Crooked Timber: Though he may have won all the battles / We had all the good songs
Juan leads with his chin, describing Rush as “arguably the most prominent libertarian band of all time.”
This made me smile: I liked them fine (hey, they were loud, played lots of notes, and were unlistenable by adults). But somewhere along the way, I found it curious that their stuff was so relentlessly libertarian, while they lived in a socialist monarchy, just across the border from the US. I don’t expect artists to live their art, but absent almost any other subject matter (there was a two album space opera in there, as I recall), it just seemed strange to me.
The Clash came along and kicked them to the curb . . .