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[Tamanon]

Nirvana while quite catchy can't really qualify as GOOD lyrics

I'd fourth Bad Religion for sure. The point is always quite well articulated haha, and the lyrics definitely make you think. I mean just listen to Skyscraper for God's sake!

 

[Jdw40223]

Some hip-hop since it hasn't been mentioned...

Talib Kweli
Mos Def
Common
K-Os
Da Grass Roots
Jurassic 5
A Tribe Called Quest
Run DMC
Public Enemy
De La Soul

yep.. And how can we forget Jay-Z.

 

[N Coward Parody]

Modest Mouse

Well, their old stuff moreso than their latest... Really brilliant stuff...


*Noel Coward Parody

 

[Koopa]

Stephen Malkmus is my #1 song writer next to Robbert Pollard from Guided By Voices.

Demolition Plot-J-7 to Pig Lib. Absolutly fucking fablious

 

[kumanoki]

Shannon Hoon - Blind Melon

Hells yeah. Blind Melon was fantastic.

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

Gotta agree with XTC.

 

[The Chosen One]

PM Dawn

 

[All Hail C-Webb]

DMX
Benefit
Canabiss

 

[SD-Ness]

yep.. And how can we forget Jay-Z.

Eh, maybe. Even he knows he isn't as good as Kweli, etc.:

"The music business hate me
Cause the industry ain't make me
Hustlers and boosters embrace me
And the music i be makin
I dump down for my audience
And double my dollars
They criticize me for it
Yet they all yell "Holla"
If skills sold
Truth be told
I'd probably be
Lyricly
Talib Kweli
Truthfully
I wanna rhyme like Common Sense
(But i did five mill)
I ain't been rhymin like Common since."

 

[Amneziak]

More unmentioned hip-hop artists:

The Fugees (esp. Lauryn Hill)