding My Way, Athem, Bastille Day, A Passage To Bangkok, Cygnus X-1, Hemispheres)
02. The Spirit Of Radio
03. Force Ten
04. Animate
05. Subdivisions
06. Eartshine
07. Red Barchetta
08. Roll The Bones
09. The Seeker
10. Tom Sawyer
11. Dreamline
CD 2
01. Between The Wheels
02. Mystic Rhythms
03. Der Trommler
04. Resist
05. Heart Full Of Soul
06. 2112
07. Xanadu
08. Working Man
09. Summertime Blues
10. Crossroads
11. Limelight
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CD 1
01. Limelight
02. Digital Man
03. Entre Nous
04. Mission
05. Freewill
06. The Main Monkey Business
07. The Larger Bowl
08. Secret Touch
09. Circumstances
10. Between The Wheels
11. Dreamline
12. Far Cry
13. Workin' Them Angels
14. Armor And Sword
CD 2
01. Spindriftc
02. The Way The Wind Blows
03. Subdivisions
04. Natural Science
05. Witch Hunt
06. Malignant Narcissism / De Slagwerker
07. Hope
08. Distant Early Warning
09. The Spirit Of Radio
10. Tom Sawyer
11. One Little Victory
12. A Passage To Bangkok
13. YYZ
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01. Intro
02. The Spirit Of Radio
03. The Enemy Within
04. The Weapon
05. Witch Hunt
06. New World Man
07. Distant Early Warning
08. Red Sector A
09. Medley; YYZ / Temples Of Syrinx / Tom Sawyer
10. Vital Signs
11. The Rhythm Method
12. Medley: Finding My Way / In The Mood
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CD 1
01. The Spirit Of Radio
02. Time Stand Still
03. Presto
04. Stick It Out
05. Workin' The Angels
06. Leave That Thing Alone
07. Faithless
08. BU2B
09. Free Will
10. Marathon
11. Subdivisions
12. Tom Sawyer
13. Red Barchetta
14. YYZ
15. Limelight
CD 2
01. The Camera Eye
02. Witch Hunt
03. Vital Signs
04. Caravan
05. Moto Perpetuo (feat. Love for Sale)
06. O'Malley's Break
07. Closer To The Heart
08. Far Cry
09. La Villa Strangiato
10. Working Man
11. Tom Sawyer
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CD 1
01. Subdivisions
02. The Big Money
03. Force Ten
04. Grand Designs
05. The Body Electric
06. Territories
07. The Analog Kid
08. Bravado
09. Where's My Thing? / Here It Is! (drum solo)
10. Far Cry
CD 2
01. Caravan
02. Clockwork Angels
03. The Anarchist
04. Carnies
05. The Wreckers
06. Headlong Glight / Drumbastica (drum solo)
07. Peke's Repose (guitar solo) / Halo Effect
08. Seven Cities Of Gold
09. Wish Them Well
10. The Garden
CD 3
01. Dreamline
02. The Percussor (I) Binary Love Theme (II) Steambanger's Ball (drum solo)
03. Red Sector A
04. YYZ
05. The Spirit Of Radio
06. Tom Sawyer
07. 2112
08. Limelight (soundcheck recording)
09. Middletown Dreams
10. The Pass
11. Manhattan Project
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