Comments on: Neil Peart: 2nd Worst Lyricists In Rock? http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/ The blogs of Tim Hall Fri, 14 Apr 2017 23:35:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.7.41 By: Paul http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-32106 Sat, 21 Sep 2013 21:01:17 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/11/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/#comment-32106 Neil Peart and his lyrics could be considered relevant to a degree. Yet the error in libertarian free will that the collective does have control over his or her own life through authority, thus making the lyrical theme in 2112, including using fantasy, which is not being-in-itself, being in a world that is chaotic, annihilates their audience since the spectator in Rush concerts and music, chaotic to the listener.
The only benefit of listening to a Rush album is that it provides the opportunity to scrutinize musical formula.

The philosophical lyricist of our time is Jim Morrison. He applied nihilism in a time of chaos. Yet madness had limits.

Peart is free will. Morrison is nihilism. Lyrics speak. Knowing what your listening to is important.

Who cares?

]]> By: Scott http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-13816 Tue, 02 Aug 2011 17:23:04 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/11/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/#comment-13816 He is a writer and he can’t spell Neil. He has very little credibility in his writing. He shouldn’t be concerned with anyone elses….

]]> By: Dan Boyden, Virginia http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-3896 Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:13:45 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/11/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/#comment-3896 Frank Zappa was spot on about rock journalists. What most of them do is the same thing my four-year old daughter does: just says “poop in my panties” and other gibberish in the hopes that I respond. These rock writers just say things to get a rise from folks; they know the fan bases of these groups are, well, fanatical. So, by dismissing Peart, the “critic” knows a segment of Rush fans will respond, thus giving him/her the attention so sorely craved.

If someone writes a hundred or more songs that are published, I surely could find some lousy, hackneyed lines in some of them. I found the list humorous; I think the writer intended to be funny, not actually critical. If the critic were serious, how come he included buffoons like Timberland and Justin “Search of Talent” Timbalake? How come he excluded Dave Matthews (“Ants Marching”…did we need ANOTHER song criticizing what is really the majority of the working public from a pseudo-hip rock star?), the Go-Gos, Frank Zappa, Ozzy Osbourne?

Relax guys…like Dr. Laura, Rush Limbaugh and Al Sharpton, they are comedians and satirists; they don’t expect to be taken seriously.

]]> By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-2697 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:55:27 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/11/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/#comment-2697 Not only that, he doesn’t seem to understand that a lot of the best fantasy and science fiction is really about our own world even when it’s set on the planet Zog in the thirty-third century.

]]> By: Tony Antonelli http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-2695 Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:49:50 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/11/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/#comment-2695 Whoever wrote the article is obviously not too intelligent. He writes about Neil Pearts “Fantasy and Science Fiction” without actually getting the real meaning of those lyrics. I would hope most people with a basic level of intelligence can see those lyrics actually are written to be taken in on few different levels. While the lyrics can be seen as science fiction stories, they actually are just vehicles for the real messages he is trying to get across. I guess the writer of the article doesn’t posses the intelligence to decipher the real meanings of some lyrics.
And how can one say that anyones lyrics are bad, you can say you don’t like someones lyrics, but isn’t this similar to saying someone’s opinions are wrong. Someones opinions are just that, their opinions and although you may not agree with them, its still “their” opinions and they can not be wrong. Aren’t lyrics a means of expression for the author’s opinions and views. Yes some lyric’s are just stories without ulterior messages, and maybe this writer may not like those stories or the way they are conveyed.
That’s “his opinion”, not a “right”, “wrong”, “best” or “worst” opinion.

]]> By: Ray Harber http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-2670 Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:54:56 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/11/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/#comment-2670 Blender Magazine: Worst music magazine ever! Writing at an ELEMENTARY school level. I’m a drummer, and reading this makes me want to spew forth a pool of vomit on this magazine!!

]]> By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-2627 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:11:54 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/11/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/#comment-2627 I just hope Angie Gordon doesn’t turn into a that sort of baby bore :)

]]> By: Barbara http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-2626 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:41:45 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/11/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/#comment-2626 Some of the journoes who slate Neil Peart for being too wordy/too juvenile probably forgot about the sheer tunnel-visioned quality of Kate Bush’s ‘Bertie’ from the Aerial 2-CD. ‘Lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely Bertie!’ Naming her son after Hugh Laurie’s character in Jeeves & Wooster is bad enough, but I have this vision of KB being an absolute bore about the child to all and sundry to the point where someone jokes ‘Did you know they had gold, frankincense and myrrh on a 3 for 2 offer at Savers?’ I have been around baby bores enough to know I don’t want to hear that someone I once idolised has become one.

]]> By: Tim Hall http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-2624 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:56:44 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/11/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/#comment-2624 Oh come on…

“There’s a killer on the road/He’s squirming like a toad” (from Riders on the Storm)

That couplet’s in Sting’s league!

Yes, he was a great vocalist and frontman, and the Doors have stood the test of time. But I don’t really think it was because of lyrics like that.

]]> By: Jack65 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/music/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/comment-page-1/#comment-2623 Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:00:23 +0000 http://www.kalyr.co.uk/weblog/2007/10/11/the-40-worst-lyricists-in-rock-%e2%80%94-10-to-2-article-on-blender-the-ultimate-guide-to-music-and-more/#comment-2623 Jim Morrison was not a bad lyricist. He came up with some damn stunning lines:

- “Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection”
- “`Alive,’ she cried,”
- “I want to hear the scream of the butterfly”
- “Speak in secret alphabets.”

He was one of the greatest front men in rock history. Hell the band released its first album 40 years ago:

http://darkpartyreview.blogspot.com/2007/11/dawns-highway-10-best-songs-by-doors.html

and we’re still talking about them.

It’s time to give Mr. Mojo Risin’ his due.

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