R&P... Why art thou afraid of thy Shakespeare?

Question

R&P... Why art thou afraid of thy Shakespeare?

Answer 1

My vote goes to Ian Curtis of Joy Division for best lyricist. Peter Steele of Type O Negative is a pretty boss lyricist too.



BA: "Listen to the silence, let it ring on.

Eyes, dark grey lenses frightened of the sun.

We would have a fine time living in the night,

Left to blind destruction,

Waiting for our sight."

-Transmission

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnWPGSQjFUc



"A dying Godman full of pain

When will you come again?

Before him beg to serve or please

On your back or knees

There's no forgiveness for her sins

Prefers punishment

Would you suffer eternally

Or internally?"

-Christian Woman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0LSO-dtsxo





BA2: I don't love it, but I don't hate it. My favorite book I read was Lord of the Flies.My least favorite was Gilgamesh. I mean, I respect it for what it is, but I didn't like it.



BA2: That's a WTF moment in my book.



BA2b: I'm 16

Answer 2

greatest poet...jello biafra or patti smith idk



jesus are you like really good at typing or something?



BQ: suess

BQ2: lame, catcher i guess, any shakespeare i read sucks

BQ3: it was take your kid to work day here too, i guess its national...

a)nah

b)16

c)uhh15 maybe

Answer 3

I actually love poetry. And Shakespeare is badass.



Elliott Smith wrote beautiful lyrics.



BQ: "All spit and spite, you're up all night,

And down every day.

A tired man with only hours to go,

Just waiting to be taken away."



BBQ: Depends on the book. I don't mind reading if I like the material.

Favorite: Fahrenheit 451 was awesome.

Least favorite: I didn't like either of the books I had to read this year (A Hope in the Unseen and another book that I can't remember the name of).



BBBQ: No.

17.

15?

Answer 4

{{{Poetry}}}

I love poems, though not so much Shakespeare!





Well, I guess most people will be thinking Bob Dylan, but I'm going with...



Ian Anderson

{close behind are Sandy Denny and Nick Drake}



BQ: Where to begin?!

"Lend me your ear while I call you a fool. You were kissed by a witch one night in the wood, and later insisted your feelings were true."

"Now I may tell you that it's love and not just lust. And if we live the lie, let's lie in trust on golden daffodils, to catch the silver stream that washes out the wild oat seed on velvet green."

"The leaded window opened to move the dancing candle flame. And the first Moths of summer suicidal came, suicidal came."



'Alive and Well and Living In'

"Nobody sees her here, her eyes are slowly closing. If she should want some peace she sits there, without moving, and puts a pillow over the phone. And if she feels like dancing, no one will know it. Giving herself a chance there's no need to show her how it should be.

She can't remember now when she was all in pieces, she's quite content to sit there listening to what he says, how he didn't like to be alone. And if he feels like crying she's there to hear him, no reason to complain and nothing to fear, they always will be."





BBQ: It was great when I was reading my own choices, but I wasn't really into some of the set texts, and I've forgotten most of what we read {I left over 10 years ago!}.

Enjoyed: "Beowulf".

Least enjoyed: "Romeo & Juliet" - I wanted "Macbeth"!



BBBQ:

a) When I was 14, many people thought I was 18.

b) Almost 29.

c) ? 16 ?

Answer 5

Smokey Robinson.



1: Ooh-ooooh-ooh, baby baby.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uThnUmWRCCs

2: Mostly liked it, I enjoy reading. Favorite book I remember reading was Hard Times - Dickens. Least favorite, oh beats me, maybe uh Flowers For Algernon?

3:

a) I've been slapped by women, but not over my age.

b) 31.

c) No idea, evidently in high school, maybe 16-17?

Answer 6

I am putting on my Early Modern English master's degree hat for this question, haha.



We know my vote for greatest lyricist (Elvis Costello), but I would also like to recognize some others that may not get mentioned: David Byrne, Patti Smith (previously mentioned by Johnny!), Billy Bragg, Michael Stipe (despite loopiness, there's some great stuff in there), Sam Cooke, Woody Guthrie, Warren Zevon, etc. To pick someone I haven't mentioned a bajillion times, I'd also like to promote the Indigo Girls, in particular songs like Secure Yourself, which is a fantastically written song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1IWN3wjEEg



BQ: Best Costello line off the top of my head that's not 'Shipbuilding' or 'Beyond Belief,' as I've talked about those before: From God's Comic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7dzTCvLfN0

...

So there He was on a water-bed, drinking a cola of a mystery brand

Readin' an airport novelette

Listening to Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Requiem"

He said, before it had really begun, "I prefer the one about My Son

I've been wading through all this unbelievable junk

And wondering if I should have given the world to the monkeys"

...



I'm gonna take a little trip, down paradise's endless shores

They say that travel broadens the mind 'til you can't get your head out of doors

...

Sometimes you confuse Me with Santa Claus

It's the big white beard, I suppose.



BBQ: It depends upon the reading and the frequency thereof. Having read To Kill a Mockingbird five (5) times from fourth grade through law school, I never want to see that book again, which is sad as it's a great book -- I just had too much chapter-by-chapter. I don't agree with the way Shakespeare is taught in high school, because students are given the plays but no help with the grammar and etymology, when technically Early Modern English (or EME, which Shakespeare wrote in) is a different language than Modern English.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English if you care at all! (Maybe not.)



BBBQ:

a) Never -- I get mistaken for under 21 nowadays. I don't look 30-in-a-week at _all_.

b) 30-in-a-week. I want presents!

c) I know already.

Answer 7

"but know, thou noble youth,

the serpent that sting thou father's life

now wears his crown"

*dun dun dun*





Hard choice, off the top of my head, i'd say bob dylan -- personally, i also favour mick jagger



ba: "the answer is blowing the wind" - dylan

"i watched with glee while your kings and queens, fought for ten decades for the gods they made" - jagger



baa: can be a bummer if it's a rubbish book -- can't choose one favourite but i'm currently doing hamlet and i like it - actually done a lot of shakespeare in the past too



baaa: yep, they wouldn't allow me into the movies - i think they were just being stingy ^^ and i'm 15 ( i'll keep your age quiet ;) )



p.s i apologise for the bad grammar - i'm on my phone and this is just easier

Answer 8

Bob Dylan is undeniably the greatest lyricist ever to grace the music we so simply refer to as rock.

BQ: There must be some way out of here" said the joker to the thief

"There's too much confusion", I can't get no relief

Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth

None of them along the line know what any of it is worth.



"No reason to get excited", the thief he kindly spoke

"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke

But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate

So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late".



All along the watchtower, princes kept the view

While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.



Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl

Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.



BBQ(hungry!!!!): I think that it is good for some and bad for others. I appreciate that The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is required in at least one state, but I hated having to read Lord of the Flies. It's just so grim.

BBBQ: Yes. I'm 14. Probably 16.

Answer 9

Hey Indian Dotter



This is the easiest question I have answered all day. Bob Dylan is without question (In my opinion) the master poet of rock n roll or any music for that matter, no one writes lyrics like him.



My favorite part of the song Hurricane.



BQ..

Rubin Carter was falsely tried

The crime was murder 'one' guess who testified

Bello and Bradley and they both boldly lied

And the newspapers they all went along for the ride

How can the life of such a man

Be in the palm of some fool's hand ?

To see him obviously framed

Couldn't help but make me feel ashamed to live in a land

Where justice is a game.



Or these lyrics from Subterranean Homesick Blues



Johny's in the basement

Mixing up the medicine

I'm on the pavement

Thinking about the government

The man in the trench coat

Badge out, laid off

Says he's got a bad cough

Wants to get it paid off

Look out kid

It's somethin' you did

God knows when

But you're doin' it again

You better duck down the alley way

Lookin' for a new friend

The man in the coon-skip cap

In the big pen

Wants eleven dollar bills

You only got ten.







BBQ:I hate reading books, I will leave it at that lol.



BBBQ:

a)No I can't say I have :)

b) turned 21 a few days ago

Answer 10

Indian Dotter doth protest too much, methinks!



The first line that came to mind when I read this question was "love is dead and thou art free, she doth live but death to thee."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OH0SMVVNzs



I really don't know, there were many great ones. I think Mikael Akerfeldt is a pretty great lyricist. And you can't go wrong with Bob Dylan.



BQ: Hmm...

" 'twas a token of ebony colour.

Embodied in faint vapour.

Wandering through April's fire.

Compelled to grasp and to hold

the one that was you." - April Ethereal (Opeth)



For Bob Dylan I'd go with pretty much all of "All Along The Watchtower".



BBQ: I don't mind it at all if the book is good. My English teacher made us do a novel study a few weeks ago with "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli. Absolutely terrible book in my opinion. We're doing a novel study again but she's letting us pick our own books, thank god.

I'm not past highschool yet, ahah. My favourite books are The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury, The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, Animal Farm by George Orwell and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (I couldn't pick just one, sorry!). I'm also about 20% done Ursula Le Guin's "The Dispossessed", which will probably become one of my favourite books. Stargirl would be my least favourite.



BBBQ: a) No, I have not. What the hell? xD

b) 14.



Edit: I really love the lyrics to Dark Star by Grateful Dead, too. I'm pretty sure they written by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter.



Dark star crashes

pouring its light

into ashes



Reason tatters, the forces tear loose from the axis

Searchlight casting for faults in the clouds of delusion

shall we go, you and I while we can,

Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds?



Mirror shatters in formless reflections of matter

Glass hand dissolving to ice petal flowers revolving

Lady in velvet recedes in the nights of goodbye

Shall we go, you and I while we can?

Through the transitive nightfall of diamonds

Answer 11

I loved playing Mercutio, not only did I get my revenge on the fruity Drama teacher, I had half the senior class roaring with laughter as well. After I "died" in our production of Romeo & Juliet I kinda refused to stay dead...every so often I'd rise half up and go "URGGGHHH THOU HAST SLAIN ME BASE VILLAIN!", or "WHY HAST THOU PUNCTURED ME WITH THY SHARP OBJECT OF IMPALEMENT!!", or just "ARGHHHHHHH" and then fall back real theatrically with my arm over my face. The nimrod Drama teacher was so mad he just sputtered. Totally failed me, and well worth it too, guy was a tyrannical jerk.



BA: To be or not to be, that is the question...



BBA: I love reading but some of those books suck like hell. Dante's work was boss. Hated Dickens.



BBBA: SERIOUSLY?? You should have kicked her ***, then had your Mom fire her.



A) If I did a beatdown would have occured

B) Forty Five

C) 17?

Answer 12

I remember in English, everyone dreaded the section where all we did was study poetry. I quite love it. Same with Shakespeare. Genius.



I'm not sure, I'd say Brandon Flowers probably. He's one of my most favourite lyricists. His lyrics are so touching.



BQ:

"Don't you wanna come with me? Don't you wanna feel my bones, on your bones. It's only natural."

-Bones by The Killers

BBQ: I honestly don't remember. I've had a weird reading past. I got awards for being the best reader in my grade when I was younger. Then for the longest time, I never even touched a book. And now I'm reading non-stop again!

My favourite book though, that I read over and over is "Into The Wild".

BBBQ: That sounds annoying.

a) Yeah, I get mistaken for a senior in high school. I guess I look older than I am.

b) 15

c) 14?

Answer 13

Bob Dylan would be the default choice but I'd have to pick Leonard Cohen. He wrote some of my favourite songs ever.



BQ: The whole Hallelujah song, honestly I've never heard a song paint such a poetic picture with words.



BBQ: I don't recall much of my school reading (and I'm only 19, haven't been out long.. bad memory I guess).



BBBQ:

a) I have no idea!

b) 19

c) Ned flanders avatar is my only clue, but a smiley face might knock off a few years. If your a guy I'd say 22, if you're a girl I'll say 26.

Answer 14

I liked Shakespeare 'cause I learned lots of ways to call people whores.



and...lyricist..

I love Richard's Hell's lyrics/poetry/novels, so I might go with him.' But The Kinks and XTC are close, if not tied. I should note that I find a tonne of other musicians to be great lyricists, but I personally prefer these three.



BA:

"The day goes by, I nod at it, another comes again.

I'm asking you for guidance now, I hope my ways to mend.

In the secret history of time we're all alone and dead

And only suffering is sure is what the best book said."

-Richard Hell



or



"Arm in arm we sang our patriotic songs of love and sentiment.

Tears of joy to hide the sorrow,

New tomorrows till we meet again,

With a new world to build we'll say auf weidersein.

What did they do for us?

What did it prove to us?

As we stand beside the silent grave

The unknown soldier can't be saved."

-The Kinks (Ray Davies)



or



"I am the audience

There's no doubt, no consequence

I could make the morning papers

If I use my capers

Let's be the Audience

I might lose my patience

Polite applause excepted

To the ones selected, as the audience..."

-XTC (Andy Partridge)





yum: Never worked too well for me, because I might find a book fascinating but refuse to read on principle (that...we're being forced to do so). Then I read the book long after we were supposed to, though, and understand the academic value, and sometimes even fall in love with it. Doesn't mean I like being forced to read something any better, but..eh. I understand the need for it in English classes.



Favourite is tied between 1984: George Orwell, The Stranger:Camus, Into the Wild:Jon Krakauer, and The Great Gatsby:F. Scott Fitzgerald. and so far I really enjoy Metamorphasis: Kafka.



Least favourites are A Separate Peace:John Knowles or Scarlet Letter:Nathaniel Hawthorne.



B yum: well, that sounds terrifying. D:



a) some adults I hadn't seen since I was 7 recently saw me and were like "there's no way you're only 17, honey! no, you're lying! you're at least 19!" Bit weird. similar to yours, i guess, except without the slapping or ostensible anger..



Looking older works to my advantage if I want to get into shows or hang around in a casino, though. They offer to sell me drinks, too. o.o



Doesn't work to my advantage at night in downtown waiting for a bus. then it just gets creepy.



b) 17 (and almost a half-ish!)

c) 15? 16?

Answer 15

Oh, I have so many favorites... :(



Well, I guess Ryan Ross... Spencer Krug is so close though... ah and Michael Angelakos.



BQ:

"When the moon fell in love with the sun, all was golden in the sky."

"Come save me from walking off a windowsill or I'll sleep in the rain."

"Talk to the mirror, oh, choke back tears

And keep telling yourself that "I'm a diva"



The album A Fever You Can't Sweat Out is the work of a total genius, my sweet Ryan.



BBQ: I'm taking a class where geography and english is combined and they don't make us read anything.



BBBQ: She slapped you!? Holy smokes... I would have slapped her back. Ugh!

A) Well once me and my best friend were in radioshack and we were looking at cellphones and this worker came up to us and started asking us grown up questions about stuff I can't remember right now, but we just stood there like, "what"? Then he was like "you guys are over 18 right"? We were like "No!" It was funny. He was like, "Oh, okay", and walked off.



B) 15! I think I look younger but obviously other people don't think so....



C) I know! Hehe. Before I knew how old you were, I had the impression that you were much older... 20s or 30's even. :P

:]

Answer 16

Naw i love him! English is one of my favourite subjects! I think my whole class loved him. We had only three plays, learning all the paraphrases was a big pain but shakespear was genius. I love his work. Infact i'm planning to read some more plays just for fun. The nerd that i am :P

I was never mistaken. People just always seem to know my actual age. O well. I'm 17:P

Answer 17

Who's afraid of Shakespeare? I always looked forward to studying him in high school.



MA: I wouldn't call him 'rock 'n' roll, but...Jeff Mangum of Neutral Milk Hotel.



BA: "Goldaline, my dear--we will fold and freeze together far away from here. There is sun and spring and green forever. But now we move to feel for ourselves inside some stranger's stomach. Place your body here--let your skin begin to blend itself with mine." -- "Oh Comely"



BA2: I'm all for it. Kids need to read more, and it's sad that a lack of interest in literature and learning earns you some 'cool' cred. "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain was my favorite required reading. But "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde has been my favorite novel since the fifth grade.



Least favorite... hmm... "Lost Horizon" by James Hilton, I suppose. But even that wasn't so bad. When I was a freshman in college, I had to read "Clay's Quilt." I'm convinced that it's the worst novel I've ever read that isn't geared toward pre-teens.



BA3: No one's ever randomly slapped me and told me I was lying before, lol. I wouldn't know what to do if someone ever did.

b- I just turned 23.

c- I'm guessing you're 15.



: )

Answer 18

in high school i had a thriving business in the parking lot that opened up a lot of minds to the slightly fascinating and utterly fantastic.



i don't really believe in a best. i tend to like lyricists that have a command of metaphors when i'm paying attention to the lyrics.



ba: how about china cat sunflower by robert hunter



look for a while at the china cat sunflower

proud walking jingle in the midnight sun

copperdome bodhi drip a silver kimono

like a crazy quilt stargown through a dream night wind



crazy cat peekin through a lace bandanna,

like a one eyed cheshire, like a diamond eye jack

a leaf of all colors plays a golden string fiddle

to a double e waterfall over my back



comic book colors on a violin river cryin leonardo

words from out a silk trombone

i rang a silent bell beneath a shower of pearls

in the eagle winged palace of the queen chinee.



bbq: required reading for high school should be:



your money or your life - joe dominguez and vicki robin

on the road - jack kerouac

emma - jane austen

fonda: my life - henry fonda's autobiography

the rise and fall of the third reich - william l shirer

the readers digest complete do it yourself manual

Answer 19

The 3 members of Coroner all worked together on lyrics. They were great, especially on "No More Color." Emperor are great poets as well.



BQ: Coroner- Tunnel of pain- http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/c/coroner/doa.html



Emperor- i am the black wizards-http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/e/emperor/i_am_the_black_wizards.html





BBQ: I had to write reports, the reading wasn't that bad, the reports were dreadful.

Tom sawyer was my least favorite.

My favorite was the Contender by Robert Lypstyke





BBBQ: a: People usually think im older than i am

b: 14

c. haha 14.

Answer 20

No. I am not!