Even tho a lot of Anthony’s lyrics in RHCP probably don’t have any meaning to uncover, quite a few do. My source is that I’m an English major who studies poetry. I think of songs like ‘Wet Sand’, ‘Venice Queen,’ ‘Sick Love’, and ‘In the Snow.’ Those songs all have profound meaning and thoughtful lyricism. Above all else, he just knows what to do with the song sonically. ‘Can’t stop’ is a good example.
I’ve always found the discredit for Kiedis’s lyrics pretty funny. Songs like Venice Queen, Don’t Forget Me, Otherside, The Hunter, Power of Equality, Fight like a Brave, Californication (just to name a few) have a TON of meaning. Personally I love trying to figure out lyrics and what the message is behind them.. it was a big reason why I got into the Chili Peppers. Anthony does not get enough credit for what he brings to the band. Just my 2 cents
@@marshalllittle2098Just because it’s overplayed doesn’t mean it’s bad. Stadium Arcadium has some great songs on it though, some silly and some pretty deep
The funny thing about that Red Hot Chilli Peppers moment at 8:42 is that how it came about is actually pretty sweet and adorable. “While writing the album in Flea's garage his daughter would listen to their songs. At the time of writing, Kiedis was struggling to come up with lyrics for the songs, so just filled in with scat. When a final draft of the album was made and Flea's daughter listened to the final version, she was disappointed that the scat had been removed. So, on the final version of the song in the last chorus, the original scatting vocal was used instead.”
Imo Kurt Cobain was a master at saying nothing while saying a whole lot with his lyrics. Dude was a true poet even though his lyrics you could argue dont have any deep meanings behind them but they do at the same time. One of the best songwriters of all time
The randomness in lyrics that happen in a lot of RHCP songs are why I love this band. The music combined with them always makes me have a good time listening to them. That and I can’t help but sing along as well 😂
I remember hearing those new RHCP singles "Tippa My Tongue" and "Black Summer" on the radio and laughing my ass off at the gibberish coming out of his mouth. XD
Cocteau Twins has to be the prime example. I don't know what any of the songs mean, but the vocal melodies are perfect. I also do love bands that sang in languages that aren't my native tongue like Legião Urbana, Asylum Party, Alcest, and the best example of Nena '99 Luftballons'.
Alcest are amazing. 99 Luftballons is about well.. Balloons flying around and then the world ends. I'm German and I always thought of it as just her turning a random idea into pop song and having fun idk if it has a deeper meaning. The other song by her irgendwie irgendwo irgendwann is a banger tho😂
Legião Urbana were definitely high up on the list of best Brazilian artists. Renato Russo's poetry is introspective and heartbreaking, and of course the music itself is amazing. Love that others out there are recognizing it!
Sigur Rós’s 3rd album “( )” is all sang in Hopelandic, a scat like form of Icelandic, it’s basically Jónsi (the frontman) using his voice as an instrument, it’s hauntingly beautiful like much of post rock!
I've definitely noticed over the years I'm more interested in the music than lyrics 99% of the time. Not to say lyrics are useless by any means, but if I don't like the music to begin with it's hard to care about lyrics. As much as Yes get occasionally ridiculed for that and Pink Floyd have messages and lyrics that still resonate with people to this day, I probably would go as far as say I prefer Yes over Pink Floyd, at least for now.
RHCP and Fall Out Boy are the two poster children of this for me, and I like them both for it. Sometimes I just want some cool music and whatever random lyrics that fit the vibe. Kiss is another band like that, like what’s “Under The Gun” about? Idk but it’s a fun 80s hair metal song.
I would add Dance Gavin Dance to this list, for similar reasons to RHCP in that many of their lyrics are more about what they sound like in full context with the music rather than what the lyrics themselves are saying. Especially Jon Mess.
Three of my all-time favourite bands in this video: Jamiroquai, System Of A Down and the Chili Peppers. Nice. People talk about Kiedis not having any vocal talent, but whenever I see a Chili Peppers tribute act, the vocals are the one thing that never sound right, literally 100% of the time. Say what you want about Kiedis, but his lyrics and sound/timbre fit their music like a (velvet) glove.
RHCP is the perfect example of this. Also mega short version, this reminds me of a teacher I had back in middle school who was a preacher and Man in the Box was his favorite song until he looked up the lyrics
I like what Chris Cornell said about his lyrics which they meant something to him but he was creating an environment a listener could go into and make their own story or interpretation.
Anthony Kiedis is so funny. One song you have the profound, 'space my be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement,' and the next it's, 'up to your ass in alligators, let's get it on with the alligator haters.' You're just left there like ah, I see, makes perfect sense (?????)
Unfortunately my brain runs first and foremost on words so it's sometimes hard for me to separate nonsensical lyrics from good music. I've often said things like "I would really like Train if I didn't speak english." 😂
A couple other bands I can think of that could fit the bill is Cannibal Corpse and Primus. Cannibal Corpse just focuses on the music and writes lyrics as if they were a horror movie and Primus are just straight up silly and funky at the same time.
Primus has brilliant lyrics, but they are very much surrealism. Some do have stories behind them like Sailing the Seas of Cheese was about being musicians during the time Vanilla Ice and other garbage were topping the charts.
I've heard someone say that Jon Anderson treats his voice like its own instrument instead of a tool to convey lyrics, and I think that's the best way to describe it.
I would say king gizzard is one, but their lyrics do have meaning a lot of the time. It's just that the lyrics aren't integral at all to enjoying the music
Suggestion for part 2: The White Stripes, or Jack White projects in general. Personally I feel like his guitar playing and the music overall is the main draw over the lyrics. Ball and Biscuit is a prime example.
Yeah, I agree. But I also kinda feel Jack White is original as a guitar player and creative, but his overall skill is mid AF. He likes to play on crappy guitars which is cool, but throw some studio mastering magic you can make anything sound much better. I played a customized garbage quality guitar called affectionately "The Polished Turd" for many years and people offered me up to 800 bucks for it and I would never sell it. But it was my playing and my studio mastering of recordings of it that made it sound good. I broke down and got a rare early 80s Japanese Strat and customized that and wish now I had not played "The Turd" for so long bc now I am way better and it plays so much easier to the point that it feels like cheating.
It's mainly electronic and synth music for me. For example St. Lucia are one of my favorites, although the lyrics are pretty bland and straightforward but they capture the feeling really well.
There are some great Deftones songs that are just complete fantasy, I think the further they get into their discography the less and less they pull from real life experiences.
depends. there are some songs that are carried by its melody and there are some songs that are purely carried by it's lyrics. As long as it connects with you that's all that matters.
Steve Howe is an amazing guitarist and yes I listen to Yes for their instrument work adn arrangements. Drama is a brilliantly weird album. Give it a whirl.
Magma should be on this list absolutely, because Christian Vander basically just made up a language to make it sound phonetic. Basically it is supposed to be like an instrument. And they are an excellent band just a very underrated band due to how niche Magma is as a band.
Manic Street Preachers have very deep and politically charged lyrics, but the way James Dean Bradford sings them sometimes make them hard to figure out. They're still amazing though. (LOVE the Jamiroquai mention BTW)
Im a HUGE manics fan and I literally had to read the lyrics on the cd cases as I had no idea what he was saying most of the time. We're going to see them next year and my mams decided to Google their lyrics while we listen to them so she can actually know what's being said 😂. I think what he's saying is a lot clearer on songs like you stole the sun from my heart as he isn't having to cram loads in at once as he did in their early stuff (mainly due to Richey writing very wordy, but fantastic, lyrics). Nickys more simplistic style has helped JBD be a lot clearer nowadays.
I would too, especially their earlier songs. Some of them are so weird that you could listen to them and then look at the lyrics and think they were words for a totally different song. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the first R.E.M. album was called "Murmur" for that exact reason.
Well I think what matters isnt necessarily the lyrics its how you go about it. Deciding how you are going to handle lyric writing and what part you want those lyrics to play is important. With yes the lyrics are all about how it sounds when sung, the rest be damned, to Electric Callboy, its about the lyrics being fun. For Linkin Park it was emotional honestly and clarity, for Eminem who fucking knows but you could argue its about picking apart the world around him with a web of wordplay and double entedere, and for some bands they might as well treat it like they're creating epic poems with a backing track as opposed to songs. I don't think any of them are wrong or right, and each can be equally enjoyable, so long as you dont make the listener actively cringe, and ensure the music you're writing & the lyrical style you've chosen can coexist without seeming cheesy or clashing to the point of feeling entirely disconnected from one another The only other thing I'd say is that if you write lyrics that are meant to be deep and emotional and impactfully written understand you cant really go the other routes without looking like you ran out of ideas, and if you employ the quote "sillier" format of lyrics to start, be aware that if you can or learn insane lyrical chops you do admittedly have a seriously powerful weapon in your back pocket, but its a double edged sword, because it could either be your secret weapon to bring the house down when theres something you really want to say in a song, but at the same time you don't want you overdo it and have people saying "all their music is just gloomy and depressing without a purpose now, and it saps all the songs energy"
Even for bands that have "meaningful" lyrics, it doesn't necessarily matter. I like a lot of grunge music and when listening to it, half the time I can't even understand what's being said. Even if I look up the lyrics, I still don't get it. I'm sure there are people out there who could explain the meaning and all the metaphors, but you can enjoy the music without it.
A lot of Tony's lyrics have meaning, but he knows that songs mean different things to different people, so whatever inspired him to write a song is not going to be what the song means to the listener. So, someone he just rolls with whatever to help nurture that.
I will say as a musician and songwriter/ lyricist that lyrics are the HARDEST part of creating an original song. They have to sound good and be cool and make sense and have meaning... Unless you just don't care about your song having a story or meaning. Creating a meaningful set of song lyrics that doesn't sound like a shitty nursery rhyme is very hard.
Lyrics are odd. Some bands write gibberish, and it works. Give it Away, Come Together, Stairway to Heaven come to mind. Then some bands write gibberish, and it sounds just plain bad, like every song by CKY who I grew up loving, but just ignored the lyrics all together bc they were so nonsensical it took away from the music.
This might be a strange suggestion but Death Grips are really good at just shouting borderline nonsense sometimes and have it still absolutely slap, although some songs do have intriguing lyrical themes like On GP.
What frustrates me about this whole debate about lyrics is how its full of contradictions, in rock the same people who constantly, _CONSTANTLY_ complain about the Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics being dumb, just gibberish, pure baloney, etc. are fans of bands like Butthole Surfers, Pixies, Oasis and anything with Mike Patton which then I just see a bunch of hypocrites because other than sound, the only difference between RHCP and those bands' lyrics is levels of sarcasm. Or in rap, when mumble rap/Soundcloud rap was plaguing us, people defended and bashed the same names for the same reason. Me personally, it depends on the band, some bands have deep lyrics, others don't and both are fine, there's a million different ways to interact with music that aren't limited to "what does it mean????"
Okay it seems you’re basing jay Kay’s lyrics based off virtual insanity. I think you need to go deeper in jamiroquai’s catalog. I’m not saying they’re lyrically sublime but they do make sense most of the time. Might I suggest listening to king for a day or hot tequila brown. I wouldn’t have put them on your top seven, they’d be more a #12 though
Goatbed should definitely be on this list. Like listen to Ai Catch while knowing all the lyrics are in English and break your brain for a while. Then look up the lyrics and live in a world of wtaf what do you mean high grade monkey lmfao. Like I fully admit I got into this band via obscure visual novels but I absolutely love their music all of it is so good. But the lyrics generally make you turn into the physical manifestation of a question mark lol.
The New Pornographers, especially the songs written by Carl Newman, are just word salads made to fit the music and have no great meaning. Starflyer 59 is another atmospheric band where the lyrics are just there to fill out the sound and range from very simple to completely meaningless.
It’s in air quotes and I pretty clearly state several times in the vid that obviously there’s meaning in alot of these artists songs, it’s just not the most important element of the band to varying degrees
Even tho a lot of Anthony’s lyrics in RHCP probably don’t have any meaning to uncover, quite a few do. My source is that I’m an English major who studies poetry. I think of songs like ‘Wet Sand’, ‘Venice Queen,’ ‘Sick Love’, and ‘In the Snow.’ Those songs all have profound meaning and thoughtful lyricism. Above all else, he just knows what to do with the song sonically. ‘Can’t stop’ is a good example.
I really wanna know what "Breaking the Girl" is about, I have my theories, but i have no idea if I'm right 😂
I’ve always found the discredit for Kiedis’s lyrics pretty funny. Songs like Venice Queen, Don’t Forget Me, Otherside, The Hunter, Power of Equality, Fight like a Brave, Californication (just to name a few) have a TON of meaning. Personally I love trying to figure out lyrics and what the message is behind them.. it was a big reason why I got into the Chili Peppers. Anthony does not get enough credit for what he brings to the band. Just my 2 cents
You ever heard Dani California? That songs sucks
Lol.. I guess that’s why it won 2 Grammy awards
@@marshalllittle2098Just because it’s overplayed doesn’t mean it’s bad. Stadium Arcadium has some great songs on it though, some silly and some pretty deep
The funny thing about that Red Hot Chilli Peppers moment at 8:42 is that how it came about is actually pretty sweet and adorable.
“While writing the album in Flea's garage his daughter would listen to their songs. At the time of writing, Kiedis was struggling to come up with lyrics for the songs, so just filled in with scat. When a final draft of the album was made and Flea's daughter listened to the final version, she was disappointed that the scat had been removed. So, on the final version of the song in the last chorus, the original scatting vocal was used instead.”
Imo Kurt Cobain was a master at saying nothing while saying a whole lot with his lyrics. Dude was a true poet even though his lyrics you could argue dont have any deep meanings behind them but they do at the same time. One of the best songwriters of all time
"The sexy art of condiments"
-Red Hot Chili Peppers
I honestly thought it was "compliments" the first time I heard it. But "condiments" does make more sense in the context of a RHCP song 😂
The randomness in lyrics that happen in a lot of RHCP songs are why I love this band. The music combined with them always makes me have a good time listening to them.
That and I can’t help but sing along as well 😂
Ahh I love Cocteau Twins, glad to see them get a mention here. Sea, Swallow Me is my favorite by them. It’s SO beautiful and layered.
I remember hearing those new RHCP singles "Tippa My Tongue" and "Black Summer" on the radio and laughing my ass off at the gibberish coming out of his mouth. XD
Cocteau Twins has to be the prime example. I don't know what any of the songs mean, but the vocal melodies are perfect. I also do love bands that sang in languages that aren't my native tongue like Legião Urbana, Asylum Party, Alcest, and the best example of Nena '99 Luftballons'.
Alcest are amazing. 99 Luftballons is about well.. Balloons flying around and then the world ends. I'm German and I always thought of it as just her turning a random idea into pop song and having fun idk if it has a deeper meaning. The other song by her irgendwie irgendwo irgendwann is a banger tho😂
Legião Urbana were definitely high up on the list of best Brazilian artists. Renato Russo's poetry is introspective and heartbreaking, and of course the music itself is amazing. Love that others out there are recognizing it!
Sigur Rós’s 3rd album “( )” is all sang in Hopelandic, a scat like form of Icelandic, it’s basically Jónsi (the frontman) using his voice as an instrument, it’s hauntingly beautiful like much of post rock!
I just assumed this would be highlighted in the video.
So happy Jamiroquai is getting a mention! Sublime sound throughout :) awesome vid
I've definitely noticed over the years I'm more interested in the music than lyrics 99% of the time. Not to say lyrics are useless by any means, but if I don't like the music to begin with it's hard to care about lyrics. As much as Yes get occasionally ridiculed for that and Pink Floyd have messages and lyrics that still resonate with people to this day, I probably would go as far as say I prefer Yes over Pink Floyd, at least for now.
Love Electric Callboy. Hoping to see them next time they come here to the us
RHCP and Fall Out Boy are the two poster children of this for me, and I like them both for it. Sometimes I just want some cool music and whatever random lyrics that fit the vibe. Kiss is another band like that, like what’s “Under The Gun” about? Idk but it’s a fun 80s hair metal song.
Right, like folie a deux in particular has very interesting lyrics
Faith No More/ Mr Bungle better be on this list
And Melvins
Mr Bungle lyrics are so great though! Mike Patton is in the top 5 best male rock vocalists ever IMO.
Was expecting Sigur Ros on here!!
I would add Dance Gavin Dance to this list, for similar reasons to RHCP in that many of their lyrics are more about what they sound like in full context with the music rather than what the lyrics themselves are saying. Especially Jon Mess.
Three of my all-time favourite bands in this video: Jamiroquai, System Of A Down and the Chili Peppers. Nice.
People talk about Kiedis not having any vocal talent, but whenever I see a Chili Peppers tribute act, the vocals are the one thing that never sound right, literally 100% of the time. Say what you want about Kiedis, but his lyrics and sound/timbre fit their music like a (velvet) glove.
MY WHHHHHAAAAAAEEEIIIL IS WELL
I first thought you only had British musicians. Until the Callboy served us a left-turn. This deserves a part II... 😊
My favorite indecipherable Kiedis lyric: *”In the cemetery where I marry the sea”*
Too true, Anthony.. too true 👀
Love the Yes song where it’s just them saying the name of a fish over and over again!
Melvins lyrics are great, they don’t mean anything they just emphasize the music.
The Cocteau Twins are underrated imo, especially for how good they are.
A bad song with good lyrics is a good poem. A good song with bad lyrics is something you can still enjoy to some degree.
Obviously Red Hot Chili Peppers is on the list. They lyrics to their most recent album, ROTDC, are very interesting.
RHCP is the perfect example of this. Also mega short version, this reminds me of a teacher I had back in middle school who was a preacher and Man in the Box was his favorite song until he looked up the lyrics
the lyrics say deny Jesus and you will be wasted so I don't see why he would object to it
@@justdave9610 this is true
I like what Chris Cornell said about his lyrics which they meant something to him but he was creating an environment a listener could go into and make their own story or interpretation.
Anthony Kiedis is so funny. One song you have the profound, 'space my be the final frontier, but it's made in a Hollywood basement,' and the next it's, 'up to your ass in alligators, let's get it on with the alligator haters.' You're just left there like ah, I see, makes perfect sense (?????)
Unfortunately my brain runs first and foremost on words so it's sometimes hard for me to separate nonsensical lyrics from good music. I've often said things like "I would really like Train if I didn't speak english." 😂
Jamiroquai fans: finally Jon mentions us!
*seconds later*
Oh, wait..
DGD is a perfect example of this
Coheed & Cambria. That feeling when you discover Ten Speed (of God's Blood & Burial) is about an evil bicycle...
A couple other bands I can think of that could fit the bill is Cannibal Corpse and Primus. Cannibal Corpse just focuses on the music and writes lyrics as if they were a horror movie and Primus are just straight up silly and funky at the same time.
Primus has brilliant lyrics, but they are very much surrealism. Some do have stories behind them like Sailing the Seas of Cheese was about being musicians during the time Vanilla Ice and other garbage were topping the charts.
I've heard someone say that Jon Anderson treats his voice like its own instrument instead of a tool to convey lyrics, and I think that's the best way to describe it.
I would say king gizzard is one, but their lyrics do have meaning a lot of the time. It's just that the lyrics aren't integral at all to enjoying the music
That's pretty much every band for me
😳
Suggestion for part 2: The White Stripes, or Jack White projects in general. Personally I feel like his guitar playing and the music overall is the main draw over the lyrics. Ball and Biscuit is a prime example.
Yeah, I agree. But I also kinda feel Jack White is original as a guitar player and creative, but his overall skill is mid AF. He likes to play on crappy guitars which is cool, but throw some studio mastering magic you can make anything sound much better. I played a customized garbage quality guitar called affectionately "The Polished Turd" for many years and people offered me up to 800 bucks for it and I would never sell it. But it was my playing and my studio mastering of recordings of it that made it sound good. I broke down and got a rare early 80s Japanese Strat and customized that and wish now I had not played "The Turd" for so long bc now I am way better and it plays so much easier to the point that it feels like cheating.
It's mainly electronic and synth music for me. For example St. Lucia are one of my favorites, although the lyrics are pretty bland and straightforward but they capture the feeling really well.
Yeah, with EDM and rave music before that you basically need one good sentence and then that is repeated over and over.
My first thought was....The Hives
There are some great Deftones songs that are just complete fantasy, I think the further they get into their discography the less and less they pull from real life experiences.
Surprised nobody has mentioned Underworld here, it's a great example of random/meaningless lyrics that fit very well with the music
I'm glad to see someone else besides me gush about Cocteau Twins!
The song with the most meaningful, deep, emotional, touching, genius lyrics ever written must be Twist by Korn. (and K@#*%! on the same Album)
depends. there are some songs that are carried by its melody and there are some songs that are purely carried by it's lyrics. As long as it connects with you that's all that matters.
As a fan of Jamiroquai, there first album has like two songs, that has good lyrical meaning, like, when you gonna learn? and To young to die.
I don't care about lyrics at all. As long as the actual music is fun to listen to I don't mind
Steve Howe is an amazing guitarist and yes I listen to Yes for their instrument work adn arrangements. Drama is a brilliantly weird album. Give it a whirl.
Magma should be on this list absolutely, because Christian Vander basically just made up a language to make it sound phonetic. Basically it is supposed to be like an instrument. And they are an excellent band just a very underrated band due to how niche Magma is as a band.
Melvins
Please make another Spotify wrapped video 🙏🏼
Manic Street Preachers have very deep and politically charged lyrics, but the way James Dean Bradford sings them sometimes make them hard to figure out. They're still amazing though.
(LOVE the Jamiroquai mention BTW)
Im a HUGE manics fan and I literally had to read the lyrics on the cd cases as I had no idea what he was saying most of the time. We're going to see them next year and my mams decided to Google their lyrics while we listen to them so she can actually know what's being said 😂.
I think what he's saying is a lot clearer on songs like you stole the sun from my heart as he isn't having to cram loads in at once as he did in their early stuff (mainly due to Richey writing very wordy, but fantastic, lyrics). Nickys more simplistic style has helped JBD be a lot clearer nowadays.
I'd include REM to this list.
I would too, especially their earlier songs. Some of them are so weird that you could listen to them and then look at the lyrics and think they were words for a totally different song.
I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure the first R.E.M. album was called "Murmur" for that exact reason.
Well I think what matters isnt necessarily the lyrics its how you go about it. Deciding how you are going to handle lyric writing and what part you want those lyrics to play is important.
With yes the lyrics are all about how it sounds when sung, the rest be damned, to Electric Callboy, its about the lyrics being fun. For Linkin Park it was emotional honestly and clarity, for Eminem who fucking knows but you could argue its about picking apart the world around him with a web of wordplay and double entedere, and for some bands they might as well treat it like they're creating epic poems with a backing track as opposed to songs.
I don't think any of them are wrong or right, and each can be equally enjoyable, so long as you dont make the listener actively cringe, and ensure the music you're writing & the lyrical style you've chosen can coexist without seeming cheesy or clashing to the point of feeling entirely disconnected from one another
The only other thing I'd say is that if you write lyrics that are meant to be deep and emotional and impactfully written understand you cant really go the other routes without looking like you ran out of ideas, and if you employ the quote "sillier" format of lyrics to start, be aware that if you can or learn insane lyrical chops you do admittedly have a seriously powerful weapon in your back pocket, but its a double edged sword, because it could either be your secret weapon to bring the house down when theres something you really want to say in a song, but at the same time you don't want you overdo it and have people saying "all their music is just gloomy and depressing without a purpose now, and it saps all the songs energy"
Sunday on seven.
Wet sand is meaningful
A lot of them are!
can´t believe you didn´t mention Blues Traveler
Even for bands that have "meaningful" lyrics, it doesn't necessarily matter. I like a lot of grunge music and when listening to it, half the time I can't even understand what's being said. Even if I look up the lyrics, I still don't get it. I'm sure there are people out there who could explain the meaning and all the metaphors, but you can enjoy the music without it.
A lot of Tony's lyrics have meaning, but he knows that songs mean different things to different people, so whatever inspired him to write a song is not going to be what the song means to the listener. So, someone he just rolls with whatever to help nurture that.
I think the lyrics on Neck Deep’s last 3 singles have been excellent, think their new album will be their best since the debut
Honorable mention to The Melvins.
Mindless Self Indulgence.
Fuck Machine is such a weird and catchy song 🥲
Lush is another good one.
I will say as a musician and songwriter/ lyricist that lyrics are the HARDEST part of creating an original song. They have to sound good and be cool and make sense and have meaning... Unless you just don't care about your song having a story or meaning. Creating a meaningful set of song lyrics that doesn't sound like a shitty nursery rhyme is very hard.
Ik Static X would be on this list too
Lyrics are odd. Some bands write gibberish, and it works. Give it Away, Come Together, Stairway to Heaven come to mind. Then some bands write gibberish, and it sounds just plain bad, like every song by CKY who I grew up loving, but just ignored the lyrics all together bc they were so nonsensical it took away from the music.
BING BANG BONG BONG BING BANG BONG BOOOONG BING BANG
3:27 - IS THIS A JOJO REFERENCE???
One Hot Minute by the Red Hot Chili Peppers is a good case for Anthony being a good songwriter.
When I think of meaningless lyrics I think of Nirvana, I still like them though.
This might be a strange suggestion but Death Grips are really good at just shouting borderline nonsense sometimes and have it still absolutely slap, although some songs do have intriguing lyrical themes like On GP.
What frustrates me about this whole debate about lyrics is how its full of contradictions, in rock the same people who constantly, _CONSTANTLY_ complain about the Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics being dumb, just gibberish, pure baloney, etc. are fans of bands like Butthole Surfers, Pixies, Oasis and anything with Mike Patton which then I just see a bunch of hypocrites because other than sound, the only difference between RHCP and those bands' lyrics is levels of sarcasm. Or in rap, when mumble rap/Soundcloud rap was plaguing us, people defended and bashed the same names for the same reason. Me personally, it depends on the band, some bands have deep lyrics, others don't and both are fine, there's a million different ways to interact with music that aren't limited to "what does it mean????"
Okay it seems you’re basing jay Kay’s lyrics based off virtual insanity. I think you need to go deeper in jamiroquai’s catalog. I’m not saying they’re lyrically sublime but they do make sense most of the time. Might I suggest listening to king for a day or hot tequila brown. I wouldn’t have put them on your top seven, they’d be more a #12 though
I miss Pixies on this list, but TOOO much indie alternative bands in this list... makes sense taken they out
You missed limp bizkit
Goatbed should definitely be on this list. Like listen to Ai Catch while knowing all the lyrics are in English and break your brain for a while. Then look up the lyrics and live in a world of wtaf what do you mean high grade monkey lmfao. Like I fully admit I got into this band via obscure visual novels but I absolutely love their music all of it is so good. But the lyrics generally make you turn into the physical manifestation of a question mark lol.
I'd love to see a loveless review, even if it's just a report card
The breeders are a prime example
Errrr… Duran Duran?
Doesn't Sigur Ros use an invented language?
Idk, I’ve never taken the dive into their music yet unfortunately
@@artvjon Ageatis Byurin (or whatever idk) is an excellent album. Check it out!
The Front Bottoms should be added as well.
A band that could have been here on this list is definitely ween.
The New Pornographers, especially the songs written by Carl Newman, are just word salads made to fit the music and have no great meaning.
Starflyer 59 is another atmospheric band where the lyrics are just there to fill out the sound and range from very simple to completely meaningless.
Depends. If the artist can make up for nonsensical lyrics with their vocals and instrumentals, I don't mind the lyrics being dumb ahh.
So "owner of a lonely heart"by yes is not meaningful hmmm🧐
It’s in air quotes and I pretty clearly state several times in the vid that obviously there’s meaning in alot of these artists songs, it’s just not the most important element of the band to varying degrees
I’ll argue that Red Hot Chili Peppers lyrics do matter. Some of them are lovely
Do a video of bad bands with meaningful lyrics
Nah. That’s most bands, not an interesting topic to me sorry
Listening to phish for the lyrics is like watching porn for the plot
I'll give you cocteau twins and my bloody valentine,and raise you sigur ros.
I would say Megadeth falls into this Category. Dave Mustaine’s lyrics can be pretty wacky. The main appeal of them is their guitar work tho.
Bush entered the chat... Their lyrics are just words thrown together with absolutely no meaning... Pariticularly the 16 Stone era.
Welcome back to songwriting where everything's made up and the lyrics don't matter. 🙃
Duran Duran. Most of their lyrics are complete gibberish.