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Really horrible lyrics for a song that "made it"


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Most people cite Pink Floyd for their great lyrics (and rightly so), so are they immune from this list? Hell no! :laugh:

 

"You bought a guitar to punish your ma". :laugh:

 

I was listening to "The Final Cut" in the car coming home from rehearsal tonite. Boy, that one has some doozies:

 

You hear the tolling bell, and touch the silk in your Lapel.

 

got to bring the russian bear to his knees

well, maybe not the russian bear

maybe the swedes :rolleyes::laugh:

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I agree that some of the lyrics cited above are bad/cheesy. However, some are also some of my favourite lyrics of all time. How about these for bad lyrics:

 

"If theres a bustle in your hedgerow,

Dont be alarmed now,

Its just a spring clean for the May queen." (or is it sprinkling??)

 

For rap lyrics, my entry goes to the Kriss Kross song Jump.

 

"Some of 'em try to rhyme but they can't rhyme like this

Some of 'em try to rhyme but they can't rhyme like this

Some of 'em try to rhyme but they can't rhyme like this"

 

 

I'm just saying', everyone that confuses correlation with causation eventually ends up dead.
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Was "rearrange your liver" what he actually SANG? Sometimes we mishear lyrics, especially if poorly enunciated or buried in the mix.

 

I agree, Yes' lyrics were rather far-fetched on occasion....

 

But I'm into the music much more anyway, not being one of these people who buy books of Dylan's (or whoever's) lyrics and meditate profoundly on their in-depth insights....

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Was "rearrange your liver" what he actually SANG?

You bet. Mis-hearing lyrics is another thread. ( I thought "Paperback Writer" was "Take the back right turn".) :laugh:

 

I think you may have planted a seed for a "Mis heard lyric Thread. . . . "

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The music I currently hate the most -- lyrically, musically, production-wise, culturally, and in all other ways -- is the crap I hear after the end of my regular cover band gig, when we finish playing and the place turns into a dance club. I don't know names or titles, only snippets of lyrics, many of which involve repeated utterances of the word "booty." Like:

 

"...the way my booty booty booty pop."

 

Not to be confused with:

 

"Booty booty booty booty rockin' everywhere."

 

There's music that I think is awful, but that I understand how other people could get something from, due to differences in taste, cultural background, etc. Then there's music whose very existence, let alone popularity, makes me embarrassed to be a human being. This stuff is definitely in the latter category.

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Most of the examples posted above evoke a latent Human tendency to ask a peculiar question : what PART of the 'composer', (i.e. person)actually 'wrote' those lyrics ? Are the lyrics a kind of 'sheath' covering for a badly functioning bodily organ ? Is the 'writer' nothing more than a 'Channel' or medium for demonic entities that invaded the person after an overly steady diet of Toxic Refreshment.

One that i find particularly repellent is that song about 'my LADY hump. my hump, my hump?' Will Ferrel quoted it in that movie "BLADES OF GLORY.' perhaps a therapeutic remedy for THAT particular machination is that 1964 (or '65) 10 40's hit : 'SCRATCH MY BACK', penned & performed by the venerable SLIM HARPO.

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"The heat was hot"-Horse with No Name

 

"Never had a damn thing but what I had" - Heard it in a Love Song - Marshall Tucker Band.

"It doesn't have to be difficult to be cool" - Mitch Towne

 

"A great musician can bring tears to your eyes!!!

So can a auto Mechanic." - Stokes Hunt

 

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This turd had it's 15 min of fame...

 

Chocolate Rain

Dirty secrets of economy

Chocolate Rain

Turns that body into GDP

 

Chocolate Rain

The bell curve blames the baby's DNA

Chocolate Rain

But test scores are how much the parents make

 

Chocolate Rain

'Flippin cars in France the other night

Chocolate Rain

Cleans the sewers out beneath Mumbai

 

Chocolate Rain

'Cross the world and back its all the same

Chocolate Rain

Angels cry and shake their heads in shame

 

 

 

 

 

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"Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah umbrella."

 

"Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

blah blah blah umbrella."

 

Then there's the bit about

 

"yada yada yada That umbrella we employed it, by August she was mine."

 

finishing up with:

"Sometimes she'd shopped and she would show me what she bought."

 

 

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

-Mark Twain

 

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VH

I heard the news baby

All about your disease

Yeah, you may have all you want baby

but I got something you need. Oh yeah!

 

Cars

You've got your nuclear boots

And your drip dry glove

Oo when you bite your lip

It's some reaction to love, o-ove, o-ove

 

...a fine line between genius and stupid, indeed.

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Sung to the tune of "I Hate Myself for Lovin' You"

 

(previous version of lyrics in strikeout. Yes, they were worse once)

 

All right, Sunday night

Where are you?

Just kickin' back

From the things that you do

You want the big game

Waitin' for the game

That bleeds red, white, and blue

You want some football

We want it, too

 

2nd Verse

 

Hey, Jack, it's a fact

The show's back in town

[team and the team] in a nasty/righteous showdown

The stadium's rockin'

Time to crank up the sound

The NFL's best have come to play

For every fan Coast to coast there's just one thing left to say

 

Chorus

 

I've been waitin' all day for Sunday night

The tough get rough in a primetime fight

The last one standin' gets to turn out the lights

Get on your feet for a star-spangled fight

[something something] game, everything's right

'Cause I been waitin' all day for Sunday night

Yea, yea, yeah

 

Tag

 

Sunday Night Football on NBC

Al and Chris are the best on TV

The players are ready

Kick that ball off the tee

The stars are out

It's the place to be

'Cause the NFL rocks on NBC

Yeah

"I'm so crazy, I don't know this is impossible! Hoo hoo!" - Daffy Duck

 

"The good news is that once you start piano you never have to worry about getting laid again. More time to practice!" - MOI

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