Rush vs The Beatles

A serious study of music history required here; and if you think that playing the most complicated time signatures or squeezing in the maximum amount of notes is what counts, then you are both way off beam - I'm not kidding.

Ahem. so we've come to this? Comparing one of my favorite bands to one of my most hated?

Obviously I'd have to pick Rush. George Harrison could never play such fast mid-tempo solos. And the vocal harmonies? Those four white pricks don't have half the vocal capacity in even the worst Geddy tunes. Drumming's a no-brainer! we all know Ringo was the most talented member, and even he can't hold a candle to the might of Rush! 

I mean, the proof is in the pudding. A great Rush song, man! It'll be like this twenty minute super awesome song that doesn't change at all! It'll be generic (super duper complicated and technical and difficult and hard to play and super complex...did I say complex? Oh, it'll have complex and intricate time signatures out the wazoo!) and it will never change. It'll be the same few notes (fine tuned to rawking!) for hours and hours. Complex! It'll have solos! PERT! PERT! PERT! It'll be like the same song for eight days. The same generic...hyper complex and super hard to play song that sounds like mushy hard rock, melodically generic mushmush PERT COMPLEX! Geddy is the god of vocals. He's so good! 

And then Happiness is a Warm Gun is this silly piece of sh*t song that only has THREE parts in less than three minutes. I bet Rush could d a billion parts in two minutes (they'd all be same) So cool! Rush beats Beatle ass, sirs. Happiness is a Warm Gun don't got no good harmonies or melodies or musical moments, and Rush is so totally memorable like that fifteenth solo in Cygus part 33 that's ninety minutes long with TIME SIGNATURES THAT ARENT 4/4! They rule like Sunday morning! I love their hair. I mean, Rush is so emotionally resonant and Geddy sings about issues that are real to some people! He thinks he's going bald! that's resonant and emotionally stirring sh*t! it makes me cry yes it does! And it's so memorable! The solo is like wha wah...I forgot. And that crappy Happiness is a War Gun just isn't memorable. Not the stupid 'dark' beginning where it's menacing and the guitar solo segment when they sing 'I need a fix 'cause I'm going down', and then it's 'mother superior jumped the gun', and then it's the ugliness of the main song where the two harmonies meld with the pathetic melody. That sh*t is SO easy to write! I could write fifty beatles songs in an hour and Rush could, too! But Rush, man? Who could write an hour of the same ten notes repeated until a solo comes along or a drum segment sh*ts itself all over any sense of melody they might have had? Rush is GOD!

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Disclaimer: All of that which follows is subjective...

Because Beatles had better lyrics, more musically diverse and engaging arrangements, their melodies are more imminently memorable, the band had FOUR fine singers compared to Rush's one sh*tty singer. Rush spends so much time trying to be nerdy and complex and 'hard to play' that they f**king forgot how to touch a man's heart with feelings that aren't 'let's misquote Ayn Rand' or some asinine rejection of fame's vices and pratfalls.

Yeah, Rush could play faster and more complex music, but why does it matter if they never write songs that make you cry or feel such powerful emotions that you have harder time breathing?

You know, there's more to music than...let's let George Carlin finish for me:

It's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to now why they need to be played.

Wait...I meant to say RUSH RULES 4EVER!