Who was the best lyricist in grunge?
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stop making threads about this basic bitch pleb band
loser
While I prefer my grunge to sound like early Hole, L7, 7 Year Bitch, Babes in Toyland, etc. As well as Nirvana '80s work (Bleach and most of Incesticide) and Soundgarden's most metal sounding songs, I am a big sucker for Layne's lyrics in Jar of Flies and the self titled album. Alice in Chains would have made a killer blues and country influenced band if they had gone full acoustic.
>when i waken, and i'm aching, time for sleeping, yeah
>when i'm saying time to go and, i have been hurting, yeah
>when i'm laying, i'm still trying, concentrating on dying, yeah
>you are right as rain, but you are wrong to blame
>agreed my crime is the same
>my sins i will claim, give you back shed pain
>go find a place for own shame
>so you can deal with this thing unreal
>no one made you feel any hurt, yeah
>body is moving, only proving, no one needed to move
>still believing, yet mistaken, all god's children, yeah
>and i must say, i was stupid, selfishly she consumed, yeah
>and you must change patterns all we trained
>or never regain peace you seek
>now you hear me, for the things i see
>yeah, i believe in inner peace, yeah
>throw out, blow up, hold in
>show fine, no signs, grow blind
>I am a big sucker for Layne's lyrics in Jar of Flies and the self titled album. Alice in Chains would have made a killer blues and country influenced band if they had gone full acoustic.
Was listening to Rotten Apple for the first time in a while today and it truly hit me how heartbreaking that song is
>What I see is unreal
>I've written my own part
>Eat of the apple, so young
>I'm crawlin' back to start
Layne wrote a lot of poetry. He said basically Mad Seasons album lyrics were his poetry just incorporated to songs.
layne was just a white nigga trying his hardest to have some chip on his shoulder as a loser junkie who couldn't handle his own shit and his poetry is on some gay retard emo shit fuck aic
Mad
eh, layne was very hit or miss with his lyrics
man in the box for example has some of the worst lyrics i have ever read
so wish we got a full hole album during the retard girl/dicknail sessions
I'd say Chris cornell, the lyricism in 4th of july and black hole sun really elevates the songs
Cant go wrong with either
What the hell is Black Hole Sun even supposed to be about?
absolutely nothing. cornell misheard the phrase "black hole sun" on the radio and thought about how contradictory it sounded and then wrote it as a stream of consciousness type of thing.
>I wrote it in my head driving home from Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, a 35–40 minute drive from Seattle. It sparked from something a news anchor said on TV and I heard wrong. I heard 'blah blah blah black hole sun blah blah blah'. I thought that would make an amazing song title, but what would it sound like?
>Regarding the song's lyrics, Cornell stated, "It's just sort of a surreal dreamscape, a weird, play-with-the-title kind of song."[13] He also said that "lyrically it's probably the closest to me just playing with words for words' sake, of anything I've written. I guess it worked for a lot of people who heard it, but I have no idea how you'd begin to take that one literally."
>, "It's funny because hits are usually sort of congruent, sort of an identifiable lyric idea, and that song pretty much had none. The chorus lyric is kind of beautiful and easy to remember. Other than that, I sure didn't have an understanding of it after I wrote it. I was just sucked in by the music and I was painting a picture with the lyrics. There was no real idea to get across."[15]
but i guess if you read the lyrics you can see that subconsciously the main "theme" is contradiction and wanting an escape from life even if it's through a darker path
>black hole sun
>won't you come
>and wash away the rain
chris cornell
Jerry Cantrell or Scott Weiland
>Scott Weiland
STP wasn't grunge
what were they?
maybe the first album could have classified as grunge, the rest I'd call hard rock
This is my exact answer. Did Staley even write many of their lyrics?
On their debut it was like 70% Jerry 30% Layne, Dirt it was pretty much 50/50, Jar of Flies it was all Layne except No Excuses and on self titled Layne wrote everything except 3 songs. But Jerry wrote majority of their radio hits apart from stuff like man in the box.
Cobain lyrics were fun and goofy, yet real and meaningful at the same time. Most of the grunge scene were 2deep af (even tho yeah, I rate Jar of Flies)