# Is Rush the ugliest band ever? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 28, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rush-the-ugliest-band-ever/337486 "2005-12-28T20:52:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rush-the-ugliest-band-ever/337486/81 "2005-12-30T05:15:08Z")
> [@Hodge](#): > > How could you guys forget **The Pogues**? Heck, Shane McGowan would be enough to qualify the band even if the rest of the members were GQ models (which they’re most certainly not). [Ladies](http://www.shanemacgowan.de/funnythumb.jpg) [and](http://images.contactmusic.com/images/artist/shanemacgowanap.jpg) [getlemen](http://avaxhome.ru/media/images/MacGowan_t.jpg) , [Shane](http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1050777207878_2003/04/21/macgowan.jpg) [MacGowan](http://www.uwm.edu/People/zjbyrne/prettyshane.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rush-the-ugliest-band-ever/337486/82 "2005-12-30T05:43:33Z")
Rush is not the ugliest band. However, [they are definitely the geekiest.](http://www.cathedralstone.net/Pics/Rush2a.jpg) > [@Coldfire](#): > > If we’re talking current line-ups, an honourable mention should go out to [Yes](http://www.weltreisender.com/yes/seiteyes_teil_6.htm), British prog rockers from the dark ages. Steve Howe alone raises The Art of Ugly to a godlike level. The other guys are aging badly, but used to be good-looking. Howe NEVER was. ---
**Author:** ![marymargaret](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@marymargaret](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marymargaret)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rush-the-ugliest-band-ever/337486/83 "2005-12-30T05:49:09Z")
> [@KGS](#): > > Rush is not the ugliest band. However, [they are definitely the geekiest.](http://www.cathedralstone.net/Pics/Rush2a.jpg) Please tell me that photo has been doctored. If not, is that a cameltoe I spy? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rush-the-ugliest-band-ever/337486/84 "2005-12-30T05:54:27Z")
Here’s one comedienne’s opinion… > [@Tina Fey](#): > > I was not a cute kid. I looked like a cross between that chick from the Indigo Girls… and that other chick from the Indigo Girls! ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 6:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rush-the-ugliest-band-ever/337486/85 "2005-12-30T06:12:28Z")
> [@woodstockbirdybird](#): > > [Shane](http://www.smh.com.au/ffxImage/urlpicture_id_1050777207878_2003/04/21/macgowan.jpg) Yee Gods! That looks like Martin Sheen on a month-long bender! ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rush-the-ugliest-band-ever/337486/86 "2005-12-30T06:44:17Z")
I can’t believe nobody has mentioned [The Smashing Pumpkins](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cc/SmashingPumpkins-MCISera.jpg/250px-SmashingPumpkins-MCISera.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rush-the-ugliest-band-ever/337486/87 "2005-12-30T06:47:30Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Yee Gods! That looks like Martin Sheen on a month-long bender! Well, Shane’s (by his own admission) been on pretty much a 30-year bender at this point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-rush-the-ugliest-band-ever/337486.md?page=4)