Love, friendships, losing friends, financial problems, what life means to you, coming to terms with some aspect of yourself, and of course death, all strike me as pretty meaningful things.Originally Posted by nik0tine
I dno't hate when bands get political, but I find not many of them are very good at being political. Most of the stuff out there is just whiny and usually misplaced dislike which achieves nothing except allows one's political opponents to laugh and say 'Yeah, I'm sure your views are so well backed up, being formulated by Green Day and all' (Not dissing GD, just the first band that came to mind.). Especially when songs make fun of personal aspects, as I think this line is; "Are the consonants all hard or soft?", although the message is kind of obtuse there (Again not a good thing. Subtlety is good, obtuseness is not.). Just like all the people who tack someone about how Bush looks like a monkey (Well duh, homo sapiens and all that) onto their rants. It instantly loses the respect of many people, myself included.
Now some people are very good at political songs, as Rye mentioned SoaD, although even they can really overdo it at times (Deer Dance, much as I love it, makes me collapse with laughter nowadays.). You want the real classy stuff, listen to someone like Springsteen.
