Rush

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• Arghblarg@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Neil Peart Stands Alone

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  • Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Neil planted a drumstick in the ground as a teenager, it sprouted into a drum pedal, and before he knew it, cymbals were in full bloom around him.

    May he enjoy eternal bliss with his infinite-piece drum kit.

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      In the afterlife, nobody asks him if he’s still a fan of ayn Rand

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  • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That set is a work of art.

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• Fandangalo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For comparison

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Getty images? More like Geddy images.

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    • rainwall@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Pearty good.

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• Darohan@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Slander, Weird Al would never follow the teachings of Ayn Rand (sorry to anyone that this may have killed the band for, it certainly killed them for me).

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  • Hazmatastic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    From what I understand they moved away from the Rand stuff pretty hard and publicly distanced themselves from it. I honestly never got anything but wholesome vibes from the dudes, even if they were a bit misguided in their early years. Their songs are usually about fostering connections with others, doing your own thing, and accepting others who are doing the same. That just translated into hyper-individualism and maybe buying into red scare propaganda in the seventies. The USSR and China really had a bad taste in everyone’s mouth when it came to communism. Not saying they’re perfect or that i agree with it, but i can see how they got there.

    Oddly enough, for all its Rand influence, 2112 goes fuckin hard. Discovery was an absolute delight to me as a musician, and Priests is still raw af.

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    • paultimate14@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I started typing up my own personal observations about Rush lyrics changing over time, but then I found this quote from Geddy Lee himself:

      A few songs may have also been a little naive in their original intent. The nasty little tale called “The Trees,” of course — a comment on forced equality. Being a much more liberal-minded adult, I now have a softer approach to things in life and I’m much more open and willing. I put a lot more importance on social responsibility now than I ever did. I talk about that, of course, when I’m referring to free will. There were a few things we sang about in our early twenties that seemed very important. But as time has gone on, you ameliorate those views because life has told you it’s not so simple. Once you encounter problems and you begin to help your family or friends with some of those problems, you learn a lot about how much of life has lived in the gray areas as opposed to the black and white areas.

      The Trees was, and still is, one of my favorite songs for the sake of the music. And I can see how the lyrics may have worked a lot better back during the cold war, just a couple of decades after genocide and famine wiped out millions in the USSR and China.

      I grew up listening to both a greatest hits CD that has libertarian tracks like Freewill and The Trees and 2112, but also listening to Snakes and Arrows that had polar opposite messages in songs like Far Cry, the Way the Wind Blows, and The Larger Bowl. They got smarter and more aware of their own privilege as they grew older and saw more of the world.

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    • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean Neil Peart took the right ideas from “individualism” : personal liberties, and dedicating yourself do doing the hard, necessary work. Selling organs and not paying taxes so corporation scan profit off hospitals isn’t what’s in Rush’s lyrics; it’s the collective oppressing the individual, which happens under many ideological forms.

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    • Darohan@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      2112 does go fucking hard, Temples of Syrinx was one of my all-time favourite songs, and I listened to it for years on a bad audio system without being able to understand the lyrics properly. Once I started hearing them properly, though, it started feeling a bit sus (I’m a big lyrics person) which lead me to find the interview above. I’m glad to hear they’ve changed since then, though.

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    • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Red lenses, Red Tide

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    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Can I get a TLDR about Rand for me and the rest of the terminally lazy people

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Please tell me John Petrucci have regretted backing Trump!

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To be fair, that was early Rush. Neil grew as we all do and his writing turned to be much more mature in later years.

    Still absolutely love 2112 and Anthem.

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I am struggling to find why Ayn Rand is so bad. Is it because she laid some of the groundwork for the libertarian movement?

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      She was an idiotic hypocrite who birthed a dumbfuck philosophy which has made the world a notably worse place. She deserves to be forgotten by history and humans in general, Damnatio memoriae.

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• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Where’s the chick who does vocals?

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    She died choking on her vomit after taking heroin. Her dad was an ATC, there was a whole story arc.

    Oh you meant in the band.

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    She’s drumming now.

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• YoiksAndAway@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We need to cook, Jesse, cuz Weird Al ain’t fuckin’ around!

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• Skyrmir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m pretty sure Al could play a guitar, can the other two sing or play drums?

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• ummthatguy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Drum Solo of Life!

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• Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Who is the gen x weird al?

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  • biggeoff@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That’s just normal weird Al isn’t it?

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I suppose the world might not be big enough for two Weird Als

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    According to him, it was all part of his plan to look more like Alanis Morissette.

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• Pringles@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Rush is actually a pretty good band. I remember listening to them a lot when I was 17-18. Now I have to listen to them again…

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  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    just walk into any bar in Canada.

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• rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  waltuh

  put down your guitar away waltuh

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• NaibofTabr@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Rush? Image

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hope he and Cheney are enjoying their daily pineapples right now.

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• JayFonduh@lemmy.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Children playing children playing children.

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