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Floydian42
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Posted: January 13 2008 at 10:40 |
I'm not sure if this goes here, since it's technically crossover prog, but "Here comes the Flood" is simply outstanding! Particularly emotional in the growing up DVD.
And although I'm not a fan of tool, I have to say Lateralus was great! That song is fantastic.
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Easy Livin
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Posted: January 13 2008 at 10:46 |
Please only quote example extracts of lyrics. They are covered by copyright in the same way as the music is.
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fuxi
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Posted: January 13 2008 at 11:54 |
Codis wrote:
What about Gerald Bostock's masterpiece "Thick As A Brick"? Or "A Passion Play"?
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fuxi
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Posted: January 13 2008 at 11:54 |
Codis wrote:
What about Gerald Bostock's masterpiece "Thick As A Brick"? Or "A Passion Play"?
| I love A PASSION PLAY, but I get irritated by its lyrics. "She lay her head upon my disbelief" - oh, come ON!
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TGM: Orb
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Posted: January 13 2008 at 14:33 |
I think Waters' lyrics for Echoes (as with most of his lyrics) remain the best. Poetic, enigmatic, intelligent, beautiful, perfectly fit the music.
Cloudless every day you fall upon my waking eyes Inviting and inciting me to rise |
The Fountain of Lamneth (even more so than Xanadu) is also one of my favourites. I think it's a rare instance where a fairly repetitive song is carried by superb lyrics rather than the other way round. To be perfectly honest, I think Jon Anderson's lyrics are overrated, though they're fairly good for most of The Yes Album, Fragile and CTTE. I agree wholeheartedly with the earlier suggestions of Sinfield. I also like some of Steve Wilson's (of Porcupine Tree) lyrics, especially Waiting Phase One.
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Thomicas
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Posted: January 13 2008 at 14:40 |
The lyrics for Roger Water's Amused To Death album beats everything I've heard so far. What he wrote on "Animals" is also among my favourite lyrics.
Collapes The Light Into Earth by Porcupine Tree is also among my favourites.
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I tried to catch my eye, but I looked the other way
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asimplemistake
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Posted: January 13 2008 at 14:59 |
Ian Anderson and Steve Wilson get my votes for best lyricists. PT's softer songs (especially on In Absentia ie. Trains, Collapse The Light Into Earth, Heartattack in a Layby) are just beautifully crafted, and the same goes a lot of JT's lyrics. Opeth and Pink Floyd also deserve mentioning.
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Abstrakt
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Posted: January 13 2008 at 15:32 |
Pink Floyd - Dogs, Echoes, Time...
VDGG - Man Erg
The best ones i can think of at the moment
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Abstrakt
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Posted: January 13 2008 at 15:33 |
oh, and alot of Opeth ones.
And Frank Zappa's lyrics are always fun to listen to.
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Kim Ankara
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Posted: January 13 2008 at 17:08 |
Individual songs: "Sleepless" and "Neurotica" by King Crimson, "Time" by Pink Floyd. Reading Waters' words without the music, you realise how poetic and well-written they actually are. "Starless", also, so much detail and emotion in so little amount of words.
Albums: "In the Court of the Crimson King", "Misplaced Childhood". Both are full of amazingly-written phrases, it surprised me just how good a lyricist Fish was.
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"I'm a dinosaur" - Adrian Belew "I am a camera" - Trevor Horn "I am yourself" - Keith Emerson
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Nowhere Man
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Posted: January 13 2008 at 19:10 |
I've memorized all of the lyrics to A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers and The Sleepwalkers, but just about anything Peter Hammill writes is incredible.
At one time, I had all of the lyrics to the entire ITCOTCK album memorized. Not so much now. Moonchild throws me off because it doesn't rhyme, and each line sounds like it could go anywhere in the song.
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BaldJean
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Posted: March 22 2008 at 04:03 |
here an exclusive preview to the lyrics of one of the songs from the upcoming album of the Bald Angels; they will
show you what a strong lyricist Friede is. to me at least these lyrics
totally evoke the scenery. the translation is included in the lyric
sheet which comes with the album. (note the interesting rhyming pattern of the song: A-B-A-A-A-B)
Die Priesterin der Gäa The Priestess of Gaia
Sie stand bei einem heil'gen Born She stood by a holy spring
In wallenden Gewändern In seething robes.
Ihr Haupt war völlig kahlgeschor'n, Her head was completely shorn
Sie hielt ein großes Muschelhorn, She held a big conch horn,
Sie blies darauf der Erde Zorn On which she blew the wrath of earth
Und konnte doch nichts ändern. But couldn't change anything.
Sie blies ein Lied von Untergang She blew a song of ruin Und schleichender Zerstörung. And creeping destruction. Sie blies es viele Stunden lang, She blew it for many hours, Jedoch des Muschelhornes Klang, But the sound of the conch horn, In dem urzeit'geTrauer schwang, In which ancient sorrow rang, Fand keinerlei Erhörung. Was not heeded at all.
Sie hatte lange nicht
geglaubt Long time she had not believed
An dieser Welt Verderben. In the perdition of the world.
Dann ward der Wald des Laubs beraubt, Then the wood was robbed of its foliage,
So kahl beinahe wie ihr Haupt, Almost as bald as her head,
Und was die Bäume so entlaubt, And what had defoliated the trees
Das war das Wäldersterben. Was the decease of the forests.
Es dämmerte der Abend schon, Evening was already dawning,
Die Nacht, sie rückte näher. Night was approaching.
Verklungen war des Hornes Ton, The horn's sound had faded away,
Verweht im Wind sein leeres Droh'n. Its hollow threat blown with the wind.
Da hatte sie eine Vision Then she had a vision
Der Göttermutter Gäa. Of Gaia, the Mother Goddess.
Die Göttermutter Gäa sprach: The Mother Goddess spake:
"Ach, dass ich so geschändet! "Alas, how I have been defiled!
Womit verdien' ich diese Schmach, With what do I deserve this ignominy,
Womit dies große Ungemach? With what this huge adversity?
Fast liegt die ganze Erde brach! Almost all of Earth lies barren!
Wer weiß, wo das noch endet? Who knows where this will end?
Vielleicht in hundert Jahren schon, Maybe in but a hundred years,
Vielleicht sogar noch eher, Maybe even sooner,
Erhält die Menschheit ihren Lohn, Mankind will receive its reward,
Ganz ohne Absolution". Without any absolution".
Damit verblasste die Vision Thus faded the vision
Der Priesterin der Gäa. Of the Priestess of Gaia.
Sie sehnte nach den Hügeln sich She longed for the hills
Des Sonnenlandes Aea. Of the sunland Aea.
Dann, als das Tageslicht entwich Then, as daylight eluded
Und in den heil'gen Hain sich schlich And into the holy grove
Die Nacht, da weinte
bitterlich Crept night, there wept bitterly
Die Priesterin der Gäa. The Priestess of Gaia.
(Lyrics and translation by Friederike Greifswald-Tolleson)
this song is based on a dream we surprisingly both had. that we had shared a dream made such an impression on us that we founded the religion of which we are High Priestesses. it is the only song which features double lead vocals; I wrote 2 independent voices for it. usually I just sing some harmony vocals
Edited by BaldJean - March 22 2008 at 15:54
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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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