Rhymes I never want to hear again

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what if it's like FIAH / DESIAH

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 31 January 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link

i could probably live with U2 if they were an instrumental band

― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 00:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Maybe/baby is overused, but I like it anyway. x to fact cuz: I'm kind of tempted to write a song only using famously unusual rhymes from other folks' songs.

― Heidy-Ho (Heidy-Ho), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 01:52 (nineteen years ago) link

i never hear this much any more, but I used to hate hearing that fucking "world end/girlfriend" rhyme. it was all the rage for about a year.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 01:56 (nineteen years ago) link

I know a girl called elsa
She’s into alka seltzer
She sniffs it through a cane on a supersonic train

these are the some of the best lyrics in 90s rock.

also: love/ thinking of should be banned

― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link

the night time IS the right time, tho

― noizem duke (noize duke), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 03:11 (nineteen years ago) link

I think there was a thread like this already. But I can't remember what it was called.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 03:15 (nineteen years ago) link

girl/whirl/curl

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 04:12 (nineteen years ago) link

'table' and 'able'. Never want to hear it again ever.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 04:35 (nineteen years ago) link

x-post: it was called fire/desire i think

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 04:52 (nineteen years ago) link

Why must RAIN always fall on s songwriters' window PANE? Nobody else ever talks about a window pane except when it breaks and you need to ask for a replacement at a hardware store.

― assseenontv (j22433), Tuesday, 1 February 2005 05:14 (nineteen years ago) link

morning/warning

just kidding, that one's awesome! especially if "warning" is preceded by "without" and "morning" is preceded by "boy have I got a boner this"

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link

Why must RAIN always fall on s songwriters' window PANE?

I'd be more impressed if they were talking about their window pain (i.e. "A loved one fell out of 2nd story window and died, I AM STILL HURT, MANG").

― Matt Chesnut, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link

problems/solve 'em

― one time gaffled 'em up, Tuesday, 1 February 2005 08:09 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

LOTION.

I submit that never in the history of music has anyone actually had anything to say about any kind of lotion. It is invariably just a cheap, lazy choice of rhyme.
Cool J gets a free pass on this one, but Lou Reed can go grow another mullet.

― m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Friday, 25 March 2005 02:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Ultra-clever rhymes are awful as well, especially when strain is showing - when it's clear that the whole verse was motivated by the rhyme scheme. i just got a promo kit from some indie fuxxor whose publicists are all "OMG [the kid] is so smart, check out this awesomely literate rhyme: 'I am young and I am lost / You respond to my riposte.'" Into the garbage the kit went, needless to say.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:07 (nineteen years ago) link

...young apprentice, scylla and charybidis
...knowledge, college
...flesh to alabaster, servant is your master
that motherfucker really pissed me off.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Reason and season! Maybe not as overused as fire/desire, but almost invariably bad whenever it is used.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:32 (nineteen years ago) link

sorrow / tomorrow.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 25 March 2005 05:34 (nineteen years ago) link

College/Knowledge, OTM.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Friday, 25 March 2005 08:02 (nineteen years ago) link

I nominate:
Soy Latte/Double Shote
Pilates/Hotties/Bodies

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 25 March 2005 08:08 (nineteen years ago) link

PARTY / BACARDI TO THREAD

This is super classic for "The Jumpoff" alone!

― C0L1N B... (C0L1N B...), Friday, 25 March 2005 08:28 (nineteen years ago) link

"Baby, good love and protection,
Make me your selection".

Ga! Everytime this song comes up on the radio I get as far as the chorus only to change it just before this awful, awful line comes up.

― lana, Friday, 25 March 2005 17:11 (nineteen years ago) link

It's gonna take an ocean/Of calamine lotion seems good to me.

Apricot/gavotte, obviously.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Friday, 25 March 2005 17:13 (nineteen years ago) link

fact/hat

M People had some song that went:
"as a matter of fact/at the drop of a hat"

still makes me want to pull my teeth out.

― Neil FC (Neil FC), Friday, 25 March 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

head/dead
friend/again
why/try/die/cry/sigh
true/blue/you
heart/apart/start
chimbley sweep/anything

i realize i'm throwing down the gauntlet for would-be Wordsworths, but it's gotta be done.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Friday, 25 March 2005 17:58 (nineteen years ago) link

-ation rhymes.

― Guy Incognito (Guy Incognito), Friday, 25 March 2005 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link

one month passes...

Three months of this thread, and no waitin'/anticipatin'???

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 2 May 2005 02:43 (nineteen years ago) link

how about gr3g w33ks to thread? blood is trouble has a nice feeling, but man, it's all pie/high/sky lyrics.

― blackmail.is.my.life (blackmail.is.my.life), Monday, 2 May 2005 02:49 (nineteen years ago) link

Hmmm.

I dunno. What rhymes are left?

Also, how come Dr. Seuss is sooo classic then?

― phil jones (interstar), Monday, 2 May 2005 14:24 (nineteen years ago) link

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