I saw a new troll message the other day. In front of an illusory wall someone posted "no illusory wall ahead".

THE TROLLS ARE LEARNING
- daeth

I like that everybody upvotes troll things. I left a message saying "Try jumping" that leads to a pit fall and it has like 100 appraisals.

This

Tool released a couple of albums between the mid-90's and mid-2000s that I think have some of the best lyrics ever written

Matt Good writes great lyrics, etc. There's been tons of great songwriters and lyricists.

Everybody is just going to prefer what they grew up on
- WingmanWillie

Time to record and tour again Maynard!

Time to record and tour again Maynard!
- 1979AD

He's way too into Brazilian Jiu Jitsu (me too) and Puscifer (me not so much)

Most of it came from Dylan, Beatles and Stones, British Invasion. Although Eve of Destruction was the lyric anthem of the 60's, great tune as well.
- LeafMan

I knew I could turn you.

Yeah, Eve of Destruction pretty much nails it. As does My Generation, Fortunate Son and Yellow Submarine.

I knew I could turn you.

Yeah, Eve of Destruction pretty much nails it. As does My Generation, Fortunate Son and Yellow Submarine.
- walshyleafsfan

Yeah my blood's so mad feels like coagulating
I'm sitting here just contemplatin'
I can't twist the truth it knows no regulation
Handful of senators don't pass legislation
And marches alone can't bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin'
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'

Yeah my blood's so mad feels like coagulating
I'm sitting here just contemplatin'
I can't twist the truth it knows no regulation
Handful of senators don't pass legislation
And marches alone can't bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin'
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin'
- LeafMan

It's not angry enough.

1980s, baby.

Here come the helicopter -- second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered only God can say
If I had a rocket launcher... I'd make somebody pay.

I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate
I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states
And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate
If I had a rocket launcher... I would retaliate

On the Rio Lacantun one hundred thousand wait
To fall down from starvation -- or some less humane fate.
Cry for Guatemala, with a corpse in every gate
If I had a rocket launcher... I would not hesitate

I want to raise every voice -- at least I've got to try.
Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes.
Situation desperate echoes of the victims cry
If I had a rocket launcher... Some sonofafemale dog would die

I like that everybody upvotes troll things. I left a message saying "Try jumping" that leads to a pit fall and it has like 100 appraisals.
- AdamFrench

http://i.imgur.com/nCe0tpY.jpg

Might be insensitive as hell but god damn

I knew I could turn you.

Yeah, Eve of Destruction pretty much nails it. As does My Generation, Fortunate Son and Yellow Submarine.
- walshyleafsfan

Go on

It's not angry enough.

1980s, baby.

Here come the helicopter -- second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered only God can say
If I had a rocket launcher... I'd make somebody pay.

I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate
I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states
And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate
If I had a rocket launcher... I would retaliate

On the Rio Lacantun one hundred thousand wait
To fall down from starvation -- or some less humane fate.
Cry for Guatemala, with a corpse in every gate
If I had a rocket launcher... I would not hesitate

I want to raise every voice -- at least I've got to try.
Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes.
Situation desperate echoes of the victims cry
If I had a rocket launcher... Some sonofafemale dog would die
- Atomic Wedgie

Good ole Bruce.

Good ole Bruce.
- LeafMan

I wish talent came with that name

I wish talent came with that name
- Dozzer

I decided to listen to Gordon tell the tale of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Love that guitar sound and tone.

Good ole Bruce.
- LeafMan

I'd have to say he's my all-time favourite.

Saw him without a backup band once at Massey Hall.

Also saw him in a tiny venue at Queen's University.

And if you want to talk about politicized lyrics, his Call It Democracy is probably the best of all time - or at least post-Vietnam era:

Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns
Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
With the blood of the poor

Who rob life of its quality
Who render rage a necessity
By turning countries into labour camps
Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

Sinister cynical instrument
Who makes the gun into a sacrament -
The only response to the deification
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
Idolatry of ideology

North South East West
Kill the best and buy the rest
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying (frank)
About the people in misery

IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left

Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

See the paid-off local bottom feeders
Passing themselves off as leaders
Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
Open for business like a cheap bordello

And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy

See the loaded eyes of the children too
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
They call the revolution

IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

This

Tool released a couple of albums between the mid-90's and mid-2000s that I think have some of the best lyrics ever written

Matt Good writes great lyrics, etc. There's been tons of great songwriters and lyricists.

Everybody is just going to prefer what they grew up on
- WingmanWillie

Exactly.

That's Salt N Pepa.
- 1979AD

different name same thing.

I'd have to say he's my all-time favourite.

Saw him without a backup band once at Massey Hall.

Also saw him in a tiny venue at Queen's University.

And if you want to talk about politicized lyrics, his Call It Democracy is probably the best of all time - or at least post-Vietnam era:

Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns
Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
With the blood of the poor

Who rob life of its quality
Who render rage a necessity
By turning countries into labour camps
Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

Sinister cynical instrument
Who makes the gun into a sacrament -
The only response to the deification
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
Idolatry of ideology

North South East West
Kill the best and buy the rest
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying (frank)
About the people in misery

IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left

Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

See the paid-off local bottom feeders
Passing themselves off as leaders
Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
Open for business like a cheap bordello

And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy

See the loaded eyes of the children too
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
They call the revolution

IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
- Atomic Wedgie

Prolific.

I'd have to say he's my all-time favourite.

Saw him without a backup band once at Massey Hall.

Also saw him in a tiny venue at Queen's University.

And if you want to talk about politicized lyrics, his Call It Democracy is probably the best of all time - or at least post-Vietnam era:

Padded with power here they come
International loan sharks backed by the guns
Of market hungry military profiteers
Whose word is a swamp and whose brow is smeared
With the blood of the poor

Who rob life of its quality
Who render rage a necessity
By turning countries into labour camps
Modern slavers in drag as champions of freedom

Sinister cynical instrument
Who makes the gun into a sacrament -
The only response to the deification
Of tyranny by so-called "developed" nations'
Idolatry of ideology

North South East West
Kill the best and buy the rest
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying (frank)
About the people in misery

IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left

Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt

See the paid-off local bottom feeders
Passing themselves off as leaders
Kiss the ladies shake hands with the fellows
Open for business like a cheap bordello

And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy
And they call it democracy

See the loaded eyes of the children too
Trying to make the best of it the way kids do
One day you're going to rise from your habitual feast
To find yourself staring down the throat of the beast
They call the revolution

IMF dirty MF
Takes away everything it can get
Always making certain that there's one thing left
Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt
- Atomic Wedgie

All great but the best anti-war song is still the simplest - Blowin' In The Wind

In my opinion, System of a Down takes the cake when it comes to politicized lyrical content

I decided to listen to Gordon tell the tale of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Love that guitar sound and tone.
- LeafMan

Oh that's a classic for sure!

Go on
- Dozzer

I can solve any wife's problems

In my opinion, System of a Down takes the cake when it comes to politicized lyrical content
- WingmanWillie

The Clash. Different government admittedly, but no one has done it better

Edit: White man in Hammersmith palais

I can solve any wife's problems
- walshyleafsfan

You realize you're trying to sell that service to a single guy right?

The Clash. Different government admittedly, but no one has done it better
- walshyleafsfan

Strummer was a yuuuuuuuuge Thatcher fan.

You realize you're trying to sell that service to a single guy right?
- Dozzer

I also take retainers.

Strummer was a yuuuuuuuuge Thatcher fan.
- 1979AD

Absolutely. Same way Shaw is a huge Magic Mike fan.

The Clash. Different government admittedly, but no one has done it better

Edit: White man in Hammersmith palais
- walshyleafsfan

I used to love the Clash.

At least for me, the music just doesn't hold up anymore.

I wish it was otherwise, but other than Lost in the Supermarket, I'd probably hit skip on every other song on London Calling.