>The English teacher gave you an assignment : you have to

>>69133111
show a song that has deep and powerful lyrics?

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>If I were one of the things
>I'd be american garbage
>the most beautiful thing
>the most beautiful american garbage you have ever seen

DEEP

IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES IT GOES
GUILLOTINE YAH

>>69133159
man that album makes me want to vomit
ajj in general makes me want to vomit now.. i used to love them.

We had to do this in middle school, and I chose a fucking Marilyn Manson song. She was extremely Christian too and was visibly upset at my choice, super awkward but at the time I thought I was an edgy badass. Thank god she didn't actually play it in class.

Sing About Me, I'm Dying of Thirst~Kendrick Lamar

>>69133111
What would be really hilarious is if you presented a Neil Young song from the 1970s. Young's songs are lyrically trite and musically simple but still acclaimed by the critical establishment. Pitch a song from much beloved suckfest Harvest and see if the illusion holds up with your teacher (this is entirely dependent on his exposure to rock criticism, as the music and writing are objectively bad outside of a guitar solo here and there). Write something like:

"The author believes that when the object dances it is possible for him to truly love, as well as take a chance in a trance. Whether the author is entranced by the act of taking a chance or by the practice of dancing itself remains open to critical speculation".

Get Low

8 ball and mjg - pimps

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY CAN'T I
SEE THE SUNSPOTS
IN
YOUR
EYES

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>>69133111
Dust in the Wind
Did I do good?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjAF7D4l91M

The only answer. "It's a poignant, scathing critique on society"

We had basically this assignment, but had to talk about the music itself, so I did Pierre Schaefer to piss off my classmates

Colt 45- afroman
It's about the degeneracy of the west

Jim orourke - movie on the way down

Or if I want to come across as a smart aleck faggot:
The pop group - she's beyond good and evil

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I had to do this for a Spanish class 4 years ago; Helplessness Blues was the song I picked. To me it encapsulated how I felt at the time, trying to find a place within society upon the understanding that in reality you and everyone else are nothing special

>>69133179
same

I just had to explain the meaning of a song and I chosed clipping - story 2 cause it has a story and would be easier to explain, every other song we saw was either a boost clap anthem or about a boring and shitty relationship

>I FUCKED YOU IN HALF

Death Grips - Bottomless Pit

Iron and Wine - Walking Far From Home

I just say a bunch of stuff about Jesus and how people should be kind to eachother and how the world is full of wonder and get my A then go back to listening to Ambient Mayan Deathjazz on my headphones because none of these plebs are on my level and we're all gonna be dead when the meteor hits anyway.

>>69133111
Suicide is Painless from the M.A.S.H. movie.

Do you love me? by Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

>>69133111
play Sister Ray and explain why she's too busy sucking on my ding dong
also, nice digits

>>69134209
Thx, I thought no one was gonna notice.

For the lulz, here is what my classmates have chosen:
Zach Sobiech - Clouds
Eminem - When I'm gone
Eminem - No love
The Script - Hall of fame
Disturbed - The Sound of Silence
Some Tupac song
Martin Garrix & Bebe Rexha - In The Name Of Love
Pink Floyd - Another brick in the wall

Sufjan Stevens - Impossible Soul
The other students would love me for killing time

THE REGULAR 12TH GRADE ENGLISH CLASS GOT TO DO THIS AND I WAS SO EXCITED WHEN I FOUND OUT BUT THE HONORS CLASS I WAS IN HAD TO DO A 5-10 PAGE ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN GREEK MYTHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY INSTEAD

Death Grips - I Want It I Need It

Do i really need to explain

Incubus - Dig

if we're going off my taste in high school probably something by Tool, Manic Street Preachers, King Crimson or Fugazi

>>69134502
>Disturbed - The Sound of Silence

fuck

>>69134502
how many people do you think think disturbed wrote SOS

The Residents - Pain and Pleasure
Lyrics have some symbolism but everything is pretty simple. Cuts deep though.

>>69133281
>Insulting Neil
Lame

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>>69133281
What the fuck are you on about? I admit Neil's inconsistent but he has written some great lyrics.
"much beloved suckfest Harvest" has some great lyrics... The Needle and the Damage done is objectively great. Old Man as well.

Throbbing Gristle - Weeping

It's a song about a suicide attempt from Genesis due to one of the other member's of the band (Cosey) breaking up with him, she went on to marry one of the other members of the band

The point is, it's a great song to play to the class without being obviously offensive

>>69134613
>Tool
if you want to be seen as faux-intellectual
>Fugazi
if you want to be all muh frugality, think for yourself
etc.
Dylan has won the Nobel now, so he's a safe choice
It depends on what kind of impression you want to leave on your classmates, and what music you really like.
You can pick Jesus Built My Hotrod for the lulz

Surprised no one has mentioned a radiohead song

Alabama Nigger

The national anthem by radiobread

Probably something preachy like Common People or What Difference Does It Make?

>>69133179
It's actually better than Christmas Island, not as good as Knife Man, but they're just experimenting.

>>69133266
second that

I did this in a class and did Paul Simon's "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard"

buyer's market

Hip to be Square by Huey Lewis and the news

>>69133111
just choose some harsh noise

>>69133111
>she's not a girl who misses much
>do do do do do do, oh yeah

not an obvious choice but. . . "crossroads" bone thugs n harmony

Pixies - GIgantic

I did Immigrant Song back in my day (10 years ago).

In retrospect, the lyrics are retarded and I was mostly just wanting to hear the hook on blast with all my classmates.

"brick" ben folds five/ "angles of the silences" counting crows

Psychostick - NSFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mr4uXBPsUU

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something from loom loom

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Swans- Bring the sun

>>69133111
I wonder how he smells

Death Grips - I Cum in the Fuck

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Can science achieve a unified theory of a complex system
Permanently skeptical of friends of the institute
External faculty, that routinely exerts selective pressure
By killing less fit programs, life evolves, in cyberspace
Green and blue objects in self-replicating lightning
Represents random mutations completely chaotic systems
Such as turbulent fluids or heating gases are formless
Truly, complex amino bond traders appear at the border
Between individual order {?} torturing stick to terms compiled
Among a list of 31 ways to define, grammatical
The degree of universality in a language required to describe a style
Effective
The degree of regular, rather than random, information
For instance, complexity equals the capacity of an unexpecting observer
Thermodynamic depth, the amount of resources to put back a system
Together from scratch, pioneering, engineering, cybernetic cellular calculus
Cooperating flatly contradicting predictable circumstances
Including uranium-235, is obtained, for bomb fission

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>>69134502
>Disturbed - The Sound of Silence

Anyway, OP, I'd probably choose something by The Mountain Goats or The Tallest Man on Earth.

>>69133111
Lyrics in music are at best meh and at worst make the track into unlistenable garbage.

>>69136283
>Generals gathered in their masses,
>Just like witches at black masses.
Hmmmm...really makes you think

>>69136404
I love Black Sabbath but that makes me want to slit my wrists everytime I hear it.

I'VE SEEN FOOTAGE

>>69134502
>Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall

The fact that it isn't referred to as pt.2 really triggers me for some reason

Weird fishes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsT_PvMR4j4

>>69133111
Pick some Momus, prepare to talk about sexuality in music. Guaranteed success.

>>69138044
I've played that song for my music class before

>Pick a song without any lyrics
yeah, i'm a crazy like that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S77zUWqawag

>>69133266
This
>>69136165
Lol

Also, I'd probably pick Medication by Modest Mouse for the bipolar feels or Through the Trees pt.2 by Mount Eerie for the existential feels.

Black Star - Thieves in the Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjxtRehIz2Y

>>69138358
Why

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>Pick a song with lyrics in a foreign language that the teacher doesn't understand
>Pretend I'm fluent in that language
>Just make up what the lyrics are saying in English

HAHAAA
HERE'S A LIL SUMTHIN FOR U BUSTAZZ
WASSUP WIT DAT
Y'ALL COWARDS DON'T EVEN SMOKE CRACK

>>69134565
Why are you yelling?

Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers
we'd spent the whole day dissecting that shit

>>69133111
ARROWHEADS

>I STAPLE TAPEWORMS ON MY PENIS
>SO THE FLESH WORM WILL DRINK BRAIN JUICE FROM YOUR FETUS
>FEEL THE BLOOD GUSHING FROM YOUR ANUS

I had that assignment in 8th grade. I chose Green Day Time of your Life. God I was such a pleb, i'm pretty embarrassed.

>>69134502
>Disturbed
I'm incredibly triggered

>>69134546
Well it is the greatest song ever written

>>69139260
>God I was such a pleb, i'm pretty embarrassed.
Don't be anon, I chose this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI2Pc2v7CL0
even though I'm not black or American

Leo cohen?

>peanut butter on my balls, let the dog lick it

>>69134708
Thanks for that, man. Gave me chills.

>>69138463
>Pick Remove Kebab
>Win

>>69133111
You should really go for Woman is the Nigger of the World instead

>>69139897
i second this

Crank That

>>69133111
Put it in your mouth

>>69133111
Lucid tentacles test ‘n sleeved
‘n joined ‘n jointed jade pointed
Diamond back patterns
Neon meate dream of a octafish
Artifact on rose petals
‘n flesh petals ‘n pots
Fack ‘n feast ‘n tubes tubs bulbs
In jest incest injest injust in feast incest
‘n specks ‘n speckled speckled
Speckled speculation
Fedlocks waddlin’ feast
Archaic faces frenzy
Ceramic fists artificial deceased
‘n cists rancid buds burst
Dank drum ‘n dung dust
Meate rose ‘n hairs
Meaty meate rose ‘n hairs
Meaty dream wet meate
Limp damp rows
Peeled ‘n felt fields ‘n belts
Impaled on ‘n daeman
Mucus mules
Twot trot tra la tra la
Tra la tra la tra la
Whale bone fields ‘n belts
Whale bone farmhouse
Cavorts girdled ‘n latters uh lite
Cavorts girdled ‘n latters uh lite
Uh dipped amidst
Squirmin’ serum ‘n semen ‘n syrup ‘n semen
‘n serum
Stirrupped in syrup
Neon meate dream of a octafish

>>69133765
Nice story, but what does that have to do with Spanish?

>had to do this when I was a kid, except I missed the lyrics analysis part
>hadn't yet gotten into music at all
>just brought in one of my mum's CDs that she'd been playing the night before & picked a track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7-z4Dz5ZU4
>teacher asks what I thought it meant
>Dunno, miss
And I still don't have a fucking clue what that song was about

Pena by captain beefheart

>>69138462
We have to play music at the end of the week and describe it in musical terms. Idk, I felt like mememing.

David Bowie - Warszawa

>>69133111
1 "song" all of Thick as a Brick or 4'33'

>>69133111
If I felt like writing a short novel I'd go with King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King
If it's good then she might think I'm cool
If I felt like doing something more simple I'd just go with something by the Talking Heads, maybe Listening Wind or (Nothing But) Flowers

"Feel Happiness" by Swans.

>>69141016
This

Death Grips - Bottomless pit

Biiiiiiiiiiiiiirds

Fuck you

Alien Kids - Alien Schools: How Alien Kids Develop Super Brain

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>tell all the normie fucks who "looooove" Bowie that I'm doing one of his songs
>mfw I turn on Blackstar

Wouldn't be hard to write about either.