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Praeserpium Machinarum:
Seconding the Nick Cave, Shane McGowan and adding:

Tom Waits: He's amazing pure and simple.

Well the smart money's on Harlow and the moon is in the street
And the shadow boys are breaking all the laws
And you're east of East Saint Louis and the wind is making speeches
And the rain sounds like a round of applause
And Napoleon is weeping in a carnival saloon
His invisible fiancee's in the mirror
And the band is going home, it's raining hammers, it's raining nails
And it's true there's nothing left for him down here

from Time.

Will Oldham: it's not that technical but really affecting:

She loves a soul that I have never been
A dog among dogs, a man among men
And every day when I come home to her

She holds a phantom, she kisses and she hugs him
And I am not averse to how she loves him
Why must I live and walk unloved as what I am ?

Why can't I be loved as what I am ?
A wolf among wolves and not as a man among men

From Wolf Among Wolves.


others I like are Cedric Bixler-Zavala(At the Drive-In/Mars Volta), Henriette Sennenvaldt(Under Byen), Colin Meloy(The Decemberists) and so on.
I really enjoy good lyrics to the point where it might determine if I like a band or not.

Will:
An example of Aaron from mewithoutYou that I love:

Wearing black canvas slippers in that frog-on-a-lily-pad pose we sewed buttons and zippers to pink Chinese silk and olive night clothes if you can someday stop by somehow we'll show you the pictures and fix you some tea (see, my dad's getting a bit older now, and just unimaginably lonely)

--from Four Word Letter, Pt. 2--

I also like JR Hayes from Pig Destroyer...he's demented as all fuck, but some of his lines are brilliant:

Certain things fascinate me.
First I went blind and then the sun went out.
The way you hold a match so steady.
How heaven is collapsing under so much joy.
--from Evacuating Heaven--

My knuckles are bleeding on your front door
and these flowers are wilting in the rain.
They were for you and now they are for no one.
They are irrelevant as mercenaries in times of peace.
--from Junkyard God--

Omnicide:
OK- Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Nick Cave etc. all go without saying. Any new business?

Skittish:
1) Ryan Adams
2) Mike Doughty
3) Thom Yorke
4) Will Scheff
5) Craig Finn

Slick:
James Taylor! Not all of his stuff is great, but my name is James, my nickname in residence was baby james, and I love the song 'Sweet Baby James'. Whatever.

--- Quote from: James Taylor ---There's a song that they sing as they take to the highway, a song that they sing as they take to the sea, a song that they sing of their home in the sky, maybe you can believe it if it helps you to sleep, but singing works just fine for me
--- End quote ---

Thanks for making me feel better at night, James.

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