/lit/ - Literature

Lil Uzi Vert

David Tibet

>>11052503

Chico Buarque is great.

An example (the translation is mine, so sorry for the bad quality)

One simple example:

Oh, pedaço de mim
Oh, metade arrancada de mim
Leva o vulto teu
Que a saudade é o revés de um parto
A saudade é arrumar o quarto
Do filho que já morreu

Oh, pedaço de mim
Oh, metade amputada de mim
Leva o que há de ti
Que a saudade dói latejada
É assim como uma fisgada
No membro que já perdi

Here is the translation:

Oh, piece of me
Oh, my half ripped of from me
Take away your shadow
For longing is the reverse of childbirth
Longing is to tidy and clean the room
Of a son who has already died

Oh, piece of me
Oh, my half amputated from me
Takes what is there of you
For longing is like a throbbing pain
It is something like a deep sting
In an arm or leg that I have already lost

bob dylan for output
jeff mangum for highest peak
richey edwards for honorable mention

>>11052503
Tim Buckley
Lou Reed
Jeffrey Lee Pierce

Connor Oburst is fine too

joyce:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1BciVFOPpA
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaDBpViGWWI
crosses all genres

>>11052515
Too bad he is musically retarded

Jim

Robot walks into a bar
orders a drink
lays down a bill
Bartender says, hey we don't serve robots
and the robot says, oh but someday you will

>>11052503
Leon Payne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pSrf3Qr_yE

>>11052588
>duuuuude druuuugggs
nah

>>11052503
This shit has to stop
/mu/ is the worst board

>>11052594
Fuck off Nick Land

Nick Drake

Alice in Chains have their good moments
(“wife and kids
Household pets”)

Death Grips

>>11052503
>>11052616

Fuck the sun, fuck its kind
Daylight sucks, waste of mine
I fuck my mind, narrow my mind
I bide my time like fuck in place
One day, I'll wave sun to ice
Watch its kind get thrown like rice
My cackle stretch out like thunder
So fucking loud, it's vulgar

I pull my face out the dirt slow
These days I only wake up third of the way, narco
Held to deep rapid eye move, hold
These days I recede, rapid I reload
Gun my chances closed road, no road left to travel

I know what this calls for
Where's my scalpel?
Operation cut
Like I'm bored sew my inner war up like corn, rows
My internal war blows like freezing fog in Oslo
Frozen I can't get soft, baptized in hoarfrost
Like carbon monoxide garage
Freeze your blink with sandman's flush
I hate you so much
I hate your laws
I hate your need a cause
I hate your faux touch
I hate every last one of you
I ponder digesting razors just to be done with you
I love you so much

I'm triple the motherfucker
Mondo fisted, full of backwards
From banana town manor
My slang step like legless lizard
I fuck around, fashion a rocket
Shoot to Mercury for the winter
Extended vacation till I decompose on my splinters

I pull my face out the dirt slow
These days I only wake up third of the way, narco
Held to deep rapid eye move, hold
These days I recede, rapid I reload
Gun my chances closed road, no road left to travel

To centuries of damn
I've never been so yawn
Can't believe I'm still standing
Can't believe life take this long
I stagger off to find my lighter
I don't return until the day Sad A validates
Mankind's destiny in a worm

By the way, I don't pet bleachers
Courtside to nose-bleeders
Like I shoot shit with gimps
No response, losem' once
Incoming second attempt
To be real, I just shoot 'em up (just shoot 'em up)
Them clueless strut nailed to crucifix Lilith shoved up her cunt (shoved up her cunt)

Fuck

I pull my face out the dirt slow
These days I only wake up third of the way, narco
Held to deep rapid eye move, hold
These days I recede, rapid I reload
Gun my chances closed road, no road left to travel
I pull my face out the dirt slow
These days I only wake up third of the way, narco
Held to deep rapid eye move, hold
These days I recede, rapid I reload
Gun my chances closed road, no road left to travel

>Sleeping in and out of an ice bath
>No warmth, no life without
>It's too much
>My arms, my legs are wood
>Unconscious trees
>With roots deep in the ground
>We will all be out, soon
>An ocean ringed with tile
>I know that's not your style
>But it certainly will be mine
>If I can't get this right
>So please
>Please
>Please release me

(Angels of Light) Michael Gira
Phil Elverum
Bill Callahan
Jason Molina
Steve Albini
Arrington de Dionyso

>>11052599
Have you been to /v/? Or /g/? or /co/? /mu/ may be pretentious beyond belief but it's hardly the worst board.

>>11052655
The GOAT IS album.

>>11052665
I SAID IT IS THE WORST

This guy. There's a reason he's so many authors favorite artist.

Currently it's Jason Isbell, dude can write.....

We've been through this before. The answer is always Townes Van Zandt.

>>11052515
This
David Tibet is more of a poet who sets his works to music

K O Z G A N G WHERE MY NIGGAS AT?

>>11052884
englishhh to japannnnEeaase

>>11052736
Good choice. I would also like to nominate Leonard Cohen.

MC Ride
Unironically

>>11052922
How do musicians look so effortlessly cool? I guess charisma and confidence are essential qualities for any performer.

>>11052931
MES didn't look very cool when he looked 90 years old at age 60.

>>11052922
Based

>>11052922
When I'm dead and gone // My vibrations will live on // In vibes on vinyl through the years // People will dance to my waves

>>11052936
I would disagree. He didn't look attractive, sure, but he still looked cool. For me it's something about his bone structure. He's got a very unique appearance.

>>11052714
This, Tom Waits and Nick Cave

>>11052665
worst:
/pol/
/v/
best:
/int/
/s4s/
/ck/

https://soundcloud.com/bluegrasslex/daedalus

Wagner

>>11052959
int and s4s are shit and you forgot r9k in the worst

>>11052503
Bob Dylan

>>11052665
/g/ isn't even bad if it wasn't for all of the poor people

I'm always surprised that I never see this Silenus-looking ass mentioned. I get that his voice is not for everyone, but I think he's a damn good lyricist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwHlKQot0I

>>11052594
Patrician choice, anon. Sometimes I wake up before my wife, and bellow "still wearing last night's mascara!"

Phil Elverum
Mark Kozelek
John Balance
Jeff Mangum
Robert Smith
MC Ride
Leonard Cohen
Tom Waits
Neil Young
Darby Crash
Cap'n Jazz
Moss Icon
Mark Linkous
Lil Peep

>>11052503
The Mountain Goats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKrRYMnis4&list=PL5egOiwostLyROtTqd0Vw6fwa_qAKsvse

Scott Walker

Jarvis Cocker

>>11052629
so bad lmao typical rap junk

>>11052503
Aimee Mann, Emily Haines, Mos Def, Elvis Costello
(days of dutch courage/ just three french letters/ & a german sense of humor/ he's got a mind like a sewer & a heart like a fridge/ he stands to be insulted & he pays for the privilege/ to murder, my love, is a crime/ but will you still love/ a man out of time)
Del & the Hieroglyphics
So many not mentioned yet & I quoted no cutpaste

>>11052629
When, when we were young
We had no history, so nothing to lose
Meant we could choose, choose what we wanted then
Without any fear or thought of revenge
But then you grew old, and I lost my ambition
So I gained an addiction, to drink and depression
They are mine, my only true friends
And I'll keep them with me until the very end
I'd choose not to remember, but I miss your arrogance
And I need your intelligence, and your hate for authority
But now you're gone, I read it today
They found you in Spain, face down in the street
With a bottle in your hand and a wild smile on your face
And a knife in your back, you died in a foreign land
And they found my letter rolled up in your pocket
Where I said I'd kill myself if she left me again
So now she's gone, and you're both in my mind
I've got one thing to say before I am drunk again

God damn the sun
God damn the sun
God damn anyone
That says a kind word
God damn the sun
God damn the sun
God damn the light it shines
And this world it shows
God damn the sun

>>11052884
my man
some of his lyrics are hilariously bad, but overall he's the best lyricist going today

>>11052959
/fa/ has to be one of the worst

>>11052959
/int/ wasn't even that good back in the old days and now it's just /pol/ 2.0 revenge of the generals

>>11053320
Frank Black
All of whose lyrics are bad and great AT THE SAME TIME
=truly lit

>>11053453
>the other day at the potlatch
>come visitin' was a sasquatch
>who said although i'm a mismatch
>COULD I STAY JUST FOR AWHILE?
>'cause the likes of us are few
>(yeah)
>And we've still got nothin' to do!
Genius.
Next subject?

>>11052542
Não.
>>11052599
>he hasn't been to adv
>he hasn't been to b
>he hasn't been to v
>he never clicked on r
Dude.

Wsr best board.

>>11053482
Shut up /mu/tant

>>11052890
Japanese To English is a great song fuck you

julien baker debut album
sharon van etten - all her albums
nick drake
lisa hannigan

>>11052503
Thom York. It isn’t even close. You’re all fags and don’t appreciate him because he’s popular, but in about 20 years the analyses of his lyrics will demonstrate just how deeply allusive and pround they are, along with their political and cultural relevance.

Also Aesop Rock is second, though distantly.

/mu/ is a really funny board if you ever go there
they all have these charts and whenever they disagree with each other they yell "post chart" and they both have to post their chart and get called plebs by the other anons
it's like the wild west but with hipsters

>>11052599
Have you ever tried discussing music on places other than /lit/ and /mu/? You'll always get at least one reply about anime soundtracks or videogame osts

>>11052922
MR PHARMACIST

>>11053482

You don’t like Buarque only because he is left wing.

>>11053503
Illiterate hipsters who take a kind of pride in their utterly passive (reading is active at least, or should be) non-discipline.

Mark E. Smith
Nick Drake
Ian Curtis

>>11052714
King, Thompson, Hiaasen, Albom, McGuane all agree with you.

>>11052503
Curtis got me into Gogol and ballard so that’s fucking dope

>Dylan, David Berman is god, Dan bejar

>>11052699
what is IS

>>11052503
>>11052515
>>11052552
>>11052557
>>11052588
>>11052613
>>11052656
>>11052884
>>11052950
>>11053157
>>11053175
>>11053178
>>11053502
>>11053497
>>11053499
>>11053536
Holy shit you guys have absolutely terrible taste in music.

Me? Merzbow, Boredoms, Gerogerigegege, Coil, Throbbing Gristle, Whitehouse, Nurse with Wound, Einstürzende Neubauten, Brainbombs, Egor Letov, Death in June, Current 93, La Monte Young, Moondog, Lou Harrison, Henry Cowell, Luigi Russolo, Popol Vuh, Fishmans, Jean Jacques Perrey, Les Rallizes Dénudés, Rainbow Caroliner, Taj Mahal Travellers, Fushitsusha, DNA, Peter Brötzmann, John Cage, Scott Walker, Unwound, Dead, Frank Zappa, Morton Feldman, Captain Beefheart, Pharoah Sanders, Albert Ayler, Ornette Coleman, Alice Coltrane, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Nang Nang, Haruomi Hosono, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Nara Leão, Basic Channel, Raymond Scott, Delia Derbyshire, Daphne Oram, Noah Howard, Terry Riley, Peter Sotos, Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho, Boyd Rice, Mahmoud Ahmed, Henry Flynt, Kazumoto Endo, David Tudor, Aporea, Half Japanese, Mega Banton, Secret Chiefs 3, Keiji Haino, Ramleh, Otomo Yoshihide, John Zorn, Joe Meek, Robbie Basho, Phil Spector, Faxed Head, Harry Partch, Frances Baskerville, Wesley Willis, Fred Frith, The Residents, Sun Ra, Sun City Girls, Hans Krüsi, Royal Trux, Jandek, Yat-Kha, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Pärson Sound, The Dead C, Comus, Cromagnon, Eliane Radigue, Arthur Doyle, Shizuka, The Red Krayola, Henry Cow, Magma, Opus Avantra, Pan.Thy.Monium., Murmuüre, Ksiezyc, Gong, Cukor Bila Smert', cLOUDDEAD, Muslimgauze or Kaoru Abe

>>11053552
That depends on what the meaning of the word IS is

>>11053554
lil pump is better

>>11053157
>lil peep in the same list
nice

>>11052503
Sneed

>>11053255
Costello is a genius hands down

>>11052629
I like "Say Hey Kid" for the /lit/ references. I mean how often do musicians mention Milton?

I do what my people would
Because my people would
But only if my people could
I would if my people would
I do what my people would
Because my people would
But only if my people could
I would if my people would
Happy's perfect
Perfect's tame
Tame and cashmere go together
Cashmere makes perfect better
John and Shelley, my people would never
Don't it feel good to drive a bus?
People need to get picked up
Pride your uniform and stunt
You do what my people would, grunt
Don't it feel right to sell a tent?
People like to tell your scent
Pause the bus, put off your yell
You yell at my people would say
Hey
It's a party
Come early if ya lonely
Say hey kid say hey, don't you OD
Say, hey, don't you OD
Come play dead
Say, hey, don't you OD
Come play dead
Say hey kid
Say hey kid
Say hey kid
Hey kid!
Come play dead
Say hey kid
Say hey kid
Say hey kid
Hey kid!
Come play dead
I do what my people would
Because my people would
But only if my people could
I would if my people would
I do what my people would
Because my people would
But only if my people could
I would if my people would
I do what my people would
Because my people would
But only if my people could
I would if my people would
Support, gravity, my people would
Support, gravity, my people would
But what are my people for?
Your wife has a lovely neck
But what would my people suck?
If they would I could, I guess
I guess her neck's the best
Her neck's just the best
Hello there, hello there
I'm perfect now and then
John and Shelley are my friend
They know what my people for
They know your wife's neck's my cure
No question, I'm sure
Hey
It's a party
Come early if ya lonely
Say hey kid say hey don't you OD
Say hey don't you OD
Come play dead
Say hey don't you OD
Come play dead
Say hey kid
Say hey kid
Say hey kid
Hey kid!
Come play dead|
Say hey kid
Say hey kid
Say hey kid
Hey kid!
Come play dead
Say hey kid
Say hey kid
Say hey kid
Hey kid!
Come play dead
Say hey kid
Say hey kid
Say hey kid
Hey kid!
Come play dead

>>11053554
i want to fuck bess so much and i have no idea why

>Townes van zandt
>Dustin Kensrue
>Shai Hulud

>>11052542

Those lyrics are heartbreaking, even in translation. Do you have a link to a good recording of this song on you tube?

I was looking for Chico Buarque’s lyrics in translation, but there seem to be no quality source for it.

>>11053175
This. JD is a lyrical god.

>>11053499
Based. Julien Baker is powerful.

>>11053212
lmao

Candy Claws are great at making simple lyrics feel way more emotional than they should be

I like the decemberists

Van dyke parks

>>11053624
Their production is really cool. You don't often come across something so dense and textured.

>>11053517
But that's a cover, anon.

>>11053554
Beck.. is that (YOU)?

Maynard James Keenan of TOOL is more worthy of a nobel prize than that hack, Bob Dylan

please keep /mu/ on /mu/ I don't care if you like the decemberists or tom waits

>>11053652
post your tits

>>11053676
Their production is actually pretty terrible. But I guess it their choice in order to get that really bassy washed out sound.

>>11053710
You first

Why doesn't /lit/ have as good a taste in music as they do literature and film?

>>11053569
Or allude to Willie Mays....

David Bowie, Nick Cave, Nirvana, Blackmoth Superrainbow, Tame Impala

>>11052922
>he'll never know where the obligatory niggers are

RIP

>no mention of King Crimson

Do you guys even music?

>>11053735
Because we don't pay attention to music, but rather plot

Lou Reed

Where my buggleheads at?

Too many fags here don't know good music.

>>11053751
The wall on which

>>11053255
Off that album Beyond Belief- I think absolutely every line in that wordy song contains a pun. New Amsterdam off Get Happy, the same. Really like Mann's earlier rockier stuff but she's been solid up until right now. Only limited time spent listening to Metric, but saw EH perform once and she is dynamic, perhaps as dirty-sexy as it's possible for a Canadian to be. Really good show.

>>11052503
Leonard Cohen.

Why do you stand by the window
Abandoned to beauty and pride
The thorn of the night in your bosom
The spear of the age in your side
Lost in the rages of fragrance
Lost in the rags of remorse
Lost in the waves of a sickness
That loosens the high silver nerves

Oh chosen love, Oh frozen love
Oh tangle of matter and ghost
Oh darling of angels, demons and saints
And the whole broken-hearted host
Gentle this soul

And come forth from the cloud of unknowing
And kiss the cheek of the moon
The New Jerusalem glowing
Why tarry all night in the ruin
And leave no word of discomfort
And leave no observer to mourn
But climb on your tears and be silent
Like a rose on its ladder of thorns

Oh chosen love, Oh frozen love

Then lay your rose on the fire
The fire give up to the sun
The sun give over to splendour
In the arms of the high holy one
For the holy one dreams of a letter
Dreams of a letter's death
Oh bless thee continuous stutter
Of the word being made into flesh

Oh chosen love, Oh frozen love

Gentle this soul

I'd say Joanna Newsom fits quite well

The cause is Ozymandian
The map of Sapokanikan
Is sanded and bevelled
The land lone and levelled
By some unrecorded and powerful hand

Which plays along the monument
And drums upon a plastic bag
The brave-men-and-women-so-dear-to-God-
And-famous-to-all-of-the-ages rag

Sang: Do you love me?
Will you remember?
The snow falls above me
The renderer renders:
The event is in the hand of God

Beneath a patch of grass, her
Bones the old Dutch master hid
While elsewhere Tobias
And the angel disguise
What the scholars surmise was a mother and kid

Interred with other daughters
In dirt in other potters' fields
Above them, parades
Mark the passing of days
Through parks where pale colonnades arch in marble and steel

Where all of the twenty-thousand attending your footfall
And the causes they died for are lost in the idling bird calls
And the records they left are cryptic at best
Lost in obsolescence
The text will not yield, nor x-ray reveal
With any fluorescence
Where the hand of the master begins and ends

I fell, I tried to do well but I won't be
Will you tell the one that I love to remember and hold me
I call and call for the doctor
But the snow swallows me whole with ol' Florry Walker
And the event lives only in print

He said:
"It's alright"
And "It's all over now"
And boarded the plane
His belt unfastened
The boy was known to show unusual daring
And, called a "boy"
This alderman, confounding Tammany Hall
In whose employ King Tamanend himself preceeded John’s fall

So we all raise a standard
To which the wise and honest soul may repair
To which a hunter
A hundred years from now, may look and despair
And see with wonder
The tributes we have left to rust in the parks
Swearing that our hair stood on end
To see John Purroy Mitchel depart

For the Western front where our work might count
O mercy! O God!
Go out, await the hunter to decipher the stone
And what lies under the city is gone

Look and despair
Look and despair

>>11053554
Basically /mu/core from what I remember from my days there.

>>11052503
Cobain
Floyd
Tupac
Jedi Mind Tricks
Deltron 3030
Nas

>>11053923

what? did you just discover music fucking yesterday? basic bitch. /gatekeeper

>>11053554
>Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
only ever person i've met who listens to thinking fellers & its a rubbish meme

Tim Buckley, Joanna Newsom, Bob Dylan, Jim Morrison, Robert Wyatt (Moon in June particularly, then again it is the GOAT song)

>>11053857
>picking Sapokanikan
>not picking Only Skin

Kendrick Lamar is easily the best songwriter in his genre.

>>11053852
>>11053857
the only possible answers

>>11053175

fag

>>11053175
mountain goats weak goats u need the authentic goats

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWViwRHfH8M

>>11053990
Pleb.

>>11053554
the avant-teen meme died long ago, faggot

Unironically, Captain Beefheart in Trout Mask Replica.

>>11052513
The Audi on wrist and the Audi my whip and the R8
It ain't come with a ceiling
Tec-9 what I grip, and it got cooling kit and the clip, that bitch got a extension
The laser on it, a fuck nigga better be quick cause I swear to god I'm not missin'
I probably won't miss, I put a bullet in your head
And change your whole image

>>11054035
t. tom waits fan

>>11053979
If you are a pleb. those are some of the most entry level names in music. and yes its about finding obscure stuff.

>>11053962
Bad taste desu

>>11053751
This, and Peter Hammil. He actually wrote two books.

simon joyner

>>11053769
I love Greta van Fleet too!

laurie anderson

>>11052503
Jarvis Cocker (from Pulp)

Starts so slowly, just a place to stay
Somewhere warm where they can spend their days
Air is stagnant and he feels unclean
Hair hangs greasy and he smells obscene
Something's happened and it's not so good
Broken bottles in the face of love
Mottled flesh under the harsh strip-light
Nylon sheets to keep them warm at night
Once it's started it can never stop
Fills his head with a dark damp fog
In the distance is a constant cry growing louder as the years go by
Days get longer and he starts to drink
Spews his stomach in the kitchen sink
Tells his children they should have respect
Tells his wife that she's a nervous wreck
He hates his wife and he hates them all
He hates his wife and he hates them all

>>11052629
I AM THE BEAST I WORSHIP

>>11054249
>/lit/ lyrics
not a rec thread nigger