/lit/ - Literature

Beefheart

1. John Prine
2. Bob Dylan
3. Neil Young
4. Lyle Lovett

Lou Reed

yo

>Who's the most /lit/ band

It's phish

>>6110593
no

>>6110598

>>6110580
leonard cohen

>>6110632
better than Dylan

Astronautalis

"the real risk is not a slipped grip at the tip of the peak, the real danger is just to linger at the base of the thing"

as memey as he is, jeff mangum

>>6110643
motivational-poster-tier lyrics

>>6110580
Justin Bieber

>We were inseparable (inseparable)
>Everything I had to do I did it next to you (next to you)
>And the memories we made are so incredible
>Then our love was interrupted by my schedule

>There was nothing that I could do
>'Cause you fell into the deepest depression baby
>And I hate to know I'm responsible
>Then your heart fills up with so much aggression baby

>>6110598
>>6110630
he went down hill after the smiths.

>You had to sneak into my room
>'just' to read my diary
like for reeal?

>>6110679
>it was just to see, just to see
>all the things you knew I'd written about you

Miasmic fungus infests the small intestine
Vitriolic juices burn through the stomach wall
Bursting carcinosis as chylase melts your guts
Crepitating neoplasm erupts with gore...

Maturating boils, the canker emmenagogic
Grume decays to a frothing sludge
Dermatital pustules suppurate with cancer
Caustic sepsis coagulates the blood...

Necrolytic digestion, rancid plasma is released
Automaceration of the carcass incites pyogenesis
Globular tissue decomposed, hydrogen sulphide is evolved
Reek of putrefaction secreted by necrotrophic mould...

>>6110679
>>6110679
>late night maudlin street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLFlNDsGrFQ
>I've changed my plea to guilty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylwJJfCUFJk
>everyday is like sunday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7Gee3THtb8
>nobody loves us
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QntmKugLGUw
>Ouija board Ouija board
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD0XLytC0w

>crossing mediums

tip top plop

>>6110697
nice who is this
>>6110706
>implying some of the best works of classical music and opera have not been based on or inspired by literature

Dani Filth. Cradle's fourth record, for example, was an interpretation of the Bathory legend and for me contains his most striking and impressive work. He is an actual poet in the classical sense.

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Cradle_of_Filth/Cruelty_and_the_Beast/69

Thirteen Autumns and a Widow.
Spawned wanton like blight on an auspicious night
Her eyes betrayed spells of the moon's eerie light
A disquieting gaze forever ghosting far seas
Bled white and dead, Her true mother was fed
To the ravenous wolves that the elements led
From crag-jagged mountains that seemingly grew in unease.

>>6110713

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-FpcyrvsNI

Patti Smith
Bill Callahan (Smog)
David Berman (Silver Jews)

just to name a few that went unmentioned

MF doom is really good, Simon n Garfunkel are top tier, Dylan is good.
But Nick Cave is the best.

Fabrizio De André

>>6110716
jesus christ man what are you even doing here

>>6110713
>misunderstanding the post

>>6110656
>hip-hop song/video about ripping people off
don't think so matey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N4YeNYbU5I

>>6110741
What's the problem? The man is a quality quill manoeuvrer.

>>6110757
I sort of agree. I was exposed to a lot of bad metal growing up and I always thought Cradle of Filth would be a lot better if they could just be removed from their musical context

they're just dramatic Europeans

not the best band tho, it should be said

>>6110774

I miss the days when CoF was the benchmark for lame metal, I'd beg to have them back over some of the shit that's around nowadays

>>6110643
>newer astronautalis
My Dinner With Andy is probably my favorite composition of his

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Astronautalis:My_Dinner_With_Andy
>It's just a bit of nervousness;
>I didn't mean to turn a dress from the very perfect pinkly shade to murderous
>And now her face is verdant green. Horrified, observe the scene
>I made a mess, I spilled a glass of finest '83 indeed
>Waitresses stop and stare, the patrons shockin' awful fierce;
>Force the forks, the plates to clank, in unison and rock their ears and look at me
>Hope to scoop the country wolf who's under hoof, whose blunder would be understood as social tragedy

>>6110790
Cradle of Filth happened before Underoath broke popular heavy music forever

>>6110774
The music Cradle became popular for was essentially a mix of Maiden/Priest NWOBHM type guitar histrionics and the synth driven black metal theatre of Emperor. I got into them because Dani was in Kerrang every week at a time I was massively enthralled by Marilyn Manson. Both Manson and Dani are considered ludicrous characters by people who don't know a lot about them, but they are both very creative writers and at least during their early days knew how to craft entertaining albums. Both gents belong in this thread, I think.

>>6110580
Lee Ranaldo/Sonic Youth

Jim Morrison

/thread

>>6110890
hungover Rimbaud looking in a dirty mirror = Jim Morrison

he didn't have a shade of originality, I'm afraid

Its subjective but certain posters itt are objectively wrong.

>>6110890
>>6110880
>>6110738
>>6110735
>>6110685
>>6110643
>>6110598
>>6110593
You're all cancer

>>6110580
I'd say Dan Barret, Bob Dylan, Aesop Rock or Astronautalis

>>6110580
maybe top 20
>>6110586
maybe top 10
>>6110593
no
>>6110598
>yo
more like 'no'
>>6110632
best
>>6110637
>>6110645
no
>>6110685
maybe top 20
>>6110735
maybe top 50
>>6110880
no
>>6110890
maybe top 100
>>6110904
>Dan Barret
no
>Aesop Rock
top tier hip hop lyrics

pic related is no 2
also there are plenty of poets making music
see Gil Scott-Heron

>>6110645
second

>>6110930
>THAT guy showed up

>>6110944
this

>>6110951
>I was the dreamweaver
>but now I'm reborn
>I was the walrus
>but now I'm John
;_;

>>6110951
bahahaha

>>6110951
this
>tfw people don't realise john's debut solo album was greater than anything any other beatle ever made
>>6110958
>he's only heard 'she loves you' and 'help'

townes van zandt

Won't you lend your lungs to me?
Mine are collapsing
Plant my feet and bitterly
Breathe up the time that's passing.
Breath I'll take and breath I'll give
Pray the day's not poison
Stand among the ones that live
In lonely indecision.

Fingers walk the darkness down
Mind is on the midnight
Gather up the gold you've found
You fool, it's only moonlight.
And if you stop to take it home
Your hands will turn to butter
Better leave this dream alone
Try to find another.

Salvation sat and crossed herself
And called the devil partner
Wisdom burned upon a shelf
Who'll kill the raging cancer
Seal the river at its mouth
Take the water prisoner
Fill the sky with screams and cries
Bathe in fiery answers

Jesus was an only son
And love his only concept
But strangers cry in foreign tongues
And dirty up the doorstep
And I for one, and you for two
Ain't got the time for outside
Keep your injured looks to you
We'll tell the world that we tried

>>6110958
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jknynk5vny8

>>6110962
I'm a giant beatles fan. I've heard every beatles and john solo album multiple times, but john was no great poet by a long shot. He was a pop songwriter. He lyrics were mostly vapid, nonsensical, or preachy to be completely pragmatic

>>6110978
>john solo album multiple times
>listening to life with lions more than once

>>6110580
Leonard Fucking Cohen.

>>6110989
please read the thread before posting thanks

At the record company meeting
On their hands - a dead star
And oh, the plans they weave
And oh, the sickening greed

At the record company party
On their hands - a dead star
The sycophantic slags all say :
"I knew him first, and I knew him well"

Re-issue! Re-package! Re-package!
Re-evaluate the songs
Double-pack with a photograph
Extra track (and a tacky badge)

A-list, playlist
"Please them , please them !"
"Please them !"
(sadly, this was your life)

But you could have said no
If you'd wanted to
You could have said no
If you'd wanted to

BPI, MTV, BBC
"Please them ! Please then!"
(sadly this was your life)

But you could have said no
If you'd wanted to
You could have walked away
...Couldn't you?

I touched you at the soundcheck
You had no real way of knowing
In my heart I begged "Take me with you ...
I don't care where you're going..."

But to you I was faceless
I was fawning, I was boring
Just a child from those ugly new houses
Who could never begin to know

Who could never really know
Oh...

Best of! Most of!
Satiate the need
Slip them into different sleeves!
Buy both, and feel deceived

Climber - new entry, re-entry
World tour! ("media whore")
"Please the Press in Belgium!"
(This was your life...)

And when it fails to recoup ?
Well, maybe :
You just haven't earned it yet, baby

I walked a pace behind you at the soundcheck
You're just the same as I am
What makes most people feel happy
Leads us headlong into harm

So, in my bedroom in those 'ugly new houses'
I danced my legs down to the knees
But me and my 'true love'
Will never meet again...

At the record company meeting
On their hands - at last! - A dead star !
But they can never taint you in my eyes
No, they can never touch you now

No, they cannot hurt you, my darling
They cannot touch you now
But me and my 'true love'
Will never meet again

>>6110992
What are you babbling about? The thread asked for opinions, it didn't say "you can't name someone already named."

David Tibet's lyrics are pretty great, IMO.

An Ending
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q63l0jvRNSY

All the Stars are Dead Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDMC3LzTLDQ

>>6110999
it would be better to have a thread without leonard cohen and bob dylan posted 30 times
we already know about them, post something different for a change

>>6111002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SDYus7iKC8
his daughter's pretty good too lololol

>>6110952
>tfw the dream is over and we'll just have to carry on

>>6111007
Dylan is what started this thread. That's hardly the way to look for something original. Fine: Suzanne Vega.

Peter Silberman, anyone?

Hospice was written with serious literary intent, even if it's sort of a frame narrative because it's ten songs. I printed out the lyrics and carried them around one month in school, poring them over with my free moments. Couldn't find any problem I had with it

>>6111014
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waV9et1AfDo
>tfw December 8th 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akTWPHa2614
>johnny come out to play

Newsom
Dead Can Dance
Björk
Kate Bush

:p

bowie is underrated
from 1969-1974 he was a god
lel at people thinking the berlin trilogy was any good

>>6110930

Thanks, I really value your opinions.

>>6111025
get lost fake butterfly you impostor

I AMA Morrissey expert ask me anything

>>6111035
Why do Mexican Americans love him so much?

>>6111026
the Iggy Pop Berlin era was better than the Bowie Berlin era as far as output is concerned

The Idiot is suuuuch a good record

>>6111009
Is there actually any proof to this?

>>6111032
Newsom
Dead Can Dance
Björk
Kate Bush

:p

>>6111039
I believe he appeals to latinos because he has a dual image of crooner and rock and roll star, so both wives and their husbands can appreciate him. Morrissey also speaks to the misfits and outcasts of society, and disenfranchised minorities such as mexian americans fit that bill nicely.
recently it's been a self-fulfilling cycle, as his tours and albums (e.g. oye esteban!) pander to hispanics

The only right answer

>>6110725
I don't speak warthog

>>6110580
Jim Morrison
Maynard James Keenan
Roger Waters and David Gilmour

>>6111065
roger wrote nearly all of the good lyrics

Really? No one posted Mark yet?

>thinking it works that way

>>6111065
>MJK
He's good with words, but his thematics are shit.
Every song either relates to:
>His dead mother
>That time he was molested
>How he hates his band mates
>How he hates California
The 2deep4you aspect attributed to his lyrics is the result of fan interpretations gone awry, but whatever his music is still good.

>>6111049
just this
and they look similar
https://twitter.com/kittaveli/status/231431577203265536

>>6111086
isn't that a joke? either way a 6 word tweet doesn't really prove anything

Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Dylan, Springsteen's folksy stuff, Neil Young, all classics.

It's a shame that Lou Reed is so meme-y, because he is such a great songwriter. He might be my favorite individual artist, and yes, I've reconciled that with the fact that he's had so many big misses in his career. I just happen to think the stuff that he's hit on is just as vast and so amazing.

Nick Drake, Mangum, Van Morrison, Patti Smith, Roger Waters, Kate Bush, Bowie, Simon and Garf, all other great writers of poetic music.

>>6111075
Thank you. I might not be the best but he is certainly very high tier, and has a very original style for a rock lyricist.

I also agree with whoever said David Berman of the Silver Jews.

>>6110902
Please explain why >>6110738
is 'cancer'

>>6110580
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzE-VTYOqxU

I second Van Zandt. Might not be as respected/known in certain circles since he's country music, but this guy's better than Dylan in my opinion.

>>6110930
no

>>6110586
this

>>6110580
I don't know if I would call him a poet or his songs poetry but I always liked Harry Nilsson's 'The Point' album. I thought it was a rather creative story. Still listen to it occasionally.

I'd also throw guys like Steve Earle and Guy Clark in, songwriters in the same mold as Townes.

>>6111251
I CAN'T LIVE
IF LIVING IS WITHOUT YOU
I CAN'T GIVE
CAN'T GIVE ANY MORE

Bob Dylan would literally shit out a song with more poetic depth than most of the fags listed ITT, and then he'd just write another one. he gave no fucks whatsoever and he was the best of his time

Leonard Cohen is the only musician whose lyrics could stand alone as verse just for the pleasure of reading them.

Dylan's lyrics even at their best are gruesomely overrated, and at times actually bad (Blowin' In The Wind for instance).

It's pretty fucking subjective, but I'd say that John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats has to be a contender.

>>6111157
>Springsteen
"I want to know if it's you I don't trust
"Cause I damn sure don't trust myself
Brilliant Disguise

>Neil Young
"See the lonely boy
"Out on the weekend
"Trying to make it pay
"Can't relate to joy
"He tries to speak and
"Can't begin to say
Out on the weekend

>Nick Cave
"I'll never be free
"If I'm not free now
No more shall we part

le anglosphere, the thread

>>6110677
>he was a Punk
>she did ballet
>what more can I say?

>>6111325

Seconded.

Neil Peart of Rush

>implying the best verse of all time isn't "yesterday i woke up sucking a lemon"

holy shit, /lit/ has the worst music taste on this entire board. worse than /mu/!

>>6111369

Hey, if you can suggest a good non-English songwriter, we're all ears. I can't say I'm familiar with any.

>>6110697
Calm down vogon

>>6111405
Sorry we don't all listen to Pitchfork bands, faggot.

James Mercer

"You can
"Call the cops
"I don't care if you like it or not
"You can say
"I marked your face
"But you do these things to yourself anyway
"I can never be with you
"This is over this is over this is over
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUxiMjsm8bc

>>6110750
wow, epic!

>>6111408
there are plenty for every language.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkOuTWS30L0

>>6110586

Absolutely

and on top of that, unlike mostly everyone posted here like Dylan or Cohen or someone along those lines, the instrumentals are also poetic and of high musical merit

most of the songwriters in the thread were basic poetry over pop-folk or jangle garbage

>>6111408
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSv5sFcGYnA
>Je suis la rue (I am the street)
>La mère des enfants perdus (The mother of lost children)
>Qui se chamaillent entre mes vices et mes vertues (Quarelling between my vices and my virtues)
>Je suis la rue (I am the street)
>Celle qui t'enseigne la ruse (The one who teaches you ruse)
>Viens te perdre dans mon chahut (Come get lost in my uproar)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XMyHym9vGs
>Y a pas de reine (there's no queen)
>Y a pas de roi (no king)
>Ni Dieu ni chaîne (neither God nor chain)
>Qu'on ne combat (that we don't fight)
>Mais que faut-il (but what is there)
>Quelle puissance (what power)
>Quelle arme brise (what weapon does break)
>L'indifférence (indifference)
...
>Quoi que j'apprenne (whatever I learn)
>Je ne sais pas (I don't know)
>Pourquoi je saigne (why I bleed)
>Et pas toi (and you don't)

Andrew Latimer

>>6110580
MC Ride

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usGObvP42GM

This nigga right here is bretty good.

>>6110593
Well, and I guess, but I just don't k(no)w.

Richard D. James.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTrz0yvxe0
David Berman really is the winner.

>>6111358
Underrated post.

>>6111065
Roger Waters has all the lyrical talent; David Gilmour has never had the ability to write good lyrics.

Paul Simon

Why does everyone here have such different standards when it comes to music? In singer-songwriter music people often seek something that's melodically pleasant, if straightforward, and place the value in the lyrics, although this isn't something I would expect from you guys. Music itself is non-representational, which is why folksingers add and emphasize lyrics, but the lyrics aren't meant to completely shove aside any musical emphasis as simply providing a background for a relatively simplistic poem that gets overvalued because of the melodic context and vocal conviction that's non-expressable in literature.

It always surprises me how much lower everyone's standards become when discussing any subset of rock music. People don't tend to treat it as it's own nuanced art as they do literature.

I lean towards artists that combine their music and lyrics in an interesting and expressive, and I personally like Nico, Simon Finn, Lisa Germano, and Syd Barrett off the top of my head.

>>6114575
>Lisa Germano
beautiful schizophrenic

>>6110590
>>6110598
>>6110632
>>6110637
>>6110643
>>6110645
>>6110677
>>6110685
>>6110697
>>6110716
>>6110735
>>6110738
>>6110890
>>6110951
>>6111002
>>6111017
>>6111025
>>6111026
>>6111065
shankyerselves

Chumps don't know nothing! Cohen or Roky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iX2MLsMrmCc

>>6116381
>you can't like what I don't like

>>6116398
Roky is fuckin' awful, mate.

TWO HEADED DOG, TWO HEADED DOG. I'VE BEEN WORKIN' IN A LAB ON A TWO HEADED DOG.

>>6116429
SORRY
I'VE BEEN WORKIN' IN THE KREMLIN ON A TWO HEADED DOG

>>6111408
>No mention of GOAT Jacques Brel itt

/lit, I am disappoint.

>>6111218
>>6110971
best itt

jesse lacey

Why does everyone love Dylan's lyricism so much?
It's just so straight forward and uninspired (and pretty low-brow too).
I can't believe there are people itt who dismiss Mangum, but hail Dylan.

Guess who's back

Back again

>control f
>joanna newsom
>no results
disgusting

>>6111058
Yes! So underrated, best modern lyricist imo

>ctrl+f
>Steven Wilson
>no result
Every time.

>>6117667
although i agree that writing rap might be the most challenging genre to write poetry for, enimans greatest strength isnt his writing

>>6110736
>But Nick Cave is the best
This.

>>6110716
I actually agree and I fucking hate Cradle of Filth

Dani would be a great poster on /lit/

Correct answer coming through

>>6110962

No. Most of his solo stuff is cringe-inducing. He's unashamed to just throw in buzzphrases, or even base songs around them. The chorus to Power to the People is 'power to the people, power to the people, power to the people right OAN'. It's shit. One song uses 'every day in every way I'm getting better and better' at face value.

Plastic Ono Band is powerful because it's personal, but it's not poetry. The words are intentionally bare statements. There's nothing allusive there.

My favorite shit Lennon line is 'felt like an Ay-rab who was dancing through Zion' which he wrote for Ringo. He liked writing dumb shit for Ringo. Ultimately, of course, a polished-up demo for a dumb Ringo song became one of his posthumous singles, and so the felled genius of Imagine and Gimme Some Truth was heard singing 'they're starvin' back in China, so finish what you got'. Poetic justice.

craig finn and johnny d., cya

>>6110580
Jesus was a sailor
When he walked upon the water
And he spent a long time watching
From his lonely wooden tower
And when he knew for certain
Only drowning men could see him
He said "All men will be sailors then
Until the sea shall free them"
But he himself was broken
Long before the sky would open
Forsaken, almost human
He sank beneath your wisdom like a stone
And you want to travel with him
And you want to travel blind
And you think maybe you'll trust him
For he's touched your perfect body with his mind.

>>6118185
>>6117845

Samefag gtfo, nobody cares about joanna, she was a privileged little rich white girl who has never had any real problems. See: Taylor Swift. Literally the same bitch who panders to a different demographic

>>6118220

The best song verse ever about JC. 'Only drowning men could see him'. Perfect. And Cohen isn't a Christian.

roger miller

Rollins

'Get some get some get some get some get some
get some get some get some get some
get some get some get some AND GO AGAIN!'

'And I keep moving
BECAUSE I'M HARD
and I keep on burning, mang
BECAUSE I'M HARD!
YEAH!'

scott walker for sure

Peter Gabriel?

>>6118230
If I was forced to name my favorite verse, it would be that one.

townes van zandt
kris kristofferson
leonard cohen
>>6118243

I know you are probably joking but I really fucking love Roger Miller.

dan reeder LeL

>>6110580
Saul Williams
>mfw he's actually a poet who at one point collaborated with Allen Ginsberg

>>6111218
Unbeatable

In all honesty, D. Boon.

A$AP Ferg
>I can't stop I'm ambitious
>Fuckin' hunnids of bitches

Nick Cave

John Darnielle and Nick Cave. Both have written decent works of fiction as well.

>>6116435
>>6116429
16deep256u

Jacques Brel
Jerome Reuter

>>6118223
lol are you bill callahan throwing a fit

"J’ai décidé d’éteindre la télévision cet après-midi pour m’aventurer dans les rues moites puisque c’est l’été
Les gens prennent leur temps, mais leurs gestes sont figés
Les touristes se déplacent en colonies de termites
Les monolithes sortis du sol tentent d’atteindre un ciel peint
Et c’est lorsque je regarde en l’air que j’ai le vertige
Des autos grises circulent dans ce Monopoly
Assis sur un terre-plein
Je contemple ma rue, je respire
Je transpire et retranscris les rêves dans les histoires que je me raconte
Pour que le temps passe plus vite et j’en profite pour gagner à chaque fois
Mon pain au chocolat a une drôle d’allure rabougrie
Il y a du gras sur mon cahier et toutes les feuilles sont collées
Et je suis
Infiniment petit
Personne ne m’entend si je crie
Je saute de pavé en pavé en évitant les gouttes de pluie
Il pleut mais il fait chaud, sous ma capuche j’ai l’air d’un esquimeau
Je n’ai pas pris l’habitude de revêtir mes vêtements estivaux
Nez à nez avec les jambes des gens je marche lentement
Pour arriver au parc je ne pensais pas que je mettrais tant de temps
J’enjambe la grille et je suis sur mon territoire
Ma ville à moi c’est mon square
C’est pas pour de vrai mais j’ai l’air d’y croire dur comme fer
Le sable est mouillé, les articulations de mes robots transformables sont rouillées
C’est juste l’enfer mais c’est pas non plus la fin du monde
J’ai ma panoplie de super héros et mon parapluie est rangé dans mon cartable
Un tas de sable, une jeunesse perdue dans une chrysalide
A l’abris des responsabilités
Pour ma sécurité
A l’abris du monde extérieur, à l’abris des intempéries, à l’abris de la vie
J’ai tout pour être heureux mais pas stable."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AblL7GXpUQ

the best

Haven't read the entire thread and don't feel like ctrl+F'ing

Joanna Newsom
Tim Buckley
Robert Wyatt
Michael Gira
Beefheart
Moz
Bonnie Prince Billy
Mark Kozelek
Tom Waits

Tupac, bob Dylan,Leonard Cohen, Kanye west, Jim Morrison are my top 5

John S. Hall

I want to be different, like everybody else I want to be like
I want to be just like all the different people
I have no further interest in being the same
Because I have seen difference all around
And now I know that that's what I want

I don't want to blend in and be indistinguishable
I want to be a part of the different crowd
And assert my individuality along with the others
Who are different like me

I don't want to be identical to anyone or anything
I don't even want to be identical to myself
I want to look in the mirror and wonder
"Who is that person? I've never seen that person before
I've never seen anyone like that before"

I want to call into question the very idea
That identity can be attached
I want a floating, shifting, ever changing persona
Invisibility and obscurity

Detachment from the ego and all of it's pursuits
Unity is useless
Conformity is competitive and divisive and leads only to
Stagnation and death

If what I'm saying doesn't make any sense
That's because sense cannot be made
It's something that must be sensed
And I, for one, am incensed by all this complacency

>>6110904
>>6110580

Bob Dylan is extremely overrated. He's pretty good, and sometimes crosses into excellent, but doesn't stand up to Nick Drake or Neil Young.

Aesop Rock and Isaac Brock are two of the best modern lyricists.

>Aesop

“There is admittedly an incredible mystique to meddling in the reason a city won’t sleep.”

“And that’s unevenly rendered to those who grew up thinking faith was a surrender of reason but not a reason to surrender.”

>Brock

"Remember through sounds,
Remember through smells,
Remember through colors,
Remember through towns,
With fear and fascination,
On what was here and what's replacing them now.
Interchange causes a mall,
And crowded chain restaurants.
More housing developments go up
Named after the things they replace
So welcome to Minnow Brook
And welcome to Shady Space"

"I'm trying to get my head clear
I push things out through my mouth i get refilled through my ears.
We tore one down and erected another there
The match of the century: Absence Versus Thin Air"

"Moths beat themselves to death against the lights, adding their breeze to the summer nights"

>>6110580
John Darnelle

>>6121202

Good day to you my good man, I also have a proclivity for hip hop.

>>6121202
haha what are you fourteen holy shit

>>6121294
>>6121299

>no argument
>no examples of something better

You know you can disagree without using le ebic hat memes, right?

You guys probably havent heard of it but there is this gem of a band called neutral milk hotel that shits on everyone mentioned in this thread