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As mentioned above, Nick Cave and Tom Waits just completely clean up in this category.
To add a few others:
16 Horsepower:
Lot's of good ole' fashion fire and brimstone religion:
"When will I hurt for heaven's sake.
When will I suffer for the sake of heaven."
Trailer Bride: - The only band to put the country back in alt-country.
"well my momma says 'that's a pretty good song, but you ought to be singing for jesus'
'I know I should, someday I just might, hope Jesus will forgive me tonight'"
-- Porch Song
"Poor little lightnin bug, I know just how you feel.
He's flashin hard at my porch light.
She's real pretty, she won't listen.
She's a white-hot 60 watt vixen."
-- Itchin' For You
fuck, that right there's the pinacle of song writing - a light bulb as a sex symbol.
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