Irritating song lyrics

frank1985

No life till leather
We are gonna kick some ass tonight
We got the metal madness
When our fans start screaming
It's right well alright
When we start to rock
We never want to stop again

richardhomer

Octafish said:

Call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
Well now, they call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road

Yeah, yeah, and they call me the wheel, I just keep going round and round . Always annoyed me, just lazy, boring nonsense, classic Blusak...

Come to the Fretboard Northern Jam at the end of January - I’ll be playing this very song....

Neill

The thing is, I don't mind nonsense lyrics up to a point, I mean "Spoonful" what the bloody hell is that all about? but it's a great song,  I can even stand banal or lazy stuff in the right context, what I can't do with is plain factual inaccuracy.

One really gets on my nerves because we used to perform it, Smooth Operator - "Coast to Coast, LA to Chicago"

And I'm surprised Mr Hewson's got off scot free so far, no-one has mentioned "Early morning April 4th, shot rings out in the Memphis sky".  Bono at his very worst.








 

ICBM

Neill said:

The thing is, I don't mind nonsense lyrics up to a point, I mean "Spoonful" what the bloody hell is that all about? but it's a great song,  I can even stand banal or lazy stuff in the right context, what I can't do with is plain factual inaccuracy.

That's my issue with Cortez The Killer as well. It just grates because it's such total nonsense - it makes no difference if he's trying to be poetic or allegorical or whatever, it's just flat-out rubbish... the Aztecs were violent, warlike people who carried out human sacrifice - if anything they were probably worse than the Spanish.

Neill said:

And I'm surprised Mr Hewson's got off scot free so far, no-one has mentioned "Early morning April 4th, shot rings out in the Memphis sky".  Bono at his very worst.

That's true. It wouldn't have been very difficult to sing 'early evening' instead.

Veganic

I think some of you are pedantic/ literal minded/ lacking in poetry. I could offer a defence of some of the nonsense but I will never be able to explain this:

T'Pau - China In Your Hand

I will spare you by not posting a sample. Google if you dare.

Emp_Fab

Talking of which, where’s our own Carol Decker these days ? @Col_Decker ;

LesbianWithAGun

It's getting hot in here
So take off all your clothes
-Nelly

LesbianWithAGun

Off the never-never land
-Metallica

Rocker

Do you want your auld lobby washed down Con Shine?

You'll never walk alone

Danny Boy

Even thinking about those above makes me feel sick.

fob

LesbianWithAGun said:

Off the never-never land
-Metallica

Isn't it 'off to never never land' (sleep)?

BigBearKris

Jeez... some of you are quite miserable- to take the lyrics literally and to confabulate whether there actually was 9 million bicycles in Beijing or not... 

Col_Decker

Emp_Fab said:

Talking of which, where’s our own Carol Decker these days ? @Col_Decker ;

Still here lurking about, but work PC keeps logging me out.*

*not a song lyric

ICBM

Veganic said:

I think some of you are pedantic/ literal minded/ lacking in poetry.

BigBearKris said:

Jeez... some of you are quite miserable- to take the lyrics literally and to confabulate whether there actually was 9 million bicycles in Beijing or not...

There's a difference between poetry and just plain nonsense .

not_the_dj

Veganic said:

I think some of you are pedantic/ literal minded/ lacking in poetry. I could offer a defence of some of the nonsense but I will never be able to explain this:

T'Pau - China In Your Hand

I will spare you by not posting a sample. Google if you dare.

Surprisingly for an 80s power ballad it's about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Octafish

fob said:

LesbianWithAGun said:

Off the never-never land
-Metallica

Isn't it 'off to never never land' (sleep)?

Enter Sandman, Gripping the pillow tight.... fnarr, fnarr snigger

Octafish

richardhomer said:

Octafish said:

Call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
Well now, they call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road

Yeah, yeah, and they call me the wheel, I just keep going round and round . Always annoyed me, just lazy, boring nonsense, classic Blusak...

Come to the Fretboard Northern Jam at the end of January - I’ll be playing this very song....

Damn I'm busy that night, whatever one that is

mart

Col_Decker said:
...

Still here lurking about, but work PC keeps logging me out.*

*not a song lyric

Ah, but surely it could be an irritating lyric:

Lurking on the fretboard, PC keeps logging me out.
Lurkng on the fretboard, modmins keep throwing me out.
Gonna buy myself a Terry Morgan and put on a Bigsby,
See what the fuss is all about.

thecolourbox

Col_Decker said:

Emp_Fab said:

Talking of which, where’s our own Carol Decker these days ? @Col_Decker ;;

Still here lurking about, but work PC keeps logging me out.*

*not a song lyric

21st century Morrissey song title right there

Neill

not_the_dj said:

Veganic said:

I think some of you are pedantic/ literal minded/ lacking in poetry. I could offer a defence of some of the nonsense but I will never be able to explain this:

T'Pau - China In Your Hand

I will spare you by not posting a sample. Google if you dare.

Surprisingly for an 80s power ballad it's about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Ah Frankenstein! - there's another one  - in "Another Saturday Night" Sam Cook sings 

Another fella told me he had a sister who looked just fine
Instead of being my deliverance, she had a strange resemblance
to a cat named Frankenstein

Schoolboy error.