That one song… agh, what’s it called?
It goes like:
Ooooh, that smell! Can’t you smell that smell?!
I really enjoyed it until my brother pointed out the lyrics.
That was a Lynard Skynard song
Oh, the whiny, maudlin tone of the vocals is something of a giveaway. To me it sounds like the narrator is fucking somebody over but good, and the lyrics are his rationalization. No wonder it’s so popular. Another set of lyrics would definitely be in order here.
Into the Night by Benny Mardone. “She’s just sixteen years old…Leave her alone, they said…” When I was younger than sixteen, or slightly older, that lyric didn’t bother me a bit. Now that I’m old, and my daughter is sixteen, it skeeves me out hugely.
Also, “If I could fly, I’d pick you up, I’d take you into the night”, etc. I’m envisioning the singer with a beach towel cape.
I came in here to say that. That song is just disgusting.
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Ever hear the acoustic version? It does give up the irony of the album one (that it sounds like a bombastic patriotic song until you listen, which I’m sure is on purpose) but it’s very poignant and excellent.
Depends on what dudes you’re talking to. I got it the first time I heard it.
I think you’ve missed a part of the story. According to wiki and the way I remember the story it goes like this:
Boy’s father gets in trouble for fighting, makes his boy promise not to fight. Boy keeps his promise, makes him a ‘coward’. His girlfriend gets raped while he’s not around. When he finds out about it he goes to confront them. They laugh at him, he turns around, locks the door and kicks their asses. I don’t understand what’s so bad about the story. The boy doesn’t fight until it’s really needed, sounds reasonable to me and even the father would understand.
Beetles…Maxwells Silver Hammer. It is such a cute little song. Upbeat tempo about murder.
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Maxwell’s-Silver-Hammer-lyrics-The-Beatles/56DAD20650BD09FC48256BC200159C60
Well, to be honest, I always thought that if he’d taken care of the Gatlin Boys earlier, his girfriend wouldn’t have been raped.
Exactly. The beating he gave them was revenge and couldn’t un-gang rape his girl. Now, if he’d laid a righteous pimp-smacking on those no-account Gatlin boys early on, the rape could have been prevented. I never liked that song for exactly that reason. Nor his song about Ruby, either. I think Kenny Rogers has some kind of fetish about other men sticking they dicks in his wife while he is helpless to prevent it.
I get where you’re coming at now. I never thought of it that way.
Like Ronald Reagan. :rolleyes: (eye rolling not aimed at you** Jolly Roger**, but at the Great Communicator.)
I agree. Except I didn’t like their songs even before I heard the lyrics.
One of my favorite movie soundtracks is for Mona Lisa Smile, wherein modern pop stars take on old chestnuts from the late 40s-early 50s. Two of them in particlar, “Sh-Boom (Life Would Be a Dream)” (Trevor Horn Orchestra) and “I’ve Got the World on a String” (Lisa Stansfield), sound like control-freak anthems in a way the originals just didn’t. Lyrics are the same, though; they’re just sung with a sinister edge.
“Run to You” by Bryan Adams and “Hold On To the Night” by Richard Marx.
Okay, neither of these songs are good. But I was quite surprised when I actually listened to the lyrics and realized they are both about dudes cheating on their ladies. I wonder if the feather-haired Richard Marx fangirls were aware of this.
Hey, what’s wrong with
*Hot wax drippin’ honey what do you say
I got a brand new record that I gotta play
She said not now boy but I did anyway
and I’m ready, so ready /…/
I’m a red hot pistol and I’m ready to fight
I’m a 38 special on a Saturday night
I’m gonna kiss your boo-boo honey
make it alright
'cause I’m ready, so ready*
and so on…?
How many late 90’s-early 00’s high school graduation speeches included quotes from Green Day’s “Time of Your Life,” utterly missing the point, and utterly missing the actual name of the song: “Good Riddance.” I sat through my share of those, I can tell you. Playing it at proms is always good for a laugh, too.
Speaking of proms, when I was a student teacher, the junior class chose “Walk on the Wild Side” as their prom theme. God, I hope it wasn’t like that. The kids just knew the chorus and thought it was a jungle type song (you know, because the “colored women” are singing). This was, it goes without a saying, an incredibly white school.
Oh, good one–re: “Sh-Boom” (I don’t know the other one). I was listening to a version of it the other day, and actually paying attention to the lyrics, and it sounds vaguely creepy. The whole “If you do what I want you to, baby, it would be fine…” There’s sort of a subset of “Give it up now!” songs in older music. I’m not sure if “Sh-Boom” is referring simply to the guy wanting the girl to be with him or if it’s more of a “Give up your virginity” song, but it still feels a bit odd. “Now or Never” comes off a little creepy, too, in that regard.