RUSH

peaveyuser · #1 02-13-2007, 11:25 PM

Just wondering sometimes when they mention rush or play a song on a t.v show why is it connected with nerds? At my school people most people who listen to rush aren't nerds and just like the music but for some reason which i don't understand rush supposedly has some nerd following. Beats me why, i just like the music.

scottice · #2 02-13-2007, 11:30 PM

Isn't Geddy the ultimate nerd? Kinda' looks like one.

In the 80's, before I liked RUSH, my buddies played D&D while listening to RUSH... and they were nerds (I was too).

ArmyPunkGuy · #3 02-13-2007, 11:33 PM

If Geddy Lee is a nerd then he is the coolest one ever. I'm into punk rock but "Freewill" gets me revved up everytime

TeeMartin · #4 02-14-2007, 12:00 AM

Because it's nerdy to like good music.

justinb515 · #5 02-14-2007, 12:21 AM

Yeah, a lot of people think that music that isn't on the top 40 chart is nerdy. Personally most pop music makes me want to cut my throat with construction paper... I think maybe the Rush - nerd connotation comes from the singer's lead voice and some of the lyrics. I love Rush, but that song about unrest in the forest (I know it's a metaphor) does sound a little nerdy to my ears, until they rock out of course. Most people are too focused on getting caught riding dirty to worry about trouble with the maples.

scottice · #6 02-14-2007, 12:28 AM

You talkin' smack about "The Trees"?!?!?!

Ad Nauseam · #7 02-16-2007, 06:15 AM

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Originally Posted by peaveyuser

Just wondering sometimes when they mention rush or play a song on a t.v show why is it connected with nerds? At my school people most people who listen to rush aren't nerds and just like the music but for some reason which i don't understand rush supposedly has some nerd following. Beats me why, i just like the music.

It's because "prog" rock or "math" rock is considered a thinker's form of music. A Musician's musician-made creation that is complex and technical far before it is ever sexually appealing.
The listeners are mainly guys, and since there have been so many sci-fi themes to their songs, they tend to be the scienceclub/comicbook/sausagefest types.
I've only had one girlfriend who owned a rush album, most of the time I'm lucky if I find a girl who can tolerate them. I wait a good month before I spring the massive Rush collection on them.
I recently got the Rush R30 dvd, and my current girlfriend sleeps in the other room now. Heheh.
I'll have to fly cygnus x-1 all the way to dreamland (or dreamline) by myself!

Brian S · #8 02-16-2007, 06:27 AM

+1 Ad Nauseum!

I guess I'm lucky in that I always liked prog rock, but my girlfriend was the one who really got me into it. She introduced me to Emerson, Lake and Palmer and I turned her on to Rush and Jethro Tull. We both already liked Yes. It must have worked out because now she's my wife!

As for the Rush nerd factor, I'd agree that the scifi and fantasy lyrics on their 70's albums were a big contributor. But a lot of prog bands were doing that.

73jbass · #9 02-16-2007, 06:54 AM

Hey Brian,did you see that they will be in Atlanta this year for the new tour?I haven't seen them live since the mid 80's. Also,does your wife have a sister that's just like her,and single?

GrooveWarrior · #10 02-16-2007, 06:57 AM

If you can't tell who the nerds are . . . guess what . . .

I think it is because the lyrics are often associated with Lord Of The Rings type fantasy.

Long live Rush, and us nerds who listen to it!!!!!

Brian S · #11 02-16-2007, 07:24 AM

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Hey Brian,did you see that they will be in Atlanta this year for the new tour?I haven't seen them live since the mid 80's. Also,does your wife have a sister that's just like her,and single?

That's cool. I haven't seen a tour schedule yet. I last saw them in 2004 here in Atlanta. I saw them a couple of times in the 80's and I can't count the times I saw them in the 70's opening for other bands and later as headliners. They seemed to tour constantly back then.

My wife doesn't have a sister. She does have three brothers, but they're all spoken for.

Brian S · #12 02-16-2007, 07:27 AM

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Originally Posted by GrooveWarrior

If you can't tell who the nerds are . . . guess what . . .

I think it is because the lyrics are often associated with Lord Of The Rings type fantasy.

Long live Rush, and us nerds who listen to it!!!!!

+1

The "Fly By Night Album" (their second album the first with Neil Peart) has a track called "Rivendell". Can't get nerdier than that!

Ad Nauseam · #13 02-16-2007, 08:53 AM

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+1

The "Fly By Night Album" (their second album the first with Neil Peart) has a track called "Rivendell". Can't get nerdier than that!

That song was like a freakin lullaby to me when I was 13. Worked better than sleeping pills. Panacea too.

Time to make song lists! Top 5 songs I want to hear this tour:
1: Lock And Key
2: Marathon
3: Losing It
4: Something For Nothing
5: Nobody's Hero

6th would be Bangkok. heheh.

screw it, top 10...

7: Here Again
8: Show Don't Tell
9: Chain Lighning
10: I think I'm Going Bald

Maybe we're considered nerds because of how retardly excited we get over them?

MAY 1ST! MAY 1ST! MAY 1ST!

Baryonyx · #14 02-16-2007, 10:04 AM

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Panacea too.

Panacea is amazing. So soft and sweet, before breaking into the joyous rock of Bacchus Plateau. Still one of my favourite Rush songs (a song within a song), so simple, and with that amazing solo at the end from Alex that reminds me of birds singing.

Alan Vorse · #15 02-16-2007, 10:14 AM

Rock music is SUPPOSED to be about sex and cars and partying, or at least rebellion (hmmm, couldn't we put Red Barchetta in the car category and The Trees in the rebellion category?) and Rush deal with subject matter that is philosophical, literary and political.

When white audiences adopted rock and roll from black musicians in the 50s and 60s, it was a way of rebelling against their parents and/or the establishment's music. Up until then, every kid took piano lessons. In the 50s/60s, they got a guitar and learned 3 chords and the blues scale instead.

So rock is supposed to be "the people's music", and when you start playing in odd time signatures with chords that have more than 3 notes in them with lots of virtuosity and lyrics inspired by Ayn Rand, its less "blood and guts" and more "intellectual."

BTW, most Rush fans I know (including myself) are nerds.

funkalicious101 · #16 02-16-2007, 12:06 PM

i do think that it is a requirement to be smarter than most people around you to listen to rush.

it defininately is thinking mans music

QORC · #17 02-16-2007, 12:17 PM

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Originally Posted by peaveyuser

Just wondering sometimes when they mention rush or play a song on a t.v show why is it connected with nerds? At my school people most people who listen to rush aren't nerds and just like the music but for some reason which i don't understand rush supposedly has some nerd following. Beats me why, i just like the music.

nerd band? Hardly. WHen I was in HS and 2112 came out, it was all the "burn-outs" and long hairs who were listening to it.

I'll say this. I've never been in a band YET where every musician didn't like and admire this group. it's amazing. they are definitely a musician's band.

jomahu · #18 02-16-2007, 12:32 PM

well, i'm a girl and i love Rush. so it's a thinking person's music.

rush is cerebral music - and supposedly, rock is about a region just south of the waistline. and you can't dance to rush music. maybe that's why people think it's uncool.
or maybe 'cause they never engaged publicly in all the rock n roll shenanigans.

meh. if we like them, then they MUST be great!

Alan Vorse · #19 02-16-2007, 01:33 PM

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well, i'm a girl and i love Rush.

Do a lot of nerds hit on you?

Enden · #20 02-16-2007, 02:04 PM

Rush really seems to be musician's music. People just listen to garbage. Today I was in study hall writing out some sheet music for Theory class, and this kid kept looking over my shoulder with a "***" look on his face. Beh.

In my opinion, Rush is the most overall talented band of all time. So tight.