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Bands with the best lyrics? This isn't an /mu/ question, this is just about what's written, not how it's performed.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 17:20:37 2011 No.1961036 Cradle of Filth sound shit, but I must admit that they have quite poetic lyrics.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 17:21:37 2011 No.1961038 The Band.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 17:22:37 2011 No.1961042 I think that Rush have great lyrics, but there are lots of people that say they're terrible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 17:24:37 2011 No.1961049 File: 269 KB, 700x425, mewithoutyou[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Brilliant lyrics, in spite of the -- you know, whatever.

Sherlock Holmes Guy Tue Jul 26 17:24:37 2011 No.1961050

And all at once it came to me,
and i wrote and hunched 'till four-thirty
But that vestal light, it burns out with the night
in spite of all the time that we spent on it:
one bedraggled ghost of a sonnet!
While outside, the wild boars root
without bending a bough underfoot--
O it breaks my heart; I don't know how they do't
So don't ask me!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 17:26:37 2011 No.1961055 >>1961049 If you hadn't specified bands, I would have added Leonard Cohen and probably Joanna Newsom

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:00:37 2011 No.1961143 JOY DIVISION

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:01:37 2011 No.1961147 >>1961042 Rush was largely inspired by Ayn Rand. So yeah. Go.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:04:37 2011 No.1961151 As much as you hate to admit it, Eminem's music has some clever wordplay. The lyrics aren't terribly meaningful, but are clever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:04:37 2011 No.1961153 File: 34 KB, 300x369, morrissey.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Why pamper life's complexity when the leather runs smooth on the passenger seat? Morrissey was one of the main inspirations of Simon Armitage, I might add.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:05:37 2011 No.1961158 File: 42 KB, 344x344, MarkKozelek.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Smiths The Cure Metallica Red House Painters Sun Kil Moon

Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:06:37 2011 No.1961161

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:07:37 2011 No.1961162 Guided by Voices The Fall The Kinks

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:08:37 2011 No.1961164 File: 24 KB, 300x300, 36-chambers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Brownbear !Wfn4kkpLag!!SEvWNFXsl8U Tue Jul 26 18:11:37 2011 No.1961176 File: 151 KB, 400x387, sad frog wu tang.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1961164 >>1961164 CASH RULES EVERYTHING AROUND ME C.R.E.A.M GET THE MONEY DOLLA DOLLA BILL Y'ALL

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:12:37 2011 No.1961177 Tom waits

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:13:37 2011 No.1961180 Nick Cave Mercy Seat has amazing lyrics. His first novel is actually well written as well.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:15:37 2011 No.1961187 File: 51 KB, 604x394, x_734f4a07.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1961177

>>	Truman Capote !!cO9KVBDtkqQ Tue Jul 26 18:21:37 2011 No.1961195 File: 17 KB, 252x344, angry-obama.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >cmd+f >Neutral Milk Hotel >0 of 0

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:21:37 2011 No.1961197 File: 23 KB, 400x345, 1303237911667.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1961187 lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:22:37 2011 No.1961199 >>1961195 you can do better than that

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:25:37 2011 No.1961208 >>1961164 I love you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:30:37 2011 No.1961219 The Avett Brothers and Mumford and Sons I love me some folk.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:36:37 2011 No.1961229 I would name Nautilus Pompilius but lit just wouldn't understand it

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:43:37 2011 No.1961244 >>1961219 >mumford and sons >good lyrics >good folk 10/10

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:43:37 2011 No.1961245 Cynic

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 18:56:37 2011 No.1961270 Coheed and Cambria, but only if you've read the comics. Damn there is some heavy fridge logic to the seemingly nonsensical stuff he sings.

Anonymous Tue Jul 26 19:01:37 2011 No.1961276
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meticulous pantomimes
this battery has no armor, its alone
a chandelier of metaphysical somnabulists
standing on their heads on blank pupil thrones
will this world still turn?
while the badger sleeps?
dont make me ask the hypnotist liar
march toward combustive futures

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 19:05:37 2011 No.1961286 Pulp Silver Jews Also, this is probably because I'm a disgusting plaidshirt from the Chicago suburbs, but I really enjoy the Fiery Furnaces' lyrical stylings. Pavement is another good example of a band with really good and affecting kinda-dumb lyrics.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 19:07:37 2011 No.1961289 >>1961276 This just seems like nonsense. I bet the people who can't understand it think it's real deep.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 19:12:37 2011 No.1961308 File: 24 KB, 300x500, eminem_2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Everything this guy did before 2002 is genius. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp8E-RL_pdI What happened?

Anonymous Tue Jul 26 19:13:37 2011 No.1961313

>>1961289
No, you just don't understand the genius that is the Mars Volta.

I made those lyrics up. You can type out anything, call it Mars Volta lyrics and people will believe you. Try it, there are entire threads dedicated to this wonderful art sometimes.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 19:14:37 2011 No.1961315 >>1961049 I WROTE A FOUR WORD LETTER The Dismemberment Plan Ben Folds Five Gruvis Malt Primus (Les is the king of fictional redneck characters) Incubus (Morning View and earlier)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 19:16:37 2011 No.1961318 Bob Dylan John Lennon Michael Stipe Jarvis Cocker Stuart Murdoch Stephin Merritt

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 19:16:37 2011 No.1961319 File: 22 KB, 320x336, elvis_costello123155b15d-thumb-320x336-thumb-320x336.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I used to be disgusted now I try to be amused

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 19:18:37 2011 No.1961323 File: 43 KB, 300x300, bad_religion_against_the_grain.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Also Lisa Germano.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 19:21:37 2011 No.1961329 >>1961319 I love him but at the same time I kind of get the impression that he's a terrible smirky smug asshole who owns 300 rhyming dictionaries and thinks that Nick Hornby liking you is a sign that you've made an impact on the world

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 19:25:37 2011 No.1961336 >>1961323 I HEARD THEM SAY THAT THE MEEK SHALL REIGN ON EARTH PHANTASMAL MYRIADS OF SANE BUCOLIC BIRTH also, tom waits.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 19:49:37 2011 No.1961413 >>1961313 HAVE YOU EVER TASTED SKIN?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 20:33:37 2011 No.1961510 Tom Waits,

>>	satan !OW9DVqIqy6 Tue Jul 26 20:37:37 2011 No.1961521 File: 63 KB, 442x630, 1305125096557.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] ...gorgoroth?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 21:05:37 2011 No.1961602 >>1961042 That's because they wouldn't know what good music is. Avenged Sevenfold and Seether anyone? Hurr durr.

>>	shishkaberry !dUmBi6s6p6 Tue Jul 26 21:12:37 2011 No.1961615 the whitest boy alive

Anonymous Tue Jul 26 21:16:37 2011 No.1961628
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Iron Maiden should be obvious... songs inspired by Tennyson, Huxley, fantasy and sci-fi novels, history, etc.

One of my fav songs lyrics wise...
http://youtu.be/zCjQqKCLkis

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 21:19:37 2011 No.1961635 The Mountain Goats

Anonymous Tue Jul 26 21:21:37 2011 No.1961642

Pink Floyd's What Shall We Do Now
May not have the most poetic or flowery wording, but my fav lyrics in a song

Shall we buy a new guitar? Shall we drive a more powerful car?
Shall we work straight through the night? Shall we get into fights?
Leave the lights on? Drop bombs?
Do tours of the east? contract diseases?
Bury bones? Break up homes? Send flowers by phone?
Take to drink? Go to shrinks?
Give up meat? Rarely sleep?
Keep people as pets?
Train dogs? Race rats?
Fill the attic with cash?
Bury treasure? Store up leisure?
But never relax at all
With our backs to the wall.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 21:22:37 2011 No.1961648 King Missile, by far. The singer/writer John S. Hall is also a poet.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 21:23:37 2011 No.1961654 File: 164 KB, 500x500, King_Diamond_Abigail.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] King Diamond, the man's a master storyteller

Anonymous Tue Jul 26 21:23:37 2011 No.1961655

>>1961648
Here's a sample (It's Saturday):

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 thevery 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
Comformity 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 can not be made
It's something that must be sensed
And I, for one, am incensed by all this complacency
Why oppose war only when there's a war?
Why defend the clinics only when they're attacked?
Why are we always reactive?
Let's activate something
Let's fuck shit up
Whatever happened to revolution for the hell of it?
Whatever happened to protesting nothing in particular, just
protesting cause it's Saturday and there's nothing else to do?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 22:27:37 2011 No.1961823 File: 69 KB, 600x399, jd..jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Mountain Goats /thread

Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:17:37 2011 No.1961952
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>>1961049
>1961315
oh god, I love /lit/ that much more now. mewithoutyou has brilliant lyrics and it seems no one ever gives them props for it.

If anyone is a fan of poetry, Aesop's Fables, and just thought provoking lyrics that are pleasantly put together without a need of "fuck you"s and the "open you're mind you sheep"s then you should listen to mewithoutyou. Simple and wonderful lyrics indeed

here is a pleasant example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fRFMkFbH8I

Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:21:37 2011 No.1961963
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>>1961952
>>1961315
>>1961049
mewithoutyou thread?

underground hip hop has a lot of very good lyrics. CYNE is a group I have been listening a lot to recently.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZROFPUlfqY
But these anons are right about mewithoutyou, they aren't everyone's cup of tea, but if you are interested in lyrics there are none greater.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apvKxyR6Vzs

>>	Quentin !!p3mpBqBwOeY Tue Jul 26 23:29:58 2011 No.1961988 File: 7 KB, 240x200, conor.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] bright eyes brand new cursive nick cave and the bad seeds joanna newsom oasis has some songs with good lyrics too

>>	Pippington !!dIW2N31VFYb Tue Jul 26 23:35:37 2011 No.1962003 >Ctrl+F >Nightwish >0 of 0 What the fuck guys.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:40:37 2011 No.1962020 Honestly, I like some of Rise Against's lyrics.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:54:37 2011 No.1962033 >>1962020 I agree, their lyrics actually have substance to them although most probably don't realize it. My mom still doesn't let me listen to them thouh but I dont care i do anway lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:56:37 2011 No.1962035 >>1962033 i lold

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 26 23:58:37 2011 No.1962040 File: 15 KB, 360x360, bob_mould1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtCL1xq6hNU

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:00:37 2011 No.1962043 >>1961988 >cursive i love you

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:11:37 2011 No.1962053 >>1961952 >>1961049 Thank you both for showing me these guys. They are right up my alley

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:15:37 2011 No.1962057 >>1962053 You are fucking welcome, man.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:19:37 2011 No.1962063 >>1962040 i feel like he writes lyrics like a high-functioning, intelligent aspie or something. or maybe it's his vocal affect that makes me think that

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:24:37 2011 No.1962078 Titus Andronicus.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:28:37 2011 No.1962096 David Bowie Sparks Grow the fuck up from black metal angst and hip hop datass poetry, children

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:30:37 2011 No.1962105 >>1962043 I agree. The Game of Monogamy is also good, but not as good as The Ugly Organist.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:35:37 2011 No.1962119 Astronautalis P. O. S. Eyedea Katy Perry (sometimes I like her wordplay, what of it?) Joy Division The Smiths The Mekons

Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:37:37 2011 No.1962126

Not a band, but Scott Walker.

This is how you disappear
out between midnight,

called up under valleys
of torches and stars.

Foot, knee, shaggy belly, face
famous hindlegs,

as one of their own
you graze with them.

Cro-magnon herders
will stand in the wind,
sweeping tails shining,
and scaled to begin,

SHUTTING DOWN HERE
SHUTTING DOWN HERE-

-to where necks
leave the air
unpossesed

and giant heads lock
constellations.

A last grain of dust
lands in the darkness
on tongues laid bare,

and turning to chalk.

Shutting down here.

Freezing in red,
bent over his ice skin,
The insomniac gnaws
in the On-Offs;

he is glazed
in the hooves
all round.

It is losing its shape.
Losing its shape,
as the heat
in your hands
carve the muscle
away.

And he grins
from a break
in a backflash.

Delivers it up
on a break
in a backflash.

Motionless brands
burn into a hipframe
As a saviour
loads sightlines
backlit by fires,

on the ridges
of the highest
breeder

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:44:37 2011 No.1962148 >>1962119 Please learn the difference between best and favorite. My misanthropic senses are tingling.

Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:50:37 2011 No.1962164
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At Home, At Work, At Play
I know you're unavailable from dusk to dawn
Or if you were available you'd bring along
A lot of what could only be a hindrance to me
I aint a glutton for a lot of sweaty company
You gotta catch her while shes still at home
You gotta catch her while shes still at work
You gotta catch her while shes still at play
The only way is at home, work or play

Time really flies when it aint that much time
You better shave half your face at a time
And brush the front of your teeth, leave the rest
And be with her when shes not with the rest
Stop, theres gotta be a million girls like her, though
I cant think of one
So you catch her while shes still at home
And you catch her while shes still at work
And you catch her while shes still at play

Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:51:37 2011 No.1962170

Don't let her calendar be any cause to pout
There is a bit of time when there are a few about
Im gonna skirt the issue of her popularity
And just avail myself of all the time that she is free
You gotta catch her while shes still at home
You gotta catch her while shes still at work
You gotta catch her while shes still at play
Cause half the day shes at home, work or play

And time is fleeing the scene of the crime
The act of passing out wrinkles and lines
To every person regardless of race
To every person regardless of face
Stop, theres gotta be a million girls like her, though
I cant think of one
So at home she says you butler well
And at work she says you're typing well
And at play she says you caddie well

Stop,
theres gotta be a million girls like her, though I cant think of one
So you catch her while shes still at home
And you catch her while shes still at work
And you catch her while shes still at play

I'm gonna love you under incandescent light
I'm gonna love you under florescent light
The glaring sun above should not inhibit us at all
I'm very glad to know that your libido never palls

Stop, shes unique, especially at home
Where you're butler, maid, and often cook
And at work together juggling books
Or at play between the tennis sets
Or at play before shes placed her bet
Or at play while shes still slightly wet
Or at play while she is dripping wet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg0ddfCYsrY&feature=related

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:55:37 2011 No.1962186 The Velvet Underground, of course.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:56:37 2011 No.1962192 I've long been curious about /lit/'s opinions on The Decemberists.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:57:37 2011 No.1962196 Dashboard Confessional.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:58:37 2011 No.1962197 File: 9 KB, 180x159, 1175836031219.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1962192 My opinion? About three and a half good songs by my recollection.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:58:37 2011 No.1962198 >>1962192 I love them. Colin Meloy has to be one of the most gifted and original lyricists writing today.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 00:58:37 2011 No.1962199 Blink 182

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 01:02:37 2011 No.1962208 Gaydie LaGa

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 01:03:37 2011 No.1962212 File: 14 KB, 162x227, neruda.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Pablo Nerudas

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 01:04:37 2011 No.1962215 File: 86 KB, 480x641, music-follow-2-500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1961031 fucking this

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 02:00:37 2011 No.1962293 The Mars Volta general DAT WAX SIMULACRA DAT ASILOS MAGDALENA At the drive in is for casuals discuss

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 02:05:37 2011 No.1962300 >>1961042 PFFTTTFFTTTTTT- AHAHAAHA

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 02:06:37 2011 No.1962303 Of course Bob Dylan is the best lyricist, come on guys, don't even bother giving your opinion. It's already a fact.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 02:07:37 2011 No.1962304 Modest Mouse. Some of the best one-liners of all time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 02:11:37 2011 No.1962305 File: 25 KB, 257x500, past740.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1962293 TRANSIENT JET LAG ECTO MIMED BISON I fucking love The Mars Volta, can't wait for their new album.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 02:13:37 2011 No.1962309 Joanna Newsom as an artist. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds has a wonderful half an album called The Lyre of Orpheus which draws on Greek myth in amazing modern ways

Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:05:37 2011 No.1962367

>>1961963
>>1961952
hot damn mewithoutyou and CYNE in the same post, my respect for /lit/ has significantly gone up.

If you're gonna say CYNE though, might as well mention more well known underground hip hop.

Jedi Mind Tricks, the lyrics are on the video
when music has meaning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r0KpWMNxnM

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:06:37 2011 No.1962368 >>1961963 >>1962367 my nigga

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:08:37 2011 No.1962370 Titus Andronicus.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:08:37 2011 No.1962371 File: 88 KB, 306x306, 1310617651433.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1962370 >>1962078

Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:11:37 2011 No.1962376

>>1961963
CYNE raps about meditations of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in a lot of their songs. I not a huge fan of Rousseau, but the way they crafted their lyrics about complex material blew me away. This is my favorite song by them though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP2ISUThbcQ&feature=related

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:13:37 2011 No.1962379 >>1962376 That's Joseph Campell talking at the end of the song

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:17:37 2011 No.1962383 >>1961245 Why the fuck is no one agreeing with this person?!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:20:37 2011 No.1962385 File: 51 KB, 300x300, wellhellojohn.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1961823 every song on The Life of the World to Come is fucking brilliant i was so impressed by that album, and this is from a long time goat

>>	Sherlock Holmes Guy Wed Jul 27 03:21:37 2011 No.1962389 >>1962192 i have listened to the album Hazards of Love 13454729404 times the song mariner's revenge several times and otherwise i havent heard many of their songs but i think i'd probably like their other songs

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:21:37 2011 No.1962390 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mR8Z-gmK1g

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:24:37 2011 No.1962393 >>1962389 Holmes, check out Picaresque and The Crane Wife. You'll fall in love.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:24:37 2011 No.1962395 File: 384 KB, 1254x1638, wallpaper-601289.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1962303 mewithoutyou dethroned Bob Dylan as the greatest lyricists in my opinion.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:38:37 2011 No.1962420 >>1962303 Overrated as shit. His lyrics are often nonsensical. From a purely ballad perspective, Leonard Cohen is the best. From

>>	Sherlock Holmes Guy Wed Jul 27 03:39:37 2011 No.1962425 >>1962393 I shall take this advice

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:41:37 2011 No.1962433 ahh fuck show me a song with better lyrics than Blowin' in the Wind, Times are a Changin', A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall, or Chimes of Freedom.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:42:37 2011 No.1962435 Orchid

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:43:37 2011 No.1962442 >>1962433 Okay. All Along the Watchtower.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:43:37 2011 No.1962443 >>1962433 Hallelujah; So Long, Marianne; My Secret Life; Closing Time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:46:37 2011 No.1962449 >>1962442 Bob Dylan wrote that song... Not sure if troll...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:46:37 2011 No.1962450 >>1962433 We all know Dylan's best songs (lyrically) are Jokerman, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Visions of Johanna, and Desolation Row.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:48:37 2011 No.1962454 >>1962450 >>three of his best songs >>Jokerman

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:50:37 2011 No.1962456 If i had to choose one song that might dethrone dylan i might say "a whiter shade of pale".

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:55:37 2011 No.1962467 File: 14 KB, 320x176, mother-of-god-super-troopers.thumbnail.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Crimson flames tied through my ears Rollin’ high and mighty traps Pounced with fire on flaming roads Using ideas as my maps

Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:58:37 2011 No.1962472

>>1962467
My favorite stanza of that song was always:

A self-ordained professor's tongue
Too serious to fool
Spouted out that liberty
Is just equality in school
"Equality," I spoke the word
As if a wedding vow.

I think just about everyone alive can relate.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 03:59:37 2011 No.1962473 >>1962467 fuckyeah.jpg >>1962450 Aren't you forgetting Hard Rain/My Back Pages/half the songs on Bringing It All Back Home/half the songs on Blood On The Tracks?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 04:00:37 2011 No.1962475 File: 149 KB, 649x649, checkemty.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >ctrl-f >no Radiohead Come on, seriously? I know this isn't /mu/, but really?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 04:03:37 2011 No.1962480 File: 11 KB, 226x166, 1295747243724.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1962472 clearly the real question here is where Dylan places among the great poetic geniuses of modernity and all-time.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 04:04:37 2011 No.1962487 File: 11 KB, 266x264, 1295919974500.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1962475 It's because there are better lyrics, son.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 04:10:37 2011 No.1962500 File: 78 KB, 620x926, Chimesoffreedom.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Too easy

Anonymous Wed Jul 27 04:20:37 2011 No.1962520

Coheed and Cambria
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Also, I found a band that had really promising lyrics, but it turned out that I fucking despise their musical style. They are called Alesandra and they write songs about the Greek tragedies and stuff, but then proceed to sing said songs in a screamo voice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 04:22:37 2011 No.1962522 King Crimson Creedence Clearwater Revival Dead Kennedys

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 04:24:37 2011 No.1962524 >>1962522 >lyrical chickenshit >same >same Eclectic tastes though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 04:26:37 2011 No.1962526 fucking clutch tom waits and clutch

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 04:27:37 2011 No.1962527 BOB DYLAN, come on /lit/..

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 04:30:37 2011 No.1962530 Gill-Scott Heron but until then niggas going to party and bullshit and party and bullshit

Anonymous Wed Jul 27 04:32:37 2011 No.1962534

Bad Religion...
Tell me can the hateful chain be broken
Production and consumption define our hollow lives
Avarice lead us 'cross the ocean toward a land that's better,
Much more bountiful and wide.
When will mankind finally come to realize
His surfeit has become his demise?
How much is enough to kill oneself?
That quantity is known today, as we blow ourselves away.
Tell me is there anything so sure?
Rapacity, tenacity, capacity, for more!
Like a dog that feeds until he suffers,
The infirmity of a man is brought on by his selfish cure

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 05:12:37 2011 No.1962575 Yes

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 10:14:37 2011 No.1962871 Yes Dylan's overuse of nonsense lyrics makes him overrated IMO. I would never call him the best. I love Bowies lyrics... they are mature or tounge in cheek and have a given meaning.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 10:14:37 2011 No.1962874 for wordplay, it's always and will always be eminem

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 11:44:37 2011 No.1962978 File: 20 KB, 500x443, David-Bowie_3998.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1962871 This.

Anonymous Wed Jul 27 11:50:37 2011 No.1962988
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"I've been waiting for a guide to come and take me by the hand."

The correct answer is Joy Division.
Leonard Cohen and Elvis Costello were also good answer I saw i this thread.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 11:55:37 2011 No.1962996 No motherfucking Dream Theatre? Also fuck Joy Division, depresses the shit out of me.

Anonymous Wed Jul 27 12:02:37 2011 No.1963014

>>1962988
Are you me? Favorite songwriters of alltime.
>>1962996
Shit I agree Ian was depressing as fuck. He read a fuckton of Burroughs and Ballard and etc. and you can quite easily see it in some of the less poppy songs.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/may/10/popandrock.joydivision

Here's a good read. he's pretty litcore.

>>	♥Yuppie♥ !5BkNP4G/Ec Wed Jul 27 12:03:37 2011 No.1963015 File: 84 KB, 500x500, cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Anonymous Wed Jul 27 12:04:37 2011 No.1963017

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvzFapYMAxA

Amazing Leonard Cohen cover.

The stories of the street are mine, the Spanish voices laugh.
The Cadillacs go creeping now through the night and the poison gas,
and I lean from my window sill in this old hotel I chose,
yes one hand on my suicide, one hand on the rose.

I know you've heard it's over now and war must surely come,
the cities they are broke in half and the middle men are gone.
But let me ask you one more time, O children of the dusk,
All these hunters who are shrieking now oh do they speak for us?

And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?
Why are the armies marching still that were coming home to me?
O lady with your legs so fine O stranger at your wheel,
You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

The age of lust is giving birth, and both the parents ask
the nurse to tell them fairy tales on both sides of the glass.
And now the infant with his cord is hauled in like a kite,
and one eye filled with blueprints, one eye filled with night.

O come with me my little one, we will find that farm
and grow us grass and apples there and keep all the animals warm.
And if by chance I wake at night and I ask you who I am,
O take me to the slaughterhouse, I will wait there with the lamb.

With one hand on the hexagram and one hand on the girl
I balance on a wishing well that all men call the world.
We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky,
and lost among the subway crowds I try to catch your eye.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 12:16:37 2011 No.1963037 File: 16 KB, 320x299, tom-waits-imaginarium.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] TOM FUCKING WAITS

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 12:19:37 2011 No.1963042 >>1962063 That's because he's a high-functioning, intelligent aspie

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 12:24:37 2011 No.1963050 Biggie Smalls

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 12:31:37 2011 No.1963054 >>1961315 >The Dismemberment Plan came in here to post this, fuck yes also, Modest Mouse and the Mountain Goats

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 27 12:35:37 2011 No.1963059 Not a band, but an artist. Joanna Newsom is the best lyricist there is.

>>	Dr. Seussicide (SLAF) Wed Jul 27 12:45:37 2011 No.1963080 File: 15 KB, 300x269, Tom_Waits-Alice.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1963037 YES. Also: pic very related. The greatest written album ever.

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