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lyrics important?
Inlander:
Lyrics are important to me - but sadly, really good lyrics are not very common. I can certainly enjoy a song with slightly nonsensical lyrics, but one thing I cannot abide is cliched and/or banal lyrics. If I hear one more ballad in which the protaganist goes "down to the river", I'm gonna scream!
When I find a truly brilliant lyricist (such as Darren Hanlon or, going back a bit, Ira Gershwin) then I'm hooked for life. Clever and interesting use of words just makes me into a big warm fuzzy ball of happiness.
Spike:
I know I'm not the only one who has ever had thoughts about starting a Slipknot-esque band that does songs about fluffy bunnies, coming from a not broken home, or not dieing inside/being hated.
Good lyrics make some songs, but for others they just make the song better. Sometimes the things that go on in my head and all that, or things that really trigger responses can't be put into words.
Empty Friend:
--- Quote from: heretic ---2) irregardless is not a word. people should not use it as it makes m......rrr...HULK SMASH POOR GRAMMAR!!!
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Dictionary.com says:
ir·re·gard·less
adv. Nonstandard
Regardless.
and:
irregardless
adv : regardless; a combination of irrespective and regardless sometimes used humorously
I am grammarfascist, stronger than the grammar hulk ^_~
GebStar:
Lyrics aren't really that important to me when im listening to music.
As everyone has said, good lyrics are a bonus but i don't think that poor lyrics are enough to really dislike a band so long as the singing and music are good.
I can also put up with bad singing if the lyrics and the music are good.
if a band has 2 of the 3 it can get by me. (that should be a lyric)
This topic reminds me of something that happened a few weeks ago. I was in class and the whole class was listening to Neutral Milk Hotel when a guy in my class says "These lyrics are rubbish". So my friend and him got into the big argument on the importance of lyrics she said it wasn't he said that it was. The argument was ended when she said "If you wan't fucking lyrics go read some poetry"
I thought that it was brilliant.
Then he proceeded to sing Switchfoot "dare you to move" which had the class in stitches.
KharBevNor:
--- Quote from: Outshined ---exceptionally offensive
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Best type!!
--- Quote from: heretic ---
1) i am going to sing the phone book in a song now, that is one of the mostest awesomest ideas ever, i think it's been done now that you mention it though.
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Tom Lehrer created hilarious musical awesomeness just by singing all the names of the elements on the periodic table.
"Iiiiiiiit's Antimony, Arsenic, Aluminium, Selenium, and also Molybdenum, Einsteinium, Nobelium..."
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