10 Hard Rock Music Songs Artists Want You To Forget

10. Tai Shan - Rush

There's a pretty big dividing line in the camp of Rush fans throughout the years. There are people that love everything single thing that the band has ever done, and then there are those that cover their ears and insist that the synth period they went through in the '80s doesn't exist. And while albums like Grace Under Pressure and Signals have their fair share of great tracks, even the band doesn't really like to defend Tai Shan.

Granted, you could at least see what they were trying to do with this, fitting in with the free jazz elements that were creeping in on Hold Your Fire. In between the more over the top songs like Time Stand Still, Tai Shan is more of an experiment than an actual song, being inspired by Eastern culture that Neil Peart had become interested in around this time.

You can tell that they didn't skimp out on the authenticity of the song either, featuring a lot of drum techniques and rhythmic patterns that are unique to Chinese culture at the time. As the years have gone on though, the band never really played it live all that often and even Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee have owned up to it feeling like a bit of a misstep in their career. Still, it says a lot about an artist when something that they view as a mistake can still play circles around most other musicians in the prog world.