bands with killer lyrics!

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  • armyreserve
    armyreserve Posts: 209
    The Replacements! Paul Westerberg is a poet!
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  • karma defect
    karma 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......»
  • bucket1988
    bucket1988 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...
  • kdpjam
    kdpjam 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.
    lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
    ~it is shining it is shining~
  • Low_Light03
    Low_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

    But You Might Die Trying
  • whatsthefreezer
    whatsthefreezer Posts: 347
    as far as current artists go i would say straylight run
  • Igottago
    Igottago 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.
  • movingfinger
    movingfinger 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
  • shahril
    shahril 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

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    London 20/04/2006
  • the unseen
    the unseen Posts: 372
    how can anyone top anal cunt?
  • MCG
    MCG Posts: 780
    Tragically Hip
    Matthew Good
    QOTSA
    Which came first,
    the bad idea or me befallen by it?
  • kdpjam
    kdpjam Posts: 2,303
    i forgot two must haves in my list.

    david bowie!
    and justin hayward/& the moody blues
    lay down all thoughts; surrender to the void
    ~it is shining it is shining~
  • electronblue
    electronblue Posts: 3,503
    a quick list

    pearl jam
    robert smith/the cure
    david bowie
    marilyn manson
    chris cornell
    young neil
    pete townshend
    the ramones
    michael hutchence/ INXS
    john lennon
    paul mccartney
    jim morrison
    kurt cobain
    david byrne
    bob dylan...~
    ********************************
    "Forgive every being,
    the bad feelings 
    it's just me"


  • audiodave
    audiodave Posts: 1,623
    Glad to see some mentions for Michael Stipe, Shannon Hoon and Robert Smith. All fantastic.

    Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails writes very good lyrics.

    I'm surprised to have seen no mention of Rage Against The Machine. They have brilliant lyrics.
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  • pearlmutt
    pearlmutt Posts: 392
    yes, i agree, leonard cohen, although you're right he's not a band. but enough bands have covered him -- tower of song and i'm your fan are at least two albums of his songs sung by other artists. he's great.

    i don't know of anyone who creates so much atmosphere in one song. i mean it is like a mini-novel set to gorgeous music. . . i'm thinking famous blue rain coat.

    who tells a story like that today in lyrics?

    Its four in the morning, the end of december
    Im writing you now just to see if youre better
    New york is cold, but I like where Im living
    Theres music on clinton street all through the evening.

    I hear that youre building your little house deep in the desert
    Youre living for nothing now, I hope youre keeping some kind of record.

    Yes, and jane came by with a lock of your hair
    She said that you gave it to her
    That night that you planned to go clear
    Did you ever go clear?

    Ah, the last time we saw you you looked so much older
    Your famous blue raincoat was torn at the shoulder
    Youd been to the station to meet every train
    And you came home without lili marlene

    And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
    And when she came back she was nobodys wife.

    Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth
    One more thin gypsy thief
    Well I see janes awake --

    She sends her regards.
    And what can I tell you my brother, my killer
    What can I possibly say?
    I guess that I miss you, I guess I forgive you
    Im glad you stood in my way.

    If you ever come by here, for jane or for me
    Your enemy is sleeping, and his woman is free.

    Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes
    I thought it was there for good so I never tried.

    And jane came by with a lock of your hair
    She said that you gave it to her
    That night that you planned to go clear

    -- sincerely, l. cohen
  • soaks the pages
    soaks the pages Posts: 91
    no one has mentioned dresden dolls yet? :confused:
    that's faarkokte.
  • gnr+pj=2bestever
    gnr+pj=2bestever Posts: 358
    Guns N' Roses

    Bob Dylan

    Pearl Jam

    Neil Young

    Led Zep.
    Whats got the whole world faking?
  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    audiodave wrote:
    Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails writes very good lyrics.


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  • GeoffToovey
    GeoffToovey Posts: 3
    I can't believe no one mentioned Metallica in this list. Some of their songs are brilliant with lyrics. Songs like Fade To Black, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), The Unforigven, One, Dyers Eve, etc I couldn't be bothered listing all their songs but I think Hetfield is a genius with his lyrics.
  • exolstice
    exolstice Posts: 85
    audiodave wrote:
    Glad to see some mentions for Michael Stipe, Shannon Hoon and Robert Smith. All fantastic.

    Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails writes very good lyrics.

    I'm surprised to have seen no mention of Rage Against The Machine. They have brilliant lyrics.

    NIN is one of my top 3 favorite bands, but I think his lyrics are for the most part pretty bad.

    I'm voting for Smashing Pumpkins.
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