Is this possible? Yes it is! Just listen to any Live album. Ed's lyrics make no sense and are just retarded. They are well sung they just don't make sense.

StickMartin

United Kingdom

December 2003

JAN 11, 2004 07:03 PM

yellow ledbetter- come on honestly does anybody know what the fuck he is talking about

Steve Miller wrote some great melodies and wrote some great music especially before he hit it big in the 70s, but he's always been a very very weak lyricist.

a couple of offenses:

"It takes a little bit of lovin/it takes a little bit of huggin"--"Children of the Future"

the rhyme of "taxes" and "facts is" in "Take the Money and Run"

KMFCM

Peekskill, NY

September 2002

JAN 11, 2004 07:23 PM

um, let's see
80% of the new Bleeding Through record
Chimaira's last album
everything Slipknot has ever done
. . .and ya know, that song "nerdy" by Poison the Well would kick ass with different lyrics

Cheech

Portland, OR

January 2003

JAN 11, 2004 07:24 PM

"Hash Pipe" by Weezer? I don't mind the subject matter, it's just that the lyrics are kinda artless, don't scan and are worded in a tacky way.

stockula

Anchorage, AK

May 2003

JAN 11, 2004 08:45 PM

Everything by Beck. None of his lyrics mean anything. They just sound good in an offbeat way. "My hormones are very tempting......."

Keith

Oklahoma City, OK

August 2002

JAN 11, 2004 08:49 PM

A lot of U2 songs, especially the early ones... scream "I AM TRYING TOO HARD/I AM EXCEEDING MY CAPABILITIES/AS A WRITER/AS A WRITER"

Pumpkins... tons of songs, but the one that springs to mind immediately is "..despite all my rage/I am still just a rat in a cage.." The saddest part about it is you just know some 15 year old suburban kid is listening to it right now and saying "He really feels my pain, man."

clara

MODERATOR

Baltimore, MD

JAN 11, 2004 08:53 PM

Lots and lots of Dictators' songs. I really like them, but sometimes their lyrics are just terrible.

What's up with that?
Wo-oh-oh, what's up with that?

Dante0

Sandusky, OH

September 2003

JAN 11, 2004 09:00 PM

stockula said:
Everything by Beck. None of his lyrics mean anything. They just sound good in an offbeat way. "My hormones are very tempting......."

I was going to say Beck. I don't care much for him in general, but there are some cool songs.

Scopitone

Irvine, CA

OLD SKOOL

JAN 11, 2004 09:00 PM

stockula said:
Everything by Beck. None of his lyrics mean anything. They just sound good in an offbeat way. "My hormones are very tempting......."

They make PERFECT sense if you own a Becktionary.

RagleGumm

Canada

September 2003

JAN 11, 2004 09:22 PM

Keith said:
A lot of U2 songs, especially the early ones... scream "I AM TRYING TOO HARD/I AM EXCEEDING MY CAPABILITIES/AS A WRITER/AS A WRITER"

Pumpkins... tons of songs, but the one that springs to mind immediately is "..despite all my rage/I am still just a rat in a cage.." The saddest part about it is you just know some 15 year old suburban kid is listening to it right now and saying "He really feels my pain, man."

"Bang bang you're dead/hole in your head." (x4, each time louder)

LL_Bean_J

Portland, ME

May 2003

JAN 12, 2004 09:54 AM

In the case of Beck, Dylan or more obscure lyricists like Peter Brown (Cream), remember some artists intentionally try to confound you with free-associative lyrics. Others just are bad, bad writers.

MisterJesus

United Kingdom

November 2002

JAN 12, 2004 10:02 AM

Everything by Chilli Peppers too.

ClicheGuevara

Toronto, ON

September 2003

JAN 12, 2004 10:05 AM

kijima13991 said:
80% of the new Bleeding Through record
Chimaira's last album
everything Slipknot has ever done

Yes, yes, yes.

kijima13991 said:. . .and ya know, that song "nerdy" by Poison the Well would kick ass with different lyrics

NO!

all the bad lyricists that I've thought up.. have already been mentioned. Cept maybe the guy from Glassjaw... he doesn't make much sense to me most of the time

Hammersmith

Boston, MA

December 2003

JAN 12, 2004 10:14 AM

EVERYTHING BY THE TRANSPLANTS!!!

adjunct

Philadelphia, PA

July 2002

JAN 12, 2004 11:04 AM

WithoutTheFezOn said:
In the case of Beck, Dylan or more obscure lyricists like Peter Brown (Cream), remember some artists intentionally try to confound you with free-associative lyrics.

See, Dylan was just banking on being able to coast in the 80's. He knew the well was going to run dry at some point, so he migh as well make it seem like he was just mining the same vein as Tarantula and Bringing it All Back Home.

JohnnyThSaint

Durango, CO

November 2003

JAN 12, 2004 11:41 AM

The Misfits anyone?? And I mean the real Misfits back when Glenn was still in the band, cause anything they've done since reforming doesn't qualify as "GOOD". Here's an example....Return of the fly, return of the fly, with Vincent Price, Yeah, return of the fly, Helen Delambre, Helen Delambre, Francois, Francois, Return of the fly, You ginea pig, human hands and feet, yeah you guinea pig.....and so on. Or how about this tidbit from We Are 138: Do you think we're robot clean, does this face look almost mean, is it time to be an android not a man, the pleasantries are gone, we're stripped of all we were, in the eyes of tiger. I mean, these songs sound great, they're all classics, but these lyrics are pretty pitiful. OK, I'll leave you with one more, but you'll hafta figure out for yourself which song this verse comes from....You don't know who I'm talking to, Why? Because, No one ever did, I feel it coming down my head.....

PunkMonkey

United Kingdom

December 2003

JAN 12, 2004 01:53 PM

Debaser by the Pixies. Fuck it most of The Pixies. Genius though. In a kind of Book of Revelations kind of way.

RagleGumm

Canada

September 2003

JAN 12, 2004 10:42 PM

punkmonkey_101 said:
Debaser by the Pixies. Fuck it most of The Pixies. Genius though. In a kind of Book of Revelations kind of way.

Lyrics for Debaser are good - they're talking about how much they like "Chien d'Andalou". And what's wrong with that?

ebin

Mexico

March 2003

JAN 12, 2004 10:48 PM

tireironsaint said:
The Misfits anyone?? And I mean the real Misfits back when Glenn was still in the band, cause anything they've done since reforming doesn't qualify as "GOOD". Here's an example....Return of the fly, return of the fly, with Vincent Price, Yeah, return of the fly, Helen Delambre, Helen Delambre, Francois, Francois, Return of the fly, You ginea pig, human hands and feet, yeah you guinea pig.....and so on. Or how about this tidbit from We Are 138: Do you think we're robot clean, does this face look almost mean, is it time to be an android not a man, the pleasantries are gone, we're stripped of all we were, in the eyes of tiger. I mean, these songs sound great, they're all classics, but these lyrics are pretty pitiful. OK, I'll leave you with one more, but you'll hafta figure out for yourself which song this verse comes from....You don't know who I'm talking to, Why? Because, No one ever did, I feel it coming down my head.....

LOL!!
I hear ya....