| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 9/28/2006 12:38:36 PM | (not the worst but stands out)worst:
(Marilyn Manson's I don't like the drugs[but the drugs like me])
You and I are underdosed and we're ready to fall
Raised to be stupid, taught to be nothing at all
I don't like the drugs but the drugs like me
I don't like the drugs, the drugs, the drugs
(not the best but some of the better ones) best:
(smashing pumpkins' Thirty Three)
Speak to me in a language I can hear
Humour me before I have to go
Deep in thought I forgive everyone
As the cluttered streets greet me once again
I know I can't be late, supper's waiting on the table
Tomorrow's just an excuse away
So I pull my collar up and face the cold, on my own | |
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| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 9/28/2006 3:32:35 PM | worst lyrics:
These are far from the only lyrics like this. The worst lyrics can be applied to about 85-90 percent of all music in existence. The absolute worst are the hair metal idiots and tacky laughable power ballads. I call them the "I'm a poet and i don't know it" lines. Bon Jovi's Bed of Roses really sticks out, though and I always laugh my head off when they play it.
"I'm gonna lay you down in a bed of roses, I want to be as close as the holy ghost is" ???????
Way to stretch for a rhyme moron.
best lyrics:
Probably anything John Lennon and Roger Waters put down since it usually seems to actually mean something and manages to be smart and clever at the same time. Marilyn Manson's Beautiful People ranks up there too. Actually if you can wade through all the noise and read between the lines, that whole album has some of the best lyrics I've heard. | |
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| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 9/30/2006 2:31:34 AM | lost track of you awhile
but you were waiting for me with a smile
made me feel like a little child
with a brand new view
lets do it all over babe
it will just be another trip we make
when my love crosses over i'm coming too
john hiatt has long been one of my favorite songwriters, and this verse is my current favorite! | |
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| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 10/16/2006 4:37:47 PM | haha.. The best: Strokin' by Clarence Carter.. I laugh my butt off everytime I hear it.
Now when I start making love to my woman
I don´t stop until I know she´s sas-ified
And I can always tell when she gets sas-ified
´Cause when she gets sas-fied she start calling my name
She´d say: ´Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter, Clarence Carter
Clarence Carter, ooooh shit, Clarence Carter´
The other night I was strokin´ my woman
And it got so good to her, you know what she told me
Let me tell you what she told me, she said:
´Stroke it Clarence Carter, but don´t stroke so fast
If my stuff ain´t tight enough, you can stick it up my...´ WOO! | |
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| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 10/16/2006 4:46:31 PM | Worst Lyrics:
Enrique Iglasias (sp?)
"You can run, you can hide, but you can't escape my love."
Can you say S-T-A-L-K-E-R??? | |
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| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 10/16/2006 6:41:11 PM | There's far too many good ones for me to list, so I'll just go with a bad one.
I don't even remember the song title, or who did it. I only remember that it was some cookie-cutter bubblegum jailbait chick, and that Ed The Sock butchered it during one of the Fromage specials, and rightfully so. I'm just paraphrasing here, but it goes something like this.
"Teachers always treat us like clones.
Eyes up front, turn off your headphones
They're only in it for the money.
Money, money, yeah! Money money, woo!"
Yeah.
And I like Beck, but some of his lyrics can be out there. From "Devil's Haircut":
"Heads are hanging from the garbage man trees
Mouthwash jukebox gasoline"
I know there's probably some weird, ultra-deep meaning behind those, but it just sounds like the musical equivalent of Homer Simpson's failed attempt at making a barbecue pit becoming art. | |
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| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 10/17/2006 4:59:39 AM | "I'm so tired, I can't sleep"
and rewordings of it is perhaps the most overused line I can think of in songs, and so it drives me nuts every time I hear it these days. | |
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| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 2/23/2007 7:08:05 PM | One of the worst I can think of now
Neil Diamond
I am, I said.
To no one there.
And no one heard at all,
not even the chair
One of my favorites
Jackson Browne
Someone's going to have to explain it to me
I'm not sure what it means
My baby's feeling funny in the morning
She's having trouble getting into her jeans
Her waist-line seems to be expanding
Although she never feels like eating a thing
I guess we'll reach some understanding
When we see what the future will bring | |
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| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 2/24/2007 5:07:59 AM | Best...
Leonard Cohen, from Famous Blue Raincoat
"And you treated my woman to a flake of your life
And when she came back she was nobodys wife."
worst, the Chicken Song by Spitting Image?... But, then again, it was intentionally written to be worst and succeeds so admirably in being ridiculous with tons of cultural references so maybe not.... one worst line from a song?
"I might as well jump
go ahead and jump"
Worst Van Halen song ever. | |
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| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 2/24/2007 5:41:02 AM | I agree with you about Jump.
The worst lyric that comes to my mind...LFO~Summer Girls
I like the colour purple,macaroni and cheese
Ruby red slippers and a bunch of trees...wtf?...lol
Leonard Cohen is a genius with words.
One of the best.
The sun poured in like butterscotch
and stuck to all my senses...Joni Mitchell~Chelsea Morning | |
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Posted: 2/25/2007 3:36:24 PM | Right. Best song I ever heard, lyrically. Tom Waits.
Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight,
And nobody flinched down by the arcade
And the marquees weren't weeping, they went stark-raving mad,
And the cabbies were the only ones that really had it made
And his cold trousers were twisted, and the sirens high and shrill,
And crumpled in his fist was a five-dollar bill
And the naked mannequins with their Cheshire grins,
And the raconteurs and roustabouts said "Buddy, come on in, 'cause
'Cause the dreams ain't broken down here now, they're walking with a limp
Now that Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight"
And nobody flinched down by the arcade
And the burglar alarm's been disconnected,
And the newsmen start to rattle
And the cops are telling jokes about some whorehouse in Seattle
And the fire hydrants plead the Fifth Amendment
And the furniture is bargains galore
But the blood is by the jukebox on an old linoleum floor
And what a hot rain on Forty-Second Street,
And now the umbrellas ain't got a chance
And the newsboy's a lunatic with stains on his pants, 'cause
'Cause Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight
And no one's gone over to close his eyes
And there's a racing form in his pocket,
Circled "Blue Boots" in the third
And the cashier at the clothing store didn't say a word
As the siren tears the night in half, and someone lost his wallet
Well, a surveillance of assailance, it that's what you want to call it
And the whores hike up their skirts and fish for drug-store prophylactics
With their mouths cut just like razor blades and their eyes are like stilettos
And her radiator's steaming and her teeth are in a wreck, and nah,
She won't let you kiss her, but what the hell do you expect?
And the Gypsies are tragic and if you want to buy perfume,
Well, they'll bark you down like carneys, sell you Christmas cards in June, but
But Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight
And his headstone's a gumball machine,
No more chewing gum or baseball cards or overcoats or dreams
Someone's hosing down the sidewalk, and he's only in his teens, 'cause
'Cause Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight
And a fistful of dollars can't change that,
And someone copped his watch fob, and someone got his ring
And the newsboy got his porkpie Stetson hat
And the tuberculosis old men at the Nelson wheeze and cough
And someone will head south until this whole thing cools off, 'cause
'Cause Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight, yeah,
Small Change got rained on with his own thirty-eight | |
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| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 1/25/2008 12:24:10 PM | There were ways I should have thrilled you
There were days I could have killed you
Rodney Crowell..After all this time..
Up until this point,its a very tender song.lol | |
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Posted: 1/27/2008 2:44:25 PM | Best - Tearing the veil from grace - Cradle of Filth
Biblical choirs soar beyond veiled light
A swansong for ravens trapped flapping in night
A tragic yet magical fall from grace
Too awful to taste for the led and the chaste
Those whose long letters addressed to all saints
Free shining souls torn from God's given Reich
Defilled, reviled, exiled from sight
And Hell knows we sought victory
Chancing the leash
But when bad die were cast
We were cast down to die
A steeple of needles thrust into our eyes
So scholars might say we were blinded by pride
Like the sin of Our Father
Whom in Isaiah and Midian thrived
Regaining His sights for the storming of skies
Worst - Anything by daft punk  | |
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| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 3/8/2008 8:13:19 PM | To the OP: Ha-I was not aware of that Eminen song lyric-but I agree with you that its awful!
Some of my favs:
Audioslave: "Be Yourself"....."be yourself is all that you can do.....i'm sure that everything will end up alright"
"Doesn't Remind Me" ...." i like gospel music and canned applause-cuz its doesn't remind me of anything"
Tea Party:..."rest assured babe-you're adored"
Aerosmith :"What It Takes"..."tell me that you're body doesn't miss my touch. tell me that my lovin didn't mean that much"
The Tragically Hip "put my feet up on the banks-looked up to the Lord above and said-hey man-thanks"
Maroon 5 "This Love" ..."I tried my best to feed her appetite. Keep her coming every night" and "She Will Be Loved"...."I drove for miles and miles. and wound up at your door. i had you so many times but somehow i want more"
Counting Crows album "August and Everything After". I love the whole CD/songs/lrics. Most ppl just remember "Mr. Jones" but the whole recording is great. Some of the lyrics I love on it are the song "Round Here"..."And in between the moon and you-the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right." And "Perfect Blue Buildings"..."Asleep in perfect blue buidings. beside the green apple sea. Gonna get me a little oblivion.Try to keep myself away from me." And "Anna Begins"...."It does not bother me to say this isn't love. Because if you don't want to talk about it-it isn't love. And I guess I'm going to have to live with that. But I'm sure theres something in a shade of grey. Something in between.'
Some songs are so silly/bad though-that they are somehow good!? Like:
Led Zeppelin: "squeeze my lemon til the juice runs down your leg"and "I don't care what the neighbors say-I'm gonna love you each and everyday"
SirMixAlot: "I like big butts and I cannot lie"
Maestro Fresh Wes: "sacroiliac-its like a rap sack backback" Its make absolutely no sense-but it sounds cool. And I'm a science nerd/work in the medical field-so medical terms are cool to me. lmao.
Among the songs/lyrics that I really dislike are:
"Fergie" with the My Lumps/Humps song...what total crap!
"Celine Dion"-more crap
That Umbrella, ele ele ela song! Please make it stop!
Avril Lavinge-its all just bad!
Milli Vanilli was just wrong on so many levels....r.i.p. Milli...or Vanilli...i dunno which | |
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Posted: 3/8/2008 11:40:21 PM |
Maestro Fresh Wes: "sacroiliac-its like a rap sack backback" Its make absolutely no sense-but it sounds cool.
It only doesn't make sense because sacroiliac isn't in that line, it's in the prior one. "so many suckas on my sacroiliac"... He's talking about the leeches that attach themselves when you get successful, or get on your back "like a backpack..."
(why did I explain any of that??? shouldn't type so late.. LOL) | |
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| Best and Worst lines from songs
Posted: 3/13/2008 12:30:42 AM | The best - Most of everything Bright Eyes ever did (with honourable mention to the Weakerthans)
From landlocked blues
"And there’s kids playing guns in the street
And ones pointing his tree branch at me
So I put my hands up I say “enough is enough,
If you walk away, I’ll walk away”
And he shot me dead"
The worst – I hated that Franz Ferdinand song. "I Saaay dontcha know?" But I think everybody here's got a pretty good handle on bad music. I also want to puke a little bit when I hear Friends in Low Places. Sorry Nova Scotia, I just don't like it. | |
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Posted: 3/15/2008 7:22:20 AM | I'm a come-lately Cohen fan and still don't know a lot of his stuff, but a couple of his songs have been on my mind a lot lately:
Hallelujah--Is there a bad line anywhere in that song?
Anthem--"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in"--my all time favourite line in any song. | |
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Posted: 3/15/2008 1:21:20 PM | One of the best:
Eulogy, by Tool -
"Standing above the crowd,
He had a voice that was strong and loud and I
Swallowed his facade cuz I'm so
Eager to identify with
Someone above the ground,
Someone who seemed to feel the same,
Someone prepared to lead the way, and
Someone who would die for me." | |
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