Artist You Consider That Are Lyrically Brilliant!!

Justin Furstenfeld of Blue October
Billy Corgan
Paco Estrada of South FM
Max Bemis of Say Anything
Ben Folds

I consider Jim Morrison lyrically brilliant. Jim Morrison was somewhat eccentric and theatrical but never afraid to sing about his thoughts and feelings. His poetry is thought provoking and he often improvised his poetry into the live music.


I also consider Bob Dylan one of the greatest poets and lyricists of modern times. Do I think Bob Dylan could sing....ahem....no. This does not mean I don't respect his talents. I do have Dylan albums I listen to since there is more to Dylan than his voice

Neil Peart stands out for me. So much material about so many different things. Factor in his immense talent as a drummer and you have a monster musician as a whole. Elite really.

I'm one of those who doesn't really care much about the lyrical content, but some that I really like are Tori Amos, Fiona Apple and Brendan Perry from Dead Can Dance.

Jon Anderson
Neil Peart
Justin Hayward
Dave Matthews
Tori Amos
Fish

Slip'nn2Darkness said:

I call Bullshit on this Lynch.. How shallow can you be that you stand by this?? Really doult you just bypass the lyrics and hmm along to the melody.. 90% of a song is how it effects you.. Saying you just listen to the tempo is like saying I used to enjoy music till I started ignoring what they were saying and that's fine with me.. What shit are you listening too late at night in those ear buds???

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wtf is up with THAT response?

Lynch said:

wtf is up with THAT response?

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Merlot overload. Sorry Lynch I came across a bit nasty. But really find it hard EVEN though I'm not dipped in Merlot at the moment to think Lyrics don't sway your liking a song or artist. I just thought why steer the topic off course with some odd comment like that.

There are a bunch of post I agree with. Cream'd neil Youngs "Old Man" has been one of his favorites. I related to it so much now that I'm that old man.

Dylan is a excellent song writer and comes up with some of the best down to earth lyrics about life, people and subjects close to home.

Magic.. For some reason I stall out on Jim Morrisons writings. I love his meanings to things but dam, he sure can lead a song in a strange direction.

Doors The Ghost Song Lyrics
Awake.
Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day's divinity
First thing you see.

A vast radiant beach and cooled jeweled moon
Couples naked race down by it's quiet side
And we laugh like soft, mad children
Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy
The music and voices are all around us.

Choose they croon the Ancient Ones
The time has come again
Choose now, they croon
Beneath the moon
Beside an ancient lake

Enter again the sweet forest
Enter the hot dream
Come with us
Everything is broken up and dances.

Indians scattered,
On dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child’s,
Fragile eggshell mind

We have assembled inside,
This ancient and insane theater
To propagate our lust for our life,
And flee the swarming wisdom of the streets.

The barns have stormed
The windows kept,
And only one of all the rest
To dance and save us
From the divine mockery of words,
Music inflames temperament.

Ooh great creator of being
Grant us one more hour,
To perform our art
And perfect our lives.

We need great golden copulations,

When the true kings murders
Are allowed to roam free,
A thousand magicians arise in the land
Where are the feast we are promised?

One more thing

Thank you oh lord
For the white blind light
Thank you oh lord
For the white blind light

A city rises from the sea
I had a splitting headache
From which the future's made


Pretty trippy stuff.. Thanks everyone for adding to this thread and sorry Lynch ole boy.. I'll try not to drink and type next time..

Slip'nn2Darkness said:

Merlot overload. Sorry Lynch I came across a bit nasty.


sorry Lynch ole boy.. I'll try not to drink and type next time..

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I was wondering (and also speculating that you perhaps had been a couple fingers deep into a bottle of red)

No harm, no foul. I'll reply/retort on this topic in a bit. Kind of busy at the moment.

Yesterday I put on DSOTM and remember just how much the song Breathe /Speak To Me was such a cool song with a very profound meaning to the lyrics. Talk about being ahead of it's time..




Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care.
Leave, don't leave me.
Look around and choose your own ground.
Long you live and high you fly
smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be.
Run, rabbit run.
Dig that hole, forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time to dig another one.
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early grave.

Lynch said:

Personally, I'm not a fan of ever putting a label on lyrics as "brilliant", especially using a paintbrush to generically swipe their entire career as such. A song here or there, maybe, but an entire career? Never.

More often than not, I find the music, the rhythm, the melody to be far more "moving" than the vast majority of the lyrics. Even a vocalist's phrasing and style can be more moving than the actual words that he or she is singing.

But that's just my opinion.

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Agreed particularly with the bolded. I don't care near as much about the lyrics as I do about the music. My two cents on the matter.