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20409057 No.20409057 [Reply] [Original]

Singing profound but unpretentious lyrics mogs reading poetry every time. Stop wasting your time deciphering obscure poems and learn to sing.

>> No.20409113

Strings > Brass > Woodwind > Percussion > Synths > Singing > Recorders, Mandolins, Banjos and other "non-instruments > Le Bass and Guitararino from my heckin rock band

>> No.20409131

>>20409113
get some taste

>> No.20409134

>>20409131
Play an instrument, than you can talk to me.

>> No.20409434

>>20409057
Glen Campbell is kino

>> No.20409438

>>20409057
i don't like singing
nothing I can do about this

>> No.20409482

>>20409057
What makes a lyric profound?

>> No.20409493

>>20409057
How does one learn to sing? I feel like it’s just something you have or you don’t. I wish I could sing, even it was just passably alright. I’d be singing classic country and folk songs from the 40s-70s all day if I could.

>> No.20409621

There is a charm in old country/southern rock that can’t be found in Dylan, Young, or any folk musicians the critics masturbate to.

>> No.20409629

>>20409057
and a seven nation army couldn't hold me back

>> No.20409634

>>20409113
Based take. I play violin professionally in a string quartet.

OP is a troglodyte that got filtered by some poet and is stuck in a false dichotomy between quality poetry and poetry which is put to lyrics. Many classical composers have written music (four part harmony choral works are particularly common) for poems that were originally written without melodies. It’s actually a common exercise you do if you study music at university.

>> No.20409683

>>20409634
You'd have learned cello if you had taste. Go play Schindler's List now.

>> No.20410378
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20410378

>mfw getting drunk in front of my computer and listening to the 1968 Capitol 2302 7" release of Glen Campbell's rendition of "Wichita Lineman" for the 53rd time in a row

>> No.20411535

>>20409057
Why do you care what I do with my time, pleb cunt? I will continue to read poetry and there’s nothing you can do about it.

>> No.20411545

What If I don’t consider poetry and song as distinct from each other? Eh?

There’s no reason not to consider these two poetry.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v5tr_L31StI

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GYQfWJNWe3I

>> No.20411553

>>20409057
For me, it's Pat Boone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwlhCf1KjOo

>> No.20411907

>>20411545
Excellent choices, Frater.

>> No.20411934

>>20411907
Harry chapin’s also very nice

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4qYU9b5OF8M

>> No.20411950

>>20409621
I absolutely do not see anything in bob, I don’t enjoy his voice and don’t find his lyrics as smart or pretty as Stevie or Arthur brown or a hundred other singers

>> No.20411965

>>20409621
Dylan Cohen and Baez are proof that boomers are brain dead. Patti Smith too.

>> No.20411991

>>20411965
based take

>> No.20412006

>>20409482
Idk but I'm about to propound your mom

>> No.20412093

Poetry is already music though?


https://youtu.be/O4f58BU_Hbs

>> No.20412154

>>20411965
>dylan is braindead
why?. how many songs are you listen of him?. he seems like a preachy guy for all post-boomer generations but he is exactly the contrary to that if you listen to him.

>> No.20412763

>>20411965
>Cohen
You've made a huge mistake including him here.

>> No.20412814

>>20409057

If you put music to my poem I'll kill you.

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20413087

>>20410378
I love that song. I heard it described as "the first existential country song."

He played it really well on Jools Holland and even shredded the solo despite suffering from Parkinson's.

>"... and I need you more than want you"
fuck

https://youtu.be/6GWF0RwVVjo

>> No.20413123

>I LOVE YOU JESUS CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSST
Powerful.

>> No.20413142

>>20411934
https://youtu.be/VHYPZBpxeZE

1/2
It was the town that made America famous.
The churches full and the kids all gone to hell.
Six traffic lights and seven cops and all the streets kept clean.
The supermarket and the drug store and the bars all doing well.

They were the folks that made America famous.
The local fire department stocked with shorthaired volunteers.
And on Saturday night while America boozes
The fire department showed dirty movies,
The lawyer and the grocer seeing their dreams
Come to life on the movie screens
While the plumber hopes that he won't be seen
As he tries to hide his fears and he wipes away his tears.
But something's burning somewhere. Does anybody care?

We were the kids that made America famous.
The kind of kids that long since drove our parents to despair.
We were lazy long hairs dropping out, lost confused, and copping out.
Convinced our futures were in doubt and trying not to care.

We lived in the house that made America famous.
It was a rundown slum, the shame of all the decent folks in town.
We hippies and some welfare cases,
Crowded families with coal black faces,
Cramped inside some cracked old boards,
The best that we all could afford
But still too nice for the rich landlord
To tear it down, and we could hear the sound
Of something burning somewhere. Is anybody there?

We all lived the life that made America famous.
The cops would make a point to shadow us around our town.
And we "love children" put a swastika on the bright red firehouse door.
America, the beautiful, it makes a body proud.

And then came the night that made America famous.
Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke?
In the tinderbox trap that we hippies lived in, someone struck a spark.
At first I thought I was dreaming,
Then I saw the first flames gleaming
And heard the sound of children screaming
Coming through the smoke. That's when the horror broke.

Something's burning somewhere. Does anybody care?

It was the fire that made America famous.
The sirens wailed and the firemen stumbled sleepy from their homes.
And the plumber yelled: "Come on let's go!"
But they saw what was burning and said: "Take it slow,
Let 'em sweat a little, they'll never know
And besides, we just cleaned the chrome."
Said the plumber: "Then I'm going alone."

>> No.20413146

2/2
He rolled on up in the fire truck
And raised the ladder to the ledge
Where me and my girl and a couple of kids
Were clinging like bats to the edge.
We staggered to salvation,
Collapsed on the street.
And I never thought that a fat man's face
Would ever look so sweet.

I shook his hand in the scene that made America famous
And a smile from the heart that made America great
We spent the rest of that night in the home of a man I'd never known before.
It's funny when you get that close, it's kind of hard to hate.

I went to sleep with the hope that made America famous.
I had the kind of a dream that maybe they're still trying to teach in school.
Of the America that made America famous... and
Of the people who just might understand
That how together, yes we can
Create a country better than
The one we have made of this land,
We have a choice to make each man
who dares to dream, reaching out his hand
A prophet or just a crazy God damn
Dreamer of a fool - yes a crazy fool

There's something burning somewhere.
Does anybody care?
Is anybody there?
Is anybody there?

>> No.20413857

>>20409113
This is terrible and you should feel ashamed

>> No.20414011

>>20412154
My problem with Dylan has always been his voice. It’s irritating

>> No.20414017
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20414017

Baby was a black sheep, baby was a whore
Baby got big and baby get bigger
Baby get something, baby get more
Baby, baby, baby was a rock and roll nigger

Jimi Hendrix was a nigger
Jesus Christ and Grandma, too
Jackson Pollock was a nigger
Nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger, nigger

>> No.20414023

Country music lyrics > all other lyrics
They are the only ones that work written down, hip hop, rock stuff never does.