Lyric Tattoos

kunst nugget · 26-08-2012 10:37pm

NegativeCreep wrote: »

I don't like Neil Diamond so, yes.

What's Neil Diamond got to do with it?

NegativeCreep · 26-08-2012 10:38pm

kunst nugget wrote: »

What's Neil Diamond got to do with it?

sorry, meant Young

Sinfonia · 27-08-2012 12:38am

Indeed, better to burn out and leave your infant daughter fatherless.

minidazzler · 27-08-2012 12:39am

kunst nugget wrote: »

Yes, a self loathing smackhead's excuse for blowing his brains out really was a much better fit for that lyric than Neil Young's mediation on his relevance in a rapidly changing music industry.

And Cobain must have missed the line that says "once you're gone, you can never come back"

The Radiator · 27-08-2012 12:50am

...Aaand now the thread has been ruined for everyone

TICKLE_ME_ELMO · 27-08-2012 1:01am

Okay.....

I quite like this idea of getting the notation of the part of the song the lyrics are from. That's not a great picture but you get the idea.

Togepi · 27-08-2012 1:59am

I don't think I'd get a lyric tattoo, for the sole reason that I couldn't possibly pick out a single lyric that deserved, more than any other, to be permanently inked on my skin.

smokedeels · 27-08-2012 2:24am

I wouldn't get it done, the song might mean something to you at the time, but a few annoying car adverts, a romantic comedy ost or an inverview with the lyricist in which they explain the meaning could spoil/alter it for you.

I guess, for lots of people, it is as much about how you felt when you originally got the tattoo but for me the notion of the lyric-tattoo doesn't have an appeal. I'd want ownership of any image/words branded on my self.

sarahbro · 27-08-2012 2:41am

NegativeCreep wrote: »

If I were to get words tattooed onto myself it would probably be the line from Kurt Cobain's suicide note "it's better to burn out that to fade away."
Don't really feel the need to get it written on my skin though I want a scarab beetle as a tattoo :cool:

That was Neil Young originally no?

I have
"once i thought i saw you, in a crowded hazy bar"
From Neil Youngs 'Like a Hurricane' tattoo'd on my back. It's mine and my fiances song. If I were to get every lyric that was significant my body would be like a book!

TAlderson · 31-08-2012 5:28am

TICKLE_ME_ELMO wrote: »

Okay.....

I quite like this idea of getting the notation of the part of the song the lyrics are from. That's not a great picture but you get the idea.

I'm not going to comment on the idea, but that tattoo is musically incorrect. I'm not sure what the fourth note there is, but it's either a 16th note, which means that the bar only has 14 sixteenth notes, or an 8th note, which means only 15. Either way, a 4/4 bar should have 16 sixteenth notes to the bar. I think whoever wrote the music down had trouble with getting it right- it's a sneakily tough piece to notate, with the verses in 7/4 and the chorus in either 12/8 or 4/4 with triplets depending on who you ask...

-Tyler

Encie · 03-09-2012 2:54am

I think the first 8th note is meant to be dotted? But I agree with the hard to notate. We sung this piece with a choir at a wedding a couple weeks ago, it was all quavers though(with the last quaver tied to a crotchet, ofc)

TAlderson · 04-09-2012 10:20pm

Encie wrote: »

I think the first 8th note is meant to be dotted?

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. It'd be fairly easy to fix, actually, just add the dot. Still a little disconcerting to get something permanent that turns out to be wrong. Sort of like Hayden Panettierre, who has "vivere senza rimipianti" tatooed on her. It's supposed to mean "live without regrets" in Italian, but "rimpianti" (regrets) is spelled wrong... Whoops.

-Tyler

smokedeels · 05-09-2012 3:20am

Why would you get a tattoo in a language that you don't understand?

TAlderson · 05-09-2012 4:02am

I don't know, but these people did:

http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/life/10-poorly-interpreted-asian-tattoos-724258

-Tyler

Sinfonia · 05-09-2012 4:40am

Lyric Tattoos

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