THE GREATEST LYRICISTS IN THE WORLD TODAY
Every generation needs its poets and here's the 23 musical scribes who define 2010.
Meanwhile, you can vote for the best lyricists ever here.
Words: Emily Mackay, Matt Wilkinson, Barry Nicolson, Mark Beaumont, Laura Snapes, Dan Martin, Sam Wolfson, Martin Robinson, Jaimie Hodgson
At 45, Pixies’ chief bogeyman has emerged from the darkness again
In the guise of Black Francis, Pixies’ rotund frontdude brought his band’s white squall to terrifying life with some of rock’s most blood-curdling literature.
His songs formed body-horrific fairy tales where eyeballs were diced and everythingwent bump in the night. His solo work as Frank Black might have had more real-world concerns, but delightfully, Pixies’ comeback seems to have scratched his fantastical itch. Black Francis was re-animated for 2008’s ‘Svn Fngrs’ and this year’s ‘Nonstoperotik’. DM
Key lyric: “There was a guy, an underwater guy who controlled the sea/ Got killed by 10million pounds of sludge from New York and New Jersey”
(‘Monkey Gone To Heaven’, from ‘Doolittle’, 1989)
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