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Kashmir75
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Posted: June 10 2010 at 17:14 | |
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Hello, mirror. So glad to see you, my friend. It's been a while...
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Catcher10
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Posted: June 10 2010 at 17:32 | |
The Greatest Prog Lyricist.....hmmmm
Who cares!!!!
Ok I'll play...
Neil Peart, James LaBrie, Steven Wilson, Mike Portnoy, Ian Anderson, Phil Collins, Michael Jackson, Benny Hill, Richard Pryor, Elvis Presley......and GOD.
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DisgruntledPorcupine
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 16 2010 Location: Thunder Bay CAN Status: Offline Points: 4395 |
Posted: June 10 2010 at 17:49 | |
JLB really isn't a big songwriter in DT. |
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J-Man
Prog Reviewer Joined: August 07 2008 Location: Philadelphia,PA Status: Offline Points: 7826 |
Posted: June 10 2010 at 18:14 | |
Daniel Gildenlöw - I don't agree with many of his political standpoints, but his stories and psychological conceptual albums are fantastic!
Fish - His stuff with Marillion has some of the finest lyrics I've ever heard. Pure genius! Peter Gabriel - Supper's Ready, Get 'Em Out By Friday, Cinema Show, The Musical Box, Watcher of the Skies, and countless others are simply lyrical masterpieces. Neal Morse - Call them cheesy and whatever else you may want, but I love his narrative approach to lyrics. I don't consider myself to be a Christian anymore, but his lyrics are very personal and I can always relate to, and appreciate, his Christian-oriented approach. |
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enigma
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Posted: June 10 2010 at 18:36 | |
Roger W
Peter H Fish |
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Geizao
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Posted: June 11 2010 at 02:53 | |
Roger Waters Peter Sinfield Peter Hamill Peter Gabriel Jon Anderson |
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Sean Trane
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Posted: June 11 2010 at 03:42 | |
Good point Christer
We've only talked so far about English-written lyrics.
I won't speak about German texts, because iften the written lyrics are absent and I don't have sufficient knowledge of the language to judge
For the French texts (excluding the Kbaian dialect), I really liked Ripaille's sole album.... but the greatest lyricist are Jacques Brel, Claude Nougaro and Georges Brassens (Jean Ferrat is also good), but I wouldn't qualify their works a proggy. For prog and rock groups, I must say that only Noir Desir's Bertrand Cantat's are quite above the pack
For Italian texts, I get a good idea (via my Frech) of the lyrics when they are available (plus Andrea"s reviews are very helpful in that regard) and I'd say Banco and Jumbo's lyrics are above the rest.
Bizarrely enough, despitea good written knowledge of Spanish, I haven't ^paid much attention to Spanish texts since the rock group of Heroes Del Silencio. I'll have to investigate why I haven't.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Catcher10
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Posted: June 11 2010 at 09:53 | |
Go to page one...Jake Kobrin is who I was playing along with. He mentioned LaBrie.......albeit maybe his name does not get "printed" on their albums as writer..but I guarantee you he has much input on lyrics. Portnoy's ego gets in the way and his name appears on everything.
IMHO
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nahnite
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Posted: July 05 2010 at 15:49 | |
Topping my list would be Peart.
But there's also:
2/Jon Anderson
3/Ian Anderson
4/Peter Gabriel
5/Peter Sinfield
6/Mikael Akerfeldt
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7/James LaBrie (if he wrote more, I might like DT more.)
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sydbarrett2010
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Posted: August 09 2010 at 04:42 | |
roger waters
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sydbarrett2010
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Posted: September 15 2010 at 06:14 | |
peter sinfield
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Anderson III
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Posted: September 16 2010 at 11:30 | |
He's right, though. |
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"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and cannot remain silent" - Victor Hugo
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Lark the Starless
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Posted: September 16 2010 at 11:42 | |
Hammill would be my top lyricist, but I also enjoy Peter Gabriel, Neil Peart, and recently, Fish.
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Formentera Lady
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Posted: September 16 2010 at 17:19 | |
I like the lyrics of Fish (with Marillion, his solo works I do not know good enough).
Also some of the lyrics of Davies/Hodgson touch me (if it is not "Breakfast in America"). And of course Richard Palmer-James: "Cigarettes, ice cream, figurines of the Virgin Mary" - what else do you want? Probably Adrian Belew gives the answer: "sex sleep eat drink dream..." |
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The T
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Posted: September 16 2010 at 17:28 | |
The guys in canvas solaris are great lyricists.
So are the ones in liquid tension experiment.
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uduwudu
Forum Senior Member Joined: July 17 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2601 |
Posted: September 16 2010 at 17:59 | |
Jam Carrot, oops I mean Djam Karet have the sort of lyrics I like.
Exactly what is a prog rock lyric? I shall now sit down and compose a lyric in the progressive rock style. So maybe Christain Vander with his Kobaian themed albums that is also incomprehensible (unless one is fluent in Kobaian - and it has been known...) means he is the greatest. Yeah, Adrian Belew's ideas... Oh yes, that reminds me, anyone remember when his anti abortion mention in the great disasters of the 20th C lyric divided the KC cKommunity and meant Lark's 4 coda was performed instrumentally. |
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DisgruntledPorcupine
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Posted: September 16 2010 at 20:52 | |
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Catcher10
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Posted: September 16 2010 at 21:12 | |
I agree....end of topic
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Harry Hood
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Posted: September 16 2010 at 22:25 | |
Peter Hammill. The OP got it right for once. Leagues ahead of any native english speaking lyricist.
Runners up: John Darnielle (of the Mountain Goats) Peter Nichols (of IQ) Roger Waters (For Amused to Death, The Final Cut and Animals, everything else he did is just kind of okay)
That was actually a Robert Fripp lyric, and the only lyric Fripp contributed to King Crimson. And it's far better than anything Richard Palmer James wrote.
Edited by Harry Hood - September 16 2010 at 22:46 |
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Formentera Lady
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Posted: September 17 2010 at 07:36 | |
Yes, you are right, I just found out, that it is the only line that Robert Fripp wrote. But I like the comment on commercial activities, that is written around it. Edited by Formentera Lady - September 17 2010 at 07:37 |
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