Off: 101 adjectives

[Joseph Brooks]

I can't speak much about the merit of Lemmy's lyrics since I'm pretty much
clueless when it comes to Motorhead. I've heard just a few tracks and wasn't
captivated much at all. Sounded about like early Metallica to me.. (ick!).

However, I will say this. I was all ready to start poking fun at Motorhead
lyrics but felt the need to actually be right so I looked up some on the web
and found that they're not nearly as dumb as I expected them to be...
(ruined all my fun, it did...). I've never been much of a fan of the death &
damnation approach to rock lyrics but to be honest, I expected Spinal Tap
lyrics and they're definitely not that bad.

JB

                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Carl Edlund Anderson [mailto:cea20 at CUS.CAM.AC.UK]
                Sent:   Monday, March 15, 1999 12:45 PM
                To:     Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
                Subject:        Re: Off: 101 adjectives

                On mån 15 mar 1999 15.25 +0000 "Ted Jackson jr. s2h2"
                <tojackso at LIBRARY.SYR.EDU> wrote:
                > Lemmy's lyrics do
                > seem very simple on the surface, kind of like ZZ Top's,
yet a closer
                > examination reveals that there is a lot of humor present
as well.

                     Lemmy has written some of the most intelligent rock
lyrics I
                can think of.

                --
                Carl Edlund Anderson
                Dept. of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, & Celtic
                St. John's College, University of Cambridge
                mailto:cea20 at cus.cam.ac.uk
                http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~carl/