Is Thom Yorke a terrible lyricist?

I wouldn't say terrible, he's not.
He makes up for it with how he emotes though.

>>8975065
I feel like every lyric is okay but could have been better if he bothered revising.

>>8975065
yes. he's also a terrible physicist.

>>8975065
Who cares, he's a qt

Kid A is the best album of all time, but not really for the lyrics. I mean "yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon'"? "I'll laugh until my head comes off
Women and children first
And children first
And children"

>>8975671
>Kid A is the best album of all time
listen to more music

He's a great lyricist, but would be a terrible poet.

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BROKEN HEARTS MAKE IT RAIN
BROKEN HEARTS Make it RaaAaaaAAain
BROKEN HEARTS MAKE IT RAIN
BROKEN HEARTS Make it RaaAaaaAAain

some of the worst "lyrics" ever written desu

>>8975671
Superlatives are so often useless and polarizing. Kid A was a groundbreaking, great album, but to say it's the GOAT is just wrong. How can there be just one greatest album ever? If you must insist on superlatives, specify that it was, "The best of it's generation," because maybe Kid A was the best album of that generation (I like OK computer more, fight me) but at a different time it might not be relevant.

I also agree with what most people are saying, the lyrics themselves aren't why Yorke is so good, it's how he delivers them. I'll be goddamned if I don't want to try to sing along to a Radiohead song because it just connects with me.

>>8975065
He's reasonably good, get off his case

>>8975671
they wrote the lyrics to Kid A by picking words out of a hat. some of them turned out amazing though, like "ice age coming ice age coming".

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>Literature
Now we have dumb people who think that music reference threads on lit its okay because Dylan get a prize on literature or some shit. Sorry guys, music its not an art. Jesus Christ.

>>8975065
Probably in the top 10% of lyricists
Probably in the bottom 5% of poets
(assuming we're not counting all the amateur poets, of course)

KARMA POLICE, ARREST THIS MAN HE TALKS IN MATHS
HE BUZZES LIKE A FRIDGE, HE'S LIKE A DETUNED RADIO

KARMA POLICE ARREST THIS GIRL HER HITLER HAIRDO
IS MAKING ME FEEL ILL AND WE HAVE CRASHED HER PARTY

KARMA POLICE I'VE GIVEN ALL I CAN IT'S NOT ENOUGH
I'VE GIVEN ALL I CAN BUT WE'RE STILL ON THE PAYROLL

Incredibly deep stuff

>>8977121
>music its not an art
Wut. Did you mean to say 'music is not literature'?

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>>8975671
>Kid A is the best album of all time