“love is Like Oxygen”
The Sweet
‘Love is like oxygen, get too much you get too high,
not enough and your going to die.’
But what can we expect from the band that brought us “Ballroom Blitz”(It’s it’s the ball room blitz)
and “Fox on the Run”.
Keith
Always sounded like ‘man in the moon’ to me.
RealityChuck - I hadn’t heard that ‘Teen Angel’ was supposed to be parody. Where did you happen on that nugget? I mean, it’s possible; sappy stuff from that era was so syrupy that it was pretty much self-parody; all you’d have to do is change the tone of voice. Distinguishing ‘serious sappy’ from parodies of the same, just by the lyrics, might take a bit of work.
Wally - yes, “Seasons in the Sun” is about as mawkish as you can get, and damn my brain for having not blocked the damn thing out:
“Goodbye my love, it’s hard to die
with all the birds sweetly singing in the sky…”
But we could match that with:
“One day when I was not at home,
while she was there, and all alone,
the angels came,
now all I have is memories
of Honey, and I wake up nights
and call her name.
And now my life’s an empty stage,
where Honey lived and Honey played,
and love grew up,
and a small cloud passes overhead
and cries down to the flowerbed
that Honey loved.
And see the tree, how big it’s grown,
but friend, it hasn’t been too long,
it wasn’t big,
and I laughed at her and she got mad,
the first day that she planted it
was just a twig…”
(“Honey”, sung by Bobby Goldsboro, IIRC)
The sound you just heard was a thousand Dopers vomiting on their keyboards.
There’s something about sappy songs about dying that really presses the limits of insipidness, and I’ve managed to mention three such songs in this post - four, now: anyone remember “I Just Gotta Get A Message to You” by the Bee Gees?
I’ve got to agree with neurotrash on this one. “Sometimes the sun goes 'round the moon” has always bugged me. Every time I hear it, I say, “No, it doesn’t!” I get odd stares sometimes…
That wasn’t what I was complaining about. I live in LA, I’ve seen many people who fit that description. The problem is that the line fits in with nothing else in the song. It just hangs there. Everything else is about how evil she is. Then this dumb line about what she looks like. Obviously whatever moron wrote it said “Hey! Mocha rhymes with loca!”
Oh, and I object strongly to being called “dear” by complete strangers. Just ask the asshole I slugged the other day.
To send both SINsApple (for grammar) and Pepperslandgirl (for assaulting an idol) into paroxyms, let me just suggest:
“In this ever changing world in which we live in”
from “Live and Let Die”, by Paul MacCartney. Triple redundancy, and ends with a preposition. And just sounds horrible.
This thread is cracking me up. Thanks!
My two-center:
“And he’s watching her with those eyes
And he’s loving her with that body, I just know it!”
Jesse’s Girl
I just see Rick stomping his foot in impotent rage at the thought of Jesse loving his girl with “that body.”
It’s actually “IF this ever-changing world in which we live in / Makes you give in and cry…” Not that this makes Mr. McCartney’s post-Beatles work defensible, or anything.
I can’t believe no one has mentioned Duran Duran, the epitome of stupid or bizarre lyrics.
From “The Reflex”:
I sold the Renoir and the TV set
Don’t want to be around when this gets out.
From “Union of the Snake”:
If I listen close I can hear them singers, oh oh oh
Voices in your body coming through on the radio
From “Hungry Like the Wolf”:
I smell like I sound
From “New Moon on Monday”:
Shake up the picture the lizard mixture
With your dance on the eventide
From “Rio”:
Hey now (wow), look at that.
Did he nearly run you down?
At the end of the drive, the lawmen arrive,
You make me feel alive, alive, alive
And finally, from “Wild Boys”:
And your telephone’s been ringing
While you’re dancing in the rain
Of course, these are just the highlights. Pretty much the complete lyrics are as cryptic as these.
However, they’ve got a good beat and they’re easy to dance to.
That “So Happy Together” song has a couple of errors.
“The only one for me is you, and you for me.” (redundant! you just said “for me” twice!)
“I can’t see me lovin’ nobody but you…” (bloody double negative…)
This whole thread is sending me on a major nostalgia tangent.
I have to mention these:
“The roof
The roof
The roof is on fire
The roof
The roof
The roof is on fire
The roof
The roof
The roof is on fire
Don’t need no water
Let the motherfucker burn
Burn motherfucker
Burn”
Okay, ummmm… what the hell? Sorry if this offends anyone for whom that languid delivery provides amusement, but the first time I heard it I was literally rooted to the spot, unable to move until I had listened to the whole song. And no, that isn’t a good thing.
I should also mention Hall and Oates, the Milli Vanilli of the early 80’s…
“Leave me alone, I’m a family man
And my bark is much worse than my bite”
But for the stupidest all-time lyric, I have to cheat a little, and point to an advertising jingle. Every time this commercial comes on, my wife and I both lunge for the remote so we don’t have to listen to…
“It’s to you I turn to
When I get the yearn to…”
I can feel my sphincter tightening even as I just type out the words.
well, excuse me all to hell for trying to be polite. i assumed, since this isn’t The Pit, that a minimum level of courtesy or at least pseudo-tolerance was encouraged (if not positively expected). guess i should have relied instead on the more common form of address here on the SD boards.
putz.
can’t say i really recommend physical assault as a response to meaningless courtesies at-large. in some instances, it’s likely to produce a homicidal reaction. :: sweet smile ::
but what can you expect from a dressage lover, eh?
“What if God was one of us?(1)
Just a slob like one of us?(2)
Just a stranger on the bus,
Trying to make his way home.(3)
Up to heaven all alone.(4)
Nobody calling on the phone.
Except the Pope, maybe, in Rome.(5)”
(1) He would really, really hate this song.
(2) Speak for yourself, woman.
(3) I didn’t realize that Greyhound went all the way to the freakin’ pearly gates these days.
(4) If He’s all alone up there, I think it’s time to start relaxing the admissions standards a bit.
(5) Sometimes you just have to let go of the really retarded phrase, no matter how well it rhymes.
“I’m blue, da da da dee do do
I’m in a blue house with a blue window…” blah blah
“I have a girlfreind and she is so blue”
and I know it’s already come up but
“Movin to the country gonna eat a lot of peaches” (repeat until the music stops)
“Used to love her, but I had to kill her,
I had to put her,
six feet under”
“She goes down, She goes down, she goes down, down down down (all night long)
She goesn down”
beefymeg -
If you’re talking about * Jessie’s Girl *, don’t forget
I wanna tell her that I love her but the point is prob'ly moot.
really, Bruce might have re-thought trying to rhyme ‘cute’.
And another Sublime lyric (although I do like some of the songs):
The only family that she's ever had
are her three horny brothers and a drunk-ass dad.
So, the only family she’s ever had are four members of her … immediate family? I understand the point that life sucks, she’s abused and assaulted, but when I hear the expression “only family she’s ever had” I think of orphans or someone with no real family, not just a crappy family.
" I saw red when I opened up the door. "
– Warrant (I think)
"how 'bout them transparent dangling carrots"
Alanis Morrisette, Thank U, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
How can you quote this song and forget the great line “So happy together/so how is the weather”? My dad assures me it’s a joke, though.
However, even this does not reach the horribleness of the following:
"Good morning starshine the earth says hello
You twinkle above us we twinkle below
Good morning starshine you lead us along
My love and me as we sing
Our early morning singing song
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"
“This emptiness fills my heart.” – Peter Gabriel
I really like Pete, and I get the point, but I always have to ask: How does that work?
Dr. Dre, “Forgot About Dre”:
Hey! I like Dr. Dre. I love the part, “fuck rap you can have it back!” Right on.
I’m as happy as anyone to slam Sir Paul’s lack of lyrical prowess, but isn’t he saying, “This ever-changing world in which we’re living?”
Catrandom