Which musician writes the best lyrics?

Which musician writes the best lyrics?

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This or Lou Reed

my diary desu

Neil Young desu

Isaac Brock
Jeff Magnum

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Me
John Darnielle
Stephen Malkmus

that guy from mewithoutYou

>yes

definitely

agreed

he too

malkmus desu

waits i add this too

Slug, of Atmosphere

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Jordan Dreyer and Jeremy Bolm

James Hetfield, but he also writes some shitty ones.

You listen to Peace Trail yet? I think he's losing it. His earlier albums were great but Peace Trail sounds like he's making up the lyrics as he goes.

Yeah no shit, he's 70 years old and demented

Joanna
Sufjan

Peter Hammill.

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Morrissey
Shane MacGowan
Alex Turner
Nick Cave

Any sub 5 male with IQ above 120 writes the best lyrics

Leonard Cohen

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michael stipe

Adrian Toubro is an absolutely mindblowing lyricist for his age. It's a shame Lower split up, he could have become the next Morrisey

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>Baby please, get on your knees, there are no bills there are no fees
>You're such a jewel in the rough, you wanna show me your stuff
>Before I had a baby, I tried every way
>You see me playin guitar, and see what my fingers can do. And you wish you were the one I was doin it to.
>I don't usually say things like this to girls your age, but when I saw you comin out of school that day I knew, I knew, I've got to have you, I've got to have you, Christine Sixteen

Truly a genius of our time

intimidating...NOT! /s

Noel Gallagher

>Let the camera do its dirty work down there in the dark
>Sink low, rise high
>Bring back some blurry pictures to remember all your darker moments by

>Permanent bruises on our knees
>Never forget what it felt like to live in rooms like these
>From the California coastline to the Iowa corn
>To the rooms with the heat lamps where the snakes get born

So many great lyrics to choose from, and I think he's only getting better with age

Bono from 1983 to 1997, specifically Running To Stand Still and anything on Achtung Baby

Sufjan Stevens

idk i kinda wanted to kill myself whenever listening to sufjan, that shit´s depressing as fuck

Kek

>all these opinions and no samples

show us why they're good

that means it's working

Elliot Rodg---- I mean Elliott Smith... haha LE MAYO

mark kozelek

>not respecting the Supreme Gentleman
You know he died for our sins

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But literally their best lyrics were written by an Australian in the early 20th century

The GOAT.

RIP buddy.

Still, nobody can write a song about getting pissed and battering some cunts like Shane.

He was a narcissist= jaja cannot compute

>no Grimes
Finally a respectable post from Sup Forums

Well she is considered a musical, not lyrical genius.

bi-sexual nu-male

Only nu-male.

u r bi-sexual as a product of being nu-male...lel get good

t. Bono

Sorry not that familiar with pseudo-scientific internet terms. But I guess Im sort of a beta male who considers women equal to men (I lack white guilt and male guilt tho, and am definitely hetero) please analyse my broken personality

'pseudo' (= i refuse to read countless scientific papers on the subject.. or I am of Jewish decent)

nick cave's not that good - the whole operatic delivery makes people think his lyrics are better than they actually are

he's not bad at all, just not the goat

I didnt know the threads on Sup Forums were scientfic papers

ur mum ele

I feel the same about Tom Waits sometimes

He's written countless great songs but occasionally his lyrics make absolutely no sense

Nick Cave and Leonard Cohen are the best

Some good others:
Tom Waits (his music is always the same, only varying in the degree of grittiness)
Bob Dylan (only some lyrics)
Townes Van Zandt
Joanna Newsom (pretentious but good)
Sufjan Stevens (pretentious but good)
Morrissey is a very good lyricist, but I feel his use of irony and sarcasm is kinda excessive
Isaac Brock writes like he a white trash beat poet (I mean that as a compliment)

My kinda contrarian nominations are:

Marc Bolan, in the sense that his lyrics were language games and they manages to convey a message or a sense only through sound, not by the meaning of the words

And I think James Mercer of The Shins is pretty underrated, nowhere near the likes of Nick Cave or Cohen, but his lyrics are always sincere and witty without falling into the indie blandness, and they are always great singalongs.

Erykah Badu

You get the car, I'll get the night off
You'll get the chance to take the world apart
And figure out how it works
Don't let me know what you find out

Dustin Kensrue.

Anything from the Alchemy Index is without a doubt the best poetry ever written. Child of Dust, Kings Upon the Main, The Whaler, Silver Wings, Daedalus to name a few.

Or Young Thug

King Krule motherfuckers

Certainly not Morrissey, very theatrical and melodramatic, obviously young people with fake depression will love him.

nasty nas, prove me wrong

His stuff post 70s has been really inconsistent. For every great album like Harvest Moon or Psychedelic Pill there's crap like The Monsanto Years or Fork in the Road. I guess if you shoot in the dark long enough you'll hit something. Hopefully he's got another masterpiece in him.

most of his lyrics are essentially tales though, doesn't mean they have to resonate with you

This

binkeh moooon :-D

You spelled Freddie Gibbs wrong.

this objectively

Fucking yes. Read his novel 'Wolf in White Van' amazing shit

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Surprised no one has mentioned Peter Gabriel yet.