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Composing Lyrics
thermodynamics:
I've just started a band with some of my mates, and we are in the writing/recording stage. we have the music tracks down for 7 songs (out of which we will pick 4 to be on our ep), but no lyrics.
if i had to describe genre (which i sorta don't like to do, but for the sake of convienence...), we are new wave revival / lo-fi / dance rock / prog.
my problem is, all the other bands i have been in have wanted serious/introspective/dreary lyrics, and i have produced material accordingly. it seems that now, when i need catchy, fun, meaningless lyrics, i can't come up with anything??!! everything ends up being over dramatic or too 'anti-what the band now is supposed to be'.
does anyone have suggestions as to coming up with fun lyrics?
if you write lyrics yourself, what process(es) do you use?
any help or suggestions would be awesome. thanks qc peoples.
if you really care, here is our music page.
logosmonkey:
I would suggest listening to some pavement or beck.. or Meat Puppets... Malkmus, Beck and Kirkwood all have a wonderful way of painting pictures about nothing... I'm not saying copy them but listen to the way they string together their non-sequitors and rhymes....some of it means absolutely nothing and sometimes that's the best way because the listner will invairably place their own meaning on it and that in turn makes for a deeper interaction with the audiance.
ImRonBurgundy?:
i am a dancing log
i am in a bog
i am sat on by a frog
there is also fog
Brian Majestic:
A good tip is to write a song about a silly subject - dancing with mummies, going to a public park and finding people having sex in the bushes, how the town of Berkley is full of hypocrites, etc.
KharBevNor:
I always start writing with a title and a concept. Both of these may change completely by the time the lyrics are done, but I find them essential. I almost always write music to lyrics, so I'm not going to make any suggestions about good methods to fit stuff in to the music you've got.
As for fun stuff, er...
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