otherstar Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 So the story goes on and the song ends on the IV so it doesn't feel over, always thought that was a cool touch. Also, here is the link to the annotated Dead lyrics, very interesting site that covers all the bases, lots of cool info here and lots more of Robert Hunters poetry. http://arts.ucsc.edu/Gdead/AGDL/ That's also out in a hardcover book. The book and the website are really cool. Hunter has so many cool "one liners" like: "nothing left to do, but smile, smile, smile," "just a little fractured from the fall," "if I knew the way, I would take you home," and "if you get confused, listen to the music play." The other lyricist, John Perry Barlow, was good, but not as good as Hunter, IMHO. Turn me over, I'm done on this side... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bsd1965 Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 Another one for Ray Davies here....and Lennon I also like just about everything I've heard from Nick Lowe. (solo stuff) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zuben Posted December 11, 2007 Share Posted December 11, 2007 No one mentioned James Taylor? And that reminds me, pull Tapastry out of your cd collection and play it. Carole King has few peers. Maybe this list is for Guitar based Rock and Roll but have you ever watched JT play? He is one of the most under rated finger pickers there is. Peace http://www.spotcheckbilly.com http://www.littlefeat.net http://www.bonnieraitt.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Ferrington III. Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 No one mentioned James Taylor? Ok, erm... what about James Taylor? I've never really "got" him. Can you give me some examples of lyric stuff that's good? Band MySpace My snazzy t-shirt empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trucks Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 The lyrics on The Beatles: Sgt Peppers are awesome! (and I am no Beatles fan) I often wonder if it is actually possible to write like that NOT on LSD. Great stuff Soundclick Myspace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Ferrington III. Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Some of the songs were pretty good and didn't have a trace of acid about them. "She's Leaving Home", for example (funny how, as I age, I start to see the parents' point of view). "Fixing a Hole", "With A Little Help From My Friends". "When I'm 64"... Even "Lovely Rita" and "Good Morning" are pretty straight songs, lyrically. Band MySpace My snazzy t-shirt empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Ferrington III. Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Ok, perhaps "With A Little Bit Of Help" is a tad weird. All that "I can't tell you but I know it's mine" stuff. Perhaps "She's Leaving Home" is, lyrically, the most accomplished song on the album in that it has two different points of view without being judgemental or very much on one side or the other. Band MySpace My snazzy t-shirt empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trucks Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Fixing a hole, straight? No way! That song is warped! I love it :-) Soundclick Myspace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Ferrington III. Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Erm... what's warped about it? Oh... hold on, I was thinking of "Getting Better". Yup... right you are! Band MySpace My snazzy t-shirt empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig from Texas Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Al Stewart - "Roads to Moscow" is a great hisorically based story song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bytored Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 ZAPPA PEART, PLANT,DYLAN,LENNON, in no particular order.........Another one of these unanswerable threads What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it gives forth a sound It's got wires that vibrate, and give music What can this thing be that I found? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zuben Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 No one mentioned James Taylor? Ok, erm... what about James Taylor? I've never really "got" him. Can you give me some examples of lyric stuff that's good? Kramer, Never got into James Taylor? Man, he was a staple in the 8 track for hot dates. (Bread and later Marvin Gaye worked too) As a player, very few bands or guitarists would perform his songs live unless they were out of the "Easy Book". I remember sitting about 3 feet from the TV one night in 70-71 when PBS rebroadcast a BBC show of JT solo. I got a glimpse of what he was doing with his guitar that his recordings confused for multiple instruments. He was a great and seamless finger picker. Funny you mentioned "With a Little Help From My Friends". JT use to start his shows when he was touring his 1st 2 albums with that song. Very nice version. Abet, Carol King wrote one of his biggest hits, You Got A Friend, his lyrics were as good as or better the rock ballads of the day. I always thought this song was a great piece of writing. Something in the ay She Moves Something in the way she moves, or looks my way, or calls my name that seems to leave this troubled world behind. And if I'm feeling down and blue or troubled by some foolish game, she always seems to make me change my mind.. And I feel fine anytime she's around me now, she's around me now almost about all the time. And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now. She's been with me now quite a long, long time and I feel fine. Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning and I find myself careening in places where I should not let me go. She has the power to go where no one else can find me and to silently remind me of the happiness and the good times that I know, and then I just got to go then. It isn't what she's got to say but how she thinks and where she's been. To me, the words are nice, the way they sound. I like to hear them best that way, it doesn't much matter what they mean. she says them mostly just to calm me down And I feel fine anytime she's around me now, she's around me now almost about all the time. And if I'm well you can tell she's been with me now. She's been with me now quite a long, long time and I feel fine. Sappy? Maybe but I have been in that mood a few times and I couldn't even pretend to come close to writing something like that. "Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning and I find myself careening in places where I should not let me go." That verse alone is a work of art. I've been there. Peace OK - Fire away, I'm pretty bullet proof! LOL http://www.spotcheckbilly.com http://www.littlefeat.net http://www.bonnieraitt.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdrs Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 Pete Townshend. He's the the best I've heard. I always encourage people to read Who lyric. Nobody ever thinks of lyric when they think of The Who. One should NOT overlook Pete's lyrics. Don "There once was a note, Pure and Easy. Playing so free, like a breath rippling by." http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=574296 http://www.myspace.com/imdrs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Ferrington III. Posted December 12, 2007 Share Posted December 12, 2007 I always thought this song was a great piece of writing. Something in the ay She Moves Something in the way she moves, or looks my way, or calls my name that seems to leave this troubled world behind... Don't know the song, but it reads quite well. Sappy? Maybe but I have been in that mood a few times and I couldn't even pretend to come close to writing something like that. "Every now and then the things I lean on lose their meaning and I find myself careening in places where I should not let me go." That verse alone is a work of art. I've been there. Peace OK - Fire away, I'm pretty bullet proof! LOL No, I agree. Sometimes people deride things as being sappy, simply because they guard themselves too closely. And hey, somebody's got to write that stuff. It's like that Dylan song (the one in Rattle and Hum) where he complains They ask me to reveal All the things they would conceal... Band MySpace My snazzy t-shirt empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kramer Ferrington III. Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Ok, I've just remembered him, but IMO he's up there with the best of the very best. IAN ANDERSON! Band MySpace My snazzy t-shirt empire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bottomgottem Posted December 13, 2007 Share Posted December 13, 2007 Steve Earle, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen,... to name a few. My whole trick is to keep the tune well out in front. If I play Tchaikovsky, I play his melodies and skip his spiritual struggle. ~Liberace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dead mike Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Bob Pollard #1 Lou Reed DC Berman Steve Malkamus The drive by truckers Robbie Robertson and the band Springstien Srummer/Jones Neil young Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gismo Recording Posted December 14, 2007 Share Posted December 14, 2007 Hi. I'm not much of a guitarist, mostly a keyboardist and recording engineer, but I decided to read the guitar forum and came across this thread. I can't believe in three pages of replies no one has mentioned Paul Simon Ken Denny Gismo Recording So Cliché Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soggybomb Posted December 15, 2007 Author Share Posted December 15, 2007 Coheed and Cambria is a very cool modern prog rock band that I believe has single-handedly saved my generation from complete rock deafness.I've been hearing a lot about them. Dream Theater is my favorite band, and I saw, in an interview with Mike Portnoy, he said that he thinks they really have something going, and they could open for Dream Theater. My favorite Dream Theater lyrics are from "In the Name of God" from Train of Thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbqbob Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Bob Dylan Richard Thompson John Lennon (With help from Sir Paul) Robert Hunter John Prine Tom Waits Ian Anderson JOhn Fogarty Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A String Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Ok, I've just remembered him, but IMO he's up there with the best of the very best. IAN ANDERSON! Great one! He's often overlooked, but is certainly one of my favourite lyricists. Craig Stringnetwork on Facebook String Network Forum My Music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splitting hare Posted December 15, 2007 Share Posted December 15, 2007 Hi. I'm not much of a guitarist, mostly a keyboardist and recording engineer, but I decided to read the guitar forum and came across this thread. I can't believe in three pages of replies no one has mentioned Paul Simon I can't believe we overlooked Paul. Yes, he is definitely one of the great ones, as is everyone else mentioned. Lennon/McCartney, Waters, Peart are among my favorites as well. For humor sake, I still think Eric Idle was genius with the following: Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, A sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way". Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick, But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide. We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point. We go 'round every two hundred million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe. The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth. Reverbnation stuff More Reverbnation stuff I feel happy! I feel happy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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