Robert Plant named 23rd worst lyricist of All Time by Blender

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  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,581
    Metal Bryan wrote:
    NEIL PEART AT #2?!!!!!!!!!!

    RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGHHHHHTTTT.

    ^sarcasm


    thats exactly what i thought

    what the fuuuuck
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Oh, Jimmy wrote:
    Blender is a pretty entertaining mag, prolly the best US has to offer.

    Some of their lists have been pretty shitty. Prince beat out Led Zeppelin in their rock star wars. There are a few bands that have enough clout to be put above the Zep, and I think we can all agree that Prince aint one of em.

    They have also had some really cool lists.
    Prince > Zeppelin

    no, really.
    "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"
  • Oh, Jimmy
    Oh, Jimmy Posts: 957
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Prince > Zeppelin

    no, really.

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA!!!!!!!!!

    Unless > means, not in the same league, that is the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard. If Led Zeppelin would have never sold an album or toured, their influence alone would trump everything Prince has done.
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,017
    so Robert Plant's lyrics are worse than Fred Durst's?

    Paul McCartney is on the list?

    this is the stupidest list I've ever seen
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden, 2024: Philly 2, 2025: Pittsburgh 1

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  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,017
    SoonForgotten2 wrote:

    ANd with all due respect to The Beatles, Paul McCartney deserves to make the list. He has contributed some proper lyrical clangers, no matter how catchy they may have been. He can't touch Lennon.


    McCartney totally does not deserve to be on this list.

    Eleanor Rigby
    Penny Lane
    Here There and Everywhere
    For No One
    Blackbird
    Things We Said Today
    Back in the USSR
    any song from Pepper's

    just a few songs of his songs with amazing lyrics.......though I think his strength is more in melody than lyrics
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  • Mike Renzella
    Mike Renzella Posts: 55
    What utter bullshit.

    McCartney? Please. That's f-in' ridiculous. Calling out any one of the Beatles for a list like this is just bullshit controversy mongering. Even Ringo wrote some nice (if simple) lyrics in his day.

    Fuck Blender. Ragging on the Beatles or any individual member, shows a complete ineptitude and lack of musical taste.
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  • Oh, Jimmy
    Oh, Jimmy Posts: 957
    Paul McCartney should be on there, but none of his Beatles work. He could make the list with just "Freedom". Easily the most absurd song by a Beatle
  • Carlos D
    Carlos D Posts: 638
    Billy Corgan?They can fuck themselves.

    Adore and Siamese Dream have the best lyrics I've ever heard
    It may be the devil or it may be the Lord
    But you're gonna have to serve somebody.

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  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Oh, Jimmy wrote:
    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA!!!!!!!!!

    Unless > means, not in the same league, that is the most ridiculous statement I have ever heard. If Led Zeppelin would have never sold an album or toured, their influence alone would trump everything Prince has done.
    Prince is one of the most influential musicians on the planet, whether you like it or not, AND he is still around. Zeppelin's reunion is about the money, plain and simple. also, whereas Zeppelin built a career out of lifting other people's songs directly and making them for an arena audience, Prince actually FUSED his influences to make something new. can you imagine, before Purple Rain, a mainstream black funk artist making a rock power ballad?
    "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"
  • Oh, Jimmy
    Oh, Jimmy Posts: 957
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Prince is one of the most influential musicians on the planet, whether you like it or not, AND he is still around. Zeppelin's reunion is about the money, plain and simple. also, whereas Zeppelin built a career out of lifting other people's songs directly and making them for an arena audience, Prince actually FUSED his influences to make something new. can you imagine, before Purple Rain, a mainstream black funk artist making a rock power ballad?


    Are you seriously saying Prince's influence is greater than Zeppelin's? Prince was influenced by Zeppelin

    Zeppelin aren't gettin any money for the reunion, itsa tribute show for Ahmet Ertegun. gettin desperate?

    And there was a handfulla songs that Zeppelin got sued for, but it wasnt for the music, it was for the lyrics.

    Just b/c he was a black funk artist, make a power ballad is original?
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,017
    Oh, Jimmy wrote:

    And there was a handfulla songs that Zeppelin got sued for, but it wasnt for the music, it was for the lyrics.


    that's not entirely true. sometimes it was the music the ripped off. they ripped the music for Dazed and Confused from Jake Holmes. the music AND lyrics for Lemon Song are directly stolen from Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Man." Blackmountainside and White Summer are actually traditional songs that weren't credited as such (and Page's versions closely resemble Bert Jansch's covers). finally, the Stairway to Heaven riff is similar to "Taurus" by Spirit....though I wouldn't call it a rip-off like the others. it's more like Taurus inspired the Stairway riff. Still noteworthy though
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  • Oh, Jimmy
    Oh, Jimmy Posts: 957
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    that's not entirely true. sometimes it was the music the ripped off. they ripped the music for Dazed and Confused from Jake Holmes. the music AND lyrics for Lemon Song are directly stolen from Howlin' Wolf's "Killing Man." Blackmountainside and White Summer are actually traditional songs that weren't credited as such (and Page's versions closely resemble Bert Jansch's covers). finally, the Stairway to Heaven riff is similar to "Taurus" by Spirit....though I wouldn't call it a rip-off like the others. it's more like Taurus inspired the Stairway riff. Still noteworthy though

    I have heard a few of the songs that Zeppelin "stole" and quite frankly there were a few pretty frivalous lawsuits. Not all, mind you, but one of the blue's guys that sued them, got pretty carried away.

    Everybody played and recorded covers and put them on their albums, you can't fault Zeppelin for that, but yeah they shoulda credited them.
  • Ledbetterman10
    Ledbetterman10 Posts: 17,017
    Oh, Jimmy wrote:
    I have heard a few of the songs that Zeppelin "stole" and quite frankly there were a few pretty frivalous lawsuits. Not all, mind you, but one of the blue's guys that sued them, got pretty carried away.


    check out Howlin' Wolf's Killing Man. aside from the Puff Daddy/Jimmy Page Godzilla song, it's easily the most embarrassing Zeppelin moment. I can't believe they had the audacity to blatantly steal like that. it was settled out of court.

    Zeppelin still rules though.
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  • ii44
    ii44 Posts: 430
    thecrackedjack wrote:
    ...in their 40 worst lyricists of all time. Another terrible list.

    http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2882

    1) Sting (solo, The Police)
    2) Neil Peart (Rush)
    3) Scott Stapp (Creed)
    4) Noel Gallagher (Oasis)
    5) Dan Fogelberg
    6) Tom Marshall (Phish friend [ not member ])
    7) Paul Stanley (KISS)
    8) Diane Warren ("I Don't Want to Miss a Thing", "How Can We Be Lovers?", "Have You Ever?")
    9) Donovan
    10) Jim Morrison (The Doors)

    11) Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar ("Wind Beneath My Wings")
    12) David Crosby (sometimes of Crosby, Stills & Nash [ & Young ])
    13) Pete Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Steve Hackett and Phil Collins (aka Genesis, but also including their respective solo projects)
    14) will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas)
    15) Bernie Taupin (lyricist for Elton John and... "We Built This City")
    16) Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie)
    17) Jon Anderson (Yes)
    18) Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
    19) Queensrÿche
    20) Ryan Ross (Panic! At the Disco)

    21) Alanis Morissette
    22) Jon Bon Jovi
    23) Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin)
    24) Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit)
    25) KRS-One
    26) Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran)
    27) Will Jennings (lyricist, "My Heart Will Go On", "Up Where We Belong", "Tears in Heaven", etc.)
    28) Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)
    29) Timbaland
    30) Kevin Federline (aka K-Fed)

    31) Carly Simon
    32) Matisyahu
    33) Diddy (aka P. Diddy aka Puffy aka Puff Daddy)
    34) Henry Rollins (Black Flag, Rollins Band)
    35) Dashboard Confessional
    36) Common
    37) Bryan Adams
    38) Paul McCartney (The Beatles, solo)
    39) Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan, solo)
    40) Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

    Jim Morrison? Neil Peart? Robert Plant? WTF???

    Even if you hate Sting, you have to acknowledge that his lyrics aren't terrible.

    If I had a chioce I'd vote for Alantis Morrisette. Alantis Morrisette is bad at writing songs.
  • ii44
    ii44 Posts: 430
    DOSW wrote:
    Robert Plant is a terrible lyricist guys. Great frontman, awful lyricist.

    I'd say great frontman/singer, average lyricist.
  • yosi1
    yosi1 Posts: 3,272
    Silly list. Just trying to be controversial. There are so many songs with awful lyrics. If this list really wanted portray the worst lyrics of all time, there would be much more pop/rap/completely obscure shit.
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  • 12345AGNST1
    12345AGNST1 Posts: 4,906
    neil peart at #2!!!!!! haha thats pretty funny, apparently someone at blender can't drum for shit.
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  • sigh eternally
    sigh eternally Chicago Posts: 421
    28 and 34 are fucking wrong.

    aside from that: spot on.

    carry on.

    ps. ... lists are stupid and so is this post.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Oh, Jimmy wrote:
    Are you seriously saying Prince's influence is greater than Zeppelin's? Prince was influenced by Zeppelin

    Zeppelin aren't gettin any money for the reunion, itsa tribute show for Ahmet Ertegun. gettin desperate?

    And there was a handfulla songs that Zeppelin got sued for, but it wasnt for the music, it was for the lyrics.

    Just b/c he was a black funk artist, make a power ballad is original?
    what makes you think that prince was influenced by zeppelin? and that isn't my point. people who are influenced by zeppelin are only influenced second-hand. Led Zep BLATANTLY plagiarised other artists. people that prince influenced were influenced by him because he was doing something different. he was creating a synthesis of genres and styles that no one else was daring in the 80s, a decade more concerned with record company revenue and sell-out stadium tours. is there a more creative and intelligent pop song in the 80s than Sign 'O' The Times? I doubt it. Zeppelin were a good band, no doubt. They were not, however, a band that changed things.
    "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"
  • fragileblake
    fragileblake Posts: 716
    I agree with all of these. I think its a great list.

    thecrackedjack wrote:
    ...in their 40 worst lyricists of all time. Another terrible list.

    http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?ID=2882

    1) Sting (solo, The Police)
    2) Neil Peart (Rush)
    3) Scott Stapp (Creed)
    4) Noel Gallagher (Oasis)
    5) Dan Fogelberg
    6) Tom Marshall (Phish friend [ not member ])
    7) Paul Stanley (KISS)
    8) Diane Warren ("I Don't Want to Miss a Thing", "How Can We Be Lovers?", "Have You Ever?")
    9) Donovan
    10) Jim Morrison (The Doors)

    11) Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar ("Wind Beneath My Wings")
    12) David Crosby (sometimes of Crosby, Stills & Nash [ & Young ])
    13) Pete Gabriel, Mike Rutherford, Tony Banks, Steve Hackett and Phil Collins (aka Genesis, but also including their respective solo projects)
    14) will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas)
    15) Bernie Taupin (lyricist for Elton John and... "We Built This City")
    16) Ben Gibbard (Death Cab for Cutie)
    17) Jon Anderson (Yes)
    18) Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull)
    19) Queensrÿche
    20) Ryan Ross (Panic! At the Disco)

    21) Alanis Morissette
    22) Jon Bon Jovi
    23) Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin)
    24) Fred Durst (Limp Bizkit)
    25) KRS-One
    26) Simon Le Bon (Duran Duran)
    27) Will Jennings (lyricist, "My Heart Will Go On", "Up Where We Belong", "Tears in Heaven", etc.)
    28) Greg Graffin (Bad Religion)
    29) Timbaland
    30) Kevin Federline (aka K-Fed)

    31) Carly Simon
    32) Matisyahu
    33) Diddy (aka P. Diddy aka Puffy aka Puff Daddy)
    34) Henry Rollins (Black Flag, Rollins Band)
    35) Dashboard Confessional
    36) Common
    37) Bryan Adams
    38) Paul McCartney (The Beatles, solo)
    39) Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan, solo)
    40) Anthony Kiedis (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
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