OT Rant: Music / fans / Pop music

[Qi dup]

Uh yeah I relate to lyrics.

If you like children of bodom check out soilwork.

[Former castleva]

Two things rocking my world in this thread:
1:Ironfist arguing on what is good music.
2:Ironfist along with a few others referring to a Finnish band.

As in defense of instrumental,thanks to Ironfist and Mr.Binx (spelling?) I came up with this site.
http://remix.overclocked.org/

[TKD]

Okay, to start with. I HATE rap and hip hop.

Moving on now, I think your wrong about lyrics Iron Fist. Think about this, when someone is walking down the street listening to their favorite cd on their favorite portable cd player, what do you hear 90% of the time? You hear them repeating the lyrics.

If you took a song, say, Disturbed's song: Devour. And you took out the music, the lyrics alone wouldn't be very good. Take the same song and remove the lyrics and the music alone wouldn't be very good either. However, put them together and you have an awesome listening experience.

On another end of the spectrum though, you have rap and hip hop. Do the same process as was done to Disturbed's Devour and you still come away with crap. Even after you put them together. Why? Because the lyrics are meaningless words thrown together with little attention to whether or not they even rhyme. Also the "music" is not music, it's bass hits thrown together with synthetic NOISES.

In closing I think that it is the conglomeration of music and lyrics that really makes a song.

[Chang Style Novice]

Sure thing, GH! Minutemen, Gang of Four, Clash...

old skool punk rox rules!

Minutemen:

POLITICAL SONG FOR MICHAEL JACKSON TO SING

list monitors arrive with(out) petition
iron fisted philosophy
is your life worth a painting
is this girl versus boy with different symbols
being born is power
scout leader/nazi tagged as big sin
"your risk chains me hostage me
me i'm fighting with my head
am not ambiguous"
i must have looked like a ****
me naked with text book poems
spout fountain against the nazis
with a weird kind of sex symbol
for sex in speeches that are big dance thumps
if we heard mortar shells
we'd cuss more in our songs
and cut down on the guitar solos
so dig this big crux:
organize the boy scouts for murder is wrong
ten years behind the big sweat point
man, it was still there
ever without you
coming back around
look
the coming together for just a second
a peek
a guess
at the wholeness that's way too big
at the wholeness that's way too big!

Gang of Four:

I FOUND THAT ESSENCE RARE

Aim for the body rare, you'll see it on TV
The worst thing in 1954 was the Bikini
See the girl on the TV dressed in a Bikini
She doesn't think so but she's dressed for the H-Bomb
(For the H-Bomb)

I found that essence rare, it's what I looked for
I knew I'd get what I asked for

Aim for the country fair you read it in the papers
The worst happens any week a scandal on the front page
See the happy pair smiling close like they are monkeys
They wouldn't think so but they're holding themselves down
(Hold themselves down)

I found that essence rare, it's what I looked for
I knew I'd get what I asked for

I found that essence rare, it's what I looked for
I knew I'd get what I asked for

Aim for politicians fair who'll treat your vote hope well
The last thing they'll ever do act in your interest
Look at the world through your polaroid glasses
Things'll look a whole lot better for the working classes
(Working classes)

I found that essence rare, it's what I looked for
I knew I'd get what I asked for

I found that essence rare, it's what I looked for
I knew I'd get what I asked for

Clash:

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

The offered me the office, offered me the
shop
They said I'd better take anything they'd got
Do you wanna make tea at the BBC?
Do you wanna be, do you really wanna be a cop?

Career opportunities are the ones that never knock
Every job they offer you is to keep you out the dock
Career opportunity, the ones that never knock

I hate the army an' I hate the R.A.F.
I don't wanna go fighting in the tropical heat
I hate the civil service rules
And I won't open letter bombs for you

Bus driver....ambulance man....ticket inspector

They're gonna have to introduce conscription
They're gonna have to take away my prescription
If they wanna get me making toys
If they wanna get me, well, I got no choice

Careers
Careers
Careers

Ain't never gonna knock

[Former castleva]

R.E.M-Losing my religion.

Life is bigger
It's bigger than you
And you are not me
The lengths that I will go to
The distance in your eyes
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up

That's me in the corner
That's me in the spotlight
Losing my religion
Trying to keep up with you
And I don't know if I can do it
Oh no I've said too much
I haven't said enough
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

Every whisper
Of every waking hour I'm
Choosing my confessions
Trying to keep an eye on you
Like a hurt lost and blinded fool
Oh no I've said too much
I set it up

Consider this
The hint of the century
Consider this
The slip that brought me
To my knees failed
What if all these fantasies
Come flailing around
Now I've said too much
I thought that I heard you laughing
I thought that I heard you sing
I think I thought I saw you try

But that was just a dream
That was just a dream

[rogue]

RAMONES LYRICS

"Somebody Put Something In My Drink"

Somebody
Somebody Put Something In My Drink
Somebody

Another night out on the street
Stopping for my usual seat
Oh, bartender, please

(Dacqari) tonic's my favorite drink
I don't like anything colored pink
That just stinks...it's not for me

It feels like somebody put something
Somebody put something in my drink
Somebody put something
Somebody put something

Blurred vision and dirty thoughts
Feel (out of place), very distraught
Feel something coming on

Kick the jukebox, slam the floor
Drink, drink, drink, drink some more
I can't think
Hey! What's in this drink?

It feels like somebody put something
Somebody put something in my drink
Somebody put something
Somebody put something in my drink
Somebody put something
Somebody put something in my drink
Somebody put something...in my drink...in my drink...in my drink...in my drink

So you think it's funny
A college prank
Goin' insane for something to drink
Feel a little dry

Oh, I couldn't care what you think of me
Cause somebody put something in my drink
I can't think
Hey! Give me a drink

It feels like somebody put something
Somebody put something in my drink

Somebody put something
Somebody put something in my drink


"Everytime I Eat Vegatables It Makes Me Think Of You"

She was a really good friend
A really good friend to me, yeah
She was a really good friend
A really good friend to me, yeah

But they took her away
Tossed her in the bin
Now she's hanging out
In East Berlin, ow-ooo

She had a very bad affair
With some cat from Hiroshima
She turned into a head of lettuce
She eats Thorazine in her farina
But they took her away
Tossed her in the bin
Now she's hanging out
In East Berlin, ow-ooo

And everytime I eat vegetables
It makes me think of you
And everytime I eat vegetables
I don't know what to do, to do ow-ooo

[Kinjit]

Well, different kinds of music speaks to you in different ways. They all have their place and purpose.
Music is more of a primal energy to me than something intellectual, generally speaking. blah.

[IronFist]

Originally posted by Former castleva
Two things rocking my world in this thread:
1:Ironfist arguing on what is good music.
2:Ironfist along with a few others referring to a Finnish band.

As in defense of instrumental,thanks to Ironfist and Mr.Binx (spelling?) I came up with this site.
http://remix.overclocked.org/

Which Finnish band did I refer to? Children of Bodom? I didn't know they were from Finland.

Stratovarius is from Finland, though. They rule. They're the first progressive metal band I ever heard. I got their album "Episode" in highschool and I was like hell yeah they rule!

I love the European metal scene.

As for the rest of you, can we please not take up so much space by posting entire song's lyrics? It's always different reading them by themselves versus actually hearing the song.

IronFist

[IronFist]

Originally posted by Former castleva
As in defense of instrumental,thanks to Ironfist and Mr.Binx (spelling?) I came up with this site.
http://remix.overclocked.org/

Whoa, this site is rad. I just checked it out. Thanks for the link!

IronFist

[Former castleva]

"Which Finnish band did I refer to? Children of Bodom? I didn't know they were from Finland."

Well they are.It seems that when it comes to Finland influencing a lot of ppl with music outside our lines,it has to do with metal bands.
I have had a few of those records when I used to like this kind of stuff.
Just to let you know out of irrationality,the name has to do with an old,minor mass murder tragedy that a famous Finnish doctor is possibly about to solve by now (it was 1960´s) Living and learning.



"Stratovarius is from Finland, though. They rule. They're the first progressive metal band I ever heard. I got their album "Episode" in highschool and I was like hell yeah they rule!"
Used to have many records.

"Whoa, this site is rad. I just checked it out. Thanks for the link!"
That site is the "****e" as they say.
Take some time searching it to not miss anything.
Thanks to you too btw for pointing out other site(s) that did lead to this finding.

[Chang Style Novice]

It's always different reading them (the lyrics) by themselves versus actually hearing the song.

All too true. That's why, as an example, NIN's "Hurt" sucks hairy sweaty etc. whereas Johnny Cash's "Hurt" is an emotional masterpiece.

As for the rest of you, can we please not take up so much space by posting entire song's lyrics?

Hey, GH asked for examples!

[quiet man]

Originally posted by Chang Style Novice
All too true. That's why, as an example, NIN's "Hurt" sucks hairy sweaty etc. whereas Johnny Cash's "Hurt" is an emotional masterpiece.

Personally, I could listen to Johnny Cash singing the weather forecast and I'd still consider it an emotional masterpiece.