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Slap me with your favorite songwriters /lit/.

Extra points if you can name a poet or writer that inspired them

>> No.6369513

Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins

Influenced by James Joyce

>> No.6369514

madonna

>> No.6369591

>>6369497
Fuck off to >>>/mu/ by https://www.4chan.org/rules#mu1

>> No.6369826

morrissey

inspired by oscar wilde

>> No.6369913

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

>> No.6369920

Paul Simon (poetry in and of itself IMO)
John Prine

>> No.6370022

>>6369497

Jim Morrison
>Was well read, would probably hang around /lit/ if he grew up nowadays.

Also
Lou Reed and Leonard Cohen

>> No.6370027

Tyler, the Creator.

>> No.6370029

Lorde

inspired by Shakespeare and Joyce and DFW and Tao Lin

>> No.6370036

Nacho Vegas and Sabina

>> No.6371840
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>Now the flames they followed Joan of Arc
as she came riding through the dark;
no moon to keep her armour bright,
no man to get her through this very smoky night.
She said, "I'm tired of the war,
I want the kind of work I had before,
a wedding dress or something white
to wear upon my swollen appetite."
Well, I'm glad to hear you talk this way,
you know I've watched you riding every day
and something in me yearns to win
such a cold and lonesome heroine.
"And who are you?" she sternly spoke
to the one beneath the smoke.
"Why, I'm fire," he replied,
"And I love your solitude, I love your pride."

>"Then fire, make your body cold,
I'm going to give you mine to hold,"
saying this she climbed inside
to be his one, to be his only bride.
And deep into his fiery heart
he took the dust of Joan of Arc,
and high above the wedding guests
he hung the ashes of her wedding dress.

>It was deep into his fiery heart
he took the dust of Joan of Arc,
and then she clearly understood
if he was fire, oh then she must be wood.
I saw her wince, I saw her cry,
I saw the glory in her eye.
Myself I long for love and light,
but must it come so cruel, and oh so bright?

>> No.6371892

A$VP ROCKY

>> No.6371947

Nick Cave - Milton, Nabokov
Tom Waits - Bukowski

>> No.6371966

>>6371840
Baaaaased

>> No.6372004

>>6370029
What tao references?

>> No.6372017
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based nick drake

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>>6372017
I find this project of yours incredibly interesting. If you were like the butters posters shitposting I'd assume you want me to trip so you block me or something. If you were being an asshole I'd assume you want to "make me look bad"*. But you just do your thing reposting pics I use. It's so pointless that I can't help but like it.

Is nick drake good? any recs?

*reputation in an anonymous Polynesian war nerd anime web ring is such a ridiculous idea

>> No.6372072

>>6371840
>>6371966

Seconded.

>> No.6372095
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It's very cool to me that Joanna Newsom actually directly cited Nabokov as an influence firstly cos I just love 'em both but also that section of 'only skin' has always really profoundly touched me every time I hear it, that it might be in reference to John Shade's poem and all the related death/spirituality/identity exploration therein has elevated it unspeakably for me, for personal as well as poetic reasons:

"last week our picture window produced a half-word
heavy and hollow, hit by a brown bird
we stood and watched her gape like a rattlesnake
and pant and labour over every intake

I said a sort of prayer for some sort of rare grace
then thought I ought to take her to a higher place
said: "dog nor vulture nor cat shall toy with you
and though you die, bird, you will have a fine view"

then in my hot hand
she slumped her sick weight
we tramped through the poison oak
heartbroke and inchoate

the dogs were snapping
so you cuffed their collars
while I climbed the tree-house
then how I hollered!
cause she'd lain, as still as a stone, in my palm, for a lifetime or two

then, saw the treetops, cocked her head and up and flew"

>> No.6372112

>>6372095
Also its a different song, but she does actually use the word "waxwing" on Autumn four years later, so I'd like to think its more than just hopeful speculation. I never know how far I should actually be appreciating that poem straightforwardly (which I guess is obviously the point blah blah blah) but that's still a very powerful image to me

>> No.6372139

more interesting question:

what's your fav child ballad ?

>> No.6372188

>>6372139
This one makes me laugh out loud cos its so typical of the ballads, like, just write whatever
http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/ch100.htm

>> No.6372197

>>6372188
'It is nae wonder,’ said the king,
‘That my daughter’s love ye did win;
Had I been a woman, as I am a man,
My bedfellow ye should hae been.'

no homo

>> No.6372199

>>6369497
Dave Matthews.

>> No.6372293

>>6370022
He'd be a tripfag I'm sure

>> No.6372300

>>6372293
I'm sure I heard his favourite poet was Rimbaud, seems more like a tumblr one

>> No.6372306

>>6372095
Ass pics pls

>> No.6372311
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>>6372306

>> No.6372313

Bob Dylan is one of the best songwriters of all time.

>> No.6372318

>>6372313
lmao

>> No.6372326

>>6372313
post lyricz

>> No.6372331

Me

>> No.6372332

Leonard Cohen
Courtney Barnett
Thom Yorke

>> No.6372333

>>6372311
>mfw Adam Sandberg gets to buttfuck that every night

>> No.6372338

>>6372333
please be respectful
>>6372332
please form an opinion

>> No.6372351

>>6372326
Once upon a time you dressed so fine
You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?
People’d call, say, “Beware doll, you’re bound to fall”
You thought they were all kiddin’ you
You used to laugh about
Everybody that was hangin’ out
Now you don’t talk so loud
Now you don’t seem so proud
About having to be scrounging for your next meal

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be without a home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You’ve gone to the finest school all right, Miss Lonely
But you know you only used to get juiced in it
And nobody has ever taught you how to live on the street
And now you find out you’re gonna have to get used to it
You said you’d never compromise
With the mystery tramp, but now you realize
He’s not selling any alibis
As you stare into the vacuum of his eyes
And ask him do you want to make a deal?

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

You never turned around to see the frowns on the jugglers and the clowns
When they all come down and did tricks for you
You never understood that it ain’t no good
You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you
You used to ride on the chrome horse with your diplomat
Who carried on his shoulder a Siamese cat
Ain’t it hard when you discover that
He really wasn’t where it’s at
After he took from you everything he could steal

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

Princess on the steeple and all the pretty people
They’re drinkin’, thinkin’ that they got it made
Exchanging all kinds of precious gifts and things
But you’d better lift your diamond ring, you’d better pawn it babe
You used to be so amused
At Napoleon in rags and the language that he used
Go to him now, he calls you, you can’t refuse
When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose
You’re invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal

How does it feel
How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone?

>> No.6372358

Jarvis Cocker. No pretentious bullshit.

>> No.6372359

>>6372326
How many roads must a man walk down
Before you call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea?
Yes, how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes, how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn't see?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

Yes, how many times must a man look up
Before he can really see the sky?
Yes, how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.

>> No.6372368

>>6372351
embarrassing

who in 2015 is actually appreciative of this? literally just him being childish about his ex gf, I know people like you love it when your idols lash out at abstracted womanhood but how can you possibly consider this some of the "best songwrit[ing] of all time"?
>>6372359
how long does it take til your ice cream melts?
the answer? its written in the stars.......

buy my records

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>>6372065
This is probably his most known album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sQv04CFSdE

>> No.6372375

>>6372338
my opinion is that these three songwriters write quality lyrics

please write a useful post

>> No.6372380

>>6372375
devastating comeback

can you name even one good thom yorke lyric

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>>6372371
trying it out, wanna hear some recs from me so we slowly become the same person and its all the same?

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My favorite songwriter is Torben Wendt.

I don't know his inspirations, maybe you can tell me:

http://lyrics.wikia.com/Diorama

>> No.6372402

MC Ride

>> No.6372408

>>6372383
yes, just give me a list and I will lastfm them

>> No.6372410

>>6372065
>But you just do your thing reposting pics I use.

reposting pics ... on 4chan?! :O

dont be such a fucking crypto-tripfag

>> No.6372413

>>6372399

Phantom wars to keep the ragtag occupied
Mediation when there's only black or white
Deep rifts run through the incited bourgeoisie
Claims are staked so there is only you and me

Everyone cries in the same language
Everyone has a truth to sell
I hope we'll laugh about it

Every plague we wish upon us
Only confirms the hate cartel
I hope we'll laugh about it

When we meet again in hell

Fake outrage about mistaken platitudes
Fake hearts beating under made-to-measure suits
Facts are shared, it's time to barricade the door
Fears are fleeting, so we'd better stoke some more

Everyone cries in the same language
Everyone has a truth to sell
I hope we'll laugh about it

Every plague we wish upon us
Only confirms the hate cartel
I hope we'll laugh about it

When we meet again in hell
(And watch it all in replay)
When we meet again in hell
(Time and time again)
When we meet again in hell
(Behind the blood horizon)
When we meet again in hell

Divide and rule
Divide and rule
Keep the reward in your family trees
Divide and rule
Divide and rule
Before we get any silly ideas

The giant waste of time
Just to see there's nothing you could tell me
When the ice is broken
When the ice is broken

This is what I fear
The naked truth in all of our illusions
When the ice is broken
When the ice is broken

When we find out laughter
Has died in our throats

When we meet again in hell

When we meet again in hell
(And watch it all in replay)
When we meet again in hell
(Time and time again)
When we meet again in hell
(Behind the blood horizon)
When we meet again in hell

>> No.6372424

>>6372408
didn't expect you to answer at all, I really don't have anything prepared at all and I'd have to drop a lot of edge to go with the thread. Some other day weird anon.

>> No.6372436

Josh Homme and the Queens of the Stone Age.

The songs in the last album are sublime and actually 'deep' (however much I hate this word) as fuck...it probably has to do with Homme going through that near death experience and after that getting into meditation. I think its not that hard to catch some gnostic/generally esoteric undertones in the lyrics.

>> No.6372448

>>6372380
It's kind of a shame that the popular image of thom yorke's lyrics is one of a kind of vague social alienation and dissatisfaction cause any kind of meaning he strives for in either psychological or sociocultural terms to me really often just ends up too vague or evasive to have any actual personal impact (how else could any ostensibly political writer be that succesful?), hooooowever I do personally still think he has some poetic inclinations worth appreciating and some degree of very intuitive artistic affinity which is probably the same reason people appreciate the textural qualities of their music - most of my favourite thom yorke lyrics are just images:

"That there, that's not me
I go where I please
I walk through walls
I float down the Liffey
I'm not here, and this isn't happening"

"I jumped in the river, what did I see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
And all the things I used to see
All my lovers were there with me
All my past and futures
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt"

"Because we separate like
ripples on a blank shore"

though i havent actually listened to radiohead properly since i was about 16 and its much harder to separate personal involvement from music than literature imo

>> No.6372456

>>6369497
I don't really give a fuck about poetry but Keaton Henson makes me feel feels i haven't felt before. His fingerpicky style is pretty cool too.

>> No.6372460

>>6372456
please remove this post from my feed

>> No.6372476

Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse (not counting their new album.

John Steinbeck, Virginia Woolf

>> No.6372477

Leonard Cohen is the only musician who has lyrics I've found enjoyable to just read.

>> No.6372479

>>6372460
fak yu

>> No.6372482

Fuck all your mainstream lamestream "artists". Go listen to Deathmau5, Skrillex and Thom Yorke.

>> No.6372492
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Mark E. Smith

>> No.6372508

Official indisputable top tier:

Joanna Newsom
Leonard Cohen

Second tier:

Everyone else I guess

>> No.6372518

I wish I could like Joanna Newsom but she has a very annoying voice

>> No.6372522

>>6372399
>>6372413
Give him a try, come on!

>> No.6372527

>>6372508
>>6372492
This man belongs in the top

>> No.6372536

>>6372518
It sounds a lot more affected than it actually is, I basically just understand it as the only way she can get to the very expressive kind of intonations she actually has, I can't think of many singers like her just in terms of how much thought and effort she puts into twisting and pronouncing each word to particular artistic effects, it really is just pure expression
>>6372527
Offer examples of Mark's lyrics that can stand against, for instance, Master Song or Only Skin

I'm not actually that familiar with him

>> No.6372547

This is a really pussy thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1S7qTsW5SY

>> No.6372555

>>6372300

McCartney would be a redditor. He probably is one.

>> No.6372559

>>6372555
He can't help being autism spectrum, have some respect. Martha My Dear is a pleasant song

>> No.6372566

>>6372326
my personal favorite lyric-wise

Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child’s balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying

Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying

Temptation’s page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover that you’d just be one more
Person crying

So don’t fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It’s alright, Ma, I’m only sighing

As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don’t hate nothing at all
Except hatred

Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human gods aim for their mark
Make everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It’s easy to see without looking too far
That not much is really sacred

While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have to stand naked

An’ though the rules of the road have been lodged
It’s only people’s games that you got to dodge
And it’s alright, Ma, I can make it

Advertising signs they con
You into thinking you’re the one
That can do what’s never been done
That can win what’s never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you

You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks they really found you

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to

Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to

For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something they invest in

While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say God bless him

While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society’s pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he’s in

But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it’s alright, Ma, if I can’t please him

>> No.6372570

>>6369591
not op but sometimes it's interesting to see the differences between the majority of those that frequent /lit/ and those that frequent /mu/

>> No.6372576

>>6371840
I thought you made this, I was about to shit my pants

>> No.6372580

>>6372536
Problem with picking out examples of Fall lyrics is that they range from incomprehensible to mostly incomprehensible but their fans, myself included, seem to find something in them gripping. But I'll give it a go.

Day by day.
The moon gains on me.
Day by day.
The moon gains on me.

Purchased pair of flabby wings.
I took to doing some HOVERING.
Here is a list of incorrect things.

HOVERED mid-air outside a study.
An academic kneaded his chin,
sent in the dust of some cheap magazines.
His academic rust, could not burn them up.

Recruited some gremlins.
To get me clear of the airline routes.
I paid them off with stuffing from my wings.
They had some fun with those cheapo airline snobs.

The stuffing loss made me hit a timelock.
I ended up in the eighteen sixties.
I've been there for one hundred and twenty five years.
A small alteration of the past. Can turn time into space.

Ended up under Ardwick Bridge.
With some veterans from the U.S. Civil War.
They were under Irish patronage.
We shot dead a stupid sergeant,
but I got hit in the crossfire.
The lucky hit made me hit a time lock.

But, when I got back.
The place I made the purchase, no longer exists
I'd erased it under the bridge.

Day by day.
The moon came towards me
By such things.
The moon came towards me.

So now I sleep in ditches.
And hide away from nosey kids.
The wings rot and feather under me.
The wings rot and curl right under me.
A small alteration of the past.
Can turn time into space.
Small touches can alter more than a mere decade.

>> No.6372584

>>6372326
Ain’t it just like the night to play tricks when you’re tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we’re all doin’ our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin’ you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there’s nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind

In the empty lot where the ladies play blindman’s bluff with the key chain
And the all-night girls they whisper of escapades out on the “D” train
We can hear the night watchman click his flashlight
Ask himself if it’s him or them that’s really insane
Louise, she’s all right, she’s just near
She’s delicate and seems like the mirror
But she just makes it all too concise and too clear
That Johanna’s not here
The ghost of ’lectricity howls in the bones of her face
Where these visions of Johanna have now taken my place

Now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
He brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
And when bringing her name up
He speaks of a farewell kiss to me
He’s sure got a lotta gall to be so useless and all
Muttering small talk at the wall while I’m in the hall
How can I explain?
Oh, it’s so hard to get on
And these visions of Johanna, they kept me up past the dawn

Inside the museums, Infinity goes up on trial
Voices echo this is what salvation must be like after a while
But Mona Lisa musta had the highway blues
You can tell by the way she smiles
See the primitive wallflower freeze
When the jelly-faced women all sneeze
Hear the one with the mustache say, “Jeeze
I can’t find my knees”
Oh, jewels and binoculars hang from the head of the mule
But these visions of Johanna, they make it all seem so cruel

The peddler now speaks to the countess who’s pretending to care for him
Sayin’, “Name me someone that’s not a parasite and I’ll go out and say a prayer for him”
But like Louise always says
“Ya can’t look at much, can ya man?”
As she, herself, prepares for him
And Madonna, she still has not showed
We see this empty cage now corrode
Where her cape of the stage once had flowed
The fiddler, he now steps to the road
He writes ev’rything’s been returned which was owed
On the back of the fish truck that loads
While my conscience explodes
The harmonicas play the skeleton keys and the rain
And these visions of Johanna are now all that remain

>> No.6372588

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW4XgQvcDsQ

>> No.6372635

>>6372436

'Don’t look, just keep your eyes peeled
Thoughtless, trapped in my minefield
Shotgun, never behind the wheel anymore
Danger, monsters of smoke and mirror
Slowly, can one so lost be found?

And I know, you will never believe
I play as though I’m alright
If life is but a dream, then
Wake me up

Fallen leaves realize they are no friend of autumn
The view from Hell is blue sky
So ominously blue
Daydream until all the blue is gone

And I know you'll never believe
I play as though I’m alright
If life is but a dream,
Wake me

Underwater is another life
Disregarding every myth we write
Rag doll churning
Eagerly alive

Big smile, really a show of teeth
Without a care in a world of fear
Lonely, you don’t know how I feel
Praise God, nothing is as it seems'

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRK7PVJFbS8

>> No.6372658

>>6372584
>tfw you'll never write anything this good.

>> No.6372664

>>6372658
Not with that attitude.

>> No.6372679

>>6372300
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/43878.Jim_Morrison_s_Bookshelf

His bookshelf

>> No.6372695

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHg__kkXKY4

>> No.6372734

>>6372639
literal shit

>> No.6372739

i just noticed i actually don't listen to a lot of music with lyrics (english lyrics atleast).
but mangum is always my go-to.

>> No.6372764

>>6372739
I can't put my finger on his influences.

>> No.6372775

Versace, Versace, Medusa head on me like I'm 'Luminati
This is a gated community, please get the fuck off the property
Rap must be changing cause I'm at the top and ain't no one on top of me
Niggas be wanting a verse for a verse, but man that's not a swap to me
Drowning in compliments, pool in the backyard that look like Metropolis
I think I'm sellin' a million first week, man I guess I'm an optimist
Born in Toronto but sometimes I feel like Atlanta adopted us
What the fuck is you talkin' 'bout?
Saw this shit comin' like I had binoculars

Boy, Versace, Versace, we stay at the mansion when we in Miami
The pillows' Versace, the sheets are Versace, I just won a Grammy
I've been so quiet, I got the world like "What the fuck is he planning?"
Just make sure that you got a back up plan
Cause that shit might come in handy
Started a label, the album is comin' September, just wait on it
This year I'm eating your food and my table got so many plates on it

Hundred inch TV at my house, I sit back like "damn I look great on it"
I do not fuck with your new shit, my nigga, don't ask for my take on it
Speakin' in lingo, man this for my nigga that trap out the bando
This for my niggas that call up Fernando to move a piano
Fuck all your feelin's cause business is business, its strictly financial
I'm always the first one to get it, man that's how you lead by example

>> No.6372784

>>6372775

Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace
Word in New York is the Dyckman and Heights girls are callin' me "Papi"
I'm all on the low, take a famous girl out with me, no paparazzi
I'm trying give Halle Berry a baby and no one can stop me

Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace
Versace, Versace, Versace, Versace
Versace, Versace Versace, Versace Versace
Versace, Versace Versace, Versace Versace

Versace, Versace, Medusa head on me like I'm 'Luminati
I know that you like it, Versace, my neck and my wrist is so sloppy
Versace, Versace, I love it, Versace the top of my Audi
My plug, he John Gotti, he give me the dozen, I know that they're mighty

Shoes and shirt Versace, your bitch want in on my pockets
She ask me why my drawers silk, I told that bitch "Versace"
Cheetah print on my sleeve, but I ain't ever been in the jungle
Try to take my sack, better run with it, nigga don't fumble

You can do Truey, I do it Versace
You copped the Honda, I copped the Mazi
You smoke the mid, I smoke exotic
I set the trend, you niggas copy
Cookin' this dope like I work at Hibachi
Look at the watch, blow it, hot like some Taki
Come in my room, my sheet Versace
Go to sleep, I dream Versace

Medusa, Medusa, Medusa
You niggas they wishin' they knew yah
They coppin' the Truey, remixing the Louie
My blunts is fat as Rasputia
Feet and same shirt like I'm Tony the Tiger
I'm beating the pot, call me Michael
Lot of you niggas that copy
Look at my closet Versace, Versace


King of Versace, Medusa my wifey
My car is Versace, I got stripes on my Mazi
I'm dressin' so nicely they can't even copy
You'd think I'm Egyptian, this gold on my body
Money my mission, two bitches, they kissin'
My diamonds is pissing, my swag is exquisite
Young Offset no preacher but you niggas listen
Them blue and white diamonds, they look like the Pistons

Codeine sippin, Versace I'm gripping them bands in my pocket
You know that I'm living
I'm draped up in gold, but no Pharaoh
Rockin' handcuffs, that's Ferragamo
Bricks by the boat, overload
I think I'm the don, but no Rocco
This the life that I chose,
Bought out the store, can't go back no more
Versace my clothes while I'm selling them bows
Versace take over it took out my soul

>> No.6372809
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6372809

Joanna Newsom, no doubt. Wonderful musicianship, great voice, and incredibly enchanting songwriting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nz0t7K1prY&index=3&list=PLe-IpgmAuXZBdLGYomWPpMecxeu5eo6Ay

The fact that that kike Andy Sandburg gets to be married to her makes me angry than it should

Nick Drake is also a runner up.

>> No.6372828

>>6372809
angrier*

I don't want to sound retarded ontop of being butthurt

>> No.6373022

>>6372828
Aaron Bruno, AKA AWOLNATION.
He's fond of Charles Bukowski & William S. Burrough.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_xsIaxPY-Q

>> No.6373037
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The fact that Sufjan has not yet been mentioned in this thread confirms this board has gone to shit.

>> No.6373085

>>6372547
nice

>> No.6373096
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>>6373037
Fuck, forgot about him.

Can we agree the top 3 is:
>Leonard Cohen
>Joanna Newsom
>Sufjan Stevens

>> No.6373133

Came a long way from extension cords in the window
Borrowing neighbors power just to plug up the Nintendo
Where the ovens never closed and stoves never off
Every winter so cold niggas sleeping scarves
But I would always tell myself that this shit of get better
You know who you is you the greatest rapper ever
So now the pressures on em to prove that voice right
Some people never know they goals he know his whole life
So now his turn up fixing up to bat
Pitching singles to the label when I use to pitch crack
Never learned to rap I just always knew how
So ever since 8 I knew what I would now
When I turned 28 they like what u gone do now
And now a nigga 30 I don't u heard me
So the last ten years I been so fucking stressed
Tears in my eyes let me get this off my chest
The thought of no success it got me chasing death
Doing all these drugs in hopes of OD'ing next
Triple X

>> No.6373139

>>6373096
no

>> No.6373144

>>6372734
And I'mma need that 40 dollars even if I gotta
Fuck, suck and swallow in the parking lot
Gonzales Park, I'm followed by a married man, a father of three
My titties bounce on the cadence of his tinkling keys
Matter of fact, he my favorite ’cause he tip me with E's
He got a cousin named David and I seen him last week
This is the life of another girl damaged by the system
These foster homes, I run away and never do miss 'em
See, my hormones just run away and if I can get 'em back
To where they used to be then I'll probably be in the denim
Of a family gene that show women how to be woman
Or better yet, a leader, you need her to learn somethin'
Then you probably need to beat her, that's how I was taught
Three niggas in one room, first time I was tossed
And I'm exhausted, but fuck that "Sorry for your loss" shit
My sister died in vain, but what point are you trying to gain
If you can't fit the pumps I walk in?
I'll wait
Your rebuttal a little too late
And if you have a album date, just make sure I'm not in the song
Cause I don't need the attention bring enough of that on my own
And matter fact, did I mention that I physically feel great?
A doctor's approval is a waste of time, I know I'm straight
I'll probably live longer than you and never fade away
I'll never fade away, I'll never fade away, I know my fate
And I'm on the grind for this cake, I'mma get it or die trying
I'm eyeing every male gender with intentions of buying
You lying to these motherfuckers, talking about you can help 'em
With my story, you can help me if you sell this pussy for me, nigga
Don't ignore me, nigga, fuck your glory, nigga...

>> No.6373146

>>6373096
how do people put cohen about dylan or young

>> No.6373149

>>6373146
Dylan is good, but too simple and pleb.

Neil Young is just okay.

Cohen was a poet.

>> No.6373156

Hey, that cunt's not breathing
I think she's had too much of something or other, hey, man, you know what I mean?
I don't mean to scare you
but you're the one who came here
and you're the one who's gotta take her when you leave
I'm not being smart
or trying to be cold on my part
and I'm not gonna wear my heart on my sleeve
But you know people get all emotional
and sometimes, man, they just don't act rational you know,
they think they're just on TV

Sha-la-la-la, man
why don't you just slip her away

You know, I'm glad that we met man
it really was nice talking
and I really wish that there was a little more time to speak
But you know it could be a hassle
trying to explain this all to a police officer
about how it was that your old lady got herself stiffed
And it's not like we could help
but there wasn't nothing no one could do
and if there was, man, you know I would have been the first
But when someone turns that blue
well, it's a universal truth
and then you just know that bitch will never fuck again
By the way, that's really some bad shit
that you came to our place with
but you ought to be more careful around the little girls
It's either the best or it's the worst
and since I don't have to choose
I guess I won't and I know this ain't no way to treat a guest
But why don't you grab your old lady by the feet
and just lay her out in the darkest street
and by morning, she's just another hit and run.
You know, some people got no choice
and they can never find a voice
to talk with that they can even call their own
So the first thing that they see
that allows them the right to be
why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck.

>> No.6373169

>>6373149
well
i disagree
i think dylan captures a lot of human experience and emotion in his crazy ramblings like in Tom Thumb's Blues or Stuck Inside of Mobile and his older down to earth stuff like With God on Our Side is perceptive and really well-written
but you know opinions cohen definitely put out some stunning material

>> No.6373207

Well I wish that I had known in that first minute we met the unpayable debt that I owed you, because you'd been abused by the bone that refused you and you hired me to make up for that. Walking in that room when you had tubes in your arms, those singing morphine alarms out of tune - they had you sleeping and eating and I didn't believe them when they called you a hurricane thunderclap. While I was checking vitals I suggested a smile. You didn't talk for a while; you were freezing. You said you hated my tone, it made you feel so alone, so you told me I ought to be leaving. But something kept me standing by that hospital bed, I should have quit but instead I took care of you. You made my sleeping uneven, and I didn't believe them when they told me that there was no saving you.

>> No.6373219

>>6373207
Also, for the easy bonus points - influenced by Sylvia Plath. Two and Wake are still two of the only songs with vocals that have ever made me tear up.

>> No.6373519

>>6373207
most recent album is amazing

>and we can stay here to wither/in your garden of eden/but your fantasy's a prison/and you're serving a sentence/you can't stop repeating

>> No.6373541

>>6373169
>i think dylan captures a lot of human experience and emotion in his crazy ramblings
give me a break, anybody can do that rambling shit and it will capture "human experience"

LIGHTpost heaving in the afternoon fart cloud over the dance floor jump up and down on the silver TYPE and the wing man glances up towards the MOOOON *dylan crooning*

>> No.6373550

>>6373156
best one in thread so far

>> No.6373558

>>6373519
Really should listen to it, but I've been too into other genres lately. Hospice is the one album that I think maybe changed me as a person for the long run, so I probably owe their new stuff a listen too.

>> No.6373575

>>6373541
>I've said he's shit now accept my opinion is law! there is no subjective truth in poetry! only my creeds! Why dont you agree with me!!??
try going outside every once and a while anon.

>> No.6373608

>>6373541
So the whole "it doesn't take talent" argument is bullshit and doesn't deal with the fact that Dylan's music is in tune with human feelings of love, isolation, depression, joy, etc. I don't really think Dylan's an acquired taste so I suspect you haven't listened to much music over the last 5 years.

I'd add Van Morrison, Pavement, the first Pogues album, and most of MF Doom's discog.

>> No.6373666

>>6373608
>Van Morrison, Pavement
you pranking me here?

dylan's lyrics are not "in tune with human feelings" any more than what you'd get from picking out a random guy on the street and telling him to fill a paper with stream of consciousness writing. he got famous because he was literally the first person ever to do it and set it to folk rock music. pavement is the worst offender of garbage lyrics trying to mean something but failing. you're reading "love isolation yadda yadda" into what is sheer nonsense. which is human, there's nothing necessarily wrong with you doing that, but to suggest that it requires immense talent to produce the nonsense is just blatantly false.

>> No.6373685

>>6373575
i didn't say any of that, only that you reading human experience into dylan's late 60s methamphetamine-fueled nonsense is a result of you wanted to see it, not dylan actually accomplishing anything. dylan only faintly grasped greatness lyrically in the 80s if you ask me.

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>>6369497
Tossup between Jason Molina and Jeff Mangum

I've really been digging this molina song lately, the song is really just a medium for the prose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=malJUMz2A9Y

>The whole place is dark
>Every light on this side of the town
>Suddenly it all went down
>Now we'll all be brothers of the fossil fire of the sun
>Now we will all be sisters of the fossil blood of the moon
>Someone must have set us up

>> No.6373710

>And the luminous green prima donna is sniffing the sky
>She daren't tread the earth that she's smelling; her birth was too high
>Her bank balance castle is built on opinion and fear
>Which is all she allows within three hundred miles of her ear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MDrciF2-kU

>> No.6373712

>>6372199
please be kidding

DMB-Funny the Way It Is
Lying in the park on a beautiful day
Sunshine in the grass and the children play
Sirens passing, fire engine red
Someone's house is burning down on a day like this
And evening comes, and we're hanging out
On the front step and a car goes by with the windows rolled down
And that war song is playing, "Why can't we be friends"
Someone is screaming crying in the apartment upstairs

it's literally just him writing down the shit he sees mixed with some thoughts he had while he was stoned. not tryin to shit on you, but man.

>> No.6373730

>>6373541
>LIGHTpost heaving in the afternoon fart cloud over the dance floor jump up and down on the silver TYPE and the wing man glances up towards the MOOOON *dylan crooning*

This is a really lame strawman and not really like anything Dylan wrote.

>>6373685
>>6373685
>dylan only faintly grasped greatness lyrically in the 80s if you ask me.

Bwahaha. I hope you're referring to the likes of Brownsville Girl and Wiggle Wiggle. Shit, what a stupid thing to say.

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>>6372313
blonde on blonde was his best album tho

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m5n8_VS_Ho

Sign my name with the feather, tap dance under the full moon
Smoke and drinking liquor for the fam that left us too soon
Just keep it truckin', searching all the nooks and crannies
No english muffin, streets are filled with crooks and trannies
Bam bam got a shooter like Lagassee
Emerald green paper that I split up with my posse
One hand driving, 3 gram smoking
2 fiend sucking, tea bag soaking
Strength of a retard the drugs are even stronger
Shorty loved the longitude, dealer bring a quarter through
Over fishing make the snapper less affordable
I hate when stupid bitches ask me questions that rhetorical
Like "do you want to have sex? ", well bitch, it's obvious
Her name was Yenta from the former Yugoslavia
She grew a bush like a baby plant
Still I ate, just think of it as bucatini razor clams
Smuggle cheeses in a baby bag
And then I serve at a private tasting
I got no time for wasting
Just dick is placed in the slit no type of conversation
And prime rib from LaFrieda carved at the babababa
Fuck, fucked my last word up cause I don't give a shit man
I meant to say prime rib carved at the fucking carving station but yo

[Verse 2: Action Bronson]
Yo my mind is locked up, my conscious rocked up
In an alley with a fiend getting his cocked sucked
Plus she wearing a wedding dress a special day
She said she finally met a... Fuck

Yo my mind is locked up, my conscious rocked up
In an alley with a fiend getting his cocked sucked
And she wearing a wedding dress a special day
She said she finally met a man to take her breath away
Well naturally I'm jealous, because I'm lonely
At times my only friends are drugs and the cannoli
My dad was right I shoulda listened when he told me
A walking contradiction wounds inflicted on me solely
Pain within running deeper than the ocean floor
Bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh bluh yo

Pain within running deeper than the ocean floor
Ocean avenue, the family straight from Kosovo
That was years ago mum look how your son has bloomed
I hum a tune and then I'm hotter than the sun in june
And I'm just living my life but feel I'm drifting
Demons on the doorstep, lungs that feel constricted
Or maybe I should see a shrink and get prescripted
Or take the hand of God but shit I think I'll keep my distance
I think I'm frightened and I didn't even know it
But yo, that was a thought and I'm subconsciously a poet
This shit is perfect timing and I hope that I don't blow it
I pop the bottle of the moet you hears from me

[Unknown rapper shout outs]

[Verse 3: Action Bronson]
Late night I'm trying to stay out of the orez skips?
Great white sharks, the 38 with tarnished tips
27 years I never met an honest bitch
Slice their face like Katana and shit
Through my nasal blow the smoke
Basil on the boat
Hookers on the half shell, hundred dollar pants
Wind breaker jacket flapping like a falcon from a westward wind
Play the kitchen like a mexican, next of kin
Patrick Swayze... We out!

>> No.6373753

Bob Dylan
Townes Van Zandt
Leonard Cohen

>> No.6373775
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>>6373738
>Brownsville Girl and Wiggle Wiggle
>>6373730
get real lames

>> No.6373791

>>6373775
how do you compete with this one though?

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

>> No.6373809

>>6373775
Erm, Jokerman only secures a fraction of the brilliance of Visions of Johanna. Don't get me wrong, both are magnificent, but I think you're just a contrarian or a Christian weirdo who thinks God Gave Names to All the Animals is worth a shit.

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>>6373809
>He saw an animal leavin’ a muddy trail
>Real dirty face and a curly tail
>He wasn’t too small and he wasn’t too big
>“Ah, think I’ll call it a pig”

>> No.6374100

>>6372139
matty groves
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK_7AqH1VGQ

>> No.6374228

Justin Beiber

>> No.6374255

>>6373809
>Erm
back to tumblr
>God Gave Names to All the Animals
it's supposed to be a stupid half-funny song, so its worth a shit as that. he has plenty of those. it's no worse than "mozambique" on the desire album, which is just like a jokey rhyming thing. you probably saw that listed on some rolling stone clickbait like "dylan's 5 worst songs" and just think dylan magically got worse with more practice and experience writing lyrics, instead of the reality which is that his 60's era audience failed to grow up like he did. common theme with dylan- they got pissed when he went electric too. the other songs on that album are fantastic, precious angel, i believe in you. part of what makes it so great is that everybody fucking hated him for that album, like john lennon who got all butthurt about "serve somebody."

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>>6369497
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