“Her placenta falls to the floor” pretty much killed Lightning Crashes for me.
2 from Lady Gaga:
"Uranus. Don't you know my ass is famous?"
"Judas kiss me if offenced or wear ear condom next time."
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 15, 2023 5:00 AM |
"Only time will tell if we stand the test of time."
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 15, 2023 5:02 AM |
How can I save my little boy /From Oppenheimer’s deadly toy?
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 15, 2023 5:05 AM |
Jeremy by Pearl Jam "And bit the recess lady's breast"
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 15, 2023 5:07 AM |
Sweden's 2014 Eurovision song is glorious... and then she says "undo my sad" and it's the mother of all needle scratches.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 15, 2023 5:09 AM |
[quote] “Her placenta falls to the floor” pretty much killed Lightning Crashes for me.
Even without the "placenta" line, the song is killed by the title. Lightning doesn't crash. Thunder crashes.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 15, 2023 5:13 AM |
"King's Dead" by Kendrick Lamar, Jay Rock, and Future
The line: "La di da di da. Slob on mi knob. Pass me some syrup. Fuck me in the car. La di da di da. Motherfuck the law. Chitty chitty bang. Murder everything."
It's not just the line, it's the way Future delivers it that makes it even more ridiculous/hilarious. It completely took me out of the song the first time I heard it. My immediate reaction was a stern, "WTF??"
It's around the 1:40 mark.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 15, 2023 5:17 AM |
“And I'm gonna miss you like a child misses their blanket”
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 15, 2023 5:21 AM |
Dear one, I don’t miss you inside me.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 15, 2023 5:21 AM |
Neil diamond: “songs you sang to me, songs you BRANG to me…”
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 15, 2023 5:54 AM |
R4 That line gave me nightmares.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 15, 2023 12:40 PM |
The “suckin’ on a chili dog” line from Jack & Diane is gross.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 15, 2023 12:48 PM |
From "Sometimes It Be That Way," by Jewel:
While playing the guitar she sings, "Night has many hands, but I have just one."
Why do you only have one hand? And how are you playing the guitar with only one hand?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 15, 2023 12:54 PM |
Is she talking about playing poker?
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 15, 2023 12:55 PM |
"Came the telegram, Mama passed away while making homemade jam". Actually the whole song "I'm Living in shame" is a shit show but this infamous line sinks it lower. It's been called "the messiest death in rock an Roll History"
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 15, 2023 12:57 PM |
Cher's bizarre mismatch of lyrics and melody in "Believe."
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 15, 2023 12:59 PM |
Throw mama from the train…a kiss.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 15, 2023 1:00 PM |
OP, did you have a problem with “the calliope crashed to the ground,” as well?
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 15, 2023 1:07 PM |
I don’t agree with OP at all.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 15, 2023 1:10 PM |
“Did you come here to play Jesus to all the lepers in your head?”
It’s a terrible song but that line is just so, so, so terrible that it deserves a special shout out for taking a terrible song and making it unlistenable
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 15, 2023 1:13 PM |
I know it’s cheesy, but I love the song “If” from the Diana musical. I initially had a problem with the line about has she was excited to “stand in a queue again,” but that’s based upon something she actually said.
What broke my heart and changed the feel of the song was learning that what I thought was “Alight the world,” about going off, starting over and setting the world on fire, was really “I’ll light the world,” which is much more narcissistic about being a bight beacon for the world instead.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 15, 2023 1:15 PM |
“How do I get back there,
To the place I fell asleep inside you.”
Has always made me a bit queasy, in a song I otherwise love lyrically for it brilliant play of words and metaphors.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 15, 2023 1:23 PM |
Well, smell YOU, R20.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 15, 2023 1:27 PM |
I love New York, other cities make me feel like a dork
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 15, 2023 3:29 PM |
Totally agree about "Sucking on a chili dog, outside the tasty freeze....."
by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 15, 2023 6:36 PM |
My mom got incensed about Jewel's "I break the yolk and make a smiley face." ("I kind of like it in my brand new place.) Mom said: what kind of song is this? I could write this kind of song.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 15, 2023 6:43 PM |
R27, that's a great example!
by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 15, 2023 6:47 PM |
Pretty much every word of Drops of Jupiter is cringe-inducing, but here are some of the worst.
She checks out Mozart while she does Tae-Bo Reminds me that there's a room to grow, hey, yeah
Can you imagine no love, pride, deep-fried chicken Your best friend always sticking up for you Even when I know you're wrong? Can you imagine no first dance, freeze-dried romance Five hour phone conversation The best soy latte that you ever had, and me?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 15, 2023 6:53 PM |
R11, while we're talking Neil Diamond:
"I am, I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all, not even the chair."
It sucks when even your patented Hearz-It-AllⓇ Sentient Chair doesn't listen to you.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 15, 2023 7:14 PM |
What's wrong with talking to a chair?
by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 15, 2023 7:23 PM |
"I'm serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer".
by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 15, 2023 7:28 PM |
I like to singy singy singy
Like a bird
on a wingy wingy wingy
by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 15, 2023 7:29 PM |
r16: That line made me wonder if someone managed to save the jam from boiling over.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 15, 2023 7:33 PM |
I didn't realize Neil Diamond had so many bad lyrics.
I just thought of a bad lyric the other day, on par with, "Only time will tell if we stand the test of time." I have forgotten it. Dammit!
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 15, 2023 7:39 PM |
"Weaker than a dying child. Anger, like a murdered child." Kimara Lovelace - "Misery"
People are out dancing in the club. What a fucking downer.
Great track. Terrible lyrics.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 15, 2023 7:41 PM |
Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 15, 2023 7:51 PM |
"Now there's two less lonely people in the world" (Air Supply 80s hit)
I think this is supposed to mean "two fewer lonely people in the world." Or does it mean two less-lonely people in the world -- they were very lonely before, but now they're only a little lonely?
I hate that this ambiguity irritates me, and I also hate that I even waste half a brain cell on this shitty song.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | March 15, 2023 7:56 PM |
R38, it means that the singer has found someone to keep him company. The singer was lonely and so was that Special Someone. Now that the singer and that Special Someone have found each other, neither are lonely. Hence, two fewer, or less, lonely people (or persons) in the world.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | March 15, 2023 7:59 PM |
Are you strong enough to be my man. Lie to me. I promise I’ll believe. Lie to me, but please don’t leave.
Just who sounds like the weak one here?
by Anonymous | reply 40 | March 15, 2023 8:05 PM |
R39 So they meant 'two fewer' and got it wrong. Now they sound a little less lonely than they were before.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | March 15, 2023 8:14 PM |
Carly has some wonderfully bad lines: You had one eye in the mirror, as you watched yourself gavotte
by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 15, 2023 8:36 PM |
Barbara Cook wanted to sing Don McLean's "Vincent" but didn't because she hated the line, "The world was never meant for one as beautiful as you."
by Anonymous | reply 43 | March 15, 2023 8:46 PM |
“I walk without a cut
Through a stained glass wall.”
by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 15, 2023 9:17 PM |
However did Don McLean do without the $4.63 he would have gotten in royalties from Babs' version?
by Anonymous | reply 45 | March 15, 2023 9:18 PM |
"You ask me if I known love And what it's like to sing songs in the rain Well, I've seen love come And I've seen it shot down I've seen it die in vain"
Jon Bon Jovi (Blaze of Glory), makes me laugh every time I hear it.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | March 15, 2023 9:51 PM |
"Yeahuuuh … [some expletives] … WOOOOOWHEEEEE"
Jay Z in Mariah Carey’s Heartbreaker.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | March 15, 2023 10:07 PM |
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Deep Blue Something
And I said "What about Breakfast at Tiffany's?"
She said, "I think I remember that film
And as I recall, I think we both kinda liked it."
[bold] And I said "Well, that's the one thing we've got." [/bold]
God awful song, but the conclusion to the chorus is another level of idiotic.
You both "kind of liked" the same movie? Yeah, you can hang a relationship on that.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | March 15, 2023 10:32 PM |
[quote]You had one eye in the mirror, as you watched yourself gavotte
Well I'll be. This belongs on the misheard lyrics thread, but my whole life I thought the lyric was:
You had one eye in the mirror, as you watched yourself go by it.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | March 15, 2023 10:54 PM |
R4 Never knew what that line means.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | March 15, 2023 11:01 PM |
A lot of these songs suck with or without the mentioned lines. Live, Third Eye Blind, Bon Jovi, Train, Air Supply? What are you guys smoking?
by Anonymous | reply 51 | March 15, 2023 11:02 PM |
I like the song “For You” by Bruce Springsteen, but I hate hate hate the line “who am I to ask you to lick my sores?” Gross, ruins the song for me. Shame, because there’s so many good lyrics in that song.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | March 15, 2023 11:04 PM |
‘Something heavy like a first day period’
Gross.
This being the same Janet who back in 93 made a comment about being different from Madonna because what she did ‘has class’.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 15, 2023 11:13 PM |
Speaking of Springsteen:
[quote] You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright.
(Thunder Road.) That's something you can have an inner "dialogue" about, but that's supposedly spoken out loud while you're trying to get laid.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | March 15, 2023 11:49 PM |
The very first line of "Evergreen" - Love, soft as an easy chair.......- having an easy chair thrown in always struck me as unintentionally humorous and bad song writing. And to think Babs helped to write this mess.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | March 16, 2023 12:14 AM |
[quote]Concrete jungle where dreams are made of
That line fucking makes me want to scream. Like there was NO OTHER one-syllable word that would have worked.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | March 16, 2023 12:16 AM |
R.E.M.’s “You Are the Everything is impeccably gotgeous except for this one line:
“And you're drifting off to sleep with your teeth in your mouth.”
What, as opposed to in a jar on the nightstand?
by Anonymous | reply 57 | March 16, 2023 12:23 AM |
Gorgeous, not gotgeous.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | March 16, 2023 12:24 AM |
Someone left the cake out in the rain
by Anonymous | reply 59 | March 16, 2023 12:34 AM |
Shakira’s ‘whenever wherever’ is a catchy song, but this line is so dumb: “Luckily my breasts are small and humble, so you don't confuse them with mountains.”
by Anonymous | reply 60 | March 16, 2023 12:53 AM |
"All you need is love" in "All You Need Is Love."
by Anonymous | reply 61 | March 16, 2023 12:58 AM |
R21
I think One is a beautiful song (that line is horrible) if you look at it in the context of a relationship ending.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 16, 2023 1:00 AM |
"Say a little prayer for I" NO
by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 16, 2023 1:11 AM |
I love Kate Bush but “I pine a lot, I find the lot, falls through without you” in Wurthering Heights needs a rethink.
Also “Respectfully I say to thee, I’m aware that you’re cheating” in Upside Down bugs me. Why is there Elizabethan English in there? It’s not like Shakespeare wrote it.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | March 16, 2023 2:03 AM |
"She's giving me excitations" from the Beach Boys "Good Vibrations"
by Anonymous | reply 65 | March 16, 2023 2:13 AM |
r64, totally agree about Upside Down. When I first heard "Respectfully I say to thee" I was wondering if Diana had turned Amish or something
by Anonymous | reply 66 | March 16, 2023 2:20 AM |
Paula Abdul, "Blowing Kisses in the Wind":
I'm only wishing you'd
Love me like I
by Anonymous | reply 67 | March 16, 2023 2:21 AM |
"Love is a lecture on how to correct your mistakes."
— Stephen Joshua Sondheim
by Anonymous | reply 68 | March 16, 2023 2:36 AM |
R64 - agree! When singers start putting ‘thee’ into songs it always sounds awkward and like bad writing.
I don’t mind the Kate Bush one as much but you reminded me of a guy I used to work with who hated that line too. Your name isn’t Neil by any chance, is it? Hehe.
In “Beautiful Stranger” I always get second hand embarrassment from the line: “You’re the devil in disguise, that’s why I’m singing this song.” It’s very awkward and doesn’t really make sense.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | March 16, 2023 2:39 AM |
I never like it when the lyrics refer to singing the song that you are listening to.
I will grant an exception to the Madonna/Prince duet Love Song, also Bye Bye Baby, which references back to it, but other than that, no.
It's like when the book that you are reading references the fact that you are reading it.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | March 16, 2023 2:46 AM |
I feel so dirty when they start talkin’ cute,
I want to tell her that I love her but the point is rather moot
Jessie’s Girl
by Anonymous | reply 71 | March 16, 2023 3:02 AM |
“They lived and they died, they preyed to their gods, but the stone gods did not make a sow-ow-ow-nd…”
- All This Time by Sting
by Anonymous | reply 72 | March 16, 2023 3:12 AM |
^prayed
by Anonymous | reply 73 | March 16, 2023 3:13 AM |
[quote] I never like it when the lyrics refer to singing the song that you are listening to.
"Didn't quite hit the note. That wasn't such a good time."
by Anonymous | reply 74 | March 16, 2023 3:28 AM |
“Don’t you wanna dance, say you wanna dance… with somebody who loves ME?!”- Whitney, I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Why would I wanna dance with somebody who loves HER?
by Anonymous | reply 75 | March 16, 2023 3:48 AM |
R64 beat me to it, darn! I love Upside Down but the “thee” shit is ridiculous.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | March 16, 2023 7:05 AM |
Hunting the horny back toad
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is such a perfect song, but I was shocked when I looked up the lyrics here. Mary!
by Anonymous | reply 77 | March 16, 2023 9:02 AM |
Jeremiah was a BULLfrog! Was a good friend of mine!
I hate that so much.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | March 16, 2023 10:44 AM |
R71 Haha. Good one - the first line is so sexy but is ruined by the awkward attempt to find a rhyming word. Ridiculous.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | March 16, 2023 11:58 AM |
Wanna Be Starting Somethin’ I mean - I get what he’s trying to say here but if you don’t know all the lines, it’s just silly.
You're a vegetable, you're a vegetable Still they hate you, you're a vegetable You're just a buffet, you're a vegetable They eat off of you, you're a vegetable
by Anonymous | reply 80 | March 16, 2023 12:01 PM |
R77 Good one! That line totally takes me out of the song.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | March 16, 2023 12:08 PM |
"Nobody does it half as [italic]good[/italic] as you" in Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" always sends the needle screeching across the record.
Wouldn't Carole Bayer Sager let you change it to "Nobody does it half as [italic]well[/italic] as you"? It wouldn't have changed anything as far as meaning or rhyme goes, Carly, so WTF?
by Anonymous | reply 82 | March 16, 2023 2:50 PM |
R57 Great example. You Are The Everything is probably my favorite R.E.M. song, but that line is so stupid. Even Michael Stipe said he regrets writing it.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | March 16, 2023 7:05 PM |
“Just like a rainbow, you know you set me free.”
by Anonymous | reply 84 | March 16, 2023 10:10 PM |
Joni Mitchell's "Furry Sings The Blues"
"WC Handy, I'm rich and I'm fey / And I'm not familiar with what you play"
by Anonymous | reply 85 | March 16, 2023 10:15 PM |
I always thought that Diana Ross's "thee" was a reflection of southern black preacher bible talk, not an attempt to imitate Shakespeare's sonnets or whatever.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | March 16, 2023 10:40 PM |
Allentown by Billy Joel "...So the graduations hang on the wall"
Of course, he meant diplomas but that didn't fit well.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | March 17, 2023 7:23 AM |
I love "the graduations hang on the wall." I'd like to think there's still a place for metonymy in our lyric idiom.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | March 17, 2023 11:46 AM |
R8 I don't think that's too bad, it's a decent metaphor for leaving behind something that once made you feel safe
by Anonymous | reply 89 | March 17, 2023 12:35 PM |
Sting wrote many awkward lyrics.
“He starts to shake and cough, just like the old man in that book by Nabokov”
“Hey there mighty brontosaurus! Don’t you have a lesson for us?”
by Anonymous | reply 90 | March 17, 2023 4:57 PM |
"You're a vegetable."
by Anonymous | reply 91 | March 17, 2023 5:00 PM |
It's more than just one line, but what the hell does this mean "I'm pining for the moon And what if there were two Side by side in orbit Around the fairest sun"? Another otherwise great REM song.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | March 17, 2023 5:05 PM |
The first time I heard "Formation," I liked it for the line, "Earned all this money but they never take the country off me," which seemed to be a semi-provocative statement merging black feminism and anti-capitalism in a pop song. I lost interest once I read the real lyrics.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | March 17, 2023 5:13 PM |
R54, thank you. That line made me really dislike Bruce Springstein, and I am from New Jersey. It's a horrible thing to say to someone.
This is a fantastic thread.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | March 17, 2023 5:26 PM |
Say I look nice when I'm not
by Anonymous | reply 96 | March 17, 2023 5:58 PM |
I'm a Doors fan but so many of their potentially great songs are wrecked by Morrison's terrible lyrics. From "Not to Touch the Earth":
[italic]Dead president's corpse in the driver's car
[italic]The engine runs on glue and tar
As opposed to a live president's corpse in a self-driving car? I wasn't there, but did this shit pass as profound in the 60s?
by Anonymous | reply 97 | March 17, 2023 6:08 PM |
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay Were laid spread out before me as her body once did
Some good lines in the song but the opening lines are awkward and sound even worse when sung. It sounds like "legs spread out before me".
by Anonymous | reply 98 | March 17, 2023 6:18 PM |
She’s not me She doesn’t have my name
Lazy lyric and Kinda the point since he dumped you for her
by Anonymous | reply 99 | March 17, 2023 6:59 PM |
"Cry Me a River" is a good song until it goes sophomore English pretentious: "Told me love was too plebian!"
(A bad lyric made even worse when Barbra doesn't realize that the rhyme is with "me an'" not "me aaaaaaaaaaand")
by Anonymous | reply 100 | March 17, 2023 7:30 PM |
I think it's a MC Hammer song that rhyme love with "going out to buy dove"
by Anonymous | reply 101 | March 17, 2023 7:37 PM |
I DETEST;
Papa Don't Preach I'm in Trouble, Deep.
Horrible lyrics when you can't even get English right
by Anonymous | reply 102 | March 17, 2023 7:37 PM |
OP is a fat fag hag
by Anonymous | reply 103 | March 17, 2023 7:46 PM |
R103 bathes with a rag on a stick
by Anonymous | reply 104 | March 17, 2023 7:57 PM |
R94, what's grammatically wrong with “just I and my friend” in apposition to the subject of the verb? It's not like Jim Morrison's “for you and I.”
by Anonymous | reply 105 | March 17, 2023 11:25 PM |
[quote] It sounds like "legs spread out before me".
I thought that was the real lyric.
[quote] Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay Were laid spread out before me as her body once did
Art major here. Canvas is sold in rolls or sheets, I guess. Usually, you'd staple or nail the canvas onto a frame or "stretcher bars" before you start painting. You just call it your "canvas."
Clay is sold in blocks, not sheets, though, I think.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | March 17, 2023 11:40 PM |
The first two that always come to mind are by Rick James.
In "Deja Vu (I've Been Here Before)" a song he wrote for Teena Marie to sing on her first album, there's the line:
"Once I was a white gazelle, on horseback riding free..."
The song is gorgeous, and I never gave the lyric a second thought, until one day I did. A gazelle riding on the back of a horse? Seriously? And nobody intervened and told him that a gazelle couldn't ride horseback even if it wanted to? Totally takes me out of the song every time I hear it now. Now I'm always trying to picture just how the fuck the gazelle would ride horseback...
The other one is from "Fire and Desire", perhaps THE quintessential R&B love duet of the 80's, which he also recorded with Teena. The song features several long spoken sections, one of which has Rick stating to Teena "since you've been gone, I don't think I've ever felt this way before". Again, was everybody just too high, or were they too intimidated by Rick's craziness to mention that this lyric makes no sense?
by Anonymous | reply 107 | March 17, 2023 11:47 PM |
I like to singy singy singy like a bird on the wingy wingy wingy -Madonna, Impressive Instant
by Anonymous | reply 108 | March 17, 2023 11:48 PM |
R101- It's "out buying dub" (from "Have You Seen Her?"), but I heard it as "dove," too, for the longest time.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | March 17, 2023 11:57 PM |
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain
by Anonymous | reply 110 | March 18, 2023 12:19 AM |
A couple of songs with hilariously mundane lyrics:
Ring My Bell:
[quote] Well lay back and relax, While I put away the dishes (put away the dishes)
One Less Bell to Answer:
[quote] One less bell to answer. One less egg to fry ...
by Anonymous | reply 111 | March 18, 2023 12:47 AM |
When I played Joni's Cold Blue Steel for him, my brother exclaimed "That's disgusting" when she sang "red water in the bathroom sink, fever in the scum-brown bowl".
by Anonymous | reply 112 | March 18, 2023 1:12 AM |
R112 That is an amazing song. As close to poetry as song lyrics get.
When Joni sings "Blue Steel still begging, But it's indistinct"
I thought she sang "But it's Ernestine."
And I wondered who is that? The telephone operator?
by Anonymous | reply 113 | March 18, 2023 1:30 AM |
"Spring was never waiting for us, boy It ran one step ahead As we followed in the dance Between the parted pages and were pressed In love's hot, fevered iron Like a striped pair of pants"
Looking for a sexual metaphor . . . and landing on ironing striped pants. Seriously? Striped pants. Ironing. Incredible.
At least we know the relationship is over, because the fucking cake "melted in the rain." And the recipe was lost, so no more cake-simile relationships, I guess. Presumably no more fucking like pants and an iron either.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | March 18, 2023 1:33 AM |
Dan Fogelberg has a couple:
In "Next Time" (probably my favorite song of his):
"One too many days, I've felt forgotten
And one too many nights, I've slept alone
And every time I WATCHED THE FRUIT TURN ROTTEN
I tell myself I'll be a little smarter next time..."
Who the hell wants to hear lyrics about rotting fruit in an otherwise beautiful ballad? YUCK!!!
And from "Make Love Stay":
"Moments fleet, taste sweet within the rapture
When PRECIOUS FLESH IS GREEDILY CONSUMED
But mystery's a thing not easily captured
And ONCE DECEASED, NOT EASILY EXHUMED"
Seriously what was wrong with this guy? Eating flesh and exhuming the deceased? GUH-ROSS!!!
by Anonymous | reply 115 | March 18, 2023 1:34 AM |
"I had a dream. I had an AWESOME dream."
(OK, the whole song sucks. But that's the line that cements its suckiness.)
by Anonymous | reply 116 | March 18, 2023 1:39 AM |
Michael Stipe had his share of clunkers. I always hated, "Aluminum, tastes like fear," from E-Bow the Letter.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | March 18, 2023 1:47 AM |
r111: I always thought "One less egg to fry"? Now you can make a nice two-egg omelette and have a satisfying breakfast.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | March 18, 2023 1:50 AM |
[Quote] Well lay back and relax, While I put away the dishes (put away the dishes)
I love Ring My Bell but never realized that was the lyric!
by Anonymous | reply 119 | March 18, 2023 1:56 AM |
A song called Runaway,by Jefferson Starship. The chorus in that song, totally ruined it. Marty Balin could sing love songs, but, omg that chorus is awful.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | March 18, 2023 3:17 AM |
"please understand I'm in love with another man And what he couldn't give me, oh-oh Was the one little thing that you can"
by Anonymous | reply 121 | March 18, 2023 3:33 AM |
r121, I thought the "we planted a tree" line was even worse
by Anonymous | reply 122 | March 18, 2023 3:42 AM |
R123 Didn't understand the assignment.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | March 18, 2023 3:53 AM |
While Zeppelin has many goofy lyrics, this one makes me giggle whenever I hear it.
It’s so macho and campy:
“Hammer of the Gods”
by Anonymous | reply 125 | March 18, 2023 1:58 PM |
I’ve always believed that Taylor Swift had inadequate schooling, especially using Romeo and Juliet as the basis for a happy union in Love Story, but the line that truly irks me is:
‘Cause you were Romeo, and I was a scarlet letter
What? She’s saying she was an adulterous whore? Good times!
by Anonymous | reply 126 | March 18, 2023 2:20 PM |
r125 when Robert Plant starts screeching about Gollum it's all over for me.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | March 19, 2023 9:27 AM |
R127
Different song but point well taken! That’s from Ramble On, which is supposed to be in the voice of one of the LOTR characters. The lead one. Sorry, just woke up and google isn’t helping.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | March 19, 2023 10:49 AM |
R48 You don't get it. She's done with the relationship and he's desperate to hang on, but the only thing he can think of that they have in common is an old movie they both kind of liked. Thus, he's in denial that the relationship is doomed.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | March 19, 2023 11:07 AM |
You could go line by line in that Chainsmokers song about fucking on the mattress that you stole from your roommate or whatever. I don't really care enough to look.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | March 19, 2023 11:09 AM |
R129 Also, the implication is that BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S was the movie she picked on movie night and he's recalling their time watching it and liking it to try to win her back.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | March 19, 2023 11:15 AM |
*primal scream*
by Anonymous | reply 132 | March 19, 2023 3:21 PM |
"Lazarus," one of David Bowie's final songs, has a very somber, eerie feel. But then there's the line "I was looking for your ass." Doesn't quite ruin the song, but it's very awkward and kind of spoils the mood.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | March 19, 2023 4:29 PM |
R97 The Doors had a few:
“I eat more chicken any man ever seen”
“there's a killer on the road/his brain is squirming like a toad“
by Anonymous | reply 134 | March 19, 2023 5:53 PM |
R134, I could probably clutter this whole thread with kludgy Morrison lyrics, though he did get a few good ones in too. "Riders on the Storm" is a great song really brought down by some bad lyrics.
"Into this house we're born.
Into this world we're thrown.
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan..."
In fairness, "I eat more chicken any man ever seen" is Willie Dixon's lyric. "Back Door Man" was a cover. And the lyric works better if you realize that he's not referring to literal chicken. He's talking about other men's young women. When the men come in the front door, he's slipping out the back door. Morrison famously loved fucking his girlfriends in the ass, so maybe he was finding another meaning in the song as well.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | March 19, 2023 8:25 PM |
Yeah, "chicken" was definitely a metaphor.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | March 19, 2023 9:45 PM |
"You didn't bat an eye when I made you cry"
by Anonymous | reply 137 | March 19, 2023 10:21 PM |
I like a lot of Beatles tunes, but the majority of their lyrics are rather amateurish and nonsensical. It kinda ruins them for me and why I never became a fan. I love this bit from GOLDEN GIRLS:
DOROTHY: ♪ She loves you yeah yeah yeah ♫
SOPHIA: 'Yeah yeah yeah' -- you call that music?
Also...
SOPHIA: 'Dot, Dot, what a girl I got / When we shower together we don't have to turn on hot' -- look at me, I'm a Beatle!
😂
by Anonymous | reply 138 | March 21, 2023 2:43 AM |
[quote] SOPHIA: 'Dot, Dot, what a girl I got / When we shower together we don't have to turn on hot' -- look at me, I'm a Beatle! 😂
Sounds more like the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann."
by Anonymous | reply 139 | March 21, 2023 2:45 AM |
My fave song by Spandau Ballet, Instinction, has so many:
Cheap bed, in the red/sleep the words out of your head Cold floor, nice and raw/eat the meat that’s on the floor
High tide, some disguise/loving makes the cream taste nice (?!?)
Not to mention the refrain: Stealing cake to eat the moon
Stealing cake to eat the moon
by Anonymous | reply 140 | March 21, 2023 6:27 AM |
The Actor, "I'm not an actor I'm not a star and I don't even have my own car." Jarring, and the rhyme seems forced.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | March 21, 2023 11:40 AM |
With your teeth in your mouth by REM is still the worst one mentioned here. Or the best song mentioned here. Either way...
by Anonymous | reply 142 | March 21, 2023 7:29 PM |
Love Lana, and love “Did you know there’s a tunnel under Ocean Boulevard?” But the line “fuck me to death” kind of takes me out the mood of the song.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | March 21, 2023 9:04 PM |
Wake up like a douche
by Anonymous | reply 144 | March 21, 2023 9:15 PM |
Except that's not the lyrics.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | March 21, 2023 9:18 PM |
Speaking of the “thee” thing above, even worse to me is when musicians write lyrics with the “-eth” ending on words.
Like, “Sat In Your Lap” is a great song by Kate Bush, I really love it. But towards the end, she sings:
My cup, she never overfloweth
It is I that moan and groaneth
Ugh! It’s like nails on a chalkboard for me. Also PJ Harvey’s “The Words That Maketh Murder” is a good song, but why ‘maketh’? Can’t stand that!
by Anonymous | reply 146 | March 21, 2023 9:34 PM |
[quote]Also “Respectfully I say to thee, I’m aware that you’re cheating” in Upside Down bugs me.
I've always hated this. And by the way, why is she bothering to talk to him "respectfully" when he's cheating on her? Stop being such a fucking doormat, Diana!
by Anonymous | reply 147 | March 21, 2023 9:41 PM |
“If I was a sculptor, but then again, no
Or a man who makes potions in a traveling show”
Oh, Bernie.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | March 21, 2023 10:06 PM |
R145 No way, ya sure?
by Anonymous | reply 149 | March 21, 2023 10:51 PM |
R148 I actually love that line. So random
by Anonymous | reply 150 | March 21, 2023 10:59 PM |
Dire Straits’ Money for Nothin’.
Little f*gg*t line.
Otherwise great song. One of the best opening guitar riffs of any song.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | March 22, 2023 1:48 AM |
Lana del Rey's "Young and Beautiful" feels lush despite weak lyrics,then she sings All that grace, all that body All that face makes me wanna party
Ugh
by Anonymous | reply 152 | March 22, 2023 2:41 AM |
"I Love Me Some Him" by Toni Braxton. The grammar in the title and the chorus has always irked me.
by Anonymous | reply 153 | March 22, 2023 3:52 AM |
A lot of Dixieland songs. Can't say a lot of words nowadays.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | March 22, 2023 4:07 AM |
Don't Cry For Me Argentina's chorus starts out well, but the "Don't keep your distance" line on which it, and the song, ends is musical bathos and lyrically it sounds like the phone line cut out.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | March 22, 2023 6:20 AM |
A bathtub of gentlemen only turn me off. Huuuuh.
What was Janet thinking!?
by Anonymous | reply 156 | March 22, 2023 7:19 AM |
Love the song otherwise but:
"I'm still so strange and wild"
We get it Lana, not like the other girls blah blah blah
by Anonymous | reply 157 | March 22, 2023 7:31 AM |
R156 = Sondra Prill! Hi, Sondra!
by Anonymous | reply 158 | March 22, 2023 9:06 PM |
"Minneapolis" in Janet's Escapade should've been "Haleakala!" instead. It's way more fun to sing and fits the theme of the song better.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | March 25, 2023 1:57 PM |
A snippet of "5 years" from David Bowie. I dont think it ultimately ruins it, its still a great song, but nearly...nearly: "News guy wept and told us Earth was really dying (dying) Cried so much his face was wet Then I knew he was not lying (lying)"
Of course your going to wet your face if you cry...you dont need to cry "alot" for that to happen...and why would you think the news guy would lie?
by Anonymous | reply 160 | March 25, 2023 2:09 PM |
R97 how do you consider yourself a "big fan" of a band but think the main lyricist sucks? Morrison wrote 90% of their songs lol
by Anonymous | reply 161 | March 25, 2023 2:19 PM |
R161 "lol"
by Anonymous | reply 162 | March 25, 2023 2:22 PM |
The male singing ruins this song for me, she's like all sultry, she can be anything for you, come-and-fuck-me and then dude is just droning "Im a maaaan" over and over and I swear to god I wanna fucking choke him.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | March 25, 2023 2:34 PM |
R163 (cont) It's not like there are no erotic stereotypes to draw from. But no, I guess that acknowledging that would be too much for that dudes sensibilites.I'm convinced that whoever wrote that is dead weight in bed.
Thankfully I found a cover from some obscure artists with no male singing.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | March 25, 2023 2:43 PM |
Nelly Furtado’s Shit On the Radio is a good song, but this lyric drives me nuts:
“Your face! The colors change from green to yellow, to the point where you can’t even say hello..”
Furtado isn’t the best lyricist, but her music was good.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | March 25, 2023 2:58 PM |