anyways i'd have to say Zachary Gray from Lotus Child or Ryan Ross from panic! at the disco.
Some bands i can listen to just for their lyrics
Full Version: Best Lyricist
Wow. I'm surprised this hasn't been done before.
anyways i'd have to say Zachary Gray from Lotus Child or Ryan Ross from panic! at the disco.
Some bands i can listen to just for their lyrics
anyways i'd have to say Zachary Gray from Lotus Child or Ryan Ross from panic! at the disco.
Some bands i can listen to just for their lyrics
Jim Morrison, hands down.
Philospher in music. Nobody else in music history really compares to him tbh.
Philospher in music. Nobody else in music history really compares to him tbh.
Greg Paige of The Wiggles.
I am dead serious.
Ok maybe not...
Dee Dee Ramone. I mean, who else could come up with such genius as Wart Hog?
I am dead serious.
Ok maybe not...
Dee Dee Ramone. I mean, who else could come up with such genius as Wart Hog?
sara quin.
she's fucking amazing.
aaaaand bob dylan, jesse lacey, emily haines, jeremy enigk, and jenny lewis.
she's fucking amazing.
aaaaand bob dylan, jesse lacey, emily haines, jeremy enigk, and jenny lewis.
Since older artists will be thrown all over this thread:
Jesse Lacey
Dustin Krensue
Andrew McMahon
Jesse Lacey
Dustin Krensue
Andrew McMahon
john lennon
billie joe
joe strummer
billie joe
joe strummer
Probably Trent Reznor from NIN. He can get out so much emotion in his lyrics, and can be sarcastic at the same time. Love it. 
Tim McIlrath. hands downn.
or David Debiak. he's almost as good as Tim.
or David Debiak. he's almost as good as Tim.
Tim McIlrath and Adam Lazzara
eh. for me, Gerard Way, Billie Joe & maybez Ryan Ross? yeah idk.
oooh or Tom DeLonge..
oooh or Tom DeLonge..
Robert Plant was (considering he doesn't write with Led Zep anymore) a fucking genious
Also Gerard Way and David Grohl
And of course Billie Joe
Also Gerard Way and David Grohl
And of course Billie Joe
Sting
Billie Joe and Jade Puget
bob dylan
pete townshend
cedric bixler-zavala
morrissey
springsteen
hate saying this, but pete wentz writes some pretty impressive lyrics.
pete townshend
cedric bixler-zavala
morrissey
springsteen
hate saying this, but pete wentz writes some pretty impressive lyrics.
For me, Gerard Way, Adam Lazzara, Pete Wentz & also Ryan Ross.
Frickin' Josh Homme people!
Pretty much everything he does is amazing.
Pretty much everything he does is amazing.
Oh and I fucking love Billy Joel 
Whoever writes the lyrics for the Matches.
QUOTE(Mato @ Jan 15 2008, 03:02 PM) 
Sting
ditto
billie joe is good at rhyme schemes
gerard is good at more poetic types of writing
dave grohl writes some awesome stuff that ranges from many different aspects
gerard is good at more poetic types of writing
dave grohl writes some awesome stuff that ranges from many different aspects
Matt Skiba and Dan Adriano.
Without a doubt, David Sylvian and Sting.
QUOTE(Joey @ Jan 15 2008, 04:02 PM)
Whoever writes the lyrics for the Matches.
shawn harris
i was going to put him down too. he writes such amazing stuff.
also matt bellamy.
Lennon. Mercury.
Gabe Saporta
William Beckett
John Nolan
Mayday Parade (as a whole, because they never specify who in the band primarily writes their lyrics)
Jade doesn't write the lyrics (of either AFI or Blaqk Audio). It's all Davey, minus the pre-Jade AFI material.
William Beckett
John Nolan
Mayday Parade (as a whole, because they never specify who in the band primarily writes their lyrics)
QUOTE(billiejoe1 @ Jan 15 2008, 02:29 PM)
Billie Joe and Jade Puget
Jade doesn't write the lyrics (of either AFI or Blaqk Audio). It's all Davey, minus the pre-Jade AFI material.
Billie Joe. (Of course.)
Joe Strummer.
Dave Grohl.
John Lennon.
Adam Lazzara.
Gerard Way.
Josh Homme.
M. Shadows (Matthew Sanders.)
(Of course.)Joe Strummer.
Dave Grohl.
John Lennon.
Adam Lazzara.
Gerard Way.
Josh Homme.
M. Shadows (Matthew Sanders.)
b!lly jo3z!
QUOTE(armatageshanks @ Jan 15 2008, 03:29 PM)
bob dylan
pete townshend
cedric bixler-zavala
morrissey
springsteen
hate saying this, but pete wentz writes some pretty impressive lyrics.
pete townshend
cedric bixler-zavala
morrissey
springsteen
hate saying this, but pete wentz writes some pretty impressive lyrics.
Yeah Morrissey!
and yes, Pete does write lyrics very well, as those songs are catchy as hell.
QUOTE(FilmAdaptation @ Jan 16 2008, 10:33 AM)
Yeah Morrissey!
and yes, Pete does write lyrics very well, as those songs are catchy as hell.
and yes, Pete does write lyrics very well, as those songs are catchy as hell.
That's why Fall Out Boy will be regarded as one of the all-time greats. Alongside AC/DC Led Zep, The Beatles, etc
Davey Havok.
QUOTE(Saint Walshie @ Jan 15 2008, 10:32 PM)
Matt Skiba and Dan Adriano.
ah Forgot Matt Skiba, he's a genius
QUOTE(GuitarPlayer5 @ Jan 15 2008, 03:21 PM)
billie joe is good at rhyme schemes
gerard is good at more poetic types of writing
dave grohl writes some awesome stuff that ranges from many different aspects
gerard is good at more poetic types of writing
dave grohl writes some awesome stuff that ranges from many different aspects
I'd have to agree. I'd say them as well.
QUOTE(Sanah @ Jan 16 2008, 03:46 AM)
Billie Joe. (Of course.)
Joe Strummer.
Dave Grohl.
John Lennon.
Adam Lazzara.
Gerard Way.
Josh Homme.
M. Shadows (Matthew Sanders.)
(Of course.)Joe Strummer.
Dave Grohl.
John Lennon.
Adam Lazzara.
Gerard Way.
Josh Homme.
M. Shadows (Matthew Sanders.)
same here
Brain May, Freddie or John Deacon
they're some massively impressve song writers
Other than that I'd say Andrew Lloyd Webber
they're some massively impressve song writers
Other than that I'd say Andrew Lloyd Webber
QUOTE(Freddie Mercury fan @ Jan 16 2008, 07:04 PM)
Other than that I'd say Andrew Lloyd Webber
zomg yes. he's such a good writer.
Shane MacGowan easily trumps everyone else mentioned in this thread. Danzig comes in second.
Tuomas Holopainen (Nightwish), Tim McIlrath (Rise Against), Dani Filth (Cradle of Filth), Thomas Barnett (Strike Anywhere), Claudio Sanchez (Coheed and Cambria).
Keep in mind that all I listen to is modern rock and metal, I'm sure there are great lyricists of decades ago, I just don't get into that kind of music.
And to anyone who said Billie Joe Armstrong - come fucking on. Green Day is cool but the lyrics are quite generic.
Some of them are pretty well done. Still don't like the band.
This may sound extremely conceited, but I think I am a goddamn fucking awesome lyricist. Read my thread. I write metal. I haven't written a punk song or a general rock song for a long ass time, the ones I did write I was much younger so I hate them now.
So the only thing I write is metal, but I think I do it damn well. Seriously though, check my thread and decide for yourself.
Keep in mind that all I listen to is modern rock and metal, I'm sure there are great lyricists of decades ago, I just don't get into that kind of music.
And to anyone who said Billie Joe Armstrong - come fucking on. Green Day is cool but the lyrics are quite generic.
QUOTE(armatageshanks @ Jan 15 2008, 03:29 PM)
hate saying this, but pete wentz writes some pretty impressive lyrics.
Some of them are pretty well done. Still don't like the band.
This may sound extremely conceited, but I think I am a goddamn fucking awesome lyricist. Read my thread. I write metal. I haven't written a punk song or a general rock song for a long ass time, the ones I did write I was much younger so I hate them now.
So the only thing I write is metal, but I think I do it damn well. Seriously though, check my thread and decide for yourself.
QUOTE(anarchistloserkid @ Jan 16 2008, 11:44 PM)
Tim McIlrath (Rise Against)
Win.
QUOTE(anarchistloserkid @ Jan 16 2008, 11:44 PM)
And to anyone who said Billie Joe Armstrong - come fucking on. Green Day is cool but the lyrics are quite generic.
Lose.
Billie Joe's lyrics are incredibly poetic. They're basically the reason I still listen to Green Day.
The best lyricist ever is Chris Hannah from Propagandhi though, especially when you read the way he writes them out as transcripts, they're painfully moving and terrifyingly real.
QUOTE
America’s Army™ (Die Jugend Marschiert)
Welcome to the offices of Economic and Manpower Analyses here at our historic and sprawling West Point Academy campus! My name is Mindy! It is my distinct pleasure to introduce you to a loving father of three (and a champion of the sanctioned use of armed force in pursuit of policy objectives). Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the project director of our newest recruitment strategy; our mission to staff future combat systems through current technologies. Without any further ado, I give to you Colonel Casey Wardynski!
(warm applause)
Thank you! Let me begin with some sentimental appeals to our national myths; assorted clichés coined by the state; the ideological shorthand meant to sweep your private doubts [away] of this virtual training course. This portal; this Trojan Horse that you living idiots paid for and actually rolled into your own kids’ rooms.
(stunned silence)
Oops, did I just say that out loud? Oh, well, it’s not like it’s something new. It’s just the logical extension of the decades of bilge water that you’ve let us pump into your homes. The pink noise that hums away in the background while you run the gauntlet we force on you everyday. The billowing candy floss that helps to soften the blow. Deep down you’ve always known that your children already belong to us, so why don’t you cut the outraged parent routine, shut your mouth and get back in your seat. Your children already belong to us. What are you? You will pass on. And they won’t know a fucking thing but this ‘community,’ this real life Ender’s Game. Forget what you think you know.
Welcome to the offices of Economic and Manpower Analyses here at our historic and sprawling West Point Academy campus! My name is Mindy! It is my distinct pleasure to introduce you to a loving father of three (and a champion of the sanctioned use of armed force in pursuit of policy objectives). Ladies and gentlemen, put your hands together for the project director of our newest recruitment strategy; our mission to staff future combat systems through current technologies. Without any further ado, I give to you Colonel Casey Wardynski!
(warm applause)
Thank you! Let me begin with some sentimental appeals to our national myths; assorted clichés coined by the state; the ideological shorthand meant to sweep your private doubts [away] of this virtual training course. This portal; this Trojan Horse that you living idiots paid for and actually rolled into your own kids’ rooms.
(stunned silence)
Oops, did I just say that out loud? Oh, well, it’s not like it’s something new. It’s just the logical extension of the decades of bilge water that you’ve let us pump into your homes. The pink noise that hums away in the background while you run the gauntlet we force on you everyday. The billowing candy floss that helps to soften the blow. Deep down you’ve always known that your children already belong to us, so why don’t you cut the outraged parent routine, shut your mouth and get back in your seat. Your children already belong to us. What are you? You will pass on. And they won’t know a fucking thing but this ‘community,’ this real life Ender’s Game. Forget what you think you know.
QUOTE(GregPGH @ Jan 16 2008, 05:36 PM)
Danzig comes in second.
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138
In the eyes of tiger
Do you think were robot clean
Does this face look almost mean
Is it time to be an android not a man
The pleasantries are gone
Were stripped of all we were
In the eyes of tiger
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
oh yeah, genius.
QUOTE(armatageshanks @ Jan 16 2008, 05:51 PM)
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138
In the eyes of tiger
Do you think were robot clean
Does this face look almost mean
Is it time to be an android not a man
The pleasantries are gone
Were stripped of all we were
In the eyes of tiger
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
oh yeah, genius.
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138
In the eyes of tiger
Do you think were robot clean
Does this face look almost mean
Is it time to be an android not a man
The pleasantries are gone
Were stripped of all we were
In the eyes of tiger
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
oh yeah, genius.
Haha I love that song
Dee Dee Ramone is still better
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAART WART HOG
Jim Morrison ftw.
QUOTE(armatageshanks @ Jan 16 2008, 06:51 PM)
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138
In the eyes of tiger
Do you think were robot clean
Does this face look almost mean
Is it time to be an android not a man
The pleasantries are gone
Were stripped of all we were
In the eyes of tiger
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
oh yeah, genius.
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138
In the eyes of tiger
Do you think were robot clean
Does this face look almost mean
Is it time to be an android not a man
The pleasantries are gone
Were stripped of all we were
In the eyes of tiger
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
We are 138, we are 138, we are 138
8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 8
oh yeah, genius.
We walk the streets at night
We go where eagles dare
They pick up every movement
They pick up every loser
With jaded eyes and features
You think they really care
I aint no goddamn son of a bitch
You better think about it baby
I aint no goddamn son of a bitch
You better think about it baby, babe
An omelet of disease awaits your noontime meal
Her mouth of germicide seducing all your glands
I aint no goddamn son of a bitch
You better think about it baby
I aint no goddamn son of a bitch
You better think about it baby, babe
Lets test your threshold of pain
Lets see how long you last
Thats happened in your rape
On bosoms of your past
With jaded eyes and features
You think they really care
Lets go where eagles dare
Well go where eagles dare
I aint no goddamn son of a bitch
You better think about it baby
I aint no goddamn son of a bitch
You better think about it baby
I aint no goddamn son of a bitch
You better think about it baby
I aint no goddamn son of a bitch
You better think about it baby, hey
genius is right!
QUOTE(Orange_mocha @ Jan 16 2008, 10:03 PM)
Jim Morrison ftw.
Yeah, I like him a lot
...and Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) and a brasilian guy called Renato Russo (Legião Urbana)
^ I was just about to say Roger Water.
Don't know how that one skipped over my brain.
I agree the meanings are rather generic, but Billie Joe does have a talent for wording it well. He's got great rhyme scheme.
Don't know how that one skipped over my brain.
QUOTE
And to anyone who said Billie Joe Armstrong - come fucking on. Green Day is cool but the lyrics are quite generic.
I agree the meanings are rather generic, but Billie Joe does have a talent for wording it well. He's got great rhyme scheme.
QUOTE(Orange_mocha @ Jan 17 2008, 10:03 AM)
Jim Morrison ftw.
woohoo. someone with a brain.
QUOTE(Light My Fire @ Jan 17 2008, 04:31 PM)
woohoo. someone with a brain.
Great minds think alike, Ingrid.
i also forgot Peter Spilles
fuck, that dude is god.
fuck, that dude is god.
Josh Pyke.
Sometimes I know I become
All that's weak in a man, and weak in a boy.
But I keep trying and I won't quit,
And that must be worth something more
Than a strong man who believes
That there's nothing left to try for.
Sometimes I know I become
All that's weak in a man, and weak in a boy.
But I keep trying and I won't quit,
And that must be worth something more
Than a strong man who believes
That there's nothing left to try for.
Billy Bragg
Lmao, is that even a word? 
Anyway, I have lots, but that I can think of right now: Eminem, Evanescence, Pink, Nightwish. Sixx: A.M. FTW! Nikki Sixx is a genious.
Anyway, I have lots, but that I can think of right now: Eminem, Evanescence, Pink, Nightwish. Sixx: A.M. FTW! Nikki Sixx is a genious.
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