A lot of people love Rush. 90% of these people are men. The other 10% might or might not be women, but I know I have met at least hundred Rush fans, and none were women, so my statistics might be a little off.
What?
Anyway, without giving you the history lesson I could teach, Rush is a Canadian band that got famous with their single “Working Man,” made progressive rock history with By-Tor and the Snow Dog, and then sold a shit ton of albums, and now they’re in the rock and roll hall of fame (psyche).
If there is one Rush album that your favorite Rush fan doesn’t own, it’s Caress of Steel. It was supposed to be their big epic breakthrough with one 12 minute track about Lord o
f the Rings and one 20 minute track about a fountain.
Now I know that sounds good to the nerd in you, but did they really think the masses would catch onto this?
The first three songs are the potential singles. (Bastille Day, I Think I’m Going Bald, Lakeside Park) Bastille Day is in fact a solid song, with catchy punk/metal riffs laced all over its juicy pussy. Tasteless as it sounds, it is entirely true. The following two tracks are absolutely the two worst Rush songs of all time. I Think I’m Going Bald sounds like the lyrics were written by someone who wasn’t going bald, and Lakeside Park is as cheesy as it sounds.
If Caress of Steel is a woman, Bastille Day is a nice vagina, I Think I’m Going Bald is her ugly over sized pimple, Lakeside Park is her Butterface, The Necromancer is her perfect small boob, and The Fountain of Lamneth is her gigantic boob.
What a weird looking bitch.
The Necromancer is a great track that twists and turns through many angles, and overall creates a great sense of you hearing the story from some old traveler.
The Fountain of Lamneth is one of Rush’s best songs, despite many people trashing this entire album. It tells the story of a boy growing up all the way to his finding of the Fountain of Lamneth, and he realizes that the journey is really the important part of his life. It’s not what he has at the end of his life, but what he made with the time he was given. A section of this song is very experimental, and some noise musicians I believe have taken influence from it, considering this was released in 1975.
So go, give this a listen. Become not only a video game nerd, but a music nerd.
