Rush against the right
Geddy and Neil rage against the right:
Within its first 60 seconds, the new Rush album, Snakes & Arrows, throws down against the Christian right:
Pariah dogs and wandering madmen
Barking at strangers and speaking in tongues
The ebb and flow of tidal fortune
Electrical changes are charging up the young
-Excerpt from Far Cry
Snakes & Arrows is, musically and lyrically, one of the best recordings of Rush's 35 year history and probably the most important as it tackles themes we're facing with respect to everything from the "barking strangers speaking in tongues" in the movies Jesus Camp and Alexandra Pelosi's Friends of God, to the crusades of the Bush administration and radical Islam, while appropriately and ominously describing this era in history as if "we're back in the Dark Ages."
-Bob Cesca
posted by John Good @ 8:36 PM
4 Comments:
I hadn't thought of us as the Dark Ages, but it is a perfect description. It sure makes it clear that any intellectual pursuit is quashed.
OK, now I'm intrigued. And just let me say this. About time!!!!!
I hated Rush at one point in my youth; but that was primarily due to a huge fan of theirs whom I considered "odd". . .
I have since moved on. . .
I honestly never cared for the sound Rush produced. Actually, I think it was mostly Geddy's voice - I have a problem with me who sound like elves. Kucinich would sound right with Geddy's voice. However, I always thought they were first rate musicians. I could simply never get past that damned voice.
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