Which bands have the WORST lyrics?

[Chucky]

so which one...?
for me... it's gotta be

Blink 182... it's so childish...

[TheBlackAcidChildren]

I don't like Avril Lavigne's songwriting. I detest cliché, and she doesn't even do a cliché well. It sucks.

[cant_stand_me_now]

blink 182 and quite a few RHCP songs (californication) have dreadful and random lyrics

[Permanent Solution]

blink 182 and quite a few RHCP songs (californication) have dreadful and random lyrics
Just because you don't understand them does not make them bad lyrics. Gain some intelligence is the best option here.

[joe_bass]

quite a few RHCP songs (californication) have dreadful and random lyrics

:rolleyes:

[Zortalk]

I've gotta agree with Chucky, Blink 182's lyrics are really childish

Godsmack has some really crappy songs with crappy lyrics to go along with.

[bassisbest]

Blink 182 prior to enema of the state were awesome. after that they were ****. Now......not so bad.

[i am the robots]

Good Charlotte.... lifestyles of the rich and the famous, they're always complainin.

Pure ****, worse than some of my lyrics.

[SomewhatDamaged]

CKY. I don't think their lyrics are very original. They're the kind of lyrics I can predict what they're going to rhyme their words with next.

"Close yet far, drop me a line and tell me how the hell you are."

For a reletively slow song, I expect alittle bit more meaningful lyrics. Or just better lyrics.

[espf-250htd06]

lol pretty much anything thats mainstream thats all i know to tell you

[ªÑ†i~ƒ£åG im 2 emo 2 shower]

rage against the machine...wow think they repeat themselfs enough...and hey! blink 182 rocks...so do their lyrics..."my pants are off right now" from toast and bananas :P

[deejuks2]

all i know is bands/people like Mr. Bungle, Melvins, Neil Young, and Simon and Garfunkel have THE BEST. You can't top it. Fantomas WOULD have good lyrics, if they wrote their own lyrics.

[deejuks2]

bands like 3 days grace, and linkin park. is that all they sing about it stuff like "ill never be you", "can't be what you want me to be", or "your wrong if you think that ill be just like you". wow. how ****ing stupid do you have to be to write those lines, look at them, and say "Hey! that sounds good!" what a bunch of un-creative bAstards.

[i am the robots]

rage against the machine...wow think they repeat themselfs enough...and hey! blink 182 rocks...so do their lyrics..."my pants are off right now" from toast and bananas :P

You criticize Rage and commend Blink 182. Amazing.

[i am the robots]

bands like 3 days grace, and linkin park. is that all they sing about it stuff like "ill never be you", "can't be what you want me to be", or "your wrong if you think that ill be just like you". wow. how ****ing stupid do you have to be to write those lines, look at them, and say "Hey! that sounds good!" what a bunch of un-creative bAstards.

All Linkin Park sings about? Yeah... ok. Because the ****ing end of their worst song says stuff like that you criticize every song the band made. Let's go with their singles cause they're prolly all you ever heard.

Is Papercut about not wanting to be like others? No. It's about drug induced paranoia.

Is One Step Closer about not wanting to be like others? No. It's about people being gay and getting mad at them.

Is Crawling? No. It's a song about suicide. Is Points Of Authority? No. It's about a previous relationship.

Is In The End? No. It's about one of their previous singers who died in a car crash.

Is Somewhere I Belong? No. It's about inspiration.

Is Faint? No. It's about feelings (pretty gay song).

Is From The Inside? No. It's yet another song about drug induced paranoia.

Is Lying From You? Yes.

Is Numb? Yes.

Is Breaking The Habit? No. The title is self explanatory.

Let's see 2/11 singles is about that concept. Shut your mouth and know your roll.

[session9]

"Shut your mouth and know your ROLL"? That could be an advertising slogan for the The Hard Rock Cafe! :P

As for who has the worst lyrics, I vote for some of those hair-metal bands - not the good ones like Tesla, but the really crappy ones. Some of those lyrics were ****-rock bull**** at it's worst. Whitesnake springs to mind, but they had the saving grace of a good singer and Steve Vai (for a little while). And they were okay before the 80s. So I'd say somebody like Warrant, instead.

[mshort813]

green day's new stuff has the worst lyrics. look at how much repeating is done of "i walk alone on this lonely street and i walk alone" and stuff like that.

I walk a lonely road
The only one I that have ever known
Don't know were it goes
But its home and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Blvd. of broken dreams
Were the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone.

[i am the robots]

"Shut your mouth and know your ROLL"? That could be an advertising slogan for the The Hard Rock Cafe! :P

As for who has the worst lyrics, I vote for some of those hair-metal bands - not the good ones like Tesla, but the really crappy ones. Some of those lyrics were ****-rock bull**** at it's worst. Whitesnake springs to mind, but they had the saving grace of a good singer and Steve Vai (for a little while). And they were okay before the 80s. So I'd say somebody like Warrant, instead.

lmao

[espf-250htd06]

most of u make good points except deejuks, when i said mainstream sucks yal know what i meant linkin park and smile empty soul and a few other good bands may be main stream and have good lyrics there the exception here cya this forum anit getting much attention whats up yal check out my song past desires

[Permanent Solution]

green day's new stuff has the worst lyrics. look at how much repeating is done of "i walk alone on this lonely street and i walk alone" and stuff like that.

I walk a lonely road
The only one I that have ever known
Don't know were it goes
But its home and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Blvd. of broken dreams
Were the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone.
I actually liked the repetition in that song for one reason, it seemed more like an internal monologue type thing to me, and often you can feel that way and your mind repeats itself. It is hard to explain, but I connected to its use there.

[session9]

green day's new stuff has the worst lyrics. look at how much repeating is done of "i walk alone on this lonely street and i walk alone" and stuff like that.

I see your Green Day, and I raise you Whitesnake's Here I go Again:


(Chorus)
Here I go again on my own,
Walking down the only road I've ever known...
Like a drifter I was born to walk alone
And I've made up my mind, I ain't wasting no more time
So here I go again...


Uncannily similar...

[metaliq]

I dont like this thread.

It's stupid.

All you n--bs never return crits... and you know what? It's not nice.

[Permanent Solution]

Moreover, most of you have no idea what you are talking about, and few of the regulars come here because of you, you have killed off your best way to learn. Congratulations, hopefully this thread gets good again soon. (That would require every stupid n--b to leave [over half of you] and all the smart ones to return crits, this will never happen :upset: )

[metaliq]

I wouldnt mind them if they returned...

Literally, all my crits have been from regulars, and even merakab because he is a cool dude. One day I critt'd prolly 12 noobs... left a link in each (some even said they would return crits...) and i got ZERO response. I even left things that were constructive. So I have decided I am not going to crit any noobs unless I like them for some uncanny reason. Or unless they crit me first because no one returns anymore. They kills the love in S&L.

Also, I found out im getting published. *high five*

[Permanent Solution]

No S&L love anymore, so sad...if you are getting published, you should leave, once you are published you are clearly too good for us ;)

[metaliq]

Ah yes.

Its even in a book too. A hardcover book that costs $50. How rad is that?

Anyway, this time has been long past due. Meh, I kid, it hasnt been.

[Steerpike]

I'm siding with Met and Zep here. This thread is turning into a pissing contest, and a lot of you should be doing critiques instead of arguing "don't diss (insert band name here)'s lyrics."

The amount of responses I got to my last couple of songs is pretty abysmal. I keep critiquing and leaving links just because I feel if none of the noobs are going to say anything, then let me be the one to bear the cross and do my part with a handful of likeminded others to keep this bloody forum alive.

[Steerpike]

Also, I found out im getting published. *high five*

Awesome. Wish me luck, as I'm trying to get a film made this summer. A screen adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story "Pickman's Model."

[Permanent Solution]

I used to do that, and then realized I don't have the time to tell everyone the exact same thing. I decided screw it, let the forum die, and then I can return when all the idiots have gotten bored ruining my home :(

EDIT: Good luck with that, I hear back from the uni lit mag in February whether or not I get published, maybe even paid :naughty:

[metaliq]

Awesome. Wish me luck, as I'm trying to get a film made this summer. A screen adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story "Pickman's Model."

Awesome man, good luck. Adaptions can be pulled off well if they are in the right hands. I hope yours would happen to be a set of the kind.

And zeppi... I contemplated that, and I have been waiting for it to go away... I think the forum has its waves, which come and go.... you just happened to be spoiled when you joined ;).

[session9]

Some of the new visitors (to this part of the forum) are trying not to get drawn into the arguments, and are trying to offer some limited suggestions on songs, but it takes time to improve at critiquing.

I (for example) am not confident enough in my own songwriting abilities to do a line-by-line deconstruction of someone else's work, and I wouldn't want to inflict my attempts at doing so upon someone until I was convinced they would be worth making. Maybe lots of other new posters are of a similar frame of mind...

[metaliq]

I agree with you session, if your not comfortable with doing a line by line after someone has done something that took 15 minutes for you... then you should at least try and tell them what you liked and didnt like.

[Permanent Solution]

Some of the new visitors (to this part of the forum) are trying not to get drawn into the arguments, and are trying to offer some limited suggestions on songs, but it takes time to improve at critiquing.

I (for example) am not confident enough in my own songwriting abilities to do a line-by-line deconstruction of someone else's work, and I wouldn't want to inflict my attempts at doing so upon someone until I was convinced they would be worth making. Maybe lots of other new posters are of a similar frame of mind...
I don't mind newbs giving small crits, I mind newbs not returning crits at all. Not even bothering to acknowledge my work with a simple thank you in my stuff is, imo, just plain rude, and a lot of newbs do exactly that. Piece by pieces given by non-regs are usually not helpful anyways, but if we give helpful crits and don't even get acknowledgement for it, that is rude. Not to mention the newbs who do go around starting fights, and there are several. We don't need fights in this forum, occasionally we get them, but the last 3 I can think of have all been because of newbs shooting their mouths off. This should be the most mature forum, and the influx of newbs has dropped the maturity level here about 10 years.

[session9]

I've only been here a few days and I've already been drawn into discussions that have almost escalated into arguments, mainly out of a difference of approach to writing.

I tend to go for the basic stuff with as little abstract poetic allusion as I can (most of the time) and some other people don't, so they think I'm having a go at them when I'm merely stating that there is a difference in styles. (And my humour probably doesn't help my cause). But since I'm probably one of the more mature posters on here in terms of age, I don't really want to get into flamewars with teenagers, so I try and move on quickly.

Perhaps there should be ground rules for responses, like "don't go off on a tangent issuing your sermons about the subject of a song if you disagree with the politics it expresses" (as an example) or something. Or if there are already ground rules, maybe they should be enforced more strictly. There's plenty of places to rant about stuff, this should be about making songs better, at least that's my take on it.

[metaliq]

Session.... You > Other low post counters.

You are no longer a noob. You are a man. Well... a matured noob, this in between noob and vet.

And I do not like the arguments that happen in peoples threads, thats why I dont partake in them. Unless Zeppi IM's me and tells me we are going to go all hardcore on some kid... hehe ;).

[Permanent Solution]

Unfortunately, almost all the newbs here are really immature and know little if anything about songwriting. They try to hide that knowledge by criticizing what they don't understand, and not responding to what they don't. As a rule, the songs with the fewest crits here lately are the most complex. I really don't care if someone argues belief in one of my pieces because I am a controversial writer, but I can also out-argue 99% of the people here. I like more complex writing, but I can appreciate a good simplistic song too, newbs are rather bad at that. The problem is that not a lot of people here have enough maturity or experience to be criticizing others' writing, but they do, and then they argue it to hell because they are 15 and feel rebellious. I don't know, I am just getting a little sick of dealing with that here in what should easily be the most mature forum on mx.

Oh yeah, I go hardcore on kids a lot, because I hate it when people are wrong and can't admit it. You are not a newb in my eyes though, a newb is just immature, regardless of post count or join date.

[Steerpike]

There's plenty of places to rant about stuff, this should be about making songs better, at least that's my take on it.

Excellent, one more person who gets it.

It's disappointing the direction this forum is going in. With any luck, the petty noobs will get bored and move on. Those of us who are serious need to just keep posting to keep the momentum going for newcomers who agree that this should be an artists' community, not a piss-and-moan board.

[metaliq]

Steerpike... you've been here a while. Have you ever noticed they come in waves? There are always a constand flow, but there are high tides and low tides. The low tides generally have more pearls, while the high tides carry in the rest...

[session9]

Well...thanks people, I feel wanted! :)

I'm of the opinion that it's harder to write a good but simple-sounding song than it is to write something that veils it's subjects behind layers of metaphor, and looks impressive but doesn't really say that much. Not pointing at anyone here (I haven't read enough yet), but I've been a mod on a poetry forum's lyrical section for a few months now (for shame), and it's something I see again and again - I read their poetic "songs" and I think "yeah, lots of obscure vocabulary and poetic imagery, but how are you going to sing it without sounding totally over-pretentious?"

However - a song by a good writer can use all those tools (and even be a little pretentious too) and still work blindingly well.

metalliq's piece (that I just read) was a poem, that I guessed (and I sort of joked about it too) but it flowed in quite a rap-like style to me (someone who's a bit highbrow and artistic about it, like how Michael Franti tries to be). There was an implicit rhythm in the words, they weren't just placed with no thought to the kind of things that work in song as well as poetry.

But then I also like Jello Biafra, and he doesn't tend to go in for that sort of thing! So what was I saying? Yeah...thanks, but I know my place, and I know what I have the mindset to be able to criticise. That's why I won't be going for the kill just yet, until I've built my skills up after a long break from poetry.

[Steerpike]

Steerpike... you've been here a while. Have you ever noticed they come in waves? There are always a constand flow, but there are high tides and low tides. The low tides generally have more pearls, while the high tides carry in the rest...

Yeah... yeah that pretty much happens in just about all online communities now that I think about it. People are such a pain in the ***.

I actually have left several online communities because the noobs were intent on keeping the tide low. I just jumped ship with the other vets.

[A_Perfect_Sonnet]

good charlotte, linkin park, avril lavigne, ashlee simpson (any of those female "punk" pop stars), simple plan, most of the 70s/80s early punk wave bands had terrible lyrics (although they were so **** catchy :)), switchfoot, the white stripes, more that i cant think of right now

now for the bands i like that have terrible lyrics
Modest Mouse,
Interpol,
The Strokes,
Killswitch Engage (at least with the new singer, so cliched :/)
and once again, some others i cant remember

[metaliq]

Way to change the topic APS... :rolleyes:

Cheers.

[Permanent Solution]

Well...thanks people, I feel wanted! :)

I'm of the opinion that it's harder to write a good but simple-sounding song than it is to write something that veils it's subjects behind layers of metaphor, and looks impressive but doesn't really say that much. Not pointing at anyone here (I haven't read enough yet), but I've been a mod on a poetry forum's lyrical section for a few months now (for shame), and it's something I see again and again - I read their poetic "songs" and I think "yeah, lots of obscure vocabulary and poetic imagery, but how are you going to sing it without sounding totally over-pretentious?"

However - a song by a good writer can use all those tools (and even be a little pretentious too) and still work blindingly well.

metalliq's piece (that I just read) was a poem, that I guessed (and I sort of joked about it too) but it flowed in quite a rap-like style to me (someone who's a bit highbrow and artistic about it, like how Michael Franti tries to be). There was an implicit rhythm in the words, they weren't just placed with no thought to the kind of things that work in song as well as poetry.

But then I also like Jello Biafra, and he doesn't tend to go in for that sort of thing! So what was I saying? Yeah...thanks, but I know my place, and I know what I have the mindset to be able to criticise. That's why I won't be going for the kill just yet, until I've built my skills up after a long break from poetry.

Ah well, I write pretty pretensiously:
http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=255479
(don't crit, just an example). But I feel writing like that gets my point across better for me, and it also leaves some meaning up to interpretation, I like to have to guess a little about meaning, it is more fun.

APS, stop trying to de-hijack this thread and get on this topic. :p

[A_Perfect_Sonnet]

Well...thanks people, I feel wanted! :)

I'm of the opinion that it's harder to write a good but simple-sounding song than it is to write something that veils it's subjects behind layers of metaphor, and looks impressive but doesn't really say that much. Not pointing at anyone here (I haven't read enough yet), but I've been a mod on a poetry forum's lyrical section for a few months now (for shame), and it's something I see again and again - I read their poetic "songs" and I think "yeah, lots of obscure vocabulary and poetic imagery, but how are you going to sing it without sounding totally over-pretentious?"

However - a song by a good writer can use all those tools (and even be a little pretentious too) and still work blindingly well.

metalliq's piece (that I just read) was a poem, that I guessed (and I sort of joked about it too) but it flowed in quite a rap-like style to me (someone who's a bit highbrow and artistic about it, like how Michael Franti tries to be). There was an implicit rhythm in the words, they weren't just placed with no thought to the kind of things that work in song as well as poetry.

But then I also like Jello Biafra, and he doesn't tend to go in for that sort of thing! So what was I saying? Yeah...thanks, but I know my place, and I know what I have the mindset to be able to criticise. That's why I won't be going for the kill just yet, until I've built my skills up after a long break from poetry.


you are beginning to be my new favorite person on the forums :)

[session9]

I've heard nothing but bad things about poetry.com, I'm sorry to say. "Vanity press" and "scam" seem to about cover it. Check this page out:

http://www.winningwriters.com/wergleflomp/yewgottalarf.htm

[i am the robots]

I'm siding with Met and Zep here. This thread is turning into a pissing contest, and a lot of you should be doing critiques instead of arguing "don't diss (insert band name here)'s lyrics."

The amount of responses I got to my last couple of songs is pretty abysmal. I keep critiquing and leaving links just because I feel if none of the noobs are going to say anything, then let me be the one to bear the cross and do my part with a handful of likeminded others to keep this bloody forum alive.

I <3 u man

[metaliq]

Interestin session.. hm..

[session9]

Interestin session.. hm..
Yeah, isn't it just?

Sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings though, but it's supposedly impossible to actually find a poetry.com (or "International House of Pancakes" or whatever they call themselves) publication in any real bookshop. The copies paid for by the poets themselves might well be the only ones they ever print.

(Anyway, I'm off to sleep now, I need my three hours of beauty sleep before I get up to go to work for 12 ****ING HOURS tomorrow. When's a national holiday when you need it.)

[metaliq]

Meh, its all good. You = good man. Hehe :).

Anyway.. this thread is a lil old.

[Jet Black Stare]

All Linkin Park sings about? Yeah... ok. Because the ****ing end of their worst song says stuff like that you criticize every song the band made. Let's go with their singles cause they're prolly all you ever heard.

Is Papercut about not wanting to be like others? No. It's about drug induced paranoia.

Is One Step Closer about not wanting to be like others? No. It's about people being gay and getting mad at them.

Is Crawling? No. It's a song about suicide. Is Points Of Authority? No. It's about a previous relationship.

Is In The End? No. It's about one of their previous singers who died in a car crash.

Is Somewhere I Belong? No. It's about inspiration.

Is Faint? No. It's about feelings (pretty gay song).

Is From The Inside? No. It's yet another song about drug induced paranoia.

Is Lying From You? Yes.

Is Numb? Yes.

Is Breaking The Habit? No. The title is self explanatory.

Let's see 2/11 singles is about that concept. Shut your mouth and know your roll.

You my good sir are a jackass...and a moron. "Faint is about feelings!!!..*thinks to himself..I better call it gay...I cant be known on this forum as a gay who likes a song about feelings"

And this is a mature way of describing it

Is One Step Closer about not wanting to be like others? No. It's about people being gay and getting mad at them.

[A_Perfect_Sonnet]

hey you are just putting him one step closer to the edge, and he's about to break ;)

[Jezen]

You know who cant write a song to save their lives? Atomic Kitten. OMFG I hate those three.

[Jezen]

Well I dont have a very high post count and im 14 but I am serious on this forum. I enjoy songwriting, and I wouldnt have been inspired to start if it werent for me finding this forum. I dont like flame wars, or even flaming at all. It is completely un-necessary and when I first came here everyone was very mature and every crit was constructive.
I do agree about the whole waves thing. I think we are in a high tide right now, or have just experienced one over the past few days.

[Chucky]

green day's new stuff has the worst lyrics. look at how much repeating is done of "i walk alone on this lonely street and i walk alone" and stuff like that.

I walk a lonely road
The only one I that have ever known
Don't know were it goes
But its home and I walk alone
I walk this empty street
On the Blvd. of broken dreams
Were the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone.

I love that song! and the lyrics!

[idontcarewhatyouthink]

my band has the worst lyrics

[CofDdrums12]

Good Charlotte.... lifestyles of the rich and the famous, they're always complainin.

Pure ****, worse than some of my lyrics.

Haha. I'm a fan of Blink-182. T.O.Y.P.A.J. sucked, but the new CD is a lot better.

But Good Charlotte?! I HATE them. I was flipping through GuitarOne or something once and saw GC's guitarist grouped together w/ guitarists from hard rock bands.
...I fell on the floor laughing.

"Sooo pre...dict...able..."
That they are. **** GC.

Later for you.

[fleas_fingers]

Three Days Grace for sure. I mean the lyrics the chorus?? "I hate everything about you. why do i love you?" What the hell is that? Wow, it RHYMES. doesn't have any creativity at all. linkin park as well. theyre songs are so formulaic. they're music and lyrics. they all have drop tuning, and they all use the same chords in the key of E, it only sounds good because of the heavy distortion. i could work out the guitar part in a minute.

[Merkaba]

You criticize Rage and commend Blink 182. Amazing.
God, you took the words right out of my mouth. I was like gimme a break.

[Merkaba]

I like simple lyrics sometimes. So i wont just flame LP or GC or blink all the way. I would be good to see some deeper songs though. But sometimes i dont want to wade through a bunch of symbology. Shlt, i have felt exactly like "i hate everything about you, but why do love you" . Just because a song is simple doesnt mean its bad. Now a whole album is another thing.

[Merkaba]

Well I dont have a very high post count and im 14 but I am serious on this forum. I enjoy songwriting, and I wouldnt have been inspired to start if it werent for me finding this forum. I dont like flame wars, or even flaming at all. It is completely un-necessary and when I first came here everyone was very mature and every crit was constructive.
I do agree about the whole waves thing. I think we are in a high tide right now, or have just experienced one over the past few days.
I commend you on being a mature 14 year old. yea its pathetic to see how some of your fellow earthlings think at times.

[ABulldog]

Almost all pop punk.

[i am the robots]

I like simple lyrics sometimes. So i wont just flame LP or GC or blink all the way. I would be good to see some deeper songs though. But sometimes i dont want to wade through a bunch of symbology. Shlt, i have felt exactly like "i hate everything about you, but why do love you" . Just because a song is simple doesnt mean its bad. Now a whole album is another thing.

want some deep linkin park songs?

place for my head
forgotten
papercut
carousel
and one
in the end (once you know the meaning)
from the inside

[Arm_The_Homeless]

Go to your tv. Turn it on. Change it to mtv. You are listening to bad lyrics.

I've never really read any of linkin parks lyrics, but even if they are good the singer is terrible and so is the band they just bore the hell out of me.

I've never heard any good punk lyrics but I particularly hate Voo Doo Glow Skulls and Reel Big Fish.

My brothers band has to take worst. They're a compilation of all bad music to ever exist and the chord the guitarist knows is not impressive.

[Arm_The_Homeless]

Hair bands suck too.

[Permanent Solution]

Go to your tv. Turn it on. Change it to mtv. You are listening to bad lyrics.

I've never really read any of linkin parks lyrics, but even if they are good the singer is terrible and so is the band they just bore the hell out of me.

I've never heard any good punk lyrics but I particularly hate Voo Doo Glow Skulls and Reel Big Fish.

My brothers band has to take worst. They're a compilation of all bad music to ever exist and the chord the guitarist knows is not impressive.
Such a shame that this is a thread about Lyrics, not sound or guitar skills. Now leave this forum, people like you have ruined this place by bringing in completely worthless discussion. To judge mainstream (MTV) based on a generalization that broad, you show no signs of intelligence. Your "elitism" by liking stuff not in the mainstream is not impressive here. If you have never read a band's lyrics, don't bash them, simple as that. This is not the vocals forum, it is the lyrics forum. Go post in R&M :wave:

[espf-250htd06]

most of the bands on mtv do suck but you cant say all of them do anit headbangers ball on mtv, yes, wouldnt lamb of god on head bangers ball, yes, dont they have some kick *** lyrics,yes i think i know what you meant when you said that but you didnt explain you self right

[metaliq]

ESPF... im buying a book for Christmas.

"Periods for Dummies"

Worst lyrics tho? Three days grace... mainly since he repeats the same overly cliche stanza for the whole song, with a possible change from "angry" to "stupid" or something. Trust me on this one... trust me...

[espf-250htd06]

lol right on i love them little yellow books dont yal

[Arm_The_Homeless]

I never said that I don't listen to mainstream stuff, everything i listen to is mainstream but its not gettin on mtv. I'm not refering to past mtv or mtv2 or anything like that becuause there used to be good stuff on mtv and i dont have mtv2 to know whats on it, I'm talkin about regular mtv right now with Brittney Spears and Missey Elliot and Simple Plan. I only made the Linkin Park comment because alot of people in this thread have been going back and forth on them and I haven't read all the lyrics becuse I don't like them but based on the several songs I have heard I don't like their lyrics and I thought I'd put my 2 cents in. Also, since this is a worst lyrics thread I'd think it would be assumed that any band i mention would have shitty lyrics reguardless of the fact that the only thing I specified was the terrible guitarist. I diddn't think that anyone would mind the minor deviation from the lyrics topic but I diddn't anticipate anyone, especially with as many post as you, to be so anal. I may be a newb but don't give me undeserved ****.

[BMM]

good charlotte, linkin park, avril lavigne, ashlee simpson (any of those female "punk" pop stars), simple plan, most of the 70s/80s early punk wave bands had terrible lyrics (although they were so **** catchy :)), switchfoot, the white stripes, more that i cant think of right now

now for the bands i like that have terrible lyrics
Modest Mouse,
Interpol,
The Strokes,
Killswitch Engage (at least with the new singer, so cliched :/)
and once again, some others i cant remember
modest mouse? are you serious? please take a closer listen to cds such as moon and antarctica. isaac brock is one intelligent cat.

[Permanent Solution]

I never said that I don't listen to mainstream stuff, everything i listen to is mainstream but its not gettin on mtv. I'm not refering to past mtv or mtv2 or anything like that becuause there used to be good stuff on mtv and i dont have mtv2 to know whats on it, I'm talkin about regular mtv right now with Brittney Spears and Missey Elliot and Simple Plan. I only made the Linkin Park comment because alot of people in this thread have been going back and forth on them and I haven't read all the lyrics becuse I don't like them but based on the several songs I have heard I don't like their lyrics and I thought I'd put my 2 cents in. Also, since this is a worst lyrics thread I'd think it would be assumed that any band i mention would have shitty lyrics reguardless of the fact that the only thing I specified was the terrible guitarist. I diddn't think that anyone would mind the minor deviation from the lyrics topic but I diddn't anticipate anyone, especially with as many post as you, to be so anal. I may be a newb but don't give me undeserved ****.
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I am just really mad at how bad this forum has become, and I basically flame newbs with no abandon now because they have ruined this forum for me. I like to let them know why. I understand where you are coming from, but that post would have been more appropriate in R&M. I just don't like going from R&M to here and seeing the same level of intelligence, which is, needless to say, poor. I don't hate you or anything, but when I see posts like that and I am stressed out and tired like I am quick to fire off :thumb:

[A_Perfect_Sonnet]

ESPF... im buying a book for Christmas.

"Periods for Dummies"

Worst lyrics tho? Three days grace... mainly since he repeats the same overly cliche stanza for the whole song, with a possible change from "angry" to "stupid" or something. Trust me on this one... trust me...

best insult ever

[CSD & the Soul Machines]

No it isn't, this is...

You sir, smell worse than a pile of boiling semen thrown onto a stack of used baby diapers made of your own *** cheese.

On to the worst lyrics...

-most all ice rap (except Ludacris cuz he's my fukin dawg)
-Yellowcard, Simple Plan, etc. all of that garbage...
-all disco

That's about all that I think are just plain terrible lyrics. I mean even bands that don't have great lyrics don't have extremely shltty ones. (The Who-I LOVE their lyrics but I don't fins them particularly deep or spectacular-, Led Zeppelin, etc.) They still have feeling and meaning behind them in some ways.

[A_Perfect_Sonnet]

BURN BABY BURN, DISCO INFERNO

^--best lyric ever

[chips88]

modest mouse? are you serious? please take a closer listen to cds such as moon and antarctica. isaac brock is one intelligent cat.

the moon and antartica lyrics are magnificent. if you dont think so, it's because you cant understand them. the whole album is one big theme. its great, and its definitely not terrible.

[A_Perfect_Sonnet]

i enjoy modest mouses lyrics a lot, but i found some of the ones on "Good News For People Who Like Bad News" a bit forced/bland, thats why i used modest mouse as one of my examples... even though that didnt even apply to me

[chips88]

i enjoy modest mouses lyrics a lot, but i found some of the ones on "Good News For People Who Like Bad News" a bit forced/bland, thats why i used modest mouse as one of my examples... even though that didnt even apply to me

agreed. the new album is definitely not modest mouse's best work, even if mtv tries to persuade you to believe otherwise.

[Arm_The_Homeless]

Thanks for pointin out disco power ranger that definately needed to ragged on. Completely slipped my mind.

[A_Perfect_Sonnet]

i already proved the disco point wrong using this well thought out and amazingly simple lyric,

BURN BABY BURN, DISCO INFERNO

[BMM]

the moon and antartica lyrics are magnificent. if you dont think so, it's because you cant understand them. the whole album is one big theme. its great, and its definitely not terrible.
thats what i was saying. you need to read the post i was replying to. i highlighted it.