The Crap Lyric Thread

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Marky Dread wrote:
10 Aug 2018, 12:54pm
Kory wrote:
10 Aug 2018, 12:52pm
oliver wrote:
09 Aug 2018, 11:27am
WestwayKid wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:33pm
Heston wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:13pm
Duran Duran's "You're about as easy as a nuclear war" was pretty crass in an era of heightened cold war tension.
I love DD - but they had some massively crap lyrics.
From start to finish "The Reflex" has to be a contender for the worst lyric as a whole.
I always cringe on hearing "why don't you use it? Try not to bruise it, buy time don't lose it"
When I was quite young and not aware of popular music, this song was included in one of Weird Al's polka medleys and I was completely baffled by where it came from and what the hell it was supposed to mean.
Never mind being young mate, I'm baffled now.
Yeah but I didn't even have context. Plus Al sings it like a sheep for some reason.
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Kory wrote:
10 Aug 2018, 12:52pm
oliver wrote:
09 Aug 2018, 11:27am
WestwayKid wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:33pm
Heston wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:13pm
Duran Duran's "You're about as easy as a nuclear war" was pretty crass in an era of heightened cold war tension.
I love DD - but they had some massively crap lyrics.
From start to finish "The Reflex" has to be a contender for the worst lyric as a whole.
I always cringe on hearing "why don't you use it? Try not to bruise it, buy time don't lose it"
When I was quite young and not aware of popular music, this song was included in one of Weird Al's polka medleys and I was completely baffled by where it came from and what the hell it was supposed to mean.
Did it have the cheesey camera sound too?

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oliver wrote:
09 Aug 2018, 11:27am
WestwayKid wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:33pm
Heston wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:13pm
Duran Duran's "You're about as easy as a nuclear war" was pretty crass in an era of heightened cold war tension.
I love DD - but they had some massively crap lyrics.
From start to finish "The Reflex" has to be a contender for the worst lyric as a whole.
I always cringe on hearing "why don't you use it? Try not to bruise it, buy time don't lose it"
I think you're just all upset because you're "on a ride" and you "wan't to get off" but they just won't slow down the damned roundabout!?
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Kory wrote:
10 Aug 2018, 12:58pm
Marky Dread wrote:
10 Aug 2018, 12:54pm
Kory wrote:
10 Aug 2018, 12:52pm
oliver wrote:
09 Aug 2018, 11:27am
WestwayKid wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:33pm


I love DD - but they had some massively crap lyrics.
From start to finish "The Reflex" has to be a contender for the worst lyric as a whole.
I always cringe on hearing "why don't you use it? Try not to bruise it, buy time don't lose it"
When I was quite young and not aware of popular music, this song was included in one of Weird Al's polka medleys and I was completely baffled by where it came from and what the hell it was supposed to mean.
Never mind being young mate, I'm baffled now.
Yeah but I didn't even have context. Plus Al sings it like a sheep for some reason.
"Context" Duran Duran? Nope sorry baffled again.
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revbob wrote:
10 Aug 2018, 1:00pm
Kory wrote:
10 Aug 2018, 12:52pm
oliver wrote:
09 Aug 2018, 11:27am
WestwayKid wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:33pm
Heston wrote:
08 Aug 2018, 2:13pm
Duran Duran's "You're about as easy as a nuclear war" was pretty crass in an era of heightened cold war tension.
I love DD - but they had some massively crap lyrics.
From start to finish "The Reflex" has to be a contender for the worst lyric as a whole.
I always cringe on hearing "why don't you use it? Try not to bruise it, buy time don't lose it"
When I was quite young and not aware of popular music, this song was included in one of Weird Al's polka medleys and I was completely baffled by where it came from and what the hell it was supposed to mean.
Did it have the cheesey camera sound too?
No, but there was an accordion...
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I heard "Horse with No Name" by America this morning while pumping gas (I always hear the worst songs at the gas station). Man...that song has some AWFUL lyrics. There were plants and birds and rocks and things? 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain?
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WestwayKid wrote:
06 Sep 2018, 8:21am
I heard "Horse with No Name" by America this morning while pumping gas (I always hear the worst songs at the gas station). Man...that song has some AWFUL lyrics. There were plants and birds and rocks and things? 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain?
Also, why didn’t he just give the horse a name? He must have had time to think of one in the desert ;)

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laxman wrote:
06 Sep 2018, 12:30pm
WestwayKid wrote:
06 Sep 2018, 8:21am
I heard "Horse with No Name" by America this morning while pumping gas (I always hear the worst songs at the gas station). Man...that song has some AWFUL lyrics. There were plants and birds and rocks and things? 'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain?
Also, why didn’t he just give the horse a name? He must have had time to think of one in the desert ;)
I hope the poor horse could swim.

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I still think "Horse With No Name" is a really good song with a good eco message, dodgy lines aside.
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:
06 Sep 2018, 3:25pm
I still think "Horse With No Name" is a really good song with a good eco message, dodgy lines aside.
I like it. Larrikin Love did a good cover.
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I think it was Tom Waits who suggested to change the lyrics to "I've been through the desert on a horse with no legs".
Who pfaffed the pfaff? Who got pfaffed tonight?

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Silent Majority wrote:
06 Sep 2018, 4:04pm
Heston wrote:
06 Sep 2018, 3:25pm
I still think "Horse With No Name" is a really good song with a good eco message, dodgy lines aside.
I like it. Larrikin Love did a good cover.
Yeah, actually a pretty catchy tune - just some clunky word play.
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‘4am in the morning’ - Moonlight Shadow

Well it isn’t going to be 4am in the afternoon!!!!

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101Walterton wrote:
23 Oct 2018, 3:17pm
‘4am in the morning’ - Moonlight Shadow

Well it isn’t going to be 4am in the afternoon!!!!
:mrgreen:

"He could preach the bible like a preacher"

From the otherwise perfect "Rasputin" by Boney M.
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Heston wrote:
23 Oct 2018, 7:08pm
101Walterton wrote:
23 Oct 2018, 3:17pm
‘4am in the morning’ - Moonlight Shadow

Well it isn’t going to be 4am in the afternoon!!!!
:mrgreen:

"He could preach the bible like a preacher"

From the otherwise perfect "Rasputin" by Boney M.
Well it could be "He could preach the bible like a drunk".
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