# otherwise good songs ruined by one small artistic misstep

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 10, 2002, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/otherwise-good-songs-ruined-by-one-small-artistic-misstep/118292 "2002-07-10T19:53:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Myrnalene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/otherwise-good-songs-ruined-by-one-small-artistic-misstep/118292/81 "2002-08-31T16:26:33Z")

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> \*Originally posted by neofishboy \*  
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> Strangely, I always heard it as “…rises like **a leprous** …”
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> I know it’s an adjective, but at least it creates a much more evocative image than Olympus… which, I agree, is kinda stupid. \*\*

I thought it was “a lepress”, you know, like a female leopard. That would make sense. Is that even a word?

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**Author:** ![scott\_evil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scott\_evil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scott_evil)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2002, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/otherwise-good-songs-ruined-by-one-small-artistic-misstep/118292/82 "2002-08-31T16:57:41Z")

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**Free As A Bird** by The Beatles, based on a basement tape of John Lennon’s. OK song until the obviously McCartney-written bridge. ::cring::

Let’s just say I loathe Paul McCartney. **Live and Let Die** is a good song until that ridiculous reggae interlude. Sir McC even alluded to how brilliant it was in that self-indulgent TV documentary that was made to shamelessly promote the Wings Greatest Hits compilation.

This B.Mus, Major in Composition says **nuh-uh**. The guy can’t even read music and has the audacity to compose **Liverpool Oratorio**?

He’s a pretentious twit. George Harrison was a better songwriter, IMO. Think **Here Comes the Sun**. Brilliant.

And don’t get me started on Alanis Morissette. (Being from Ottawa myself, I’m supposed to hate her, but I think I would anyway.)

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