Annoying Christian Lyrics on great bands

[DanLights]

I´m a big fan of a band called Flyleaf, and lately I´ve been listening more to the lyrics and it becomes annoying cause it´s (to my opinion) so full of shit it sucks, even though I love the music and the vocal melodies and I sing along like a god-loving fairy.

For all you non-religous dudes, doesn´t it annoy you when you love a band but the lyrics are all gay christian? Name your examples.

Another band I love is Underoath, and I can´t stand the dude saying "hey unfaithful I will teach you, cause I´m cooler than you cause I believe in god and you instead cry like a bitch all day cause you have no point in life cause you don´t believe in god" even though I love that song (ok maybe I changed the lyrics a tiny bit there)

 

[[UEAK]Clowd]

Pillar, but their lyrics aren't too bad.

 

[roy22341]

As I Lay Dying had some pretty annoying Christian-esque lyrics if I remember correctly, but I haven't listened to them in years. Fortunately most bands that I like don't go that route, instead they'll go the equally annoying route of being over the top satanic. Vital Remains for example, or Dimmu Borgir when they had a few decent songs.

 

[DanLights]

Vital Remains is so over the top it´s not funny. I love over the top satanic lyrics and imagery most of the time, not that I actually believe in it, I just feel intrigued by it and like it for some reason

 

[roy22341]

If done right the imagery can work. The same can be said for Christian imagery, it can be very powerful whether you believe in it or not.

I guess it all depends how its done?

 

[SocialNumb]

I´m a big fan of a band called Flyleaf,

Flyleaf

It almost gets sexual in some cases.

http://www.flyleaflyrics.net/all-around-me-lyrics.html




Almost sounds like she wants to fuck Jesus.

 

[JMarz]

I love how I look at the Off-Topic section, see "Annoying Christian Lyrics on great bands..... Last post: Socialnumb"








say it.

 

[DanLights]

If done right the imagery can work. The same can be said for Christian imagery, it can be very powerful whether you believe in it or not.

I guess it all depends how its done?

Personally it doesn´t work with me at all, not that it disgusts me but it just doesn´t make me keep looking at it, while the satanic and gorey shit (drawn gore, I´m not a fan of "real" gore) makes me keep my eyes on it and even use it as a wallpaper for my laptop

Flyleaf

It almost gets sexual in some cases.

http://www.flyleaflyrics.net/all-around-me-lyrics.html




Almost sounds like she wants to fuck Jesus.

hahahaha you see my point exactly, I love that band btw, great singer

For the record, paramore are also very religous but I don´t see that coming across too much on the lyrics like it does on flyleaf, it only annoys me A LOT in the dvd when the guitarist starts "our fans are the reason we´re here, well besides Jesus, he´s the reason we exist, the thing we love, he´s.... so awesome, we all want to suck his dick so bad... Jesus... jesus... oh yeah our fans are like cool"

 

[Chris_P_Critter]

I agree, but not just christian or satanic lyrics - I FUCKING HATE, LOATHE, AND DESPISE Political lyrics (re: Rage Against the Machine, Green Day, System of a Down and any other band that thinks they're so important that they have to tell US what we should think).

 

[roy22341]

Let's just end this discussion by noting that Maynard James Keenan is the greatest lyricist (and occasionally better than) since Robert Plant.

 

[GarethSE]

i cant stand overtly christian or overtly anti-christian lyrics, like immolation and underoath are both greatly sullied by their lyrics. both sides are just as extremist. If you're gonna write anti-christian or christian lyrics, at least shroud them in metaphors and interesting imagery because there's enough mythology (YES MYTHOLOGY >:{) there to fuel thousands of albums worth of lyrics on either side of things without coming off as a cunt.

That or just make your vocals so brutal and inaudible that the terribly written lyrics are completely incomprehensible (see impetuous ritual)

 

[GarethSE]

Let's just end this discussion by noting that Maynard James Keenan is the greatest lyricist (and occasionally better than) since Robert Plant.

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Leonard Cohen is easily the greatest lyricist of all time, I'm not even a fan of his music, but read his damn lyrics.

 

[spioraid]

I love how I look at the Off-Topic section, see "Annoying Christian Lyrics on great bands..... Last post: Socialnumb"








say it.

Haha...the inevitable.

I think a big aspect of this problem is specifically Christian bands crossing over to non-Christian markets and slightly altering their lyrical content. If a metal hand can't stand anything religious, it's easy to ignore the entire Christian music scene. Not a problem. But you get this hybrids in and it becomes a mess with Christians still trying to claim them as Christian bands and non-Christian metal heads standing there going, "WTF?" Although not 'metal', the case with Evanescence is a picture perfect example.

 

[Proggm]

Let's just end this discussion by noting that Maynard James Keenan is the greatest lyricist (and occasionally better than) since Robert Plant.

Check out Daniel Gildenlow's (Pain of salvation) stuff. Pure poetry.

 

[P-E]

Check out Daniel Gildenlow's (Pain of salvation) stuff. Pure poetry.

Well said.

 

[JMarz]

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Leonard Cohen is easily the greatest lyricist of all time, I'm not even a fan of his music, but read his damn lyrics.

Black Dahlia Murder - I Will Return

When death so swiftly has coveted
The client from this plane
A journey forged in ice has just begun
A crystal line entombment preservation now awaits
Proceedings executed hastely deceased to be encased
Encapsulated ensured the precious cargo safe
A pending resurrection rebirth

In the distant future when advancements shall allow
A being to be made again anew
The brain to be implanted
Fused within a growth of cells
This vessel but a vehicle
To traverse this mortal realm

Pressurized sealed in ward off the mounting days
Retain revived rebirthed beyond the grave

Jealousy some say it sickening
They merely can't afford this highest form of luxury
To live again
To carry on the will elite
To live again
Advancing through the centuries

Until the sky is black and the sun it never shows
Til the whipping winds of nuclear winter cruelly blow
The gift of immortality has been bestowed
I will return, I will return

Cryonics! Reanimate this life
Remake the fleshy juggernaut
In which the mind will ride
Cryonics! A wisdom is preserved
Frozen forever evolutionary curve
O a renaissance of mad technology
Segregate the wise eliminate the weak
O painstaking process onward we weed
Reproduce the strong eliminate

Heresy some say its blasphemy
Assuring I'll be in hell when god is through with me
To live again to forge yourself anew
To live again to face the godless truth
Foolery some say it'll never be
Fear will condemn such radical ideology
To live again to stand above your brood
To live again the phoenix raised unbruised

 

[Notuern]

Whitecross!
I fucking love their music, they sound very similar to Ratt.. then the lyrics come in:

There'll be no one to blame if you play his game.
Jesus is king he's why we sing

Who will you follow
Satan or The Author of Life
Jesus paid the price
God made the sacrifice for you

 

[Line666]

I agree, but not just christian or satanic lyrics - I FUCKING HATE, LOATHE, AND DESPISE Political lyrics (re: Rage Against the Machine, Green Day, System of a Down and any other band that thinks they're so important that they have to tell US what we should think).

See I don't look at it as other people telling you what to think as much as them telling you how they think. Which is really what lyrics are most of the time; a projection of the way the writer thinks.

If the writing is good then theres usually some part you can agree with, if not then you can just attempt to ignore the lyrics and if you cant get past that then I guess the band aren't for you.

Even if the writer doesnt write lyrics I like, I'd care more about the fact that they had the conviction to say what they felt rather than what the lyrics are saying.

Also those Black Dahlia ones are pretty sheddy.

 

[John_C]

See I don't look at it as other people telling you what to think as much as them telling you how they think. Which is really what lyrics are most of the time; a projection of the way the writer thinks.

+1

 

[Kazrog]

It seems like most of the bands on the radio these days are overtly Christian. It's very strange. It's a big cultural shift in the USA and it feels very imbalanced and forced to me, like WalMart and Sarah Palin are taking over the country or something.

Why don't we have Muslim, Buddhist, Catholic, or Jewish bands on the radio? Maybe because they're not trying to market their religion. Perhaps more Christians in America should learn a thing or two from them.

Religious zealots annoy me to no end. They'll never sell me on their beliefs, whether it's on the radio, door to door, whatever - it's just noise to me.

It seems like there was balance in the 90s. For example, bands like King's X and Dream Theater don't consume their albums with Christian marketing. They are both very Christian bands, and they are two of my favorite bands, because their music is excellent. I even enjoy and relate to lyrics from both bands, because they're not trying to push some weird agenda, they're just humans with their own thoughts and ideas, not brainwashed puppets.

I also agree with others that Satanic bands are extremely annoying. We've had 3+ decades of Satanic bands, it's such old hat. I think some bands default to singing about Satan because they lack any kind of original thoughts of their own - it's mostly a gimmick and a very tired one at that.