Rhymes I never want to hear again

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Inspired by Snappy, who objected to the rhyme of "remember" with "December" in

I don't mind that one so much. But I never want to hear "love " rhymes with "stars above" ever again.

And that Patsy Cline song where "love" rhymes with "mating of the dove" is not okay either.

Oh, and when I am king of the world, "night time" shall never ever be permitted to rhyme with "right time." No, not ever if you're Ray Charles.

Nor shall "charms" be permitted to rhyme with "arms."

Thank you. That is all.

― The Mad Puffin, Monday, 31 January 2005 19:52 (nineteen years ago) link

I suspect we will never be able to shake free from "throw your hands in the air / and wave them like you just don't care"

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Monday, 31 January 2005 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link

that one's only okay when used with strong ironic sensibility.

― lemin (lemin), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:09 (nineteen years ago) link

You need to be yourself
You can’t be no one else
I know a girl called elsa
She’s into alka seltzer
She sniffs it through a cane on a supersonic train
She made me laugh
I got her autograph
She done it with a doctor on a helicopter
She’s sniffin in her tissue
Sellin’ the big issue

no one like noel gallagher to rack up the triple word scores on bad rhymes in one verse

― bb, Monday, 31 January 2005 20:11 (nineteen years ago) link

You and I've got what it takes to make it
We won't fake it, Oh never break it
'Cause I can't take it

Guns'n'Roses' "Patience". ugh!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

PARTY / BACARDI TO THREAD

TO DIE!

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:13 (nineteen years ago) link

Do I even need to mention almost every single rhyme in U2's "Elevation"? Good God it is terrible.

High, higher than the sun
You shoot me from a gun
I need you to elevate me here

A corner of your lips
Is the orbit of your hips
Eclipse
You elevate my soul....

A star
Lit up like a cigar
Strung out like a guitar
Maybe you can educate my mind...

A mole
Digging in a hole
Digging up my soul now
Going down, excavation

Higher now
In the sky
You make me feel like I can fly
So high
Elevation

― mrjosh (mrjosh), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link

Or, in more condensed form: sun/gun, star/cigar/guitar, mole/soul (?!), and sky/fly/high are big offenders

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

this doesn't really count, but I hate it when the end of one couplet is 'fire' and the the beginning of the next couplet is 'flame', as in the recent Beastie Boys single.

Also, I hate any instance where an extraneous 'today' is thrown in purely to make a rhyme work.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link

As of now, no one is ever allowed to rhyme "day/say/pay" with "thirs-TAY" unless you are Notorious Z.O.M.B.I.G

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:30 (nineteen years ago) link

"Also, I hate any instance where an extraneous 'today' is thrown in purely to make a rhyme work."

clearly, this applies to baby as well.

― bb, Monday, 31 January 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link

All "self"/"shelf" rhymes.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I think all "baby" rhymes should be allowed due its inherit musicality.

― Snappy (sexyDancer), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link

trigger nigger bigger figure

― Austin (Austin), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:51 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish that I could fly
Into the sky
So very high
Just like a dragonfly

I’d fly above the trees
Over the seas in all degrees
To anywhere I please

Oh I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

Let’s go and see the stars
The milky way or even mars
Where it could just be ours

Let’s fade into the sun
Let your spirit fly
Where we are one
Just for a little fun
Oh oh oh yeah !

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah yeah yeah

I got to get away
Feel I got to get away
Oh oh oh yeah

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you yeah yeah
Oh yeah !

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you yeah yeah
I got to get away

I want to get away x4
Yeah
I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you yeah yeah
I got to get away

I want to get away x4
Yeah

I want to get away
I want to fly away
Yeah with you
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

― Riot Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link

For the thousandth time, "FIRE/DESIRE" should be outlawed.

Also: Money/honey, insane/brain, all right/all night (similarity to nighttime/right time noted)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Monday, 31 January 2005 20:55 (nineteen years ago) link

Riot Gear is 100% OTM. possibly the worst lyrics of all time. ever. also: good/understood

― mat, Monday, 31 January 2005 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Girl/World is used waaaaay too often...and they don't even actually rhyme!

― Brad Baker, Monday, 31 January 2005 21:45 (nineteen years ago) link

i'm sooooooo sick of "threshing oar"/"western shore" rhymes.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 31 January 2005 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link

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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