Angry or not, the child has some valid points regarding the listenability of RUSH.
If I may opine, I find Rush to be nothing more than overproduced power pop.
Heavy, hostess twinkee establishment bullcrap with an incorrigible rhythm section.
Neither original nor groundbreaking - Musically a mixture of Genisis and Journey, with a big drum set and a Rickenbacker 4 string guitar.
While their first album rocked, hard, Fly by Night was just okay, and the band became untrustworthy when a 30+ year old started on about teen-age alienation in Tom Sawyer.
Recall the first recorded utterances of the term Rock n Roll - A blues slang for grinding the nasties. The birth of Rock and Roll as music and its continued health depends on revolution against established normal society, and as society changes, so must the music evolve. Thus the need for the genre to reinvent itself every ten years through psychedelic, punk, hair metal, grunge, etc. Try to encapsulate and preserve the music and it turns into Mick Jagger singing "Stray Cat Blues" at age 70. "Preserved" or "Classic" rock is nothing more than our new Lawrence Welk.
Not saying GnR really is HoF material either, heck, but what the heck is the RRHoF anyway- Real Rock and Rollers wouldn't attend - it's a wax museum for baby boomers.
