Really crap lyrics from 'grown up' songwriters...

[Barking_Mad]

there's something about that which verges on genius though

only after you've seen her breasts though.

 

[twistedAM]

I've got soul
But I'm not a soldier

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What?

Are we humans?
Or are we dancers?

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It's all gone downhill since Mr Brightside.

 

[Madusa]

only after you've seen her breasts though.

tbf to the chick though, that lyric works in english and in spanish cos she did do the song in both languages.

Speaking of which, Cypress Hill tried to do that with 'Insane in the brain' and ended up with ''Loco en el coco'' in spanish

 

[electrogirl]

Are we humans?
Or are we dancers?

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It's all gone downhill since Mr Brightside.

It's worse though because it's 'dancer', singular.

They have gone so wrong.

 

[subversplat]

Are we humans?
Or are we dancers?

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It's all gone downhill since Mr Brightside.

It's worse though because it's 'dancer', singular.

They have gone so wrong.

It's an ace quote from an ace journalist so you two better wind your necks in or else

 

[ChrisFilter]

It's worse though because it's 'dancer', singular.

They have gone so wrong.

Actually, it's denser

Still a shit song from a shit band, mind.

 

[twistedAM]

It's an ace quote from an ace journalist so you two better wind your necks in or else

Whose the quote from?

 

[Stevil]

Almost everything by Marc Bolan, seemed to write all his songs with a rhyming dictionary to hand. One sample

Metal Guru is it you
Metal Guru is it you
Sitting there in your armour plated chair

Metal Guru is it true
Metal Guru is it true
All alone without a telephone

Metal Guru could it be
You're gonna bring my baby to me
She'll be wild you know
A rock'n'roll child

Metal Guru has it been
Just like a silver-studded sabre-tooth dream
I'll be clean you know
Pollution machine

 

[bluestreak]

Whose the quote from?

Probably Hunter or one of those buggers.

 

[Roadkill]

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like satin and silk,
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a pail of milk,
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, rattle and shake,
Wiggle like a big fat snake.

Er, yeah ... Thanks Bob.

 

[subversplat]

Whose the quote from?

Hunter S Thompson decrying the US breeding a generation of vacuous, preening fakes

 

[electrogirl]

Actually, it's denser

Still a shit song from a shit band, mind.

No it's dancer. I thought it was denser but then on the front page of Q it said

'Are we human, or are we dancer?'

Like they were proud of that lyric or something.

 

[TopCat]

I fucked a sheep
I fucked a goat
I had my cock right down it's throat

 

[Meltingpot]

Is that the Anti Nowhere League?

How about;

"Brother Johnny

Caught a plane

And he got on it"

(Mink De Ville, Spanish Stroll). That third line is completely pointless; how are you not going to get on a plane if you've caught it?

 

[aylee]

That third line is completely pointless; how are you not going to get on a plane if you've caught it?

Maybe if you're involved in an international legal dispute and you're arresting the plane?

 

[aylee]

The great Peter Gabriel at his most utterly, bewilderingly bonkers ....

http://www.asklyrics.com/display/Genesis/The_Colony_Of_Slippermen_Lyrics/113431.htm

It's a song about the fear of having your cock cut off, apparently ....

 

[El Jefe]

Actually, it's denser

actually, it's dancer.

dumbass

 

[electrogirl]

Yeah filter you nob. Don't try and correct me again, you'll only end up looking silly.

 

[Silva]

Des'ree

I'm trying hard to imagine that with a deep acid house beat, sang by a spaced-out manc on pills. Still makes no sense.

Hunter S Thompson decrying the US breeding a generation of vacuous, preening fakes

Like a certain frontman of a certain band from Las Vegas?

 

[subversplat]

Like a certain frontman of a certain band from Las Vegas?

Oh certainly. I under no circumstances endorse The Killers or anybody with the surname Flowers, all rights reserved, any similarity to anybody living or dead blah blah etc. amen.

So yeah, Flowers didn't even write it the thieving sod

 

[oryx]

It took me ages to find the lyrics from this gem by early 80s band ABC (not sure whether they count as grown-up songwriters....). I knew there was something with the words 'apple crumble' in:

'More sacrifices than an Aztec priest

Standing here straining at that leash

All fall down

Can't complain, musn't grumble

Help yourself to another peace of apple crumble'

(From 'That Was Then But This Is Now')

Not sure if the misspelling of 'piece' as 'peace' is deliberate.......

 

[Refused as fuck]

"I got my head checked
By a jumbo jet"

 

[Meltingpot]

Maybe if you're involved in an international legal dispute and you're arresting the plane?

Hadn't thought of that

It was the ANL btw, I've just checked; "So What."

http://www.lyricstime.com/anti-nowhere-league-so-what-lyrics.html

I think Metallica did a version of it as well on their covers album.

 

[editor]

...and today's theme on Iain Lee's BBC6 show is... crap lyrics from grown up songwriters like Neil Diamond

 

[Meltingpot]

I think it was Brian Eno who said that lyrics are usually the bottleneck in a song, i.e. they tend to be the last thing finished and so there's a temptation to rush them. That would explain a lot if it were true.

 

[dilute micro]

All of everclear's lyrics.

 

[foo]

That's my favourate on here so far.

and mine

 

[Meltingpot]

Going to annoy all the old hippies on Urban with this one;

When I was in England town
The rain fell right down

(Love, "She Comes In Colours")

The music's good though.

 

[Culdee]

Dehumanisation is such a big word
It's been around since Richard The Third

The Human League 'Blind Youth'

 

[badco]

''life'' by desree is full of crap lyrics. it's just rhyming nonsense.