>ITT: Album in your opinion with the best lyrics Pic related,

Thematically: The Modern Dance
Poetically: Pink Moon

arent lyrics supposed to be heard on the album and not looked up on the internet?

>>72600424
Is looking them up taboo for you? Personally if I really like the album, I'll check out the lyrics on the internet since when listening I mostly focus on the music.

>>72600355
Solid choices

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unironically

>>72600324
>>72600355
good choices
>>72600424
I don't see any problem with reading lyrics on the internet

>>72600324
You could pretty much throw a dart at any Bob Dylan album and it'd be a great answer, but this is my personal favorite.

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>>72600658
Forgot the pic

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>On soft gray mornings widows cry
>The wise men share a joke
>I run to grasp divining signs
>To satisfy the hoax
>The yellow jester does not play
>But gently pulls the strings
>And smiles as the puppets dance

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>Why does it hurt when I peeeeee?

>>72600677
Good Dylan choice

>>72600685
>CRYYYYYYING

>>72600655
I like the lyrics, but when I'm listening I just can't wrap my head around how moved he is over her diary. Just can't really relate.

I think I might be retarded because I can listen to a song or an album dozens of times but never remember a single lyric.

>>72600861
I normally remember them if they're good or memorable
I have no idea what the lyrics of some of my favorite albums are, though

>>72600861
That is one of the most common symptoms of retardation

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>I've got a bike you can ride if you like

>>72600703
The lyrics are one big joke. Music's phenomenal.

>>72601109
>The lyrics are one big joke
That's the point really. And not just on that album.

>>72600324
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited. With songs like Blowin' in the Wind, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall, Mr. Tambourine Man, etc. how could I really choose?

>>72601307
Of course it is. Zappa never took himself seriously.

>>72601732
By the way, don't skip Yellow Shark. It's off-topic, I know, but it's a great album of his classical music performed properly.

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Public Image, Low Life, Religion, just brilliantly express Lydon's ideas. It's a shame there weren't any good albums after The Flowers of Romance.

>>72600324
Fuck this album. I kept seeing it mentioned alongside other post-rock albums like STFBTB and Spiderland, so I went into it expecting some real advanced, beautifully textured music. Nothing. Most uninteresting, drawn out piece of shit album I've ever wasted time on.

To anyone considering giving this thing 43 minutes of their time: Don't. You're better off listening to any one of like 20 Swans albums than you are with this shit. Literally the "laughing stock" of post-rock, 2/10

>>72601854
>"Goodnight my love, remember me as you fall to sleep
>Fill your pocket with the dust and the memory, that rises from the shoes on my feet"

>>72601939
Who hurt you?

>>72601939
You're seriously the biggest pleb on this board

>>72601939
Christgau, is that you?

>>72601336
Personal favorite song of his is 'It's Alright Ma', what a pointed message.

>>72602128
Life described in 7 and a half minutes. Only some are that gifted.

>>72601939
>Literally the "laughing stock" of post-rock
Top kek, I salute you young man.

>>72602170
>Only some are that gifted.
Yes, and Bob Dylan is not apart of that group.

>>72602438
>Yes, and Bob Dylan is not apart of that group.
All right, all right, I'll indulge (You).

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>>72602453
>I'll indulge (You).

>>72602467
At least have some decency and sage.

Lol, are you expecting a heated argument back on why Bob Dylan is in fact a good lyricist?

>>72601939
You're either trolling or objectively a retard.

>>72602481
Do you think I care? I want /mu/ to get worse. Johnny Cox is my name and shitpost is what I do. Fear me.

>>72602483
>>72602453
There's no need for more.
>>72602510
See?

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>They'll take my name
>and feed my children
>with my remains
>in the Holy Temple
>'Cause I am the Lamb
>and I am a dead man

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>>72602517
>he pretends he is more grown up than anyone else in this thread

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i know i am cheating a bit by choosing a live double album, but the lyricism of townes is unbeatable.

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totally unironically. i'm not even religious. an example:

Companion draw nigh, they say I must die
Early the summons has come from on high
The way is so dark and yet I must go
Oh that's such sorrow you never may know

Oh can you not bow and pray with me now
Sadly regret that we never learned how
To come before Him who only can save
Leading in triumph through death and the grave

Only a prayer, only a tear
Oh if sister and mother were here
Only a song would comfort and cheer
Only a word from that book so dear

And can you not sing a song of His love
How He came down from the mansions above
To bleed and to die on Calvary's tree
Bringing salvation to sinners like me

Alas it is so, but thus it must be
No word of comfort are promised for me
To die without God or hope in His Son
Covered in darkness, begrieved and undone

Oh people of God who have His blessed Word
Will you not heed the command of your Lord?
And publish to all of Adam's lost race
Pardon, forgiveness, salvation through Grace

Only a prayer, only a tear
Oh if sister and mother were here
Only a song could comfort and cheer
Only a word from that book so dear

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>>72600324
>And you, with your
>'arrangement' with Fate
>Nodded sadly at her lame assault
>On that steady old gate
>Her faultlessly etiolated fishbelly-face;
>The muzzle of a ghost

it's not close, this album has the best lyrics

some others though:
>Red House Painters- Rollercoaster
>Jordaan Mason and the Horse Museum- Divorce Lawyers I Shaved My Head
>Holy Haunted Head- A Kali Yuga Opera
>Xiu Xiu- Knife Play
>Daniel Johnston- 1990

>>72602538
odd choice, Things We Lost in the Fire has much more memorable lyrics imo

>>72601854
Tweez's lyrics is solid too, but in a different way. I forget which song it is, but it starts off telling a vague story about a girl and a boy who started hanging out, and everyone started seeing them less and less. At the end the music gets really intense and he starts repeating "do you know what happened to them, do you know what they became?". At first you think he's building suspense and is about to reveal their fate, but then you realize he genuinely doesn't know what happened, they just disappeared.

>>72603025
Both Low albums are top, I just prefer the heavier, darker religious imagery on Trust.

>>72603824
well considering that I'll listen more closely to the lyrics next time I hear Trust

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Love Frank's imagery and storytelling.

The album, at least as i understand it, is about the hollowness and lack of fulfillment that plagues the american bourgeoisie. But Frank paints this with really beautiful allegories, motifs, and characters that harken back to old novels. There's a lot of nostalgia in frank's lyrics. Golden age descriptive language.

He's just a very "literary" lyricist, if that makes sense.

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>She grasped the cutter by both
hands, took a deep breath and plunged the long blade through the middle of the package, through the middle of the masking tape, through the cardboard through the cushioning and (thud) right through the center of Waldo Jeffers head, which split slightly and caused little rhythmic arcs of red to pulsate gently in the morning
sun.

Lou's got a way with words

>>72604369
This nigga suck dick, I refuse to listen

>>72602508
I'm not the one who listens to literal embryo music for people who can't handle actual, experimental works.

>>72601939
Youll get it when youre older

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>>72605288
most blatant projecting I've seen in a while desu senpai

>>72605288
Couldn't even tell you what that means.

But clearly anything that isn't less than 4 minutes with a tight, repeated chorus is a little beyond your palette.

>>72603400

Darlene

>>72605830
Yeah that's the one. I just love how the meaning switches from suspenseful to a genuine curiosity.

>>72605288
By your logic, ambient music isn't well structured or experimental enough to get you interested? Come on.