Consider these lines from the album who's next - Song is over
"I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces
I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains
I'll sing my song to the free, to the free
I'll sing my song to the wide open spaces
I'll sing my heart out to the infinite sea
I'll sing my visions to the sky high mountains
I'll sing my song to the free, to the free"
Why can't we have great lyrics now?
2006-07-10 01:03:01 · 5 answers · asked by 40andgoing 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
My point exactly guitar for 4, many of those you mentioned are songwriters from generation before!
David Gilmore, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen. I honestly think that the new songwriters (by new I do not mean U2 and anyone above 40) are getting their songs manufactured according to specifications. So the soul is missing. It is not a band coming together and creating magic. Look at Jethro Tull, Who, Rolling Stone, John Lennon, Beatles, Crosby stills and Nash, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, and individual singers like Susan Vega, Kate Bush and others. And I am not even talking about the blues singers like BBK and others. Songs of promise, not just anti war but ideas of beauty and so much more. “Let me bring you songs from the wood, to make you feel much better than you know!”
2006-07-10 17:14:16 · update #1
There are still good lyrics. We still have Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Van Morrison, Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, Lucinda Williams,Gillian Welch, and Bruce Springsteen. David Gilmore put out a new album, Neil Young will forever be a genius "Let's impeach the president for lying, and misleading our country into war". Even some newer acts like the Dixie Chicks and Shooter Jennings have some important things to say. You really just have to pretend not to notice all the commercial crap thats out there.
2006-07-10 03:51:33 · answer #1 · answered by guitar4peace 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Some lyrics are great...like the Goo Goo Dolls,
Iris "I'd give up forever to touch you"
And (again) the Goo Goo Dolls, Slide "I wanna wake up where you are. Put your arms around me, what you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful"
those are incredible lyrics.
But I hear ya -maybe that is the exception to the rule? I am a lyrics kinda person myself....gotta have a happy little melody to go with it though. As I sit here...I cannot think of one bad lyric song. Hm. Probably only 'cause I'm trying. Sorry dude.
2006-07-10 08:11:22 · answer #2 · answered by daisylane 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there are still some good lyrics out there, it's just not as prominent, and the artists who perform those somgs don't get as much airplay as the ones who sing songs with poor lyrics. I think it's because GOOD lyrics make you think, and the average person out there listening to the radio doesn't want to think.
2006-07-10 08:27:12 · answer #3 · answered by hot_fat_chik1982 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are numerous bands that write great lyrics these days.
Pearl Jam is the best, but there are others.
2006-07-10 08:09:01 · answer #4 · answered by Bog woppit. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are songs still being written with great lyrics, you just have to sort through the junk to find them. ;)
2006-07-10 08:08:21 · answer #5 · answered by Jill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋