Lyrical Cliches You Can't Stand

"My heart is the dough,
You're the leaven.
If only you didn't
Look like Pat Nevin."

Replacements opened for Tom Petty back when "I'll Be You" was a no. 1 AOR hit (hard to remember sometimes that the Mats did actually have hits). Tom Petty used in three years later. Not a coincidence.

1. Heat Of The Moment
2. Only Time Will Tell
3. Sole Survivor
4. One Step Closer
5. Time Again
6. Wildest Dreams
7. Without You
8. Cutting It Fine
9. Here Comes The Feeling

1. Ready to Rock
2. Don't Say No Tonight
3. So Cold Tonight Let It Go (Dedicated to Jack and Diane)
4. Turn the Light Off
5. It's Gotta Be Love
6. Can't Go On
7. Nobody Knows
8.When You Gonna Satisfy Me
9. Need a Little Rock
10. Broken Down Chevy (God Only Knows)

Ha - I just found this: http://www.anti.com/press.php?CatalogID=80377&pressid=553

O: Did you mind Petty swiping your "rebel without a clue" line?

PW: It miffed me a little bit, but it's all... I'd steal something back from him, if I could find something I liked.

...and ending in "emancipation proclamation".

Except when Humpty Hump does it, then it's awesome!!

1. Beau Brummels, "Laugh Laugh"
2. The Beatles, "Don't Pass Me By" (though the shelf actually has a context here, so Ringo gets a pass)
3. Jefferson Airplane, "Star Track"

Continue?

Referring to blood as the color of crimson.
"Please hold my hand, please hold my heart, please say we'll never be apart" - real line from a local emo band (uber cliche)

How do you know that isn't constipation?

"alright!" (place at the end of any line)
"i see her walkin' on down the street"
"there she goes"

in hip hop, i can't stand
1. afterparty to hotel lobby...
2. those (fat joe, r kelly especially) who talk about "menage" constantly. it's like they just heard about it at age 30.

Slippery When Wet might at least provide some competition.

IIRC:

Let It Rock
You Give Love a Bad Name
Livin' On a Prayer
Social Disease
Wanted Dead or Alive
Raise Your Hands
Without Love
I'd Die For You
Never Say Goodbye
Wild In the Streets

(Hey, I got all but one from memory)

Hmm, Asia may have the edge.

4. Tori Amos - "Hey Jupiter"

Whatever, wu-tang's "mystery of chessboxin" is awesome.

i love that song by the way.

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5. Alice Cooper, Clones (We're All)

Six is having problems adjusting to his clone status
Have to put him on a shelf, please don't put me on a shelf
All day long we hear him crying so loud
I just wanna be myself, I just wanna be myself
I just wanna be myself, be myself, be myself

1) The Power Of Love
2) If You Asked Me To
3) Beauty and The Beast
4) Because You Loved Me
5) It's All Coming Back To Me Now
6) Love Can Move Mountains
7) To Love You More
8) My Heart Will Go On
9) I'm Your Angel
10) That's The Way It Is
11) If Walls Could Talk
12) The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
13) All The Way
14) Then You Look At Me
15) I Want You To Need Me
16) Live

And, yes, Phil Collins, we do now know that you have been "waiting for so long" :-)

I can't stand it when an artist - especially one not known for being socially conscious - makes an attempt at political or social comment and then writes a hackneyed lyric that displays NO insight or understanding beyond "the world's in a mess" or "our politicians lie". The only example I can name right now is Phil Collins' "Another Day In Paradise" (Phil Collins again!!!), but I know there have been others.

I saw a band the other night that I was quite enjoying, at least until that line came out.

Michael Jackson to thread! :-)