Sting tops list of worst lyricists

[stoney]

If this is the case every rock song using a cliche would be up for this award!!!!!
geeesh!!!

Your thoughts musicians/writers?

.....Blender assailed Sting for such alleged sins as name-dropping Russian novelist Vladimir Nabokov in the Police tune "Don't Stand So Close to Me," quoting a Volvo bumper sticker ("If You Love Someone Set Them Free")........

read all here
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071009/...nooEZJttgE1vAI

[keith]

"The survey, contained in the November issue that hits newsstands next week, placed Rush drummer Neil Peart at No. 2, Creed frontman Scott Stapp at No. 3, Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher at No. 4, and soft-rocker Dan Fogelberg at No. 5."

Hope this list doesn't have the impact of the 'worst dressed' list that seems to be much ado about fashion.

I took particular exception to the list when I saw Dan Fogelberg on it. His song lyrics evoke a slice of life.

"Met my old lover in a grocery store
The snow was falling Christmas Eve
Stole behind her in the frozen foods
and I touched her on the sleeve
She didn't recognize the face at first
but then her eyes flew open wide
Tried to hug me and she spilled her purse
and we laughed until we cried"

Fogelberg's homage to his Dad in Leader of the Band shows another slice of life that is at the same time simple and acutely pointed:

"An only child
Alone and wild
A cabinet maker's son
His hands were meant
For different work
And his heart was known
To none --
He left his home
And went his lone
And solitary way
And he gave to me
A gift I know I never
can repay

A quiet man of music
Denied a simpler fate
He tried to be a soldier once
But his music wouldn't wait
He earned his love
Through discipline
A thundering, velvet hand
His gentle means of sculpting souls
Took me years to understand."

How does a lousy lyricist come up with "a thundering velvet hand"?

Oh well. Having thought about it, the list will increase, not decrease my appreciation of the stuff I like.

Regards,
Keith