Song 131 ( Rush - Anthem )

I picked this song today for an interesting reason. Last night I was watching the film: A Scanner Darkly, which is a movie based on the Phillip K. Dick book of the same name. In it there was a scene where an addict of the drug 'Substance D' was going to commit suicide by O.D.-ing on it; he turns on the radio and the voice on the radio is narrating the events like a news broadcast. He cleans himself up lays down on a bed with the Ayn Rand book The Fountainhead waiting to die. What was funny here was that he did not die, but began to hallucinate about a multi-eyed being reading off his sins to him; it was quite comical.
Anyway, when I saw the Ayn Rand book I started immediately to think of this song, which its lyrics are based off of her Objectivism philosophy and titled after another one of her books that bears the same name of this song: Anthem.
The song itself is quite heavy and features the technical musicianship. I figured that this song would be an excellent pick for today, and I was right, you got to love that hard driving sound and odd meters!

Hear Anthem on YouTube.
Watch a classic television performance of the song on YouTube.

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