Artist: RUSH
Album: EXIT... STAGE LEFT REMASTERED (CD)

Year: 1981/ 1997
EAN/UPS: 0731453463226
Media type: CD

Exit...Stage Left is a live album by Canadian band Rush, released in 1981. A video release with the same name, with slightly different content, was released in 1982 on VHS and later on Laserdisc, and in 2007 on DVD.

An item from each of Rush's previous eight studio album covers can be seen on the cover of this live album. The owl from Fly by Night flies above Apollo, the man in the suit from Hemispheres, who stands next to the woman from Permanent Waves. The puppet king from A Farewell to Kings sits atop a box stenciled with the "Rush" logo from Rush. Next to him is a painting of the Caress of Steel album cover, held by one of the movers from Moving Pictures, with another mover standing behind. Next to this is Dionysus, the nude man from Hemispheres. Behind this scene, the starman from 2112 hangs in the background, next to an "EXIT" sign. This entire scene is on the left side of the stage, thus "Exit...Stage Left" which is of a photo of a concert in Buffalo, New York at Buffalo Memorial Auditorium. "Exit...Stage Left" was voted 9th best live album of all time in a poll by Classic Rock Magazine in 2004.

A remaster was issued in 1997. The tray has a picture of three fingerprints, light blue, pink, and lime green (left to right) with THE RUSH REMASTERS printed in all caps just to the left. All remasters from Moving Pictures through to Hold Your Fire are like this. This is just like the cover art of Retrospective II.

Includes the track A Passage to Bangkok which was left off the original CD issue due to time constraints, as CDs could only hold 75 minutes at the time, but later increased to 80 minutes. The track also appears in the LP, 8-track cartridge and cassette issues.

All songs written by Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart, except where noted.

TRACKLIST:

"The Spirit of Radio" – 5:11
"Red Barchetta" – 6:46
"YYZ/drum solo" (Lee, Peart)/(Peart) – 7:43
"A Passage to Bangkok" – 3:45
"Closer to the Heart" (Lifeson, Lee, Peart, Peter Talbot) – 3:08
"Beneath, Between & Behind" (Lifeson, Peart) – 2:34
"Jacob's Ladder" – 8:46
"Broon's Bane" (Lifeson) – 1:37
"The Trees" – 4:50
"Xanadu" – 12:09
"Freewill" – 5:31
"Tom Sawyer" (Lifeson, Lee, Peart, Pye Dubois) – 4:59
"La Villa Strangiato" – 9:37

Sides 1, 3 and 4 (tracks 1-3, 8-13 respectively) of the original vinyl were recorded in Canada during the Moving Pictures tour, while side 2 (tracks 4-7) was recorded in the UK during the Permanent Waves tour.

LINE-UP:

Geddy Lee - bass and rhythm guitars, synthesizers, vocals
Alex Lifeson - electric and acoustic guitars
Neil Peart - drums, percussion