bands that blew their wad "lyrically"

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maybe been done(i'm a newbie)...but what i mean to ask is:: what bands/singers were once impressive with lyrics but no longer are?

a couple i can think of are::

robert smith/cure

posies-dear23 had several classic songs

liz phair-fuck and run

― william harris, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Iron fucking Maiden

― chaki, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

AC fucking DC too... "Problem Child" was sheer poetry, but now they're just garbage lyrically. However, "Bon is gone, but Angus rocks on!"

― andy, Thursday, 29 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Andy - exactly, thank fuck I'm not the only person who ever noticed this. All you have to do is trace the sharp drop-off of their testicular trilogy - "Big Balls" is a hilarious Alex Harvey/Kinks- type music-hall class-warfare extended metaphor, "She's Got Balls" is teasingly ambivalent for such a manly band with such a manly groove, then from the latter days we get the witless single-entendre attempt at self-pastiche, "Got You By the Balls".

― dave q, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i am gonna have to agree with andy and scrape.... ACDC rocks! i am a jazz and hip hop head and even i still crave some acdc once in a while.... but i must admit, it is once in a GREAT while.

― ;lakjsfda;slkjf, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

kozelek's album of acdc covers revelaed their poetry

― geoff, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I could go with that, but Kozelek edited some of the lines.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mark Smith lost it about 10 years ago.

― RW, Friday, 30 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i celebrate their entire catalog but definitely get what you mean. those first 2 albums, especially Failure are packed with great witty emotive lyrics that only occasionally fall into cringe territory. Frosting took a nosedive into alterna-nonsense, and after that they only recovered partially, even as musically i think they had some of their bests.

the new Dismemberment Plan sports a lot of lyrical gems but some blandness is seeping in and some serious overuse of 'I dunno's, 'oh yeah's and 'I guess'es and the like, although sometimes it works.

bad examples: REM and Meat Puppets both had some of the best nonsense in the business but kinda lost it in different directions. and Cibo Matto should've never stopped rapping about

― al, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

For my money it doesn't get any better than when Travis Morrison sings "Timebomb".

― Josh, Sunday, 2 December 2001 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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