I have a warm spot for classics as well, but I am no longer 16 - 25 nor am I filled with rage and find it negative looking back rather than thinking ahead. I, too, could list all the greats but I wanted to provide new and different artists I am now enjoying. Doubtless they won't be popular but the question wasn't "which artists that everyone else loves do you listen too?" I hesitated to list these two but what the heck, I love em:
Joanna Newsom
Lyrics:
if you want to come on down
down with your bones so white
and watch the freight trains pound
into the wild, wild night
how i would love to gnaw
gnaw on your bones so white
and watch while the freight trains paw
paw at the wild, wild night
all these ghost towns, wreathed in old loam
assateague knee-deep in seafoam
ho swansea! buttonwillow!
lagunitas! ho calico!
and all these beastly bungalows
stare, distend, like endless toads
endlessly hop down the road
borne by wind, we southward blow
and yonder, wild and blue
the wild blue yonder looms
till we are wracked with rheum
by roads, by songs entombed
and all we want to do
is chew, and chew, and chew!
dear one, drive on
when all we want to do
is chew, and chew, and chew
and if you want to come on down
down with your bones so white
watch while the freight trains pound
into the wild, wild night
how i would love to gnaw
to gnaw on your bones so white
and watch while the freight trains paw
paw at the wild, wild night
Avi Buffalo
Summer Cum
Lyrics":
I've waited for your love
I got lost in your summer cum
Leave all your stains with me
And know that I will never be
Allowed to walk right next to you
And be that one that you ought to
I tell you day and night that I can't feel you with my right hand
Go on and tell your friends how I can't rearrange my skin
They've made up stories based on me so everyone could feel at ease
Oh, I can tell that you feel alive
And I won't disturb you in your time of rebirth
Please, when your taking your time with me
Just tell me that I'm making you feel weary
It's not the age I feel when by your side
I think you're over this, but I'm not finished with your kisses
I know it's not allowed, but you sure didn't seem to mind
If you continue being so kind, I don't think that I could stop trying
I saw you out today, just walking back from some hot place
Where you had robbed them dry of t-shirts and some pre-made pie crust
You made desert that night and I could taste a robot's fist
Oh, I can tell that you feel alive
And I won't disturb you in your time of rebirth
Please, when you're taking your time with me
Just tell me that I'm making you feel weary
It's not the age I feel when by your side