The Days of Lore

Rush fans wanna sex you up

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010 | musiX | 1 Comment

I recently scored four records for 9 bucks:

1. Tom Verlaine’s self-titled solo album
2. The Mamas & the Papas 16 of Their Greatest Hits
3. A Touch of Today by Nancy Wilson
4. Rush’s Signals

A steal, I tell you! Of those four records, the one that is receiving the most play here at TDoL HQ is also the one I decided to buy at the last second (an impulse buy, if you will), and the one I thought I would like the least. Can you guess which?

I’ve never been into Rush—I like a few songs—and have historically relegated Rush fans as sexless males with 12-sided dice in their pockets who leave things on message boards like:

How many drummers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Twenty-one—one to change the bulb and 20 to say Neil Peart would have done it better.

Yet Signals keeps getting spins. Perhaps it’s time to rethink this. Maybe Rush fans aren’t so dweeby. I mean making a video of yourself playing bass along to “New World Man” with an impressive sword collection gleaming on your wall isn’t the slightest bit awkward. But I will not pass judgment … it’s probably his dad’s sword collection anyway.

Tags: "New World Man", Rush, Rush fans, Signals