Exit...Stage Left


Exit...Stage Left
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The Spirit of Radio (5:12)
Red Barchetta (6:48)
YYZ (instrumental 7:44)
A Passage To Bangkok (3:47)
Closer To The Heart (3:09)
Beneath, Between and Behind (2:34)
Jacob's Ladder (8:47)
Broon's Bane (1:37)
The Trees (5:50)
Xanadu (12:10)
Freewill (5:33)
Tom Sawyer (5:01)
La Villa Strangiato (instrumental 9:38)

Recorded 3/27/81, except
tracks 4-7 recorded 6/10 & 6/11/80

Geddy Lee - Bass/Vocals/Syntheizers/
Bass Pedals/Rthyhm Guitar
Alex Lifeson - Accoustic and
Electric Guitars/Tarus Pedals
Neil Peart - Drums/Percussion

Produced and Engineered By Terry Brown

Mercury, October 29, 1981

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NOtes:

  • Certified Gold by RIAA: January 5, 1982 - Certified Platinum: November 9, 1987 - Highest Billboard Chart Position: 10
  • So what is really said during the Danforth and Pape section of "La Villa Strangiato"? Geddy sings a Yiddish children's song, and the linernotes give a loose English translation:

    The original Yiddish children's song:

    Patchy patchy kikhelekh
    Zaydie v'kayfn shikhelekh
    Bubie v'kayfn zekhlekh
    A gezunt un (child's name)'s bekhlekh!

    The translation from the lyric sheet:

    Patty-cake, patty-cake,
    Mother's going to buy you shoes
    Father's going to buy you socks
    Baby's going to have red cheeks.

  • On the Remaster release, the three live images of the band members found in the cd insert are incorrectly printed in reverse (as mirror images).
  • "Vital Signs" and "Limelight", two tracks recorded the same night as the bulk of the album but could not fit on the original release, found their way to later releases. "Limelight", which unlike "Vital Signs" was included on the live video, was eventually released on a King Biscuit Flower Hour compilation album, Best of the Best: 25 Years of Rock, Oct. 20, 1998. "Vital Signs" was released as a B-side:
    "Some tough decisions had to be made. They wanted to get a balance of different types of songs. So some excellent material had to be left out. One of the leftovers, 'Vital Signs', was later released as the B-side of the 'New World Man' single." - Visions