I’ve sat right in front of my friend who thinks these all have the same vowel sound, and exaggeratedly pronounced the differences I believe they have. He could not hear the difference! To this day I can’t get him to say whether their dog was named Barry or Berry, because he pronouces them the same. :smack:
Yep, but KISS was mentioned so I had to throw in my favorite new quote!
Second Verse…
GOT RHYTHM I CAN’T MISS A BEAT
GOT NEW SKANK IT’S SO REET
GOT SOMETHING I’M WINKING AT YOU
Really?
And I just wanted to add my own favorite toast lines. It’s from a comic I saw on HBO when I was a kid - super crazy goofy guy that wrote this song…
All around the world from coast to coast
People always say what do you like the most
I don’t like to brag, I don’t like to boast
But I always say, "I like Toast!
He also had a good one “Looking at the World Through Flies’ Eyes” which involved him wearing huge screen colanders over his eyes.
Funny stuff…
<<There is a lot of British slang in the lyrics:
“Got Bottle” - Have courage.
“Skank” - Move your body side to side.
“Reet” - Righteous
“Brass” is a Northern English expression for money, harking back to the days when non-silver coins, or “Coppers” were worth something.>>
while RoOsh was right that it’s based on the ancient Latin…the way it’s worded here in English is just…well, DUMB.
Is he talking to the ones about to rock? If so, why does he refer to them in the third person in the introductory prepositional phrase ("…for those about to rock…"), and then switch to the second person ("…we salute you…" )
It’s just not clear…who’s about to rock? …who’s being saluted…?
How about “We salute those who are about to rock”? Or even “Speaking as a representative of those guys over there who are too busy preparing to rock that they’re unable to speak for themselves, I would like to pass along a salute to you.” (Here, “you” being some unnamed person to whom the song is, apparently, being sung.")
Having never heard (or heard of) this song, I have no clue if this is what the songwriters intended, but back in the 1890s-1910s, women campaigning for the right to vote (=“lady suffragettes”) could be quite militant and often played up female members of “manly” occupations (police, firefighters, military). So perhaps the major was mistaken for a woman in uniform? I leave it to others to determine whether this is a plausible interpretation.
The song seems to be about a girl named Jet who was going to get married but her father, who had the balls of a sergeant major, thought she was too young. Plus, her hair was made of lace. Must not forget the hair of a thousand laces-- on the moon.
Yup. I gotta bow to that entry. Are you sure that’s accurate?? Holy crap! :eek:
Sounds like someone talking in their sleep who thinks they’re awake…It makes perfect sense in their dream world but none in the real world.
I’ve mentioned it before somewhere–and I know other people have too–but Do They Know It’s Christmas (Feed The World) is the stupidest song ever written. Ever. Band Aid 20 - Do They Know It's Christmas? Lyrics | AZLyrics.com
These lyrics make me stabby:
And there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmastime
The greatest gift they’ll get this year is life
Where nothing ever grows
No rain nor rivers flow
Do they know it’s Christmastime at all?
Aaaaaaaaaaargh, you imbeciles! Nothing grows in Africa? It never rains there? No rivers? Heard of the fucking Nile, you dumbass? Do you realize that famines have been exacerbated by political turmoil and war, and not just climate problems? And there won’t be snow in Africa this Christmas? Oh no! Doooooom! There won’t be snow in December on a continent that has its top half smack dab on the equator and the bottom half in the southern hemisphere?
I mean fuck. I know they were trying to raise money for poor people, but come on, they could actually create art that’s based on the real world problems instead of saying, “Hey, guys, I hear Africa’s a shithole. Let’s drop some rice on them and feel better about ourselves, eh?”
That song isn’t good for my blood pressure.
Not even the snows of Kilimanjaro?
Nine in the Afternoon by Panic! At the Disco has some pretty horrid lyrics.
Cause it’s nine in the afternoon
And your eyes are the size of the moon
You could 'cause you can so you do
We’re feeling so good
just the way that we do
When it’s nine in the afternoon
What does the bolded line even mean?
Doesn’t that rise like Olympus above the Serengeti?
Another infamous one:
Elton John - 'Your Song’
“If I were a sculptor, but then again no”
There seems to be a confabulation of threads that had me confuzzled for a second.
I hear the drums in Africa blessing the rain.
It’s part and parcel of bands who try to be the next Mid-to-late Beatles: power pop combined with nonsensical lyrics. Cf Sloan’s Navy Blues.
Not that I think they should not have better lyrics, just that I like all three of them even without sensical lyrics (Panic and Mid-Beatles, that is: the Sloan album is more of a pastiche so gets away with having stupid lyrics.)
Does Lemon Demon count?
The intro to Word Disassociation:
Enemy, lasagna,
Robust, below, wax,
Semiautomatic, aqua,
Accompany, slacks,
Why, coffee, gymnastic,
Motorcycle, unibrow,
Existential, plastic,
Extra, nightly, cow
This is lovely and has so many possibilities. I keep hearing it as a chant or a slogan. I’m imagining a group protest with signs. Some people shout, “E-ne-my!? La-sa-gna!?” and the rest answer “EX-tra night-ly COW!”
Just think of what you could do with an extra nightly cow.
Well I always scratched my head at this
Bush, Glycerine. Not bad so much as … random.
Well now you’ve thrown down the gauntlet, and I must counter your Lame White Rapper with the Lamest White Rapper of all time.
I give you Snow, with his hit song, Informer
Informer
You know say daddy me Snow me-a (gonna) blame
A licky boom-boom down
In the category of “it don’t rhyme but what the hell” I contribute the following couplet from Head Hands & Feet’s “Delaware”:
They say the lines are down in Utah
Cincinnati’s had a race war
Not a bad song, but…glurk.