I, wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day.
I, wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day.
I, wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day.
I, wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day.
I, wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day.
I, wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day…
“Ain’t No Sunshine” is one of the best songs of all time, but what do people think about the “I know I know” part? It’s so bizarre because it commits so hard to phoning it in that it ends up owning it and it kind of works I think.
My biggest candidate is loving you is easy 'cause you’re beautiful
I guess I’ll have to join you although I would contend that “can’t” makes more sense.
They were applying the KISS principle to lyric writing.
Rock and roll
Rock and roll
Hey!!
Except you’d have to have a tin ear for colloquial usage to render it as “you and I.” Imagine “Me and My Shadow” as “I and my Shadow” or “My Shadow and I.” Just sounds pretty stiff, doesn’t it? Good use of English includes knowing when to use different registers which may not be “grammatically” correct according to prescriptivism, in order to effect different tones/moods. Similarly something like “I Can’t Get Any Satisfaction” misses the streetwise grit of “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction.”
On the other hand, like you, I do get mildly irked by when people hypercorrect “you and me” into “you and I” in fear, I suppose, of making a school kid error, like in the Doors song “Touch Me”: “Til the stars fall from the sky/for you and I.” Just a boring rhyme, cliche image, and the “I” there is like nails on chalkboard to me.
If you include various dialects of English, this is a perfectly cromulent use of ‘brang’.
http://www.dancingonmountaintops.com/mountaintalk.htm
Not bad poster/post combo.
I’m sure I’ve whined somehere before about “Downtown” and “Keep On Rockin In the Free World”.
April Wine’s “Just Between You and Me” would like to have a word.
Heh, dork Robert Christgau thought the song was “worth the price of admission” for the The Who Sell Out lp.
To borrow from my Worst Lyric Rhymes Thread:
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In the otherwise (I think) quite likable number Good Morning Starshine, I always thought the scatting at the end was phoning it in.
One of the best songs on the only good album they ever made.
Darn, I stand corrected. (Nope, not about about “Tattoo”, which I still feel has a bouquet of light green calf’s diarrhea) but with “Good Morning Starshine” - it wasn’t the scatting that was so bad as it was at the very end, with all the “sing, sing a song” puffery, sounding like a placeholder.