Mark Hoover 330 |
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Oh, it's not ALL trauma and gloom for me. I've admitted in another thread I'm a big Bjork fan. Listen to the translation of some of her lyrics; some of her songs are just ridiculous or banal or both.
I don't care. She can sing about tossing stuff off a mountain before her boyfriend wakes up as much as she wants so long as she unleashes that crescendo on the chorus!
I feel like kind of a bad fan sometimes. I hear the noise, tone and harmony of the music of folks I like and I'm like "this is GREAT music!" Then my friends or family have to remind me "This is The Art of Noise or Beck or Soul Coughing; this makes NO sense!" And I'm like, but it FEELS good though...
Tim Emrick |
The lyrics to Billie Eilish's "Bad Guy" are actually pretty vicious, but g-----n if it's isn't one of the catchier songs I've heard in the past year or so.
She's also done a killer cover of Michael Jackson's "Bad" (search for it on YouTube) which I vastly prefer to the original, but that psycho siren voice of hers makes it creepy as hell.
Orville Redenbacher |
IDK, Bad Guy by Billie always sounds like something out of a looney tunes reel. I cant take it seriously. I havent been terribly impressed with Eillish unlike everyone else. Though I do think her new single My Future is easily the best thing she has done yet.
Haladir |
I'm a big fan of The Decemberists.
A whole lot of Colin Meloy's songs are sung from the point of view of somebody completely despicable.
For example...
The Rake's Song from The Hazards of Love (2009)...
A 19th-century lesser nobleman got married mainly for the sex. After his wife died in childbirth, he gleefully tells how he murdered their first three children so that he could return to a life of freedom.
Cutting Stone from I'll Be Your Girl (2018)...
A traveler uses his "cutting stone" to "solve" other's problems by killing them.
We'll Both Go Down Together from Picaresque (2005)...
A lesser nobleman who's fallen in love with a commoner (whose background he casually insults) and who is convinced his parents will not approve of their love (and will presumably be disinherited) attempts to talk his love into a murder-suicide pact.
Great music! Dark stories!
Pan |
The Rake's Song from The Hazards of Love (2009)...
A 19th-century lesser nobleman got married mainly for the sex. After his wife died in childbirth, he gleefully tells how he murdered their first three children so that he could return to a life of freedom.Great music! Dark stories!
There is a follow up song where "the rake" actually goes through some things. Though no denying the Rake song is pretty terrible while being really catchy!
Haladir |
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Haladir wrote:There is a follow up song where "the rake" actually goes through some things. Though no denying the Rake song is pretty terrible while being really catchy!
The Rake's Song from The Hazards of Love (2009)...
A 19th-century lesser nobleman got married mainly for the sex. After his wife died in childbirth, he gleefully tells how he murdered their first three children so that he could return to a life of freedom.Great music! Dark stories!
Yup. In that song ("The Hazards of Love 3: Revenge!") the ghosts of the three slain children return to drag their father to hell.
Kir'Eshe |
Pink Floyd. Like, that'd be enough right there. But the one song that always sits in my head is One of These Days. A fun instrumental that suddenly intones with "One of these days... I'm going to cut you into little pieces" then you get the crescendo and the song ends.
I dug on floyd for an impressionable time. What bugs me now about them is their publicity of Cyd. They made bank and shared everything. Sometimes it's kinder to keep friend's troubles on the down low, imo.
S.O.S. (Sawed off shotgun) by The Glorious Sons. What a story of a narcissistic ahole that is a threat to even complete strangers. It is catchy until I interpret the lyrics and even a harpy singing it couldn't captivate me.