In my early teenage years, after all of my siblings had left the house, I remember methodically going through all of their records looking for something to like. I was apparently bored with my tapes and thought I needed some schooling in music. There wasn't much; or rather there
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er there was quite a bit, but not much was good. The first three albums from The Cars stood out, as well as Blondie's Autoamerican, but I'd been listening to those albums fairly consistently ever since they entered our house. My eldest sister had some choice albums, but she took them with her when she moved out. I was left with the dregs.
My parents played the hell out of an album of duets by Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline, which I certainly never complained about, but couldn't really bring myself to listen to by my own volition. Mainly, there were a lot of albums by Dolly Parton, whom I wouldn't learn to appreciate until my late 20s, and a lot of give-away crap like brass bands doing the Beatles, and shit like that.
I longed for my sister's Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath albums, which as I said, she took with her, and which I believe she threw out when she became a Jehovah's Witness. This is almost, but not quite as unforgivable as when she threw out an original copy of Sing Along with Jeno. But I've written about that before and I can't think about it too long without risking an aneurism.
Anyway, I remember finding the album 2112 by Rush and thinking that it should be something that I should like. After all, it was almost like devil music. Plus, the lead singer, Geddy Lee, did vocals on "Take Off" by the MacKenzie Brothers. How bad could it be?
Bad. Really, really fucken bad.
Because I was a geek, a poor geek who couldn't afford to buy good music at the time, I listened to that album over and over trying to get it and trying to like it. I got it, but man, it sucked. A concept album about rock 'n' roll saving the world. How original. If you've read this site, you know how I feel about The Who and Pink Floyd. Fuck, Kilroy Was Here by Styx beats the hell out of 2112.
Plus, why 2112? We all know the world's going to end in 2012.
The point is, Rush sucks.
Exept in this context.
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