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Great instrumentals/beats ruined by AWFUL lyrics?
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Conkersbadfurday
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Maybe anything by Infant Annihilator, and other deathcore lyrics of that sort. I quite like the brutal gutturals and the crazy wails, but I can do without the cartoon levels of violence. I mean, ya can't understand em anyways, but to know it's there bothers me.
Like, great, you wrote an entire album about molesting and murdering babies. Cool beans.
Thankfully Shadow of Intent keep it classy by only singing about Halo
Like, great, you wrote an entire album about molesting and murdering babies. Cool beans.
Thankfully Shadow of Intent keep it classy by only singing about Halo
And everything by Silkk The Shocker. *shakes head*
Yes, and what makes it even more painful is that The Outsider Instrumentals was released in 2009 and I missed buying it and can't get it anymore.
Would love a copy of this without the vocals.
Blueingreen
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Maybe anything by Infant Annihilator, and other deathcore lyrics of that sort. I quite like the brutal gutturals and the crazy wails, but I can do without the cartoon levels of violence. I mean, ya can't understand em anyways, but to know it's there bothers me.
Like, great, you wrote an entire album about molesting and murdering babies. Cool beans.
Thankfully Shadow of Intent keep it classy by only singing about Halo
Most brutal/ technical death lyrics/vocals are laughably bad but I think that's the point. bands like infant Annihilator are practically a dick measuring contest in technical aggression, they're so bombastic it's almost parody music hardly aiming to be taken seriously.
I was about to say Group Home the thread, but this works too.
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I can't stop laughing at this. I mean, of course there's a band called this, it still caught me off guard though.
Nappuccino
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"Jokes" and "Style"
Man, if those lines pass for jokes and style, I should get the hip hop game.
Starfish Hero
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A$AP Mob and Bath Salt. Especially Ant's verse. Who let that happen.
I like Korn and even Davis' as a vocalist but they have entire albums that could benefit from him singing about literally anything else.
Kind of cheating but many many video game songs with vocals are held back by lyrics relevant to the source material. Sonic soundtracks are the poster childen for this.
I like Korn and even Davis' as a vocalist but they have entire albums that could benefit from him singing about literally anything else.
Kind of cheating but many many video game songs with vocals are held back by lyrics relevant to the source material. Sonic soundtracks are the poster childen for this.
StrawberryJam
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This. They read like a 15 year olds conspiracy theories.
Just listen to this instead: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaxEa5ONJw
Blueingreen
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I highly recommend a band called "Rodent Blowjob Holocaust" everything from the name, album art,logo and band member names killed my sides a true gem from bandcamp.
Etrian Oddity
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Dream Theater: The Thread
Deuce Deuce
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I wouldn't say "ruined", but the track in Tee Grizzley's "First Day Out" is much better than the lyrics:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pWh4O6ujK4o
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pWh4O6ujK4o
I was about to link to the same video but beaten.
Fixed. Seriously, I feel that a lot of metal bands shit the bed with how terrible the lyrics, vocalists are.
Wandering Robot
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I've never found Daft Punk to be especially good at writing lyrics, and I think it sticks out on RAM. I guess the same could be said of Human After All, but the music is so repetitive on that album that it doesn't really matter what the lyrics do.
nitekrawlwer
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"I know it's corny bithces you wish you could unfollow.... I know it's corny niggas you wish you could unswallow"
Just in case you thought you misheard it's repeated twice more. Color me surprised that isn't the ire inducing part of wolves. I actually liked most of it.
P.S. You're much to high, Your wings might melt is a shout out to Icarus in Greek mythology.
Just in case you thought you misheard it's repeated twice more. Color me surprised that isn't the ire inducing part of wolves. I actually liked most of it.
P.S. You're much to high, Your wings might melt is a shout out to Icarus in Greek mythology.
Nappuccino
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Yeah . . . but a lot of the music is pretty cheesy and awful too. After Metropolis Pt 2, they really went down hill.
streetsahead123
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TBH Humble has some trash lyrics. Like when he tries to rhyme 'photoshop' with 'Richard Pryor'
so, you're saying No Limit had good beats?!
dr3upmushroom
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Anything Drake raps over.
Jay Shadow
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Biggest offender being the Mission Impossible 2 theme which was great in the trailer cause the vocals weren't included, but was a steaming pile of shit when Fred Durst does his thing.
There's this pop song by a woman on the radio currently that goes something like "I got issues but you got them too" yadayadayada and I like the beat but the lyrics remind me of something a 14-year-old girl would be writing down in her diary. Which, I admit, was probably part of the target audience.
Vipershark
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Recently, Future - Mask Off but the beat is good enough that it being Future doesn't bother me.
Otherwise, mumble rappers the thread, Yung Lean's whole discography, any nujabes song that Shing02 is on (including Battlecry), etc
Edit: Actually, I have a perfect answer. London Elektricity - U Gotta B Crazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqBcf13e9lI
I actually love this song but I can't stand the ridiculous voice. If there was a version without it, it would be perfect.
Otherwise, mumble rappers the thread, Yung Lean's whole discography, any nujabes song that Shing02 is on (including Battlecry), etc
Edit: Actually, I have a perfect answer. London Elektricity - U Gotta B Crazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqBcf13e9lI
I actually love this song but I can't stand the ridiculous voice. If there was a version without it, it would be perfect.
There it is. Some of Premier's best work shitted on. Lil' Dap is bad, but other dude? My god.
Atomic Playboy
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Non-Phixion - The CIA is Trying to Kill Me. It's the typical silly Non-Phixion paranoid rapping, which would be fine, but the beat is one of the best beats in the history of hip hop and it is just absolutely wasted on cringe-worthy lyrics like "treat the record label like a slut and rape that bitch." The entire first verse is just aggressively, offensively stupid and it sullies the whole song.
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Vipershark
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Does Forgot About Dre count?
Eminem's verse is hot garbage about nothing at all and is just him throwing out random puns for shock value on a song about how Dre should be respected.
Granted, Dre's verse and Eminem's chorus more than make up for it but the verse itself felt so phoned in that it hurts the song overall imo
Eminem's verse is hot garbage about nothing at all and is just him throwing out random puns for shock value on a song about how Dre should be respected.
Granted, Dre's verse and Eminem's chorus more than make up for it but the verse itself felt so phoned in that it hurts the song overall imo
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Nearly every Dream Theater song
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you wear those shoes like a dove.
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Every non Instrumental song Dream Theater has ever made.
The issue isn't even the lyrics, it's James Labrie.
Dude must be the best friend ever or secretly writing all their music or somethig. Can't imagine another reason for him being in the band.
Like, what do they say to him? "great job recording today James, you seem to be at the top of your game today!, that was only really bad instead of absolutely horribl like usual!!"
The issue isn't even the lyrics, it's James Labrie.
Dude must be the best friend ever or secretly writing all their music or somethig. Can't imagine another reason for him being in the band.
Like, what do they say to him? "great job recording today James, you seem to be at the top of your game today!, that was only really bad instead of absolutely horribl like usual!!"
Conkersbadfurday
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I get that, and half the time when I look at them I laugh, but at the same time, writing an hour long album about rape is just...well, an hour long album about rape. I can't do it. It's cartoony, but not in a fun way. it's just stupid.
Obviously a personal thing though, but there's a reason I have very little deathcore on my iPod despite liking the music.
Blueingreen
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I'm a staunch believer that if Primo had given those instrumentals to Mobb Deep it would have been the greatest NYC street rap album of that decade, what a fucking waste.
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There's a LOT of Gaga that fits into this category for me. Especially Artpop.
I knew it would be this one. Cringe
CrunchyFrog
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Muse, though more the ever increasingly grating sound of his voice than the lyrics.
capitalCORN
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Let's look at what Mase was up against when Harlem World dropped:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_in_hip_hop_music
MA brotha Gabriel
Is he trying to rhyme there
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JinjoUnchained
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Good point. It's funny to me what we considered bad MCs back in the 90s, merely because of the high level of competition. To take one random example, Wish Bone was often criticized as the weak link of Bone Thugs N Harmony. But he's a pretty good rapper on his own merits. I'd take him over most of the big names today like Fetty Wap, Little Yachty, 2 Chains etc...
Same with Ma$e too. When your label mate is Notorious frickin BIG of all people, then it's tough to get a fair evaluation. Again, he's a damn good rapper, and all of the shiny suits and pop sellouts were what he felt he had to do to get his money. I can't criticize him for doing what he had to do to get paid.
Yeah, Trent doesn't really write the best lyrics, and The Fragile is the best example of this. With Teeth, too, lol
Fancy Clown
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The Weeknd usually has pretty shitty lyrics
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