Ha, ha, yeah, and “The air was full of sound.” I’ve been in deserts before and yeah, they sure are loud places, uh huh, can’t hardly hear myself think in them deserts.
furthermore -
“there were plants and birds and rocks and things”
things . . . very creative :rolleyes:
worst. song. lyrics. ever.
A-MEN! I swore then to hate Fergie forever.
Does anybody remember Buttermilk Biscuits by Sir Mix-A-Lot?
Now grab that can and wrap it in your hand
Bang that sucker till THE DOUGH EXPANDS
PUT them suckers up in your oven
Grab your girlie and get a little lovin’
Add a BIT of honey if you want to get funny
Microwave the suckers if you want your honey runny
GONNA get naughty at the Mix-A-Lot party
And rub them suckers all over your body (huh huh)
This has come up before on the SDMB and I believe the answer was that America would write lyrics that they just thought “sounded good” musically. Often without sweating the fact that people would be saying “Tropic of Wha-?” for decades to come. But I can agree that it results in some pretty stupid lyrics.
Michael Sembello, “Maniac” (from Flashdance):
“There’s a cold kinetic heat…”
…'the hell? :dubious:
Anyone remember “Good Morning Starshine” from the 60’s? Here’s the chorus:
Gliddy glub gloopy
Nibby nabby noopy
La la la lo lo
Sabba sibby sabba
Nooby abba nabba
Le le lo lo
Tooby ooby walla
Nooby abba naba
Early morning singing song
Complete nonsense. Oh, and I apologize to the citizens of Hawley PA for singing this in the car at the top of my lungs with the windows open last Saturday.
I’ll nominate one from the country side of things:
Honky Tonk Badonkadonk by Trace Adkins.
“She’s got it going on
Like Donkey Kong
And ooo-eee shut your mouth
Slap your grandma”
Beck - ‘Loser’
*
In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey
butane in my veins so i’m out to cut the junkie
with the plastic eyeballs
spray paint the vegetables
dog food stalls with the beefcake pantyhose *
WTF is that all about?!
Exactly. IOW, “whoosh.”
That’s why you need to get yourself both the Becktionary and the Rhyming Becktionary.
Yep. We need to get this man a Rhyming Becktionary.*
My vote for awful lyrics:
Fever, Fever - Melody Club. Catchy as hell (though I could see me playing it to death and canning it within a couple of weeks), but I don’t really want to sing along to the chorus:
Fever, fever, leave my heart alone
Tear drops down my face
I curse the day that I was born
That’s some melodramatic emo there, kid. It’s okay, for real. You’ll live, even if it sucks for the rest of us.
Another catchy one, though it might not be fair, as I don’t know for certain if English is their first language… but still: *Do Ya * - Dover
Oh! Feel free to come back home
Irradiates! Irradiates!
Oh! Feel free to come back home
I´m already there
And forget the rest of the song, which is just full of “Do ya want me to [insert various contradictory actions]”. But “irradiates”? Come back home and… I’ll expose you to radiation? I know it can simply mean the same damn thing as “radiate”, but, well, why not just say “radiate”? Don’t you talk to me about poetic tempo, you can still make it work. I originally thought they were saying “it radiates”. But why the hell would you want to, either way? Argh. Confounding.
But catchy.
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- curse you, asterion, and your five-minutes-quicker typing fingers!
- curse you, asterion, and your five-minutes-quicker typing fingers!
Beach Boys - Be True To Your School
I used to enjoy The End by The Doors, but now I can’t hear it without laughing at Jim Morrison’s horrible, stupid rhymes:Ride the snake to the lake
hes old, and his skin is cold orThe west is the best
The worst thing is the way he says it, all pretentious as if these are the best words ever written. These are rhymes I could have come up with in Kindergarten! “American poet” my ass, his lyrics are crap in every song.
Most of the things listed in My Favorite Things wouldn’t make the list of anyone’s top million favorite things.
Yeah, but Alanis Morrissette’s version of that made it all worthwhile.
I was just listening to a song the other day, it had a catchy beat but unfortunate lyrics. I can’t remember what it was though. It’s just annoying when a nice tune gets saddled with stupid lyrics.
I was just listening to a song (probably) called “Life is Beautiful”. If I got the lyrics right, part of it said, “Will you swear on your life that no one will cry at my funeral?”
Now I admit I don’t know who sang it or what the whole thing’s all about, so I could be missing the big picture, but that seemed pretty damn dumb. Also, aren’t you trying to say that, you know, life is beautiful? Why are we talking about your funeral and shouldn’t this song be more upbeat?
Damn modern kids with their rockin’ and their rollin’…
‘Dogshit on your shoes’ by Mechanical Horsetrough. I cant find this anywhere and Im dying to listening to it again. I cant remember the lyrics properly but it went something like
I wont dance with you because you have dogshit on your shoes,
its in your hair…
Oh and Berry Chucks ‘my ding-a-ling’. Such classics!
Someone mentioned “My Humps” by the Black Eyed Peas. Their singer, Fergie, does a song called "London Bridge. " I dont’ know if it’s just as stupid or stupider:
How come every time you come around
My London, London bridge wanna go down
Like London, London, London?
We goin’ down like
London, London, London?
That, and the random shouts of “Oh, shit!” (changed to “Oh, snap!” for the radio version) make for a dumb song. And don’t even get me started on the video. I wish I knew how to link to YouTube so you guys could enjoy the silliness.
I have yet to find anything worse than that song. Particularly this bit:
I don’t want to see a ghost
it’s the sight that I fear most
I’d rather eat a piece of toast
:smack:
I remember those very line being awarded with the title “Stupidest lyrics ever”. Can’t remember where, though. I think it was a music magazine, like Melody Maker or Mojo.
My girlfriend at the time was very into this song. She told me that London Bridge was a euphemism for a girl’s panties. So every time the guy came around, she wanted to get nekkid with him.
It’s still really stupid.