Posted by jbcardinale on 2007-05-03 14:30:31 +0000
Worst Lyric Ever?
To be the worst, they can't be just bad, but the lyrics must exude a certain level of pomposity and inanity...
additions, anyone?
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/05/whats_the_worst_song_lyric_eve.html
Posted by mahatma chani on 2007-05-03 14:45:52 +0000
Fuck that... "Africa" is pretty much a perfect song.
Posted by jbcardinale on 2007-05-03 15:02:23 +0000
Hold The Line!
Posted by Epoisses on 2007-05-03 15:11:58 +0000
All fall down, can't complain, mustn't grumble
Help yourself to another piece of apple crumble
I woulda loved this lyric if it was in a Pavement song.
Posted by ConorClockwise on 2007-05-03 15:40:36 +0000
It's a beautiful day
Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away
Posted by virtue on 2007-05-03 17:44:15 +0000
How is "Generals gathered in their masses/just like witches at black masses" not the most perfectly evocative couplet in all of rock history? I mean, come on, dude.
Seriously, though, Dylan's failure to use this couplet in masters of war led directly to his becoming born-again.
Posted by MF DU on 2007-05-03 17:51:35 +0000
This is too boring to be the worst, but this is what popped into my head first (must've been this week's American Idol cameo - its like a car crash I know I shouldn't look but I always do anyway)
I'll be there for you
These five words I swear to you
When you breathe I want to be the air for you
I'll be there for you
I'd live and I'd die for you
Steal the sun from the sky for you
Words can't say what a love can do
I'll be there for you
I think after or during the breakdown, Bon Jovi belts out the line "I Didn't Mean to Miss your Birthday, Baby"
If we ever find and capture Osama Bin Mama, fuck Gitmo -> a good pair of advents, a cd with a "repeat" button, a multi-thousand watt receiver, and a lock on the outside of the door is pretty much all we'll need.
Posted by Rory_Stark on 2007-05-03 18:01:13 +0000
The Chili Peppers get worse and worse, like, to the point of insulting.
"Hey oh... listen what I say oh
I got your hey oh, now listen what I say oh"
There's also that awful "Life is Beautiful" song were
he starts doing some "The Gods Must Be Crazy" dialect crap.
Painful.
Posted by tommy on 2007-05-03 20:38:39 +0000
I was gonna say something by Meat Loaf, but I take that back...
I say it's "Murder By Numbers" by the Police. First lines:
Once that you've decided on a killing
First you make a stone of your heart
And if you find that your hands are still willing
Then you can turn a murder into art
He pratters on like this for a while, then the payoff!
Because its murder by numbers
One, two, three
Its as easy to learn as your abc
Sting rhymes "ABC" and "123" while at the same time trying to sound all intellectual. What a cunt.
The Supersuckers did this topic right:
Just hop in the car
And drive right through the door
Hey, it's kinda fun killin' everyone at your favorite store
Now, them's lyrics!
Posted by mr. mister on 2007-05-04 01:28:32 +0000
I was liked the "You're about as easy as a nuclear war" bit in the Duran Duran song. As far as Black Sabbath goes though, they have much worse like this gem from A National Acrobat on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath:
"I've lived a thousand times
I found out what it means to be believed
The thoughts and images
The unborn child that never was conceived"