I've never heard any of these bands. They are terrible.

Can you type some words? I will never hear them.

man david yows lyrics were fuckin awesome... i cant remember how it went exactly but its something like 'i went for a smoke in the shower, then i started pissing down the stairs' genius!

also laughing Leonard Cohen cohen is great to put you in a good mood (sarcasm) - dress rehearsal rag is a fucking amazing song lyricaly speaking. also johnny cash is pretty good alotta the time for beautiful, simple heartfelt lyrics.

Here's a not-comprehensive list of great lyricists.

-Mark E. Smith
-Don Van Vliet
-Zimmy
(holy trinity)

-John Prine
-Whichever Wiggins sister wrote the Shaggs lyrics
-Al Johnson
-Kris Kristofferson
-Smokey Robinson
-Chuck Berry
-Robt. Pollard
-Marc Bolan
-Joni Mitchell
-Patti Smith
-Michael Gira
-Skip James
-Robt. Johnson
-Lemmy
-Curtis Mayfield
-Polly Styrene
-Roger Miller/Clint Conley
-Bruce Gilbert/Colin Newman
-John Lennon (particularly his White Album lyrics-all masterpieces)
-Dusty Hill
-Neil
-Darby Crash
-Damo Suzuki
-Fela


Elvis Costello is a horrible lyricist IMO. Nick Lowe is much better.

lance hahn
tim kinsella
steve albini
gg allen

best lyrics ever = Chevy Heston.

here's the complete lyrics to their album Destroy, which is so one of the greatest albums made in the 90's.

http://katediamond.com/chevyheston/word ... words.html

I'm down with Costello.
Also Mackaye/Picciotto.
Oooh. And Mark E. Smith too.
Oh, and Sam McPheeters.
And, um. Chris Thomson.

Okay. I'm done.

3.Thom York (Radiohead) -"When I am king, you will be first against the wall."

2.Steve Ignorant (Crass) - "No one ever changed the church by pulling down the steeple."

1.Dose One (Themselves) - "Suddenly, I see an assembly of these hideous curriculum monsters sharpening toxic spoons on a splintering, rickety loom. In a light gray auditorium, through a knot in a boarded up window. That was painted shut by Satan and his vice principals."

mattw wrote:jeff mangum

winner. best imagery based lyricist of the past few decades.

i also dig malkmus but his sardonic babble probably doesnt fly well over here.

Hosoi wrote:There are only a few who get it perfectly:

Joel RL Phelps
Steez Albizouioui
Neil Young

I would also add tim midget. I mean duh. If the only the song he ever wrote was "Young" he still be one of my favorite songwriters ever.

(now I'm checking my head to make sure he wrote that one)

Forgot to mention Bill Callahan or (Smog)

Some of the most interesting lyrics

"When they make the movie of your life/they're going to have to ask you/to do your own stunts/cause nobody nobody nobody can pull off the same shit as you/and still come out alright." Great!