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Everything on Fleetwood Mac’s "Tango In The Night" album. I wasted a perfectly good record token on that!
Rory,
My mum was (and probably still is) a big FM fan. I bought the LP you speak of (for £4.99 in Asda). I was quite fond of it as a musically-naive 12 year old, but lyrically it is as big a pile of garbage as you could ever wish for.
(I might defend four of the songs as being listenable and not too objectionable though… Big Love, Seven Wonders, Tango In The Night and Isn’t It Midnight all have something going for them. The much played and overplayed Everywhere is insipid however.)
Could I also add Pink for nomination, with this…
"If God is a DJ<br>Life is a dance floor<br>Love is the rhythm<br>You are the music…"
Truly diabolical!!!
(Bizarrely, http://www.lyricsfind.com lists the following artists as being musically ‘related’ to Pink…
1. Slipknot<br>2. Radiohead<br>3. Metallica
Certainly wouldn’t have been my categorisation!!!)<br>
Hiya,
Much as I appreciate the oeuvre of celebrated Stourbridge grebos Pop Will Eat Itself, I cannot let these two instances of substandard lyricism pass;
from "X, Y and Zee";
You may wonder is it how<br> a kitten may turn into a cow<br> with bells, horns, tinned corn beef<br> forest, prophets, plastic high streets
From "RSVP"
Shaking like a sh*tting dog<br> he couldn’t work it out
<br>Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
"Slowly walking down the hall,<br>Faster than a cannon ball."
Oasis (Champagne Supernova): who else?
(In response to a much earlier poster, I happen to enjoy a good "forced rhyme" every now and then, though some can do it well and some seemingly can’t). <br>
I add these because they sound crud written down but make me (and probably me alone) scream laughing when I play the tunes. Herewith some entries from the mighty Half Man Half Biscuit;
<br>From "******* Hell, It’s Fred Titmuss";
I was walking round my local superstore,<br> I was searching for the 10 pence off Lenor
<br>From "Reflections in a Flat";
Wife works for Marks and Spencer<br> La la la la Lech Walesa
<br>From "Lock Up Your Mountain Bikes"<br> <br> There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves<br> There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves<br> With the possible exception<br> of being Garth Crooks<br> There is surely nothing worse than washing sieves
<br>etc
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Oh, oh, oh! I’ve just remembered this abomination from Sheffield’s most objectionable, nine-armed big-haired rock combo Def Leppard.
From  "Let’s Get Rocked";
     Well I’m sorry girl, here’s my confesssion -<br>      suppose a good rock’s out of the question?
<br>Leery tossers.
Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
(Edited by graysonscolumn at 12:36 am on Feb. 7, 2005)
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
tut tut, bad elmo!<br>if anyone thinks "shes the main man in the office in the city and she treats me like im just another lackey, but i can put a tennis racket up against my face and pretend that im kendo nagasaki" is not the work of a genius, then theyre just plain wrong:cool:
Quote: from Khotso Moabi on 2:22 am on Feb. 7, 2005[br]tut tut, bad elmo!<br>if anyone thinks "shes the main man in the office in the city and she treats me like im just another lackey, but i can put a tennis racket up against my face and pretend that im kendo nagasaki" is not the work of a genius, then theyre just plain wrong:cool:
<br>"Everybody’s doing the Len Ganley Stance", Khotso. :biggrin:
<br>Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Marty Robbins’ song ‘El Paso’ found our hero in need of a horse and uttering the line
‘I picked a good one, it looked like it could run!’
Has to be heard to be fully appreciated!
Rob
(Edited by robnorth at 1:21 pm on Feb. 22, 2005)
I’m old enough to remember Bobby Goldsboro’s "HONEY" when it was released back in 1967. I recall hearing with bemusement the lyrics for the first time and I find just as vomit-inducing today as it was back then. E.G.,<br> <br> "She crashed the car and she was sad,<br> And so afraid that I’ld be mad,<br> But …..what the heck.<br> Though I pretended hard to be,<br> Guess you could say she saw thru’ me,<br> And hugged my neck".
<br>Further along during the course of the song the eponymous "Honey" dies. sic:
"And a small cloud passes overhead,<br> And cries down on the flower bed,<br> That Honey loved.<br> And see the tree how big it’s grown,<br> But friend it hasn’t been too long, it wasn’t big.<br> And I laughed at her and she got mad,<br> The first day that she planted it, t’was just a twig"
Hard to believe that this crapness actually made No 1. No accounting for human taste, I s’pose. <br>
Ouch !!
Honey’s a classic Hoof (even if I wasn’t born when it was released).
I bet you also frown upon the lyrics to Coward of the County – No ? :biggrin:
Lee
Heh heh, Wilson, yeah……..
Thanks for reminding me of that. When those "Gatlin Boys Came Callin’ " didn’t it completely re-inforce your belief in the inate manliness of the individual whose wife has just been raped? …….NOT!
"Promise me son,<br> Not to do the things I done ………."
Jaysus.
"But sometimes you’ve gotta fight to be a man"
Just as long as you don’t mind spending 9 months behind bars for taking the law into your own hands.
Or alternatively getting kicked to sh*t, because "There were three of them" you know !!!
Surprised good ol’ Kenny never made it to President with such sound advise :biggrin:
"Watch us wreck the mic,<br>Watch us wreck the mic,<br>Watch us wreck the mic…… psyche!!"
– PJ and Duncan, "Let’s Get Read to Rhumble [sic]"
"She’s like a watermelon,<br>I want to find out what’s inside her"
– Scorpio Rising, "Watermelon"
<br>Jeremy<br>(graysonscolumn)<br>
Jeremy Grayson. Son of immigrant. Adoptive father of two. Metadata librarian. Freelance point-to-point / horse racing writer, analyst and commentator wonk. Loves music, buses, cats, the BBC Micro, ale. Advocate of CBT, PACE and therapeutic parenting. Aspergers.
Just to clarify something said many months ago…
Dave Gahan was never really ‘in charge’ of Depeche Mode, and certainly didn’t ‘sack’ Vince Clarke.
Vince apparently left because he didn’t like being in the spotlight, so obviously he immediately went off and formed another band (and another one, and another one).
He did originally think he might still write for them, and offered them one song, Only You, which they rejected because it didn’t sound right.
Although eventually emerging as a very decent song writer and reasonable lyricist, most of the Martin Gore penned material which Depeche recorded immediately after Clarke left was lyrically shocking…
e.g.
But it fell back down<br>and scattered all around,<br>Anything passes<br>when you need glasses!
My monument – it fell down<br>My monument – it fell down
(Edited by non vintage at 8:53 pm on June 14, 2005)
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