Originally Posted by ThePhanastasio (Post 957345)

I'll say sex. There are a ridiculous amount of "love" songs out there, a lot of people I've known have picked up musical instruments to woo or impress the desired gender, etc.

I see it this way: There are musicians who don't do / approve of drugs. There are musicians who don't give a **** about politics. There are musicians who aren't doing it for the money. You'll be hard-pressed to find a musician with no interest in love or sex at all. I'm sure they exist, but there have to be far less of those than the others.

Originally Posted by Janszoon (Post 957288)

Sex, easily. Before there was money, before drugs were easy to come by, sex was there inspiring musicians to write music to get people's blood flowing.

Originally Posted by xEMGx (Post 957564)

Ah that's messed up. I think it's more of an anger thing.

Originally Posted by loose_lips_sink_ships (Post 957275)

Money, it has steered alot of idiots into thinking they can be musicians.

Originally Posted by flewis (Post 957819)

Somewhere along the lines seems like modeling agencies and money took over the music industry!! If you'd asked me 15 years ago I would have said drugs influenced alot of music

Originally Posted by duga (Post 957586)

Rush is one of those bands. Neil Peart refuses to write about love. He finds it to be nothing more than a chemical response to attraction and the need to reproduce. I love that band, but that seriously depresses me.

Originally Posted by jastrub (Post 957838)

Rush is a fantastic band, and one of the reasons I like them is because they avoid the love song. I have a big spot in my heart for wonderful love songs, but there are so many. Our culture is infatuated with nothing but "silly love songs", as one of history's greatest perpetrators, Paul McCartney, once put it. The only girl Peart ever wrote about was Ayn Rand, and I kinda like it that way. Rush's apollonian logic nicely balances out the dionysian sex/drugs/angst trifecta that plagues most popular music.

Originally Posted by Conan (Post 957862)

One of the reasons I loved Nirvana so much as a kid is they weren't doing the same old "Love is this love is that" thing that I had grown so accustomed to hearing.