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“One Little Victory” by Rush
From the album Vapor Trails (2002)
“One Little Victory” by Rush appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2002. It was first released in 2002 on the album Vapor Trails. Its best result is #27 on the KNAC Top 105 Songs of 2002. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #11 hard rock song of 2002 and #99 of the '00s.
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Five years is a long time to leave a band like Rush idle, and "One Little Victory" was built to announce that they were back. It kicks off Vapor Trails, their 17th studio album, and went out ahead of it as the lead single in 2002, with Alex Lifeson's guitar and Neil Peart's drums tearing along at a clip designed to grab listeners by the collar.
Geddy Lee and Lifeson wrote the music, Lee plays bass and sings, and Peart supplied the words, lifting the title phrase from a line in Joni Mitchell's "Sunny Sunday". The song kept getting second lives: a remix turned up on Retrospective 3 in 2009, another on Vapor Trails Remixed in 2013, and it also rode along on the soundtrack of the video game Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit 2.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 40 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2002 | 106 |
| 2002 | 27 | KNAC Los Angeles, CA | KNAC Top 105 Songs of 2002 | 105 |
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