Snakes and Arrows Live(2008)
Disc One
1.Limelight
2.Digital Man
3.Entres Nous
4.Mission
5.Free Will
6.The Main Monkey Business
7.The Larger Bowl
8.Secret Touch
9.Circumstances
10.Between the Wheels
11.Dreamline
Disc Two
1.Far Cry
2.Workin' Them Angels
3.Armor and Sword
4.Spindrift
5.The Way the Wind Blows
6.Subdivisions
7.Natural Science
8.Witch Hunt
9.Malignant Narcissism/De Slagwerker
10.Hope
11.Distant Early Warning
12.The Spirit of Radio
13.Tom Sawyer
14.One Little Victory
15.A Passage to Bangkok
16.YYZ
No matter what one's opinion of this
band is, they have gone down in rock history as one of the best loved
live bands of the last thirty years. This band always had a formula of a
live album after four studio albums - each live album highlighting the
most recent period. They broke that tradition in 2002 with the triple
disc complete show CD Rush in Rio, the
first time they had released a whole show on CD. Well, one studio album
later, the band decided to do the same thing - release a complete live
album after only one studio album. This may seem a bit of overkill, but
when looking at this band's history, it's definitely not surprising.
Perhaps it was the fact that about half of their show was either new
material, or songs that hadn't been performed in over a quarter of a
century. Sure, the staples are here (The Spirit of Radio, Free Will,
Tom Sawyer, etc.) but there are plenty of other material that has
never been released live before. The band probably figured that all the
raving fans would queue up to by the disc, and they don't even bother to
come up with a creative title for the release. They just add the word
"live" the end of the last studio album knowing that every fan would
know exactly what they would be getting.
You could argue that the familiar songs don't sound much different
than the last several times we've heard them, but that's o.k. This is
just what the fan wants - a complete recording of a (very different)
Rush show.
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