Hi /lit/, /mu/ here. I have a question: who is the greatest lyricist?

Pink Floyd and Iron Maiden come to mind.

>t. Dad

>>9677515
/lit/ will and should respond with James Joyce.

idk maybe someone who won a nobel recently or something

>>9677516
Pink floyd is up their personally for me, them and Jim Morrison

t. late 20's guy

Tom Waits

The best lyric will always be Keats

>>9677531
Hoogalie baloogalie the whole worlds misry

>>9677515
Jeffery Magnum

>>9677515
Tell me, anon. What exactly (or inexactly) is a 'Box of Rain' ?

(And does it have any relation to Louise's famous "handful of rain" (tempting you to defy it)?)

>>9677515
well there's only one lyricist with a nobel

Hildegard of Bingen

>>9677515
The dude from the weakerthans

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I'm going to go for Lin-Manuel Miranda.

a) Bi-lingual

b) Actually uses three syllable words

c) Respects operatic conventions (Arias and Recitatives, repeated echoes from the lead and chorus, voice is an actual melody)

Joanna Newsom and it's not even close. Best since Dylan.

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you already know

I hate /mu/. Everyone there is either an impressionable adolescent that steals their father's vinyl records, or a borderline autistic manchild that obsesses over overrated figures, a limp-wristed cardigan-wearing Chuck Taylor-wearing over-emotional faggot who talks about how much of a feminist he is or how much he wants to protect the innocent persecuted Muslims that dindu nuffin, who releases his horny and disgusting sexual fantasies ("ohh man i wanna sniff grimes' dirty sweaty armpits and eat her fecal-crusted hairy asshole <3") on 4chan ANYWHERE where his idol is mentioned; Or a flannel-wearing nu-male with an undercut and an "epic beard" (a scraggly pube-looking rat's nest hanging from under his chin) who talks about how Kanye West is the greatest artist of this generation, and how hip-hop is an underrated genre that has artistic merit and is under-appreciated because of some subliminal white supremacy which is apparently hidden within the entirety of Western culture, as he and his other nu-male friends circlejerk about as "political discussion", and all the while only listening to trash like Kanye West or Danny Brown, and maybe a couple Tupac songs, so he can feel like as if he is holier-than-thou from the average white man, because he appreciates black culture.
I fucking hate /mu/. Get the fuck off this board.

>>9677515
Homer
Now fuck back off to your waifu board