Using nouns in songs

[fat_fleet]

Amazing technique. Always makes a song more interesting.
I wonder if it's what made the Beatles so famous-

I Wanna Hold Your Hand
I am the Walrus
Let It Be
Tomorrow Never Knows
Glass Onion
The Fool on the Hill
Blackbird
I Want You (She's so Heavy)

Nouns everywhere!....and I'm just cracking the surface!

 

[miroslav]

Wait until you tap into the verbs and adjectives.......

I Wanna Hold Your Hand
I am the Walrus
Let It Be
Tomorrow Never Knows
Glass Onion
The Fool on the Hill
Blackbird
I Want You (She's so Heavy)

 

[miroslav]

"in the deep dark void of my mind, I chase the light that surrounds my soul"

Interesting choice.....

 

[Greg_L]

I wonder if it's what made the Beatles so famous-

No, their looking like the original Bieber made them famous.

 

[fat_fleet]

"in the deep dark void of my mind, I chase the light that surrounds my soul"

Subtle, elegant noun usage there...

 

[fat_fleet]

Wait until you tap into the verbs and adjectives.......

A lot could be said about their use of the word 'the' too..

 

[fat_fleet]

it's subtle and people accept it, cause it sounds poetic, but it means absolutely nothing! Tells a listener nothing, other than, wow he really seems to be thinking lol

mind and soul are abstract ideas. Brain and heart say the same thing but can be seen

The is considered a throwout, like and, but,

its bad writing to use alot of them cause they are waste of words. Writing a song, or at least a pop song is like having to write an essay
in 50 words. Thats the whole trick saying as much as possible with as few of words as possible. Thats why a picture says a thousand words,
you say "Her tears hit the ground like rain from the sky" other people might use a whole verse to say that much

Don't you go straight-facing my jokes.

 

[miroslav]

Don't you go straight-facing my jokes.

 

[fat_fleet]

"Her tears hit the ground like rain from the sky"

And it's "hit the ground like rain." period, not "rain from the sky". Have you ever seen rain come from anywhere else?

 

[Greg_L]

And it's "hit the ground like rain." period, not "rain from the sky". Have you ever seen rain come from anywhere else?

Owned.

 

[fat_fleet]

Should I have said her tears hit the ground like rain from the grass?

I was thinking "like sweat from my crotch"...

 

[Greg_L]

Re-owned

No, you're still owned. You try too hard. Relax man.

 

[fat_fleet]

Cant say Im surprised

It was in the air, I think people call that kind of thing a zeitgeist.

 

[rayc]

If rain is collected in a rain barrel is it any less rain?
If I pour the contents of a rain barrel onto the ground, what then?
If I remove THE I get Who, The, Stones, etc.
If THE is pronounced properly in its common usage as th e it will leave it's emphatic usage THEE available for songwriters to economically use it.
Can there be light in a void?
If Y, can said light be chased within a void & if so by what means of propulsion?
In much of pop & rock redundant phrases that "sound" good are the communion bread to melody's sip of wine.
Now to euphemisms...
What message was actually being transmitted when a Beatle sang "I wanna hold your hand."
Do we suppose that the then young man had a dire need to wrap his digits about those of a corresponding or younger aged potential partner?
Do we extrapolate a degree of fetishism hitherto unknown in popular song?
Does the phrase have cryptographical cache in certain subcultural realms of the sub 25 Liverpudlian?
Next week - steak knives and their place in particle physics within the confines of a 3 min pop tune..

 

[grimtraveller]

I wrote some songs with no nouns. They were instrumentals.

 

[grimtraveller]

What message was actually being transmitted when a Beatle sang "I wanna hold your hand."

Something that, had they said what they really meant in 1963, would've got them arrested.

 

[grimtraveller]

Amazing technique. Always makes a song more interesting.

> nouns !