Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 23. Chapters: 2112, Signals, Hemispheres, Snakes & Arrows, Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves, Caress of Steel, Rush, Power Windows, Grace Under Pressure, Vapor Trails, Fly by Night, Presto, A Farewell to Kings, Hold Your Fire, The Great White North, Roll the Bones, Test for Echo, Clockwork Angels, Counterparts, Victor, Spinnerette, High Class in Borrowed Shoes, Max Webster, A Million Vacations, Universal Juveniles, Mutiny Up My Sleeve, BB Gabor. Excerpt: Snakes & Arrows is the 18th full-length studio album by the Canadian rock band Rush. Co-produced by Nick Raskulinecz, it is Rush's first studio outing since 2004's Feedback, and their first complete studio album since Vapor Trails in 2002. The album was recorded in five weeks between November and December 2006 at Allaire Studios in New York's Catskill Mountains and mixed and mastered at Ocean Way Studios in Los Angeles, California. Snakes & Arrows was released on CD on May 1, 2007, as a double LP album on June 19 (limited to 5,000 copies), as well as the new MVI (Music Video Interactive) format (limited to 25,000 copies) on June 26. Snakes & Arrows debuted at #3 on the The Billboard 200 chart where it remained for 14 weeks. It was certified gold in Canada in September 2007. The track "Malignant Narcissism" was nominated for a Grammy Award under the category Best Rock Instrumental Performance. The album was named as one of Classic Rock's 10 essential progressive rock albums of the decade. According to drummer and lyricist Neil Peart, inspiration for the title of the album was conceived after considerable research from several sources; the 2000-year-old Buddhist game called "Leela, the Game of Self Knowledge," the related children's game Snakes and Ladders (also known as Chutes and Ladders), and Hamlet's quote "slings and arrows." This...