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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Sitting here this morning and for no good reason my brain flashed on an old song that has probably some of the worst lyric's ever: 1968's IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA by Iron Butterfly...It was a classic back then but flashing on the lyric's now is painful:
In-a-gadda-da-vida honey,
don'tcha know that I love you?
In-a-gadda-da-vida baby,
don'tcha know that I'll always be true?
Oh won'tcha come with me,and take my hand?
Oh won'tcha come with me,and walk this land?
Please take my hand...
Let me tell ya now.
In-a-gadda-da-vida honey,
don'tcha know that I love you?
In-a-gadda-da-vida baby,
don'tcha know that I'll always be true?
Oh won'tcha come with me, and take my hand?
Oh won'tcha come with me, and walk this land?
Please take my hand...
Let me tell ya.
Two,three,four!
In-a-gadda-da-vida honey,
don'tcha know that I love you?
In-a-gadda-da-vida baby,
don'tcha know that I'll always be true?
Of course back then, who listened to the words?
So I thought, what other songs/lyric's drive you over the edge?
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Location: south east Michigan | Of couse you all know that the "In-a-gadda-da-vida" line started of as "In the Garden of Eden".
"I am I said"
"To no one there"
"And no one heard at all"
"Not even the chair"
Go ahead... try & top that one. | |
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Location: East Tennessee | But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
I just don't think it'd understand
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man
You can tell your ma I moved to Arkansas
Or you can tell your dog to bite my leg
Or tell your brother Cliff whose fist can tell my lips
He never really liked me anyway
But don't tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
I just don't think it'd understand
And if you tell my heart, my achy breaky heart
He might blow up and kill this man | |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Neil topped that himself with just one line...
"Song she sang to me, song she brang to me" | |
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Location: Caribou, ME | Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no! | |
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Location: North Carolina | There are plenty of songs I detest, usually because of insipid lyrics. However, the fact that I have heard them indicates that they had some degree of commercial success. Not having written a song that achieved this goal, I really can't throw stones. | |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | sure you can. | |
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Location: Orlando, FL | OK, first I love the song, love the band but the line in Roundabout "mountains come out of the sky and stand there" always struck me as just plain goofy. | |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | MacArthur Park is often cited on best AND worst lyric/song lists. A sign of great art, IMNSHO.
The worst? There are so many contenders.
Me And Mrs. Jones always makes me flinch a bit.
Oh! I remember! (Damn)
Mr. Moonlight - The Beatles
top ten-worst song ever!
('scuse me. now I have to go kill the brain cells
that reminded me....) | |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Brad,
Thank you for clearing that up, I've always wondered about that. I thought it was a play on " In the God of Velveeta" (cheese). I wonder if Iron Butterfly has a boxed set? | |
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Location: Caribou, ME | Tony Bellus, "Robbin' the Cradle". Stumbled on it in a box of 45s in 1977. I think it was recorded around 1959.
A broken heart is why
I sing this song to you
So you and all the world would know
Why I have let you go
They say I'm robbin the cradle, little darlin
Because I've fallen in love with you
They say I'm robbin the cradle, little darlin
Is it strange for true love to be so young
Well, everybody says that you've got blue eyes
But your eyes are really brown like mine
Well, everybody says that you're unhappy
But, with me, you really look so fine
They say I'm robbin the cradle, little darlin
Because I've fallen in love with you
They say I'm robbin the cradle, little darlin
Is it strange for true love to be so young
Well, they all say that I'm outta line
'Cause I want to make you mine
But what very few people know
That we planned everything just so
They say I'm robbin the cradle, little darlin
Because I've fallen in love with you
They say I'm robbin the cradle, little darlin
Is it strange for true love to be so young
Is it strange for true love to be so young | |
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Location: ms | The last one i wrote then the one before that. Been that way about 30 years thats why my ASCAP cks won`t pay the power bill :( But this is gonna get some heat.
All the words to "YOU LOOK WONDERFUL TONIGHT". That song drives me up the frigging wall. But i wish i had written it. | |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | "All the words to "YOU LOOK WONDERFUL TONIGHT". That song drives me up the frigging wall. But i wish i had written it."
I agree.
I got brain-lock... But I know there are so many songs that SOUND cool, but when you realize what the lyrics are saying....
[Say What?]
Dust In The Wind comes to mind.
Years ago, at I party, I put on Dark Side Of The Moon.
My young friends (with safety-pin jewelery) told me "That is the most depressing album ever!"
Why?! Then I thought about the lyrics to the Whole album... "Yeah, you're right!"
But I still love Brain Damage and Us and Them and Great Gig In The Sky. | |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Happy Birthday to you...repetitive, sung millions of time a year, year after year, true lack of meaning and depth, robotic even...over rated IMHO ;) | |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | [B So, no one told you life was gonna be this way. ]
Your Job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's D.O.A.
It's like you're always stuck in second gear.
And it hasn't been your day, your week, your month, or even your year.
But -
I'll be there for you ... when the rain starts to fall.
I'll be there for you ... like I've been there before.
I'll be there for you ... cause you're there for me, too.
You're still in bed at ten and work began at eight.
You've burned your breakfast, so far everything is great.
Your mother warned you there'd be days like these.
But she didn't tell you when the world has brought you down to your knees.
That -
I'll be there for you ... when the rain starts to fall.
I'll be there for you ... like I've been there before.
I'll be there for you ... cause you're there for me, too. | |
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Location: ms | I kinda like that friends song, does that make me gay? | |
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Location: Caribou, ME | I heard this song on the radio when I was 11 (1971). It gave me friggin' nightmares. No wonder I didn't get on a plane until I was 46!
I remember, we were flying along,
and hit something in the air
Laying here, looking at the ceiling,
someone lays a sheet across my chest.
Something warm is flowing down my fingers
pain is flowing all through my back.
I try to move my arm and there's no feeling
And when I look, I see there's nothing there.
The face beside me stopped bleeding
The girl I knew has such a distant stare.
I remember, we were flying along,
and hit something in the air.
Then I look straight at the attendant,
His face is pale as it can be.
He bends and whispers something softly,
He says there's no chance for me.
I remember, we were flying along,
and hit something in the air.
Life is flowing out my body,
pain is flowing out with my blood.
The sheets are red and moist where I'm lying.
God in Heaven, teach me how to die.
I remember, we were flying along,
and hit something in the air. | |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I've got a good mind to give up living,
and go shopping instead
I say, I've got a good mind to give up living,
and go shopping instead
To pick up me a tombstone, and be pronounced dead. | |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Yeah, I remember that song. Bloodrock wasn't it or was it something else?
There are so many lame songs. "Yummy, yummy, yummy, i got love in my tummy" has got to be way up on the list. | |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Yep, Bloodrock...called "D.O.A." | |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | One two three four five six seven
one two three four five six seven
one two three four five six seven
one two three one two three four
one two three one two one two two ... [end]
I'm actually a huge fan of IOTB (saw both performances) but even I'll admit that this stuff is pretty wierd.
Dave | |
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Location: big island | "hello, i love you, won't you tell me your name?" | |
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| There's a song called "Rain" written by a guy called Eugene Ford. I've got a version by Ella Fitzgerald accompanied by Joe Pass. Two minutes twentyfour seconds. The lyrics are:-
Rain, rain,rain, rain,rain...........
Course with Fitzgerald and Pass it's not as bad as it might be and it's a really nice tune, but.... | |
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Location: Flushing, MI | Something by America perhaps?
"Horse With No Name"
"Tin Man"
It really don't get much worse than that. | |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Anything by Yoko Ono | |
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Location: Flushing, MI | Anything by Yoko Ono
Oh you CAN'T be serious! She's a lyrical GENIUS!
"Don't worry, don't worry, don't worry....."
:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes: | |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | No it's everything by Yoko Ono.
Horse with no shame is pretty lame as well. Of course America just had that "sound" going for them and anything that fit that mold worked well for them for a while. An interesting side note, in all the years of my meeting with many, many performers, America and Ritchie Blackmore are the only two that stand out as complete a$$holes. | |
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Location: Blue Ridge Mountains | Ann Wilson was pretty bad as well whem I met Heart...Maybe we can share stories in Amelia... | |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
America and Ritchie Blackmore are the only two that stand out as complete a$$holes. It's interesting that you mention Blackmore on your short a-hole list, Bill. He walked out on Deep Purple back in 1976 and the band almost disappeared because he was considered to be "irreplaceable.". In 1994 Steve Morse stepped in as the guitarist. The band now does incredible sold out tours all over the world has had an amazing resurgence of world-wide popularity. This must be giving Blackmore loads of well-deserved agida. :) | |
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Location: Tychy, Poland | MoDo:
Eins, zwei, Polizei,
Drei, vier, grenadier'
Fünf, sechs, alte gags
Sieben, acht, gute Nacht.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Ja, ja, ja, was ist los, was ist das ?
translation:
One, two, police,
three, four, infantryman
five, six, old jokes
seven, eight, good night.
oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
Yes, what is the matter, what is that? | |
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Location: Arizona | Too Fat Polka is pretty un-PC, I can't believe Arthur Godfrey used to sing that on the air.
I don't want her
you can have her
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
She's too fat for me
I don't want her
you can have her
She's too fat for me
Clearly a timeless classic. | |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Although it does make me giggle everytime I hear it...
Styx... why oh why...
"Tonight's the night we'll make history, as sure as dogs can fly" | |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Ah, a song that makes you laugh due to unintended irony:
That old gospel song ---
Somebody touched me, (must have been the hand of the lord)
PS I love the song, it justs cracks me up. | |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I loved about every surf song ever made except this really stupid ditty by the Trashmen . . .
A-well-a, everybody's heard about the bird
Bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, don't you know about the bird
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a
A-well-a, everybody's heard about the bird
Bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, don't you know about the bird
Well, everybody's talking about the bird
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird
Surfin' bird
Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb, aaah
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-oom-oom-oom
Oom-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-a-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Papa-oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Well, don't you know about the bird
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow... | |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Slartibartfast-- What was that song about having an Ugly Woman?
It had the spoken line towards the end...
"Man! Your Ol'Lady sure is Ugly!"
"Yeah, But she sure can COOK!"
:rolleyes: We're being Politically Correct now! | |
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Location: Caribou, ME | If you want to be happy? Is that the song?
Oh and in defense of Surfin' Bird, I first heard that song long after it's first release. I think it came out in '64 and a local dj threw it in as an "in your face" oldie about 6:00 one morning. That was in the fall of '75, when we were bombarded with such classics as "Run Joey Run", "Jive Talkin', and "Ballroom Blitz".
I immediately dug out my copy of "The Ventures Dance Party" and my scratchy 45 of "Pipeline" and all of a sudden smoking dope and listening to the Doobie Brothers wasn't so important. | |
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Location: Central Oregon | Originally posted by ProfessorBB:
I loved about every surf song ever made except this really stupid ditty by the Trashmen . . .
A-well-a, everybody's heard about the bird
Bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, well, the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, don't you know about the bird
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a
A-well-a, everybody's heard about the bird
Bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, don't you know about the bird
Well, everybody's talking about the bird
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
A-well-a, bird
Surfin' bird
Bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb, aaah
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-pa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-oom-oom-oom
Oom-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-a-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Papa-oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Oom-oom-oom-oom-ooma-mow-mow
Ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, ooma-mow-mow
Well, don't you know about the bird
Well, everybody knows that the bird is the word
A-well-a, bird, bird, b-bird's the word
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow
Papa-ooma-mow-mow, papa-ooma-mow-mow... I can't believe you typed all that.
How 'bout-
Sha na na na
Sha na na na
Hey hey
Goodbye
Repeat three hundred times.
Come to think of it, my first wife used to play that LP over & over. I finally took the hint & left. | |
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Location: Caribou, ME | Or you could just use the Elton John method of songwriting. Write one unintelligible verse, could be a grocery list or a paragraph from a DVD player owner's manual, then repeat the same line over and over until the alloted 3:30 is gone.
Ben-naye
Ben-naye
Ben-naye
Benny and the Je-ettssssssss
or
Saturday
Saturday
Saturday
Saturday
Saturday
Saturday
Saturday
Saturday
Saturday
Saturday night's all right
Yesterday I had a blueberry filled doughnut and it gave me explosive diarrhea. I wrote a song about it, called it Doughnut make my Browneye Blue. | |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Nils, I didn't. It was a copy and paste. | |
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Location: Colorado | You make me proud Scott. You not only talk about explosive diarrhea (which made me laugh my ass off), you spelled it correctly.
She's got electric boots
A mohair suit
You know I read it in a magaza-eeeeeeen, Ohhhoohhhh!!
B-B-B-Bennie and the Jetssssssssss
John Lennon--the ONLY reason Yoko Ono recorded anything. It reminds me of the line James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) says in "Goldeneye" when he's in the bar in Russia. The trio of girls (Minnie Driver is one of them) on stage is singing "Stand By Your Man" and Bond says, "Who's strangling the cat?" Yoko could consider that one a complement. | |
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Location: Atlanta, GA. | Scott... you're sick! (thanks for the laff).
BTW. "If you wanna be Happy" by Jimmy Soul
While we're on PC or lack thereof:
"Skinny Legs and All" - Joe Tex. | |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Thank You about Jimmy Soul... I just went and downloaded that.
BTW--News Item; Those Headphones in Music Stores have more germs than a Public Toilet Seat. Scabies too! :p
Just thought I would share that... slow news night? | |
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Location: New South Wales, Australia | Wake me up before you go go
don't leave me hanging on like a yo yo :eek:
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