Best "current" lyricist..... Your vote goes to?

[gemini8026]

Lately, I've been doing a lot of reading as well as listening to "see" the finer points in some of todays music. A lot of the time we focus so much on the music, that the words themself do not get the same attention.

My personal vote goes to.....


Mikael Åkerfeldt (Opeth)


The guy not only writes great music, but his words and poetic artistry are top notch. A storyteller and poet as well as a musician...


Agree...? Or your vote goes to?

 

[AudioPhile777]

I dunno... I'm really digging Evergrey's stuff lately... to the point of obsession...

So, my vote goes to Tom.

Though, on the complete other side of the spectrum, James Hetfield gets the worst lyricist ever award for Death Magnetic, because anyone who has the "ability" to rhyme, for instance, "apocalypse" and "justification" by adding the "UHH!" syllable to the end of it, just makes me sick.

 

[wyllie]

my vote would deffo have to go to Jonas Renkse from katatonia

 

[gemini8026]

I'll have to read up some of Englunds words. Ive heard the music, and I like it, but I never "studied" it too much. I'll deft give it a read/ deeper listen.

 

[GeertSamuel]

Snoop Dogg. Just because he really tells what's live about. Sex, money, drugs, alcohol, bitches, sex, money, drugs, alcohol, bitches, sex, money, drugs, alcohol, bitches, sex, money, drugs, alcohol, bitches, sex, money, drugs, alcohol, bitches, sex, money, drugs, alcohol, bitches, sex, money, drugs, alcohol, bitches, sex and so on.









To be honest. I have no clue who to call the best lyricist.

 

[smy1]

I think, I'd have to vote for myself ...

 

[James Murphy]

Neil Fallon



i'm not joking.

 

[Torniojaws]

Well, I don't read song lyrics much, really (maybe because I always feel they suck ), but a few have caught my ear:

Ihsahn
Mikael Åkerfeldt
Milan Fras
Till Lindemann (mostly his older stuff, from Herzeleid to Mutter)

 

[kaomao]

Warrell Dane

 

[Seizure.]

Steve Von Till
Scott Kelly

 

[F.E.T]

Warrell Dane

+1

 

[Chryst Krispies]

KING DIAMOND.

 

[abyssofdreams]

Personally I wonder why people think Åkerfeldt's lyrics are special, apart from using some uncommon english words...
I don't think they are bad, don't get me wrong but seeing that Mikael just writes them within minutes during some studio sessions (as seen on their DVD) just to fill that void and support the music doesn't really highlight them for me, I guess^^

Where the lyrics really take you somewhere else, listen to some Anathema stuff, Danny and Vincent Cavanagh go deep...

Not to offend anyone, I know it's all down to personal taste and I love Opeth, I just think that their lyrics are their weakest link if any...

 

[Morgan C]

I really like Tool's lyrics, I think Maynard writes them.

 

[Kadmium]

Neil Fallon

I'd never noticed before but you're right, he's pretty good. I'll probably go with Dani Filth; his best days are behind him, but most of his body of work is beautiful in its poetry.

 

[dan weapon]

Maynard James Keenan from Tool - agreed. The likes of Vicarious and the Pot are fucking genius.

Hetfield was good in his day, wrote some great ambiguous lyrics about various social, religious and political issues without it sounding so.

I love all of Devin's stuff, although ocassionally he can go cheesy (but still pull it off). He went through a weird phase recently of singing about babies though... not so good.

I love all the lyrics on Misery Signals 'Of Malice and The Magnum Heart'. Incredible stuff.

 

[migreeni]

Dez Ferara - Devildriver. Period.

 

[GarethSE]

Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.

Argue, and you're a fool.

In the world of heavy music: Jacob Bannon.

 

[robfromthedeep]

Simon Le Bon?

Nah but as i'm obsessed with Sikth i've got to say Justin and Mikee... Flogging the Horses has brilliant lyrics.

 

[abyssofdreams]

...and I gotta say... best one-liner I've ever heard:
My fist, your face - same time, same place!