Rush: Classic or Dud?

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Oh, that I could bend my fret outwards
Leave your thumb hurting
Pluggin' my bass in
Notes I play so well
Cause your tour shirt smells
Worse than your lyin'
Caught Ayn Rand cryin'
Loose like the wind
From the North we get beer
Alberta woman
Waiting to rock

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 21:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Ned, very good. You came back with that very fast. Is that because: you had it lying around somewhere, because you are a pro and you just whipped it up, or because that is the actual lyric and, as usual, I just wasn't paying attention?

― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 13 November 2004 22:35 (nineteen years ago) link

The second one (it's amazing what you can do with a lyrics database and a sense of humor).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 22:36 (nineteen years ago) link

sundar: late rush as DMB precusor is a stroke of inspiration!

are they from alberta?!?!?!?!?! rush i mean. i don't really know the whole rush mythology.

― amateur!!st, Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link

I just said Alberta as it fit the flow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

they are warriors from the mounts of heaven

― big chaki (chaki), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:16 (nineteen years ago) link

in the chuck eddy spirit i will say that i don't really know if i can explain what it means to "rock," but these guys really rock.

― amateur!!st, Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:34 (nineteen years ago) link

bass like the thunder
guitars like serrated knives
it never lets up!

― amateur!!st, Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:37 (nineteen years ago) link

whats the best rush album?

― big chaki (chaki), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:38 (nineteen years ago) link

the all music guide
says they are from toronto;
i could have figured

― amateur!!st, Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link

whats the best rush album?

You'll get a thousand answers. For me, Caress of Steel, Moving Pictures, Permanent Waves, A Show of Hands (hey, it was my Rush album - sentimental reasons) and Vapor Trails are the standouts.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 13 November 2004 23:56 (nineteen years ago) link

The best Rush album?
A Farewell To Kings vs
2112 FITE

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:02 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm willing to call it
a draw so that we all can
blast rush and lez up

― amateur!!st, Sunday, 14 November 2004 00:07 (nineteen years ago) link

Geddy trips on log
What could this strange device be?
A guitar, dumbass

― wetmink (wetmink), Sunday, 14 November 2004 02:10 (nineteen years ago) link

two months pass...

I think this might be
The best thread that I've started
In the past four years

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link

"What about the voice of Geddy Lee
How did it get so high?
I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy"

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 3 February 2005 14:40 (nineteen years ago) link

seven months pass...

Most days I'm real glad
that the rap on Roll the Bones
exists, It's roffle-worthy

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link

Classic, but that don't
mean that I want to hear their
early or later stuff

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 26 September 2005 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link

"Geddy Lee looks like
The Wicked Witch of the West!"
a friend pointed out

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 08:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Too lazy to haiku.

I have much enjoyed relistening to Rush tracks earlier this month after having not heard them for at least ten years, despite some shark-jumping around 1991.

When I think about Aerosmith's last 25 years, well, how can I complain about Rush?

― Mitch Mitchell (mitya), Thursday, 29 September 2005 10:29 (eighteen years ago) link

A sad but true fact :
No women, none, anywhere
Are fans of Rush. None.

hello I am a
woman, and a fan of Rush.
Sorry. Bubble burst.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link

That was my haiku
Under a different name
Vegemite, sorry

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link

On "Rush In Rio"
The audience sing along
To "YYZ", ha!

― Matt #2 (Matt #2), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link

Forgiven is Matt.
He knoweth not what he does.
Tom Sawyer rocks hard!

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:52 (eighteen years ago) link

I have a friend who
says his favorite bands are
Rush and Hum. What the...!

― richard wood johnson, Thursday, 29 September 2005 21:58 (eighteen years ago) link

When I was a kid
"Afterimage" made me cry
cuz my dad had died.

I haven't heard that
song in years I wonder if
it would still be sad?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 29 September 2005 22:18 (eighteen years ago) link

three months pass...

Hey, is it just me
Or does Geddy sound like the
Sleater-Kinney chick?

― darin (darin), Friday, 6 January 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link

"The ugliest chick
I've ever seen!", a letter
To CREEM once proclaimed!

(Damn, those are hard! I don't see how Haikunym can do it so consistently, mine are always so stilted. Practice makes perfect, I guess.)

― Myonga Von By-Tor (Myonga Von Bontee), Friday, 6 January 2006 18:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Rush are so classic
ILX, as usual
is dead fucking wrong

It is very fun
Living vicariously
Through gaggles of geeks

In the backs of cars
Be rockist or be cast out
Dream of ILX

― Rock Friendster, Sunday, 8 January 2006 17:23 (eighteen years ago) link

I stand by what I wrote in 2004. The songs (works) themselves are often very good, but I can't stand Geddy Lee's voice, their general Led Zeppelin complex, or those fascistoid Ayn Rand-influenced lyrics.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link

I haven't listened
To 2112 for years.
I would like to now.

― Excelsior Syndrum (noodle vague), Monday, 9 January 2006 14:01 (eighteen years ago) link

their general Led Zeppelin complex

of course, most of their music, esp. everything after Moving Pix sounds absolutely NOTHING like Led Zeppelin at all....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 9 January 2006 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Geddy Les Claypool
Sounds so uptight.
Might farts help ?

(dudski)

― blunt (blunt), Monday, 9 January 2006 17:51 (eighteen years ago) link

Rush reveal secret
to success - four studio
albums, then one live

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link

were they born but three
decades later would they be
RPG coders?

― Elliot (Elliot), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link

Those naughty Canucks
They borrowed from Raymond Scott
They almost got sued!

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Those cheaky Canucks
borrowed from Tchaikovsky, "We
have assumed control."

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

Those silly Canucks
Using airport and morse codes
in song, Y Y Zed

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link

If I could still play
AD&D to ol' Rush like
When I was a boy. . . .

― vomit redux, Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:38 (eighteen years ago) link

"Power Windows" was
brought to you by the letter
'M'. Why that letter?

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Oh sweet Rivendell
Led Zep weren't alone with the
Tolkien fixation

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

So many rumors
Like this - no, Neil Peart does not
have a doctorate

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Who is John Rutsey?
You may well ask this question.
Well, heard of Pete Best?

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:20 (eighteen years ago) link

Plato, Socrates,
What use do I have of these,
When I have "The Trees"?

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:21 (eighteen years ago) link

geddy's real name is
gary, but his grandma used to say
"geddy", and it stuck

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 00:24 (eighteen years ago) link

Geddy sings so high
I say we blame Canada
It gets cold up there

I love first record
I might be the only one
Besides John Rutsey

I survived high school
because of "Subdivisions"
That and Minor Threat

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 10:55 (eighteen years ago) link

Tai Shan is the name

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:58 (eighteen years ago) link

Tai Shan is the name
Of the DC zoo panda
Influenced by Rush?

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 12:59 (eighteen years ago) link

"Hold Your Fire" cover?
Geddy sez: "It has nothing
to do with brown rice."

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

Geddy Lee - who else
could sing for the Great White North?
"Take off, you hoser!"

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link

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