Post by Cupcake Avenger on Aug 22, 2004 2:00:34 GMT -5
Nirvana, I think writes the best lyrics. I think Kurt Cobain had an amzing gift for words, metaphors, satires, ironies, and the rest of the lot.
As for other bands lyrics, I don't much like The Beatles music, but their lyrics are great when they're not writing love songs (their love song lyrics are cliched crap.)
The Sex Pistols wrote some good stuff about anarchy and other such themes, but overall their lyrics are kinda repetitive.
Pearl Jam writes tremendous olyrics. Eddie Vedder...man, he is a lyrical genius.
Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Aug 22, 2004 5:42:08 GMT -5
razorblade said:
Nirvana, I think writes the best lyrics. I think Kurt Cobain had an amzing gift for words, metaphors, satires, ironies, and the rest of the lot.
As for other bands lyrics, I don't much like The Beatles music, but their lyrics are great when they're not writing love songs (their love song lyrics are cliched crap.)
The Sex Pistols wrote some good stuff about anarchy and other such themes, but overall their lyrics are kinda repetitive.
Pearl Jam writes tremendous olyrics. Eddie Vedder...man, he is a lyrical genius.
Led Zeppelin wrote good too...
personally I like the hives, the ramones, t(i)nc, the clash, bob dylan, beck and bob hund. (+some more hmm).
Post by Cupcake Avenger on Aug 25, 2004 18:07:01 GMT -5
Kamikaze said:
of course I do
that's what I thought...you just didn't mention him in your tops...anybody who wrote the lyric "throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back" has to be a pretty fuckin' good writer!
Post by Kamikaze Parrot on Aug 26, 2004 9:51:49 GMT -5
razorblade said:
that's what I thought...you just didn't mention him in your tops...anybody who wrote the lyric "throw down your umbilical noose so I can climb right back" has to be a pretty fuckin' good writer!
Post by ¡señor coconut! on Aug 26, 2004 10:26:53 GMT -5
david byrne is the greatest songwriter of all time.
Who stole the uprock, who stole the paint? Who stole the cypher slayers, who bucked the train? Who stole the mixtapes, who stole the fame? Who stole the cypher slayers, who bucked the train?
Post by The Fragile Spiral on Sept 2, 2004 17:54:31 GMT -5
Kamikaze said:
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Er a lot of bands have good lyrics but the best I think would either be Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, and The Smiths/Morrissey. Each of those artists for me have a poetic feel to their lyrics which I love.