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Appears in LL Cool Js Mama said knock you out.
I must have been around 9 when I heard this belter :-
I think I’m gonna bomb a town <br>Get down
I don’t think I’ve heard a worse line/rhyme since.
Does anybody else have any cringe inducing attempts at poetry?
The atrocious recent hit "Millionaire" by Kelis, feat. Andre 3000 contains terrible lines.
"I ain’t rich till he is rich and she is rich, then we is rich."
(WE IS??? Have they never learnt English verbs?)
"Wherever there are rats there are cats. Wherever there are cats there are dogs."
REALLY??? I’d never have known!
This lyric has puzzled me ,Duran Duran`s Please Please Tell Me Now track,"You`re about as easy as a nuclear war."<br>I mean,w.t.f. is that all about ??
To turn it around if I may,a favourite lyric is from Tempted by Squeeze,"At my bedside empty pocket,a foot without a sock,your body get`s much closer,I fumble for the clock."
Dunno why,I guess I`ve always liked Squeeze :)
(Edited by Slippy Blue at 7:48 pm on Dec. 27, 2004)
I don’t wanna see a ghost<br>It’s the thing I fear the most<br>I’d rather have a piece of toast
<br>Lyrics don’t get any worse than that
Ted – as is oft said, Des’ree needs locking up forever for that!!!
Snap’s "I’m as serious as cancer when I say that rhythm is a dancer" is pretty awful (no you’re ****** not)
Also "I watch you crumble like a very old wall" is truly appalling and that would win my award…
Des’ree is responsible for many more lyric crimes, too. It’s the terrible "forced rhymes" – the reason I hate The Streets with a passion.
How about this Des’ree number, called "It’s Okay":
"Sun is up should be feeling great,<br>you’re feeling rough got too much on your plate,<br>a busy day got a lot to do,<br>a heavy head you think you’ve caught the flu.
Another day you’re late for work,<br>the shower’s cold you ain’t got no clean shirt.<br>A cup of tea just might do the trick,<br>the milk’s gone off by now feeling sick."
Quality.
Apparently David Gahn (or however you spell it) sacked Vince Clarke as songwriter from Depeche Mode when he was sitting on a bus and heard a kid singing the lines to New Life.
"I stand there stepping on a lonely street and I watch that man to a stranger"
WTF !!
(Edited by wilsonl at 3:30 pm on Dec. 29, 2004)
1. "I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss,<br> a few of the verses have got me quite cross"<br>(hang your head in shame Bernie Taupin and Elton)
2. "I am I said, to no-one there, <br> and no-one heard at all,<br> Not even the chair"<br> (ditto Neil Diamond)
3. "My Love is like a high prison wall<br> That you should leave me standing so tall"<br> (Spanbdau ballet – er – what?!)
Quote: from jairducochetfan on 9:38 pm on Dec. 29, 2004[br]Busted get my vote with the line, "I messed my pants, when we flew over France…"<br>
<br>Brings back memories, singing Air Hostess on the plan to berlin :biggrin:
The Wonder Stuff did something a bit criminal…
"Oh wow, look at me now,<br>I’m building up my problems to the size of a cow"
Some people will do anything for a rhyming couplet :biggrin:
Quite a catchy song though.
I can’t believe that Macarthu Park has stayed out of this thread for so long….
Someone left the cake out in the rain<br>I don’t think that I can take it<br>’Cause it took so long to bake it<br>And I’ll never have that recipe again<br>
I have a feeling "The Size of a Cow" is a reference to something, and not a crap lyric. Something is telling me it is Star Trek related, but a quick google hasn’t uncovered anything.
Miles Hunt still deserves a good kicking for being a pretentious arse though.
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