Honestly? I don’t care. Rush is a fucking incredible band, they just happen to also be nuts. There are innumerable entertainers who are remarkably talented and nuts, so I don’t really hold it against them. That isn’t to say there isn’t a limit – there is. It’s just that for my own part, Rush doesn’t quite pass it.

Well, that’s a damn shame. Neil Peart is an Objectivist and the whole band is halfway up Ayn Rand’s decomposed corpse ass. They think that people can only be good if they act in their own self interest, and that the only good form of government is laissez-faire capitalism. Red Barchetta reads like a dystopian fascist future with the band as the last hold-out rebels against this future, which is apparently (supposedly) already here.

Sigh. The drum set is still sweet though.

They’re relatively hardcore libertarians. Listen to – or better, google the lyrics to “Red Barchetta” and read them. That isn’t to say that they don’t talk about it, it is just that that song made a lot more sense after I found that out.

I didn’t even know there was anything political about them. Wholly ignorant of that aspect of their existence.

While I can totally see finding their politics repugnant, there is no reasonable metric that would indicate Rush sucks.