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Favorite lyricists?
E. Spaceman:
I'll try to skip anyone already mentioned
Morrissey (mostly with The Smiths)
Brian McMahan (Slint)
David Bowie
Michael Stipe (REM)
Stuart Murdoch (Belle and Sebastian)
David Byrne (both with Talking Heads and solo)
Chan Marshall (Cat Power)
Douglas Pearce (Death In June)
Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus (ABBA, no, seriously)
Lou Reed (up till the 80s)
Luke C:
Bob Dylan is an all time great songwriter. As well as Dylan Serj Tankian, Michael Stipe and Dave Mustaine write some great lyrics.
TrueNeutral:
Mark Olivier "Mr. E" Everett
Look at all the people with the flowers in their hands
They put the flower on the box that's holding all the sand
That was once... that was once you
I still have never heard anyone put such real anguish into his music.
I also like Isaac Brock,
We kiss on the mouth but still cough down our sleeves
Beck,
Who could ever be so cruel,
Blame the devil for the things you do
It’s such a selfish way to lose
The way you lose these wasted blues
And whoever writes the lyrics for The Shins
These are the muddy waters
I am swimming in to make a living
Were I to drown in them
It should come as no surprise
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Der Golem ---Martin Walkyer of Skyclad is in a league of his own.
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"Court is now in session, Mother Nature presides,
The jury are our children, whose futures we've denied.
The evidence conclusive, we have no alibi,
The victim was our planet, the verdict: MATRICIDE!"
Skyclad - Our Dying Island
"She whispered of her innocence - (a plea I must contest)
While baptising helpless sinners with a missionary zest
She will exorcise your demons - then exercise your thighs
Await your 'second-coming' with a hunger in her eyes.
Her sweetmeats are the souls of men - she'll gorge herself to bursting
And for yours her heart is thirsting - as a spider craves a fly
No mortal man could ever hope to suit her as a suitor
Sh'll rewrite the Kama Sutra if you'd care to watch her try"
Skyclad - Spinning Jenny
"D.J.s, V.J.s, pimps and trollops,
never mind music - this is bollocks!"
Skyclad - Penny Dreadful
"What did we learn in history lessons?
How to sit quiet at the back of a class
with so many things open to questions,
it's too late to cry - there's no one to ask.
Life's an education - a multiple equation,
everybody finds their own solution in the end.
"To be or not to be" is a very lengthy question,
has somebody please got a sharpened pencil they can lend?
Marching in time down a production line,
what did that teach you about life in the dole queue?
The Law of Relativity - (life's relative misery).
The Law of Probability - (it's probably contrived).
Newton's Law of Gravity - (we face a grave reality).
The Law that runs the jungle - (only the strong survive)."
Skyclad - History Lessens
And countless, countless more, which I will post probably in the future. Incredible stuff. Nothing I've ever seen in the field of lyrics actually written for music equals it for me.
--- Quote ---Tony Wakeford of Sol Invictus is pretty awesome.
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The man says it like it is. Almost brutal.
"Here I am, drunk and bored.
And even I don't wanna drink anymore.
And here you are, drunk and scared.
You finally realised: Life's not fair."
Sol Invictus - Here Am I
"This is the longest road to nowhere
Although it's shorter than you think
When the shutters comes down
When the chain breaks its link
Can love triumph
Will hate fall
Can good win?
Probably not at all
The tide will go out and not return
The flame will die and never again burn
I will fall asleep and never awake
The next page of the diary won't have a date
Can love triumph
Will hate fall
Can good win?
Probably not at all
With vile defeats
I limp towards December
Full of vile deceits
But destined not to be remembered"
Sol Invictus - December Song
" They're making the last film
They say that it's the best
And we all helped make it
It's called "The Death of the West"
The kids from Fame will all be there
Free Coca-Cola for you
And Eurodisney is here
Just for me and you
The death of the west
They're making the last film
They say that it's the best
And we all helped make it
It's called "The Death of the West"
A star has risen on northern skies
And on that star we'll be crucified
And the chains of gold around this world
They're ruled by those who lie
The death of the west"
Sol Invictus - The Death of the West
and so forth.
Also, gotta add Dave Tibet of Current 93. I'll put in some stuff by him later.
I think what really makes Martin and Tony is not just the lyrics, but the raw power of their delivery and their sheer integrity. These guys never have sold out and never will sell out. It's also the totality of the experience. I have almost every song ever written by both these lyricists, and the worlds or experiences they create are just enriched with each song. Martin in particular I feel like I know like a friend through his lyrics.
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space_oddity:
David Byrne was always my favorite. Observations so honest and uncoated that they sound surreal compared to more bombastic songwriting.
I love Bob Pollard as a lyricist as well.
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