09-16-2011, 05:27 AM
Haha, Pearl Jam are the band I most often take the piss out of for cliched lyrics 
Still, they're definitely not the worst in the business.
Very few songs would stand alone as poems -- but they aren't two completely different animals. I can't write song lyrics for shit -- I tell myself it's because I'm so used to writing to be read AND heard, but read first and foremost. My dearly beloved tells me it's pretty much because I'm uncool
Many songs contain incredibly poetic lyrics. Leonard Cohen always springs to mind (though he definitely has his fair share of cheese). Jim Morrison obviously THOUGHT himself a poet, but I can't see it myself, no matter how much I love The Doors. I have a book of his poems and I lost count of the number of times he used the word "cock"...
One of my favourite lyrical bands at the moment is The View, out of Dundee in Scotland... the trouble is, it takes an awfully long time to decipher what they're saying...
Still, they're definitely not the worst in the business.Very few songs would stand alone as poems -- but they aren't two completely different animals. I can't write song lyrics for shit -- I tell myself it's because I'm so used to writing to be read AND heard, but read first and foremost. My dearly beloved tells me it's pretty much because I'm uncool
Many songs contain incredibly poetic lyrics. Leonard Cohen always springs to mind (though he definitely has his fair share of cheese). Jim Morrison obviously THOUGHT himself a poet, but I can't see it myself, no matter how much I love The Doors. I have a book of his poems and I lost count of the number of times he used the word "cock"...
One of my favourite lyrical bands at the moment is The View, out of Dundee in Scotland... the trouble is, it takes an awfully long time to decipher what they're saying...
It could be worse