― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:50 (twenty years ago) link
― jazz odysseus, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 18:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Rachel, Tuesday, 6 January 2004 21:55 (twenty years ago) link
CatfoodCatfoodCatfoodAGAIN!
― Stupid (Stupid), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:17 (twenty years ago) link
Dear Heaven that song makes me cross.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:21 (twenty years ago) link
― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:25 (twenty years ago) link
So it was. My mistake.
What a shitty song...
― Stupid (Stupid), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:31 (twenty years ago) link
Thus spake the Poet.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 6 January 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago) link
I nominate "We're a garage band - ohh, ohh, ohh/We come from garage land - ohh, ohh, ohh/Ohh ohh ohh"
― Scott Bloomfield, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 01:20 (twenty years ago) link
Ooh, ooh that smellCan't you smell that smell?Ooh, ooh that smellThe smell of death surrounds you.
That one is pretty bad. But this is all time, hall of fame bad:
2. Rush - Free Will
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice.If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can killI will choose a path that's clearI will choose free will.
― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 02:04 (twenty years ago) link
― uzumaki (uzumaki), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 05:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Applepie baseball, Wednesday, 7 January 2004 06:24 (twenty years ago) link
"She had a pretty face but her head was up in space. She needed to come back down to earth.""Now he's a superstar slammin on his guitar to show pretty face what he's worth.""I'll be backstage after the show. I'll be at the studio singing the song he wrote about a girl he use to know."
Grr.
― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 10:28 (twenty years ago) link
I actually really like that song, but check out the awkward sentence contruction, especially that "my secrets to reveal" line.
― mike a, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Mitchell (Mitchell), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:47 (twenty years ago) link
― mike a, Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:49 (twenty years ago) link
This is in no way the worst chorus lyric ever, in fact it is brilliant, but I wanted to quote it and this thread was nearby.
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:54 (twenty years ago) link
― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago) link
― Thank you once again Travis (robster), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago) link
(Please repeat title of the song 2000x for about twenty minutes)
― Roger T (Roger T), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:02 (twenty years ago) link
― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Tuesday, 17 February 2004 17:20 (twenty years ago) link
Depeche Mode-People Are People
It's cliche, I know, but it's the true winner.
― Luke Broster, Thursday, 25 March 2004 06:45 (twenty years ago) link
New Order - Crystal
Tremendous song apart from that.
― Chris Jones (Crackity Jones), Thursday, 25 March 2004 11:08 (twenty years ago) link
just awful. bloody awful.
― Ben St. Jacques (Ben St. Jacques), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:30 (twenty years ago) link
By the Polecats. Forget the title...
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:35 (twenty years ago) link
"And we go doot.Doot doot.And we go doot.Doot doot".
As I said, I love the song immensely, but fuck me...
― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:47 (twenty years ago) link
Worst chat-up line ever?
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
Worst response to worst chat-up line ever?
(I'll stop now)
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:55 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob M (Rob M), Thursday, 25 March 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 25 March 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago) link
Are we human, or are we dancer?
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Monday, 13 October 2008 23:07 (fifteen years ago) link
YOUR SEX IS ON FIRE
― bassace, Monday, 13 October 2008 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Ice Ice Baby -- talk about inane!
― Alex in SC (latebloomer), Monday, 13 October 2008 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
or is that insane
ly awesome
― Alex in SC (latebloomer), Monday, 13 October 2008 23:39 (fifteen years ago) link
i need to get off the computer
― Alex in SC (latebloomer), Monday, 13 October 2008 23:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Say what you need to say/Say what you need to say,Say what you need to say/Say what you need to say.Say what you need to say/Say what you need to say,Say what you need to say/Say what you need to say.
-repeat at least FOUR fucking times throughout song with, I swear, not a speck of self-aware irony.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
oh man that kings of leon sentiment is right on
― Kevin Keller, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
the one-two punch of that line being followed by the squealing bendy guitar bit is the most boneheaded thing I've ever heard
― bassace, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 04:10 (fifteen years ago) link
an idiotic dichotomy on par with McCain's arab OR "decent family man citizen."
― bassace, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
And I said "What about Breakfast at Tiffany's?"She said "I think I remember the filmAnd as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it"And I said "Well, that's the one thing we've got"Dear Heaven that song makes me cross.― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, January 6, 2004 5:21 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, January 6, 2004 5:21 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
sOTM
― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 20:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I know there's some apologists for this song on ILX, but I really fucking hate:
New kids on the block had a bunch of hitsChinese food makes me sickAnd I think its fly when girls stop by for theSummer, for the summer
― jigglepanda.gif (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 20:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I think the computer program that generates the voice of Mizz Spears just entered the race with "Womanizer, womanizer, womanizer, womanizer, womanizer....
― mottdeterre, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 20:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Common ft. Canibus - Making a Name For Ourselves:"Y'all niggaz is scared, I'm your worst nightmare squaredThat's double for niggaz who ain't mathematically aware"
Ironic and really fucking stupid.
― ablaeser, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 22:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Not so much a chorus, but a pre-chorus, from Yes' "Love Will Find A Way" :
"Here is my heartWaiting for youHere is my soulI eat at chez nous"
For years I thought I was mishearing that last line.
― Sara Sara Sara, Tuesday, 14 October 2008 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
oh come on mentioning Lyte Funkie Ones on this thread is like battering a Furby to death
― 100 tons of hardrofl beyond zings (Just got offed), Tuesday, 14 October 2008 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
woman is the * of the world
― when is the new Jim O'Rourke album coming out (spazzmatazz), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 03:31 (nine years ago) link
that line always left me wondering what black people are the * of
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 03:49 (nine years ago) link
i am i saidto no one thereand no one heard at allnot even the chair
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 04:50 (nine years ago) link
The shelf in the roomHas been the wayOf holdin' meAnd letting me stay
The shelf in the roomHas been so trueI can hide inThe shelf in the room
― dynamicinterface, Thursday, 19 February 2015 01:11 (nine years ago) link
What if God was one of us?Just a slob like one of us?
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 19 February 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
God, how I used to groan at "The Shelf in the Room." I'm sure payola was involved somehow.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 February 2015 02:15 (nine years ago) link
Don't forget meI think I remember you said:'Sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead.'
― Rae Yellamo -- Throw Summ0))) (bernard snowy), Thursday, 19 February 2015 03:44 (nine years ago) link
also the "Breakfast At Tiffany's" song, as mentioned upthread, is all-but-indefensible; however I like to think that there exists a possible world in which Deep Blue Something are redeemed by self-awareness & insincerity (... a la Steely Dan??)
― Rae Yellamo -- Throw Summ0))) (bernard snowy), Thursday, 19 February 2015 03:52 (nine years ago) link
(nota bene : I have heard zero other DBS songs, so sue me if I talk shit too long)
― Rae Yellamo -- Throw Summ0))) (bernard snowy), Thursday, 19 February 2015 03:53 (nine years ago) link
I think it's pretty obvious that the utter banality of the chorus of "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is intentional, and the narrator is full of shit? The verse lyrics have a very different tone from the chorus, they have a much more traditional and sentimental "breakup song" quality:
You say that we've got nothing in commonNo common ground to start fromAnd we're falling apartYou'll say the world has come between usOur lives have come between usBut I know you just don't care
CHORUS:And I said what about "Breakfast at Tiffany's?She said, "I think I remember the film,And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it."And I said, "Well, that's the one thing we've got."
I see you - the only one who knew meAnd now your eyes see through meI guess I was wrongSo what now? It's plain to see we're over,And I hate when things are over -When so much is left undone
So basically it's about a couple breaking up because the other person feels their incompatible with each other, and the narrator is grasping at straws, trying to find anything to prove his partner wrong. And the futility of this effort is undermined by how banal and temptative the dialogue in the chorus is: As I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it. So these are quotes from their actual dialogue, and when you compare it to the much more dramatic statements made by the narrator in the verses, you can see how he's fooling himself. I think it's key that the line But I know you just don't care is there just before the chorus: in the verses, the narrator is trying to say that his partner's claim that they are incompatible and that's why theyre breaking up is not really true, that in reality s/he just doesn't care... But immediately after this statement we learn that his defense that they do have something in common consists of pointing out that they both maybe kinda liked "Breakfast at Tiffany's". So it's obvious the narrator is just fooling himself, his grandiose delusions in the verses being deflated by the realism of the chorus.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 19 February 2015 08:32 (nine years ago) link
"how banal and tentative the dialogue in the chorus is"
― Tuomas, Thursday, 19 February 2015 08:34 (nine years ago) link
Who wants honey?As long as there's some money
― flappy bird, Saturday, 21 April 2018 06:06 (six years ago) link
No way no wayMahna mahna
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 21 April 2018 08:35 (six years ago) link
And as I recall, I think, we both kinda liked it.
^^^ I always thought the line was "we both kind of hated it", which makes for a far more interesting song - couple on the verge of breaking up realise the only thing they really have in common is that they both hate the film Breakfast At Tiffany's.
― 2018 has to be better (snoball), Saturday, 21 April 2018 10:33 (six years ago) link