… either from being shockingly witty, incongruous to the rest of the song, just plain unexpected, etc.
For me, it was this line from the live version of The Dresden Dolls’ Coin-Operated Boy, off their studio album. The lyrics on the site are different for this line, but in the live version she sings:
And if I had a star to wish on,
for my life I cant imagine
any flesh and blood could be his match
I can even fuck him in the ass!
With the song’s otherwise cutesy lyrics and cabaret-esque music, it was a rather :eek: moment, followed shortly by :D.
What specific lines have shocked the pants off of you - or maybe just elicited a quiet “ohhhh my, haha!”?
it’s just wrong. It’s sick and it’s wrong and I’m not at all sure it isn’t a sign of the apocalypse. It’s the most painfully contrived rhyme in all of explored space. It makes me vomit blood.
In fact, that song got me to go research the whole Stagger Lee thing, and I found the version Nick used…which was exactly the same as his, except :eek: that line :eek: :eek: . Which make me wonder…where exaxctly did Mr. Cave come up with that line :eek: :eek: :eek: ?
“H.W.C” off of Liz Phair’s latest. It’s a happy, poppy tune who’s chorus includes the phrase “…give me your hot, white cum.”
:eek:
Needless to say, I quickly changed over to “Woody’s Roundup” for the G rated audience in the back of the mini van.
Actually, I kinda like it. Hal David lyrics, IIRC. Clever, but not as clever as Tom Lehrer rhyming “Oedipus” and “duck-billed platypus” in Oedipus Rex.
No, the most painfully contrived rhymes in all of explored space are the ones where the second line is overrun to make a rhyme on the last syllable that scans. Particular credit for this goes to Eminem, who managed to do it at least 12 times in “Lose Yourself”.
“Pneumonia/phone ya” is pretty well contrived (i.e., created). As CalMeachem points out, it’s not up to the level of Tom Lehrer (“funeral/sooner’ll”) or Cole Porter (“de trop/top” “diveen/Ovaltine” “Ambessida/Cressida,” “ravin’/Stratford on Avon” “Othella/fella,” and just about every rhyme in “Brush up your Shakespeare”), but there’s nothing wrong with it.
On other matters, I never understood why Joan Baez changed “Stoneman’s Cavalry” to “So Much Cavalry” when she recorded “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down.”