Norg

everything Grind Noise Squeel core .......

Janszoon

Really? I would think their songs would be the exact opposite, on both fronts, of what this thread is asking for.

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Key

Jon Anderson has never really been the type to write a song that makes any sense. Though, I noticed that if you look at the lyrics without the music, it's like he's reciting poetry. Animation is my favorite album by him, and the lyrical aspect is not even a reason for it. It's just a fun album to listen to. I never really have taken his lyrics seriously to begin with, don't think I ever will.

Screen13

A lot of Cocteau Twins songs. Great music!

gunnels

Agreed. That lady may be spewing nonsense but it's gorgeous nonsense.
Apparently, they often just pluck random words straight out of a dictionary when writing songs.

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galt54

Every song by Blue Öyster Cult was surrealistic and unintelligible. That was why I loved BÖCs music so much back in the period that I was suffering from a psychosis. If I wanted to be facetious I would say that "BÖC made music for psychos!"

Buckeye Randy

Understanding their lyrics didn't necessarily help anybody.

I love the lyric option on Spotify.

DMBFFF

Yep, and in her videos, she sings them like she'll be understood.

Drjohnrock

That's true on a lot of Cocteau Twins songs. But to me, Pearly Dewdrops Drop seems pretty understandable. It's about sex, though others think it's about cocaine or some other addiction.

galt54

I *was* in fact helped very much by Blue Öyster Cult`s music. My main problem when I was in the depths of schizophrenia was that I simply *ignored* the real world "out there". When I was psychotic my mind was constantly "looking inwards". I was obsessed with the thoughts going through my own consciousness. I wasted hours and hours on end spinning useless fantasies "in my head". Daydreaming about my fantasy worlds (I created entire fictional parallel universes in my head) was an obsessive-compulsive habit on my part which I seemed to be unable to kick.

But when by chance I began listening to the really *weird* music on my sister´s two BÖC albums in 1973 (their first two albums) the weirdness of that music appealed to me so much that I at long last became motivated to focus for significant spans of time on *something* out there in reality.

Some might say that listening to BÖCs first two albums was just as much a waste of time as daydreaming for hours on end. But it *was* a start. One thing led to another and eventually (with the major assistance of the anti-psychotic medication chlorpromazine) I began focusing on lots of other things out there in reality and eventually I began to function "normally". So I owe a major debt of gratitude to those five heavy metal boys from Stony Brook University!