Song 400 ( Rush - Cygnus X-1 )

Made it to number 400! I decided to choose this mini rock-opera of sorts to celebrate my milestone. This piece of music is definitely not for the casual listener and is another Progressive Rock song that is the bane of musical critics; as with most Rush from this time period, the music is quite excellent. The story behind the song is that a man is traveling to a black hole to study it. Cygnus X-1 is a real astronomical body and is the most studied black hole in the sky; in fact this one brought most of the theories concerning black holes into existence, anyway, I digress. The traveler enters the black hole and is torn apart, but wakes up in another world and the story is continued on the next, "Hemispheres" album. Most of this song is instrumental, the lyrical content is less prominent here.

Here is the studio version on YouTube.

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