10 Albums That Fell Apart During Production

It was going to take a miracle for Rush to do anymore recording past the late '90s. After the Test For Echo tour, Neil Peart practically took a giant hiatus from music, losing both his wife and daughter within the span of a year and becoming truly lost, getting on his motorcycle and driving all around the country. Once he finally had time to stop though, the next Rush record was bound to be the grand return we were waiting for...and the headache that we didn't want.

Released right around the turn of the century, Vapor Trails is the Rush record that most fans had been clamoring for for a long time, getting rid of almost all the synthesizers and going back to the band's real power trio roots. The music itself is classic Rush, but the actual mix of the project is some of the worst of its time, being a major victim of the loudness wars and every song having the potential to give you a migraine if you aren't careful.

For all of the technical glitches added to the album though, fans had to just live with a little bit of head throbbing to listen to songs like One Little Victory for a few years, with a remix coming out almost a decade later that sounds more like a band and not the sound of every instrument clipping the mics. If anything though, the quality of this record just feels that much better though. You know you have something special on your hands if your fans want to risk their hearing in order to listen to it.