Good music with bad lyrics VS. Bad music with good lyrics
 

I was at work today listening to some music and the sound was incredible but the lyrics just didn't do the trick for me. I was listening to Minus the Bear's new album OMNI, a band that I really like for their musical compositions, but their lyrics are sub-par most of the time in my opinion.

So I wanted to hear your opinion of these two subjects

wow my topic title is messed up. its supposed to say "good music w/ bad lyrics, good lyrics with bad music" oops

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Fixed. Let me know if that works for you.

yep yep thanks for doing that for me!

Is this a question of choosing between the two? If it is, my choice would always be good music with bad lyrics. Music is more important to me than lyrics and it has its own language that speaks more directly to the feelings than words. Besides, I can always ignore the lyrics, but I can't ignore bad music even if it's accompanied by some good words. And I'm not even sure if I would be able to appreciate the words when the music cheapens them. It is so easy for words to lose their meaning. Anyway, in that case I would rather read poems.

My collection is probably littered with "good music with bad lyrics" because I barely pay attention to vocals. I imagine just about everything Les Claypool has composed can go into that category, but I'm hardly an expert on the subject...

As a lyricist, I really enjoy a good lyric, hence why my favorite artists are Otep and Devin Townsend. Although a good riff can easily override bad lyrics

Good music can redeem bad lyrics (see: a lot of prog) but if the music is terrible I don't care what the lyrics are saying.

What you said.

I agree the lyrics in that album are a disappointment. I think the balance of music to lyrics was fine in their previous albums, but with this one it just seems to need to grow up a bit in the lyrical department.