Vapor Trails
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- Alternate meaning: see contrail
Vapor Trails is the seventeenth studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush released in 2002 (see 2002 in music).
The release of Vapor Trails marked the first studio album for the band in six years (since Test for Echo in 1996). Long known for purposeful stylistic changes that defined individual albums as well as delineated the larger-scale phases of their recording career, Vapor Trails brought a shift in many fundamental aspects of the Rush sound as it had evolved over the years. On Vapor Trails there are no keyboards, no guitar 'solos', no processed-guitar tones. It has no epic fantasy/sci-fi adventures, no optimistic forward-thinking lyrics that extol the virtues of self-reliance and common sense. Perhaps most striking, Rush seems even to have abandonded their long-held policy of tempering the recording process such that what was put on an album could be reasonably reproduced live. Instead, Vapor Trails uses a more purified guitar tone, lots of vocal and guitar overdubs, and an overall darker tone to the music and lyrics. All in all, Vapor Trails offers a dramatics rethinking of Rush's fundamental musical mores, suggesting that they have embarked on yet another new direction.
Track listing
- "One Little Victory" - 5:08
- "Ceiling Unlimited" - 5:28
- "Ghost Rider" - 5:41
- "Peaceable Kingdom" - 5:23
- "The Stars Look Down" - 4:28
- "How It Is" - 4:05
- "Vapor Trail" - 4:57
- "Secret Touch" - 6:34
- "Earthshine" - 5:38
- "Sweet Miracle" - 3:40
- "Nocturne" - 4:49
- "Freeze (Part 4 Of Fear)" - 6:21
- "Out Of The Cradle" - 5:03
Personnel
- Geddy Lee - bass guitar, vocals
- Alex Lifeson - electric and acoustic guitars, mandola
- Neil Peart - drums, percussion
Chart positions
Billboard Music Charts (North America) - album
2002 Vapor Trails The Billboard 200 No. 6 2002 Vapor Trails Top Internet Albums No. 29 2002 Vapor Trails Top Canadian Albums No. 3
Billboard Music Charts (North America) - singles
2002 Secret Touch Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 25 2002 One Little Victory Mainstream Rock Tracks No. 10
| Rush |
| Geddy Lee | Alex Lifeson | Neil Peart | John Rutsey |
| Original studio albums |
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| Rush | Fly by Night | Caress of Steel | 2112 | A Farewell to Kings | Hemispheres | Permanent Waves | Moving Pictures | Signals | Grace Under Pressure | Power Windows | Hold Your Fire | Presto | Roll the Bones | Counterparts | Test for Echo | Vapor Trails |
| Other studio records |
| Not Fade Away | Feedback |
| Live albums |
| All The World's a Stage | Exit...Stage Left | A Show of Hands | Different Stages | Rush in Rio |
| Compilations |
| Archives | Chronicles | Retrospective I | Retrospective II | The Spirit of Radio: Greatest Hits 1974-1987 |
| Side projects |
| Burning For Buddy | Burning For Buddy, Vol. 2 | Victor | My Favorite Headache |