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02-22-2008, 05:52 PM
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I'm sitting here listening to Sirius/Buzzsaw and Wango Tango comes on, pure genius !!! Ted Nugent is the most inspiring lyricist I have ever heard.  Especially the middle breakdown. What do you suppose he's talking about when he keeps referring to a "garage"
Discuss..........
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02-22-2008, 05:53 PM
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Nugent isn't even on my list. |
02-22-2008, 06:02 PM
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Originally Posted by buzzbass  I'm sitting here listening to Sirius/Buzzsaw and Wango Tango comes on, pure genius !!! Ted Nugent is the most inspiring lyricist I have ever heard. Especially the middle breakdown. What do you suppose he's talking about when he keeps referring to a "garage"
Discuss.......... | I couldn't even begin to speculate. Still trying to decipher the nuanced majesty that is "Cat Scratch Fever."
Anyway, this is a stupid question. Everyone knows the greatest American poet is, without a doubt, Vanilla Ice.
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02-22-2008, 08:42 PM
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02-22-2008, 08:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NET | | | Walt Whitman ftw. Or, come to think of it, Don Van Vliet. Even Vachel Lindsay beats out Vanilla Ice and the Nuge.
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02-22-2008, 10:22 PM
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Originally Posted by cdef Walt Whitman ftw. Or, come to think of it, Don Van Vliet. Even Vachel Lindsay beats out Vanilla Ice and the Nuge. | A fan of the Captain! |
02-22-2008, 11:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Bob Lee (QSC) A fan of the Captain! | You bet. Do you know the one that goes: Hey Garland, I dig your tweed coat.
I'll trade you a domino this size, mothball-scented.
The woman silk nude tie painting his chest.
One celluloid stay exposed through his nibbled collar.
Feet speckled the sidewalk. Faces gurgled through windows.
Passing cars gum rubber streaks.
Neon plants swim like green seaweed to a deep rhythm of blues.
Red thyroid sunsets flame in speckled chemistry.
Pipes run off dark tubes, erase into marks that pour the dye of darkness.
Crystal comes together as silent as ink.
"I don't think I could let it go. I got it at the religious scene" [etc.]
(That's fair use, I hope. You can read the whole of it here).
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02-22-2008, 11:14 PM
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02-22-2008, 11:47 PM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | This is about the third Captain Beefheart reference in the last week. Awesome.
Not really my kind of music, but maybe I need to go back and listen to some more Motor City Madman, because I've never really had a high opinion of his lyrics.
I thought this was going to be a thread about American poets. Because there have been some great ones. I was reading some Ezra Pound just a couple days ago. |
02-23-2008, 12:01 AM
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Originally Posted by buzzbass Discuss.......... | Kilgore Trout.
In his "chartreuse period."
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02-23-2008, 01:57 AM
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02-23-2008, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by v-12 i've always been a bukowski fan.... | Stole the words out of my mouth. |
02-23-2008, 04:00 PM
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02-23-2008, 04:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NET | | | Are we talking about poetry here? I'd pitch Emily Dickinson against Paul Simon anytime. But sure, as a contemporary songwriter PS is far from the worst.
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02-23-2008, 04:14 PM
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Marty DiBergi: It's pretty.
Nigel Tufnel: Yeah, I like it. I've been fooling around with it for a few months now. Very delicate.
Marty DiBergi: It's a bit of a departure from what you normally play.
Nigel Tufnel: Yeah, well, it's part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy that I'm doing in D [pause] minor, which, I always find is really the saddest of all keys, really, I don't know why; it makes people weep instantly to play (Nigel plays, and sings)
Nigel Tufnel: It's a horn part.
Marty DiBergi: It's very pretty.
Nigel Tufnel: You know, just simple lines intertwining, you know, very much like - I'm really influenced by Mozart and Bach, and it's sort of in between those, really. It's like a Mach piece, really. It's sort of...
Marty DiBergi: What do you call this?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, this piece is called "Lick My Love Pump". |
02-23-2008, 04:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NET | | | Well, I'm giving up on this thread. Poetry is one thing, cluelessness is another. Funny how things conspire in this current media climate. The dumbest expressions should be regarded as the greatest poetry, is that it? I can see the Warhol kind of point, but don't agree. Words have power.
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02-23-2008, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by cdef You bet. Do you know the one that goes: Hey Garland, I dig your tweed coat.
I'll trade you a domino this size, mothball-scented.
The woman silk nude tie painting his chest.
One celluloid stay exposed through his nibbled collar.
Feet speckled the sidewalk. Faces gurgled through windows.
Passing cars gum rubber streaks.
Neon plants swim like green seaweed to a deep rhythm of blues.
Red thyroid sunsets flame in speckled chemistry.
Pipes run off dark tubes, erase into marks that pour the dye of darkness.
Crystal comes together as silent as ink.
"I don't think I could let it go. I got it at the religious scene" [etc.]
(That's fair use, I hope. You can read the whole of it here). |
Oh hell yes. The Captain makes it happen! |
02-23-2008, 05:09 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Marathon Man | | | Pail Simon for the lyrics on the Graceland album. Stunning! Especially "You can call me Al", "Gumboots" and "The Boy in the Bubble".
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02-23-2008, 05:13 PM
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or Todd Rundgren
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02-23-2008, 05:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: NET | | | I can dig Simon. For me, his best lines ever were:
Losing love is like a window in your heart.
Everybody sees you're blown apart.
Everybody sees the wind blow.
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