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Is it bad of me to think less of a musical artist when I read the liner notes, see photos of the lyrics and notice that the artist in question doesn't seem to know the difference between your and you're?

Music:: Emily Loizeau - La complainte des filles de joie (George Brassens Cover)

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Just as I wish that certain publishers had avoided publishing the photos of certain authors in their books (I absolutely didn't want to know they looked like that!), there are certain musicians who just shouldn't publish lyrics. Indeed, I would prefer not to really know what the lyrics are.

In many cases, I like to think it's because the lyrics in my head are simply better. In a few cases, I'm pretty sure it's because the actual lyrics would have a hard time being worse.

Long live Michael Stipe and Harriet Wheeler! (two vocalists who do their damndest to sound like they're singing actual words, and are singing actual words; it's just that, perhaps mercifully, you can't really tell what those words are)

Elizabeth Frasier, in my opinion, cheats -- it helps incomprehension enormously to not sing words in any actual language.

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Well, it's more a spelling rant than the actual content of the lyrics. The artist in this case is Gemma Hayes. Her sung lyrics are clear enough for me. It's just that she (like many) confuses your and you're in writing and that irks me.

Liz Frasier made up her words, but I think she stuck to them pretty consistently. I loved (and still love) both the Cocteau Twins and The Sundays, so I'm happy to go with imaginary words and clearly sung words.

From this tiny sample, I suspect we might have similar musical tastes, or at least a pleasing overlap.

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A long time back there was an "album cover art" meme, or some such, and I think we noted then that there were a lot of similarities in our tastes. Here's what's in my iTunes library playlists at the moment:

B-52s, Bjork, Cardigans, Cocteau Twins, Emiliana Torrini, Everything But The Girl, Ivy, Lush, Seal, Shriekback, Sigur Ros, Sing Sing, Sundays

With the exception of Bjork (only the first two here at work), the Cocteau Twins (only three albums) and Shriekback (missing Naked Apes And Pond Life) all these are exhaustive collections.

I also have other odds and ends, not nearly exhaustive (Butthole Surfers, Fatboy Slim, Fountains of Wayne, Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Soundgarden).

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I was right. There's a fair bit of overlap there. Of the ones you list the B-52s, Bjork, Cocteau Twins, Emiliana Torrini, Everything But The Girl, Ivy, Lush, Sigur Ros, and the Sundays would all feature on my list too.

I'd also have a lot more electronica than guitar rock in the odds and ends.

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My guitar rock is sort of the musical equivalent of "profanity level three" here at work: it's pretty much exclusively used for "piss off, I'm working, and I can't believe some other dumbass decision has mandated that I totally rework my portion of the work in a tenth the time it should normally take..."

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Yes, it is bad of you.

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I'm just a snob, it's true.

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I'd feel worse if they were an English major, and not a musician.

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Worse maybe, but I don't believe it's only the place of English majors to know how to use apostrophes. I know this is a losing battle, but I'm going down fighting.

And I've read some of the stuff English majors (and graduates) hand in to my wife and they're none too pretty either from a grammar/spelling snob's perspective.

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