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Exit...Stage Left
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731453463226
Format: Live, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
Label: Island / Mercury
Manufacturer: Island / Mercury
MPN: 534632
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Island / Mercury
Release Date: July 01, 1997
Studio: Island / Mercury
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Editorial Review:
Throughout their existence, the Canadian power-prog trio has steadfastly released a lengthy live collection every fifth album. Released in 1981, Exit is Rush's second (and best) such release, and it captures the band at the very top of its artistic (and commercial) curve--before keyboard and synthesizer work became central to its sound as opposed to providing mere accents. When they embarked on this tour, Rush had just released Moving Pictures, which continued their move away from longer suites and featured more streamlined song craft. Exit, however, offers a perfect blend of winding, fusion-leaning, virtuoso instrumentals ("YYZ," "La Villa Strangiato"), extended sci-fi epics ("Jacob's Ladder," "Xanadu"), sentimental ballads ("Closer to the Heart" in unison with the whole crowd, "The Trees"), and tauter songs ("Free Will," "Tom Sawyer," "Spirit of Radio") that represent the best of all worlds. Musically, they generated a huge amount of sound for three men (especially Geddy Lee's mammoth bass lines and Neil Peart's octopus-like percussion); lyrically, Peart's fantasia may be pseudo-poetry, but it is poetic, and it may be adolescent wisdom, but it is wise. --Marc Greilsamer
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A great follow up to 'All The World's A Stage'!
Rush is one of those great bands that knows how to put out a great live album. They proved that in the late '70s with 'All The World's A Stage' and proved it again in 1982 with 'Exit...Stage Left.'
This was recorded on the 'Moving Pictures' tour. Neil, Geddy and Alex jam here, just like on the previous live album, and perform concert classics like 'Tom Sawyer,' 'The Spirit of Radio,' and 'Xanadu' brilliantly.
'A Passage To Bangkok' is far superior to the studio version. ... Read More
Rating:  - Lifeless mix dulls potentially interesting material
First, let me state right up that I'm not a huge Rush fan, so take my comments with that grain of salt right up front. Still, when I was in my teens and learning to play guitar, "Spirit of Radio" and "Tom Sawyer" were pretty hard to avoid on the radio (they may still be hard to avoid on the radio, but having given up on commercial radio some time in the early to mid-1980s, I really have no idea). They sounded pretty rad to me, and yet once you learned the trick they weren't all that hard to play, ... Read More
Rating: - Not just one of the best live albums ever, but one of the best ever PERIOD
Before I got this album for my birthday, I had only heard songs like "Tom Sawyer" and "Working Man" and was never really into Rush. One night I decided to relax in my room, put on my headphones, and listen to the album straight through. WOW.
"Spirit of Radio" - terrific opening song, especially the way it just abruptly starts with that awesome riff. I haven't heard different versions of this song, but I think it's safe to say the band is totally together and knows what they're doing to ... Read More
Rating: - Arguably Rush's best live album to many
Canadian power trio rockers Rush's tenth album entitled Exit...Stage Left was released in October of 1981.
Exit...Stage Left was Rush's second double live album and
the album took its title from the old Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Snagglepuss' classic quote.
Exit...Stage Left is my third favorite live Rush album (I like Different Stages and Rush in Rio a tad more due to the fact that they are raw sounding and you can hear the crowd singing loudly on each of those) and I first ... Read More
Rating:  - The Closing of Rush's Progressive Era
This is part two of a comprehensive four part series of Music Reviews of the Progressive Rock band Rush. When a band has been around as long as RUSH has (30 years), their styles will change just as their clothing and hairstyles. I group the bands second five releases into what I call their "Mid-Era Progressive" phase. These albums include: A Farewell to Kings (1977), Hemispheres (1978), Permanent Waves (1980), Moving Pictures (1981) and Exit Stage Left "Live" (1981)
Rush ends this chapter ... Read More
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