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Dumbest Lyrics of All-Time
This topic comes from a rather long blog entry on one of my favorite music-related blogs, Jefitoblog.com. Basically, BBC 6 had a vote on the worst lyrics in pop history and gave voters 10 choices. Jefito didn't think they came close to picking the worst, and he gives his top choices and then the choices of another contributor to his blog.
I have to agree with Jefito that the Yes lyrics from Love Will Find a Way are hilariously awful in a WTF sense. I remember listening to that song and wondering if I misheard the last line, because it just didn't make any sense at all. Here's his discussion of it: Yes, “Love Will Find a Way” — “Here is my heart / Waiting for you / Here is my soul / I eat at Chez Nous” Few lines in all of rock & roll communicate more casual contempt for the folks subsidizing the artist’s lifestyle than these. If they could have found a way to rhyme “Fuck it, I can’t think of anything, let’s go home,” they surely would have. Much more entertaining than this stupid, stupid song is this thread discussing all the possible meanings of “I eat at Chez Nous.” (My favorite: “The song appears to be about trying to stay together in the face of some problem. ‘Eating’ at ‘our place’ could mean simply that ‘I’ am not ‘fooling around’…’I’ stay home to eat. The sharing of food is a basic bonding activity and could infer other (more personal) bonding activities are being kept ‘at home’ also.” I love Yes fans!) hxxp://jefitoblog.com/blog/?p=1198 So...what are our nominees? QS, any Billy Joel lyrics you care to nominate?
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LFO Summer Girls. Just one little snippet of it...
Hip Hop Marmalade spic And span, Met you one summer and it all began Your the best girl that I ever did see, The great Larry Bird Jersey 33 When you take a sip you buzz like a hornet Billy Shakespere wrote a whole bunch of sonnets Last edited by Dr. Sak : 05-16-2007 at 08:45 AM. |
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From what is otherwise Rod Stewart's best song, Maggie Mae:
All you did was wrecked my bed, And in the morning kicked me in the head... |
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"What its like...havin a Roni" Vanilla Ice
Beat Box what its like..... havin a roni Beat Box what its like..... having a roni Beat box what its like havin a roni Beat box what its like... havin a roni o yea vip in full effect
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What's that song... "Cecillia" or something like that, where the guy gets up to wash his face and when he gets back someone's taken his place?
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Cecillia by Simon and Garfunkle I think.
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You took my love in the palm of your hand
An' showed me what a woman could do Now I don't want sugar coated loving Just silver tongue tenderness, You gotta give me a certain satisfaction The kind of love you seal with a kiss And spit it out, spit it out, spit it out If you don't like it Spit it out, spit it out, spit it out If you don't like it
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I bet the Russians love their children too.
I fucking hate Sting. But loved the Police. Go figure.
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"Girl you know it's - Girl you know it's - Girl you know it's - Girl you know it's"
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Anything by Avril Lavigne?
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These are pretty stupid lyrics, even for a band that wasn't trying to be deep:
The Darkness - Wanker It was a hot day (Woah) And there were boobies Ahoy I am a bastard (Woah) I've been a very naughty boy
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I'll take K-Fed.
Cause I keep gettin' into situations That you wish you was in, cousin I'm not your brother, I'm not your uncle, I'm Daddy do Steppin' in this game and y'all ain't got a clue My prediction is that y'all are gonna hate On the style we create, straight 2008 But I know that you really can't wait Because people always askin' me When's the release date? Well maybe, baby, you could wait and see Until then all these Pavarattis followin' me Gettin' anxious? Go take a peek I'm starrin' in your magazines Now every day and week |
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sitting on a pebble by the river playing guitar...
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Blinded by the light, wrapped up like a douche another roller in the night.
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Two nominations:
Old Dirty Bastard: "I don't have a problem with you fuckin' me But I gotta little problem with you not fuckin' me" And then Rob Base from "It Takes Two": "Cause I'm Rob Base, the one who knows about things" I think he continues to say what things he knows about, but the pause in the lyrics just makes it sounds like he knows about things. That's all, just things. |
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Speaking on early 90's rap:
Your best friend Harry has a brother Larry In five days from now he's going to marry He's hoping you can make it there if you can Cause in the ceremony, you'll be the best man. Wait, what? Larry wants you to be the best man? He's not your best friend, Harry is. In fact it sounds like you barely know the guy. And why isn't he having his brother be best man? What kind of messed up family dynamics are going on here? He snubs his own brother, and chooses his brother's best friend? Talk about passive-aggressive. And what's with only giving you five day's notice? What kind of half-assed wedding is this?
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Fab Five Freddie told me everybody's high DJ's spinnin' are savin' my mind Flash is fast, Flash is cool Francois sez fas, Flashe' no do And you don't stop, sure shot Go out to the parking lot And you get in your car and you drive real far And you drive all night and then you see a light And it comes right down and lands on the ground And out comes a 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, eatin' cars You eat Cadillacs, Lincolns too Mercurys and Subarus And you don't stop, you keep on eatin' 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 to slow, 'cause the man from Mars Is through with cars, he's eatin' 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 singin' in the rain I said don't stop, do punk rock Well now you see what you wanna be Just have your party on TV 'Cause the man from Mars won't eat up bars when the TV'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 eatin' cars and eatin' bars And now he only eats guitars, get up!
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didn't Paris Hilton release an album? Shouldn't she be on here somewhere?
OK, so I'm not actually going to research or listen to the lyrics. I just wondered if someone else had. |
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Actually, it's "Blinded by the light...Cut loose like a deuce, another starfish in the night..."
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We need a "greatest rap lyrics of all time" thread.
Although nothing will ever top "I put gum in my ass, 'cause I like to pop shit".
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Actually, you're both wrong. It's "Blinded by the light, cut loose like a deuce, another runner in the night..." And a deuce is a Deuce Coupe. Like "Little Deuce Coupe". |
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Pretty sure that's not right... Went to the Manfred Mann homepage, here's the link: hxxp://www.manfredmann.co.uk/music/lyrics/roaring.htm#blind Lyrics: Blinded by the light Revved up like a Deuce Another runner in the night [repeat to fade] Madman drummers bummers Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way in to his hat With a boulder on my shoulder feeling kinda' older I tripped the merry go round With this very unpleasing sneezing and wheezing the calliope crashed to the ground The calliope crashed to the ground and she was blinded by the light, revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night. Blinded by the light Revved up like a Deuce Another runner in the night [repeat to fade] Some silicone sister with her manager mister told me I got what it takes She said I'll turn you on sonny to something strong play the song with the funky break And go kart Mozart was checkin' out the weather chart see if it was safe outside And little Early Pearly came by in his curly wurly and asked me if I needed a ride Asked me if I needed a ride And she was blinded by the light Revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night Blinded by the light She got down but she never got tight She's gonna make it through the night She's gonna make it through the night Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the sun, but mama That's where the fun is Some brimstone baritone anti cyclone rolling stone preacher from the east Says Dethrone the Dictaphone hit it in his funny bone and that's where they expect it least And some new mown chaperone was standing in The corner watching the young girls dance And some fresh sewn moonstone was messing with his frozen zone reminding him of romance The calliope crashed to the ground And she was blinded by the light revved up like a deuce Another runner in the night Blinded by the light Revved up like a Deuce Another runner in the night [repeat to fade] Scott with a slingshot finally found a tender spot and throws his lover in the sand and some bloodshot forget me not his daddy's within earshot save the buckshot turn up the band. She got down but she never got tight she's gonna' make it through the night. |
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Those are the lyrics in the Manfred Mann song. Except he didn't write it. The boss of all bosses wrote it. And performed it first. And he wrote and sang "cut loose like a deuce". |
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I think you are wrong. It's clearly douche.
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Yea, I knew Bruce wrote it, though admittedly I didn't know he performed it with different lyrics. BUT I think it's obvious the original poster was referring to the Mann version... |
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Can someone explain why Steve Miller found it necessarily to tell us that Big Jed had a light on?
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Dumb lyrics have been around for a very long time.
"You say yes, I say no You say stop and I say go, go, go Oh, no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello Hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello I say high, you say low You say why, and I say I don't know Oh, no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello Hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello Why, why, why, why, why, why Do you say good bye Goodbye, bye, bye, bye, bye Oh, no You say goodbye and I say hello Hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello Hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello hello, hello I don't know why you say goodbye I say hello Hello Hela, heba helloa Hela, heba helloa " Seriously, how long did it take to write that?
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the fact that we can't even agree on what the lyrics should be makes it a winner.
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From some dumb song on one of Shaq's "albums"...
"Where you at, Shaq?" "I'm over here!" (repeated ad nasuem) Yeah, because it's totally hard to figure out where Shaq is.
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De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you De do do do, de da da da Their innocence will pull me through De do do do, de da da da Is all I want to say to you De do do do, de da da da They're meaningless and all that's true wtf?
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rkmsuf is right. It's actually "Revved up like a douche". He's referring to a short-lived Summer's Eve Motorized Douche.
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No. It's "wrung up like a loofa".
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There is only one song that can challenge the aforementioned "Summer Girls" by LFO.
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Krokus' Screaming In The Night should be included in this discussion:
"Screaming in the night, fighting for my life, I'd die for you I knew it all along, headed for the sun, our love was true (our love was true) Screaming in the night, fighting for my life, I'd die for you I knew it all along, headed for the sun, our love was true, oh" |
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Like that song won't live in infamy.
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It depends on which version you're talking about. The lyrics are different in the SPringsteen vs. Mann versions. |
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Look, can we all agree the song is about showering in some form?
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