V vs SFBM 2:, lyrical comparisons Options

[LiveRoCkS77]

Please feel free to compare lyrical mishaps from these two albums. Post the worst and post the best. /By the end, hopefully we can mostly agree as to which was most poorly written.

My vote goes to V....although I'm open to being proven wrong.

Let the shitslinging begin!

This post has been edited by LiveRoCkS77: Sep 7 2011, 7:24 am

[World Dreamer]

I have said it often. V, for me, gets a pass because of what it was supposed to be and what it ended up being forced to be.

It wasn't supposed to be an album. The songs were supposed to be experimental. They weren't supposed to be released like that. The record company made it happen though. To me it is obvious that most of the songs on V were written quickly and never really put through the "does this suck or should we keep it like it is?" part of the writing process. I could be wrong but coming off the heels of TDTH I don't see how some of those lyrics could have seen the light of day if that wasn't somewhat true.

But with SFBM, none of that was the case. SFBM was a completely serious effort.

This post has been edited by World Dreamer: Sep 7 2011, 12:21 pm

[LiveRoCkS77]

I have said it often. V, for me, gets a pass because of what it was supposed to be and what it ended up being forced to be.

It wasn't supposed to be an album. The songs were supposed to be experimental. They weren't supposed to be released like that. The record company made it happen though. To me it is obvious that most of the songs on V were written quickly and never really put through the "does this suck or should we keep it like it is?" part of the writing process. I could be wrong but coming off the heels of TDTH I don't see how some of those lyrics could have seen the light of day if that wasn't somewhat true.

But with SFBM, none of that was the case. SFBM was a completely serious effort.

Somewhat, SFBM was a completely serious effort by ED. CCP had no input.

I think there was a serious clash when the ideas came together for the next album, in fact, I know there was. One minute we were waiting for the next album and everything was good. We even got to hear Ed sing Believe a few times. CT had written a bunch of guitar parts for other songs, but apparently Ed had other ideas, just as he pulled with SFBM. What ensued wasn't pleasant to say the least. All the contractual infidelities were discovered shortly after and voila!! Explosion.