Kiss - *Hard Luck Woman *
I keep telling you hard luck woman
You ain’t a hard luck woman
You’ll be a hard luck woman
Baby 'till you find your man
Rags, sailors only daughter
A child of the water
Too proud to be a queen
huh? Ok, Kiss wasn’t known for their deep and meaningful lyrics (anyone rember Uh! All night?) but even for them this is absolutely terrible writing.
I love love love Adele, I really do. But this is wrong:
“But there’s a side to you that I never knew, never knew
All the things you’d say, they were never true, never true
And the games you’d play, you would always win, always win”
It’s that last bit. It totally doesn’t match, and it drives me batty. Parallelism, Adele! Learn it, live it, love it! The line must be changed, as follows:
“And the games you’d play, you would never lose, never lose”
Thank you. Much better. It even kinda sorta rhymes.
The premise of “Your Song” is that it’s being written on the spot. You don’t have to like it of course, but it’s both a love song and a song about the songwriting process.
I hate, hate, hate this song. I think of it as the “Hey parents, don’t fuck up your daughters, because someday John Mayer will want to fuck them!” song.
I had heard of, but never actually heard, this song until this Christmas Eve when I was in the car with my mother. To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, one would have to have a heart of stone to hear this song without dissolving into tears of laughter. When it first got to the line about the mother going to meet Jesus I completely lost it.
Our chorus sang this song a few years ago. The audience proved its loyalty to us by not walking out during this number.
If you ask me, I think the kid took the money for the shoes, and used it to buy drugs.
Take a good look at this picture of the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro and tell us what you think that white stuff is.
There are other snowy peaks throughout Africa, I mention Kilimanjaro specifically because it’s very well known.
I’ve mentioned it before here, but it still pisses me off when I hear that shitty song by Van Hagar with the line: “only time will tell if we stand the test of time” :rolleyes:
The entirety of Southern Man. I don’t need Neil Young around anyhow. Smarmy little troll-fuck.
That song always gave me the impression more of a guy falling realizing that the girl he was crazy for just wasn’t serious about their relationship. It’s a break-up song.
First time I heard that song, BTW, was when I was gearing up for the day during a training exercise at the base I was stationed on. It’s surreal to be putting on a ballistic vest and hearing a song about jumping on grenades for someone.:eek:
The song that bugs me the most, in general, is “Like A G6” by Far East Movement.
What does that even mean? I guess slizzard is that stage of drunk where you start inventing words.
But here’s the bit that always drives me up the wall:
Everybody insists that it’s a reference to a private jet, the Gulfstream G6.
One problem. There’s no such plane. Plus, according to Wiki (the most reputable source on the Interwebs!) the song writers claim they didn’t make that connection either. They just liked how it sounded. Worth mentioning, in the music video, they DO climb into a Gulfstream jet - a Gulfstream GIV.
I maintain that they are singing about the Pontiac G6, a very respectable mid-size sedan that even I, a Pontiac fanboy, would never consider to be fly.
That said, they did make way for the far superior parody: Roll a D6.
Lyrics aside, this song absolutely rocks.
(although I acknowledge that lyrics are the point of this thread; just want to thank you for giving me a great earworm)
mmm
This one, I came in to post this
Of course there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas…most of it’s in the Southern freakin’ hemisphere, it’s summer there. And I’m sure snow isn’t anywhere near the top of their wish list.
As I noted a couple of posts back, there is snow in Africa, and on top of the tallest peaks there is permanent year-round snow in Africa.
So both the writers of the song and the people annoyed by it are wrong.
The first time I heard this song I honest thought it was referring to the G6 countries in the European Union. I didn’t think this made a lot of sense, but it was the best I could do.
Most of Africa is actually north of the equator. Take a look at a map, only about 1/3 falls in the Southern hemisphere.
I find this infuriatingly illogical:
So this is Christmas
And what have you done?
Another year over
And a new one just begun
The very next stanza makes it clear that we’re still talking about Christmas rather than having jumped ahead to New Years.
“Every day a little sadder
A little madder
Someone get me a ladder”
–Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, “Still…You Turn Me On”
I actually like most of the song. But that line infuriates me every time I hear it. Come on, guys, you can do better than that!
Hey, Oakminster- if you don’t like Southern Man, try the other Neil Young song referenced in Sweet Home Alabama!
Sure, and you don’t even need to climb Kilimanjaro or other snow-capped peaks. There are ski resorts in Morocco (Well, it’s North Africa, but still technically Africa), South Africa and Lesotho, and probably in more places too.
At least in North Africa there will certainly be snow during Christmas. Down south, Christmas is in the summer, though.
Plus, as I understand it the African continent is largely if not mostly Muslim. So yeah, they probably don’t know it’s Christmastime, or care, because Christmas is ENTIRELY IRRELEVANT TO THEM. It’s like a bunch of Muslim superstars were singing about us poor folks who don’t get to celebrate the feast of Eid. Technically true, but completely beside the point.
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Grrrrrrrrr.
For all the “Christmas Shoes” haters: Patton Oswalt’s take on “Christmas Shoes”.
I’m not a grammar Nazi, but “If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar” grates on my nerves.
