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From: tankus@hsi.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Best lyrics? (again)
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Date: Fri, 2-Nov-84 07:43:33 EST
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>> Munch Here <<

I understand your concern about not receiving any responses. But first, let me
quickly deal with Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight'. The lyrics may be good but it'sa very wimpy song. Clapton stopped making good music after he completed 451 
Ocean Boulevard. His best coming with the Derek and the Dominoes Live in ConcertLP.

As for just plain lyrics, I think someone here on this net hit the nail on the
head: most of todays singers are so unintelligible as to make a perfectly good
song meaningless. The only way you can tell what is being said is by looking at
the song sheet. Even then, the singer may have changed the words during the 
recording. I'm a lyricist and I know how important it is to convey the right
emotions or message through verse. But if the singer louses it up my hard 
work and that of many, many others is right down the tubes.

	"She's a beauty, one in a million girls ..." < Tubes
        "Reasons, Reasons ... "		             < Earth, Wind & Fire
 	"Urgent, urgent, emergency ... "	     < Foreigner


 


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    "   For every word there is a song upon which inspiration lies ..."




		                 Ed Tankus

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