Poll: Gender Preference for Rock Band "Rush"

[Cat Whisperer]

It has come to my attention that liking the rock band "Rush" might be divided along gender lines - women often have little or no interest in this band, and men think they are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

So, a simple poll:
Do you like the band "Rush?"

Are you a man or a woman?

I'll start - woman, don't care for 'em.

[GingerOfTheNorth]

Love 'em and I'm female.

[dalej42]

I like them and I'm male.

One of my lesbian friends loves, loves, loves them.

[outlierrn]

that didn't take long.



oh and BTW, male liked in my teens and early twenties, kinda meh since

[yBeayf]

Male, love them.

Everybody else I know personally who loves them (as opposed to merely tolerating them) is male as well, and also a musician (as I am).

I think you're going to see a pattern here.

[Frank]

Though a poll, threads about music most likely should be in Cafe Society.

Moved from IMHO to CS.

[Frank]

Male. I like a lot of their work, though not all.

[Exapno Mapcase]

Male. Not interested in them.

[Batsinma Belfry]

Female

Meh

[Gut]

Male, love them.

[DiggitCamara]

Male, love 'em (any prospective new albums?)(btw: yyz is on the GuitarHero 2 list)

[The Universe Lashes Out]

Male, and I actively dislike Rush. The most hardcore Rush fan I've met was female. She had a Rush tattoo.

[Seven]

Male. I listened to a few songs in my youth, but they kind of bother me now.

[I Love Me, Vol. I]

It's not really so much a Rush thing; more a Progressive Rock thing. Chicks just don't usually dig prog rock.

I have some old Genesis concert CD's. When you hear the crowd cheer it's all well down in the tenor and bass ranges. I'm kinda a prog rock fan, kinda, but Rush doesn't trip my trigger so much. They're OK sometimes... talented and all that.

[Common Tater]

In broad terms, if you can't dance to it - will find less favor with the ladies...

2112 was popular in the day, but not really danceable - (Caress of Steel's The Necromancer even less so..)

[Common Tater]

Originally Posted by HowieReynolds

Male, and I actively dislike Rush.

What, is there an anti-fan club, or do you go to protests?

[Hippy Hollow]

Originally Posted by HowieReynolds

Male, and I actively dislike Rush.

Word. Not a fan, though I can appreciate the respective talents of Messrs. Lee, Lifeson, and Peart. When I think "Rush fan," I think of socially-awkward computer programmers.

[Rushgeekgirl]

I believe my user name says it all.

[blondebear]

Male

They don't do anything for me. I almost saw them once--but I was really only there to see to see the supporting act, UFO. I left before Rush hit the stage.

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

Okay, I swear I posted in this thread and saw the post appear, but now it's gone. I wrote:

Male. I like them okay--not one of my favorites, but I do own seven of their CDs. My ex-wife was more into them than I was.

[fishbicycle]

Male. I have nine of their early albums on CD, some in audiophile editions. But I'm not a rabid fan. I like them, but I don't love them. I don't think you can come from Toronto and not have some Rush in your collection. It'd kinda be sacrelige.

[Green Bean]

Female non-Canadian.

I LOVE Rush!

(even their first album!)

[fishbicycle]

I know some folks hate it when you chime in again to correct yourself, but I actually do know how to spell sacrilege. It's typing I have trouble with.

I did see Geddy come out to sing "Battlescar" with Max Webster at their last New Years Eve gig at Maple Leaf Gardens. It brought the house down!

[pulykamell]

Male. Not my cup of tea, but I will listen to the occassional tune.

[Hentor the Barbarian]

Male, and a huge, huge fan. When I took up the drums in high school, I had to get a Tama drum kit and Zildjian cymbals to emulate Neil Peart.

I take some undeserved secondary pride that my brothers happened to see their first show as Rush with Neil Peart on drums. They went to see Uriah Heep in Pittsburgh, and Rush opened for them.

My wife is also a huge fan, but that's probably on account of me, so I don't know if she counts.

[AWB]

Male, love 'em. (But I don't loove them. )

[ZipperJJ]

Female, like them.

When I saw them a couple years ago it was with 3 huge fans - one female and 2 male.

[Mister Rik]

Originally Posted by Rushgeekgirl

I believe my user name says it all.

How you doin'?

Male, Rush fanatic. I first heard them in junior high school, right around the same time I was first learning to play the guitar. I heard the bass line to "Freewill", and I said, "That's it, I'm switching to the bass." Hell, I wasn't even really aware of the bass guitar as a distinct instrument until I heard that song. So you could say Geddy Lee turned me into a bass player with that song.

I drifted away in high school and into my early 20s, because I was getting into heavy metal around the same time Rush was going all "new wave" on me (or so it seemed at the time), but I came back to them in the '90s and haven't looked back.

[SnakesCatLady]

Female - love 'em and have for years.

[lissener]

Hate em hard. Male.

[Denis]

Male. Devoted fan. Still find new stuff to capture my imagination in songs of theirs I've been listening to for over twenty years. I like the sensibility they communicate through their music.

[Hoops]

I like 'em. Male.

But I came in here to mention that a co-worker of mine will name his soon-to-be-born son (with the evident assent of his wife) Geddy.

Now that's a yes vote.

[Raygun99]

Male. My hand has reached light speed to change the radio station when they come on.

[Anastasaeon]

Canadian woman: hate 'em.

[cactus waltz]

European male. Never heard them.

But the word 'prog-rock' gives me horrible associations I must say.

[Stratocaster]

45-year-old male. Also a musician. Don't care for them. Feel much the same about the rest of their overwrought prog-rock brethren.

[ScareyFaerie]

Female, can't abide 'em.

Live with male who thinks they're the mutt's gonads.

[aruvqan]

Originally Posted by featherlou

It has come to my attention that liking the rock band "Rush" might be divided along gender lines - women often have little or no interest in this band, and men think they are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

So, a simple poll:
Do you like the band "Rush?"

Are you a man or a woman?

I'll start - woman, don't care for 'em.

Female, been listening to them since the mid 70s, love them [have every album they have ever made, including the one that is nothing but covers - kicking version of crossroads that beats the hell out of the clapton version]

[Siege]

When we were teenagers, my brother loved them. I really didn't care for them, but that may have had something to do with hearing their records played incessanlty and loudly. My brother even tried to convince Mum of the depths of wisdom in their lyrics. Nowadays, I rather like them and even own a CD by them. I'm female and my brother and I are both musicians.

[eleanorigby]

Ugh. NO. Female. Can't think of one song that I like. Did they ever have a hit? Should they have? They tortured my teen days-do we have to revisit them?

(yes, I know that hit doesn't = quality, but still....)

[Snickers]

Female, can't stand Rush. Ick.

[MrDibble]

Male, never heard them. Probably won't like them (I like Tull, but loathe Pink Floyd & every other prog rock act I've ever heard)

[The Controvert]

Male, not interested in the band nor the pundit.

[Cat Whisperer]

Hmm, very interesting - maybe the division is more along the lines of "Rush - Hate 'em or love 'em." aruqvan, that's the one Rush album we have (and the only one I have any interest in getting), and it ain't half bad.

[by-tor]

Male - I like everything pre-Grace Under Pressure. After that they started to suck.

[Rubystreak]

Female. Love everything before Power Windows. After that, not interested.

[Shoeless]

Male. Rush fan since 1976. Owned every album up to "Signals", saw every tour between "A Farewell To Kings" and "Grace Under Pressure". Quit listening to them in the mid-80's when I thought they were trying to sound too much like the Police. I probably need to go back and listen to some of those albums I missed.

[Larry Borgia]

Male. They're ok, but far from my favorite band, even my favorite prog band (Which is King Crimson, if you care.) I respect their talents and like their instrumental music, but Geddy Lee's singing really gets on my nerves, and their Ayn Rand worshipping sub D&D lyrics are just absurd.

As an aside, I wonder what Rand would have thought of them, given that she hated rock music but craved adoration.

[AHunter3]

(poll reply)

I kind of liked "2112", although I think I liked the concept better than the execution. I suppose they've recording something else at some point but I could not tell you what it was/is.

[RealityChuck]

Man, leave me unimpressed.