by "best lyrics" i mean meaningful ideas not like romantic or stuff like that!!
2006-12-09 01:20:05 · 15 answers · asked by Leah 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
The best topical metal band is Megadeth.
Metallica would be close but since the "Black" album they have gotten away from meaningful topics in todays society. They went the pop-rock route to sell albums and make money over getting a true message across in their lyrics. One of their latest singles "Whiskey in a Bottle" is an Irish drinking sing that has been around for a few hundred years and has been covered by everyone and their brother including Jerry Garcia.
As Megadeth's primary lyricist, Dave Mustaine is known for his often controversial, political, and more recently, personal lyrics.[57] War and nuclear war are common topics, including the military-industrial complex ("Architecture of Aggression", "Hangar 18", "Take No Prisoners"), the aftermath of war ("Ashes In Your Mouth"), and sectarian violence ("Holy Wars... The Punishment Due"). The name Megadeth is a deliberate misspelling of the word megadeath, a term coined in 1953 by RAND military strategist Herman Kahn to describe one million deaths, popularized in his 1960 book On Thermonuclear War.[62] Politics are also a common theme to many Megadeth songs,[57] [32] such as Mustaine's scathing assessment of Tipper Gore, the PMRC, and music censorship in the song "Hook In Mouth".[63] Mustaine takes an environmentalist stance in "Countdown to Extinction" and "Dawn Patrol",[64] and shuns dictators in songs like "Warhorse", and "Symphony of Destruction". Mustaine's general cynicism regarding politics shines through on tracks like "Peace Sells",[7] "The World Needs A Hero" and "Blackmail the Universe".[57]
Controversial and misunderstood lyrics have also caused problems for the band, as the music video for "In My Darkest Hour" was banned from MTV in 1988 when the music channel deemed the song to be pro-suicide.[12] The music video for "A Tout Le Monde" was later banned by MTV, again wrongly interpreted as being pro suicide, when in fact it was written from the perspective of a dying man, saying his last words to his loved ones.[29]
Addiction is also a common theme, as in "Tornado of Souls", which describes Mustaine's fight to finally get off drugs,[64] and "Use the Man", about a former substance abuse counselor who died of a drug overdose.[35] Recently, some lyrics have taken on religious themes, including "Truth Be Told", which tells the biblical story of Cain and Abel, and "Shadow of Deth", with spoken lyrics taken directly from Psalm 23 of the King James Bible.
2006-12-09 01:29:46 · answer #1 · answered by nperrus 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Motley Crue: Everything from Shout at the Devil and Dr/ Feelgood Poison:Everything from Look What the Cat Dragged In Guns N Roses: Everything from Appetite for Destruction Skid Row, Quiet Riot, Whitesnake, Bon Jovi.
2016-05-22 22:42:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The best is of course : KING DIAMOND.
You can check their lyrics, all the lyrics is connected one to another, and their lyrics are continous lyrics from the first song to the last.
2006-12-12 22:17:09 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
System of a Down have really amazing lyrics as well as Megadeath and Slayer
2006-12-09 01:24:28 · answer #4 · answered by Ansley119 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Megadeth
2006-12-09 01:21:18 · answer #5 · answered by Francis Z 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Queensryche
2006-12-09 01:36:56 · answer #6 · answered by 420 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Metallica - their range in phenomenal! From their awesone anthem "Enter Sandman" to the absolutely beautiful "Nothing Else Matters" FAR outweight anything done by Megadeath or any other metal band, IMO> :)
2006-12-09 01:26:27 · answer #7 · answered by Rotten Johnny 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Death's lyrics are very philosophical in their later albums.
2006-12-09 06:08:32 · answer #8 · answered by kellenator 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tough one...hmmmmm I would say Judas Priest.
2006-12-09 01:23:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A7X...the songs are stories, and if you pay close enough attention, you can imagine the storyline happening as the songs playing.
2006-12-09 02:50:40 · answer #10 · answered by youdontneedtoknowme 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋