# Music or Lyrics?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-or-lyrics/579848>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 27, 2011, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-or-lyrics/579848 "2011-04-27T01:47:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-or-lyrics/579848/21 "2011-04-28T18:54:06Z")

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An excellent example to support the “music” camp is Pink Floyd’s _The Great Gig in the Sky_. Soaring vocals with no lyrics whatsoever, and Clare Torry’s voice is absolutely haunting.

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**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2011, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/music-or-lyrics/579848/22 "2011-04-28T23:17:47Z")

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Lyrics - but many of my favorite albums are instrumental only, so I’m going by the requirement that the songs under question have both. But it strongly depends on the artist. Most Dylan songs are lyrics, most Cream songs are music.

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