I get it, RoundTheBend. I have a song called On The Bus Between Stops that was written based on my complete fascination with the lyrical flow of "The Boy In The Bubble" by Simon. When he is on, he is amazing. _________________ May we all get to heaven
'Fore the devil knows we're dead...
Prince is leading Leonard Cohen 9-8. Great matchup, and I can see how holistically speaking one might find Prince to be a better songwriter, but this tournament is for lyrics only.
Those of you who are choosing Prince, what makes him better than Leonard Cohen lyrically?
Also curious about this. Prince is great but when I saw Cohen was in the tournament I thought he would be a favorite to win. Just the second verse of Suzanne is almost enough to get my vote. Add in Famous Blue Raincoat and he's up there with the greats.
Also, RoundTheBend's other thread made me realize that not only is Tom Waits not in our top 40, but nobody nominated him. _________________ And it's hard to be a human being. And it's harder as anything else.
"Hold on Magnolia, I hear that station bell ring. You might be holding the last light I see before the dark finally gets ahold of me." (Hold on Magnolia)
"Being in love means you are completely broken and put back together. The one piece that was yours is beating in your lover's breath." (Being in Love)
"It'll get so quiet when this record ends you can hear the first hour of the world. You can hear the willow leaves touch the wave." (The Big Game is Every Night)
"Want my last look to be the moon in your eyes." (Lioness)
And a recent favorite has been "North Star," which I can't recall most of from memory except for "No one chooses to be sick."
EDIT: Don't mean to encourage voting just based on these lyrics, hope they make people curious about the songs, they work much better in context! _________________ And it's hard to be a human being. And it's harder as anything else.
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I get it, RoundTheBend. I have a song called On The Bus Between Stops that was written based on my complete fascination with the lyrical flow of "The Boy In The Bubble" by Simon. When he is on, he is amazing.
Oh that's cool! I'd be down to hear. And yes boy in the bubble has great flow.
I mean this totally shouldn't flow at all, and yet he slam dunks it:
Quote:
And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby
Oh that's cool! I'd be down to hear. And yes boy in the bubble has great flow.
I mean this totally shouldn't flow at all, and yet he slam dunks it:
Quote:
And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby
Ask and ye shall get!
Link _________________ May we all get to heaven
'Fore the devil knows we're dead...
Prince is leading Leonard Cohen 9-8. Great matchup, and I can see how holistically speaking one might find Prince to be a better songwriter, but this tournament is for lyrics only.
Those of you who are choosing Prince, what makes him better than Leonard Cohen lyrically?
All the love to Prince, but I figured Cohen would be a landslide. A lot of Prince's lyrics by themselves are kinda cheesy, sleazy, campy, etc. He was always more of a musician. He wanted great musicianship, a bop, something to dance to. He definitely has some lyrical standouts, especially on Purple Rain and Sign O' The Times, but I'm not sure he even cared about the words half the time. His songs never relied on the lyrics. Cohen was the opposite. I could probably whip up quotes for at least 50 terrible lyrics off of Prince's tracks, and not just his later stuff. Apart from maybe Nas, I think Prince has the worst hit-to-miss ratio on the board (when it comes to lyrics).
Being said, Sometimes It Snows In April is just as good as anything Cohen ever wrote, and is an absolute stunner. Nothing Compares 2 U's also worth noting.
Speaking of Leonard Cohen, kinda with it was Tim Buckley on the board instead of Jeff.
Oh that's cool! I'd be down to hear. And yes boy in the bubble has great flow.
I mean this totally shouldn't flow at all, and yet he slam dunks it:
Quote:
And I believe
These are the days of lasers in the jungle
Lasers in the jungle somewhere
Staccato signals of constant information
A loose affiliation of millionaires
And billionaires and baby
Prince is leading Leonard Cohen 9-8. Great matchup, and I can see how holistically speaking one might find Prince to be a better songwriter, but this tournament is for lyrics only.
Those of you who are choosing Prince, what makes him better than Leonard Cohen lyrically?
All the love to Prince, but I figured Cohen would be a landslide. A lot of Prince's lyrics by themselves are kinda cheesy, sleazy, campy, etc. He was always more of a musician. He wanted great musicianship, a bop, something to dance to. He definitely has some lyrical standouts, especially on Purple Rain and Sign O' The Times, but I'm not sure he even cared about the words half the time. His songs never relied on the lyrics. Cohen was the opposite. I could probably whip up quotes for at least 50 terrible lyrics off of Prince's tracks, and not just his later stuff. Apart from maybe Nas, I think Prince has the worst hit-to-miss ratio on the board (when it comes to lyrics).
Being said, Sometimes It Snows In April is just as good as anything Cohen ever wrote, and is an absolute stunner. Nothing Compares 2 U's also worth noting.
Speaking of Leonard Cohen, kinda with it was Tim Buckley on the board instead of Jeff.
Prince is leading Leonard Cohen 9-8. Great matchup, and I can see how holistically speaking one might find Prince to be a better songwriter, but this tournament is for lyrics only.
Those of you who are choosing Prince, what makes him better than Leonard Cohen lyrically?
Oh, that's not how I interpreted the tournament. I saw it as the overall song- just that the songwriters would need to fit a more formal sense of being a songwriter by writing the kind of songs that have lyrics.
Otherwise, yeah, if you just extract the lyrics then it would always be Cohen- he was literally a poet as well. But it doesn't make sense to me to do this.
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