so they do matter.
no they don't.
so they do matter.
kcearl is a gullible suckass tweener.
Same here. I'm not even wearing pants right now.
NPZ! Whenever I went on high school jazz band trips, my motel room buddies and I would declare our room an NPZ (No Pants Zone) by shouting "NPZ! NPZ!!" loudly and repeatedly at anyone who entered (whilst wearing only boxers, of course). Girls rarely came to our room....of course, there WERE only TWO girls in our band. And THIRTY guys. So really, pants or no pants, girls-in-our-room was a statistical improbability.
in most rock music, the lyrics ARE pretty unimportant. It's the delivery....the rhythm, the groove, the feel.
However, if I'm listening to folk music....Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, what have you....then YES, I AM listening to the lyrics and YES they DO matter.
yes. But i don't listen to folk music 'cause it sucks.
Lyrics don't matter - at all. Vocal performance, melody, and cadence does. The actual words mean exactly jack shit. How they're belted out matters a bunch.
I agree with you for the most part. But, just for the sake of argument.....and I'm bored.....I'll say that they matter a little more than "not at all". Lyrics don't have to be good, or have a message, BUT they can't be bad to the point that you "notice" how bad they are. I think that's the only responsibility a song-writer has...to not be noticeably bad.
I don't think "My Generation" would be the classic it is today if the lyrics were.....Oh, I don't know...."Sunshine Makes Me feel So Happy", and the whole song was exactly the same except that the lyrics were about how nice he feels when it's sunny outside
So, basically, just don't totally suck. If I don't notice to the lyrics to a song first time I hear it, that's a good thing. If I notice the lyrics, it's probably because there are some really lame rhymes or really awkward phrases that got my attention.
Looked at from a certain point of view, there's alot to be said for that. If you took a vocalist singing a song, whether reggae, rock, folk or buja-buja, pretty much regardless of the genre, the vocal performance, the melody and the cadence are more important than the lyric. Especially if you factor in that the language of the lyric may be unknown to the listener or that you may not understand what the singer is actually saying some or much of the time, interspersed with the bits that you do understand. Also, sometimes, even with what you may consider to be a great and wonderful lyric, you just want to hear an overall sound/song without having to actually do any work listening to and thinking about what is being said.Lyrics don't matter - at all. Vocal performance, melody, and cadence does. The actual words mean exactly jack shit. How they're belted out matters a bunch.
tl/dr, but I'm sure it's awesome.
I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly
I'd fly above the trees
Over the seas in all degrees
To anywhere I please
Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah
Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah
Let's go and see the stars
The Milky Way or even Mars
Where they could just be ours
Let's fade into the sun
Let your spirit fly
For we are one
Just for a little fun
Oh, oh, oh yeah !
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah
I got to get away
Girl I got to get away
Oh oh oh yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you yeah yeah
Oh Yeah !
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you yeah yeah
I got to get away
I want to get away (4x)
Yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you yeah yeah
Girl I got to get away
I want to get away (4x)
Yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Thinking that what you have to say is important or that people actually care about it is not pompous. It's human.I keep my lyrics light-hearted and silly because I'm not pompous enough to think that anyone really cares about anything I'd have to say - if I actually had something to say.
And there's the rub. "My generation" was a landmark song in British rock, not just because of the madcap octopus drumming, the vocalist's stutter and the bass solo, but because for possibly the first time, a lyricist in England actually identified and articulated, in song, in the language of the street ("put us down", "get around", "die before I get old", "why don't you all fade away", "dig what we all say") a sizeable group of people and their thoughts, feelings and sentiments. In terms of the sound, the Nashville Teens' "Tobacco Road" and the Kinks' "You really got me" were pretty much just as incendiary. But it was what Townshend was saying that got really contributed towards 'the powers that be' getting worried, plus of course what came forth in interviews. And that's when people started looking at songs released here, like the Byrds "Eight miles high", scouring them for all kinds of messages - some of which wasn't there !I agree with you for the most part. But, just for the sake of argument.....and I'm bored.....I'll say that they matter a little more than "not at all". Lyrics don't have to be good, or have a message, BUT they can't be bad to the point that you "notice" how bad they are. I think that's the only responsibility a song-writer has...to not be noticeably bad.
I don't think "My Generation" would be the classic it is today if the lyrics were.....Oh, I don't know...."Sunshine Makes Me feel So Happy", and the whole song was exactly the same except that the lyrics were about how nice he feels when it's sunny outside