Vanilla Ice: Ice Ice Baby. I actually thought I wasn’t cool enough to listen to it when it first came out so I thought if I memorised the lyrics I could make up for my lack of cool. Thankfully i’ve forgotten most of it now, except:"… if rhyme was a drug, i’d sell it by the gram". And of course the chorus, which, even now, loops incessantly in my head. Fun.
REM’s “It’s the end of the world as we know it” because it shows just how much of a dork I am that I memorized that song.
I know them, too, Evil (or did at one time) so you aren’t the only dork out there.
I know all the lyrics to A Boy Named Sue.
I’m ashamed to say…I know all the words to:
The Rodeo Song :eek:
Well it’s 40 below and I don’t give a fuck
Got a heater in my truck and I’m off to the rodeo
And it’s allemande left allemande right
Come on ya fuckin’ dummy get your right step right
Get off the stage ya god damn goof ya know
Piss me off ya fuckin’ jerk get on my nerves…
I know the lyrics to “Yo Ho, Yo Ho (A Pirate’s Life for Me).”
Now that I think of it, add “It’s a Small World” and “Grim Grinning Ghosts” to the list.
Um, yeah, I’ve been to Disneyland a few times; why?
I know the lyrics to many, many 60s/70s country songs because that was my mother’s favorite music and I was too young to change the radio station. I can sing along with most of Loretta Lynn’s oeuvre. I also know various novelty songs from this era, including one that I don’t think anyone remembers… an answer song to Roger Miller’s “King of the Road” called “Queen of the House”.
… I know the milkman, iceman, they come every day,
They give me tips on horses to play
And when I’ve got the time to spare
I sit and wish that I’d picked
A millionaire… I sing…
As soon as I saw the thread title I thought of Ice Ice Baby. Who can forget such classic lines as “killin’ your brain like a poisonous mushroom” and “deadly, when I’m playing my melody, anything less than the best is a felony”?
Fun Vanilla Ice fact: a few weeks ago I was at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) for a high school competition. A friend of mine had the sublime experience of seeing Vanilla Ice perform at a frat house at the college. Unfortunately I missed the opportunity. Poor Ice. He’s fallen to playing at frat houses for his dinner, apparently.
All of the “Museum Song” from the musical Barnum, at the correct tempo. I had a friend in high school who was Michael Crawford obsessed - now that’s scary!
“I’ve been looking for freedom”. mumblemumbledavidhasselhoffmumble
Do I win?
"I want to ride to the ridge where the west commences
gaze at the moon till I lose my senses
I can’t look at hovels and I can’t stand fences
Don’t fence me in."
I’m a little teapot…short and stout…here is my handle…here is my spout.
Hell…I even know the movements.
No shame in that. “When the crypt doors creak and the tombstones quake, spooks come out for a swingin’ wake, Creepy creeps with eerie eyes start to shriek and harmonize, Grim Grinning Ghosts come out to socialize…”
I’m embarrassed that I memorized all the lyrics to “Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)” by Us3. There’s not much novel about a pasty white guy trying to learn a rap song, but at least it could’ve been something cooler, like Public Enemy or something. “Groovy, groovy, jazzy, funky, pounce, pounce, dance as we dip in the melodic sea, rhythm keeps drippin’, tips the M.C…”
Also in the white-boy-rap vein: no less than three (3) House of Pain songs. Say what you will, Everlast came up with some good rhymes: “You get me down, punk, get off my dick, you make me sick, like Strawberry Quik, your style is whack, you ain’t the mack, so yo, step back, while I attack, and sing a new tune like Boom-sha-lack-boom!”
Ahem. “I like big butts and I cannot lie…” Of course, that’s still a good, fun song when I hear it on the radio. It’s oddly body-image-positive.
I also immediately thought of Vanilla Ice, too, when I saw the thread title - and how I was so uncool I memorized the lyrics so people might think I was, in fact, hip to it.
If the Brady kids sang it on air, I know it by heart.
Flyin’ down the highway in a make-shift model T-8
It’s a beautiful mornin’ and it’s gonna be a beautiful daaaaayyyy…
I’ve got a brand new pair of rollerskates
You’ve got a brand new key.
I think that we should get together
And try them out and see.
or
I don’t know what to do, I’m always in the dark.
We’re living in a powderkeg and giving off sparks.
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how 'bout
Sow belly, pot of beans
Tie that rope around your jeans
Tell your mama not to wait
You ain’t gettin’ home 'till late.
There’s a town I know where hipsters go called Bedrock.
Twitch! Twitch!
and let’s not leave out
Hoo, every Friday and Saturday night
It’s Pata Pata-time
The dance keeps going all night long
Till the morning sun begins to shine , hey!
Aya sat wuguga sat - wo-ho-o pata, pata
Lord help me! My head is full of stupid songs!!!
You think that’s bad? I wrote a PARODY of “Ice Ice Baby”, based on the idea that Vanilla had a problem with head lice.
Then there’s my large vocabulary of TV theme songs, circa 1980… “Cheers” “Facts of Life” “WKRP in Cincinnati” “Different Strokes” “Alice” “The Jeffersons” “Good Times”… I know 'em all.
I know the words to Dancing Queen by ABBA.
I’m not embarrassed by that. No, really, I’m not. My friends are, though.
Dancing Queen,
Feel the beat from the tambourine, ohhh yeaahhh…
OK maybe I’m a little embarrassed…
The theme song from F troop
The words to the Bonanza theme music (not actually sung on the show, but sung by Lorne Greene on an old 8 track tape)
The theme song from My Mother the Car
“I’m all out of love.
I’m so lost without you…”
Air Supply…ARRRGGHH!!!
Odd… I was about to say “Making Love Out of Nothing at All” by Air Supply.
But thank you for getting that other song stuck in my head…
Now I’m going back to the Peter Cotton Tail thread, it was more bearable when I had the singing helium-voiced bunnies in my head.