Here’s the rule to this thread:
The song itself must be good or at least tolerable.
(this rules out McArther Park, Young Girl,etc.)
So the song is great, but there is one line you find
stupid, silly, ridiculous, or whatever.
RULES: the song must be good or at least tolerable.
(This rules out MacArther Park, Having My Baby, Girl You’ll Be A Woman Soon, etc.)
My entries: Riders On The StormThe Doors
“There’s a killer on the road;
His brain is squirming like a toad.”
Stairway To HeavenLed Zeppelin
I realize that this may fall into the “intolerable”
category, but that is more from overplay than the song itself. It’s actually a pretty good tune, except for:
“If there’s a bustle in your hedgerow
don’t be alarmed now;
It’s just a spring clean for the May Queen.”
I’m drawing a blank (much to your relief)…so help me out here…
Drawing a blank (much to your relief)…
Help out here!
You people probably don’t know this, but I am a big fan of Rush
Way back in the past, before Neil Peart joined the band, all lyrics were written by Geddy Lee. But let’s not go there. Even Peart, who is widely regarded as a great lyrcist (is that a word?), has a few blunders.
From The Alien Shore, which in itself is a great song:
"*For you and me–We hold these truths to be self-evident
For you and me–We’d elect each other president
For you and me–We might agree
But that’s just us
Reaching for the alien shore*"
We’d elect each other President? Woohoo, how romantic, dude! A very rare example of Peart struggling to rhyme his lines.
Good quote tradesilicon, NOT :rolleyes:
If you were gonna quote a Beatles song, you should have gone with “Don’t Pass Me By” *
“You were in a carwreck
And you lost your hair.”*
I’ll think of more later.
Most of these aren’t truly LAME, but rather just ridiculous, like most of They Might Be Giants or the Pixies. As far as suddenly BAD goes, in some Dead Can Dance song Jarboe sings this line very fast as it doesn’t even fit the meter of the music: “sonambulistic, maniacal, in the dark,” where it definitely doesn’t belong.
Well, one of my all-time favorites is the Grateful Dead’s “China Cat Sunflower,” lyrics by Robert Hunter:
Look for a while at the China Cat Sunflower
proud-walking jingle in the midnight sun
Copper-dome bodhi drip a silver kimono
Like a crazy-quilt star gown
Through a dream night wind
Krazy Kat peeking through a lace bandanna
Like a one-eyed Cheshire
Like a diamond-eye Jack
A leaf of all colors plays
A golden-string fiddle
To a double-e waterfall over my back
Comic book colors on a violin river
Crying Leonardo words
From out a silk trombone
I rang a silent bell
Beneath a shower of pearls
In the eagle wing palace
Of the Queen Chinee.
So just what the hell is a “double-e waterfall” ? And how does it go “over my back” ? I mean, that just doesn’t fucking make any SENSE.
I always laugh when I here the local ‘Oldies’ station play In The Ghetto by Elvis Presley I think??
"And then one day in desperation, the young man breaks the law
“He fires a gun, he steals a car, he tries to run, but he don’t get far.”
Ummm…if he just stole a car, why is he running? If he’d just got in the damn car and drove off he might have gotten a lot further!
Most of the Led Zeppelin song “Going to California”–“There’s a woman with love in her heart and flowers in her hair” and then that line about the queen with no king who plays guitar and cries. Yes, I know it’s about Joni Mitchell, but I still think it’s stupid.
My “Stairway” vote-intolerable.
Hmmm–I should point out, despite this post, I’m actually a huge Zeppelin fan.
