Worst prog lyricists

Hi,

I look at it a bit .... left field. I (more or less) started with the things that were called "art rock", and one of the important things for some of those works, was the POETRY, and how it was presented ... we got to understand that "lyrics" were not only mundane, but also silly, in most radio stuff in the early days, and psychedelia poked a huge hole in that idea, by making fun of it, so to speak ... but the main difference ... no one was going to confuse the poetry showing in The Moody Blues to the crap in yummy yummy I got love in my tummy ... which is the ugly stuff that "art rock" wanted to get away from.

In some ways, the word "art rock" just about makes sense here, instead of comparing the lyrics to another era or poet ... and this is the hard part of this thread, when "lyricists" are kinda comparing a lot of writers to just a bunch of songs, that ... I suppose we could say have no literary value in them? But the song became famous and sold, see?

These days, I no longer look at "lyrics" as poor poetry, or vice versa, as there are many folks out there that are quite capable, except that no one is going to publish a book of their "poetry" .... like so many did for Jim Morrison, Peter Hammill, and so others. I don't even know if Pete Brown had any books published, but we know that his "ability" with lyrics went downhill after Cream for some reason, if some of the stuff he did afterwards was a clue.