The Lesson

Tails_155 · **on:** June 19, 2007, 02:13:42 PM

Personally The Lesson is one of my favorite songs...

I've heard... well... read... several people's statements that they don't like the song. I just am rather curious WHY?

I break it down into the fact it helps explain things a bit, the singers aren't bad, it has a fair meaning, and the music is good...

Malte279 · **Reply #1 on:** June 19, 2007, 02:30:03 PM

While the song does have a message (same as many other LBT songs) I don't like the song as music. Much of it sounds a bit too much like it was spoken with a little melody in the background rather than being sung. For once I think it might have worked out better to address a complex problem in prose talk rather than lyrics. Some of the lyrics also sound rather clumsy if compared to the lyrics of other land before time song. There is quite an accumulation of words which, though not "off limits" for LBT characters, sound a bit uncustomarry.

Tails_155 · **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2007, 02:34:06 PM

spoken word is a style of music tho

William Shatner says so anyway

Malte279 · **Reply #3 on:** June 19, 2007, 02:47:46 PM

Yet in my opinion not a style which fits well into the land before time. If this had been their intention a fitting background melody with talking characters would have done the job better. The lesson apparently wasn't meant to be spoken, but frequently flipped between speaking and a kind of singing that was not to far removed from the speaking. It did sound kind of inconsistent because of that.
William Shatner was a good Kirk. I doubt though that, when advocating for the spoken song lyrics, he had songs in a cartoon about dinosaur kids in mind which had never made use of that technique.

DarkHououmon · **Reply #4 on:** June 19, 2007, 05:37:09 PM

I personally don't like songs that sound like they are being spoken rather than sung. It just doesn't feel like a song to me if it's spoken.

Petrie. · **Reply #5 on:** June 19, 2007, 06:32:53 PM

Biggest problem: they couldn't sing that if they tried, and I think the blend of talking into that song is what made it really just awful. Talking-singing often doesn't work too well.

TheNumberOneShmuck · **Reply #6 on:** June 19, 2007, 06:55:38 PM

Two problems for me: The talking, as the others have said, and Mr Thicknose's singing just wasn't right. I swear there were parts where he sounded like Kermit the Frog.

Lain_EX · **Reply #7 on:** June 19, 2007, 08:54:34 PM

Personally, it's my favorite song from LBT XVIII. I personally like it, 'cause of what about it talks. About everyone to take a place in this world (kinda). I'm not affected about how they combine talking and singing, or about Mr. Thicknose's voice, it's about what the song is talking about, that's the main idea.

landbeforetimelover · **Reply #8 on:** June 19, 2007, 10:42:18 PM

I liked everything about this song except for Mr.Thicknose's voice. He was god awful, sorry to say. The rest of the song was great. Heck of a lot better than some other LBT songs.