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Zitro 
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 Topic: Which band has better lyrics?
Posted: December 07 2007 at 17:21 |
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I'm gonna be banned for this *hides*
Why can't the leader of ayreon get a lyricist or something?
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Tomodachi
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 17:40 |
 you're right...
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proglil49
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 17:42 |
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Still, on this list, Ayeron has the best lyrics.
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I want to be an astronaut
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Zitro
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 18:06 |
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Linkin Park sometimes has decent lyrics, especially their proggier songs in the last album "Hands Held High" and "The Little Things Give You Away"
Nickelback's are generic, AC/DC's are kinda awful (but fun maybe)
Ayreon has some of the most embarrassing and simplest lyrics I heard in prog.
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ClassicRocker
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 20:17 |
 Zitro wrote:
Linkin Park sometimes has decent lyrics, especially their proggier songs in the last album "Hands Held High" and "The Little Things Give You Away"
Nickelback's are generic, AC/DC's are kinda awful (but fun maybe)
Ayreon has some of the most embarrassing and simplest lyrics I heard in prog.
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Oh, c'mon, "Big Balls" is absolute poetry!
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King Crimson776
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 20:50 |
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AC/DC by far
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NotSoKoolAid
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 21:27 |
AC/DC all the way, Ayreon lyrics and style of vocals all sound like Lord of the Dorks, even if it is "well done." I don't need that in my life.
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1800iareyay
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 21:32 |
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Barring THE, Ayreon's lyrics are embarrassingly bad unless one compares it to power metal, then it's high-caliber. AC/DC gets my vote. Sure, all the songs are about sex, but a large number are quite witty. Nickelback and Linkin Park should be firebombed by the government for so many reasons.
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Dean
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 21:33 |
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I can't help but vote for Arjen, eventhough he isn't the greatest lyricist in prog, I still prefer him to the rest in this list. Which is impressive since he is not writing in his native language.
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What?
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The Doctor
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 21:34 |
some balls are held for charity and some for fancy dress, but when they're held for pleasure they're the balls i like the best, my balls are always bouncing to the left and to the right, it's my belief that my big balls should be held every night. 
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I can understand your anger at me, but what did the horse I rode in on ever do to you?
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Dim
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 21:35 |
Havent listened to the first one, AN ABSOLUTE HATE FOR THE OTHER THREE!
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1800iareyay
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 21:36 |
darqdean wrote:
I can't help but vote for Arjen, eventhough he isn't the greatest lyricist in prog, I still prefer him to the rest in this list. Which is impressive since he is not writing in his native language. |
I forgot to take that into account, but I still can't get behind any album's lyrics other than THE. To be fair, Arjen uses these silly fantasy/space lyrics to really talk about the human condition, so he's not as bad as I made him seem. I just wish he could find better metaphors. Jon Anderson took the out-there analogies to the limits I think.
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King Crimson776
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Posted: December 07 2007 at 21:57 |
schizoid_man77 wrote:
Havent listened to the first one, AN ABSOLUTE HATE FOR THE OTHER THREE! |
You forgot that AC/DC is the sh*t
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keiser willhelm
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Posted: December 08 2007 at 03:17 |
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Abstrakt
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Posted: December 08 2007 at 03:39 |
AC/DC is actually decent, both musically and lyrically. Nice to listen to now and then.
On the day I was born the rain fell down
There was trouble brewing in my home town
It was the seventh day, I was the seventh son
And it scared the hell out of everyone
They said stop, I said go
They said fast, I said slow
They said yes, I said no
I do the bad boy boogie
Being a bad boy ain't that bad
I've had me more dirty women than most men ever had
All you women come along with me
And I'll show you how good a bad boy can be
I said right and they said left
I said east and they said west
I said up and they said down
I do the bad boy boogie all over town
That song rocks! 
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Norbert
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Posted: December 08 2007 at 05:27 |
Ayreon in this company.
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Prog-jester
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Posted: December 08 2007 at 05:49 |
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Linkin Park manages to write sincere teen angst poetry, though aficionados of real poetry may hate this. Voted for them...surprised about this decision...voting for LP in a Prog poll...dude...that's strange...
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Zitro
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Posted: December 08 2007 at 07:32 |
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At least every once in a while they come up with some good lines:
A song about Hurricane Katrina.
Water grey
through the windows
Up the stairs
Chilling rain
Like an ocean
Everywhere
Chorus:
Don't want to reach for me do you?
I mean nothing to you
The Little Things Give You Away
And now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking
All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet / under water
I do
or
With hands held high into a sky so blue
as the ocean opens up to swallow you.
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Bj-1
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Posted: December 08 2007 at 10:26 |
As the AC/DC fan I am, Im gonna vote for them. They have some really entertaining lyrics. Linkin Park's first album is OK but never cared about the lyrics, only the music. Same with Nickelback. Ayreon's lyrics tries way too hard
YES, I am serious now!
Edited by Bj-1 - December 08 2007 at 10:26
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RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on!
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Zargus
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Posted: December 08 2007 at 11:49 |
Well AC/DC rock's and the lyrics aint that bad imo, pretty funny and fitting for the music, I hate Nickelcrap and dont realy like linkel prak ither and that Ayreon i have no idea what that is.. so my vote goes for the mighty Bon scott's ac/dc. 
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