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rush....ugh..what did it for me, ended my efforts to get past geddy lee's voice and the bombastic arrangements, were the lyrics: two songs, "bastille day" and panacea" in particular...in the first, the chorus was just stupid ("o they're marching to bastille day..." huh?) and in the other, it became cleear that they did not know what panacea meant when the lyrics were written.
at about the same time, i decided that everything important in rock lyrics had already been summed up by iggy stooge---"now i wanna/be your dog"
so my judgements are maybe a bit arbitrary.
maybe it was geddy's voice the whole time....
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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