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bands with killer lyrics!

nickisme28nickisme28 Posts: 1
edited May 2006 in Other Music
One thing that Pearl Jam has, that not many other bands today have is complex, meaningful, and passionate lyrics. What are some other bands that share this talent with pearl jam?

I heard of this band from a friend, just a small band trying to deal with the corporate bullshit of trying to get their music heard! Check out some of their lyrics and listen to their songs on their website: http://www.experiencemadisonstone.com.

what are some other bands that share this lyrical talent with eddie and crew?
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    enharmonicenharmonic Posts: 1,917
    Oceansize
    Porcupine Tree
    Radar Bros.
    Mark Lanegan
    new music: http://www.myspace.com/blackbirdsymphonique

    old music: http://www.myspace.com/slowloader
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    EchoesEchoes Posts: 1,279
    Destroyer
    The Mountain Goats
    printf("shiver in eternal darkness\n");
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    enharmonicenharmonic Posts: 1,917
    The Mountain Goats are sick! :)

    I would like to add Wellwater Conspiracy

    And although he's not technically a band, Rufus Wainwright can throw down some heavy lyrics.
    new music: http://www.myspace.com/blackbirdsymphonique

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    pj_zombiepj_zombie Posts: 272
    The White Stripes
    Radiohead
    10 Years
    Pearl Jam Album Rankings
    ---
    1. Ten
    2. Vs.
    3. Pearl Jam
    4. Binaural
    5. No Code
    6. Riot Act
    7. Yield
    8. Vitalogy

    Pearl Jam Song Rankings
    ---
    1. Black
    2. Rearviewmirror
    3. Light Years
    4. Given to Fly
    5. Severed Hand
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    JumpingtheGreenJumpingtheGreen Posts: 32
    enharmonic wrote:
    Oceansize
    Porcupine Tree
    Radar Bros.
    Mark Lanegan

    Mark Lanegan..mmm..
    The poster formerly known as AeonFlux.
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    senninsennin Posts: 2,146
    Incubus

    The Make Yourself album has some great lyrics!

    Morning View too.....
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    AxidentProneAndyAxidentProneAndy Posts: 10
    not the same type of lyrics. but

    Pete Francis
    Chad Urmstrom
    Brad Corrigan
    Dispatch
    State Radio
    www.TheRopolitans.com
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    Low_Light03Low_Light03 Posts: 1,227
    Alice In Chains
    Pearl Jam of course
    Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Mason Jennings(Not a band I know)
    Bruce Springsteen
    If You Give, You Begin To Live

    But You Might Die Trying
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    felixfelix Posts: 19
    people, wilco

    'Thought it was cute...
    for you to kiss my purple black eye,
    even though I got it from you...
    I still think we're serious.

    At least thats what you said.'
    Sorry... i got nothing witty to say in the time allotted to me.

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    mouthfulofsoupmouthfulofsoup Posts: 397
    Blind Melon...Shannon was a lyrical genius.
    "Oh, a flower you are to my land..."
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    lumpyfredlumpyfred Posts: 243
    goddamn, Bob Dylan of course
    Velvet Underground
    Bad Religion
    I definitely second Wilco
    Fugazi
    Smog

    theres many many others but im done now.
    Her?
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    chris01chris01 Posts: 559
    Nirvana
    Pearl Jam
    Incubus
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    OutOfBreathOutOfBreath Posts: 1,804
    Not in the vein of Vedder, but Isaac Brook of Modest Mouse has amazing lyrics. Very pondering and existential. some excerpts from the record "Moon And Antarctica":

    "My hell comes from inside, comes from inside myself
    Why fight this
    Everyone's afraid of their own lives
    If you could be anything you want
    I bet you'd be disappointed, am I right?"

    "In the last second of life, they're gonna show you how
    How they run this show, sure, run it into the ground
    The stars are projectors, yeah
    Projectin' our lives down to this planet Earth"

    "Right wing, left wing, chicken wing
    It's built on findin' the easier ways through
    God is a woman and the woman is
    An animal that animals man, and that's you
    Was there a need for creation?
    That was hiden in a math equation
    And that's this:
    WHERE DO CIRCLES BEGIN?"

    "I just got a message that said "Yeah hell is freezin' over"
    I Got a phone call from the Lord sayin' "Hey boy get a
    sweater. Right now"
    So we're drinkin' drinkin' drinkin' drinkin' coca-coca-cola
    I can feel it rollin' right on down
    Oh right on down my throat
    And as we're headed down the road towards tiny cities
    made of ashes
    I'm gonna get dressed up in plastic gonna shake hands
    with the masses. Oh no!
    Does anybody know a way that a body could get away
    Does anybody know a way"

    I love this stuff. :)

    Peace
    Dan
    "YOU [humans] NEED TO BELIEVE IN THINGS THAT AREN'T TRUE. HOW ELSE CAN THEY BECOME?" - Death

    "Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty." - Frank Herbert, Dune, 1965
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    ToeJamToeJam Posts: 35
    Jerry Cantrell is pretty good with lyrics.
    We all walk the long road
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    intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,228
    I am happy to be the first one to mention ... drumroll please


    Neil Young :)

    I love wilco too, but what the fuck does he mean by take off your band-aid becausei don't believe in touchdowns.

    I think issac brock of modest mouse writes some cool lyrics.

    The bob of course goes without saying.
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    Thumbing My WayThumbing My Way Posts: 1,073
    Ben Harper
    "I Miss You Already!!!!!"

    "Sorry is the fool who trades his love for high-rise rent, Seems the more you make equals the loneliness you get"

    .NJD.
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    Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    mouthfulofsoup wrote:
    Blind Melon...Shannon was a lyrical genius.
    "Jump in the river... let the water soak the sin in my soul"

    that is a lyric and a half... Shannon was a talented dude
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
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    TowsertunesTowsertunes Posts: 187
    Pete Townshend (who and solo)

    "Every year is the same
    And I feel it again,
    I'm a loser-no chance to win.
    Leaves start falling,
    Come down is calling,
    Loneliness starts sinking in.

    But I'm one.
    I am one.
    And I can see
    That this is me.
    And I will be,
    You'll all see
    I'm the one."
    "they don't give a shit Keith Moon is dead,
    is that exactly what I thought I read?"


    How I choose to feel,...Is how I am.
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    Pearls&StonesPearls&Stones Posts: 585
    U2 has some of my favorite lyrics. "Do You Feel Loved" is one of their lesser known songs that totally blows me away every time I hear it. But, i think most of their songs have great lyrics.

    Another band that is in the genius category as far as lyrics go is They Might Be Giants. I always feel inclined to mention that I met them and they were total assholes, but they are damn fine songwriters. If you are looking for really clever metaphors, you can't go wrong with "They'll Need a Crane," "Unrelated Thing," "Birdhouse in Your Soul," "I Should Be Allowed to Think," and "Turn Around." They are also great at finding unbelievable rhyme schemes, such as "Dinner Bell." Also, they wrote what I argue is the greatest teenage car crash song ever, "The End of the Tour." That song is brilliant and so depressing.

    I'd put Live in this category, but for every brilliant song, they do a pretty bad one.

    Finally, an artist that has taken songwriting to new heights over the past decade--Outkast. I think the fact that those 2 guys are so different (and both brilliant) is what makes them so good. Like U2, they manage to make songs both deep and catchy.
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    A Surprise LeftA Surprise Left Posts: 743
    I love basically anything from Maynard James Keenan and Bono is another who is a very good lyricist.
    The wind is blowing cold
    Have we lost our way tonight?
    Have we lost our hope to sorrow?

    Feels like were all alone
    Running further from what’s right
    And there are no more heroes to follow

    So what are we becoming?
    Where did we go wrong?
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    armyreservearmyreserve Posts: 209
    The Replacements! Paul Westerberg is a poet!
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    karma defectkarma defect Posts: 5,483
    Motorpsycho Bent Sæther is a really awesome songwriter. "Snah" the guitar player has some really good lyrics as well, but Bent is amazing.

    And of course Bob Dylan is kick ass.
    « One man's glory is another man's hell.
    You’re on the outside, never bound by such a spell.
    Together in the darkness, alone in the light.
    I took it upon me to be yours, Timmy,
    I’ll lead your angels and demons at play tonight......»
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    bucket1988bucket1988 Posts: 212
    Michael Stipe of R.E.M.
    Chris Cornell of Soundgarden, etc.
    Robin Wilson of Gin Blossoms
    Eddie Vedder, obviously
    Ben Harper
    The words you say never seem to live up to the ones inside your head...
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    kdpjamkdpjam Posts: 2,303
    my picks are:

    lennon/mccartney
    pete townshend/the who
    bob dylan
    neil young
    michael stipe
    mick/keith - the stones
    eddie/pearl jam
    robert smith/the cure
    built to spill
    paul w/replacements
    mark k/dire straits
    mark k/red house painters
    greg dulli/afghan whigs/twilight singers
    modest mouse
    wilco

    all those and i know i left a ton out.
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    ~it is shining it is shining~
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    Low_Light03Low_Light03 Posts: 1,227
    Dave Matthews has some real good lyrics and some not so good but overall they are great.
    If You Give, You Begin To Live

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    whatsthefreezerwhatsthefreezer Posts: 347
    as far as current artists go i would say straylight run
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    IgottagoIgottago Posts: 483
    yup, another vote here for Jeff Tweedy of Wilco. Summerteeth has some of the best lyrics of any album I've ever heard.

    Also, you can't forget Thom Yorke, Radiohead.
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    movingfingermovingfinger Posts: 117
    my favorite lyricist is leonard cohen, not really a band but i thought i'd throw it out there. This is my favorite of his works:

    Take This Waltz


    Now in Vienna there's ten pretty women
    There's a shoulder where Death comes to cry
    There's a lobby with nine hundred windows
    There's a tree where the doves go to die
    There's a piece that was torn from the morning
    And it hangs in the Gallery of Frost
    Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
    Take this waltz, take this waltz
    Take this waltz with the clamp on its jaws
    Oh I want you, I want you, I want you
    On a chair with a dead magazine
    In the cave at the tip of the lily
    In some hallways where love's never been
    On a bed where the moon has been sweating
    In a cry filled with footsteps and sand
    Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
    Take this waltz, take this waltz
    Take its broken waist in your hand
    This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz
    With its very own breath of brandy and Death
    Dragging its tail in the sea
    There's a concert hall in Vienna
    Where your mouth had a thousand reviews
    There's a bar where the boys have stopped talking
    They've been sentenced to death by the blues
    Ah, but who is it climbs to your picture
    With a garland of freshly cut tears?
    Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
    Take this waltz, take this waltz
    Take this waltz it's been dying for years
    There's an attic where children are playing
    Where I've got to lie down with you soon
    In a dream of Hungarian lanterns
    In the mist of some sweet afternoon
    And I'll see what you've chained to your sorrow
    All your sheep and your lilies of snow
    Ay, Ay, Ay, Ay
    Take this waltz, take this waltz
    With its "I'll never forget you, you know!"
    This waltz, this waltz, this waltz, this waltz ...
    And I'll dance with you in Vienna
    I'll be wearing a river's disguise
    The hyacinth wild on my shoulder,
    My mouth on the dew of your thighs
    And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,
    With the photographs there, and the moss
    And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty
    My cheap violin and my cross
    And you'll carry me down on your dancing
    To the pools that you lift on your wrist
    Oh my love, Oh my love
    Take this waltz, take this waltz
    It's yours now. It's all that there is


    it was written in tribute to the poet Fredico Garcia Lorca
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    The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
    Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
    Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
    Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it

    -- Omar Khayyam
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    shahrilshahril Posts: 288
    Low_Light03 wrote:
    Alice In Chains
    Pearl Jam of course
    Red Hot Chili Peppers
    Mason Jennings(Not a band I know)
    Bruce Springsteen


    RHCP?!!
    are u kidding? kiedis' lyrics are awful!
    all he cares abt is whether it rhymes

    apart from PJ
    Radiohead, Tom Waits..maybe Mark Lanegan..
    I've seen so many people try and copy Eddie Vedder's voice. It's as if if you don't sound like him you're not a man. - Emmett Roslan

    http://theshahril.blogspot.com

    London 20/04/2006
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