|  | | 
05-19-2006, 05:26 PM
|  | Looking like a born-again. Living like a heretic. Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: California | | | Albums with the most interesting lyrics?
Sign in to disble this ad
These are the ones I can think of:
Marillion, Misplaced Childhood and Clutching at Straws
Rush, Hemispheres
Dylan, The Times, They're-a Changin'
The Smiths, The Queen is Dead
__________________
Para baixo todo santo ajuda.
|
05-19-2006, 09:05 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Edinboro, PA | | | Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity
Opeth - Damnation (pretty much any Opeth)
uhm, this is hard, I normally don't pay much attention to lyrics.
__________________
Mediocre Bassist Club Member #4
|
05-20-2006, 07:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: nyc | | Are we talking interesting = weird? Pink Floyd Piper at the Gates of Dawn and the two solo Syd Barrett albums... definitely Captain Beefheart, and I'd have to say anything by Ruins because they sing in a completely fabricated alien language.
Or are we talking interesting = complex/effective/amazing?
I've always liked Neil Young's lyrics because they are unique and simple, On the Beach and Tonight's the Night being some of his best.
Relatively, bluesman J.B. Lenoir's album Vietnam Blues has some downright amazing lyrics, especially for the blues.
Though, my favorite lyric cycles are Elliot Smith's first album, the Kinks' Arthur, and Minutemen's Double Nickles on the Dime... all for different reasons 
__________________
"when football season ends, anti-social drinking season kicks into high gear."
-big daddy drew
|
05-20-2006, 08:00 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Brussels | | | Pink Floyd/ Animals
strange orwellian influenced view of the human kind, but very well done.
also i always liked Tom Petty's lyrics, especially on the Wallflower album. Simplicity at its best |
05-20-2006, 08:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: St. Louis // St. Charles, MO | | | Just about anything that Elvis Costello put out.
With lines like,
Oh, I said "I'm so happy, I could die."
She said "Drop dead," then left with another guy.
--Angels Wanna Wear My Red Shoes
what else can you say?
__________________
On Groove Duty
|
05-20-2006, 08:07 AM
| | Registered User
Wouldn't you like to know?! | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Atlanta | | Just about all of DMB's cd's.
"I was there when the bear ate his head, and thought it was a candy."? 
Pink Floyd's "The Wall" has some interesting lyrics as well.
The Clones of Dr. Funkestein, Motor Booty Affair and Mothership Connection - Parliament. Hell, who am I kidding?! All of their albums had interesting lyrics!
__________________
There's a reason why women love us bass players.The tone is like Barry White's voice, and the strings are thick like Ron Jeremy's...well, you get the point.
Last edited by Woodchuck : 05-22-2006 at 07:52 PM.
|
05-20-2006, 12:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: florence , mississippi | | | The Zombies' Odessey and Oracle has some really good lyrics , especially compared to their flower power contemporarys.
As far as politics go , The Clash's self titled debut is the best.
__________________
RIP Darrent Williams
|
05-21-2006, 12:06 PM
|  | Louisiana Superdome. S 127. R 22. S 12-13. Moderator | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Mobile, Al | | | The lyrics of Abdel Wright's self-titled album are really interesting me right now.
__________________ Quote: |
Originally Posted by Mark Wilson i need food or something. Or sex. But, that doesn't come in a can. So..I'm getting food. | Quote:
Originally Posted by john turner  using a mac running vista is sorta creepy though. sorta like dating a tranny. i feel like hugh grant. | |
05-21-2006, 12:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Nova Scotia | | Primus' The Brown Album, hell, most any primus album :P
"Shes so fine, shes so sweet.
Mom and pop they raised her on huge slabs of meat.
Shes fine, a man of nine, water derby day."
---Shake Hands With Beef
"Im restin bones from amphetamines, see they turned teeth to balsa wood."
---Restin' Bones
"Catch me in the right light, youll see my shapes shaped to please.
And if I shank my trousers down, Im hung just above the knees." lol this is just funny
---Puddin Taine |
05-21-2006, 01:36 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Indiana | | | I like alot of Peter Tosh's lyrics, especially the song Legalize it.
My favourite of all has to be claypool though.
Sathington Willoughby:
We are gathered here
Today in these majestic
halls of old to honor
a man they call
Sathington Willoughby.
There's a joke or two,
A pun or three
I feel that must be
told then I go on to
speak of Sathington Willoughby.
Sathington Willoughby
the legislator that
penned us up a bill
that banned the use
of certain things like this and that. |
05-21-2006, 02:12 PM
| | | | manics
All Manic Street Preachers albums.
Especially the legendary "The Holy Bible."
Not just the lyrics are interesting, but it's like a miracle that they were able to write songs with those lyrics that still sound amazing. |
05-21-2006, 03:40 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Neil peart constantly amazes me with his skill at crafting lyrics, but he hit a high on Hold Your Fire. That album is brilliant in every sense. |
05-21-2006, 03:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Jamaica, Queens, NY. By JFK. | | | Anything by The Mars Volta.
__________________
Bass, Drums and Cycling = My Loves
soundcloud.com/celltheoremnoise
|
05-21-2006, 03:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Waterloo, Canada | | | +1 |
05-21-2006, 03:48 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: Waterloo, Canada | | | Sorry...+1 re: Hold Your Fire (Rush). Very underrated, especially lyrically. |
05-21-2006, 04:15 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2005 Location: New Jersey | | | Rush-Hemispheres
Janes Addiction-Ritual de lo habitual |
05-21-2006, 05:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Missoula, MT | | | Peter Gabriel - Up and So
Rush - Power Windows
__________________
"Mathematicians make propositions and demand that everyone agree with them. That's because mathematicians are bigots." -Justin Shaddock
|
05-21-2006, 08:17 PM
| | | | I'm surprised at how many people have said Hemispheres. When I say the thread title, I immediatley thought of that one. 2112 also comes to mind, if only for the title track.
I'll also add two albums by the Matthew Good Band; Beautiful Midnight and Underdogs. I highly reccomend these albums. Matt Good is also an amazing singer, for the record.
Graeme |
05-21-2006, 09:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Cincinnati OH | | | Dylan - Blonde On Blonde
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
Randy Newman - take your pick
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Kinks - Village Green Preservation Society
+1 on Beefheart & Barrett. |
05-22-2006, 08:56 AM
| | | | Almost forgot:
Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
Graeme | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |
