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Somehow I'm really bothered by bands writing songs that have lyricsthat truly don't fit their sound at all.
{begin rant on shitty song}
The following rant concerns the song "Somebody told me" by the Killers.
The words "breaking my back just to know your name" are pretty fucking intense and angry sounding lyrics, but what do we get? We get the emotionless indie/emo-pop/rock voice ran through $10000+ of equipment with backin tracks that sound like a mix of disco and rock that truly fails at both.
Of course, if the song were to fit it's lyrics.. at least for that line, the vocals should have the emotion of johny rotten, but less tone deff. This really isn;t hard to do. I can sing the song better emotionally and i'm less tone deff than johny rotten (which is in no way saying much of anything), but the rest of the music still need to sound fucking intense. I mean this guy is BREAKING HIS FUCKING BACK in order to learn the name of some romantic of his. Maybe some rhythmically synchopated intensity or something. christ!
The point i'm trying to make (and have done a terrible job at doing so far) is that bands should write song and then think of music that fit their fucking songs so that their songs are worthwhile and better in general.
Now I don't mind metal bands doing songs about kittens, puppies, flowers and old nursery rhymes (because that is actually ironic and funny), but I do mind a fucking contrived piece of shit made for dancing that just had some fucking lyrics thown on it that sounded good at the time. A bad dance rock song about breaking your back to know her name and somebodie's boyfriend and girlfriend and I don't even know what is just plain retarded.
It pisses me off that mainstream rock bands feel obligated to make every song of theirs sound very fuckin similar regardless of the lyricaly intensity. When the fuck did straight up pop (like without the rock (mmm pop rocks)) stay truer to it's songs than pop/rock? It's ridiculous than shit by justin timberlake fits it's lyrics better than shit made by the killers or nickleback for that matter. This kind of bullshit makes me ashamed to list rock as a genre that I like.
{end rant on shitty song}
Well, if anyone feels the same way about this as I do, my band, RWI, writes it's songs then puts music to them. So our music fits our lyrics fuckin perfectly and it's more interesting than shit you'll hear on the radio anyway. So, come out and see us at 8 pm on October, 27 2006 at The Limelight
2718 N. St. Mary's, San Antonio, 78212. DOn't know the cost yet though. Let's just say it's $5 or less. If they charge you more than five, come to me and I will refund you the diference myself.
With that said, I jsut spent an evening playing some call of cthulu board game with Charlie, Adam, Greg, and Andy. 4 of us were high on caffeine from the 12 pack of dr. pepper we split, and Andy was having fun too, he just wasn't as cooky. I've said it before, but it needs to be a well known fact: Giving me a shitload of caffiene turns me into one batshit crazy bastard. It's fun for everyone. And... somehow the evening seemed rather homo-erotic. It would have been creepy if adam didn't mention that he refers to his member as Omega Weapon.
{begin rant on shitty song}
The following rant concerns the song "Somebody told me" by the Killers.
The words "breaking my back just to know your name" are pretty fucking intense and angry sounding lyrics, but what do we get? We get the emotionless indie/emo-pop/rock voice ran through $10000+ of equipment with backin tracks that sound like a mix of disco and rock that truly fails at both.
Of course, if the song were to fit it's lyrics.. at least for that line, the vocals should have the emotion of johny rotten, but less tone deff. This really isn;t hard to do. I can sing the song better emotionally and i'm less tone deff than johny rotten (which is in no way saying much of anything), but the rest of the music still need to sound fucking intense. I mean this guy is BREAKING HIS FUCKING BACK in order to learn the name of some romantic of his. Maybe some rhythmically synchopated intensity or something. christ!
The point i'm trying to make (and have done a terrible job at doing so far) is that bands should write song and then think of music that fit their fucking songs so that their songs are worthwhile and better in general.
Now I don't mind metal bands doing songs about kittens, puppies, flowers and old nursery rhymes (because that is actually ironic and funny), but I do mind a fucking contrived piece of shit made for dancing that just had some fucking lyrics thown on it that sounded good at the time. A bad dance rock song about breaking your back to know her name and somebodie's boyfriend and girlfriend and I don't even know what is just plain retarded.
It pisses me off that mainstream rock bands feel obligated to make every song of theirs sound very fuckin similar regardless of the lyricaly intensity. When the fuck did straight up pop (like without the rock (mmm pop rocks)) stay truer to it's songs than pop/rock? It's ridiculous than shit by justin timberlake fits it's lyrics better than shit made by the killers or nickleback for that matter. This kind of bullshit makes me ashamed to list rock as a genre that I like.
{end rant on shitty song}
Well, if anyone feels the same way about this as I do, my band, RWI, writes it's songs then puts music to them. So our music fits our lyrics fuckin perfectly and it's more interesting than shit you'll hear on the radio anyway. So, come out and see us at 8 pm on October, 27 2006 at The Limelight
2718 N. St. Mary's, San Antonio, 78212. DOn't know the cost yet though. Let's just say it's $5 or less. If they charge you more than five, come to me and I will refund you the diference myself.
With that said, I jsut spent an evening playing some call of cthulu board game with Charlie, Adam, Greg, and Andy. 4 of us were high on caffeine from the 12 pack of dr. pepper we split, and Andy was having fun too, he just wasn't as cooky. I've said it before, but it needs to be a well known fact: Giving me a shitload of caffiene turns me into one batshit crazy bastard. It's fun for everyone. And... somehow the evening seemed rather homo-erotic. It would have been creepy if adam didn't mention that he refers to his member as Omega Weapon.