Does anybody actually read an album's lyrics?

[adv_m]

I was just wondering if I'm the only one who hasn't read all the lyrics of his albums (not just Opeth albums).
In fact, I think there is no album that I read all of its lyrics.

 

[Arnold Layne]

I read them, I always want to make sure im not hearing the lyrics wrong.

 

[Longinus]

Of course.

 

[rissy]

lyrics? what are they?

 

[Twilightheart]

Reading it only after hearing the album a few times and after I decided that I like it.... then with reading the lyrics I go "deeper into it". ...

 

[Ermz]

It depends. If the song strikes me as powerful, or the lyrics as worthy of looking into, I will. I did this with Still Life and MAYH because it contributes to the actual flow of the story.

 

[AlexGuinness]

I tend not to, a lot of the stuff that I get in are promo releases so they do not have them...

I do sometimes, but usually only when I am really fanatical about a particular track or something.

 

[Kenneth R.]

i flip through the books to see the cool artwork. i only really read the lyrics if i don't understand them in the music.

 

[burton]

i always do. gives me something to do, and i love thinking about the meanings behind the lyrics.

 

[Jon Snow]

i'm heterosexual, so no

This statement is not consistent with your sig.

 

[BrandonS]

I read the lyrics on CDs I buy, I usually open the booklets to look at the album art and I love the music. Thats how I figured out there are pictures of very nice breasts in Pain of Salvation's Remedy Lane, and I think The Perfect Element as well. They might both have the boobens!

 

[fuscous]

There is hardly something greater than reading the lyrics in the booklet while listening to a new album. I do it every time, because it helps me a lot to get into the flair of the musik. Lyrics are a very important part of metal, so i always want to have an expression of the lyrics when i listen to it. I have a problem for example with swedish or finnish lyrics, because i dont have a clue what the hell they are talking about.. thats sad..

 

[Risquit]

Oh yeah. In the days before the Internet, I remember being pissed whenever I got an album that didn't have the lyrics. Now, of course, you can just look them up.

 

[NeverIsForever]

If I bought the album, then yes. If I downloaded it, not always, but if there's a particular song I really want the lyrics from then I'll look them up online...

 

[Metalloid]

For the most part, I don't really read the lyrics. But with Deadwing, for instance, I read pretty much all the lyrics because I couldn't understand what was being said in certain parts. Other than examples like that, I have always been more interested in the instrumentation (and in this case, I don't consider the voice to be an instrument)

 

[Dhalaren]

I usually read lyrics, but only after I've taken a couple of listens to the album first like someone mentioned before. If I don't listen to the lyrics then I feel like I'm not getting the complete effect the music was meant to have.

 

[the_3_toed_sloth]

I like knowing what a song is about, and i like being able to sing along, in my own off-key ear-drum destroying way. Plus, it can be really annoying to hear something completely wrong in a track and think it is about badgers..

i'm heterosexual, so no

I like how you had to edit this to make it "correct"...*wonders about the first draft*

 

[NeverIsForever]

Is your name really Gunhaver? And why does your signature say "faggot"?

 

[sweet majestic darkness]

First I absorb the music from the cd, then I go through and figure out the lyrics. I love reading lyrics without the music playing, it gives me the feeling like reading poetry. I think it's easier for me to interpret my own meaning into the lyrics if I read them without the music.

 

[deliverance]

actually, i almost never read the lyrics haha. not much of a lyric person myself...

Lyrics are a very important part of metal,