― Dave225, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tom, Tuesday, 23 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mick, Wednesday, 14 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
"Feel It" by the Tamperer
"WHAT she gonna look like with a chimney on her?"
omfg!!!
― Hazel C. Somerville, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Some of Grant McLennan's recent lyrics are exceptionally embarrassing. "Going Blind" has several winceworthy couplets, especially the "kitten purr" and "burnum wood" ones.
Steve Kilbey's lyrics are mostly wank. When I was younger I desperately hated the lyrics to "Unguarded Moment" but I can cope with them better now.
― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
PD: Smiths have the greatest lyrics ever
― warsaw, Saturday, 1 March 2003 23:30 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L (Andrew L), Saturday, 1 March 2003 23:39 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 2 March 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 2 March 2003 00:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Sunday, 2 March 2003 01:45 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith McD (Keith McD), Sunday, 2 March 2003 01:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
Even the groaner last line switch to "the corpse you really love" works. Now that's talent.
― Aaron A., Sunday, 2 March 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
for a band that made good music, Ride's lyrics were pretty lame - and didn't even flow very well.
She knew she could fly like a birdBut when she said 'please raise the roof higher' nobody heard They never noticed a wordThe light bulbs burn, her fingers will learn
― lolita corpus (lolitacorpus), Sunday, 2 March 2003 04:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Killer" by Van Der Graaf Generator. Juicy metal riff spoiled inevitably by crap lines like "Fishes can't fly, fishes can't fly, and neither can I!"
"Let Us Now Make Love" by Genesis (among many possible candidates from same). Terrific music coupled with very unworthy lyrics ("Please/I beg you hear this humble voice/Please/My emerald goddess wash away the wound...")-- ultra-foppish, even for early Peter Gabriel.
"Jesus Christ Superstar" ("Buddha was he where it's at/Is he who you are?/Could Mohammed move a mountain/ Or was that just P.R.?")
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 2 March 2003 05:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 2 March 2003 23:48 (twenty-one years ago) link
"THONG THA THONG THONG THONG"
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Sunday, 2 March 2003 23:51 (twenty-one years ago) link
― scott m (mcd), Monday, 3 March 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago) link
and the Geto Boys - even Scarface - but Willie Dee was the worst. This one was always a head-scratcher:
"and if you don't like it, spouse / you can suck my dick until your lips fall off"
they were famous for rhyming second lines with nonsensical first lines - so after that first line, you're thinking "ooookay, he's going somewhere good...'burn down your house?' 'snap on you like a mouse?' Nope!
― roger adultery, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago) link
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 09:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― None of your biz, Sunday, 14 March 2004 15:46 (twenty years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 14 March 2004 16:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 14 March 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
Go to English class.
― Aja (aja), Sunday, 14 March 2004 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Kim (Kim), Sunday, 14 March 2004 16:09 (twenty years ago) link
― Jen S, Thursday, 18 March 2004 03:56 (twenty years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 20 August 2005 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link
Subway, she is a porno
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Saturday, 20 August 2005 22:30 (eighteen years ago) link
Baby, can’t you seeI’m callingA guy like youShould wear a warningIt’s dangerousI’m fallin’
There’s no escapeI can’t waitI need a hitBaby, give me itYou’re dangerousI’m lovin’ it
Too highCan’t come downLosing my headSpinning ‘round and ‘roundDo you feel me now
With a taste of your lipsI’m on a rideYou're toxic I'm slipping underWith a taste of a poison paradiseI’m addicted to youDon’t you know that you’re toxicAnd I love what you doDon’t you know that you’re toxic
It’s getting lateTo give you upI took a sipFrom my devil's cupSlowlyIt’s taking over me
Too highCan’t come downIt’s in the airAnd it’s all aroundCan you feel me now
Don't you know that you're toxic
[x2]With a taste of your lipsI'm on a rideYou're toxic I'm slipping underWith a taste of a poison paradiseI'm addicted to youDon't you know that you're toxic
Intoxicate me nowWith your lovin' nowI think I'm ready nowI think I'm ready nowIntoxicate me now With your lovin' nowI think I'm ready now
― marc h. (marc h.), Saturday, 20 August 2005 23:56 (eighteen years ago) link
That badass G-Side song became less badass to me when I realized they were saying "ROLL TIDE". Such a shame, it's got a classic I'm about to fuck shit up" vibe like pac's "If I die tonight" or dire straits' "tunnel of love"
― brimstead, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:20 (nine years ago) link
"Starry Eyes" has really terrible lyrics for such a great song.
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:42 (nine years ago) link
Descendent's "I'm Not a Loser" ruined by the homophobic ending
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 00:43 (nine years ago) link
WTF "Starry Eyes" has great lyrics! Bonus points for a title that implies it's a love song.
― fan boy three (Lee626), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 08:32 (nine years ago) link
ziggy stardust"jamming good with weird and gilly""screwed up eyes and screwed down hairdo like some cat from Japan""the kid was just crass, he was the nazz, with God given ass""making love with his ego"NO
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 10:51 (nine years ago) link
Which "Starry Eyes"? The Records? Roky Erickson? Somebody else?
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 11:11 (nine years ago) link
I much prefer the lyrics in Too Much Joy's version of Starry Eyes to the Records, but they're even more insidery, I think.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 11:18 (nine years ago) link
Descendent's "I'm Not a Loser" ruined by the homophobic endingHammer Smashed Bagels wrote this at 2015-01-21 00:43:18.000
Hammer Smashed Bagels wrote this at 2015-01-21 00:43:18.000
So many Descendents songs ruined by misogyny too. If those guys were getting started today, they'd be fedora'd up.
― american tail/american pie (how's life), Wednesday, 21 January 2015 11:24 (nine years ago) link
academy fight song
tarnished probably isn't even right, i just have no idea wtf he's talking about
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 13 August 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link
however no one can deny that "I'm not judging you, I'm judging me" is an all-time great fist pumping lyric, buried in the midst of wtf
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 13 August 2017 03:33 (six years ago) link
I'm reminded of the time in high school when we couldn't figure out the lyrics to any of the songs on The Jam's In The City. So we made up our own as best as we could.
Some years later we learned what the actual lyrics were and we liked ours more. Have been (unfairly?) harsh on Weller ever since.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 13 August 2017 09:13 (six years ago) link
Yeezus
― sonderpop, Monday, 14 August 2017 12:26 (six years ago) link
Also the Smashing Pumpkins' "Ava Adore"
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, March 1, 2003 7:16 PM (fourteen years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
OTM, the worst opening couplet in rock history
― flappy bird, Monday, 14 August 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
song is just ok but i can't get past that adore/whore shit
― flappy bird, Monday, 14 August 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
I've been listening to the Doors recently, and there's, er, quite a few of these in their repertoire. That "Bullets strike the helmet's head" line in "The Unknown Soldier" is one that springs immediately to mind.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Monday, 14 August 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
Another one by Luna, from 'Sideshow by the Seashore':
Then I painted your face/On a twenty dollar bill/But it isn't legal tender/And I think about you still
Shithouse m8
― gass mccoombes (qiqing), Monday, 14 August 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
I think A Night In Tunisia might possibly be bad lyrics, but how come it lifts my spirits so much? Some aberration there that needs sorting out.
― calzino, Monday, 14 August 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
"Thinkin Bout You" by Frank Ocean: an all-time classic slow jam, which makes an unrequited crush sound like some kind of communion with the divine. The falsetto is other-worldly. But every time i hear it, i wish he'd just left out the second verse:
No, I don't like you, I just thought you were cool enough to kick itGot a beach house I could sell you in IdahoSince you think I don't love you, I just thought you were cuteThat's why I kissed youGot a fighter jet, I don't get to fly it though, I'm lying down
Actually the first verse is pretty dodgy too. It was like an act of intentional self-sabotage.
― enochroot, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 19:26 (one month ago) link