This is an excellent rock album. Proggy but still rockin' and groovin' all the time. Not too long, not too short. Probably the best Rush studio album I've listened to so far. Gets my full 5 points and I'd highly recommend it to any rock music fan.

I remember the day this came out - I was a kid just getting serious about playing, on vacation at my grandparents. I listened to it and decided to spend the whole week in the basement learning every note from first song to last - although I must admit that I cheated on parts of YYZ! With the exception of "Witchhunt," an absolutely classic album! I especially like "The Camera Eye."

Greatest under 2112. Rock hard.

Bloody hell! Ever got a record that's just so good you have to listen to it ALL the time?!? well then, moving pictures. Track 1, Tom Sawyer, is possibally rush's most famous song. Furious drumming from drumming god neil peart, solid bass and keyboard work from geddy lee (not forgetting those amazing vocals) and a solo to be proud of from alex lifeson. It eves squeezes in some 7/16 for that trademark rush quirkyness of odd time signatures. Track 2, Red Barchetta, accesible prog rock telling the story of a man and his car (better than it sounds, trust me!) truly another fine bassline from geddy, in fact throughut this album, neil, geddy and alex are all in top form. red barchetta is over 6 minutes of prog, that develops and fades without sounding overdrawn (and there's some 11/8 and 7/8 in there!). Track 3, yyz, in my opinion the BEST bass work of geddy ever! he plays like a man posessed on this catchy instrumental. Interesting fact: the tri-tone heard on the intro is actually playing the morse code for yyz in 5/4 time, clever eh? thoroughly enjoyable. Track 4, limelight, a hit for rush, another fine slice of prog about life on the road for a band, try counting along to the time signature on this one, it just changes SO much. Then track 5, and the album highlight for me, the stunning "the camera eye" 10 minutes of pure prog. When geddy sings "the focus is sharp in the city" every single hair on my body just stands on end. Maybe i'm biased cos the second verse just reminds me of a great holiday in london (cos the verse is about westminster, where this song just pumped through my headphones non-stop). Awesome! as some of you might say. Just turn this song up to the max. The mood changes for track 6, for the spooky witch hunt. A cationary tale with a bizaare intro that actually scared me the first time i heard it because i had no idea what was going on! but that isn't a bad thing at all. Catchy chorus, neil peart uses the cowbell in an original way. Then album closer vital signs is very synth driven, making use of new 80s digital technology. More or less a prelude the next album "signals" with lifesons police-esque guitar work and geddys vocals. Overall then, fantastic stuff from geddy and the boys. Not to everyones taste due to the perhaps overly used keyboards (but you get used to it). If you're a bassist however, which you probably are as this is activebass.com, get this album purely for yyz and red barchetta as those basslines are fiiiine, then enjoy this album for what it is, arguably rushs finest to date.