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Originally Posted by jastrub
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.
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One of the reasons I loved Nirvana so much as a kid is they weren't doing the same old "Love is this love is that" thing that I had grown so accustomed to hearing.