I have very recently discovered a new (to me) band, and am going through a process I have not experienced for years.
Having been given a freebie of their music, I have now spent a week buying all their stuff, listening to it, listening to it again, listening to my fave tracks over and over, finding a new fave track and listening to THAT one over and over, annoying myself by whistling their (almost un-whistlable) tunes, loading them onto my MP3… I feel like a Kid again. I am now at the ‘repeatedly listening to their pretty awful first album in the hope of it growing on me' stage. And y'know, it sort of is.
It's at least twenty years since I last devoted so much of my time to music. But in this case there is a plus.
Music I like. I like Music a lot. Classic, Opera, Ballet, Rock, Pop, Indie – if the music is good, I like them. If the music is bad I don't. But in all cases I labour under the Lyric problem.
Be the Muso in question a Wolverhampton Heavy metal Dude, or a Nobel Laureate Poet, they always have to fit words to music. And in doing so, even the best of them will struggle to write any words that actually mean anything, and that won't start to grate on me after a few listenings. In the worst cases, the words are bloody awful me-love you-love moon june 
. But even the best Lyrics will tend to annoy. There are few things worse than listening to a good tune then reading the lyrics on the sleeve to discover what you THOUGHT he was singing about was NOT what he was singing about, and what he IS singing about makes you want to punch his stupid face in.
The band I am hooked on is Sigur Ros. Not only are they Icelandic, apparently most of the time Jon isn't even singing in Icelandic – he is just hooting Gibberish in a vaguely Icelandic sort of way. Not only do I not know what this Human Sea-Otter is chirruping about, but I will NEVER know.
It's Lovely.
Anyone else hate Lyrics?
Pat
