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music 20 86.96%
lyrics 3 13.04%
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Old 2008.03.03, 01:56 PM   #11
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Not as simple as Music vs. Lyrics.
Sometimes the Music is so good that the lyrics are pretty much secondary (Asobi Seksu - Thursday or any other song on Citrus).

Sometimes the Lyrics can lift what otherwise would be a pretty average affair (The Blow - Paper Television, any song on the album would fit this description)

So it's really something that can only be settle in a case by case scenario.
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Old 2008.03.08, 11:07 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by Tokyo Jihad View Post
a song is still a song without lyrics.
Its a speech without music.
I get your point, and I also chose music, but there is no need to exaggerate like that. The voice is one of my favorite instruments. Bjork has an amazing album which is almost completely a capella with the exception of a bass synthesiser on one song and a piano and a gong on another.
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Old 2008.03.08, 03:00 PM   #13
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theres always need to exaggerate when yer making a point as long as you don't obfuscate reality too bad.
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Old 2008.03.09, 06:53 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by HEDOfloe View Post
I get your point, and I also chose music, but there is no need to exaggerate like that. The voice is one of my favorite instruments. Bjork has an amazing album which is almost completely a capella with the exception of a bass synthesiser on one song and a piano and a gong on another.
But it's brilliance still has nothing to do with the lyrics and everything to do with melody. In fact, a number of songs are just gibberish (lyrically).
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Old 2008.03.09, 07:31 AM   #15
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You are right, and that is the reason why I can listen to music in languages I don't fully understand and still enjoy it. My point was just that the voice is as much of an instrument as anything else. But, since here we can only choose Music or Lyrics, I guess vox would go under music too.
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Originally Posted by HEDOfloe View Post
You are right, and that is the reason why I can listen to music in languages I don't fully understand and still enjoy it. My point was just that the voice is as much of an instrument as anything else. But, since here we can only choose Music or Lyrics, I guess vox would go under music too.
Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Sigur Ros are a good example of a band that use the voice primarily for instrumental purposes. After all, the majority of their songs are in a made up language.
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Old 2008.04.04, 02:48 AM   #17
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Lyrics are a part of the music
they're both important, why would you want to chose one over the other like this?

I still vote for music but I get a bit confused with these kind of questions

why?
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Originally Posted by ShinjiPG View Post
As proved by Sigur Ros, Gabriela Robin, Scat Singing and by instrumental music, it's quite obvious why it's possible to choose one over the other.
Also, I speak for myself, but I'm faster listening to an instrumental album (like a soundtrack) than to someone singing A Cappella.
Lyrics are the words to a song, not the singer's voice.
So if you want to play it like that, first listen to an instrumental version of a song that has a version with singing in it, then when you're done read the lyrics of the vocal version and tell me what you liked better as a song
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Old 2008.04.04, 09:26 AM   #19
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I think lyrics mean nothing without the music, but the lyrics can elevate the music into something that the music itself cannot ever achieve without it.
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