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    Posted: May 03 2017 at 04:55

Rush’s Exit Stage Left is a live album I’ve tried over the years to reconcile the good with the disappointing, but it still gets a lot of love in many quarters, so I thought I’d revisit it in its most recent edition (the Sectors set remaster), and guess what….?



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https://momentstransition.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/rush-exit-stage-left-1981/
Might get more response if you use Insert Hyperlink.
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I love ESL. One of my favourite live albums of all time.
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I have a soft spot for Exit as it was one of my first Rush albums. For years, I preferred the live version of Xanadu to the studio version. 
I do think they muted the crowd noise too much. The band members have admitted that was not the best approach. In hindsight, I think it would have been amazing to get a live album that predated Moving Pictures. I've looked at boots on YouTube from that time and If I had to pick a Rush "god" set list, it would be from the Hemispheres tour or possibly the Permanent Waves tour 


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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

https://momentstransition.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/rush-exit-stage-left-1981/
Might get more response if you use Insert Hyperlink.
 
It might also help if he fixes his link. Wink
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I am on my 3rd copy, as a teen I played the living feces outta that LP set........
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Originally posted by Valen Valen wrote:

I’d revisit it in its most recent edition (the Sectors set remaster), and guess what….?




god I hate suspense.....

.....WHAT??? LOL
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Thanks for the feedback and the hyperlink advice.

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It was in the store on a Friday then. It was supposed to be on the shelves on Monday. I was supposed to wait until then.

I don't think so.

I explained the situation to the store manager.

I got my copy.
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1981 that's about when I stopped listening to Rush.
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Originally posted by Kepler62 Kepler62 wrote:

1981 that's about when I stopped listening to Rush.

You missed a lot of good stuff
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Originally posted by Kepler62 Kepler62 wrote:

1981 that's about when I stopped listening to Rush.


Shame. You missed out on their best era IMO.
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Originally posted by Kepler62 Kepler62 wrote:

1981 that's about when I stopped listening to Rush.

You should be banned from the site or at least put on suspension...LOL
 


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Actually, I do believe after Moving Pictures their albums got less interesting. There's still some very good songs, specially in the 80's (in the 90's they got even another step below), but mostly I could do without their songs... that's until Snakes and Arrows (and then Clockwork Angels), which are really great).
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Exit, while a solid live album, wasn't nearly as good as All the World's a Stage.
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Actually, I do believe after Moving Pictures their albums got less interesting. There's still some very good songs, specially in the 80's (in the 90's they got even another step below), but mostly I could do without their songs... that's until Snakes and Arrows (and then Clockwork Angels), which are really great).

It's not an unusual opinion. A lot of Rush fans bailed after Moving Pictures. I didn't discover Rush until 1980 so I was just getting started. However, as a new Rush fan, even I was surprised by the differences between MP and Signals. 
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Points: 12581 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 08 2017 at 20:43
Originally posted by Jeffro Jeffro wrote:

Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Actually, I do believe after Moving Pictures their albums got less interesting. There's still some very good songs, specially in the 80's (in the 90's they got even another step below), but mostly I could do without their songs... that's until Snakes and Arrows (and then Clockwork Angels), which are really great).

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<div zoompage-fontsize="13">It's not an unusual opinion. A lot of Rush fans bailed after Moving Pictures. I didn't discover Rush until 1980 so I was just getting started. However, as a new Rush fan, even I was surprised by the differences between MP and Signals. 


Well, I just started checking them out a few years ago... still before "Clockwork Angels", but they had already released everything else. Though I did check out their 70's work first, and after that I only intended to buy a few live albums to get their best songs from the rest of the time span... however, I did find two boxsets with exactly the albums I didn't have already (first the one with the albums from "Presto" up to "Snakes & Arrows" (I had just got "Clockwork Angels", so it was excellent it was not included yet), and then the one from "Signals" up to "Hold your Fire" (including "A show of Hands"), both sets at the price of perhaps 3 albums (perhaps more, if you got said albums really cheap), so I just had to get them, and ended up having their whole discography. I still haven't finished listening to all the albums (I mean, I did listen to them all already, but haven't given them all their fair amount of spins to make up my mind about them).
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