Lyrics You're Not Proud To Know

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I am not proud to know the lyrics to Bryan Ferry's "In Your Mind" which include the ageless "see the veiled prophet's withered gaze reflect the nouvelle vague".

On a less shameful note, I also know "So What" by the Anti-Nowhere League.

― dan, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I know the lyrics to many bad songs (see useless skills thread), but the jewel in the crown is:

It's me again/ yes how did you guess/ 'cause last time you were really impressed

Betty Boo 'Doin' The Do'

Every verse.

― Anna, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Rebel MC's 'Street Tough' is slightly worse, I venture.

'Kno' wot it is? I'm just street tuff'

― Wilfred the Beagle, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Both Rebel MC's "Street Tuff" and "Doin The Do" are excellent. But I only know the lyrics to "Street Tuff".

Subthread - what song do you think people should be most ashamed of knowing the lyrics to? I would nominate "Mr E's Beautiful Blues" by Eels.

― Tom, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I like Mr E's Beautiful Blues! Don't know all the words though...

I'm quite proud that I can recite both:

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now and Calling Occupants of Interplantery Craft.

― jel, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

jel's hippy answer:

"Like, no one should be ashamed of the music they like, yeah, groovy"

― jel, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I choose Eels cos it's the kind of thing somebody would think "Wow these lyrics are good" and maybe actively memorise them.

― Tom, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

ah apologies for appearing defensive.

― jel, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

made the EFFORT to learn Roxy Music's Virginia Plain because was in fact flying down to Rio and I (alone) found it funny. Even in the interests of sad humour could not inflict Duran Duran on unsuspecting freinds'nfamily. Very relieved when 'Big Train' did Chairman Mao on hospital deathbed sketch with him being resusitated and launching into aforesaid poptastic Ferry-toon whilst assuming his place behind prog-rock keyboard.

― Wilfred the Beagle, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Fresh Prince! I could recite Parents Just Don't Understand in its entirety to you right here, right now.

The rap in the KLF's 3am Eternal was one I knew by heart as well. I'm sure if I tried to recite it I'd do OK

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Coooolin' at the bar, and I'm looking for some action but like Mick Jagger says, I can't get no satisfaction--

NAME THOSE LYRICS AND YULL WIN BIG

actually, it's pretty easy.

― Mandee, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That's why I found you don't fool around with the Funky Cold Medina

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

a slew of early 90s R&B songs [jodeci, adina howard, blackstreet, jade, SWV, mary j blige, etc], and a few E-40 & The Click songs ["Captain Save a Ho" being my favorite]... Also the 1985 Chicago Bears Super Bowl Shuffle

― phil, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I know all the words to PWEI's "Not now James we're busy". The lyrics are fantastic! "Missus Brown, you got a lovely son but he's on the run on a shotgun mission!/'Listen here cocksuckers, motherfuckers, pay respect to my building/It's JB property and it could be the one you get killed in!/Cops arrive 'Whats this, whats happening, whats what, wheres the hotshot?/James pushed his luck too far this time/His pick up trucks flat out and flying"

GENIUS!! I reckon I'd know all the words to the rest of the songs on that album after I heard a few bars.

― Michael Bourke, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

we both lie silently still in the dead of the night

― goeff, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The theme to "Prisoner Cell Block H". Even the second verse. Oh, the shame...

― Fiery Scot, Thursday, 31 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Welcome back here at the MCG or the Gabba, or the WACA, or the Adelaide Oval or the MCG, doesn't matter, where you are/ 'Cos we're here in Australia, in summer..." Some song by the Third Man, this dire cricket commentator impersonator, who releases one album a year, at Christmas, and which is bought by approximately EVERY SINGLE Australian. I hate sport (especially cricket), but I still remember that song (though not its name).

― charles m, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't like cricket/ Oh no/ I love it/ Dreadlock Holiday

― Nancy Drew, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Check it out: I just sang the Fresh Prince theme but in a little tiny pipsqueak voice I imagined was coming out of my dickhole (which I was manipulating between my thumb and forefinger in order for it to "mouth" the lyrics). Try it!

― Ramosi, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Tag Team's "Whoomp! There It Is". I am proud of the fact that I know all the lyrics to "Parents Just Don't Understand."

― Vinnie, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"Neunhundertneunzigvierzweizweivierzwei / für ein-und-achtzig pfennig / bist du dabei / vierzweizweivierzweizwei."

― Colin Meeder, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Welcome back my friends/To the show that never ends/We're so glad you could attend/Come inside, come inside

There behind the glass/Is a real blade of grass/Be careful as you pass/Move along, move along

Come inside, the show's about to start/Guaranteed to blow your head apart... blah, blah, blah

[Some scars never leave you... ELP fail to land Muppets' theme, 197x]

― Michael Jones, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Mandee's puZZloR = 'Funky Cold Medina', Tone Loc, no? What is my prize?!

I can't even remember the lyrics to my own songs - you expect me to remember other peoples?

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I heard 'Down In The Tube Station At Midnight' by The Jam for the first time in years the other day, and was horrified to find that I could sing along to all the lyrics. It also occured to me for the first time ever that if our narrator IS down in the tube station at midnight, isn't it a bit strange for his wife to be "lining up the cutlery, polishing the glasses and pulling out the cork" at that late hour?

― Andrew L, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Also why on earth has he decided to go to a pub a half hour away from the tube?

― Tom, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

achy breaky heart. I would hang my head but then I realised that I have no shame

― Menelaus Darcy, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Also why on earth has he decided to go to a pub a half hour away from the tube?

Not really, he could have been meeting friends in south east London.

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Also why on earth has he decided to go to a pub a half hour away from the tube?

Because he is Paul Weller = because he is a thicko.

― Nicole, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

where are you love?

I'm in the glovebox...

― goeff, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Is it possible he is at the destination station, rather than the embarking one, as Tom assumes? The only thing that makes me think not is that he's faffing around buying plums in vending machines, which he surely wouldn't be doing if he was almost home and worrried about his curry going cold.

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Did tube stations at any point have plum vending machines?

― Tom, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I don't know. This part puzzles me.

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

it would have been even longer than half an hour too. back in the day were not last orders EVEN EARLIER!

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Maybe he did that thing where you fall asleep on the tube and end up going all the way to the end of the line and then have to come back again? I of course have never done this but know people who have snoozed past Finsbury Park, ended up in Walthamstow and gone bouncing backwards and forwards on the Victoria line for much of the night.

― Emma, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hang on a minute. I've just realised that at no point in the song does he even say he has been to the pub. Tom has just projected his own life onto Weller's protagonist. He's probably just been working really late at the office. No, hang on, this is the 1970s and that kind of thing didn't happen. OK, he's been shagging his secretary in some grotty hotel room.

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Now you are projecting YOUR life onto the song, N..

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

un mundo ideal, un mundo identicoooo, un mundo para ti, para los dos...

― goeff, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

re: weller's plum. allegedly this refers to a bar of cadury's chocolate (you know that deep blue foil they have). this is the best theory google could find me.

Startlingly this came from an essay about a longpigs song. oh dear.

― Alan Trewartha, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Where's Lucy when you need her? I need her to tell me if this is a genuine piece of Woking slang. I suspect not.

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Glasgow N. that's where.

― chris, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

IT WAS A RHETORICAL QUESTION YOU FOOL

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Not only that but he is wrrying about the wine going flat = Champagne socialist!!! I have you twigged Mr "man O' the People" Weller.

― Pete, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

How is the smell of brown leather different from the smell of white or black leather anyway? Does Weller have a hypersensitive sense of smell?

― Nicole, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

It's obv. Lambrusco, Pete.

Nicole, you've got no poetry in your soul.

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

That's because I'm not a goth like you, Dastoor.

― Nicole, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Brown leather = not goth

― N., Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Late to the game as usual. Cabbage/Pyth: 1st verse of SMB's The Joker = v self-referential. Space Cowboy = title of song on his 3rd album
Gangster Of Love = title of song on 2nd album
Maurice = lead character of Enter Maurice from 7th album Me sad because Enter Maurice is so silly it still makes me laugh.

― Ageing W Coast acid-rock fan, Friday, 1 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

but what is a pompatis? as in "and i speak of the pompatis of love"???

I used to be able to do ebeneezer goode by the shamen, but having just tried realise it has now gone from my mind, although i could prolly sing along quite easily...

― CarsmileSteve, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Hah!, I knew someone would ask this, but didn't guess it would be Mr Hewitt.

Pompatis (sic) of love

― David, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

The straight dope version has a slightly different spelling. The interview bits with Vernon Green are genuinely touching.

― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 2 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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she had dumps like a truck (truck truck)
thighs like what (what what)
baby move your butt (butt butt)
I think I'll sing it again

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:08 (nineteen years ago) link

I'm a stony crusty dude with a mop on top
My melon's fully tweaked and I'll never stop
Stop trying to weaz the nugs from coast to coast
The ones with the cones are the ones I dig the most
Lisa, Lisa!

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:11 (nineteen years ago) link

'zero' by the smashing pumpkins.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:16 (nineteen years ago) link

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