Quote Originally Posted by Burtsplurt View Post
Lyrics are hugely important. A song with rubbish lyrics is only a song; a song with lyrics that connect with you is a story, a fable, an insight.
Not necessarily. I've connected just as deeply with songs with a.) pretty incomprehensible lyrics and b.) songs with no lyrics at all. I can understand your view point, but Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Explosions in the Sky, DJ Shadow, and to a lesser extent stuff like Game Music (although I suppose that has a story behind it that you can relate it to anyway) are just as impactful, just as insightful and can create a vision and story in the mind just as potent and powerful as anything with lyrics can, imho.