Avril Lavigne with this classic:
OUNCED and ELSE. Not even in a Canuck accent does that work.
(BTW, Mr. Blue Sky, the scansion and title of ‘Good Old Mountain Dew’ look awfully similar to the Irish traditional song ‘Rare Old Mountain Dew’. Is there a link to the tune of your one - I’d be interested if they’re related.)
It looks close enough to be an Americanized version.
I don’t know for sure (never having heard the Irish one) but I wouldn’t be suprised. “Good Old Mountain Dew” is “hillbilly music”, and was probably around quite a while before Grampa Jones (most famous in the mainstream for his years appearing on the old tv show “Hee-Haw”) recorded it. Considering that the traditional Appalachian mountain folk were largely of Scots-Irish descent, I’d bet on the side of it being related.
According to what I have been able to find, the Grandpa Jones version was originally recorded in 1947.
I found midis!
They sound quite alike to me, allowing for the differing styles and the fact that they’re midis.
Female pop singers are great for these. There’s that Kelly Clarkson song that rhymes “say” with “say” in every verse, Christina Aguilera with “blame” and “grave”, and so on.
And the Black Eyed Peas not only have the stupidest lyrics around, but the rhyming is absolutely criminal. I guess “comfort” can rhyme with “want you”, sure, why not.
And Alanis Morissette rhyming “dinner” with “fuck her” is pretty creative.
One of the many verses of “Scotland’s Depraved” rhymes “Jesus” with “Cheez Wiz”.
I don’t know if that’s awful or brilliant.
I bring you the stark awfulness of Neil Diamond’s “Play Me”, a song I actually quite like except I just can’t deal with this:
Songs she sang to me
Songs she brang to me
Words that rang in me
Rhyme that sprang from me
So, Neil, is sang and brang a rhyme that sprang from you? Because you do know that “brang” is not a word, right? Well, it’s not.
Well, there is “Blinded By the Sun” by Everlast.
I met a woman in West Virginia
Said her name was Alabama
She from a little town outside Savannah
Where everyone talk that country grammar
The second verse is much the same. And the chorus is full of somewhat questionable rhymes too. Funny thing, it’s not a bad song.
Correct. It’s “brung.”
I don’t care for most of Steve Miller’s stuff either but that line from “The Joker” was actually a throwaway reference to the Otis Redding & Carla Thomas song “Lovey Dovey”.
Well, anybody that rhymes “fire” with “funeral pyre” is guilty of bad rhyming. The real horrible one that springs to my mind, though, is from U2’s Beautiful Day, in which Bono does the agonizingly sophomoric cheat of:
“You thought you’d found a friend
To take you out of this place
Someone you could lend…a hand
In return for grace”
It makes me grit my teeth every time it comes up. He’s also the only example I can think of at the moment whose lyrics have actually gotten worse with each subsequent album - from the same CD, the song Grace:
"Grace, she takes the blame
She covers the shame
Removes the stain
It could be her name
Grace, it’s the name for a girl
It’s also a thought that changed the world…"
Jesus. Need I go on?
…And then there’s Juvenile, who scored a hit by simply ending every line with “Yeah!”:
ISTR Rob Zombie doing this on a couple songs, too.
Roses are red, violets are purple
Sugar’s sweet and so’s maple syrple
The Flaming Lips, in She Don’t Use Jelly:
She’s always changing
The colour of her hair
But she don’t use nothing
That you buy at the store
She likes her hair to
Be real orange…
They rhyme 'store and ‘orange’. Admittedly, ‘orange’ is pronounced ‘orrnge’.
What do you get when you mix bad rhymes with glurge? “I Say a Little Prayer” by Bachrach & David.
Yick!
I am an antichrist
I am an anarchist
-“Anarchy in the UK”
With “anarchist” being pronounced, of course, with a long “I.” The Sex Pistols have lots of dreadful rhymes, but that’s probably the worst - or at the very least, the most famous. One of the band members (don’t remember who) mentions in The Filth and the Fury that he would cringe every time Johnny Rotten sang that line. It’s almost enough to make me press the “skip” button every time it comes on.
I’d like to note that good songs don’t have to (and most don’t) follow a perfect rhyme-scheme. I never thought that Sex Pistols line was even supposed to rhyme.
I’d rather have a stretch of a rhyme that makes sense or chooses the exact word that the author wanted than have a perfect rhyme that doesn’t make sense or is contextually inappropriate.
…trouble
…double
in any number of songs.
:eek: I was contemplating mentioning this very song (didn’t think anyone would get there before me). As it’s one of the songs that get’s played at me at work (along with “Cherish” which I’ve complained about elsewhere…I was actually grateful when we switched over to Christmas music).
“From the moment I wake up
Before I put on my make up”
Gah!!! Can’t say which I hate worse the insipidness of the rhyme or the insipidness of the idea that women jump out of bed and run to the makeup table.
Although I have to say the commercial they made out of it
“As soon as I wake up
I reach for my smilie face cup” 
…I kind of like. Sad when the commercial they do of your song is an improvement.
On a different note, I had a hard time taking seriously the praise for Eminem when he first came out. A rap genius with brilliant word play who rhymes “Shady” with…“imitating”? :dubious: