09-22-2011, 04:20 AM
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Location: Illinois
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I know in this part of the forums we're big on lyrics, but is they're anyone here that has a song they love and hate the lyrics (or part of the lyrics)? For me it's Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love". It's just cheesy to me.
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09-22-2011, 11:56 AM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ireland
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Winter Sky, are you in America? It's cool that there is a Biffy fan outside of the UK and the EU. They have been one of my favourite bands - lyrically as well - for years now. I'm not so keen on the softer stuff they have been getting into recently, but I still think it's great music.
themarsvolta, a lot of Led Zeppelin's music is cheesy. Some of it is quite clever and detailed, but they are certainly hit and miss. They were a phase band for me. I don't think I could listen to a whole album of theirs any more without wanting more or something else.
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09-22-2011, 09:47 PM
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green is fine.
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AngryGoldfish: Yeah, I live in America, but I mostly listen to Scottish bands (as well as some American post-rock and indie). Biffy Clyro is my absolute favorite, and their older stuff is definitely better. Their latest albums have gotten a bit poppy for my taste, but it's still better than any music on the radio in America. If you haven't seen their Live At Wembley DVD, I highly suggest checking it out.
I actually got into Scottish music through Skrillex when he remixed a Twin Atlantic song a couple years back. I then checked out Twin Atlantic, followed by Biffy, Marmaduke Duke, Sucioperro, Idlewild, Frightened Rabbit, and just recently I've gotten into The Twilight Sad and We Were Promised Jetpacks. But I'm getting off-topic, so I'll peace out for now. Hit me up if you could recommend me any Scottish/UK bands you think I might like, AngryGoldfish. 
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10-01-2011, 04:27 PM
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I don't know very many Scottish bands, if I'm honest. Manic Street Preachers are Welsh. They're one of my favourites as well. To Randy: Breaking the Back by Million Dead On leaving school immersed in philanthropic notions (of a kind these days I find unthinkable) I pulled my frail frame onto my charger and rode off into a sunset with agenda predictable. Fresh faced, young, dumb and tragically convinced that blind faith could make an infantile normative playground theory on social interaction positive enough to show them all but alas! Working the tills put hair on my chest, tele-sales made me a man. And everything was going to be OK, but the making of the man was the breaking of the back upon the rock of everyday hostility. Fresh faced, young, dumb and tragically convinced that blind faith could make an infantile normative playground theory on social interaction positive. And I don't mean to seem at all ungrateful but the air-conditioned life has left me gasping for some real conversation and just because touring couldn't possibly conceive a machine with this little personality. I'm working shifts in veal-fattening pens, and yet I'm puppy thin because to tell the truth I was hanging on for something more than distant dial tones and a sense of ending. The breaking of the back was the making of the man.
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10-02-2011, 12:35 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2011
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how do all of you feel about pig squeals?
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10-02-2011, 05:50 PM
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do I "urk" you?
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ireland
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Is that a band?
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10-02-2011, 07:09 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2011
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its a singing technique
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10-02-2011, 07:40 PM
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do I "urk" you?
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ireland
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No, not really. It seems more like a piece of showmanship than an actual form of genuine expression. Why do you ask?
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10-02-2011, 08:09 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2011
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because im very good at it and i wanted the opinion of my peers
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10-04-2011, 10:17 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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Josh Ritter - Bone of Song
Just where it now lies, I can no longer say I found it on a cold November day In the roots of a sycamore tree where it had hid so long In a box made out of myrtle lay the bone of song The bone of song was a jawbone old and bruised And worn out in the service of the muse And along its sides and teeth were written words I ran my palm along them and I heard Lucky are you who finds me in the wilderness I am the only unquiet ghost that does not seek rest Kathleen Mauvoreen, Magnificat Your Cheatin' Heart The chords of a covenant king singing for the Ark Then I saw on a white space that was left A blessing written older than the rest It said leave me here, I care not for wealth or fame I'll remember your song but I'll forget your name The words that I sang blew off like the leaves in the wind And perched like birds in the branches before landing on the bone again Then the bone was quiet, it said no more to me So I wrapped it in the ribbons of a sycamore tree And as night had come, I turned around and headed home With a lightness in my step and a song in my bones Lucky are you who finds me in the wilderness I am the only unquiet ghost that does not seek rest |
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10-05-2011, 12:33 PM
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do I "urk" you?
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I played Josh Ritter's new album last night again after not listening to it for months, as my mum was in the room cleaning up and she doesn't like Neurosis or Mastodon.
 I got the album because I heard a lot of positive reviews and opinions on Josh, but I honestly wasn't that stricken by it. It's a very 'sing-along' album but that's all I can say for it.
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10-05-2011, 10:39 PM
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I read this three times and then read it again. Its like trailer park shakespeare....tragic and painful, I'm pretty sure I know the girl he wrote this about. |
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10-06-2011, 02:48 AM
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Not really lyrics, but still one of the most beautiful things I've read/listened to.
The Dead Flag Blues - Godspeed You! Black Emperor. The car is on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel And the sewers are all muddied with a thousand lonely suicides And a dark wind blows The government is corrupt And we're on so many drugs With the radio on and the curtains drawn We're trapped in the belly of this horrible machine And the machine is bleeding to death The sun has fallen down And the billboards are all leering And the flags are all dead at the top of their poles It went like this: The buildings tumbled in on themselves Mothers clutching babies Picked through the rubble And pulled out their hair The skyline was beautiful on fire All twisted metal stretching upwards Everything washed in a thin orange haze I said, "Kiss me, you're beautiful - These are truly the last days" You grabbed my hand And we fell into it Like a daydream Or a fever We woke up one morning and fell a little further down For sure it's the valley of death I open up my wallet And it's full of blood
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10-28-2011, 03:03 PM
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there are many songs i love where i don't even mind the lyrics because the music is just too awesome. take, for example, of Montreal's last few albums, i mean some lyrics seem thoughtful and well written, but a lot are just stuff like 'we can do it softcore if you want, but you should know that i go both ways' or 'i wanna know what it's like to be inside you', lol. they could literally sing about anything and still sound awesome (which they have). also as for simpler music, i really love the Kinks, the simple pop songs, catchy melodies, guitar riff, verse/chorus stuff. some of the lyrics are really nothing spectacular, but still, whatever, they're awesome. 'when you passed me by, you didn't look my way...'
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11-03-2011, 10:27 AM
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do I "urk" you?
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I could never get into bands like The Kinks. I probably sound like a hipster or something but I've just never been able to get into punk. I don't mind the punk bands that have elements of other styles in them, but straight up punk rock really bores me.
The Strokes are definitely the closest to The Kinks as I can get. And their lyrics are most definitely awesome. "Don't be a coconut. God is trying to talk to you." 
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11-03-2011, 12:13 PM
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"My feelings are more important than yours... woahohhhh. Drop dead I don't care I won't wear it!"
the lyrics always seem just right for the songs. Steely Dan lyrics are awesome too in a fitting way
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11-03-2011, 12:51 PM
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gotta say it,the lyrics to the approaching curve are amazing. A couple of my fave lyricysts (is that the right word? i dunno) are itch fox: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qAi...feature=related and fat mike: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ky...feature=related I like that last one beacause the idea is so origional (imo anyway) its about the story of the members of iron maiden made out to be the story of a bunch of gay guys XD so it got me thinking, what is the most origional idea for a song youve heard?? ps. is there any way to embed them youtube videos? |
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11-04-2011, 10:00 AM
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do I "urk" you?
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Ireland
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UG doesn't offer YouTube embedding, sorry. People have been requesting it for years, to no avail.
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11-08-2011, 03:10 PM
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i seriously thought The Kinks were one of the few bands EVERYONE could love  i mean, come on... haha. they're not really *that* punk either. sure, their first few singles were these hardish, agresive, punkish rock songs. but not everything is like that. plus they've had a huuuuge influence, particularly in the 'indie' scene, with bands like the libertines, the kooks, etc.
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11-28-2011, 02:04 AM
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The Kinks were always one of these bands that I should get into, that I just haven't because of being busy.
Any of you guys like Omar Rodriguez Lopez's lyrics? Some of them are crazy and nonsensical but some are pretty great, like Poincare (which with the help of my Spanish dictionary, made some more sense  )No miré lo sabio del presente coso para disipar la calma es indeleble I love the last line.
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