Chula Vista

Apropos at the moment.....

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YorkeDaddy

you just reminded me of my main song from middle school



the good ol' days

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Frownland

I don't even know what I would call artistic merit since I'm not too concerned about it. But yes, I think that lyrics can be important or extremely beneficial to a song. Look at Beefheart, his lyrics make his already incredible music even better. I do agree that it does take a lot more guts to perform as a vocalist, but that doesn't mean much tbh. It takes more stamina to play the saxophone than the guitar, but I still prefer the sound of the guitar to sax.

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FRED HALE SR.

Impressionable young minds. I take it you listened to this after bible school.

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YorkeDaddy

Well luckily for me my parents never forced me into anything and just let me figure out what I believed on my own, so I can at least give a no to the bible school part

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FRED HALE SR.

I just always felt a heavy religious slant to their music is all. Yeah bible school got a no from me also.

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YorkeDaddy

hah, probably, but as a 12 year old kid all I cared about was that the song was catchy as hell :P

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Chula Vista

Funny, King's X are (or at least were) a very religious band that did everything to try to hide it.

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Black Francis

@Frown

For me it's not so much what you say it's how you say it.

The most vocal driven band i like is guided by voices but i don't really pay much attention to Robert Pollard's lyrics, i pay attention to the vocal harmonies he creates to contrast the band's simple guitar rhythms.



The vocals in that song are pretty good but the message is kinda funny. It is so aimed at highschool kids overwhelmed by puberty.

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Moss

Yeah, they always confused me with that. Clearly some strong pro-life lyrics and things like that but in concert they would make anti-christian cracks that left me scratching my head. Not being a religious person myself I'm glad they never went the full on christian music route.