although i know Barbara Ann isn't an OG BB's song.
― Hire Planes (dog latin), Wednesday, 23 May 2018 13:32 (six years ago) link
"Didn't I (Blow Your Mind)," though obviously a towering classic, is kinda one of these.
― This is a total Jeff Porcaro. (Doctor Casino), Monday, 23 July 2018 00:54 (six years ago) link
Ghostbusters theme.
Look I get what Ray is trying to do. But he's making Janine's job hell.
Look at the reasons he urges you to call:
*Something strange in your neighborhood (Like...a robbery?)
*Something weird and it don't look good (Like a crazy guy ranting with a megaphone?)
*If you're seeing things running through your head (Like...an acid trip?)
*If you're all alone (da fuq?)
Like the only valid reason he gives id the invisible man in the bed. Poor Janine is probably referring customers elsewhere all day
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 September 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
The Turtles, "Happy Together"
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Monday, 3 September 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
(That "My Lean Baby" song is amazing, btw)
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Monday, 3 September 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
From Sammy Johns 1973 hit, "Chevy Van":
"I gave a girl a ride in my wagonShe crawled in and took controlShe was tired as her mind was a-draggin'I said get some sleep and dream of rock'n'roll
'Cause like a princess she was laying thereMoonlight dancing off her hairShe woke up and took me by the handShe's gonna love me in my Chevy van and that's all right with me
I put her out in a town that was so smallYou could throw a rock from end to endA dirt road main street, she walked off in bare feetIt's a shame I won't be passin' through again"
― enochroot, Monday, 3 September 2018 16:12 (six years ago) link
At least he waited for her to make the first move.
― stan in the place where you work (morrisp), Monday, 3 September 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
The singer in “Wham Rap” encourages being unemployed and has contempt for working people trying to make ends meet (“Hey jerk, you work. This boy’s got better things to do!”).
― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 01:43 (five years ago) link
Rather that than Mick Jagger's contempt for the unemployed and 'lazy' & belief that work can 'kill poverty' in Let's Work.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 08:21 (five years ago) link
pretty sure it turned out he did have better things to do with the time the dole allowed him to develop his skills, too
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 10:58 (five years ago) link
The dole is a vital part of the nurturing of new artistic talent, its destruction has robbed the country of a good deal of talent, however there will always be normies and no need to be rude to them just for doing their thing, see also Too Much Too Young.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
tbf there are like twenty lines of the NPCs attacking and degrading him before he finally snaps in response with the outrageously extreme verbal assault “hey, jerk”
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 11:40 (five years ago) link
Ha, I didn't know George Michael rapped about the joys of collecting unemployment in 1982.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 12:56 (five years ago) link
I’m on Michael’s side here. There are better things for a young person to do with their time than fuck with the toad Work.
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 13:44 (five years ago) link
tbf there are like twenty lines of the NPCs attacking and degrading him before he finally snaps in response with the outrageously extreme verbal assault “hey, jerk”This is an amusing comment, but is anyone attacking & degrading him? It sounds like GM is the one an assault most of the time (other than the few lines of ”Get yourself a job!”).
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 14:49 (five years ago) link
(Also, in the context of the video at least, those few lines of nagging are coming from the protagonist’s parental units.)
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 14:54 (five years ago) link
love this revive
― john. a resident of evanston. (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
i often think about how confusing the lyrics to my favorite late period Bee Gees song are:
I couldn't figure whyYou couldn't give me what everybody needsI shouldn't let you kick me when I'm downMy babyI find out everybody knowThat you've been using meI'm surprised youLet me stay around youOne day I'm gonna lift the coverAnd look inside your heartWe gotta level before we goAnd tear this love apart
Chorus:There's no fight you can't fightThis battle of love with meYou win againSo little timeWe do nothing but competeThere's no life on earthNo other could see me throughYou win againSome never tryBut if anybody can, we canAnd I'll be, I'll beFollowing you
Oh girl, oh girl, oh baby I shake you from now onI'm gonna break down your defensesOne by oneI'm gonna hit you from all sidesLay your fortress open wideNobody stops this body from taking youYou better beware, I swearI'm gonna be there one day when you fallI could never let you cast asideThe greatest love of all
(Chorus x 3)
― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 16:56 (five years ago) link
xp Bow Wow Wow did this idea in '81 with "W.O.R.K. (N.O. Nah, No My Daddy Don't)" but I guess their take is more inspirational than insulting unless you take it the wrong way
― Josefa, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
This is an amusing comment, but is anyone attacking & degrading him? It sounds like GM is the one an assault most of the time (other than the few lines of ”Get yourself a job!”).
I only heard the song today but in this version, the line Mr Snrub quotes comes up pretty early in the song before he even quotes anyone nagging him. The speaker is being a bit of a dick but I also get the feeling that he means to.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
Reeling all morning from the Jagger "Let's Work" lyrics. I bet the production sounded very modern coming out of the studio monitors. I'm sure Mick was thinking, "let's knock this out quick, spontaneous, like "Monkey Man", but in the spirit of the day. 'S'not 1969 anymore." And he'd totally forgotten Prince having a "Let's Work" song in his opening set a few years back.
― bendy, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
before he even quotes anyone nagging him
he's responding to unquoted criticisms though - "You can't tell me that I'm not," "So you don't approve - well who asked you to?"
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 18:55 (five years ago) link
Those criticisms may be all in his head, though -- the way I hear it, he's just be projecting them onto the "Hey, everybody" he's addressing.
FTR, here's the original version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsyHQgiem8c
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 19:00 (five years ago) link
In the streetsIn the carsOn the undergroundIf you listen real hardYou can hear the soundOf a million peopleSwitching off for workWell listen Mr. AverageYou're a jerk
― stan by me (morrisp), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 19:03 (five years ago) link
I'm loving the deep dive into Wham! lyrics, but as someone else commented, I think GM does actually mean to come off like a dick.
"Young Guns", from the same album, mines similar anti-norm territory:
When I saw that girl upon your arm,I knew she won your heart with a fatal charm.I said "Soul Boy, let's hit the town!"I said "Soul Boy, what's with the frown?"But in return, all you could say was"Hi George, meet my fiancee"
― enochroot, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
Modern Lovers - I’m Straight
― city worker, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
I know what you mean but I'm pretty sure the song was expressly designed to annoy hippies.
― Orpheus Knutt (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 July 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link
“Now, look, I like him too...”luv that line
― stan by me (morrisp), Thursday, 4 July 2019 00:09 (five years ago) link
While we're on the subject of George sounding like a dick, what about "Everything She Wants"?
"Now you tell me that you're having a baby / I'll tell you that I'm happy if you want me to..."
― Velcromancer (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 4 July 2019 11:27 (five years ago) link
"You say it best when you say nothing at all" ?
ouch
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 4 July 2019 11:56 (five years ago) link
Someone suggested the Kinks' Sunny Afternoon upthread, but that really overlooks the irony and the ambiguity, both of which were clearly intended.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 4 July 2019 18:47 (five years ago) link
i've been rocking the first Buffalo Springfield album a lot and it's great but FULL of these, e.g. "You won't accept the fact that I'm not ready for the death of our forever love"
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
"get some sleep and dream of rock'n'roll"
I used to listen to AFN, and the dj that was on right before Wolf an Jack would use that line as his sign-off. Never knew that's where it came from!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
Yeah, AM radio reception was always ropey
― Mark G, Wednesday, 20 November 2019 20:40 (four years ago) link
I love Emmitt Rhodes album but the sentiment on this song always makes me rmde:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEuiyOcGfz8
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 18:32 (four years ago) link
It Takes Two, in which Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston go to great lengths to make single people feel really fucking miserable.
One can have a broken heart, living in miseryTwo can really ease the pain like a perfect remedy
You're single and depressed? Suck it, loser!
One can go out to a movie looking for a special treatTwo can make that single movie something really kind of sweetAnd one can take a walk in the moonlight thinking that's it's really niceBut two lovers walking hand in hand is like adding just a pinch of spice
Oh you think you're happy being on your own? Nope!
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Monday, 24 February 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
counterpoint: no one can ever break your heart if you stay single forever, whereas someone's liable to break it again if you get back the dating game after a breakup
― nothing in the dialog (unregistered), Monday, 24 February 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
also movies are better alone
Someone suggested the Kinks' Sunny Afternoon upthread, but that really overlooks the irony and the ambiguity, both of which were clearly intended.Bingo. By the poster's logic, you could accuse Randy Newman of being a dick in most every song.
― TO BE A JAZZ SINGER YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SCAT (Jazzbo), Monday, 24 February 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
My Lean Baby, sung by Sinatra (lyrics by Roy Alfred) is slightly wtf.
My lean baby - tall and thinFive feet seven - of bones and skinBut when she tells me maybe she loves meI feel as mellow as a fellow can be
She's so skinny - she's so drawnWhen she stands sideways - you (would) think (that) she's goneBut when she calls me: "baby" - I feel fineTo think she's frantically, romantically mine
She's slender, but she's tenderShe makes my heart surrenderAnd every night, when I hold her tightThe feeling is nice - my arms can go around twice
My lean baby - she's so slimA broomstick's wider - but not as trimAnd when she starts to kiss me - then I knowI love her so, I'll never, ever, let her go
My lean baby - strange to seeAnd all that nothing - it belongs to meAnd though she may be scrawny - she's okBecause I wouldn't want her any other way
I chased her - and I caught herThen a diamond ring - I bought her(hey) the diamonds shine - the ring is so fineBut here is the twist - she wears it right on her wrist
My lean baby - tall and thin...(do-do-do-do-do,...)
― MaresNest, Wednesday, May 23, 2018 12:57 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
What in the ever-loving fuckity-fuck is this?!?!
― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 19 July 2020 04:00 (four years ago) link
good lord
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 19 July 2020 13:26 (four years ago) link
Seconding (only seconding!?) Stills' "Love the one You're With." Sounds like the hoariest of pick-up lines. "And if you can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with." Barf.
Dion's "The Wanderer" is pretty dire on this front, too.
"Oh well, I'm the type of guy who will never settle downWhere pretty girls are, well you know that I'm aroundI kiss 'em and I love 'em cause to me they're all the sameI hug 'em and I squeeze 'em they don't even know my name"
Yeah, you should be so proud, Dion.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 19 July 2020 13:55 (four years ago) link
the hollies' "hey carrie anne"
You were always something special to meQuite independent, never caringYou lost your charm as you were agingWhere is your magic disappearing?
― clouds, Sunday, 19 July 2020 14:08 (four years ago) link
LOL, There's dozens of those 'ramblin' man/no woman can hold me down and didn't I tell you that once?' songs in folk and blues.
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 July 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
(xp)
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 July 2020 14:12 (four years ago) link
xxpost My theory re: 'The Wanderer' is that the Rosie tattooed on his chest (you know, the one he loves the best) has the last name Five-Fingers.
― Why does this relates to Yoda? (Old Lunch), Sunday, 19 July 2020 14:16 (four years ago) link
(hey) the diamonds shine - the ring is so fineBut here is the twist - she wears it right on her wrist
So his 'lean baby' is an ethereal figment of his imagination?
― pomenitul, Sunday, 19 July 2020 14:21 (four years ago) link
I kiss 'em and I love 'em cause to me they're all the sameI hug 'em and I squeeze 'em they don't even know my name
When you're a celebrity they let you do it.
― Hereward the Woke (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 19 July 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
(xp) What?
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Sunday, 19 July 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
"my lean baby" possibly based on "has anybody seen my gal? (five foot two, eyes of blue)"
― trapped out the barndo (crüt), Sunday, 19 July 2020 15:02 (four years ago) link