The worst line in a song ever?

[Andrew Hughes]

Ride were a much-maligned band in my opinion, but I suspect they spent a little too much time fiddling with their flangers and not enough time with a pen and paper. Here is one example, from OX4

<br>I don’t think I want to stay in this room<br>Anymore<br>If I crawl across the floor<br>Then I’d be closer to that door<br>It’s too far

[rory]

"Everything counts in large amounts"

[Purwell]

Going a long way back, does anyone remember Little Richards opening line of :

Wop bama lama wop bam boo?

What the hell was the title of the record?

I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highways

[wilsonl]

Tutti Frutti ?

[Dungheap]

Apart from the obvious stuff like chirpy chirpy cheep cheep, if i fly, also the stuff by tangerine dream floyd and yes that is only valid when your wrecked, woman in red, he was not to know that, that bridge was so low (max boyce) all make me cringe as does funky moped.<br>But the killer for me was Take a look at my girl friend she’s the only one I’ve got (supertramp), cos we listened I laughed, she left!!! you win some you lose some.

[graysonscolumn]

I’ve not been moved to resurrect this thread on account of the impending cull, but instead (1) because I’m happier maintaining one thread on a subject rather than starting a new one every three months (how many “worst pundit / journalist / commentator” threads are there?), and (2) because I was reminded of one truly awful rhyming couplet in the pub the other week.

Some of you may remember the mercifully short-lived late 90s Icelandic pop nonentity Alda, who had top 20 hits with Real Good Time and Girls’ Night Out. For reasons best known to herself, she appears to do the corner-of-a-pub circuit in Hertfordshire nowadays, and lo and behold, there she was in the John Barleycorn in Hitchin.

I schlepped in just as she was performing the latter of the two hits, right at the part when, apparently entirely seriously, she chirrups;

ARE WE READY TO COME TOGETHER
WILL OUR FRIENDSHIP LAST FOREVER
AND WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE A REUNION
WHEN WE’RE MARRIED & COOKING AN ONION

I didn’t stay much longer after that.

Jeremy
(graysonscolumn)

Adoptive father of two. The patron saint of lower-grade fare. A gently critical friend of point-to-pointing. Kindness is a political act.

[Himself]

Someone left a cake out in the rain – McArthur Park.

…or something like that.

Gambling Only Pays When You're Winning

[boldone]

One of the strangest lyrics ever just has to belong to ADAM ANT
Don`t stand on an ant he`s done nothing to you..
Don`t stand on an ant he will turn you black and blue..

Possible i suppose
But only if the little fella has been sucking on a biro,and you`ve got no shoes on..

[Anonymous]

Diana Ross ~ Upside Down

Upside down, you’re turning me
You’re giving love instinctively
“‘Round and ’round, you’re turning me.”
I say to thee, respectfully

[Anonymous]

‘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>’

Prufrock has clearly never tried anything stronger than a pint of Welsh bitter.

Never forget you’re Welsh

[Red Rum 77]

Since you’ve brought this subject back from the misty deep, Tank.

Any rap song is awful.

I mean you get a familiar tune and you about to sing the song in your head, when the rapper crams a million words (slight exaggeration) in there, so long as it rhymes.

The best things in life are free.
But you can give them to the birds and bees.

[Gingertipster]

This just doesn’t send the right message to men.

Stand By Your Man – Tammy Wynette:

“You’ll have bad times, and he’ll have good times doin’ things that you don’t understand… but if you love him, you’ll forgive him”.

Value Is Everything

[Cork All Star]

“Can’t complain, mustn’t grumble
Help yourself to another piece of apple crumble”

“That Was Then But This Is Now” by ABC.

[Gingertipster]

Aren’t some of these lyrics just meant to make you laugh?
Not meant to be serious.

I think that ABC lyric would be seen as a good one had it come from the brilliant humorous band Half Man Half Biscuit.

Value Is Everything

[Anonymous]

Agree with Rummy about Rap, apart from the master: Eminem

[Cork All Star]

“When I was a boy, I spent my time
Sitting on the banks of the river Tyne.”

“Durham Town (The Leaving)”, Roger Whitaker

Durham is on the River Wear.

[robnorth]

“I caught a good one,
It looked like it could run.”

El Paso – Marty Robbins

You have to hear it to understand the naffness. Song was released in Spetmeber 1959 so predates by exactly a year, but we somehow managed to acquire the 45rpm in the 1970s.

[Author]

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