The Crap Lyric Thread

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WestwayKid wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 10:55am
101Walterton wrote:
05 Aug 2018, 6:42pm
Following on from WestwayKid's comment in the crap song thread regarding the Billly Joel lyric "making love to his tonic and gin" in Piano Man I thought about other lines in songs that are really annoying.

There is the obvious one in Kung Fu Fighting: "in fact it was a little bit frightening"!!!!

But the one stuck in my head (no idea why) is from Moonlight Shadow: "4 a.m. in the morning"!!!
When else is it 4 a.m. FFS.

Any more crap / annoying lines in songs?
No disrespect to the great Thin Lizzy - but..."Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town." I think we know where in town the jailbreak is gonna happen - the jail, right? ;)
There could be two jails in this particular town!
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Heston wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 11:17am
WestwayKid wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 10:55am
101Walterton wrote:
05 Aug 2018, 6:42pm
Following on from WestwayKid's comment in the crap song thread regarding the Billly Joel lyric "making love to his tonic and gin" in Piano Man I thought about other lines in songs that are really annoying.

There is the obvious one in Kung Fu Fighting: "in fact it was a little bit frightening"!!!!

But the one stuck in my head (no idea why) is from Moonlight Shadow: "4 a.m. in the morning"!!!
When else is it 4 a.m. FFS.

Any more crap / annoying lines in songs?
No disrespect to the great Thin Lizzy - but..."Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town." I think we know where in town the jailbreak is gonna happen - the jail, right? ;)
There could be two jails in this particular town!
Good point! :mrgreen:
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WestwayKid wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 10:55am
101Walterton wrote:
05 Aug 2018, 6:42pm
Following on from WestwayKid's comment in the crap song thread regarding the Billly Joel lyric "making love to his tonic and gin" in Piano Man I thought about other lines in songs that are really annoying.

There is the obvious one in Kung Fu Fighting: "in fact it was a little bit frightening"!!!!

But the one stuck in my head (no idea why) is from Moonlight Shadow: "4 a.m. in the morning"!!!
When else is it 4 a.m. FFS.

Any more crap / annoying lines in songs?
No disrespect to the great Thin Lizzy - but..."Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town." I think we know where in town the jailbreak is gonna happen - the jail, right? ;)
Good one 😂

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oliver wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 8:51am
Ice-T - Lethal Weapon
"I'm the assassinator"

No such word. You're the assassin.
hard disagree on this one
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Flex wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 3:42pm
oliver wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 8:51am
Ice-T - Lethal Weapon
"I'm the assassinator"

No such word. You're the assassin.
hard disagree on this one
I just looked it up at dictionary.com and my mind is blown:
Related forms
as·sas·si·na·tion, noun
as·sas·si·na·tive, adjective
as·sas·si·na·tor, noun
coun·ter·as·sas·si·na·tion, noun
un·as·sas·si·nat·ed, adjective

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WestwayKid wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 11:38am
Heston wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 11:17am
WestwayKid wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 10:55am
101Walterton wrote:
05 Aug 2018, 6:42pm
Following on from WestwayKid's comment in the crap song thread regarding the Billly Joel lyric "making love to his tonic and gin" in Piano Man I thought about other lines in songs that are really annoying.

There is the obvious one in Kung Fu Fighting: "in fact it was a little bit frightening"!!!!

But the one stuck in my head (no idea why) is from Moonlight Shadow: "4 a.m. in the morning"!!!
When else is it 4 a.m. FFS.

Any more crap / annoying lines in songs?
No disrespect to the great Thin Lizzy - but..."Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town." I think we know where in town the jailbreak is gonna happen - the jail, right? ;)
There could be two jails in this particular town!
Good point! :mrgreen:
Im pretty sure this was a previous point of discussion and that if we were talking Dublin and depending on the time when the song takes place there were and currently are more than one prison in Dublin.

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revbob wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 6:09pm
WestwayKid wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 11:38am
Heston wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 11:17am
WestwayKid wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 10:55am
101Walterton wrote:
05 Aug 2018, 6:42pm
Following on from WestwayKid's comment in the crap song thread regarding the Billly Joel lyric "making love to his tonic and gin" in Piano Man I thought about other lines in songs that are really annoying.

There is the obvious one in Kung Fu Fighting: "in fact it was a little bit frightening"!!!!

But the one stuck in my head (no idea why) is from Moonlight Shadow: "4 a.m. in the morning"!!!
When else is it 4 a.m. FFS.

Any more crap / annoying lines in songs?
No disrespect to the great Thin Lizzy - but..."Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town." I think we know where in town the jailbreak is gonna happen - the jail, right? ;)
There could be two jails in this particular town!
Good point! :mrgreen:
Im pretty sure this was a previous point of discussion and that if we were talking Dublin and depending on the time when the song takes place there were and currently are more than one prison in Dublin.
Now that you mention it, I seem to recall that discussion as well.

Also, I'd like to think John Carpenter wrote the script for Escape From New York just trying to make sense of that line.
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Heston wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 8:04am
"Can't complain, mustn't grumble, help yourself to another piece of apple crumble"

Excruciating line from ABC in the otherwise good, "That Was Then But This Is Now."
To be fair I think Fry is being deliberately surreal with that line, as it fits the general mood of the song. ;)
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laxman wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 10:33am
Heston wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 8:04am
"Can't complain, mustn't grumble, help yourself to another piece of apple crumble"

Excruciating line from ABC in the otherwise good, "That Was Then But This Is Now."
That always made me laugh. Slightly off on a tangent, but I do like that second ABC album.
Very underrated album.
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Heston wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 7:25am
"We share the same biology, regardless of Ideology"

Fuck you, Sting.
To be fair I think Gordon is deliberately being a moron with that line, as it fits the general mood of the song. :mrgreen:
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Marky Dread wrote:
07 Aug 2018, 11:43am
Heston wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 7:25am
"We share the same biology, regardless of Ideology"

Fuck you, Sting.
To be fair I think Gordon is deliberately being a moron with that line, as it fits the general mood of the song. :mrgreen:
;)

Weller was in a trance at the supermarket, and lots of surreal things were happening. A tin of baked beans on toast was always going to fall on him.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
07 Aug 2018, 11:50am
Marky Dread wrote:
07 Aug 2018, 11:43am
Heston wrote:
06 Aug 2018, 7:25am
"We share the same biology, regardless of Ideology"

Fuck you, Sting.
To be fair I think Gordon is deliberately being a moron with that line, as it fits the general mood of the song. :mrgreen:
;)

Weller was in a trance at the supermarket, and lots of surreal things were happening. A tin of baked beans on toast was always going to fall on him.
When I'm in the crowd, I don't see anything
My mind goes a blank...oh but now I have miraculously recovered my sight and like wow fuck me I can see falling cans of baked beans on toast no less.

Clever fucker that Weller. ;)
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We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.

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Heard one today that upsets me: I'm a connoisseur and I've conned you sir.

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oliver wrote:
07 Aug 2018, 2:55pm
Heard one today that upsets me: I'm a connoisseur and I've conned you sir.

Sleaford Mods.

And I like Sleaford Mods. :oops:
That's actually kind of incredible.

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This one jars with me:
“when the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard”.
Too many syllables or something!

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