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Location: SE Michigan | OK, since we're doing great lyrics, let's take a pass at the most terrible lyrics. I'll start:
"There's a killer on the road, his brain is squirming like a toad" (The Doors)
"Alligator lizards in the air" (America)
"I'm hot blooded,check it and see,
I've got a fever of a hundred and three"
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Location: south east Michigan | Anytime someone rhymes "fine" with "wine". |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Worse, anytime someone rhymes
**ime with
**ine
dime/mine, climb/pine |
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Location: SE Michigan | They headed down to, ooh, old El Paso
That's where they ran into a great big hassle
Billy Joe shot a man while robbing his castle
Bobbie Sue took the money and run
Go on take the money and run
Go on take the money and run
Go on take the money and run
Go on take the money and run
Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is
He ain't gonna let those two escape justice
He makes his livin' off of the people's taxes
Thank you Steve Miller! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | MAKE IT STOP! PLEASE! I"LL DO ANYTHING!
More Than Words by Extreme
Saying I love you
Is not the words I want to hear from you
It's not that I want you
Not to say, but if you only knew
How easy it would be to show me how you feel
More than words is all you have to do to make it real
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what's worse, I could put the melody and harmony work in the guilty pleasure thread... :( |
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Location: Avondale, AZ | "If he loves you more than me,"
Brookland Bridge.
It should be "I". What they are saying is that one guy loves the guy singing not the girl he is singing to. It always bothers me to here this. In pop music they use "I" or "me" according to what rymnes. |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Originally posted by BrianT:
Thank you Steve Miller! It sounds much better with your shades jammed up on your head like a hairband with a 'j' sticking out the corner of your mouth.....come to think of it. Many things sound better then! :eek: |
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Location: North Carolina | Songs with obvious grammatical errors:
(Johnny)..No, no he'll never do
(Bobby)..No, it isn't him too
"Walking in the Rain" (The Ronettes) |
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| 'scuse me while I kiss this guy..... |
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| ..in this world in which we live in...
the genius that is Paul McCartney. |
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Location: closely held secret | Da do do do, da dah dah dah, is all I want to say to you... |
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| In a gada da vida... (though I always loved the riff). |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I think the only America song that had lyrics that made sense were I Need You. It's easier to list the good lyrics for America than it is the bad. |
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Location: SE Michigan | "I'm a cold Italian pizza
I could use a lemon squeezer"
Rolling Stones - Monkey Man
"Every day I get a litte madder
a little sadder, somebody get me a ladder"
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Still you turn me on. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
It's easier to list the good lyrics for America than it is the bad. "Muskrat Love" still freaks me out ... What the hell kind of chemicals were these guys on ??? |
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Location: Snellville, GA | Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The shiek he drove his Cadillac
He went a' cruisnin' down the ville
The muezzin was a' standing
On the radiator grille
CHORUS
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah |
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Location: SE Michigan | Here come old flattop he come grooving up slowly
He got joo-joo eyeball he one holy roller
He got hair down to his knee
Got to be a joker he just do what the please
He wear no shoeshine he got toe-jam football
He got monkey finger he shoot coca-cola
He say "I know you, you know me"
One thing I can tell you is you got to be free
Come together right now over me
He bag production he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair you can feel his disease
Come together right now over me
He roller-coaster he got early warning
He got muddy water he one mojo filter
He say "One and one and one is three"
Got to be good-looking 'cause he's so hard to see
Come together right now over me
Now these are some inspired lyrics....Waiter, I'll have some of what he is having. |
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Location: Carle Place, NY | This has got to be at the top of the list:
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 Nooooo :eek: :eek: Oh Nooooo. |
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Location: Chicago | Nobody gonna take my head
I got speed inside my brain
Nobody gonna steal my head
Now that I’m on the road again
Deep Purple "Highway Star"
yeah, like, wow! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I had a friend who liked America and I told him the lyrics never made any sense. Horse With No Name was about a heroin trip, he said. "What about Ventura Highway?" "Another acid trip." "Sister Golden Hair?" "Another Acid Trip."
Drugs can explain most anything. |
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Location: Tennessee | That's why I smoke two joints when I get up,
In the car I smoke two joints ...
Oh, never mind. I forgot the rest. |
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Location: ms | Anybody remember the guys name that wrote Muskrat Love.IT somehow made since when he sang it.Every song on that LP was good.Americas version was smooth,his was like a singer,songwriter should be. |
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | They didn't write "Muskrat Love".....believe it was David Willis Ramsey???? And I haven't a clue what mind-altering substance he might have been on....
Now....what possessed the Captain and Tennile to cover it?????
As to America.....if you like acoustic 12-string, their first album is ear candy. Don't get no better in my book!!!! Lyrics were never their strong point. Sure played purty, though.
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Location: Canton (Detroit), MI | My choice for bad lyrics...
"All I wanna do is go bang, go bang, go bang...."
("Go Bang", The Joykiller)
Thankfully the music saves that song.
Roger |
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Location: NJ | I love this tune but the lyrics drive me up a wall.
Wishbone Ash
- Blowin' Free Lyrics
(Powell, Turner, Turner, Upton) B. Feldman Co., Ltd./ Glenwood Music
I thought I had a girl And all because I seen her. I
thought I had a girl And all because I seen her. Her hair was
golden brown (yes it was) Blowin' free like a cornfield. She was
far away I found it hard to reach her. She told me you can try
But it's impossible to find her. In my dreams everything was all
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