People say they are profound; I disagree. PINK FLOYD LYRICS are profound. Rush lyrics are said to be deep just because Neil Peart was said to have read the philosopher 'Ayn Rand' [whoever that is.] All I'm hearing in their songs is "Yeah baby! Let's get rid of those messy social restraints and have 'free will...' i.e. to hell with religion, let's do whatever the hell we want!
Is that what passes for profound lyrics these days? Give me Dylan, Cohen or Springsteen any day....
2007-10-18 01:54:16 · 14 answers · asked by Jerusalem Delivered 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
Sorry to disagree, but I think you're dead wrong. I have heard valid complaints about Rush over the years. However, I happen to think their lyrics are plenty profound and complex. Certainly more than the three artists you listed because the message with them was very direct. With Rush, things were far more ambiguous and you had to listen carefully.
2007-10-18 11:25:03 · answer #1 · answered by Rckets 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Rock music lyrics certainly don't have to be profound to make that band great, or to make a particular song or album great. Rush have done some amazing songs, La Villa Strangiato, Red Barchetta, The Trees to name but a few. Try explaining the lyrics of The Trees to someone! But it doesn't in any way detract from what is a brilliant song. As a band of musicians, Rush are by far the best there is, ever saw them live or on a live dvd? Neil Peart is the best drummer ever.
2007-10-19 01:43:18 · answer #2 · answered by Kev 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pink Floyd lyrics are profound
But so are Rush lyrics and Yes lyrics and Blue Oyster Cult lyrics as well.
Springsteen?? That overrated hack couldn't write his way out of a wet paper sack!
Born down in a dead man's town, the first kick I took was when I hit the ground??????
Oh yeah that's uber profound....LOL
Dylan I can agree with, but Rush write more amazing lyrics on one album than Springsteen has in His whole career.
2007-10-18 13:56:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
No.
Doesn't sound like you've heard much Rush beyond '2112' or stuff after 1980.
Neil Peart happens to be an intelligent, well-read guy. He simply does what he does best. He writes lyrics beyond "hey baby" & gettin busy etc.. Kinda like Van Halen writing songs about having fun, or Dylan writing about social change & personal relationships etc. It's what *they* do best.
It's a drag to see people knock Rush who'd have a much better time knocking lyrics truly *worth* knocking. (aka 90% of the crap being written today)
Be happy he's at least among the rock lyricists we still have who try to aim higher....
2007-10-18 18:44:31 · answer #4 · answered by Fonzie T 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Many people say there lyrics are overated. I think they aren't. If you take the time to listen to a Rush song at least a few times. Then you will understand the lyrics and if you still do not understan them well your missing out on some good songs.
2007-10-18 14:25:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I don't think their overrated.
Over the years, Peart has become known for an apersonal writing style and a propensity for addressing diverse subject matter including science fiction, fantasy, and philosophy, as well as secular, humanitarian and libertarian themes.
While in London he came across the writings of novelist and Objectivist Ayn Rand. Rand's writings became a significant philosophical influence on the young drummer and he found many of her treatises to individualism and Objectivism inspiring. References to Rand's philosophy can be found in his lyrics, most notably "Anthem" from 1975s Fly By Night and "2112" from the 1976 Rush album, 2112.
2007-10-18 11:00:11 · answer #6 · answered by Peepaw 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I love Rush, but the only problem I have with their lyrics is that I can't make them out!
But who the hell listens to prog rock for the lyrical content anyway??
PS- Bob Dylan???- I've heard people talk more coherently in their sleep!
2007-10-18 11:33:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Rush lyrics are silly. So are Pink Floyd lyrics.
If you're listening to rock for lyrical profundity, man are you barking up the wrong tree. Rock lyrics are generally only interesting in context. If the lyric is good but the music isn't, it's a bad song, full stop.
Rush's music works because I'm prepared to tolerate Neil Peart's daft lyrics as long as the music convinces me, just as I can believe in J.S. Bach's god as long as his musical inspiration convinces me that he exists. Once the music is over, the spell is broken. But what a spell it was.
Pink Floyd have never convinced me that they are anything but a pretentious and bloated pub-rock band. I don't like Dylan or Springsteen and I like Leonard Cohen as a poet who's successfully bluffed his way into music, and who turns out to be quite good at it.
Rock is not primarily about verbal intelligence and as long as you look for lyrical, as opposed to musical, profundity, you are doomed to be disappointed. Black Sabbath's 'War Pigs', although lyrically a bit silly, is in terms of musical content and conviction stronger, deeper and more eloquent than anything Pink Floyd ever recorded.
2007-10-18 20:09:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
I wouldn't say any lyrics are profound. I feel they have inspiration and meaning to those that find them in an individual song. To each their own.
2007-10-18 09:30:24 · answer #9 · answered by schneider2294@sbcglobal.net 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love Rush and my sister is into Pink Floyd (so much so she named her two cats Pink and Floyd). But each to their own, you don't like something don't listen to it. Everyone perceives lyrics as something different anyway.
2007-10-18 09:09:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋