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| From | Sam Smith <sam@estreet.com> |
| Subject | Re: let's do a turnaround on this topic.... hopelessly inane lyric |
| Date | Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:58:01 -0600 |
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Michael Myers wrote:
> sooooo... on the other hand, who do you think is among the best and brightest lyricists?
>
> Surely Andy Partridge is right up there (if you can excuse Melt the Guns lol).... his wit and wisdom are best on display on almost any album from Drums and Wires forward....
>
Good question. Inane is easier, though. For so long we've been told that
rock lyrics are "poetry," when in fact they're very different forms and
there aren't more than a couple lyricists I'd bestow that title on.
Great lyrics are just about as hard, in their own way, though, and there
are a few people I really respect. One is Mark Knopfler, and I first
noted his ability to convey depth on that first record. "In the Gallery"
comes to mind. Another great one (hardly Power Pop, though) is Fish,
once of Marillion. He's helped along by the sometimes stretched out,
languid structures of prog songs, which let him do things with words
that are tough to pull off in a tighter form.
There's Bono, of course. Michael Stipe may be brilliant, although it's
hard to know for certain....
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