So there's a list onlie of the 20 worst song lyrics (sorry unable to post the link now. Google it for giggles)

This one made me laugh out loud:

"Time is like a clock in my heart"

--Culture Club's 'Time (Clock of the Heart)'

Awesome analogy. Time is soooo like a clock, because, well, it's freakin' time!



Anyway - I was shocked to see Vanilla Ice's Play Tgat Funky Music on the list


Just kidding - TOTALLY EXPECTED IT!  :D

What shocked mr was the lyric they chose- the opted to go with
Steppin so hard like a German Nazi

'opposed to an Austrian Nazi'
The lyric they shouldve used was
you'll get nowhere, no place no time soon
Oh my god you probably eat spaghetti with a spoon

::)

Or better still:
so I can funk it up and make it sound good
1-2-3 to, knock on some wood
For good luck I lik my rhymes atrocious
Supercalifragelisticexpialldocious
:D


Your turn!

There was a really bad Aussie band (back in the 80's) called The Cockroaches. Half of that band morphed into 'The Wiggles'... and strangely enough, their lyrics got better...and they were way more successful as well!!  ;D

Here's an excerpt from one of their songs...

Say come on, come on, come on, come on, yeah-yeah

Hey let's go, let's go, let's go
Hey let's go, let's go, let's go - Hey let's go, let's go
She's the one, she's the one, she's the one, she's the one
She's the one, she's the one, she's the one

Don't make me get all Front Line Assembly on y'all.

Subconscious torture - message of hate.
Symbolic terror - demonic fate.
Uncensored visions - no one is heard.
Bionic mutations - rule the world!

(And that's just one song.  They used same basic lyrical scheme for multiple albums, and it's all awesome.  Awesomely bad writing, but if you throw enough samples from Robocop and Aliens, and Falling Down into it, you can make anything awesome.)

A war of technology threatens to ignite,
Digital murder, the language of machines!
Mesmerized by a decade of faith, flowers and remorse,
Fading vision lost in time, tragedy on course...

(Which wouldn't be so bad if they were Japanese.  Except that they're Canadian, and they only used a Japanese movie Gunhed for their video.)

The acid air - blurs his vision / City crime - takes its toll
A metaphor - for this incision / A true life - will now unfold
No more pain - and self-suffering / It all ends - where it begins
A universe - on this wavelength / Will transmutate - in other things!

CHORUS:
Shots!  Ring out loud! / Dispersing - the crowd!
Bodies start to fall! / Blood on the wall!
No time to tell / Who's going to heaven or hell!

(Three albums, three tracks, same basic rhyme scheme.  These are probably their better lyrics.  Damn, how I love my FLA.  So bad it's the best DOOM/Quake/Unreal/Counterstrike deathmatch music ever.)

"Put your mouth on me."

Also, anything here.  ;D

Raise Your Glass

If you're too school for cool.

7 am, waking up in the morning
Gotta be fresh, gotta go downstairs
Gotta have my bowl, gotta have cereal
Seein' everything, the time is goin'
Tickin' on and on, everybody's rushin'
Gotta get down to the bus stop
Gotta catch my bus, I see my friends (My friends)

Kickin' in the front seat
Sittin' in the back seat
Gotta make my mind up
Which seat can I take?

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5257/5536226224_92a98b5427.jpg

If only the real version had ended there...

Karma cuz that song is way lame but which seat should I take is especially lame.

Karma cuz that song is way lame but which seat should I take is especially lame.


You would prefer another target?  A militarycivilian target?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/walker66/tumblr_li5oecwt1Y1qcxyrro1_500.jpg

This one made me laugh out loud:

"Time is like a clock in my heart"

--Culture Club's 'Time (Clock of the Heart)'

Awesome analogy. Time is soooo like a clock, because, well, it's freakin' time!


They surpassed themselves a couple of years later with this gem...

'War is stupid and people are stupid...' - 'The War Song'

(How anyone could sing this with a straight face is beyond me...small wonder they vanished soon afterwards! Probably from embarrassment!)

And not forgetting the much-ridiculed 2 Unlimited with the immortal 'No Lyrics' 'No Limit'...no, no, no-no, no, no, no-no, no, no...

  Two bands off the top, both of whom I love, craft some of the worst lyrics - Collective Soul and Rush.  What's meant to be beautiful and profound winds-up verbose and awkward (but set to a killer rock tune).  I wouldn't call the lyrics the worst, but they come awfully close, sometimes...

 

Not really the worst lines, but 2 of the strangest ever....

"From all the unborn chicken voices in my head"
and
"Kicking, screaming, gootchie little piggie"

Both from "Paranoid Android" by Radiohead.

I want you.
I want you so bad.
I want you so bad it's driving me mad, it's driving me mad.
She's so heavy.


That is the entire song.  :D ;D ;D ;D  But, the kicker is, I REALLY like that song because it is the music that makes it. John had the stay up all night writing those lyrics.


There is also:

Boom, boom, boom let's go back to my room.




Cat

oh boy, I love this topic.

I don't know what's gotten into me
But I kinda think I know what it is  ???
I think I'm in love

Jessica Simpsons "I Think I'm In Love With You"

I want you.
I want you so bad.
I want you so bad it's driving me mad, it's driving me mad.
She's so heavy.


That is the entire song.  :D ;D ;D ;D  But, the kicker is, I REALLY like that song because it is the music that makes it. John had the stay up all night writing those lyrics.
...

Cat


Oh, yes, Yer Blues.
Thirty years ago this was a local FM DJ's favorite song of The Beatles, because it was the ONLY one he ever played.
He also loved The Door's "Riders On The Storm", too -- which gives us reason #152 as to why MTV really took off in the early 1980s.

So there's a list onlie of the 20 worst song lyrics (sorry unable to post the link now. Google it for giggles)

This one made me laugh out loud:

"Time is like a clock in my heart"

--Culture Club's 'Time (Clock of the Heart)'

Awesome analogy. Time is soooo like a clock, because, well, it's freakin' time!

...



Culture Club and "Time is like a clock in my heart".
Is that one really that bad?
Because it's from one of just three Culture Club songs I like.
Let's just say "Karma Chameleon" is the one with the bad lyrics.
;)

Many have said this song has the worst lyrics ever....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su3JdzUUuH4

Oh . . . mmm/ I know a place; ain't nobody crying' ain't nobody worried; ain't no smiling faces
Mmm, no no, lying' to the races (Horn hits start)
Help me, come on, come on, Somebody help me now (I'll take you there)
Help me y'all (I'll take you there) Help me now (I'll take you there)
Oh! (I'll take you there) Oh! Oh! Mercy! (I'll take you there)
Oh, let me take you there (I'll take you there)
Oh-oh! Let me, take you there!(I'll take you there)
Play it Joel now (organ chord roll) play your, play your piano now…All right
Ah . . . do it . . . do it come on now play on it, play on it
Big daddy now (guitar lead in unison); Daddy daddy daddy, play your, um
(harmonica fills with guitar lead)
Ooh, Lord / All right now lady (bass riffs underneath) little lady, easy heh, help me now, come on, little lady…
All right…Dum-dum-dum-dum. Sock it, sock it (horn hits start)(harmonica fill)

I know a place, y'all (I'll take you there) Ain't nobody crying (I'll take you there)
Ain't nobody worried, y’all (I'll take you there) No smiling' faces (I'll take you there)
Uh-uh (Lyin' to the races/I'll take you there)
Oh, no, Oh!(I'll take you there) Oh oh oh! (I'll take you there)
Mercy now! (I'll take you there) I'm callin' callin' callin' mercy (trumpet harmony)(I'll take you there)
Mercy mercy! (I'll take you there) You gotta gotta gotta let me take you over there. (I'll take you there)


Don't get me wrong; I love this "song".  I was even looking it up again the last couple days because of its apparent reference to "races" and I saw it again in "Secretariat".

But therein lies 1 of my big problems with it - I STILL can't figure out if it is referring to horse races.  Or anything else.

The whole thing is a mess.  Good God - really, what is going on here?  At 1st you think it's going somewhere - we're going to a nice place.  Then, maybe we're going to the (horse) races (which I like).  But that's confusing - "LYING"?  "Lying to the races"?  I thought it was "Flying to the races" - i.e., we're getting to the track as fast as we can.  What is "lying to the races"?
Then it all falls apart completely.  Uh, oh, yeah, oh, do this do that....what is the point?

I always thought that one line was something like  crying with the raisins.  What is this about anyway http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=2173    A death

One of the best-loved songs of the eighties.  Nobody really wants to admit how totally shabby the lyrics are!

TOTO
"Africa"

I hear the drums echoing tonight
But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation
She's coming in 12:30 flight
The moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation
I stopped an old man along the way,
Hoping to find some long forgotten words or ancinet melodies
He turned to me as if to say, Hurry boy, it's waiting there for you


CHORUS:
It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had


The wild dogs cry out in the night
As they grow restless longing for some solitary company
I know that I must do what's right
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serangetti
I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become


CHORUS


(Instrumental break)


Hurry boy, she's waiting there for you


It's gonna take a lot to drag me away from you
There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do
I bless the rains down in Africa, I passed some rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa, I passed some rains down in Africa
I bless the rains down in Africa
Gonna take some time to do the things we never had
:-\\

I used to laugh my ass off when I was 15 listening to this song, especially the verse about "Tony."
;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L68lpbNrnHA

Men Without Hats
"Folk of the 80s"

Well you can change your mind- it'll change your life
You're going crazy
It's not you don't want to work
It's just that you're lazy
And you can change your life- it'll change your mind
It's amazing in the folk of the 80's

And the folk of the 80's, is the folk of the city
Folk of the country is the folk of the 60's
And don't grow a beard- they'll call you a hippie

I wear a construction, lumber jacket and shirt
And I don't really like it, but hey, that seems to work
And all of my friends now, it's the uniform of the day
And I can't get away now, so I just want to say

That the folk of the 80's, is the folk of the city
Folk of the country is the folk of the 60's
And don't cut your hair they'll call you a hippie

I could sing of the trees
I could sing of buttons and bees
Others cry
Oh why should I
And bombs are falling

What happened to Tony?
He dug a hole in the ground
When no one was looking
It took him years to be found
Now, he's making a living
Selling parachutes door to door
You might never need one
But then again, there always a war

Because and the folk of the 80's, is the folk of the city
Folk of the country is the folk of the 60's
And don't cut your beard they'll call you a hippie

I could sing of the trees
I could sing of buttons and bees
Others cry
Oh why should I
And bombs are falling

The folk of the 80's, is the folk of the cities
Folk of the country is the folk of the 60's
And don't grow a beard they'll call you a hippie
I could sing of the trees
I could sing of buttons and bees
Others cry
Oh why should I
And bombs are falling
I could sing of the trees
I could sing of birds, love and peace
Others cry
Oh why should I
And bombs are falling
And bombs explode!

Boom!!!

One of the best-loved songs of the eighties.  Nobody really wants to admit how totally shabby the lyrics are!

TOTO
"Africa"

:-\\


yeah what all is going on here anyway?  This is a song lots of parodists have done that I never did

This song tells the story of a man who comes to Africa and must make a decision about the girl who comes to see him. He is enamored with the country, but must leave if he is going to be with her.

umm  whatever

I'm gonna need a lot  it might take me a day or two
There's  parking  by the hundred then a sign that says no U
_ _ _  lanes

I've always disliked the lyrics of this song ...

I've Never Been To Me - by Charlene

Hey lady, you lady
cursing at your life
you're a discontented mother
and a regimented wife
I 've no doubt
you dream about the things you never do
but I wish someone had a talk to me like I wanna talk to you

Oh, I've been to Georgia and California and anywhere I could run
Took the hand of a preacher man
and we made love in the sun
But I ran out of places and friendly faces
Because I had to be free
I've been to paradise but I've never been to me...

Please lady please lady
don't just walk away
Cause I have this need to tell you
why I'm all alone today
I can see so much of me
still living in your eyes
won't you share a part
of a weary heart that has lived a million lives

Oh, I've been to Nice and the isle of Greece
when I sipped champagne on a yacht
I moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo
and showed them what I've got
I've been undressed by kings
and I've seen some things that a woman ain't s'pose to see
I've been to paradise but I've never been to me...

Hey, you know what paradise is?
It's a lie
a fantasy we created about people and places
as we like them to be
but you know what truth is?
it's that little baby you're holding
and it's that man you fought with this morning
the same one you are gonna make love to tonight
that's truth that's love

Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children
that might have made me complete
but I, I took the sweet life
I never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet
I spent my life exploring
the subtle whoring
that costs too much to be free
hey lady I've been to paradise
but I've never been to me...

Read more: http://artists.letssingit.com/charlene-lyrics-ive-never-been-to-me-pnvkswk#ixzz1TZ7n9Jvm
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^ Charlene was on my shortlist,  but I've already used "I've Never Been To Me" on so many "Worst Song" lists.
;D

^ Charlene was on my shortlist,  but I've already used "I've Never Been To Me" on so many "Worst Song" lists.
;D



I actually like that song.  :-[



Cat

I actually like that song.  :-[



Cat


That's okay Cat...I'm guessing you're not alone on this one! ;)

Just my opinion but any lyric that John Cougar put to paper could be considered worst ever, that aside.
Bruce Springsteen's Hungry Heart has a pretty bad lyric.

"Like a river that don't know were it's flowing,
I took a wrong turn and just kept going."

I actually like that song.  :-[



Cat


And I listened to that Men Without Hats record every day for a year!
;)

CLAN OF XYMOX
Louise

Louise
Louise
It seemed a long time ago
Louise
I'll always remember that day

I crawled on my knees
Begging you to stay
You made me shiver Louise
You made me quiver

Now I do the strangest things
I think such lonely thoughts
Forgetting all
Just forgetting you
Louise
Anything at all
Not to think of you
Anything at all
Don't deny it is not true
Louise
I feel I am getting weaker
A life blue on gloomy waves
I feel I am diving deeper
Into the darkest caves
There's nothing at all
To find a way

Louise, Louise, Louise
My heart used to beat
Now it only weeps
Louise, Louise, Louise
Uncared the city sleeps
I am twisted in the streets

I am shivering
Into the strangest things
Lonely thoughts and forgetting you Louise
And you promised me
You told me
You told me empty lies
Louise, Louise, Louise
(my only cord is not to adore, I have to say, it is my only way)
Louise leave me, leave me
No longer interfere
Louise
Louise

I love In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry,...but..

If her daddy's rich take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor just do what you feel

Right...screw you.

I love In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry,...but..

If her daddy's rich take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor just do what you feel

Right...screw you.


Should he say,

If your daddy's poor take her out to the diner,
If your daddy's rich take her somewhere finer"
:-\\

Bob Dylan: If Dogs Run Free

If dogs run free, why not we
Across this swoopin' plain?
My ears hear a symphony
Two mules, trains an' the wind
The best is always yet to come
That's what they explain to me
Just do your thing
You'll be king
If dogs run free.

If dogs run free, why not me
Across the swamp of time
My mind weaves a symphony
An' tapestry of rhyme
Oh winds which rush my tale to thee
So it may flow an' be
To each his own
It's all unknown
If dogs run free.

If dogs run free then what must be
Must be an' that is all
True love can make a blade of grass
Stand up straight an' tall
In harmony with the cosmic sea
True love needs no company
It can cure the soul
It can make it whole
If dogs run free.

(might have been a joke on Mr. Zimmerman's part)

Should he say,

If your daddy's poor take her out to the diner,
If your daddy's rich take her somewhere finer"
:-\\




Just one more example of trickled on economics, how about

If her daddys poor take her out for a meal
If her daddys rich just do what you feel


I'm thinking the poor one could use a meal more than the rich one.  ;)

_hnxies4Wtk

Ten years before Rebecca Black, there was Daphne and Celeste.

Happy Rhodes: Ra is a Busy God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmbHQ0rwCBQ

Song worked better as a synth instrumental.

The Shaggs: My Pal Foot Foot*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY

If you've never heard of The Shaggs, you're in for a treat!
:)

* Song about a runaway pet (?)

Happy Rhodes: Ra is a Busy God

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmbHQ0rwCBQ

Song worked better as a synth instrumental.

The Shaggs: My Pal Foot Foot*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY

If you've never heard of The Shaggs, you're in for a treat!
:)

* Song about a runaway pet (?)



Believe it or not, I HAVE heard of the Shaggs-from Dr. Demento. He used to play their song, "It's Halloween" on his Halloween show every year.



Cat

There's one song that I'm thinking of...but I can't possibly post it here (even though the "lyrics" are in Dutch). It is set to the music of the Radetzky March.

The worst thing about this song: it made #3 in our national charts in 1994. :-[

Happy Rhodes: Ra is a Busy God



The Shaggs: My Pal Foot Foot*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY

If you've never heard of The Shaggs, you're in for a treat!
:)





Loved The Shaggs..  ;D   If I had an Ipod....I'd definitely have My Pal Foot Foot on my song list!  .... and the guitar work was inspiring!

Rebecca Black's "Friday".
Just terrible.

Anyone recall the Family Guy episode when Brian puked for 40 seconds after finding out he had sex with Quagmire's dad?  (After his dad'd gender change operation)
That's how I react when I hear this song.