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That sounds like you approach poetry in the way people are usually taught in school. I can't stand that. I hate it when people (like teachers *cough*) think that poetry is about using a bunch of stylistic devices. Like all art, it's about making people feel something. Not much into poetry myself (a passionate reader nonetheless, more into prose though), but I couldn't escape the pure might of Poe's language in The Raven. It's just like music, but in the form of language.

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"a decent beat+mediocre lyrics will always trump a mediocre beat+decent lyrics on the enjoyment rating."



on YOUR enjoyment rating

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"Most lyricist dont have anything insightful to say"



lol

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"Music becomes more lyric-centered the more perceptible the lyrics are. So if a song is minimalistic, the vocals in the center and the lyrics distinguishable "



yes



plenty of hip hop is purposefully minimalistic in terms of the instrumental portion with heavy emphasis on lyrics



it becomes something more akin to pure poetry



that being said theres plenty of music which has heavy emphasis on both instrumentals and lyrics/concept



big obvious example: pink floyd

@sandbitch please pm me and send cassette

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You guys are all goobers



@ghandhi it's just le tigre covers made around the time I was obsessed, trust me it's better buried

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Never got poetry classes in school lol.

Agreed, poetry is like music in paper form, but it is so linked to language and tied so heavily to subjectivity in a way music isn't. There's a universality to music that scapes any form of interpretation. It IS the universal language, you can't communicate too much complex information or narrative, but emotion OH BOY can you communicate emotion so much more efficiently through music than you ever could through text, it's not even fair.

@guitarded. Syb barrets lyricalism is still preped up by his unique voice tho. Whilst the childish lyrical surealism in music was rarely foud before, the protagonist is still his voice.

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@rabidfish: Yeah, I mean, nothing you wrote explicitly contradicts anything that I wrote - so agreed, to some degree. Music may not be quite as universal as you make it sound in your comment (since, for example, some different harmonic qualities are experienced differently throughout different cultures), but either way, the expressiveness of music is unmatched. After all, that's why it's so easy to make an emotional film scene using music. Because music is the easiest way to convey emotion. That doesn't mean that poetry can't reach comparable heights in its own way, of course.

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I disagree, words cannot reach that same heights, at least not without using tone, entonation, rhythm and melody, which are all musical qualities.

^^^^^goobers

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I think from the discussion we can safely deduce that music > other stuff

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That's why we're here

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"@guitarded. Syb barrets lyricalism is still preped up by his unique voice tho. Whilst the childish lyrical surealism in music was rarely foud before, the protagonist is still his voice. "



are you genuinely pretending that i was referring to the one album syd era vs the 10 or whatever album roger era or



the concept and lyrics of dsotm/wywh/animals/the wall are an integral part of the whole package



whether one cares or listens to the lyrics vs the instrumentals is individualistic and depends on taste however there is no denying how the lyrics and concept tie together with the instrumentals

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damn this closer is amazing

closer is GOAT

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It's probably their best song, at least top 5.

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only downhill from here T_T

Lorelei, Frou-Frou and Lazy Calm are probably their best tracks and holy shit what a trio

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Not really a bad track on here tbh it’s a classic