Stupid lyrics

[Boerseun]

Orby - one for you, being the resident musician:

 

I have, for the last couple of years, grown more and more irritated with modern music.

Apart from people copying riffs and complete melodies from older, succesfull (but at the time completely original) songs, the lyrics seems to have gone for a ball of organic fertilizer!

 

Case in point, and one of my candidates for the dumbest lyrics ever:

 

Roger Waters - Amused to Death, 1990 (or thereabouts)

"...and we all like the bit

where you take the jeans from the refrigerator

and then the bad guy gets hit

and were you struck by the satisfying way

the swimsuit sticks to her skin

like bb gun days..."

etc.

 

Now - can anyone NOT on any form of creative self-medication tell me exactly what the hell that means? And if you have even worse lyrics, this is the place to paste it and waste it!

[Queso]

hahahaha

you know to be honest, i like that!

i don't know man, i love roger waters. he's a great writer.

sometimes he is more vague than others, like that one above.

but that right there is definitely on his bad side.

after he left pink floyd....need i say more?

still, i know there's something nutty going on up there no matter what he's talking about.

as for dumb lyrics...gosh just turn on the radio. there's nothing really poetic or meaningful to almost all of that crap on there.

and then the dj comes in (the pusher of buttons with an exciting voice) over a loop recording of some techno and explains to his listeners to keep listening

 

it's pretty strange..... :hihi:

i can't think of anything stupid off the bat right now...maybe later.

 

sweet thread by the way ;)

[Boerseun]

Yeah - Pink Floyd kicked ***. Definitely. Although there was some silly lyrics years ago with 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn'.

 

For instance:

 

"I know a mouse and he doesn't have a house

I don't know why I call him Gerald

He's getting rather old

but he's a good mouse."

 

Talk about mind-expanding drugs...

 

Another, classical attempt at a metaphysical explanation for everything around us to our purpose on Earth, was, of course, 'The Hokey-Pokey'. The nett result was just a stupid lyric, though...

 

"You put your left foot in

you put your left foot out

...

do the hokey pokey

...

and THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT!"

 

Scary thought: Maybe they were right? :hihi:

[Queso]

haha BIKE!!!! i recorded a cover of that song like..last year. SO FUN.

anyways...i have a horrible story to tell you about the hokey pokey. i'm going to start a thread about it in the lounge.

[Tormod]

Yeah...or Ketchup, Macarena, and the bird dance...

 

While we're on the topic of lyrics...for GOOD lyrics I recommend Keane, Coldplay, and Counting Crows...

 

Tormod (who just bought a book on how to write better lyrics last night) :hihi:

[Queso]

if anyone wants to hear the song, it's 4.6 megabytes and i cant upload it here. i can email it to you if you want, it's kind of funny to hear somebody else do such a wacky song.

i stole those BOOM BOOM drum samples from the song, and the second half of the song is noise (the noise from the song, i didnt feel like recreating it)

and ummmm, yeah. no piano. :hihi: still a cool song.

[Buffy]

Big Roger Waters fan. Don't torque me with saying he's stupid. Silly, maybe. But not stupid.

 

Bad lyrics: hate 'em. LOTS to choose from. Here's one of the worst in my book: "Love to Love you Baby (and 47 pseudo orgasms)" by Donna Summer....

 

Cheers,

Buffy

[GAHD]

80's, Madonna - 'Suck my pussy' One of the worst I've heard yet.

[Fishteacher73]

There's an a capella group known as Da Vinci's Notebook that seems to prey upon the poor lyrics of todays pop music. Such good ones like "Title of this Song" which is simply the recipe used for just about any boyband love song... a good listen.

 

As for bad lyrics...

 

My all time most hated song lyrics.......

Queen- "Bicycle". God I would rather put out cigarettes in my ears than have to hear that again.

[Tormod]

if anyone wants to hear the song, it's 4.6 megabytes and i cant upload it here. i can email it to you if you want, it's kind of funny to hear somebody else do such a wacky song.

i stole those BOOM BOOM drum samples from the song, and the second half of the song is noise (the noise from the song, i didnt feel like recreating it)

and ummmm, yeah. no piano. :hihi: still a cool song.

 

If it's uploaded *somewhere* just use our [ music ] your url here [ /music ] tags! Doesn't work too well on Macs but splendidly on PC's (so post your link as well).

 

If not let me know and we'll get something worked out for your songs...

[Queso]

nah, my server is down. can't upload anything.

[Dark Mind]

nah, my server is down. can't upload anything.

:hihi:... I actually wanted to listen to those songs too.

[goku]

good lyrics, Stroker Ace by C D B

a back strech blazer, a real hell raiser, and a race trac romeo

 

bad lyrics, some moron

it's getting hot in hear, so take off all your clothes

i am getting so hot, i will take my clothes off

[Boerseun]

Stupid lyric:

 

(Stupid, but helluva funny...)

 

You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals

so let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel :rant:

[Boerseun]

Not being up to date on the current pop-scene, I heard Gwen Stefani's "Banana" song for the first time just now. I don't even know what the proper title for the song is, but it has now just been crowned (by me, the dumb song authority) as the dumbest song EVER. Ever since the first caveman named Gak clubbed a baby seal rythmically over the head with the torn-off bloody hind leg of a Bambi-lookalike baby deer, thereby inventing music, a dumber song has never entered the ear-hole of ANY animal on this planet.

Nobody said the invention of music was a nice process. The songs of some individuals are even worse.

[rockytriton]

This is a clip for a Weird Al song, it's sung in a style where he sounds like he really cares about what's happening, until the chorus comes up....

 

I was watching my TV one night when they broke in with a special report

About dsome devistating earthquake in Peru

There were thirty thousand crushed to death, even more were buried alive

On the Richter scale it measured 8.2

 

And I said, "God, please answer me one question?"

"Why'd they have to interrupt 'The Simpsons' just for this?"

What a drag, 'cause I was taping it and everything

And now I'll have to wait for the rerun to see the part of the show I missed

 

Why does this always happen?

Why does this always happen to me?

[pgrmdave]

It's done in the style of many of Ben Folds songs (Ben provides the piano, I believe). Ben Folds is a wonderful musician but sometimes gets a little...emotional in his music.