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General discussion in other poll about Neil Peart and playing on drums

generated question burning into my mind:

Neil Peart and his lyrics. When first I read poll answers making him

compliment for lyrical talent, I must think: WTF?!

Never did it fall into my mind that lyrics were subject of poll- just drum playing- it seemed selfevident to me that all words he wrote have been

uniformly shite.

Now let it be asked: who between us can give props to his lyrics?

Crap, although I profess to not being entirely objective due to the fact that I still struggle with feelings of inadequency and shame as the result of having been friends with so many Rush fans in high school.

My psychological afflictions aside, Peart writes lyrics to impress. That makes him a hack. End of discussion.

Honestly, take any 70's chart topping rock giant rock group and try reading the lyrics as poetry. Can ac/dc black sabbath led zep bad company supertramp rolling stones etc.... be any better than rush's dumb lyrics. You might like the tunes more by such artists, but are the lyrics themselves any better? thye are rock tunes. top 40 classic rock. not joni mitchell or whtever classic word god you choose.

capnreverb wrote:Honestly, take any 70's chart topping rock giant rock group and try reading the lyrics as poetry. Can ac/dc black sabbath led zep bad company supertramp rolling stones etc.... be any better than rush's dumb lyrics. You might like the tunes more by such artists, but are the lyrics themselves any better? thye are rock tunes. top 40 classic rock. not joni mitchell or whtever classic word god you choose.

But they're not Ayn Rand, and that's a huge plus.

capnreverb wrote:Honestly, take any 70's chart topping rock giant rock group and try reading the lyrics as poetry. Can ac/dc etc.... be any better than rush's dumb lyrics. You might like the tunes more by such artists, but are the lyrics themselves any better?

I would venture to say that these lyrics, from AC/DC's "Up to My Neck in You," are better "poetry" than anything Neal Peart ever penned:

I've been up to my neck in pleasure
Up to my neck in pain
Up to my neck on the railroad tracks
Waitin' for the train to pull on through...

I've been up to my neck in whiskey
Up to my neck in wine
Up to my neck in wishin'
This neck wasn't mine.

Like Rush's songs, I find their lyrics unbelieveable..... amazing.... jaw-droppingly stunning. I am stunned when I hear them. When I hear a Rush song I truly HAVE to listen to it until the end. It often leaves me speachless. THAT is how bad I think their lyrics are.

Mayfair wrote:Like Rush's songs, I find their lyrics unbelieveable..... amazing.... jaw-droppingly stunning. I am stunned when I hear them. When I hear a Rush song I truly HAVE to listen to it until the end. It often leaves me speachless. THAT is how bad I think their lyrics are.

Ear porn.

you just cant walk away.

As a drummer (and more genreally as a literate human), I am ashamed of his Ayn Rand quoting arse. Definitely more rock and less talk is needed from him.

"The Trees" is probably the most embarrassing song I've ever heard. CRAP.

Alan Greenspan, High Priest of the Temple of Finance, violin virtuoso and Andrea Mitchell's beard, endorses the lyrics of Neil Peart!