Bands who write the most pretentious/meaningless lyrics?

Coldplay have written some complete ****. Generally bands who think they are saving mindkind through their songs are ****ers.
 
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McBain said:
Agreed with "Life" by Des'Ree ... I mean, why would you sing about having toast instead of seeing a ghost?

Bizarre.
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Not really, considering the song is called 'Life'. Perhaps that's just what it's about: her and her life. Pretty mundane to most, but it's a song she wrote about herself. :confused:

Not every song must have some deep, meaningful undertone that only those that are 'smart' enough will understand, or that touches the hearts of all those that hear it.

Just a song.
 
Domo said:
The Killers.

Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
My sign is vital
My hands are cold
And I'm on my knees
Looking for the answer
Are we human?
Or are we dancer?
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Whilst I dislike the song the dancer reference is actually a pretty clever reference to something Hunter S Thompson once said.

EDIT: Beaten to it.
 
Weebull said:
At the Drive-In are one of my favourite bands of all time, but considering very few people can even establish their own understanding to some of their (and Mars Volta's) songs, let alone agree on them, I'd say, to all intents and purposes, they are essentially meaningless.

While I think there may be some vague meaning behind his songs, and there are some brilliant single lines, there's a whole lot of pretty-sounding linguistic nonsense in there too.

Unless you happen to know what "contusion is hungry" really means?
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I agree.
Meaningless, but not really pretentious.
I think most of ATDI's stuff sounds like Cedric just stuck a load of words together that he thought sounded nice. He wasn't trying to be esoteric, he just wasn't really writing about anything in particular.
Also a massive fan :D Relationship of Command is probably my number one album of all time, despite the lyrics being complete nonsense.
 
bledd. said:
We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel

Mental lyrics!, but awesome
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I can beat that!

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Lysander said:
I can beat that!

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Neither pretentious nor meaningless :confused: That being said, Lehrer does describe it as "completely pointless".

Lehrer is a ****ing genius. Still funnier than just about every comedian out there.

In terms of silly lyrics... REM. Even Stipe says he doesn't know what half the songs are about. It's The End Of The World As We Know It with it's interminable list of people with the initials LB :confused: :confused: :confused:
 
vonhelmet said:
Neither pretentious nor meaningless :confused: That being said, Lehrer does describe it as "completely pointless".
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Yeah, I was going for the "metal lyrics but awesome" tenet. Unrelated, I know.

As much I love The Mars Volta, my favourite lyric of all time has to be "transient jet lag ectomimed bison".
 
Manic street preachers
Pretentious (unarguably so) and most (particuly Nicky Wire) lyrics might aswell be meaningless to vast majority of people,

Oasis not very pretentious, most songs allude to some degree of meaningfulness.

This is the thing about lyrics, on paper they can be jibberish, but half of it's meaning can depend on how it is sung.
 
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Flibster said:
No one has mentioned Bohemian Rhapsody yet :D



Awesome song, but utter gobbledegook
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I think Headlong has that beat tbh :p

And you're rushing headlong, you've got a new goal
And you're rushing headlong, out of control
And you think you're so strong but there ain't no stopping
And there's nothin' you can do about it, nothin' you can do
No there's nothin' you can do about it
No there's nothin' you can, nothin' you can nothin' you can do about it
And you're rushing headlong, you've got a new goal
And you're rushing headlong, out of control
And you think you're so strong but there ain't no stopping
No there's nothin' you can do about it

He used to be a man with a stick in his hand
Hoop diddy diddy, hoop diddy do
She used to be a woman with a hot dog stand
Hoop diddy diddy, hoop diddy do
Now you've got soup in the laundry bag
Now you've got strings, you're gonna lose your rag
You're gettin' in a fight
Then it ain't so groovy when you're screaming in the night
Let me out of this cheap 'B' movie
Headlong down the highway
And you're rushing headlong out of control
And you think you're so strong
But there ain't no stopping and you can't stop rockin'
And there's nothin' you can, nothin' you can, nothin' you can do about it

When a red hot man meets a white hot lady
Hoop diddy diddy, hoop diddy do
Soon the fire starts a raging gets 'em more than half crazy
Hoop diddy diddy, hoop diddy do
Now they start freaking everyway you turn
You can't start walking 'cause your feet got burned
It ain't no time to figure wrong from right 'cause reason's out the window
Ya better hold on tight
You're rushin' headlong, headlong out of control
And you think you're so strong but there ain't no stopping
And there's nothin' you, nothin' you, nothin' you can about it at all

Yeah, yeah, alright, GO
Had you rushin' headlong, down de highway
And you're rushing headlong out of control
And you think you're so strong but there ain't no stopping
And there's nothin', nothin', nothin' you can about it

There's the hole, push
Push it, push it
Push it, push it
Yeah (Push it, push it), yeah (Push it, push it), yeah (Push it, push it)
Headlong
Headlong
Headlong
GnoldaeH, gnoldaeH, gnoldaeH, gnoldaeH
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Surely?
 
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