From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V4 #159 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, June 11 2004 Volume 04 : Number 159 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Re: favorite lyricists [Phil Fleming ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2004 23:24:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Phil Fleming Subject: [loud-fans] Re: favorite lyricists For some reason, I gravitate toward the lyrics first than the music. (And the biggest reason I want to rip my ears off whenever that fucking Avril Lavigne single comes on the radio). Not sure why, but ever since I could remember, I would always try to pay attention to the way an idea was delivered lyrically, even if it was the typical 80s hair metal tune. Some of the ones I've always paid more attention to: Scott Miller (After I heard "Sodium Laureth Sulfate", my mind was blown) Aimee Mann (She was on a roll up until the rather dull LOST IN SPACE... I'm still amazed by the lyrics on her first two solo records) Jeff Tweedy (For reasons already stated) and to a lesser extent: Johnette Napolitano (a bit too simple at times, but with a soaring voice like hers, she could pull it off) Sheryl Crow (I'm in the vast minority, I know... but her self-titled second record and THE GLOBE SESSIONS have some amazing lyrics in them) Butch Walker (works pretty much strictly in a pop/rock song structure, but can effortlessly turn what would normally be a cliche into something different. Only downside from a musical standpoint... his songs tend to have wall to wall lyrics) Robert Pollard (would be in the higher category if it weren't for the mostly free and/or no-assocation writing style... but amazingly enough... seldom used cliche) And the Incubus guy: Brandon Boyd... who's stream of consciousness style bugs me. He also came up with "Whatever tomorrow brings/I'll be there/With open arms and open eyes"... words Bryan Adams would've killed himself over. About to have a quadrophonic gin-and-tonic fever dream...but not really, Phil F. NP: about to be Juliana Hatfield _In Exile Deo_ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V4 #159 *******************************