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Name three. -- Joseph McCombs (jmccomb...), October 1st, 2004 5:04 PM. (Joseph McCombs)
one two three four five six sevenit said on the clock when I got a call from my man Kevinhe's talkin' some stoned nonsense about the ebb andflow of things he don't know, film at eleven
OFF TEH DOME FUXOR!
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:26 (nineteen years ago) link
The rolling list of "on the shelf" songs:Joy Division - NoveltyWhen ya gonna grow up and act, and be yourselfCause pretty soon you'll find yourself nailed to the shelf(at least it's nailed to the shelf.)
― Loose Translation: Sexy Dancer (sexyDancer), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 4 October 2004 19:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Monday, 4 October 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― doorag x, Tuesday, 5 October 2004 02:01 (nineteen years ago) link
(actually i love it but i guess this is the thread for recycled lyrics?)
― ken c (ken c), Friday, 11 November 2005 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
"I'd rather go blind than to see you walk away"
(Excessive cellulite on the arse will do that to you....)
― ron critchlow, Friday, 11 November 2005 15:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Didn't the Beastie Boys rhyme "self-ish" with "shelf-ish" on Paul's Boutique?
― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 11 November 2005 15:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― mike a, Friday, 11 November 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
I want to get awayI want to fly awayYeah yeah yeahI want to get awayI want to fly awayYeah yeah yeah
Let's go and see the stars,the Milky Way or even MarsWhere it could just be oursLet's fade into the sun, let your spirit flyWhere we are oneJust for a little funOh oh oh yeah
I gotta get away; girl I gotta get awayOh oh oh yeah
I want to get away, I want to get awayI want to get away, I want to get awayYEAH!!!
I want to get awayI want to fly awayYeah yeah yeahGirl I gotta get away
I want to get awayI want to fly awayYeah yeah yeahGirl I gotta get awayYeah yeah yeah yeah yeah....
― mike a, Friday, 11 November 2005 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
("Patience" by Gn'R, "Every Breath You Take" by the Police)
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 11 November 2005 17:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 11 November 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 11 November 2005 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Friday, 11 November 2005 22:24 (eighteen years ago) link
I always found this lyric to be especially egregious:
I can be your hero baby,I can kiss away your painI will stand by you foreveryou can take my breath away
Jesus, he falls back on the most tired cliche but still can't even make it rhyme properly or even work that well with the rhythm.
― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 12 November 2005 05:11 (eighteen years ago) link
umm, actually, Paul, we've all had more than enough, thanks for asking.
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Saturday, 12 November 2005 05:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― retroboy, Saturday, 12 November 2005 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― deeany, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link
".... this time of year""families get together""warm by the fire""all i want for christmas is you"
blech
― deeany, Tuesday, 6 December 2005 06:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Confounded (Confounded), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 12:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:33 (eighteen years ago) link
You put me on a shelf And kept me for yourself I can only blame myself You can only blame me
And I could write a song A hundred miles long Well that's where I belong And you belong with me
And I could write it down And spread it all around Get lost and then get found or swallowed in the sea
You put me on a line And hung me out to dry And darling, that's when I decided to go see
You cut me down to size And opened up my eyes Made me realize What I could not see
And I could write a book The one they'll say that shook The world and then it took It took it back from me
And I could write it down And spread it all around Get lost and then get found And you'll come back to me Not swallowed in the sea
The streets you're walking on A thousand houses long Well, that's where I belong And you belong with me
Oh, what good is it to live With nothing left to give Forget, but not forgive Not loving all you see
All the streets you're walking on A thousand houses long Well, that's where I belong And you belong with me Not swallowed in the sea
You belong with me Not swallowed in the sea Yeah, you belong with me Not swallowed in the sea
Take a bow, Mr. Martin.
― Deluxe (Damian), Tuesday, 6 December 2005 14:43 (eighteen years ago) link
no one here has mentioned the dancefloor. i mean, give me a fucking break already. not that much interesting shit happens there.
― musically, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link
and what's with all the LOVE SONGS, huh? why do all these people write songs about LOVE? why is THAT interesting? HUH?
― thomp, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 01:44 (fourteen years ago) link
From an old Motown song:"I'd rather go blind than to see you walk away"(Excessive cellulite on the arse will do that to you....)― ron critchlow, Friday, November 11, 2005 3:14 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^ can someone explain this joke to me
― thomp, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 01:47 (fourteen years ago) link
blindness is preferable to having to look at someone's butt
― musically, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
"Love you long time" references have been played out and should be retired by now.
― musically, Monday, 17 August 2009 02:55 (fourteen years ago) link
you should never rhyme heaven with "seven" or "eleven" anymore. I hate it literally every time
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 17 August 2009 02:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I love "dancefloor". Then again, "Vogue" and "Pump Up the Jam" are two of my all-time faves
― claws of jungle red (Stevie D), Monday, 17 August 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
model/bottle couplets have really become the modern moon/june/spoon. really never a time that it doesn't annoy me.
― some dude, Monday, 17 August 2009 03:23 (fourteen years ago) link
"Self" rhyming with "shelf." Aargh.
Wait, when does THIS happen?
― cosmic abbigong (Abbott), Monday, 17 August 2009 20:27 (fourteen years ago) link
when taking your one off the other
― musically, Wednesday, August 12, 2009 2:51 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark
my god, what a terrible joke
― thomp, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:29 (fourteen years ago) link
admittedly the guy who made it seems to have not posted since 2005, so i'm not sure why i'm so bothered
― thomp, Monday, 17 August 2009 20:31 (fourteen years ago) link
•rain falling down•tears falling down like rain
Never saw it fall up, nope.
"waiting/anticipating" OTM.
cliche in EVERY line has to be Des'Ree's goddawful "Life (Oh Life)".Any more contenders to songs with them in every line, I'd like to hear itIIRC, Bryan Adams' "Everything I Do, I Do It For You" might be a contendah.
― staggerlee, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Lines/songs beginning with "sitting here" or "standing here" or some other such iteration
― Eric H., Tuesday, 18 August 2009 00:17 (fourteen years ago) link
i would love to hear a song begin with "squatting here"
― m0stlyClean, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 02:07 (fourteen years ago) link
...or even "crouching here"
'Down on my knees' or some variation on that. Though, to be fair, I don't have a problem with it. I was listening to music on shuffle the other day and four songs in a row included it. One was
Prince - Dinner With Delores'Damn, Delores, pick another subject pleaseIntroduce the carpet 2 something other than your knees'
Another was, Steely Dan - Do It Again'Then you love a little wild oneAnd she brings you only sorrowAll the time you know she's smilin'You'll be on your knees tomorrow '
Both of which gave a unique spin to things. I'm sure there's half a billion examples of abuse.
― Popture, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 04:09 (fourteen years ago) link
along the same lines as 'shivers/spine' upthread, there's also 'chill/bone', in which 'bone' usually rhymes with 'alone'.
The ubiquitous 'lovelight' was mentioned earlier as well, my favourite example of which must be "You didn't have to turn on the lovelight, whoa, it was on."
― Daniel Giraffe, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 07:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Any song about human flight - "I believe I can fly", "I want to Fly away" etc...
Just ends up sounding like Orville.
― dog latin, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Not sure that's such a bad thing
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:20 (fourteen years ago) link
xp that would take out the absolutely wonderful "Tonight We Fly" by the Divine Comedy.
― anagram, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
the objective/selective/collective rhyme in that Soul II Soul track strikes me as very hackneyed
― Daniel Giraffe, Wednesday, 19 August 2009 12:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Popture, those excerpts strick me as good uses of a cliche!
― post-contrarian meta-challop 2009 (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 12:37 (fourteen years ago) link
"like a thief in the night"
:-(
― Background Zombie (CharlieNo4), Wednesday, 19 August 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link