Rush, The Clash or AC/DC in what order and why?

[ZZenith]

52. I hope you know this is all in good fun and I mean no offense

And it’s absurd to try to rank art of any kind

But!

I do know for a fact that if you take any halfway decent bar band and give them a Clash song they will have it down in a half hour. Give them a Rush song and you can come back next week and they will still be trying to get the bridge right.

So, if your taste runs to simple 3 chord punk songs, you are likely to enjoy The Clash. For forty years Rush made music of an amazingly high degree of complexity and nuance, which, while it may not be to your liking, is the far greater accomplishment.