xxxHunterxxx wrote:john stabb wrote:One more thing: After listening to Oasis "Mourning Glory" & Franz Ferdinand's 1st, I just cannot listen to either one. Something really pissed me off. Sure there's some melodies & interesting influences. But the lyrics are ASS CRAP
If a band can't come up with either meaningful, clever, tells a good story or just nice wordsmith, I just can't tolerate it.
I don't know enough Oasis lyrics to defend them but, with respect to Franz Ferdinand, you're on crack, Stubbs:
"The Dark Of The Matinée"
You take your white finger
Slide the nail under the top and bottom buttons of my blazer
Relax the fraying wool, slacken ties
And I'm not to look at you in the shoe, but the eyes, find the eyes
Find me and follow me through corridors, refectories and files
You must follow, leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee
The dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine
Yes it's mine
I time every journey to bump into you, accidentally
I charm you and tell you of the boys I hate
All the girls I hate
All the words I hate
All the clothes I hate
How I'll never be anything I hate
You smile, mention something that you like
How you'd have a happy life if you did the things you like
Find me and follow me through corridors, refectories and files
You must follow, leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee
The dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine
Yes it's mine
So I'm on BBC2 now, telling Terry Wogan how I made it
What I made is unclear now, but his deference is and his laughter is
My words and smile are so easy now
Yes, It's easy now
Yes, It's easy now
Find me and follow me through corridors, refectories and files
You must follow, leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee
The dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine
Yes it's mine
What Hunter said. Franz Ferdinand (while not Pulp, one of their main influences IMO) has some GREAT lyrics. This one is probably my favorite (at least lyrically). It's from their 2nd album. There's a lot of repetition here and it comes off much better when you hear the song, but there are some great, biting lines here. It's very much of its time and place (i.e. the reference to the "Transmission party" and stuff like that), but it is still great IMO. It's almost Sparks-like in its repetition (well some of their more recent stuff) and cleverness.
Well I woke up tonight and said I
I'm gonna make somebody love me
I'm gonna make somebody love me
And now I know, now I know, now I know
I know that it's you
You're lucky, lucky, you're so lucky!
Well do ya, do ya, do ya wanna?
Well do ya, do ya, do ya wanna?
Wanna go, where I've never let you before?
Well do ya, do ya, do ya wanna?
Well do ya, do ya, do ya wanna?
Want a go, of what I've never let you before?
Well he's a friend and he's so proud of you
He's a friend and I knew him before you, oh yeah
Well he's a friend and we're so proud of you
Your famous friend, well I blew him before ya, oh yeah
Well do ya, do ya, do ya wanna?
Well do ya, do ya, do ya wanna?
Wanna go, where I've never let you before?
Well here we are at the transmission party
I love your friends they're all so arty, oh yeah
Well I woke up tonight and said I
I'm gonna make somebody love me
I'm gonna make somebody love me
And now I know, now I know, now I know
I know that it's you
You're lucky lucky, you're so lucky!
Well do ya, do ya, do ya wanna?
Well do ya, do ya, do ya wanna?
Want a go, of what I've never let you before?
Lucky lucky, you're so lucky
Lucky lucky, you're so lucky
Lucky lucky, you're so lucky
Lucky lucky, you're so lucky
Lucky lucky, you're so lucky
Oh lucky lucky, you're so lucky
Yeah!
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