F**K The Beatles & The Rolling Stones
I like Bob Dylan more.
He’s the best storytelling musician around. He’s made great music throughout the decades. There’s something familiar & introspective to his tunes.
And goddamn if “Like A Rolling Stone” ain’t the best damn song around.
And with every wild, weird, and wacky band I get into, I can always fall back to a solid Dylan session.
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Bunghniscimma furlnigh. G’slorrdif vinna duw dun. Meest perr? Agga!
I never really got heavily into Dylan. I don’t care about words very much and his music doesn’t do much for me.
Justin said:Bunghniscimma furlnigh. G’slorrdif vinna duw dun. Meest perr? Agga!
Hahahaha. I just listen to him SO much and never get tired.
I like Dylan songs as covered by other people, but his music itself does nothing for me (although I will agree that Like A Rolling Stone is a pretty thick jam). I’m a lyrics guy and I think he’s overrated on that front as well. Although I fully endorse and give my utmost backing to the “Fuck the Beatles” heading of this thread. I dig the Rolling Stones though, but they’re not my favorite classic rock band. But at least they are a rock band.
John said:I don’t care about words very much…
this is where your loyalty to music falters a bit and surprises me. lyrics are half the effort, sometimes beautiful and amazing. dark, scary, haunting, etc. i understand music itself can achieve that as well, but lyrics, LYRICS!!
i would make you a mix of some of the best songs i’ve heard, lyrically but i fear they’d be lost on you (kind of). hell, go listen to Nick Cave’s Murder Ballads. or anything by Leonard Cohen. maybe i’ll make you a mix anyway.
another thing – you like that “Can’t Find the Doorknob” song and that is pretty much ALL about the lyrics. just an observation.
he says he doesn’t pay attention to words, but he’s totally lying. he does, just not all the time.
bill truly doesn’t pay attention to words, unless they’re funny, and i find it completely exasperating
mandy said:another thing – you like that “Can’t Find the Doorknob� song and that is pretty much ALL about the lyrics. just an observation.
Untrue! I don’t know any of the words except for the title. I just love the song.
I don’t mean to imply that lyrics aren’t important. They can elevate a good song to greatness. But lyrics do not the song make. I can love a song with no lyrics or shitty lyrics. But a shitty song with good lyrics? No thanks.
I think the perfect example of this is Black by Okkervil river. It’s a great song with some great and it wraps up into one amazingly awesome package. But that song would still be pretty damn great without the lyrics. Or with shitty lyrics. If Trent Reznor wrote the lyrics for that song and every word rhymed with “pain” I’d still love that song. If you had him sing christian rock bullshit lyrics over it, I’d still love that song.
But if you took those words and put them over POD or some Nickleback bullshit, no thanks. It’d be an awful song and the words would become more awful because of it.
John said:But lyrics do not the song make.
i wholeheartedly disagree with this. lyrics are of huge importance to me in the kinds of songs i enjoy. i may not notice them first-off, but i do eventually and they end up being a big deciding factor on whether or not they’ll end up being a favourite. if a song with good music has shitty lyrics or even a shitty singer of said-lyrics, that kills it for me. instrumentals, of course, are another story.
we seem to be total opposites on this matter.
John said:I think the perfect example of this is Black by Okkervil river. It’s a great song with some great and it wraps up into one amazingly awesome package. But that song would still be pretty damn great without the lyrics.
According to this post you actually get pretty pumped over the lyrics of that song.
When that line comes in, you’re “wrecked”.
Of course the catchiness just “helps”.
Without the catchiness, I never would have listened to those words in the first place.
He’s no Schooly D.