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Lyrical Quality
PECOAE:
Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, John Lennon, Thom Yorke, Morrissey, those guys are all pretty good.
Also, Paul Westerberg of the Replacements in their later records was getting pretty skilled.
monkandmovies13:
--- Quote from: Green Gorgon on 30 Nov 2007, 13:54 ---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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Some people think his "incredible vocabulary" is a bad thing because it makes the music too "literate" or "pretentious."
PSSSSHHH
I will never understand that, ever.
Tom:
Verbosity can be really annoying to some people and artists like Spencer Krug and Dan Bejar can be lyrically inaccessible to some casual listeners.
Patrick:
Know what strikes me as odd? A lot of my friends are like, "Yeah Freddie Mercury wrote some EXCELLENT lyrics, man." But I've noticed that a lot of the lines he put into his songs never really actually made sense. Maybe one verse made sense by itself, and then the next verse was about an ENTIRE DIFFERENT SUBJECT.
Just my 2¢.
koalamanchester:
--- Quote from: KimJongSick on 30 Nov 2007, 05:18 ---
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.
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Did you really just praise Alan Jackson? I'm sure no matter how much he has "budded," the music is still overwhelmed with reverbed pedal steel guitars and things like "yee-haw."
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