You don’t have to agree with Alice’s opinions, but you don’t have to be mean about it.
Well I think this statement is exceptionally obnoxious.
Firstly, saying that Rush rocks on guitar is hardly a unique or unusual opinion.
Secondly, saying that Getty Lee can’t sing may get my Canadian card confinscated, but I’m hardly alone in this particular opinion.
Finally, I don’t condsider Rush to be lyrical masters. I find their lyrics sort of pretentious and twee, if I may use that word. This is obviously a matter for debate, but it’s not a stupid opinion, thankyouverymuch.
Jesus - who pissed in your Cornflakes this morning?
I think those are my favorite Rush lyrics, hands down.
I can hardly think of Rush anymore without then thinking of that article on The Onion about the Mexican-Canadian bypass road that was built, wherein angry Americans complain about all the mariachi music and Rush.
This is not the Pit, Operation Ripper. In future, please be forum-appropriate in your posts.
Of course I mean Geddy Lee.
Pardon me - I’m just going to go lie down over here…
“In the dying days of a war…”
Nice turn of phrase.
The song is obviously about an encounter with a narcissist.
“He gets high on you when he gets over on you.”
It also give the only way out of the grips of a narcissist; “Exit.”
They must have found the lyrics because they don’t know what they mean.
First, I’d say the title is a bit off, because the ideals Neil Peart was trying to convey are better embodied by Huck Finn than by Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer is a mischievous little boy, not a deep thinker, and Mark Twain’s stories about Tom Sawyer don’t mean much. TOm Sawyer has a conventional family, and will PROBABLY grow up to be a pretty ordinary adult.
Huck Finn, on the other hand, is a loner. He’s a boy who has to grow up before his time, to live on his own before his time, and make adult decisions before his time. Huck Finn is the boy who declares that he’d rather go to Hell than betray his principles or his friend, even if the larger society tells him he’s doing something immoral.
THAT is the kind of independence that a libertarian like Neil Peart applauds. ANd that’s the kind of spirit he’d LIKE to see in modern men.
Back in high school we used to turn in Rush lyrics as original poetry or creative writing assignments. Teachers never caught on.