mewithoutYou Band • Page 24

Travis Morrison, Tim Kasher, and John K Sampson are some of my other favorites. good names being dropped in here

 

I'll always love MF Doom and Andre 3K. Obviously, Kendrick has probably been the most powerful writer over the past few years as well.

 

yeah Kendrick would be my number 2. Idk I love everything MC Ride has done with Death Grips, even if sometimes hes nonsensical

 

I think I'm thankful for giving you three "ha's" worth of laughter but maybe not. I'll sleep on it. Or maybe I won't. Eh...

edit: when andy hull said mana was a hell of a drug i think he might have meant nyquil because this shit has had me fucked up for dayzzzz

edit 2: also to add the the lyricist talk, andy hull is a fantastic writer too.

 

I never learned to love Death Grips. I'm embarrassed by it.

Killer Mike has to be mentioned too, obviously.

 

I love talking about lyricists.

 

DG arent for most people and I wish they were. But the aggressive, loud, morbid form of hip hop isnt too popular, or at least the way they do it isnt. But I love everything that band has done.

 

I'm in the "Aaron is my favourite lyricist" camp. And I am unapologetic about it.

 

Haha, yes, love it! It's a great song to play - I hadn't played the guitar for months but could play the basic chords straight away.

 

Toss up between him, Jordan Dreyer, Chris Carraba(sp?), Chris Conley(sp?) and Jesse Lacey.

 

Aaron's definitely up there for me. He's not my personal favourite but he's probably the one that impresses me the most.

 

I had no interest in mewithoutYou's music until I read Aaron's lyrics while listening to "Messes of Men" and all I could think was, "These might be the most clever lyrics I've ever read." Then I went through Brother, Sister and had the same thought with every single song. What gets me about Aaron Weiss is that if there are better lyricists than him--and there aren't many--he's still so brilliantly unique and unlike anyone I've heard.

"Still there's a whisper in my ear
The voice of loneliness and fear
So I say, "Devil, disappear!
I'm still (ehh… technically…) a virgin after 27 years
Which never bothered me before
What's maybe 50 more?""

Who else would come up with that?

 

Aaron is my favorite by far, but Yoni Wolf is very, VERY good.

"Out of every woman on earth, who will I mate with?
Or will I spit empty threats until all that's left
Is a million zeros printed on a roll of ticker-tape?
And one last echo of the final tiny wave in my wake?
Will all my unused seed collect like mercury
In some kind of afterlife for halves?"

 

Yeah I think Yoni's my favourite lyricist in the world ever but Aaron is close behind and gets credit for getting me, as an atheist, to always admire the beautiful and compelling ways he conceptualises his spirituality/religion.

 

Who is Yoni?

 

Yoni Wolf is the singer/songwriter of the band Why?

They're buddies and tour together.

 

I missed some of the posts, I didn't know who Yoni Wolf was. I'll be looking him up now.

 

I see those lyrics and raise you these...which are some of my favorite from "In a Sweater Poorly Knit."

As you plow some other field try and forget my name
See what harvest yields, and, supposing I'd do the same
I planted rows of peas but by the first week of July
They should have come up to my knees
But they were maybe ankle high

 

Same here. While he's not my absolutely favorite, he's the one whose lyrics I can read over and over again and still be completed amazed by

 

I could pick out an incredible paragraph from almost every song they've done.

 

"Caught me making eyes at the other boatman's wives,
and heard me laughing louder at the jokes told by their daughters
I'd set my course for land,
but you well understand
it takes a steady hand to navigate adulterous waters"

The metaphors that he uses are easy enough to decipher yet difficult enough to not be able to come up with on your own even if you're trying really, really hard.

 

If ever You come near
I'll hold up high a mirror,
Lord, I could never show You anything as beautiful as You

 

Tim Kasher is great as is Kendrick Lamar

 

wut

 

Tim kasher's pretty great