Leonard Cohen Nick Cave (he appears in several bands) Bob Dylan you might also want try Joan Baez, especially the traditional English ballads she used to sing All of the previous authors and singers are outstanding for good music, but especially for interesting lyrics with many non repeating phrases..

Like you, I love music, and I listen to a lot of music to help me learn a new language (Korean, in my case). However, I'm sure you're aware that popular music often doesn't follow proper grammatical rules, so phrases you hear in songs aren't necessarily ones you would hear in daily conversation. That said, here are some of my favorite music groups: Cheap Trick The Beatles The Monkees The Ramones If you want specific song recommendations, or if you have trouble understanding certain lyrics, feel free to ask me.

Do you already know the song / A word in Spanish / by Elton John ? It never says the word that the song is about, he does not need to, the song is just great! Can be listened from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wlRmzlBPf4 ... .... And there's a word in Spanish I don't understand But I heard it in a film one time spoken by the leading man He said it with devotion, he sounded so sincere And the words he spoke in Spanish brought the female lead to tears A word in spanish, a word in Spanish ... ...

Somebody could say this is not the best of Leonard Cohen's songs, bu, truly I can hardly stop listening to it : Note: at that time he was little more than a beginner. title: Let's sing another song, boys you can find it here, with poetic images going along with the song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibl6YTX6X1s === excerpt from the lyrics (Let's sing another song, boys, this one has grown old and bitter.) Ah his fingernails, I see they're broken, his ships they're all on fire. The moneylender's lovely little daughter ah, she's eaten, she's eaten with desire. She spies him through the glasses from the pawnshops of her wicked father. She hails him with a microphone that some poor singer, just like me, had to leave her. She tempts him with a clarinet, she waves a Nazi dagger. She finds him lying in a heap; she wants to be his woman. He says, "Yes, I might go to sleep but kindly leave, leave the future, leave it open." He stands where it is steep, oh I guess he thinks that he's the very first one, his hand upon his leather belt now like it was the wheel of some big ocean liner. And she will learn to touch herself so well as all the sails burn down like paper.

Sorry, I forgot a beautiful song by PJ Harvey (one of Nick Cave's girlfriends -- or an ex-wife?) : Who will love me now. You can here this song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DSKgkPoY9Q ===== Lyrics (excerpt) In the forest is a monster It has done terrible things So in the wood, it's hiding And this is the song it sings: Who will love me now? Who will ever love me? Who will say to me "You are my desire I'll set you free"? Who will love me now? Who will forgive And make me live again? Who will bring me back To the world again? In the forest, there's a monster And it looks so very much like me Will someone hear me singing? Please save me, please rescue me Who will love me now? Who will ever love me? Who will say to me "You are my desire I set you free"?