Eheheh. I still ignore the meanings behind the lyrics.
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| Author: | Blank [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:02 am ] |
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They're Scottish, but we're an odd bunch, so I figured someone'd at least appreciate their music. I've only just recently gotten into their stuff. Shame they broke up in 2005. Some good songs: I Fought the Angels All You Need Is Hate Pull the Wires from the Wall The Light Before We Land Check it. |
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| Author: | Konno [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:21 am ] |
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Oh wow, I haven't heard then in a long time. "The Light Before We Land" was the song that got me into them. It was the intro to the Gunslinger Girl anime. Such a haunting melody. Definitely worth a listen. |
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| Author: | GoldenRhino [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:33 am ] |
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Hey, another Delgados fan! I have most of their "HATE" album, as well as all of Universal Audio. The Light Before We Land is indeed an AMAZING song. Love it to pieces. Coming In From the Cold and Woke From Dreaming are great songs too. But....I've realized that through these 23 Delgados songs I have...very very few standout. I think one surprising part of that is the lyrics. Even in Coming In From the Cold and Woke From Dreaming...they just seem badly written. I've just had a bone to pick with some of their lyrics: [b]Try for the right kind of life[/b] I only wish that you’d had a chance to decide Have a look around you there’s no-one there How can you call this fair "Try for the right kind of life"? That just sounds lame. "All these pretenders pretending to be How do they recognise people they see?" Ugh. Looking back on it, the lyrics are sort of detached and somewhat mysterious (like Neko Case or Karen O./Yeah Yeah Yeahs)...but in a bland and uninteresting way. Sorry, I didn't want to make this post a Delgados-bash, but now I just realize that, for me, they're a decent band with a few good tunes and mediocre lyric-writing skills. |
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| Author: | Blank [ Thu Feb 22, 2007 10:34 pm ] |
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[quote="Konno"]Oh wow, I haven't heard then in a long time. "The Light Before We Land" was the song that got me into them. It was the intro to the Gunslinger Girl anime. Such a haunting melody. Definitely worth a listen.[/quote] Yeah, Gunslinger Girl's definitely what got me into The Delgados (it's been on IFC recently and stuff.) Since I don't have a fast internet connection, I can't keep up to date with anime and music and goodstuffs. To GR: Few songs stand out? That's saddening. I don't have very many of their songs as of now, but I'll definitely be getting more sometime soon, I dunno when yet, my comp's all up in the air right now, but whatever. That kinda saddens me, because at first when I listened to The Light Before We Land, it was like, "Wow, I hope they've got a lot more songs like this." They weren't like it, but after a few more listens I could appreciate what I'd listened to and just accepted that not everything is like that. |
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| Author: | Atomsk Iscariot [ Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:11 am ] |
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Their lyrics are usually somewhat subpar, but they do have a lot of great songs - the albums [i]The Great Eastern[/i] and [i]Hate[/i] are utterly solid throughout, and [i]Universal Audio[/i] has some charmers ("I Fought the Angels" is simply one of their best songs). |
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| Author: | Blank [ Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:07 pm ] |
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Meh, screw you people who listen to these things called "lyrics". I listen to music mostly for the sounds and what they convey. I could mostly care less about the words. |
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| Author: | GoldenRhino [ Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:36 pm ] |
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[quote="Blank"]Meh, screw you people who listen to these things called "lyrics". I listen to music mostly for the sounds and what they convey. I could mostly care less about the words.[/quote] But when they're right in your face like that, you just have to recognize them. You can't really stop your mind from going "Oh, what a nice way of putting it!" "That sounds so romantic" "Ugh, I totally would've worded that differently" "What the hell do they mean by that?" I'm talking about stuff in English, by fluent English speakers. It's just hard not to evaluate it somehow. I'm not saying that lyrics have to be pure and excellent in order for one to enjoy them...hell, look at DragonForce: "Fighting through the endless days of infinite battlefields of pain! / Lightning strikes our swords as the glory carries onn!!!!!" or something along those lines. Silly and way overdramatic/fantastical, but still enjoyable. "Try for the right kind of life" [Delgados] just pisses me off. It's like something a 6th grader would come up with in 2 minutes. |
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| Author: | Blank [ Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:45 pm ] |
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Eheheh. I still ignore the meanings behind the lyrics.
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| Author: | Marekenshin [ Mon Feb 26, 2007 10:14 pm ] |
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[quote="Blank"]Meh, screw you people who listen to these things called "lyrics". I listen to music mostly for the sounds and [b]what they convey[/b]. I could mostly care less about the words.[/quote] LOL, IRONY. |
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| Author: | Blank [ Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:20 pm ] |
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[quote="Marekenshin"][quote="Blank"]Meh, screw you people who listen to these things called "lyrics". I listen to music mostly for the sounds and [b]what they convey[/b]. I could mostly care less about the words.[/quote] LOL, IRONY.[/quote] I'm talking about moods, nub. Gtfo. |
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| Author: | Marekenshin [ Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:59 pm ] |
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I understand that, but a HUGE part of what is conveyed in a song is the lyrics. I'd go so far as to say that most of what the artist wants to convey is in the form of lyrics most of the time. |
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| Author: | Blank [ Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:37 pm ] |
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[quote="Marekenshin"]I understand that, but a HUGE part of what is conveyed in a song is the lyrics. I'd go so far as to say that most of what the artist wants to convey is in the form of lyrics most of the time.[/quote] Wow, I was expecting insta-flame, where I would retort with the projection psychological defense mechanism to be responsible for my ackshuns. Props to Marekenshin and an stfi. (stay the fuck in) |
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| Author: | GoldenRhino [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:09 am ] |
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[quote="Blank"][quote="Marekenshin"]I understand that, but a HUGE part of what is conveyed in a song is the lyrics. I'd go so far as to say that most of what the artist wants to convey is in the form of lyrics most of the time.[/quote] Wow, I was expecting incesta-flame, where I would retort with the projection psychological defense mechanism to be responsible for my ackshuns. Props to Marekenshin and an stfi. (stay the fuck in)[/quote] |
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| Author: | Cloudy_One [ Wed Feb 28, 2007 12:42 am ] |
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[i][b][color=red][size=150]Fiesta![/size][/color][/b][/i] Also, said band is close to my last name. I'm not Mexican, though.  (My dad's brothers are, though.)
Oh, right, discuss the band. Sorry, uh, haven't heard of them. Will investigate sometime. |
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| Author: | Kozumou [ Fri Mar 02, 2007 7:37 pm ] |
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I mostly listen to music for the music. A voice is just like another instrument to me. But I like to read lyrics, too, or pay attention to them, as they're poetry, which I like, after I've found that I like the music. Lyrics generally add to music. However, when lyrics are lame and stick out as being lame it's hard to like the music, to get into in the first place. For instance, I decided to check out Weezer a couple months ago, a band I had never really listened to at all or heard anything of. The general sound wasn't bad from the first listens, but I just hated the lyrics. Not that the lyrics were bad, necessarily, but I just couldn't relate to them at all, and they stuck out to me as being dumb. In all the songs I heard. I wouldn't be able to get into the band, I don't think. OK, that was a bad example. Let's see...here's another bad one: The Fray. Their lyrics are LAME. While I think the music is actually pretty good in general, though they seem to be way overrated (I never listen to the radio, so I had never heard them until I semi-randomly downloaded the album to check them out back in Novemberish, but when I came home on break and heard the radio sometimes I found that they were way overplayed), I pretty much hate the lyrics. But the music has a nice, accessible sound, if anything, which I guess would be why they're so popular, and some of the songs are pretty good, though less of the How to Save a Life type. Little House, for instance, shows me that they can do some cool stuff, but most of it's lame, and the bad lyrics are what mostly turn me off to the music. The thing is, unless it really sticks out, it's not going to make a difference to me, though. I don't pay attention to the words in a song at all, unless they stick out or I already know them because I've read the lyrics. If they stick out, it's generally because they're bad, and I'll go on to read them later when they're good. When the lyrics are good, that just adds to the effect of the song. I've never heard The Delgados, but it sounds like I won't too much. I don't know, though, and I'll try to remember to check them out, too, especially if some of their songs are as good as you guys make them sound. |
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