Need to get deeper into lyricists, help me out!
>>63534481
>inb4 rap
Drew Speziale of Circle Takes The Square writes some amazing lyrics.
>>63534481
is that Thurston moor
Bruce Springsteen
>>63534481
Bob Dylan.
Roger Waters.
Alex Turner
john linnell
john flansburgh
Nick Torres
Ke$ha
>>63534559
you can shit on arctic monkeys music, but you gotta admit he is good with words
>>63534481
>>63534579
Yeah, although I do personally like their music it is really simple - I can maybe see how some people dislike it for that (although never truly understand).
But goddamn those lyrics, I mean how the hell do you write"Fake Tales of San Francisco" at 17?
Jeff Buckley
Destroyer and Kurt vile
Is Joni Mitchell good?
>13 replies
>not mentioning the greatest lyricist in the history of published music.
Bones is pretty good
>>63534764
What's that song even a bout?
>>63534481
AnCo's middle stuff has some pretty 10/10 lyrics
>18 replies
>not mentioning the actual greatest lyricist in the history of published music
i also really like van morrison, aaron weiss and gareth liddiard
>>63534888
she's the greatest female lyricist of all time
so yes
>>63534931
It's about shitty pub bands pretending to be something they're not - and by extension guys doing the same to pic up girls.
It's pretty basic if you listen to it but stunning lyrics.
>>63534896
Was about to post this t b h
But yeah, even if you don't like her vocals, you gotta admit her lyrical talent
>>63534481
Tara Jane O'Neil.
no memeing, captain beefheart is worth studying
Wrote the first three modest mouse albums before he was even 25. Incredible stuff
neil young
leonard cohen
nick drake
gareth liddiard
sibylle baier
mark kozelek
joanna newsom
morrissey
andy irvine
gillian welch
mary hansen
james mercer
matt elliot
david rawlings
mark hollis
ed kuepper
>>63535108
>>63534967
listening to the radicalisation of d right now, shit always fucks me up
>>63535066
No wonder they're shit
>>63535140
ebin
Phil Everum
Morrissey
Jay electronica
lou reed
Townes van zandt
neil young
i think?
Isaac Brock
Joanna Newsom
Phil Elvirum
Bob Dylan
Shout out to Brock and newsom again
And special mention to Sufjan
Jay Munly
>>63534481
Bob Dylan
Bruce Springsteen
Nick Drake
Morrissey (GOAT)
Ian Curtis
Bono on U2's first four albums
as far as more contemporary lyricists go
Jesse Lacey
Avey Tare
Panda Bear
Mark Kozelek
Joanna Newsom
Kendrick Lamar (inb4 hurr kill whitey)
Alex Turner
Jeff Buckley
Isaac Brock
Patrick Stickles
Frank Ocean
Vince Staples
have fun
>>63535518
Wow, now that's what I call an awful list
Just reiterating Gareth Liddiard.
Richard Thompson 4 sure
JR Hayes
Bruce Springsteen
Andrew Eldritch
Not really god-tier, but I like Rob Zombie's lyrics, White Zombie era especially.
i like win butler's lyrics a lot, especially on funeral and neon bible
Isaac Brock of Modest Mouse.
Jim Morrison
John Darnielle
Pre-Sunset Tree albums only though. New shit is stale as fuck
Jerome Reuter
>>63535108
Never seen Rawlings/Welsh mentioned here, I love their Americana style.
Going to add Tallest Man on Earth, the imagery he's able to convey in his lyrics is so comfy
>>63535108
>matt elliott
i dunno
i'd definitely count him as one of my favourite musicians of all time but lyricism is far from his strong suit
>>63535066
true
Kurt Cobain
duhhhhh
Bob Dylan
Leonard Cohen
Issac Brock
Lou Reed
they're the goats
>>63534493
Nope. Nick Cave. Look him up
>>63537129
tell us more
>>63534967
Seriously, Cohen's a poet. In the actual, literal sense of the word.
>>63537177
memers not welcome
Jeff Mangum to be honest
Why is no one saying Stefan? too cool to admit it /mu/ ?
>>63534481
Jordan Dreyer from La Dispute.
>>63537260
You're not wrong.
Jarvis Cocker
Carl McCoy
David Berman
me
ride or die for my boy.
Through the dormant wards and nurseries
a flugle-man moves
In the lung smeared slides and corridors
a flugle-man moves
And his tune rises on the harvest clouds of dust
Trading the wah-wah's for
BAM BAM BAM BAM
he's an extraordinary poet and his dark trilogy ending in bish bosch are probably my favourite pieces of music ever, owing a lot to the great lyrics.
kevin barnes
>>63534559
it's all just sleazy, half-witted pick-up lines
I'm about to be called a babby pleb but I think Ezra Koenig is a wonderful lyricist
>>63534967
This
>>63534896
THIS. SO MUCH THIS
> Not a single mention of Elliott Smith
I'd say that folk in general has good lyricists
>>63537261
Kek
Bejar is easily in my top 5.
So is Berninger (fight me).
>>63534481
>We run through these streets
>That we know so well
>And the houses hide so much
>But in the half light
>None of us can tell
>They hide the ocean in a shell
>The ocean in a shell
>Our heads are just houses
>Without enough windows
>You say you hear human voices
>But they're only echoes
Tell me that isn't god-tier lyricism
>>63538862
that's not god-tier. i like him as a lyricist, but he's not particularly deep.
>>63538862
I like his lyrics mostly for how straightforward and open they are but they aren't really brilliant
>>63535518
>Avey and Panda
Nigga are you motherfucking serious?
Blake Schwarzenbach
Ice Cube
>>63538912
i agree that there are some AnCo tracks that have very strong lyrics. Summertime Clothes comes to mind.
>>63538890
>>63538903
>but he's not particularly deep.
>how straightforward
jesus christ the stink of pleb off you is unbearable.
It's okay I'll educate you though. Arcade Fire's music is all about the human condition, and more importantly people's mental state. Win#'s lyrics are all about why we think the way we do, how are head has been shaped because of the environment we were brought up in and how we can reject the pressures on us to conform and be truly ourselves. Each album tackles another societal institution that makes forces people to conform. For instance, Funeral is about Family. Neon Bible is about Religion. The Suburbs is about Suburban Life/Existentialism. Reflektor is about the media.
Now if that's not "deep" to you you are empty, nothingness troglodytes that are incapable of understanding any concept that is even slightly important and you should crawl back into the cave whence you came.
>>63539063
>jesus christ the stink of pleb off you is unbearable.
>let me write an essay on Arcade Fire
>>63539090
>that are incapable of understanding any concept that is even slightly important
thank you for proving my point, you are incapable of understanding other points of view and everything you see goes through a heavy filter of autism before you think about it
take off the autismo shades m8, you're not cool just because you do what 4chan tells you I'm afraid.
>>63534967
>>63535130
>>63537162
>>63538498
Jarvis Cocker
Morrissey
Leonard Cohen
Josh Tillman
Bruce Springsteen
Young Fathers
Doug Martsch. Or even better, his dead poet friend.
>>63539202
>Josh Tillman
...
>>63539146
>all them implications
can you, like, chillax for a little bit there, Brian? look, I like Arcade Fire. as a matter of fact they are one of my favourite bands out there. I like the themes they explore on their albums, some of them are close to my heart. however, I still think Win's lyrics are anything more than very good. They're honest and open and that's great but sometimes they lack subtelty and it has nothing to with the subject of their music
inafter >rap
Earl.
mostly as he got older
Eugene s Robinson
>>63539149
those left lyrics are p bad
I assume his other works are better?
>>63539149
are you drunk
this is silly on so many levels
>>63539356
there are better lyrics on that album alone desu, never mind on any of his actually good releases
X-box is a god to me
A finger on the switch
My mother is a bitch
My father gave up ever trying to talk to me
>>63538182
Thiss
>>63539251
Wait so are you the guy who posted the cringey iron meme? Cause if so that's really sad that in one breath you call AF plebian and then in another you say their one of your favorite bands out there
Anyway I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you aren't that guy. So okay could you please point to instance were they "lack subtlety"? Preferably on Funeral because that is their most acclaimed so it's only fair you look at their best when we're talking about the quality of his lyrics. (You would hardly look at a 2010s Cohen album to judge if he was a great lyricist or not)
I always find Win's lyrics to be incredibly nuanced in the way that he tackles these core social issues, it could so easily come across as preachy and overly pretentious but I find that he manages to make you care more about the themes because he personalizes them so that they're relocatable and tangible. A bit like Kendrick Lamar done on his latest record.
>>63539478
Arcade Fire are okay and your posts are cringe-inducing
Manic StreetPreachers : the thread. Seriously OP check them out, they have some of the fi est lyrics of any rock band ever.
Also, La Dispute. That shit is fantastic.
Mikael Akerfeldt
>>63539435
Damn, who's that?
>>63539540
If you're the same guy I replied to then honestly I don't why you bother making any kind of communication to other people. You're obviously incapable of operating and thinking like the rest of so I suggest you dig a hole in the ground and stay there until you die.
Same goes for if you're not the guy I was responding to actually
Townes Van Zandt
>>63539617
You have to be 18+ to be on this website. Please leave.
>>63539644
Opeth are the Tool of metal.
>>63538862
not really. Like, Funeral is brilliant and the lyrics are top notch but ever since Neon Bible he hasn't been that great or weird.
>>63539063
>>63539146
>>63539478
>>63539690
even Radiohead fans aren't this autistic
>>63539786
I mean really you're just asking me to repeat myself but whatever. Yet again your post proves that you're incapable of just listening to a different point of view. Anytime anyone comes with an opinion that /mu/ hasn't lodged down your throat you start backing away and getting defensive. You are the essence of what's wrong with the world you filthy troglodyte.
Aaron Weiss of mewithoutYou is a brilliant lyricist
>>63539222
Is there anything other than Broken Chairs that features his poetry available? That's easily my favorite Built to Spill song
>>63539234
Nice counterargument you adult virgin cunt
>>63539063
this better be bait
jeffrey lewis
michael hurley
homeboy sandman
bonnie raitt
stephen malkmus
kimya dawson
patterson hood
james mcmurty
tom t hall
courtney barnett
nas
aesop rock
smog
dolly parton (jolene era)
(anyone who is honestly claiming jeff buckley is a great lyricist...i just dont know what to say....)
Juice Leskinen
>>63541803
I really like Courtney but I wouldn't say she's all that great... Why do you think so?
>>63534784
YES
Listen to the song "I know it's over"
>>63542075
I like her muted, unassuming, but clear and witty style. She makes me laugh, she doesn't take herself too seriously (*ahem* buckley, win butler etc.), and shes sharp in her detail. Now is she 'God-tier' (whatever the fuck that means)? I couldn't say. She's done a lot for me lately though (all these artists have). Im not a fan of obscurantism, I like plain speech over muddy metaphor, and barnett and most of my list are straight, poetic lyricists. I realize aesop and malkmus are the exception to the rule, but i like em anyway.
>>63542075
ive recently been digger barnett's kim's caravan. so many images I can see clear as day. The seal gasping on the beach, the bust of jesus frowning down at her as she tries to sleep, the dredgers upending the great barrier reef. eco-horror is not easy to write a tune about, but she does it. evocative stuff
>>63542272
*digging
Greatest lyricists of each decade coming through:
>60s
Dylan
Morrison
Davies
>70s
Young
Drake
Cohen
>80s
Burgess
Morrissey
Springsteen
>90s
Mangum
Yorke
Nas
>00s
Butler
Stevens
Elverum
>10s
Newsom
Lamar
Gira
Eyedea was one of the best lyricist to enter the rap game.
>>63542229
>>63542272
I'm definitely with you on Kim's Caravan. Her style is undeniably good, but something makes me hesitant about calling her goat.
Ben Gibbard is hands down my favorite.
>>63542085
that was written by the smiths you retard
>>63542487
yeah i think GOAT is a generally stupid category, and usually leads to the same 2 dozen names (dylan being a near constant). I realize that is what the OP was asking, but I gave my favorites.
Jason Byron
>>63542554
Didn't JB also write hallelujah? and lilac wine? and if you see her say hello? and just like a woman? hes original material is STUNNING
>>63540034
seconded
