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2112
by
Rush

Even die-hard Rush fans are willing to concede that the five tracks on “the other side” of this album don’t hold a candle to the eponymous mini-rock-opera that opens it. But how could anything? In a single twenty-minute song cycle, everyone’s favorite Canadian progsters lovingly fuse every dystopian science fiction stereotype of the ‘60s and ‘70s with every Ayn Rand book ever published…and somehow manage to make the whole thing rock out. It’s LOGAN’S RUN meets JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR--and like both of those daredevil narrative oddities, everything that makes it campy somehow also makes it work.