Bands with great lyrics

[MiniThug]

What bands do you find truly have great lyrics? In my opinion, Staind and Incubus sing awesome songs. Many are almost poetic. What others?

 

[spanky]

i can't understand most bands today.

 

[yllus]

New Kids On The Block.

"Oh oh oh oh oh..."

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

Pink Floyd. There's a couple of Dave Matthews songs that I felt were rather good, most are average or better.

 

[ThePresence]

I'm blue,
da ba dee da ba dai
da ba dee da ba dai
da ba dee da ba dai
da ba dee da ba dai


Seriously, Billy Joel has great lyrics.

 

[HellRaiserandBeerDrinker]

There has been virtually no great lyrics for like
TWENTY YEARS
:disgust:

 

[SWirth86]

Originally posted by: MiniThug
What bands do you find truly have great lyrics? In my opinion, Staind and Incubus sing awesome songs. Many are almost poetic. What others?

Incubus does have great lyrics. I dont really like Staind, they seem way too gloomy/depressed. Another band w/ great lyrics is System of a Down. Except for Chop Suey, which i have no idea what any of the lyrics are talking about.

 

[yellowperil]

Simon & Garfunkel

REM and Radiohead also have great lyrics

 

[kuk]

From the 'new' generation: Dave Matthews Band, The Wallflowers, a bit of Counting Crows ...
From the 'old' guys: Pink Floyd, Simon and Garfunkel, some Clapton ...

It really depends on your taste ...

 

[FrogDog]

The Matthew Good Band.

 

[SpongeBob]

Alice In Chains
Bad Religion
Beck
The Flaming Lips
Modest Mouse
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
Pavement
Pearl Jam
The Pixies
Rage Against the Machine
Sublime
The Who
Tool
U2
Weezer

That's all I can think of right now

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: HellRaiserandBeerDrinker
There has been virtually no great lyrics for like
TWENTY YEARS
:disgust:

Uhhhhhh what?!


1) the Matthew Good Band
2) David Gray
3) Tool
4) Radiohead
5) Dream Theatre
6) Our Lady Peace

 

[Chaotic42]

James Taylor
Bob Dylan

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

5) Dream Theatre

Petrucci's gonna kick your ass for that little mistake.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

Monstermagnet

 

[alee25]

dashboard confessional

 

[Burnt]

Pedro the Lion

 

[LiLRiceBoi]

Originally posted by: alee25
dashboard confessional

Emo is too whiney for my taste

 

[Supermercado]

I've always thought Metallica wrote good lyrics. Songs like Fade to Black and Nothing Else Matters stick out in my mind as great songwriting.

 

[DanFungus]

Toy Box

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Originally posted by: SuperCommando
I've always thought Metallica wrote good lyrics. Songs like Fade to Black and Nothing Else Matters stick out in my mind as great songwriting.

Same here. Pink Floyd gets my vote though.

 

[Pepsi90919]

matthew good (band)
tool
alice in chains
radiohead
rage against the machine

 

[Platypus]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation

5) Dream Theatre

Petrucci's gonna kick your ass for that little mistake.

? The word is Theatre
They spell it funny

 

[polypterus]

Bad Religion
Bad Religion
Bad Religion
Bad Religion
Bad Religion

 

[StattlichPassat]

Can't really think of any offhand- my kind of music doesn't have much lyrics anyway.