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Good song... but jesus the lyrics are bloody awful

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  • 08-02-2002 1:57pm
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    Bard
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    Paul Young & Zucchero: Senza una Donna

    nice tune - nice idea... bloody terrible lyrics...!

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    Any other nominations?


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    Figment
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    MMm, i never really pay attention to lyrics.
    If its a good song i dont really think it matters what the words are. Does it?


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    Bard
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    They do when they get you wondering "WTF is he on about???" instead of just enjoying the song...

    "Take my heart/ feel the power/ look at me/ HUH/ I'm a flower/..."

    er... ok...

    better examples?... here - or you lot come up with some.

    pfft


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    Washout
    Registered Users Posts: 2,912 ✭✭✭Washout


    its a commercial piece of tripe to be honest...they just got together and put the song together really quickly id reckon


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    mike65
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    Any other nominations...

    Take a long hard listen to MacArthurs' Park or Whiter Shade of Pale, not to mention I Am the Walrus. :)

    Mike.


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    atonal
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    ahh I Am The Walrus is a brilliant piece of lyrical nonsense

    Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
    Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.

    unbeatable!
    Yes it is meaningess dribble but brilliant.

    For All The STAND bashers on this site their Anthem "Be Global"
    is lyrically lacking

    "be global, be mobile, be waiting wherever I go"?

    My brother trying to put this into words "it well... it should be a good song but it's... vapid"

    extrapoints for using "Azerbajan" in a song though.

    Actually although I do like stand they have quite a few songs with questionable lyrics.

    Also a big Frames fan and one of my favorite songs is "Red Chord" but the one bit "Happy like an Angel" is questionable.


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    Lolo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭Lolo


    Of course lyrics make a difference!

    I cringe every time I hear the line in "Honky Tonk Woman" - "She blew my nose and then she blew my mind". It *almost* spoils the song for me.

    Radiohead's "Creep" is another one - lovely little song, vocal delivery is fine but, sheesh, Thom, stop being such a whiney little prick!

    Ooh dear, I've slagged off the 'head on boards.ie, not gonna be popular...


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    Jim Daniels
    Closed Accounts Posts: 161 ✭✭Jim Daniels


    Originally posted by Lolo
    Of course lyrics make a difference!

    I cringe every time I hear the line in "Honky Tonk Woman" - "She blew my nose and then she blew my mind". It *almost* spoils the song for me.

    Radiohead's "Creep" is another one - lovely little song, vocal delivery is fine but, sheesh, Thom, stop being such a whiney little prick!

    Ooh dear, I've slagged off the 'head on boards.ie, not gonna be popular...


    Have to agree with Lolo, Thom ought to get over it, although I do like the line "I want you to notice when I'm not around". It kind of rings true.

    Some songs work cause of the music, some cause of the lyrics and ocasionally because of both. Leonard Cohen is my favourite lyricist ever and is totally misunderstood by people who reckon he's miserable. The guy is simultaneously eloquant and hilarious, which as somebody once said, is probably the reason he's such a good chat up merchant.

    Some bad lyrics can really make the song (The Shangrai La's for instance) in a "so bad they are good way", but thats pretty rare I suppose.

    My curent fave contemporary lyricists are M Ward, Rennie Sparks (Handsome Family), and Sparklehorse dude, all of whom are often accused of being miserable. It bemuses me.


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    danbert
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    Anyone ever heard of L.S.D.?


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    saik
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    the lyrics are what make creep imo
    they are deadly

    you can't be a happy clappy hara krishna 24/7.


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    Da Bounca
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    Anyone ever heard of L.S.D?.

    Yeh, want some?


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    EvilGeorge
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    YAH!


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    Lolo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 357 ✭✭Lolo


    I have no problem with miserable songs (I'm actually on a quest to find the most depressing song in the world - will start thread in a few minutes), it's just that Thom Y. (or the character he's assuming) is so pathetically self-deprecating and "oh poor lickle me I'm not worthy", and more to the point, does it so clumsily. Julian Cope expresses the same emotion so much more eloquently in "head" off the Peggy Suicide LP - "She's an ocean, I'm just a puddle"...

    On the subject of the Handsome Family, their lyrics *are* miserable, but in a very humorous way. See you on the other thread...


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    Figment
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    Anyone ever heard of L.S.D?.

    Is that the old galway cover band?


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    mike65
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    Originally posted by Lolo
    Of course lyrics make a difference!

    I cringe every time I hear the line in "Honky Tonk Woman" - "She blew my nose and then she blew my mind". It *almost* spoils the song for me.

    When the Senators Wives plaything the PMRC got going in the mid 80s' I remember reading an article in SPIN about how the
    "great" ladies were listening to Honky Tonk Woman trying to
    decide whether Jagger had sung Blew My Nose or Blew My Hose,
    one was okay the other was a definite no-no! :D

    Mike.


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