The best combination of music, lyrics and vocal delivery; all of which compliment and serve each other

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No List November, I know. So we'll make this a discussion.

Alice Cooper's 18 inspired me. His delivery in full on angst, distorted, driving music and the perfect confused, bitter lyrics all exist to express the central emotion of the song.

Listening to Bohemian Rhapsody on the radio and remembering how it was covered by different singers on that Rockstar show reminded me of how little today's singers understand the acting that singing requires. Freddy changes the nuances in his voice when the character from whose perspective he sings the song changes his mood. The guys and girls on the show just sort of sang all over the place for no particular reason. I get the feeling that a lot of current singers don't understand how to serve a song.

Not sure how to say what I'm getting at, without generalizing. Let's just talk about songs wherein every element serves the other, and if this is always good (It seems like most nu-grunge songs pretty well suit themselves with their gray mid range guitars and gray guttural deliveries with their gray meaningless whining lyrics all serving the same gray mood).

― Period period period (Period period period), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

pavement.

― killa bee (killabee), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:33 (nineteen years ago)

No list November is a crock. Check out the code: it is an unordered list.

― Totally Different Guy Now (Dick Butkus), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

mule variations

― A Giant Mechanical Ant (The Giant Mechanical Ant), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:41 (nineteen years ago)

Roxy Music - the For Your Pleasure album

― JB Young (JB Young), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

― less-than three's Christiane F. (drowned in milk), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:01 (nineteen years ago)

pop emo

― Roz (Roz), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:02 (nineteen years ago)

The Weight - The Band with the Staples Singers.

― shorty (shorty), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

pretty much all vocal music i like fits into this category!

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:41 (nineteen years ago)

i mean if i thought they DIDN'T complement and serve each other i probably wouldn't like them.

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 08:42 (nineteen years ago)

disintegration for the trifecta of music, lyics and vocal delivery

cursive's 'the ugly organ' for just lyrics and vocal delivery

― Charlie Howard (the sphinx), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:20 (nineteen years ago)

I've been listening to Vincent Gallo's "When" recently and find that the sultry and forlorn vocal style matches the brooding lyrics, but I could name just about any mood album and it would fit your criteria.

― lick_my_stereolabia (nariposa), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

blind willie johnson.

― yetimike (McGonigal), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

I Think definitely Roxy Music OTM. Something like Mother of Pearl, when I first heard it I wasn't even listening very closely but the whole delivery especially when Bryan intones "SHRINK-ing world" shook me and made me turn it up.

Talking Heads too - the whole of Stop Making Sense is about 8 or 9 people jumping around on stage but it's so marvellously performed that it could all be just emanating from David Byrne's brain.

I don't agree with Mule Variations. I like Tom Waits and I like a few of the tracks on this but his lyrics on this tend to stray towards the trite, repeating phrases over and over in this dirgey way that just makes me want to switch it off. I think some examples from Franks Wild Years would be better, particularly "Innocent When You Dream".

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

Solo Peter Gabriel has all of those elements. Early Genesis (Gabriel years) didn't necessarily have lyrics quite as good as his solo material (or at least they were kind of weird), but then, the music itself is even so much better I still prefer it. I have never considered lyrics all that important.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 16 November 2006 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

astral weeks

― Don Nightingale (don.nightingale), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Kate Bush.
Kate Bush.
Kate Bush.

"Get out of my house" being perhaps the best example.

― scnnr drkly (scnnr drkly), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

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