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“Passage to Bangkok” by Rush
“Passage to Bangkok” by Rush appears on 6 radio countdowns from 2 stations between 1990 and 1999. Its best result is #104 on the KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999). In the combined RockLists rankings it is #284 hard rock song of all time.
"A Passage to Bangkok" opens the second side of 2112, Rush's fourth album, released on Anthem in March 1976. With the title track having swallowed all of side one, this is where the record comes up for air, and Alex Lifeson said in 2009 that Led Zeppelin's "Kashmir" was the song that inspired it.
Neil Peart's lyric is a travelogue with a wink, touring Colombia, Mexico, Jamaica, Morocco, Thailand, Afghanistan, Nepal and Lebanon, with a detour to Acapulco, and it's widely taken as a guide to the world's cannabis hot spots, all done in innuendo without ever naming a drug. Lifeson was blunter: he called it a joyride to all the best spots for a puff.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 559 | Z-Rock | Z-Rock Top 1001 Songs of All-Time (1990) | 1000 |
| 1994 | 449 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1994) | 1000 |
| 1995 | 185 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1995) | 1000 |
| 1996 | 169 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1996) | 1000 |
| 1998 | 191 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1998) | 1000 |
| 1999 | 104 | KISW | KISW Top 1000 of All Time (1999) | 998 |
Also listed as: A Passage to Bangkok.
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