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Thanks, flstf. That may be the winner for worst ever.
That barenaked ladies tune, I will grant, has absolutely wretched lyrics, and that is the point of this thread. In their defense, though, the lyrics in the rap part aren't about making sense; they're about percussion.
Rarely was Rush good for more than a couple of songs an album (rarely - Moving Pictures was pretty solid, and side one of Signals, but usually it was two, maybe three good songs.) Those of us who rather like them would like to ignore that, but it's a fair point that a good bit of their early work is crap (no more so than Tom Petty though, to pick out a contemporary example). With that said, they used to be young, cool, talented, and pedantic. They're not so young or cool anymore, and all the talent in the world isn't going to change either.
Their last real attempt at cool - the rap in Roll the Bones - wasn't bad. Wasn't cool either, but doesn't deserve the scorn that got heaped on it.
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