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over a year ago
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"For me, 10cc were about top of the pile, they were quite diverse in their heyday  "
Bros you just cant fault "I Owe you Nothing"  joking aside if we can have solo artists it would have to be Prince for me |
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By *ce Winger OP Man
over a year ago
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"For me, 10cc were about top of the pile, they were quite diverse in their heyday
Bros you just cant fault "I Owe you Nothing" joking aside if we can have solo artists it would have to be Prince for me "
Yeah, he wrote some pretty damned fine and moving stuff too, and also wrote for loads of other artists  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Linkin Park or Muse for me
Good choices .... But is have to add Radio Head too (well their early stuff) "
Oh yes! Another favourite of mine. Love Pablo Honey and Ok Computer... Great albums |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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....all the early material from marilion-scrip from a jesters tear,missplaced childhood-pure musical poetry.the later stuff after fish left wasnt the same class. |
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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago
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A few from my "era" (as Ms G often teminds me!!). Weller's lyrics in The Jam days were second to none. Much as they're written off by some as a band with no substance Madness are also very lyrically clever once you look beyond the wacky videos and catchy singles. Lord Upminster himself Mr Ian Dury was also much underrated. Paul Heaton/Housemartins/Beautiful South always had a good lyric, ditto Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout.
Mr G |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Some rap artists are lyrically brilliant
..
One Nation under God
Has turned into
One Nation under the influence
Of one drug
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
T. V., it satellite links
Our United States of unconciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
The methadone metronome pumping out
A 150 channels 24 hours a day
You can flip through all of them
And still there's nothing worth watching
T. V. Is the reason why less than ten percent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central America
Means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican
And Apartheid is a new headache remedy
Absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our minds the most
Maybe the mother of our Nation
Should remind us
That we're sitting to close to. ..
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
T. V. Is
The stomping ground for political candidates
Where bears in the woods
Are chased by Grecian Formula'd
Bald eagles
T. V. Is mechanized politic's
Remote control over the masses
Co-sponsered by environmentally safe gases
Watch for the pbs special
It's the perpetuation of the two party system
Where image takes precedence over wisdom
Where sound bite politics are served to
The fastfood culture
Where straight teeth in your mouth
Are more important than the words
That come out of it
Race baiting is the way to get selected
Willie Horton or
Will he not get elected on. ..
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
T. V. Is it the reflector or the director?
Does it imitate us or do we imitate it
Because a child watches 1500 murders before he's
Twelve years old and we wonder how we've created
A Jason generation that learns to laugh
Rather than abhor the horror
T. V. Is the place where
Armchair generals and quarterbacks can
Experience first hand
The excitement of video warfare
As the theme song is sung in the background
Sugar sweet sitcoms
That leave us with a bad actor taste while
Pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars
You saw the video
You heard the soundtrack
Well now go buy the soft drink
Well, the only cola that I support
Would be a union C. O. L. A. (Cost of Living Allowance)
On Television.
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
Back again, "New and Improved",
We return to our irregularly programmed schedule
Hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
Beer and car commericals
Cnn espn abc tnt but mostly B. S.
Where oxymoronic language like
"virtually spotless" "fresh frozen"
"light yet filling" and "military intelligence"
Have become standard
T. V. Is the place where phrases are redefined
Like "recession" to "necessary downturn"
"crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"
"Civilian death" to "collateral damages"
And being killed by your own Army
Is now called "friendly fire"
T. V. Is the place where the pursuit
Of happiness has become the pursuit of trivia
Where toothpaste and cars have become s** objects
Where imagination is sucked out of children
By a cathode ray nipple
T. V. Is the only wet nurse
That would create a cripple
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
On Television. ..
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Some rap artists are lyrically brilliant
..
One Nation under God
Has turned into
One Nation under the influence
Of one drug
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
T. V., it satellite links
Our United States of unconciousness
Apathetic therapeutic and extremely addictive
The methadone metronome pumping out
A 150 channels 24 hours a day
You can flip through all of them
And still there's nothing worth watching
T. V. Is the reason why less than ten percent of our
Nation reads books daily
Why most people think Central America
Means Kansas
Socialism means unamerican
And Apartheid is a new headache remedy
Absorbed in it's world it's so hard to find us
It shapes our minds the most
Maybe the mother of our Nation
Should remind us
That we're sitting to close to. ..
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
T. V. Is
The stomping ground for political candidates
Where bears in the woods
Are chased by Grecian Formula'd
Bald eagles
T. V. Is mechanized politic's
Remote control over the masses
Co-sponsered by environmentally safe gases
Watch for the pbs special
It's the perpetuation of the two party system
Where image takes precedence over wisdom
Where sound bite politics are served to
The fastfood culture
Where straight teeth in your mouth
Are more important than the words
That come out of it
Race baiting is the way to get selected
Willie Horton or
Will he not get elected on. ..
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
T. V. Is it the reflector or the director?
Does it imitate us or do we imitate it
Because a child watches 1500 murders before he's
Twelve years old and we wonder how we've created
A Jason generation that learns to laugh
Rather than abhor the horror
T. V. Is the place where
Armchair generals and quarterbacks can
Experience first hand
The excitement of video warfare
As the theme song is sung in the background
Sugar sweet sitcoms
That leave us with a bad actor taste while
Pop stars metamorphosize into soda pop stars
You saw the video
You heard the soundtrack
Well now go buy the soft drink
Well, the only cola that I support
Would be a union C. O. L. A. (Cost of Living Allowance)
On Television.
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
Back again, "New and Improved",
We return to our irregularly programmed schedule
Hidden cleverly between heavy breasted
Beer and car commericals
Cnn espn abc tnt but mostly B. S.
Where oxymoronic language like
"virtually spotless" "fresh frozen"
"light yet filling" and "military intelligence"
Have become standard
T. V. Is the place where phrases are redefined
Like "recession" to "necessary downturn"
"crude oil" on a beach to "mousse"
"Civilian death" to "collateral damages"
And being killed by your own Army
Is now called "friendly fire"
T. V. Is the place where the pursuit
Of happiness has become the pursuit of trivia
Where toothpaste and cars have become s** objects
Where imagination is sucked out of children
By a cathode ray nipple
T. V. Is the only wet nurse
That would create a cripple
Television, the drug of the Nation
Breeding ignorance and feeding radiation
On Television. ..
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Agreed. Loved the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. Weirdly difficult to find that track on YouTube or other sources.
Michael Franti has really gone downhill though. Some of his latest generic acoustic love songs are awful. |
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By *ce Winger OP Man
over a year ago
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"BEST opening to ANY album EVER!!!
Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1tj2zJ2Wvg"
Off Fuck rearrange 
Back In Black - AC/DC 
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAgnJDJN4VA |
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Tom Waits. Nobody even comes close in my humble opinion. He wrote this amazing song when he was just 23! 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDcco9rGOlE
and this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DXXHT8v52I
If these songs don't move you, then I suggest you search for your soul. |
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"Tom Waits. Nobody even comes close in my humble opinion. He wrote this amazing song when he was just 23!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDcco9rGOlE
and this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DXXHT8v52I
If these songs don't move you, then I suggest you search for your soul."
OMG!!!
Genius!
"...and a solitary sailor spends the facts of his life like small change on strangers..."
Tom Waits - The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5poYkQnOr0 |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Tom Waits. Nobody even comes close in my humble opinion. He wrote this amazing song when he was just 23!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDcco9rGOlE
and this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DXXHT8v52I
If these songs don't move you, then I suggest you search for your soul."
Abso-fuckin-lutely
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Genesis .... when peter Gabriel was the front man ...
Fleetwood mac .... peter green days ..... and present ... though stevie nicks has gone quite strange now .... but she can still twirl them scarves .... lol |
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"Tom Waits. Nobody even comes close in my humble opinion. He wrote this amazing song when he was just 23!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDcco9rGOlE
and this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DXXHT8v52I
If these songs don't move you, then I suggest you search for your soul.
OMG!!!
Genius!
"...and a solitary sailor spends the facts of his life like small change on strangers..."
Tom Waits - The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5poYkQnOr0"
PMG Indeed. They'll play this one at my funeral - just before the party starts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1MNGbhlxcw |
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By *ce Winger OP Man
over a year ago
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"Genesis .... when peter Gabriel was the front man ...
Fleetwood mac .... peter green days ..... and present ... though stevie nicks has gone quite strange now .... but she can still twirl them scarves .... lol "
Ha ha, check this one out
www.youtube.com/watch?v=umjYHLt56kg |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Bright Eyes, just because
Bright Eyes - Land Locked Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me85PztkYP0"
Basically the whole of the Lifted album too, so many people are missing out on some of the greatest 21st poetry around |
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"Tom Waits. Nobody even comes close in my humble opinion. He wrote this amazing song when he was just 23!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDcco9rGOlE
and this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DXXHT8v52I
If these songs don't move you, then I suggest you search for your soul.
OMG!!!
Genius!
"...and a solitary sailor spends the facts of his life like small change on strangers..."
Tom Waits - The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5poYkQnOr0
PMG Indeed. They'll play this one at my funeral - just before the party starts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1MNGbhlxcw"
That's fitting but I want this at my funeral, not because I think it's fitting but because I love it
Talking Heads - Nothing But Flowers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=068AFYvd58E |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Bright Eyes, just because
Bright Eyes - Land Locked Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Me85PztkYP0
Basically the whole of the Lifted album too, so many people are missing out on some of the greatest 21st poetry around"
I'm wide awake, it's morning is one of my favourite albums, it's haunting, it's beautiful. Such a good song writer. |
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"Tom Waits. Nobody even comes close in my humble opinion. He wrote this amazing song when he was just 23!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDcco9rGOlE
and this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DXXHT8v52I
If these songs don't move you, then I suggest you search for your soul.
OMG!!!
Genius!
"...and a solitary sailor spends the facts of his life like small change on strangers..."
Tom Waits - The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5poYkQnOr0
PMG Indeed. They'll play this one at my funeral - just before the party starts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1MNGbhlxcw
That's fitting but I want this at my funeral, not because I think it's fitting but because I love it
Talking Heads - Nothing But Flowers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=068AFYvd58E"
YAY. They'd be calypso-ing round your coffin mate! No offence ha ha |
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By (user no longer on site)
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I'm wide awake, it's morning is one of my favourite albums, it's haunting, it's beautiful. Such a good song writer. "
Agreed. Shame The Peoples Key wasn't the best note to bow out on |
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By (user no longer on site)
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Maximo parks 1st album, a certain trigger is in my opinion lyrically amazing.
I know it's not quite morrissy or any other of the great song writers mentioned in this thread but I fucking love them !
Also such a unique sounding band.
Check out 'going missing'
My favourite track from them |
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"Royal blood do some very clever lyrics
Black crowes.
Beth Hart. "
Love the Black Crowes. She Talks to Angels is an amazing song. I love Chris Robinson's voice.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6w2NSELe0A |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Akala
Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart Again, if you know the Ian Curtis story they are prophetic and moving lyrics, great tune as well "
Akala as in the british rapper..
Not so sure about joy division (not my musical bag at all) and not sure who ian curtis is sorry..
Showing my ignorance there. |
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By *GHertsCouple
over a year ago
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"Akala
Joy Division, Love Will Tear Us Apart Again, if you know the Ian Curtis story they are prophetic and moving lyrics, great tune as well
Akala as in the british rapper..
Not so sure about joy division (not my musical bag at all) and not sure who ian curtis is sorry..
Showing my ignorance there."
Ian Curtis was the lead singer/lyricist with Joy Division who tragically committed suicide leaving the others to become New Order.
Mr G |
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By *ce Winger OP Man
over a year ago
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"Led Zeppelin.
To this day I'm not sure what a "bustle in your hedgerow/spring clean for the May queen" truly means. "
Try sussing out Bohemian Rhapsody then, even Freddie admitted he hadn't got a frigging clue what the fuck it was about  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"The Divine Comedy, or Neil Hammond..genius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3NVPOedkEk
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...and The Duckworth Lewis Method. Crickety genius.
Also, the best album title puns go to Ministry:
The Dark Side of the Spoon
A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vmPwZT-9zY
Regina Spektor - Human of the Year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVHV2nL5JZ0