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Lyrical Quality
Johnny C:
Look deep within your post and you will find the answer that you seek.
Thrillho:
Nick Cave is my favourite lyricist of all time. He can be dark, sexy, murderous, hilarious, and gloriously dumb, usually in the space of one stanza.
He also writes lines that I don't think anybody else in the world would ever write, like some of the ones in 'Nature Boy.'
Patrick:
DISMEMBERMENT PLAN ctrl+c ctrl+vvvvvvvvvvvvv
I'll also mention Alan Jackson's later work. For the longest time he just did a bunch of boring, hokey shit. Then he started to bud as a songwriter. Recommended work: "Remember When". It's about his life with his wife, who was his high school sweetheart.
It has *two* key changes.
TheFuriousWombat:
The aforementioned John Darnielle and Will Scheff are terrific and the as-of-yet unmentioned man behind The Microphones and Mount Eerie, Phil Elvrum (or Elverum as it now is) is rather excellent. Colin Melloy writes great stories-as-lyrics, Joanna Newsom writes wonderful poetry-as-lyrics and, to me, the undisputed king of lyrics, Jeff Mangum, writes holy-fucking-hell-that's-way-too-brilliant-poetry/oddity as lyrics.
Green Gorgon:
The Decemberists, by far. Colin Melloy has amazing talent for story telling, and an incredible vocabulary to boot. And I'm saying this as an English major in college.
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