Rush make music that is on a much higher musical level than Green Day and Blink 182, so there is more quality to their music. Who can deny it and how?
What is a 'higher musical level'?
More notes played? More instruments used in a song? More use of the word 'Xanadu'? Longer composition? Usage of odd-time signatures?
Define 'higher musical level', please, or I won't take that question seriously at all.
Following 'higher musical level' -> 'more quality'. Again, this does not follow up.
I can deny it, because it's a fucking stupid question to ask.
Compare Basket Case and Xanadu? What's musically superior? Which song takes much more personal talent and creative effort to be written and performed?
Why the arbitrary choice of these two songs?
Ask yourself the same questions two define 'musically superior' next.
What is 'personal talent'? What is 'creative effort'? Can that be defined or quantised?
I'm quite confident that if Green Day would play 'Xanadu' it wouldn't sound well, but I'm also pretty sure that if Rush were to play 'Basket Case' it wouldn't be convincing at all either.
If someone prefers Basket Case to Xanadu, it doesn't matter, it won't change the truth that Xanadu is a musically superior song by a wide margin.
What 'truth'?
What 'wide margin'? How are you even defining the 'margin', when you've only compared them in bullshit terms stemming from your own subjective opinion?