I'm a HUGE, HUGE music lover. I used to solely listen to alt. rock and indie music. But I've recently been getting into rap and folk and I liiiiike it. Within the last year, my music library has expanded from about 50 artists and 400 songs, to over 300 artists and 3,000 songs. From this expansion, I've decided that I hate songs that have horrible lyrics.
I believe that whole point of a song is to capture the attention of an audience. Lyrics, I feel, can do that all on their own. Sure, a song can have a great beat and instrumentation. But crappy lyrics ruin it for me.
I'm so into lyrics that I'm made fun of for it. A general conversation goes much like this:
Me: "Man, this is so good. The lyrics are off the charts! So much meaning behind it. The story it tells is unmatched." ( I don't say EXACTLY that, but it's something equally snobby and "deep".)
Other Person: "Wow. That's lame. Do you always talk like this?"
Me: "But seriously, the LYRICSSSS!"
Other Person: " Well... I'll just leave you to your musically induced hysterics now."
My lyric obsession also leads to extensive research behind the true meaning of a song. I spend endless amount of time looking up interviews and checking out websites that could possibly lead me to finding out what the lyrics REALLY mean. I generally have my own ideas, but when the band/singer explains it, I feel even MORE connected to the music.
Here are some recommendations for bands that I find are "Lyrically Inclined": (Artist first, album second)
Falling Up: "Fangs!", "Your Sparkling Death Cometh"
Lydia: "Illuminate"
Edison Glass: "Time Is Fiction"
Sleep for Sleepers: "The Clearing"
Deas Vail: "Deas Vail", "All The Houses Look The Same", "White Lights EP", "Under Our Skin EP", "Birds and Cages"
Fair: "The Best Worst-Case Scenario", "Disappearing World"
House of Heroes: "Suburba", "Cold Hard Want"
Switchfoot: "Vice Verses"
No comments:
Post a Comment