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6,825
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34,370
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288,483
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43,914,654
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10,300
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A Passage To Bangkok
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song's lyrics have been interpreted as relating to marijuana, as the song references places such as Colombia, Mexico, Cambodia, Jamaica, Morocco, Thailand, Afghanistan, "golden acapulco nights", (a possible reference to Acapulco gold) and Lebanon.
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A Passage To Bangkok
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Submitted By: Big D
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In earlier performances of the song (such as the version recorded on Exit...Stage Left), Geddy Lee would use a doubleneck Rickenbacker guitar, so that he could play rhythm guitar during Alex Lifeson's guitar solo. The arrangement was simplified for the 2004 30th Anniversary tour and the 2007 Snakes And Arrows Tour, and Lee no longer uses the doubleneck to play the song.
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A Passage To Bangkok
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Submitted By: Big D
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During the performance of this song on the 2007 Snakes And Arrows Tour, the video footage projected behind the band includes close-up shots of marijuana plants and scenes from the movie Reefer Madness, reinforcing the common intrepretation of the song. Green and purple lights were also used during the song in conjunction with a fog machine to create the illusion of marijuana smoke.
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Circumstances
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Submitted By: Big D
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It was only played a handful of times in concert, on the Tour of the Hemispheres from late 1978 to early 1979, before the 2007 Snakes & Arrows Tour when it was played every night in the first set of the band's 3 hour live show.
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Circumstances
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Submitted By: Big D
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Lyrically, it is an autobiographical account, written by Neil Peart, about the time he spent living in England, and his eventual disillusionment with his then-current occupations. Musically, it's a hard-hitting rock song, complete with power-chords and riffs, similar to much of their early 70's albums. It also features a keyboard break, near the middle of the song, similar to the one in "The Trees," supplied by Geddy Lee's Oberheim 8-voice Polyphonic Synthesizer, backed by Taurus pedals, Neil Peart's orchestral bells and a simple, soft chord progression by Alex Lifeson, before breaking back into the song's hard rock feel.
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Distant Early Warning
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Submitted By: Big D
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It is one of Rush's most well-known songs due to being featured on multiple compilation albums as well as many of their live albums.
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Far Cry
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Submitted By: Big D
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It was released to radio on March 12, 2007, then saw an electronic release on iTunes four days later.
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Far Cry
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song evolved from a studio jam session between Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee. Neil Peart unexpectedly left lyrics he had just finished on the table with the chorus highlighted. Lee began singing the chorus along with a section of the jam and, according to him, it seemed to fit. The song was written in a day with Geddy Lee remarking "Far Cry was a good day."
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Hope
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Submitted By: Big D
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It was performed on a twelve-string guitar in D-A-D-A-A-D tuning.
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Hope
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Submitted By: Big D
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According to Neil Peart, the title of the instrumental was inspired by the chorus of the 9th Snakes & Arrows track "Faithless", which contains the word "Hope".
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Hope
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Submitted By: Big D
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It is their shortest song, at 2 minutes 2 seconds.
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Hope
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Submitted By: Big D
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Unusual for Rush's compositions, the song was written by Alex Lifeson alone; as the accompanying booklet notes, "All tracks composed by Lee and Lifeson, with lyrics by Peart, except 'Hope', composed and performed by Lerxst Lifeson, all by his own self".
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Hope
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Submitted By: Big D
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It is played on a twelve-string guitar and was recorded in two takes.
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Limelight
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Submitted By: Big D
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Written by Rush's primary lyricist Neil Peart, "Limelight" expresses Peart's discomfort with Rush's success and being in the "limelight." Limelight also employs a number of Shakespearian phrases.
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Malignant Narcissism
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Submitted By: Big D
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Many Rush fans abbreviate the title to "MalNar", an abbreviation the band themselves developed.
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Malignant Narcissism
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Submitted By: Big D
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"Malignant Narcissism" was nominated for a 2008 Grammy under the category of Best Rock Instrumental Performance, Rush's fifth nomination in said category. However, the song lost to Bruce Springsteen's "Once Upon a Time in the West" marking the fifth instrumental track defeated in said category.
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Malignant Narcissism
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Submitted By: Big D
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The band found inspiration for the title of the song in the dialogue from the Trey Parker and Matt Stone film Team America: World Police. In that film, the psychological term malignant narcissism is used in reference to Kim Jong-Il. In the Rush song, the only voice heard is from a clip taken from Team America. It appears at 1:08 in the song, and features a female voice saying, "Usually a case of malignant narcissism brought on during childhood".
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One Little Victory
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song mostly follows a standard verse-chorus-verse-chorus pattern with a minimalistic guitar solo in the middle.
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One Little Victory
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Submitted By: Big D
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As with the rest of the album, the track has some issues with sound distortion. Some fans have voiced their disappointment with the quality, and hope for a remastering of Vapor Trails. The re-master was due to be released at around the same time as Snakes and Arrows, yet this does not seem to have happened.
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One Little Victory
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Submitted By: Big D
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The track is featured in the arcade game Need For Speed: GT, as well as Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit 2 in its original form as well as an instrumental edit.
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Secret Touch
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Submitted By: Big D
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It features some of Rush's most complex song structures and has been revealed to be one of Geddy Lee's favorite tracks from Vapor Trails. It later became the second single for Vapor Trails, reaching #25 on the US Mainstream Rock charts.
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Spindrift
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Submitted By: Big D
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"The Larger Bowl (A Pantoum)" was originally going to be the second single, but was shortly after changed to "Spindrift". Although released as the second single from the album, the song failed to debut on any commercial chart, while "The Larger Bowl" managed to see chart status.
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Spindrift
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Submitted By: Big D
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According to Neil Peart, the lyrics to "Spindrift" use sea-weather imagery as a metaphor for a lover's quarrel.
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Subdivisions
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Submitted By: Big D
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Often considered to be describing feelings of isolation, boredom, conformity, and sadness springing up from teenage life in the suburbs.
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Subdivisions
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Submitted By: Big D
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The promotional videos scenes were filmed in the Toronto area. The downtown scenes in downtown Toronto, the suburbs scenes in Scarborough, Ontario, near Warden and Finch. The high school scenes were filmed at L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute, in the same area. The student that walks downtown in the video is Dave Glover, a student at the L'Amoreaux Collegiate Institute at the time. Near the end of the video, Glover is seen playing the video game Tempest at an arcade, which was reportedly his favourite video game at the time.
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The Larger Bowl (A Pantoum)
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Submitted By: Big D
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The lyrics were written by the drummer and primary lyricist, Neil Peart. The title was inspired by a "dysentery dream" he had while touring West Africa on his bicycle in 1988. In the early 1990s, Peart put words to the title. The song is written in the form of a pantoum.
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The Main Monkey Business
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Submitted By: Big D
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In a recent interview on HDNET , Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee stated that the song found on the CD is a toned-down version of the original one. They referred to the original version as "Crazy". The actual version on the CD is 1/3 of the original song.
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The Spirit Of Radio
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Submitted By: Big D
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"The Spirit of Radio" was named one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, Rush's only such entry.
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The Spirit Of Radio
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Submitted By: Big D
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The lyric "a question of your honesty... yeah, your honesty", where the second part is sung in a slightly lower voice (with a New York accent), is a tongue-in-cheek jab at Billy Joel and his 1978 hit "Honesty".
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The Spirit Of Radio
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Submitted By: Big D
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The final lines of the song (For the words of the profits/Were written on the studio walls./Concert Hall) are an allusion to the famous lines from the Simon and Garfunkel classic "The Sound of Silence" (The words of the prophets/Are written on the subway walls/And tenement halls).
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Tom Sawyer
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Submitted By: Big D
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The unique growling sound heard in the song came from Lee's fiddling with his Oberheim synthesizer.
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Tom Sawyer
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song was written by Lee, Peart, and guitarist Alex Lifeson in collaboration with Canadian lyricist Pye Dubois (a member of Max Webster), who also co-wrote other Rush songs such as "Force Ten," "Between Sun and Moon," and "Test For Echo."
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YYZ
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Submitted By: Big D
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YYZ is the IATA airport identification code for Toronto Pearson International Airport, of Rush's native area of Toronto. It is common practice for air navigation aids to broadcast their 3-letter identifier code in Morse Code using VHF omnidirectional range (VOR). A plane using VOR equipment would then always know its location relative to the VOR navaid within range. A plane landing at Toronto (Malton) would, for example, rely on the radio emanation of the letters YYZ (in Morse Code) as a homing beacon to locate and arrive at the Toronto airport.
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YYZ
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Submitted By: Big D
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The song's introduction, played in a time signature of 10/8 (with some argument of 5/4), repeatedly renders the letters "Y-Y-Z" in Morse Code using various musical arrangements.
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YYZ
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Submitted By: Big D
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"YYZ" was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Rock Instrumental category in 1982. YYZ lost to "Behind My Camel", by The Police, from their album Zenyatta Mondatta.
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