re: rolling stone cover, what deranged demographic wants to see a shirtless gavin AND pj o'rourke on pat buchanan?also, worst grunge lyricists: pj o'rourke + pat buchanan.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 5 November 2023 15:34 (ten months ago) link
xxxp "Ana's Song" is bad, but (to get v real for a minute) as a male person who went through an ED in my youth, I appreciated that Johns spoke openly about his experience – and I suppose also that he sung about it, insofar as it brought up the topic in interviews.
― More skin on 'Love Boat' (morrisp), Sunday, 5 November 2023 15:54 (ten months ago) link
Johns lyrics are like if I just strung together every 1/4-clever but mostly stupid DO U SEE play on words that ever instantiated in my brain.
Rossdale lyrics are like
My dog is a catAnd circles are squaresAnd I'm just a bald manWith a head full of hair
― Material Wetness (Old Lunch), Sunday, 5 November 2023 17:10 (ten months ago) link
Must be your skinI’m sinking inSomething somethingHeavy about everythingSWALLOWEDsomething something SWALLOWED
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 5 November 2023 17:38 (ten months ago) link
I may have combined two Bush songs there actually, I can’t remember if Swallowed had any lyrics except for SWALLOWED
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 5 November 2023 17:39 (ten months ago) link
I read that exact PJ O'Rourke column lol
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 5 November 2023 17:44 (ten months ago) link
xp every Bush song sounds like two other Bush songs combined.
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Sunday, 5 November 2023 17:51 (ten months ago) link
Got a machine headIt's better than the restGreen to redMachine head^ Not written by an eight-year-old, somehow
― Material Wetness (Old Lunch), Sunday, 5 November 2023 18:02 (ten months ago) link
Gavin Rossdale has mirrors in his house, so he's well aware no one's paying attention to the words.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Sunday, 5 November 2023 18:04 (ten months ago) link
I thought this was gavin vs daniel johnston for a minute, and that would make for an interesting "who has more childish lyrics?" duel.
― Philip Nunez, Sunday, 5 November 2023 18:07 (ten months ago) link
I first thing I noticed about him was that green strat he played, which looked like he's taken a screwdriver to, to 'rough it up'
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 5 November 2023 18:08 (ten months ago) link
"I'll take 'Guitars With Unrealistic Wear Patterns' for 500"
― you gotta roll with the pączki to get to what's real (snoball), Sunday, 5 November 2023 18:35 (ten months ago) link
no more maybesyour baby's got rabiessitting on a ballin the middle of the andes
― ivy., Sunday, 5 November 2023 19:07 (ten months ago) link
You say that money isn't everythingBut I'd like to see you live without itYou think you can keep on goin’, livin’ like a kingOoh, babe, but I strongly doubt it
wow maybe money *is* everything
― mookieproof, Sunday, 5 November 2023 19:09 (ten months ago) link
SWALLOWED FOLLOWED…etc everything about love blah blah SWALLOWED SORROWEDdiscareded rhymes borrowed, hollowed, furrowed, marrowed
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 November 2023 20:11 (ten months ago) link
Bernard Sumner is Stephan Merritt.
― hat trick of trashiness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 5 November 2023 20:48 (ten months ago) link
SWALLOWEDOH NO
― jmm, Sunday, 5 November 2023 20:55 (ten months ago) link
the most interesting thing ABOUT rossdale is the marilyn story & of course pungent smoothbrain that he is, he denies it
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 November 2023 21:15 (ten months ago) link
He talks earnestly about his lyric writing approach, I'll give him that
https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/gavin-rossdale-of-bush
Gavin: There's always got to be something within there - threads of things. But I like that sort of Ginsberg-y, stream-of-consciousness approach to words, rather than, say, country songwriting where there are narratives and stories and places and names and descriptions. That's a specific approach, and I've never related to that because for me, it tied things down too much. I like broader stories. It doesn't always have to be time and place and descriptions.It's just a tool. It's a decision and approach you can take. I like things that sort of float more, and have more schizoid elements to them. At the same time, I feel like I have over the years changed and done different things. More cohesive things, because I was always aware of that. But I just like things that are a little more jagged and fit in together.I don't, for instance, do that thing that some people have done where you have a very obscure title that doesn't appear in the song at all. You know that game? I don't do that. That's really kind of out there. Like Tool.If you took something like At The Drive-In, and Cedric's [lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala] approach to lyrics, that is like, holy mackerel! What is going on? And that's in every song. But somehow, when he sings it, it has a cohesion. But that is on another level of like, "What the hell is that about?" Whereas I was a soft-core version of that, where there are threads. But I also like the idea that for all of us, our thoughts are scattered and our attention is short and things bounce around - so that's part of it. That's what I feel is an integral part of it.
It's just a tool. It's a decision and approach you can take. I like things that sort of float more, and have more schizoid elements to them. At the same time, I feel like I have over the years changed and done different things. More cohesive things, because I was always aware of that. But I just like things that are a little more jagged and fit in together.
I don't, for instance, do that thing that some people have done where you have a very obscure title that doesn't appear in the song at all. You know that game? I don't do that. That's really kind of out there. Like Tool.
If you took something like At The Drive-In, and Cedric's [lead singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala] approach to lyrics, that is like, holy mackerel! What is going on? And that's in every song. But somehow, when he sings it, it has a cohesion. But that is on another level of like, "What the hell is that about?" Whereas I was a soft-core version of that, where there are threads. But I also like the idea that for all of us, our thoughts are scattered and our attention is short and things bounce around - so that's part of it. That's what I feel is an integral part of it.
― jmm, Sunday, 5 November 2023 22:33 (ten months ago) link
lol, I just remembered that I originally thought the lyric in Silverchair's 'Tomorrow' was 'you're gonna wade through that void'. The truth...may have surprised me.
― Material Wetness (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 November 2023 00:20 (ten months ago) link
HATE IS WHAT I FEEL FOR YOUAND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I WANT YOU DEEEEAD
― real warm grandpa (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 November 2023 00:33 (ten months ago) link
I've got a fair capacity for taking in trivial details, but haven't the foggiest who daniel johns actually is!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 6 November 2023 00:37 (ten months ago) link
i prefer Bush over Silverchair just due to Rossdale's lyrics sounding better in context than Johns'. i always felt the worst lyrics i heard from the grunge-rot era belonged to Candlebox though.
― omar little, Monday, 6 November 2023 18:29 (ten months ago) link
There are many contenders, really.
Too heavy, too lightToo black or too whiteToo wrong or too rightToday or tonightCumbersome
Here's something that is automaticIt's wax ecstatic (prounced 'uh-static')When life is nothing less than tragicIt's wax ecstaticWhen life has lost all its magicIt's wax ecstaticWhen life can't promise the fantasticIt's wax ecstatic
― Material Wetness (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 November 2023 18:35 (ten months ago) link
i wondered if i should include the candlebox guy
― ivy., Monday, 6 November 2023 18:37 (ten months ago) link
may-yay-be you meant to include the candlebox guy/but you didn't anyway
― omar little, Monday, 6 November 2023 18:39 (ten months ago) link
lmao
― ivy., Monday, 6 November 2023 18:41 (ten months ago) link
Wonder is Rossdale high-fived himself after the opening couplet here:
Do you feel the way you hateDo you hate the way you feelAlways closest to the flameEver closer to the bladeI am poison crazy lushBuilt these hands to lift me upWe are servants of our formulaic waysI'm screaming daisiesFrom fourteen miles awayI've got my own timeGot it all today
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 6 November 2023 18:43 (ten months ago) link
WE ARE THE YOUTH SO TAKE YOUR FASCISM AWAY
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 6 November 2023 20:53 (ten months ago) link
we are the problem childwe spend our lives on trialwe walk an endless milewe are the youth gone wild
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:43 (ten months ago) link
oops *they call us problem child*
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 00:01 (ten months ago) link
no more maybesyour baby's got rabiessitting on a ballin the middle of the andes― ivy., Sunday, 5 November 2023 19:07 (two weeks ago) link\
― ivy., Sunday, 5 November 2023 19:07 (two weeks ago) link\
just wanted to make sure you all remember this amazing insight before voting
― Tim F, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 00:47 (ten months ago) link
Always wondered if David Bowie cared about Rossdale swiping lyrics from “Life on Mars?”
― beamish13, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 08:03 (ten months ago) link
songfacts.com on the significance of "Everything Zen":
This song helped bring the word "asshole" into the mainstream. The first verse contains the line "Should I fly Los Angeles, find my asshole brother," which most radio stations left as is. This type of profanity would have been removed just a few years earlier, but standards of acceptable profanity were being lowered. The TV show NYPD Blue was using it on primetime US TV, something that had never been done before.
― jmm, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:50 (ten months ago) link
Should have censored "Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow"
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 16:52 (ten months ago) link
Amazing how much more regressive American radio got. I heard a ridiculously censored “You Oughta Know” a while back that eliminated the “go down on you in a theatre” with a comical echo effect. No matter. Terrestrial radio is dying
― beamish13, Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:53 (ten months ago) link
actually that part was routinely censored back when the song first came out on American radio too. I had no idea what she was saying there until someone played me the unedited track much later
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 22 November 2023 17:55 (ten months ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:01 (ten months ago) link
The funniest was when they censored “45” in “Santeria”
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:31 (ten months ago) link
maybe it was a columbine thing
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:33 (ten months ago) link
It was really 9/11 that sent FM radio into conservative meltdown mode. I remember that “COP” got blocked from Sublime’s “April 29, 1992”
― beamish13, Thursday, 23 November 2023 01:02 (ten months ago) link
Pure Massey car
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 November 2023 01:18 (ten months ago) link
VERY HARD TO DRINK
― ivy., Thursday, 23 November 2023 02:51 (ten months ago) link