What are some albums with great music but distractingly bad lyrics?

What are some albums with great music but distractingly bad lyrics?

There is a certain female popular music artist who has had a career built on disgustingly catchy dance-pop singles, yet the lyrics in practically all of these songs are trite, unforgivable clichés.

any NIN album

Many albums by the Smiths

currents

tlop too but I like the bad lyrics

I love this album but the lyrics are pretty cringe.

I now enjoy the lyrics somewhat ironically, but I still feel they could have gone for someone more mature, especially considering how well instrumented the whole album is and how moving the music by itself can be.

japandroids - near to the wild heart of life

Anyone that writes relatable lyrics of any type.

Esoteric is the only way to go

Kanye has a habit of great albums that have distractingly awful lines every so often

nice picture. did you take this yourself? if so, where was it taken?

Came to post this

for me it isn't the lyrics that make me dislike the album, just the singing in general.

early Linkin Park and

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All hip-hop lyrics are shit, unless they're abstract like cLOUDDEAD.

images and words

King Crimson - Islands

>Fuck Peter Sinfield

anything by robbie basho

It's not THAT bad but there are some embarrassingly bad moments. I can't get into any of their other albums though. DAG is way less cheesy.

Downward Spiral isn't really that bad but The Fragile is. I need to grab that new instrumental release of it.

The musicianship is actually really neat, so is the vocals, dude can scream.
Shame about the lyrics though

Ween - GodWeenSatan (and most albums)

Yes, I find a lot of their songs funny, but sometimes the lyrics painfully sophomoric/lazy

eg: The HIV Song, Papa Zit, I Gots a Weasel

I THINK I JUST FELL IN LOVE WITH A PORN STAAAAAAR

then why listen to the smiths, honestly?

I like Om's lyrics but everyone I know hates the shit and I can totally understand

They fit the music very well even though I have no idea what 99% of it means

AND LIGHTEN 'PON DAY, THE SCINTILLATE RAYS, AUGURATE ARRIVAL OF THE SERAPHIC FORM
FROM LEBANON REELS, THE OBELISK SEEN, CALLED NON-VERSE UPON THE CURRENTER'S SIDE
THE MATTER FORM WANES, THE HOST MOON FADES, TAKES INTO THE SKY ASCENDS THE FREEDOMWARD DOVE
THE RIGHT OF FALL SEALED, DESCENDANT ORB HAILS HER, DOWN TO THE GROUND OF ELECTRON FORM

I RATHER DIE

Because of the great music.

That song is so fucking good

XBOX

NiN having bad lyrics is a bad meme

PILLS
STONED IN THE MALL
BORED

GOD IS DEAD
AND NO ONE CARES
IF THERE IS A HELL
I'LL SEE YOU THERE

I mean its good but like so were a shit ton of other kinda jangly british rock bands. morrissey is p much the main draw imo

Every Ministry album from With Sympathy to Filth Pig

After that the music becomes shit too

>morrissey is p much the main draw imo
I think Johnny Marr is just as much of a draw as Morrissey.

I love this album, but some of the lyrics are pretty bad desu.

This.

HURRY UP WITH MY DAMN CROISSANTS

HER STORIES ARE BORING AND STUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUFFFFFFFFFFFF

well morrissey wasn't a bad singer
just occasionally ruined a song by being TOO emo

*lyrically

Earls self named mixtape. Thankfully he got over that phase of his life

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I confess to secretly sorta enjoying Uffie but her lyrics are often so bad they make me want to hang myself with a belt

Beat me to it
The album has flawless production but extremely preachy lyrics

His cringiest lyrics are on Pretty Hate Machine but yeah they're generally pretty eye-rolly.

I don't like cities
But I like new york

Other places make me feel like a dork

NOW I'M SLIPPING ON THE TEARS YOU'VE MADE ME CRY

any black metal album ever made

most metal albums ever made

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They say people never change, but that's bullshit, they do.

You can't see California without Marlon Brando's eyes!!!!!!!!!!

The music might not be great, but Jonny Craig's lyrics on Dance Gavin Dance are truly terrible.

Exactly. And god damn him. They are so well produced and the music is good.

You picked a horrible example, friendo. That's one of his best songs lyrics wise.
Allow me.

>You left your fridge open and someone just took a sandwich
>Yo I know there's corny bitches you wish you could unfollow,
>I know there's corny niggas you wish you could unswallow

that song made me really angry

How can you love this album but dislike the lyrics?

NOW IF I FUCK THIS MODEL

KEEP IT 300 LIKE THE ROMANS

Nobody came close to Marr, he invented the genre and innovated guitar purely by himself. Don't forget he alone composed every single song.

I like most of the lyrics. There's maybe three lines I hate out of hundreds

This
Like 80% of the lines on TDAG are pretty alright but the other 20% are damn near appalling

all of them

Houdini by Long Fin Killie

LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I DO WHEN MY DAY IS OVER

Good lyric. Don't give a fuck what you have to say

Yeezus

Every Kanye West album

bleach assholes..

Here's to the douche bags..


his lyrics are like from a 16 year old. I don't think he can grasp metaphor

neutral milk hotel - in an aeroplane over the sea

How about esoteric and relatable?

>Esoteric is the only way to go
I also love funeral doom

Everyone you know is a pleb
Metal can get very theatrical, it's something you either accept and get into, or you stand back and laugh at it. Dio is a good example of this.
>HERE WE SEE THE WIZARD STARING THROUGH THE GLASS
>AND HE'S LOOKING RIGHT AT
>YOU

The power/speed metal band Sonata Arctica are great at making music, but god damn, they can't write for shit. their song "What Did You Do In The War, Dad?" is cringey and melodramatic as all hell. they also frequently use weird or out of place phrases that really spoil the immersion in their music.
i know english isn't their first language, and neither is mine, but still. at least try for once, SA.

LOS TICKA TOE REST. MIGHT LIKE A SENDER DOE REE.
YOUR MAKE A DOLL A RAY DAY SENDER BRIGHT LIKE A PENELTY.
EXI-TEASE MY RAY DAY MEMBER HALF LOST A BEAT AWAY.
PURST IN LIKE A ONE WAY SENDER WAR GIVE A HEART LIKE A FAY.

CAUSE I CAN FORD A RED EED ONLY STREET A WIDE A REE LAND.
DIE-MOND MAKE A MID-EVIL BIKE A SAKE A LIKE A REE CASTE.
CAUSE I CAN FORD A RED EED ONLY STREET A WIDE A REE LAND.
ON A REE LAND. FIND A REE LAND.

YOU SINK A MY SWAN. ROLLY A GET A WORST IN.
MAYBE MINUS WAY FAR CENTRAL POOR FORTY DUCK A PIN.
MILK MAID DUD BEAN. MASTER A LOAD A HEAD.
PILL POP A DOPE A WELL RUN GENERAL HASH PUMP A GONNA LED.

I'm pretty sure the point of his lyrics are to trigger Sup Forums autists, and get memed, by offering low-hanging fruit for people to obsess over.

>Bleached Asshole
It's one of the more common Sup Forums memes

BABY YOU'RE A RICH MAN

Islands is nothing. Lizard, now there's Peter Sinfield at his most abysmal.

Adam has some really great one-liners but almost everything Ben sings is something a teenage girl would have on their livejournal.

unironically this

Just happy times and half-assed rhymes and mimes
Because mimes are dears
But most of all I want no more tears

No more bad times; no more bummers
No more SUVs and no more Hummers
No more racism; no more discrimination
No more fat dumb fucks keeping people out of our nation

>label forced Mike Oldfield to produce a track where he sings

Horseback was a mistake

Tool

I know they're considered fedora tip meme as fuck here on Sup Forums but I legit enjoy their music except for MJK's terribly preachy lyrics. Shame because he's a decent vocalist.

Most Queen songs have terrible lyrics
Can you give an example

>Queen
I mean, I've never actively listened to their albums but I like the lyrics on most of their hits, Killer Queen and Don't Stop Me Now are probably my favorites
Bohemian Rhapsody is overrated as fuck though

What are some albums with great music but distractingly bad vocals?

Everything by Fu Manchu

>Being this much of a pleb

Kys, Lizard has some fantastic surrealist lyrics

they're only surrealist because they're so baroque and elaborate noone can actually decipher their meaning

Came to post this. Lyrics like a high school diary.

Pretty much everything by Duran Duran

>posts one of the only good lines from the album

>The road to hell is paved with good intentions
Literally just a proverb

I WANNA FUCK U HAWD IN THE SINK

>every so often
literally all of his lyrics and rapping are terrible. He is only saved by the production

*incoherent yelling and hyperventilating*

this, but at least his awful lines are memorable
>get this bitch shakin like parkinsons