Electronic Music With Good Lyrics In It

[Orang Utan]

Someone asked on another board if there was any and I was a bit stumped.
Most house music lyrics are a bit trite or of the woo yeah variety and for the most part are irrelevant cos electronic music is generally about noises and textures, not lyrical content.
There must be some intelligent lyrics out there though - suggestions?

[shuttlecart]

whitehouse

[Jeniffer Mills]

Kraftwerk:
"Trans Europe express, Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,Trans Europe express,

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Originally Posted by Orang Utan

Someone asked on another board if there was any and I was a bit stumped.
Most house music lyrics are a bit trite or of the woo yeah variety and for the most part are irrelevant cos electronic music is generally about noises and textures, not lyrical content.
There must be some intelligent lyrics out there though - suggestions?

Tell us which non-electronic music you think has good lyrics first as a benchmark of quality

[shuttlecart]

Can I suggest you:
Get fucked
While you lie about child-molesting gropes
And parkbench flashers and pervert creeps
And anal virginity and polaroid snaps
And verbal abuse and bathroom rapes
I don't know how well you can:
Remember your own pointless glue-sniffing adolescence
That fumbling floppy sex
In between fags
Those pathetic fistfights
All those pathetic petty thefts
And this and that and this and that and this and that
And every other fucking Adidas-clichéd cringe

Can I suggest you:
Pose
While you take another frantic glance at your shopwindow reflection
Ensuring the stinking lie is maintained
Because that's the difference between you
Yes, that's the difference between you
You'll let a leering scumbag beerdrinking rat
Raise your nostrils for a close-up smell
Of fingertip nicotine and animal fat
And force an open dead mouth
Lap up ounces of semichem sweat
So can you feel that:
Would be a truly truly disgusting thing?

And that's the difference between me
I'll open the package
I'll watch the show
I'll enjoy perfectly well-made art
I'll get in line behind stupidity
I'll let you lie through your teeth
I'll make you feel special
I'll not pick out the mistakes in public
I'll just put it down to passion
And feigned memory lapse

What did you want to be when you grow up?
Certainly not raped
That's the difference between you
A drunk? A drug addict
A motherly protector of the young?
Another bed-staining cunt?
A child molestor that needs to be told?
Or just a craven lust-driven artist
Channelling confusion and fear
Into a sickly limp repetitive craft
Yes, that's the difference between you
You'll act late and surprised
You say you loved sex?
You'll love being hated for the act
The filthier the abuse and the desperate underage details
The fatter the payback
So rather than just listen
Be altered by what's been said

Now that's the difference between me
I'll show you emotional truth
I'll show you the fucking source
I'll show you yet another fucking liar
And this is for the you
I'll show you that something that makes you:
Feel different
Feel special
I'll give you:
Thoughts
Images
Sounds
I'll give the you something
Even more interesting than the last one
And I'll tell you why it's the best one yet
And then you can look back on it all
And say:
This is the best thing that ever happened to me
And see:
Why you never became a dancer

[Orang Utan]

Originally Posted by Numbnuts

Tell us which non-electronic music you think has good lyrics first as a benchmark of quality

I don't rate lyrics in any music - it's a bit of a stretch for me to process and understand them when there's so many other elements in the music. If I strive to pay attention to the lyrics in a song, everything else takes a back seat and that's not how I want to enjoy music - I prefer to regard the voice as just another instrument with an equal footing to the others.

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Originally Posted by Orang Utan

I prefer to regard the voice as just another instrument with an equal footing to the others.

Yeah I generally agree. So who does you mate think have good lyrics?

[Orang Utan]

Originally Posted by Numbnuts

Yeah I generally agree. So who does you mate think have good lyrics?

I dunno - he was asking on the behalf of his girlfriend - I quote:
"she was wondering if there was any dance music with actual lyrical content that actually SAYS anything. Anything beyond the usual platitudes about how we're all free to feel good, love lifts us up yadda yadda - ie, i guess uplifting ecstasy fuelled positivity."

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

fuck her

[jukka]

kraftwerk has some good lyrics imo....the model f.e.

[Spandex]

"Do not allow yourself to be programmed"

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

If she thinks standing next to a guitarist makes you a better lyricist than standing next to someone with a computer or a keyboard... I can't even be arsed to contribute

[Orang Utan]

Originally Posted by Numbnuts

fuck her

She's a fine lady but I think she's kinda missing the point of 'dance' music

[Jeniffer Mills]

Originally Posted by jukka

kraftwerk has some good lyrics imo....the model f.e.

...Naaahh...I think ALL Kraftwerk lyrics are BULL! They should have just left it by the music...

[stinkfinger]

david michael cross- nuclear war

thats a good un

[soulcheck]

Fluke's allright.

[mdk]

Originally Posted by Darren W

...Naaahh...I think ALL Kraftwerk lyrics are BULL! They should have just left it by the music...

i think theyre quite educational. numbers in particular..

radioactivity, the robots..

its all there.

as for electronic music and lyrics..erm..the outhere brothers?

[V Knid esq]

I want to drink the milk from the milkman's wife's tits.

[terminal viscosity]

dmx krew - william the conquerer

historic

also bonkers goes back to school

[emef]

depeche mode - master and servant

its got it all

[KaOz]

Originally Posted by V Knid esq

I want to drink the milk from the milkman's wife's tits.

word

[Verthex scratch]

Horrorist - Mission Extasy

[johno]

'resuscitation' by adult. has got loads of great lyrics. both 'hand to phone' and 'new object' rate among some of the best lyrics ive heard in any music, but the whole record is littered with brilliant ideas from 'do you like my handbag?' to '2 lovers meet in a 1-dimensional space'

[Saxo]

Glenn Wilson&Mike Humpries - Aural Exiter

[Saxo]

Originally Posted by Verthex scratch

Horrorist - Mission Extasy

goooood shit
btw. masz przejebany avatar Waldi !!! ahahahaahahahahahahah

[ckpqerjwrpwp]

The Normal - Warm Leatherette (excerpt)

A tear of petrol
Is in your eye
The hand brake
Penetrates your thigh
Quick -- Let's make love
Before you die

[thomas hooked]

fad gadget, soft cell, new order

[emef]

Originally Posted by Verthex scratch

Horrorist - Mission Extasy

the horrorist - one night in new york

[wheezer]

Originally Posted by Numbnuts

The Normal - Warm Leatherette (excerpt)

A tear of petrol
Is in your eye
The hand brake
Penetrates your thigh
Quick -- Let's make love
Before you die

I actually like those lyrics a lot, despite never having read 'Crash' ...

What about

A number of names - shari vari

Smoking on his cigarette
Listening to his car cassette
Cruising with his hot playmate
In his Porsche Nine Two Eight
Heading for the highest heights
For the climax of the night
The people there they just won't quit
Because the music's really it

or

lb Bad - The true story of house music


Both ooze dance culture decadence

Massive Attack