JuSumPilgrim
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Jus to get back on topic..a couple of words about great songwriting, if I may ...............seein as how the various lists above are justabout completely predictable (,,,john lennon?? jimi hendrix?? pink floyd?? gag ....enough already...alot has happened since then...)
Here are a few lesser knowns:
A brilliant New Orleans band that writes half boring cliche hardcore/grindcore and half absolutely heart stoppingly beautiful and emotional wrenching music: Crowbar (90s).
Easily the most poetic and brilliant lyrics of our time: Only Living Witness of post boston hardcore fame. Jonah Jenkins, the lead singer is the William Blake of our time.
You dont find songwriters who are brilliant lyricists too often, certainly nothing so poetically, philosphically reflective as this:
"Some will never know"
We all alone held on to hands now sallowed
Read in, align, with arms all out
to open eyes.
You consider me oh so reactionary, but see, all I know is we began below.
The nature of the being is naught to follow, noone to lead.
How humane this He became?
He incite, and He deny, but He all pain from whence it came
We alight, borne aloft. Pariah aflame.
I put that time behind,
He come and He defy.
I put that time behind, what a lie.
Gosh, 15 lines and not one "baby" not one " I love you, I dont love you, I will always love you" etc
or
"Deed's Pride"
No pride in what I didnt create
No pride in what I didnt make happen
Notions posed of them and those
but not what pain came to man for
Moments pass mine eyes
in a light construed as righteous
I question, is it a true fight?
Consequence was telling more back then,
with that destiny that never manifested.
All this backwards thought's stil left,
but "be just and fear not"
I have kept
Also Schubert's "wintereisse" song cycle is easily among the most brilliant of all time.
Also Circle of Dust/celldweller, great songwriting (most of it), absolutely incredible mixing, endlessly detailed and structured layers of electronica with beautifully timed syncopated stops and starts.
I have a bunch more hugely creative lesser knowns but Ill leave it at that.
Here are a few lesser knowns:
A brilliant New Orleans band that writes half boring cliche hardcore/grindcore and half absolutely heart stoppingly beautiful and emotional wrenching music: Crowbar (90s).
Easily the most poetic and brilliant lyrics of our time: Only Living Witness of post boston hardcore fame. Jonah Jenkins, the lead singer is the William Blake of our time.
You dont find songwriters who are brilliant lyricists too often, certainly nothing so poetically, philosphically reflective as this:
"Some will never know"
We all alone held on to hands now sallowed
Read in, align, with arms all out
to open eyes.
You consider me oh so reactionary, but see, all I know is we began below.
The nature of the being is naught to follow, noone to lead.
How humane this He became?
He incite, and He deny, but He all pain from whence it came
We alight, borne aloft. Pariah aflame.
I put that time behind,
He come and He defy.
I put that time behind, what a lie.
Gosh, 15 lines and not one "baby" not one " I love you, I dont love you, I will always love you" etc
or
"Deed's Pride"
No pride in what I didnt create
No pride in what I didnt make happen
Notions posed of them and those
but not what pain came to man for
Moments pass mine eyes
in a light construed as righteous
I question, is it a true fight?
Consequence was telling more back then,
with that destiny that never manifested.
All this backwards thought's stil left,
but "be just and fear not"
I have kept
Also Schubert's "wintereisse" song cycle is easily among the most brilliant of all time.
Also Circle of Dust/celldweller, great songwriting (most of it), absolutely incredible mixing, endlessly detailed and structured layers of electronica with beautifully timed syncopated stops and starts.
I have a bunch more hugely creative lesser knowns but Ill leave it at that.