Day 2: your least favorite song
I have a very low tolerance for shrillness, for nasal voices, for...unpleasant sounds. I react violently, shaking in irritation and angry at whatever fuckhead is assaulting my ears.
Rush sucks. Geddy Lee makes me wish I carried a team of knives to stab my ear canal in case I hear this song and cant turn it off. I don't even know why I posted the video. I suppose it's because those are the "rules."
You know what? Fuck you, rules.
Lee can play the shit out of a bass (not in this song, though, because in this song he's basically all synth and when he switches to bass I just get angry and shout "MAKE UP YOUR MIND, GEDDY, YOU HONKY HOSER"), I'll give you that, but they couldn't find anyone else to sing lead vocals?
I hate the contrivance of the John Teshy synthesizer (yeah, I know, Rush is pre-John Tesh, but not in Rassles years because I knew about John Tesh before I knew about Rush), I hate how Lee's voice compliments absolutely no tangible instruments ever played by man except for maybe a theremin, which is just wagging your hand in radio waves anyway. I hate how their version of a modern-day rebel sounds like an annoying asshole that I don't want to be around. I hate how their idea of a rebel is Tom Sawyer, who I've never seen as a rebel and more of a mischievous kid trying to start some shit because he's a dick.
Now, I understand that some people believe the song is a critique on the modern day rebel, and to those people I say: Shut the hell up. Let me go on hatin.
Plus, I was always more of a Huck Finn girl, myself. Huck Finn owns.
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7 comments:
Hate Rush. Nearly divorced my huz b/c he has a few songs in music library.
Rush is a tough one for me. My uncle Bob lived and breathed Rush. It should also be known that he was high as a mother fucking kite most of the time, too, so maybe they're one of those state-dependent things.
I have slightly more love for the more accessible Closer to the Heart. But again, that may be a sentimentality thing.
Rush is to the 70's what Radiohead is to the 90's. There. I said it.
I misread the band's name and thought you were hating on Gavin Rossdale...
sorry, that was me... didn't mean to be anonymous
I'm totally with you. Never go the Rush thing overall, but this song in particular was hard to bear.
not a huge Rush fan, but i will often quote "You can choose not to decide, you still have made a choice".
sometimes channeling Geddy Lee when i quote it...
I'm a New World Man so i'm going to use Freewill and hop in my Red Barchetta and Fly By Night as i jam to the Spirit of the Radio, cruising the Subdivisions dreaming of the Limelight, gazing at The Trees, hanging with my Working Man friends as i'm Finding My Way Closer to the Heart of my girl rassles.
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