Great tracks musically but with appalling lyrics..

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equalsqlequalsql Frets: 6084
edited April 2021 in Music
I nominate 'Dog Party' by Scott Henderson. The track is an insane fusion/blues mix with incredible playing by Henderson, but good Lord the lyrics are absolutely abysmal, the cringeworthy sort of thing an 18 year old college jock misogynist might come up with after a pissup.
WTF was he thinking?



Any other good examples of this type of thing out there I wonder?



(pronounced: equal-sequel)   "I suffered for my art.. now it's your turn"
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  • HAL9000HAL9000 Frets: 9551
    edited April 2021
    Pretty much anything Lord David of Gilmour has done where Roger Waters didn’t write the lyric.
    I play guitar because I enjoy it rather than because I’m any good at it
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  • StuckfastStuckfast Frets: 2393
    Almost anything by Black Sabbath, especially 'Paranoid'.
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  • McSwaggertyMcSwaggerty Frets: 657
    Everything Bryan Adams..... Average singalong tunes with nursery rhyme lyrics
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  • PhilW1PhilW1 Frets: 941
    Stuckfast said:
    Almost anything by Black Sabbath, especially 'Paranoid'.
    Gotta say have you ever listened to Sabbath?  ;)
    War pigs,
    After Forever
    Lord of this World..etc etc
    Geezers a genius and as for Paranoid ,they’re great lyrics ,you can read so many different things into them or take nothing from them -always a good indicator of good writing  - wish I could throw something together that good as quick as they did that lasts 50years  plus.

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  • StuckfastStuckfast Frets: 2393
    edited April 2021
    "Generals gathered in their masses
    Just like witches at black masses"

    Sorry, that's pretty poor...
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  • mrkbmrkb Frets: 6637
    Most Queen songs? I want to ride my bicycle, we will rock you, fat bottom girls, etc....
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22516
    I've never been that bothered about lyrics so long as they sound right in the context of the song.

    I'm sure if I really racked my brains I'd think of some particularly stupid lyrics but nothing immediately springs to mind because they're all pretty stupid.

    Pop and rock lyrics aren't high art.  If you read them on their own, away from the music, 90% of them are like something a 15 year old would have written for GCSE English.  Except possibly with a lot more sexual content...
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  • NeillNeill Frets: 941
    I always think Elton John's "Saturday Night's Alright for Fighting" has the most crass lyric, even for the early '70's when it was recorded. 

    It's a good tune and deserved better than "I'm a juvenile product of the working class whose best friend floats in the bottom of a glass".  It's the worst example of someone trying to write a hard edged rock & roll song with no understanding of the genre.   
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  • StuckfastStuckfast Frets: 2393
    Yes I think it's really hard to write good rock lyrics. At one end of the scale you have mystical nonsense and at the other end of the scale you have barely literate people stringing the same few cliches together. But there are a few people who have managed to do it well without sounding either dumb or pretentious. Iggy Pop springs to mind.
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  • LastMantraLastMantra Frets: 3822
    edited April 2021
    Philly_Q said:
    I've never been that bothered about lyrics so long as they sound right in the context of the song.

    I'm sure if I really racked my brains I'd think of some particularly stupid lyrics but nothing immediately springs to mind because they're all pretty stupid.

    Pop and rock lyrics aren't high art.  If you read them on their own, away from the music, 90% of them are like something a 15 year old would have written for GCSE English.  Except possibly with a lot more sexual content...

    A cheesy lyric can put me right off a tune.


    I left alone my mind was blank 
    I needed time to think to get the memories from my mind. 

    That always bugs me but I love that song anyway.

    Loads of maiden I just can't cope with though. 

    Edit; just loads of metal actually. 

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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22516

    Loads of maiden I just can't cope with though. 

    Edit; just loads of metal actually. 

    Metal is what I mostly listen to.

    With a lot of Maiden songs I imagine Bruce standing in the studio looking at a crumpled lyric sheet Steve has just given him, and making up the vocal melody as he goes along....
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  • artiebearartiebear Frets: 810
    I have likely written some of them. Then again I am financially secure. due to my crap songs. As the great bard said, " better to have loved and lost , than to spend your whole life wanking ".  :)
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  • riverciderrivercider Frets: 461
    I tentatively suggest Extreme.  That's because I made many speculative guitar album purchases in my youth, one of which was Pornograffiti, that eventually let me down.  Nuno is a great player, but I don't actually like the music much....but even those who do must surely admit that lyrically it wasn't exactly poetry....
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  • LebarqueLebarque Frets: 3755
    edited April 2021
    I tentatively suggest Extreme.  That's because I made many speculative guitar album purchases in my youth, one of which was Pornograffiti, that eventually let me down.  Nuno is a great player, but I don't actually like the music much....but even those who do must surely admit that lyrically it wasn't exactly poetry....
    If you don't like what you see here...
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  • ColsCols Frets: 6953
    SWLABR by Cream.  I had Disraeli Gears on yesterday, and my son asked why they were singing “The rainbow has a beard” and “But the picture has a moustache”.
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  • mrkbmrkb Frets: 6637
    Lebarque said:
    I tentatively suggest Extreme.  That's because I made many speculative guitar album purchases in my youth, one of which was Pornograffiti, that eventually let me down.  Nuno is a great player, but I don't actually like the music much....but even those who do must surely admit that lyrically it wasn't exactly poetry....
    If you don't like what you see here...
    Remember there’s “more than words” to a great song.....
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  • TeyeplayerTeyeplayer Frets: 3132
    Cols said:
    SWLABR by Cream.  I had Disraeli Gears on yesterday, and my son asked why they were singing “The rainbow has a beard” and “But the picture has a moustache”.
    If your son dropped acid for his breakfast it would suddenly all make sense. ;)
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  • BlueStratBlueStrat Frets: 966
    Most things by oasis. 
    I’d have preferred instrumental versions  
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  • ColsCols Frets: 6953
    Cols said:
    SWLABR by Cream.  I had Disraeli Gears on yesterday, and my son asked why they were singing “The rainbow has a beard” and “But the picture has a moustache”.
    If your son dropped acid for his breakfast it would suddenly all make sense. ;)
    I’ll feed him a party size pack of Tangfastics and check in on him in an hour.
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  • CHRISB50CHRISB50 Frets: 4287
    AC DC - Back in Black.  

    A majority of the lyrics seem to be about fucking something or another. Makes me sound like a prude, which I’m really not, but I find the album difficult to listen to because of it. I like the music but the lyrics are awful. 

    I can't help about the shape I'm in, I can't sing I ain't pretty and my legs are thin

    But don't ask me what I think of you, I might not give the answer that you want me to

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