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Originally Posted by duga
Rush is one of those bands. Neil Peart refuses to write about love. He finds it to be nothing more than a chemical response to attraction and the need to reproduce. I love that band, but that seriously depresses me.
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Rush is a fantastic band, and one of the reasons I like them is because they avoid the love song. I have a big spot in my heart for wonderful love songs, but there are so many. Our culture is infatuated with nothing but "silly love songs", as one of history's greatest perpetrators, Paul McCartney, once put it. The only girl Peart ever wrote about was Ayn Rand, and I kinda like it that way. Rush's apollonian logic nicely balances out the dionysian sex/drugs/angst trifecta that plagues most popular music.