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Mossy - the thing about Fish is that he writes such powerful lyrics...and in a way he is just as f'd up as we are. Clutching and Misplaced are great examples of his description of human traits. That whole Hotel Hobbies/Warm Wet Circles/That Time of The Night set is just unparalleled.
For an example of his edgier side, the title cut of Fugazi is perfect.
This whole passage is brilliant and so chilling:
"Son watches father scan obituary columns in search of absent school friends. While his generation digests high fibre ignorance
Cowering behind curtains and the taped up painted windows
Decriminalised genocide, provided door to door Belsens -
Pandora's box of holocausts gracefully cruising satellite infested heavens - Waiting, the season of the button, the penultimate migration - Radioactive perfumes, for the fashionably, for the terminally insane, insane."
Rogor- anything written by Matthew Parmenter reeks of Hammill. You should check out either Discipline record or his solo record and just read the lyrics.
I like songs that make you think. "Dear God" by XTC is jarring. "Did you make mankind after we made you". That whole tune just gives me a knot in my stomach. "Song For America" or "Cheyenne Anthem" by Kansas are two others.
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