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Hey guys, lets light up another virtual drough and get philosophical and have another enduring discussion involving our musical tastes. (I know this is the 3rd music thread I've made this month, get over it)

I've never been much of a lyrics person, but I started paying attention recently and there is really some Grade A lyricism out there.

I'm interested does anyone like an artist purely (or mostly) for their lyrics?

I'll start out with one of my lyrical favorites-- Friday by Rebecca Black

7am, waking up in the morning
Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal (pronounced sir-e-ole)
Seein’ everything, the time is goin’
Tickin’ on and on, everybody’s rushin’
Gotta get down to the bus stop
Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends (My friends)

I mean thats lyrical genius, my friends. So good even Bob Dylan "Peter, Paul, and Mary"'d that bitch.

All kidding aside, a track on Rise Against album "Endgame". Has really moving lyrics regarding the gay suicide problem, entitled "Make it Stop". I would say as far as lyricists go Rise Against is my favorite, so I may be biased

What God would damn a heart?
And what God drove us apart?

What God could make it stop?
Let this end.
Eighteen years pushed to the ledge.
It's come to this,
A weightless step.
On the way down singing,
Woah, woah.

From a nation under God,
I feel it's love like a cattle prod.
Born free, but still they hate.
Born me, no I can't change.

Make it stop,
Let this end.
This life chose me, I'm not lost in sin.
But proud I stand of who I am,
I plan to go on living.



I would say the message of this song is like Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" only it holds more integrity, because Rise Against isn't a 30 year old fetus.
 
Guns and Roses
Anything Goes

I been thinking bout'
Thinking bout' sex
Always hungry for something
That I haven't had yet
Well maybe baby you got something to lose
Well I got something, I got something for you

My way - your way
Anything goes tonight
My way - your way
Anything goes to...

Panties 'round your knees
With your *** in the breeze
Doing that grind with a push and squeeze
Tied up, tied down, up against the wall
Be my rubber made baby
And we can do it all

My way - your way
Anything goes tonight

Say anything goes tonight
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What? It has a great beat.
 
Hey little cookie take a walk my way
I like to hear what you have to say
You know the truth and your so put together
Baby I could stick you on the lip of forever
Even a volcano has a price to pay

What kinda creature do we have here
It feels like love but it smells like fear
Look in the mirror baby what do you dream
Look at it harder now and you start to scream
We finding out what drives your machine
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Not necessarily my favorite, but I like them especially with the delivery and music. See:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGEGY3WHhQo
 
I felt a rush like a rolling bolt of thunder
Spinnin' my head around and taking my body under.
Oh, what a night!


Just the chorus... the rest of the song is ok, but you can't beat the chorus.
 
Tangled Up in Blue- Dylan
Thunder Road- Springsteen
Closer- Nine Inch Nails
 
Great call with Springsteen's TR. I'd add a ton more of his too.

Some more...

Guns 'N' Roses: Rocket Queen, Estranged
U2: Miracle Drug, All I Want is You and a ton more...hell, just about every song.
NWA: She Swallowed It, Findum, ****um, and Flee; Automobile, I'd Rather **** You
 
Bloodhound Gang - A Lap Dance is So Much Better when the Stripper is Crying

I was lonelier than Kunta Kinte at a Merle Haggard concert that night I strolled on into Uncle Limpy's Hump Palace lookin' for love. It had been a
while. In fact, three hundred and sixty-five had come and went since that midnight run haulin' hog to Shakey Town on I-10. I had picked up this
hitchhiker that was sweatin' gallons through a pair of Daisy Duke cut-offs and one of those Fruit Of The Loom tank-tops. Well, that night I lost myself
to ruby red lips, milky white skin and baby blue eyes. Name was Russell.

Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Well I find it's quite a thrill
When she grinds me against her will
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'

Well, faster than you can say, "shallow grave", this pretty little thing come up to me and starts kneadin' my balls like hard-boiled eggs in a tube sock.
Said her name was Bambi and I said, "Well that's a coincidence darlin', ‘cause I was just thinkin' about skinnin' you like a deer." Well she smiled,
had about as much teeth as a Jack-O-Lantern, and I went on to tell her how I would wear her face like a mask as I do my little kooky dance. And
then she told me to shush. I guess she could sense my desperation. ‘Course, it's hard to hide a hard-on when you're dressed like Minnie Pearl.

Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Well I find it's quite a thrill
When she grinds me against her will
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'

So, Bambi's goin' on about how she can make all my fantasies come true. So I says, "Even this one I have where Jesus Christ is jackhammering
Mickey Mouse in the doo-doo hole with a lawn dart as Garth Brooks gives birth to something resembling a cheddar cheese log with almonds on
Santa Claus's tummy-tum?" Well, ten beers, twenty minutes and thirty dollars later I'm parkin' the beef bus in tuna town if you know what I mean.
Got to nail her back at her trailer. Heh. That rhymes. I have to admit it was even more of a turn-on when I found out she was doin' me to buy baby
formula.

Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Well I find it's quite a thrill
When she grinds me against her will
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'

Day or so had passed when I popped the clutch, gave the tranny a spin and slid on into The Stinky Pinky Gulp N' Guzzle Big Rig Snooze-A-Stop.
There I was browsin' through the latest issue of "Throb", when I saw Bambi starin' at me from the back of a milk carton. Well, my heart just dropped.
So, I decided to do what any good Christian would. You can not imagine how difficult it is to hold a half gallon of moo juice and polish the
one-eyed gopher when your doin' seventy-five in an eighteen-wheeler. I never thought missing children could be so sexy. Did I say that out loud?

Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
Well I find it's quite a thrill
When she grinds me against her will
Yes a lap dance is so much better when the stripper is cryin'
 
Millsapa said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU
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That is hilarious by the way. What is even better is that these lyrics are not much worse than the real lyrics. This is actually one reason I cannot stand Pearl Jam. Over-hyped (seems to be a lot of that in threads lately) and Vedder just is unintelligible in such an annoying way that the music itself doesn't matter.

Here are the "real" lyrics. Listen to the video and read these and see which fit better.

Unsealed, on a porch a letter sat
Then you said, "I wanna leave it again"
Once I saw her on a beach of weathered sand
And on the sand I wanna leave her again

On a weekend I wanna wish it all away, yeah
And they called and I said that I'll go
And I said that I'll call out again
And the reason I ought ta leave her calm, I know
I said, "I don't know whether I'm the boxer or the bag"

Oh yeah, can you see them, out on the porch?
Yeah, but they don't wave
I see them 'round the front way, yeah
And I know, and I know I don't wanna stay

Make me cry

I see oh, I don't know why there's something else
I want to, wanna drum it all away
I said, "I don't, I don't know whether I was the boxer or the bag"

Oh yeah, can you see them, out the on porch?
Yeah, but they don't wave
I see them 'round the front way
And I know, and I know I don't want to stay at all
I don't want to stay
I don't want to stay
I don't want to stay
I don't, I don't want to stay
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Similar to the Yellow Ledbetter video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJWxPE8G2c
 
YB85 said:
Similar to the Yellow Ledbetter video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xJWxPE8G2c
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Could anyone physically be any more stoned and not be dead?



Go and get a loaf of my bread indeed.
 
OK for trout (and for everyone else). Great song. And doubly funny if you speak german.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qayDROc-dkE&feature=related
 
LogGrad98 said:
That is hilarious by the way. What is even better is that these lyrics are not much worse than the real lyrics. This is actually one reason I cannot stand Pearl Jam. Over-hyped (seems to be a lot of that in threads lately) and Vedder just is unintelligible in such an annoying way that the music itself doesn't matter.

Here are the "real" lyrics. Listen to the video and read these and see which fit better.
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I always wondered what the real lyrics were. It doesn't really matter after you learn the interpretive version anyway. You can never hear anything but "potato wave" and "brown the runway" ever again.
 
I was drunk
I was loud
I was invincible
and I was proud
Yeah I was drunk
and I was loud
I was invincible
and I was proud

After 10,000 beers and 28 years
finally figured it out
It's about time
I settle on down

Well I'm not saying this is the end
and I still go get drunk with my friends
and I might risk my life for moment in time
No I aint had my last sip
and I'll tare up that desert with you
and I know we'll have more than a few
Well it got me this far with plenty of scars
The only one with those tatoos

After 10,000 beers and 28 years
I finally figured it out
It's about time
I settle on down

Well I was drunk
and I was loud
I was invincible
and i was proud
and I'll never change
I'll stay the same
I'll live my life
My own damn way
yeahhhhhh

After 10,000 beers and 28 years
Finally figured it out
There's penty of time
just to settle on down
yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I was drunk
and I was loud
I was invincible
and I was proud
Yeah I was drunk
and I was loud
I was invincible
and I was proud
After 10,000 beers and 28 years
I finally figured it out

There's plenty of time
just to settle on down
Yeah there's plenty of time
just to settle on down
There's plenty of time (time to)
better settle on down
Yeah settle on down
 
Good call on Rocket Queen by G'NR and Happiness is a warm gun.

My favorite lyricist in music is probably James Hetfield. A few of my more favorite Hetfield gems:

Slashing through the action
Returning the reaction
Weak are ripped and torn away

Take a look to the sky just before you die
It's the last time you will

And my personal favorite from Master Of Puppets:

Needlework the way
Never you betray
Life of death becoming clearer

Pain monopoly
Ritual misery
Chop your breakfast on a mirror
 
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