Rush to Blawg Review #168

Today is Bastille Day, and if this week's host of Blawg Review #168, Jeffrey Mehalic at the West Virginia Business Litigation blog, had reminded us in advance, we might have swapped his hosting date with French-Law.net, which hosted Blawg Review #165. C'est la vie.



Words and music by Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart

There's no bread, let them eat cake
There's no end to what they'll take
Flaunt the fruits of noble birth
Wash the salt into the earth

But they're marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Free the dungeons of the innocent
The king must kneel to let this kingdom rise

Bloodstained velvet, dirty lace
Naked fear on every face
See them bow their heads to die
As we would bow as they rode by

And they're marching to Bastille Day
La guillotine will claim her bloody prize
Sing, o choirs of cacophony
The king must kneel to let this kingdom rise

Lessons taught but never learned
All around us anger burns
Guide the future by the past
Long ago the mold was cast

For they marched out to Bastille Day
La guillotine claimed her bloody prize
Hear the echoes of the centuries
Power isn't all that money buys

Rush: after 34 years, better than ever

As for Rolling Stone's notion that Rush's enduring popularity is somehow a harbinger of the "American Nerd Age," you wouldn't have known that from the Toronto audience, which ran the gamut from whooping metal-heads to whole families of fans.

In truth, there's a simple reason why Rush has continued to prosper after 34 years and 24 gold albums - they've never stopped growing. Rush today plays better, writes better and sounds better than it ever has. And you don't need Rolling Stone's endorsement to make the band worth hearing.