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Rico McPato
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 22, 2022 4:46 pm 
 

thrashinbatman wrote:

as much as i love Exodus, they've been known for some stinkers in the lyrics department. listening to Tempo of the Damned again reminded me of just how terrible this song's lyrics are:

Shroud of Urine by Exodus wrote:
Forgive and forget, such an empty threat, religion at the end of the blade
The insanity of Christianity is just a fucking masquerade
You’re cruci-fucked and you’re out of luck if you put your faith in the flock
Your only sin is when you piss in the wind, they’ve never had any key to the lock

I believe in nothing
Least of all in the word of shit
So hide in your shroud of urine
Because I can’t take the smell of it


These are very similar to the crap Kerry King was writing for Slayer for the last 20 years, would've fit nicely with some stuff in Christ Illusion or God Hates Us All.

No surprise that King and Holt got along so well.

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kalervon
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 1:03 am 
 

Savatage managed to score
'modern T.V. guide'
and
'cup of tea'
on the same album.

It's actually not terrible... just... unusual
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:35 am 
 

kalervon wrote:
Savatage managed to score
'modern T.V. guide'
and
'cup of tea'
on the same album.

It's actually not terrible... just... unusual


Love the band but I agree some of the lyrics can be quite cringy. On that album the TV guide bit could pass when taken in context. But Conversation Piece has hella awkward lyrics for a metal song. :lol:

Quote:
Like pieces of myself
Cut off in desperation
As offerings to thee
I keep them on a shelf
They're good for conversation
Over a cup of tea, yeah, cup of tea
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:38 am 
 

Edge of Thorns' lyrics are easily some of my favorites ever. Really cool, with a real personal feeling. I love that kind of stuff.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:03 am 
 

Yeah Savatage's lyrics are overall pretty good I'd say. But it didn't always work. On Streets: A Rock Opera you had gems like this:

Quote:
And all those things we thought we learned
As we watch our bridges burn
While standing in the afterglow
I guess we gave them quite a show
And who's to say what it's about
When John Wayne caught the last train out
And Spock and Kirk have had enough
And no one's left to beam me up


I always thought the John Wayne and Star Trek reference was cringey and unnecessary. Song totally sucks too, so there's that.

Quote:
Time, time, time again
I'm just looking for a friend
But no one seems to be around
Just this monkey that I've found
Still he is my only friend
And tonight he grins again
Tonight he grins again
Oh, yeah
Tonight he grins again


I actually don't mind the lyrics themselves, it paints a grim picture of the power of addiction and feelings of loneliness and desperation. But symbolizing that struggle with a grinning monkey? It just seems silly to me and distracts from the otherwise powerful message.

Quote:
Better listen to me you son of a bitch
Better disarm those missiles sleeping in the ditch
You have no goddamn right to do the things you do
The world would be a better place if we were rid of you


This one from Gutter Ballet always makes me laugh because it's like he's lecturing terrorists to "stop it!". I'm sure if Osama Bin Laden had heard this song, 9/11 never would've occurred.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:05 am 
 

Empyreal wrote:
Edge of Thorns' lyrics are easily some of my favorites ever. Really cool, with a real personal feeling. I love that kind of stuff.


I can dig that. Miles Away is one of my favorite Savatage songs. So good.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 10:39 am 
 

Streets has a lot of odd decisions. they really thought Jesus Saves was clever.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 12:50 pm 
 

King_of_Arnor wrote:
Can't forget Hellyeah by Hellyeah from the album Hellyeah.
Quote:
If ya don't give a shit ya getcha hellyeah
Throwin' fists in the pit ya getcha hellyeah
Think you're fuckin' with this well hell no.
Balls, volume, strength getcha come on
Drinking beer smoking weed ya getcha hellyeah
Gotta bruised attitude ya getcha hellyeah,
Think you're fuckin' with this well hell no
Balls, volume, strength getcha come on


Not sure what's worse - the lyrics themselves, or "Hellyeah by Hellyeah from the album Hellyeah" :lol:

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 8:15 pm 
 

Skinless' Progression Towards Evil has some, interesting ones.

Cuntaminated:
Spoiler: show
Mammoth bitch holds Gyney down forces him to perform cunnilingus on her
snizz
Quivering clitoris open gash, like a roast beef sandwich, tongue probing
force finger fucking her ecstacy makes him queasy, she used no masengil or
summers eve
Her pussy spews cottage cheese no vagisil for the yeast, gonorrhea or herpes
If he makes in out alive gynelotramin he'll proscribe.
He wants to stop but she grinds his face into her diseased box he barfs all
over her crab filled crotch the warm puke turns her on
Puss cums, piss squirts, lumpy jizz, rotten fish
Climactic quake from the raunchy beaver the flapping beef creates a breeze
Catch a wiff of the toxic emission it hits him she sputters and splatters
the juice in his face
Her slice is rotten, his mouth is frothing contagious STD's contracted
orally
The cooter sandwich malignancy, the gaping chasm is made of beef
Senses evaporated, taste buds annihilated he is cuntaminated.
Cuntaminated


Fetus Goulash (this one doesn't even make sense):
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Saw his scrotum off, into the bowl!
Cut off his little nipples, into the bowl!
Put his body into the bowl!
He goes in the bowl!

(A kick to the fucking face)
Put the boy’s body ‘neath the solitary hole, into the bowl!
Poisoning sluts, stories of polluters, he can’t even juggle, loopy, loopy, purple (purple)
Purple (purple)
Purple (purple)
Purple (purple)
Look inside the shop, it’s a rainbow!
Little, bitty, teddy bears
Here I sit, with the shit!
Here I be, with the pee!
Here, with the pee pee hair!
Damn, it’s the Dee!
Halo, halo!
Below! Below!
Below! Below!
Below! Below!
Pouring the water, beneath the little kid’s bowl, into the bowl!
Poisoning sluts, can’t even juggle, loopy, loopy…
Purple (purple)
Purple (purple)
Purple (purple)
Purple (purple)
(Screaming)
Into… The Bowl!
Purple!
Fetus…Goulash!


They dropped the humor after this album, fortunately (outside of 3 demo tracks that got reused for Foreshadowing Our Demise, which were 3 of the 4 best "humor" tracks they did), as it was either bonkers or actually pretty gross, though Milk and Innards had the best "humor" lyrics on that album.
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kalervon
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 8:37 am 
 

true_death wrote:
Yeah Savatage's lyrics are overall pretty good I'd say. But it didn't always work.
According to Wikipedia, the concept of the Streets album, and of a few songs from Gutter Ballet, were based on a Broadway play idea that Paul had drafted in .. 1979. They adapted the lyrics to a large extent, but quirks like that remain.

I think those lyrics mentioning the TV Guide, cup of tea, Spock & Kirk, John Wayne.. were pieces of lyrics that Paul O'Neill had written for various projects that had nothing to do with metal, like this Broadway play; and Savatage re-purposed them.

"Follow Me" is quite remarkable because it references the 'modern' TV guide. I was old enough in 1992 to remember TV guides going back to the mid 80s and there was no modernization that I could, now or then, think of.

I'd have to spend a lot of time searching on the web, or talk to a TV historian, to figure out when the 'modern' TV guide was invented, that is, the TV guide that provides information about not only which shows are playing when, but also, interviews with TV stars, feature pieces on various shows, etc. It could take us back to 1979.
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PostPosted: Sat Jun 25, 2022 9:07 pm 
 

All I know is I'm interested in girls that read Machiavelli in bed
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 5:51 am 
 

Porcupine Tree have some of the worst lyrics I've heard. Fear of a Blank Planet is particularly bad. Just a few lines.

I'm stoned in the mall again
Terminally bored shuffling round the stores
And shoplifting is getting so last year's thing
X-Box is a god to me
A finger on the switch, my mother is a bitch
My father gave up ever trying to talk to me


My face is Mogadon :lol:

I'm through with pornography
The acting is lame, the action is tame
Explicitly dull, arousal annulled


My friend says he wants to die
He's in a band - they sound like Pearl Jam
The clothes are all black, the music is crap


Only apathy, from the pills in me
It's all in me, all in you
Electricity from the pills in me
It's all in me, all in you
Only MTV and cod philosophy

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Liquid_Braino
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:24 am 
 

^I have to agree with Fear of a Blank Planet. As much as the music ain't crap, Steven Wilson's lyrics on it always bugged me. Instead of capturing the mindset of a teenager with issues, it reads like a grownup trying to convey a teenagers emotions and failing miserably at it. Like an out-of-touch, middle-aged screenplay writer for adolescent angst films.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:24 am 
 

kalervon wrote:
Savatage managed to score
'modern T.V. guide'
and
'cup of tea'
on the same album.

It's actually not terrible... just... unusual


i see what you did there :D

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:36 am 
 

Liquid_Braino wrote:
^I have to agree with Fear of a Blank Planet. As much as the music ain't crap, Steven Wilson's lyrics on it always bugged me. Instead of capturing the mindset of a teenager with issues, it reads like a grownup trying to convey a teenagers emotions and failing miserably at it. Like an out-of-touch, middle-aged screenplay writer for adolescent angst films.

Precisely! It feels so out of touch with reality. It's a shame because I love the music (some of their best) but the lyrics and concept of the album are awful. It's also preachy in a wrong way. It feels dated even by 2007 standards and it has aged poorly, which only makes it worse.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:43 am 
 

I also remembered that Panopticon's anti-Trump song which is awful. I don't mean this from an ideological point, I'd say I'm as anti-Trump as you can be. It's just... bad.

The Itch

So you're gonna' fix our problems
Lining your old friends pockets
For new jobs and a stronger economy
Bring back American jobs
From distant foreign shores
When for years you sent them all overseas
Adopt a conservative agenda
Attack your predecessors
With rhetoric as blood as it can be
Issue license to anyone
For acting like an asshole
Credence to every bigot in this country
Your arguments are flimsy, logic paper thin
Exactly like your skin seems to be
Closing off the borders
Rapid fire executive orders
Implement your immigration policy
It's time to take responsibility
Instead of passing blame
For the heritage of shit that we pass on
Take a deep look in the mirror
Stop trying to make fine art
From the lines in the sand that we've drawn
Make things crystal clear
I certainly don't blame you
And I don't give a damn
Who lives in that house
You are just a symptom of an inherited disease
You can't always blame the itch on the louse

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 1:11 pm 
 

Benedict Donald wrote:
"...and baking in cars is wild..."
Iron Maiden, 'Man On the Edge'


That isn't even how the lyric goes. It's "The car is an oven and baking is wild".

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 1:35 pm 
 

As for my own nominations to this thread:

* Judas Priest's lyrics took a severe dip in quality on Turbo, where most of the songs seem tailored towards "rocking out" and attempting to jump on the hair metal bandwagon. However the lyrics on Ram It Down are even more abysmal for the most part. So many songs where the band are self-consciously referring to themselves as "rockers" (I'm A Rocker) and "the power of heavy metal" (Heavy Metal, Monster of Rock) while still venturing into Turbo territory at the same time (Love Zone). Priest from about the late 70s had a certain element of self-referential lyricism in their work (think "United" and "Heavy Duty/Defenders of the Faith") but here it's just in overdrive, and to absolutely cringe making effect. The entire album for the most part comes across as a desperate and trying way too hard attempt to regain the elements of their fanbase who abandoned them after Turbo, and the lyrics are a huge part of this.

* Rush in the 80s after Moving Pictures lost it big time, and particularly in the lyrics department. Peart was way more interesting and convincing when he was adapting Kubla Khan to music or pointing out how you can't let your life just drift by waiting for things to happen. So many songs from the Power Windows era are full of lyrics that are painfully obvious and trying so hard to be "deep" and "mature" but which come across as chin stroking rather than inspiring.

* Max Cavalera wrote pretty good lyrics up to and including Chaos AD, then Roots came along. The music degenerated into nu metal crap, and the lyrics went the same way. The main problem is that like so many nu metal bands, there's no catharsis. There's plenty of anger and outrage, sure, but not in the "fuck the bastards" way of Chaos AD, it's more in a "oh no we're screwed" way, which does not make for a very inspiring listen. This is a big part of why Roots sounds so claustrophobic to listen to, it's just not invigorating and wallows in its own misery.

* Dave Mustaine can write very observant and thoughtful lyrics. He can also write some absolute garbage. "Endgame" is a prime example, complete Alex Jones style conspiracy crapola where Dave sings about how everyone is going to be microchipped.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 1:38 pm 
 

I remember Grace Under Pressure having some really stunning lyrics, as good as the previous few before it. Signals, too.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 2:10 pm 
 

There have been some below-par or downright oddball Maiden lyrics as well, over the years:

"Charlotte The Harlot": decent song from Maiden's 'street period' but the lyrics are worryingly close to pub rock and obnoxiously misogynistic.

"Quest For Fire": everyone usually cites this one, though it's so ridiculous it's almost good.

"The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner": I actually like this song and its lyrics a fair bit, but wtf, really? A Maiden song about cross country running? OK..... (yes I know it's based on a book/film).

"The Assassin": Terrible song, terrible lyrics. Maiden's all time nadir.

"Weekend Warrior": A Maiden song about football hooligans? (I suppose Harris is a West Ham fan....).

"Age Of Innocence": Harris reads the Daily Mail too much.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 2:43 pm 
 

Cosmic_Equilibrium wrote:
There have been some below-par or downright oddball Maiden lyrics as well, over the years:

"Charlotte The Harlot": decent song from Maiden's 'street period' but the lyrics are worryingly close to pub rock and obnoxiously misogynistic.

"Quest For Fire": everyone usually cites this one, though it's so ridiculous it's almost good.

"The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner": I actually like this song and its lyrics a fair bit, but wtf, really? A Maiden song about cross country running? OK..... (yes I know it's based on a book/film).

"The Assassin": Terrible song, terrible lyrics. Maiden's all time nadir.

"Weekend Warrior": A Maiden song about football hooligans? (I suppose Harris is a West Ham fan....).

"Age Of Innocence": Harris reads the Daily Mail too much.

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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:26 pm 
 

Messiah - Extreme Cold Weather:
Quote:
With all my long hair, i don't need a hat to wear
Extreme cold weather is reigning outside,
the wind is blowing and the frost does bite.

I hope I won't freeze my toes off,
cause then I will have to cough
an icycle's hanging from my bum,
and there lies my neighbours frozen mum.

The thermometer's below zero,
don't try to be a hero
by running to scool
Now you`re frozen dead you fool.

Extreme cold weather is freezing my blood,
I' d always have summer if I'd be god.
Now is april and you have thawed,
you won't step out again into the cold.

It's sunny, funny and really warm,
and my body feels like reborn.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 7:47 pm 
 

What, you expected an album with a cover like Extreme Cold Weather's to be exquisite poetry? Those aren't amazingly well written but they're still quite good.
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 26, 2022 8:16 pm 
 

Cosmic_Equilibrium wrote:
There have been some below-par or downright oddball Maiden lyrics as well, over the years:

"Charlotte The Harlot": decent song from Maiden's 'street period' but the lyrics are worryingly close to pub rock and obnoxiously misogynistic.

"Quest For Fire": everyone usually cites this one, though it's so ridiculous it's almost good.

"The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner": I actually like this song and its lyrics a fair bit, but wtf, really? A Maiden song about cross country running? OK..... (yes I know it's based on a book/film).

"The Assassin": Terrible song, terrible lyrics. Maiden's all time nadir.

"Weekend Warrior": A Maiden song about football hooligans? (I suppose Harris is a West Ham fan....).

"Age Of Innocence": Harris reads the Daily Mail too much.


Disagree with CtH being misogynistic. It was clearly from the lense of a character - a bad narrator, if you will

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Gravetemplar wrote:
Liquid_Braino wrote:
^I have to agree with Fear of a Blank Planet. As much as the music ain't crap, Steven Wilson's lyrics on it always bugged me. Instead of capturing the mindset of a teenager with issues, it reads like a grownup trying to convey a teenagers emotions and failing miserably at it. Like an out-of-touch, middle-aged screenplay writer for adolescent angst films.

Precisely! It feels so out of touch with reality. It's a shame because I love the music (some of their best) but the lyrics and concept of the album are awful. It's also preachy in a wrong way. It feels dated even by 2007 standards and it has aged poorly, which only makes it worse.


Not to mention the lyrics are far too direct, and just don't really leave anything to the imagination, there's just no way else to interpret the words, because they mean exactly what they say, I like that song too, but I kinda realized Porcupine Tree is kinda like the stupid person's Progressive band.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:53 am 
 

Glad I'm not the only person who hates Steven Wilson's lyrics. Fear of a Blank Planet is the only PT album I listened to, way back in high school and the lyrics are traumatically cringey, so I never ventured further. That said, I actually hate the lyrics to "My Ashes" even more, not as funny as the title track but one of the most vapid and empty attempts at emotional/personal topics I've ever seen. I'll never forget how hard I cringed the first time I heard the line "And my ashes drift beneath the silver sky / Where a boy rides on a bike and never smiles".
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:04 am 
 

true_death wrote:
Glad I'm not the only person who hates Steven Wilson's lyrics. Fear of a Blank Planet is the only PT album I listened to, way back in high school and the lyrics are traumatically cringey, so I never ventured further. That said, I actually hate the lyrics to "My Ashes" even more, not as funny as the title track but one of the most vapid and empty attempts at emotional/personal topics I've ever seen. I'll never forget how hard I cringed the first time I heard the line "And my ashes drift beneath the silver sky / Where a boy rides on a bike and never smiles".

They aren't THAT bad in some of their other stuff but yeah, lyrics were never their strong suit.

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:26 am 
 

Porcupine Tree and Dream Theater have some really cool lyrics and a shit-ton of terrible ones.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:32 pm 
 

"Sucking on his pipe, distinguished accent
Making me uptight, no accident"
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 3:22 am 
 

Thy Shrine wrote:
All I know is I'm interested in girls that read Machiavelli in bed

There's a line like that on 'Got It Bad' by Queensryche: "I bet you read Machiavelli in bed and I realize that I'm in way over my head". Speaking of which...
Quote:
The wifi wave, I'm addicted to the wifi wave.
An indispensable satellite tool I abuse I abuse.
The world wide web and all the pictures on YouTube, there's no escaping it.
Keeps on crawling under my skin.
Can't look away from the screen, might miss what's happening.
I'm busy surfing for some other kind of fantasy.
My mind's a river flowing don't know which way to run.
I'm wound up tight I'm like a hot spot junkie with a down loaded gun.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2022 10:17 pm 
 

Almost forgot about Wuthering Heights here - they're a great band overall (yes, I know Far From the Madding Crowd is an unintentional parody of folk-power metal but I still love it), but goddamn if the Shadow Cabinet didn't have some cringey lyrics. Some of the album is a "just read about Nietzsche on wikipedia" take on topics like cynicism and nihilism put through a power metal lens, which is pretty inoffensive on its own and admittedly hit it off with the edgy late-teenager I was when I heard it. But then you have the, uh, borderline incelness of the first two tracks, Demon Desire and Beautifool...

Demon Desire wrote:
The beast that lurks in my genes
Is controlling my will
In endless search of the ultimate carnal thrill

Like a knight without an armour
I ride out to face the twobacked beast
Naked in the face of horror
A jester at this undercover feast

---

Curse this world
That gives urges but no breeding grounds
How shall I see the sun
Behind desire's brooding clouds
I cannot fight my nature
The pleasant primitive
O, let me live...

All my years and all my gold
It takes to ease the demon
All my years and all my gold
To keep the beast at bay


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Haute couture tin soldiers
All from the same mould
Ragdoll queens with perfect seams
But your eyes are cold
O, your eyes are cold

A fair form with no substance at all
If not "pushed up" you would instantly fall
A stranger tale I know not than you
If not "made up" noone would believe in you

The preachers of perfection
Tell us to be like (before it's too late)
But they can't see the light within us
Trough their designer shades

The peasant will do as his queen will bid
Unconsciously hoping to wake up in her bed
Pretends not to see the disgust in her eyes
That it's all in his head
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Thy Shrine
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2022 6:29 am 
 

King_of_Arnor wrote:
Thy Shrine wrote:
All I know is I'm interested in girls that read Machiavelli in bed

There's a line like that on 'Got It Bad' by Queensryche: "I bet you read Machiavelli in bed and I realize that I'm in way over my head". Speaking of which...
Quote:
The wifi wave, I'm addicted to the wifi wave.
An indispensable satellite tool I abuse I abuse.
The world wide web and all the pictures on YouTube, there's no escaping it.
Keeps on crawling under my skin.
Can't look away from the screen, might miss what's happening.
I'm busy surfing for some other kind of fantasy.
My mind's a river flowing don't know which way to run.
I'm wound up tight I'm like a hot spot junkie with a down loaded gun.



Yeah I know that's what I was referencing, I almost thought nobody was gonna pick up on it
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kalervon
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Joined: Sun Sep 23, 2012 10:43 pm
Posts: 991
Location: Canada
PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 8:48 pm 
 

King_of_Arnor wrote:
Thy Shrine wrote:
All I know is I'm interested in girls that read Machiavelli in bed

There's a line like that on 'Got It Bad' by Queensryche: "I bet you read Machiavelli in bed and I realize that I'm in way over my head". Speaking of which...
Quote:
The wifi wave, I'm addicted to the wifi wave.
An indispensable satellite tool I abuse I abuse.
The world wide web and all the pictures on YouTube, there's no escaping it.
Keeps on crawling under my skin.
Can't look away from the screen, might miss what's happening.
I'm busy surfing for some other kind of fantasy.
My mind's a river flowing don't know which way to run.
I'm wound up tight I'm like a hot spot junkie with a down loaded gun.
Oh..we're doing Geoff Tate now ?

'"Secretary, please cancel all my appointments !"

Just kidding, but in the 'technology is changing' category, I'm thinking of this Tesla song called MP3, which came out in ... 2015.

Quote:
Oh my God, it's taking me
From the phonograph record to the MP3
All the world is overrun with Technology


MP3s were actually pretty hot in 1999 or so, and remained so for a while, but by 2015, most people had started switching to the streaming formula.

Just like WiFi now is no longer the dominant way by which people access wireless internet - but QR's song came out in 2011. I think Tesla are a bit worse than Geoff Tate in this case - which is a really mean thing to say to anyone.

Speaking of Geoff Tate, he had a song in 2002 (solo album) speaking about the perils and evils of the television; called "Off The TV". Well, funny how things change..
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AxeCapitol
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 02, 2022 9:01 pm 
 

Wait what about WiFi? If not - then what is?

And get off my lawn!

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TheUnhinged
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 12:32 am 
 

Babylon Sad’s “Unknown Tribe”

Quote:
I have decided and I think I should become a homosexual
Murder and shall get hold of young boys and bring
Them here where I am staying and I shall rape them and then
Kill them, I should not kill all the boys in the same way


Like, dude… the fuck

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kalervon
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Location: Canada
PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 7:05 am 
 

AxeCapitol wrote:
Wait what about WiFi? If not - then what is?
Mobile broadband
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thrashinbatman
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 03, 2022 11:34 am 
 

kalervon wrote:
Just like WiFi now is no longer the dominant way by which people access wireless internet - but QR's song came out in 2011. I think Tesla are a bit worse than Geoff Tate in this case - which is a really mean thing to say to anyone.


Tesla also have a lot of terrible lyrics, but generally they're bad in that rock n roll way that their fans don't seem to mind (with a few exceptions like Edison's Medicine which is a lot of fun).

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Kalimata
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Location: France
PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 5:34 pm 
 

Stratovarius have some stupid lyrics, but "Paradise" is my favorite piece. Wow, it's so deep...

"Late at night I find myself again
Wondering and watching TV
I can't believe what is on the screen
Something that I wouldn't care to see
Many rare species will perish soon
And we will be short on food
Why do we have to be so selfish
We've got to change our attitude
I know that I am not
The only one that's worried
Why don't we all
Wake up, and realize"

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Lord_Of_Diamonds
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Location: United States
PostPosted: Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:00 pm 
 

"I do the maniac dance"
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Judas Maiden
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Joined: Wed Dec 22, 2021 3:56 pm
Posts: 861
Location: Philippines
PostPosted: Thu Jul 07, 2022 2:01 pm 
 

"Ass to Mouth Resuscitation" by Hateplow.

Quote:
My mouth is to your ass
My tongue is up your crack
My breath, it smells like shit
My teeth are stained black

I begin masturbation, when giving ass to mouth resuscitation
A sick sensation - ass to mouth resuscitation


Brutal/slam death metal lyrics are worse. Are they even actually saying those lyrics on those songs? I tried to follow the lyrics to a Devourment song and I swear there's no way he's saying the same words on the lyrics from the booklet. Or if he's singing any lyrics at all. I hear are pig squeals.


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