There does appear to be some funny/quirky/weird lyrics in many 80s songs. This thread idea just came to me and I was wondering how many lyrics there actually were!

''Never chew a pickle with a little slap and tickle'' (Squeeze)

"I said 'do you speak-a my language?', he just smiled and gave me a vegamite sandwich." (Men At Work - Down Under)

Fab Five Freddy told me everybody's fly.
D.J. spinning, I said, "My, My."
Flash is fast, flash is cool.
Francois, c'est pas flashe non due.
And you don't stop, sure shot.
Go out to the parking lot.
And you get in your car and drive real far.
And you drive all night and then you see a light.
And it comes right down and it lands on the ground.
And out comes the man from Mars.
And you try to run but he's got a gun.
And he shoots you dead and he eats your head.
And then you're in the man from Mars.
You go out at night eating cars.
You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too.
Mercurys and Subaru.
And you don't stop.
You keep on eating cars.
Then when there's no more cars you go out at night
And eat up bars where the people meet.
Face to face.
Dance cheek to cheek.
One to one.
Man to man.
Dance toe to toe.
Don't move too slow 'cause the man from Mars is through with cars.
He's eating bars.
Yeah, wall to wall.
Door to door.
Hall to hall.
He's gonna eat 'em all.
Rapture.
Be pure.
Take a tour through the sewer.
Don't strain your brain.
Paint a train.
You'll be singing in the rain.
Said don't stop to the punk rock.
Well now you see what you wanna be.
Just have your party on T.V.
'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars where the T.V's on.
And now he's gone back up to space where he won't have a hassle with the
human race.
And you hip hop.
And you don't stop.
Just blast off, sure shot.
'Cause the man from Mars stopped eating cars
And eating bars
And now he only eats guitars.
Get up! (Blondie - Rapture ;D)

...they're my starters...

Who can forget:

Shake up the picture
The lizard mixture

-Duran Duran "New Moon on Monday"

ZZ-Top has some pretty strange songs too.  "TV Dinners" and "Slipping Inside my Sleeping Bag".. and the accompanying videos were weird too.  Entertaining, though.

"Beat It" was pretty strange.I thought it was about masturbation.

Howard

the cars would throw some strange lyrics in every once and awhile...

"I Want Your Sex"-George Michael(pretty strange)  :o ;D

Howard

ROFL!!!!!
what about "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors?
and "Whip it" by Devo?

Quoting:
"Beat It" was pretty strange.I thought it was about masturbation.

Howard
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Chorus:

"Now whip it
Into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Tatoo detective
It's not too late
To whip it
Whip it good!"

What's weird about those lyrics?

http://www.pigsflycd.com/devo.jpg

The band looks perfectly normal to me.  ;D ;)

Ok I have one for y'all
Computer Blue(BY Prince & Revolution)

Wendy?
yes lisa...
Is the water warm enough?
yes lisa...
Shall we begin?
yes lisa.
Ok what the heck were they talking about? Were they going to take a bath or something?

"...Til I find the righteous one, computer blue"

oooookaaaay...and that means what?

Although I don't understand him sometimes, I'll always love Prince.

to me it's weird. Yeah i know, maybe is totally understandable for you, but to me i just can't relate what is talked about, i heard it's about politics. HEY SORRY DUDE, i'm not native in english! interpretation about being whiped kinda makes me confused! take it easy 8)

Quoting:
Chorus:

"Now whip it
Into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Tatoo detective
It's not too late
To whip it
Whip it good!"

What's weird about those lyrics?

http://www.pigsflycd.com/devo.jpg

The band looks perfectly normal to me.  ;D ;)

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hey do you have the Devo Dome????
outrageous  :D

http://www.plushliving.net/devodome1.html

actually this whole site is a dream, i just need to rob a bank so i will order all the 80s sunglasses!

Quoting:
Chorus:

"Now whip it
Into shape
Shape it up
Get straight
Go forward
Move ahead
Tatoo detective
It's not too late
To whip it
Whip it good!"

What's weird about those lyrics?

http://www.pigsflycd.com/devo.jpg

The band looks perfectly normal to me.  ;D ;)

End Quote

"Good afternoon ladies and gentleman, this is your eyewitness news reporter covering the disturbance at the supermarket, did you see what happened sir?

Yeh ah did, I was standin over there by the termaters and here he come, naked as a jay bird!  Ah yelled over to ma wife, DON't LOOK ETHEL, but it was too late, she'd already been Mooooned!

Here he comes, boogety boogety, there he goes boogety boogety, and he ain't wearin no clothes

Oh yes they call him the streak, he likes to show off his physique, if there's an audience to be found, he'll be streakin around, da da da da da from his head to his feet."

YAHOOOOO, I'm gonna streak cause it's Friday......right thru the government office, yeeeehaaa!!!

'Jump" Van Halen.

Howard

Sound of the atom splitting - petshop boys

Peace, Loren

And what about that de de do do daa daa song by the Police...?
The name itself is so unappealing..

Devaraj

One that had me scratching my head at the time...and now!

ABC - That Was Then But This Is Now (1983)

Lyric..."Can't complain, mustn't grumble
         Help yourself to another piece of apple crumble..." eh?

Aahh!!! "Whip It" is on TV right now! ABC TV, Australia)

"Walk The Dinosaur" Was Not Was.

Howard

Magnificent Seven by The Clash:

Ring! Ring! It's 7:00 A.M.!
Move y'self to go again
Cold water in the face
Brings you back to this awful place
Knuckle merchants and you bankers, too
Must get up an' learn those rules
Weather man and the crazy chief
One says sun and one says sleet
A.M., the F.M. the P.M. too
Churning out that boogaloo
Gets you up and gets you out
But how long can you keep it up?
Gimme Honda, Gimme Sony
So cheap and real phony
Hong Kong dollars and Indian cents
English pounds and Eskimo pence

You lot! What?
Don't stop! Give it all you got!
You lot! What?
Don't stop! Yeah!

Working for a rise, better my station
Take my baby to sophistication
She's seen the ads, she thinks it's nice
Better work hard - I seen the price
Never mind that it's time for the bus
We got to work - an' you're one of us
Clocks go slow in a place of work
Minutes drag and the hours jerk

"When can I tell 'em wot I do?
In a second, maaan...oright Chuck!"

Wave bub-bub-bub-bye to the boss
It's our profit, it's his loss
But anyway lunch bells ring
Take one hour and do your thanng!
Cheeesboiger!

What do we have for entertainment?
Cops kickin' Gypsies on the pavement
Now the news - snap to attention!
The lunar landing of the dentist convention
Italian mobster shoots a lobster
Seafood restaurant gets out of hand
A car in the fridge
Or a fridge in the car?
Like cowboys do - in T.V. land

You lot! What? Don't stop. Huh?

So get back to work an' sweat some more
The sun will sink an' we'll get out the door
It's no good for man to work in cages
Hits the town, he drinks his wages
You're frettin', you're sweatin'
But did you notice you ain't gettin'?
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
To take your car outta that gear
Don't you ever stop long enough to start?
To get your car outta that gear
Karlo Marx and Fredrich Engels
Came to the checkout at the 7-11
Marx was skint - but he had sense
Engels lent him the necessary pence

What have we got? Yeh-o, magnificence!!

Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi
Went to the park to check on the game
But they was murdered by the other team
Who went on to win 50-nil
You can be true, you can be false
You be given the same reward
Socrates and Milhous Nixon
Both went the same way - through the kitchen
Plato the Greek or Rin Tin Tin
Who's more famous to the billion millions?
News Flash: Vacuum Cleaner Sucks Up Budgie
Oooohh...bub-bye

Magnificence!!

F***ING LONG, INNIT?

---
...Lovin it ;D

I always liked the lines from Elvis Costello's "Angels Want to Wear My Red Shoes":

          "I said I'm so happy I could die
             She said drop dead and left with another guy"

A-ha have always used bizarre lyrics but what about this one from 'The Living Daylights'?

The living's in the way we die

Nuff said?


Robert

???

My instincts tell me I should leave this one well alone;  'Agadoo' by Black Lace.

Push pineapple shake a tree


Robert

What about Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio.

"I wish I was in Tiajuana, eating barbequed iguana"

yuck!  :P bbq'd or otherwise!

"So I stepped out to buy some dog food for the cat.
Of course she called about three minutes after that."

Answering Machine
by Rupert Holmes

The classic...

Kiss Off by the Violent Femmes

I need someone a person to talk to
someone who'd care to love
could it be you could it be you
situation gets rough then I start to panic
it's not enough it's just a habit
hey kid your sick well darling this is it
you can all just kiss off into the air
behind my back I can see them stare
they'll hurt me bad but I won't mind
they'll hurt me bad they do it all the time
yeah yeah they do it all the time
I hope you know this will go down
on your permanent record
oh yeah well don't get so distressed
did I happen to mention that I'm impressed
I take one one one cause you left me and
two two two for my family and
3 3 3 for my heartache and
4 4 4 for my headaches and
5 5 5 for my lonely and
6 6 6 for my sorrow and
7 7 for no tomorrow and
8 8 I forget what 8 was for and
9 9 9 for a lost god and
10 10 10 10 for everything
everything everything everything

or...as they were printed on the album sleeve on vinyl...

I need someone a person to talk to someone who'd care to love could it be you could it be you situation gets rough then I start to panic it's not enough it's just a habit hey kid your sick well darling this is it you can all just kiss off into the air behind my back I can see them stare they'll hurt me bad but I won't mind they'll hurt me bad they do it all the time yeah yeah they do it all the time I hope you know this will go down on your permanent record oh yeah well don't get so distressed did I happen to mention that I'm impressed I take one one one cause you left me and two two two for my family and 3 3 3 for my heartache and 4 4 4 for my headaches and 5 5 5 for my lonely and 6 6 6 for my sorrow and 7 7 for no tomorrow and 8 8 I forget what 8 was for and 9 9 9 for a lost god and 10 10 10 10 for everything everything everything everything

I really liked the way they printed all the word to all the lyrics on that album as 1 long string of words. You had to figure out which song was which and where 1 started and ended. Lots of fun.