Does anybody else have any particular songs that you really like, but one line in the lyric, the bridge section, or a vocal "motif" or similar, spoils the enjoyment?
I quite like Africa by Toto, but my hackles go up when it gets to the line:
"As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti".
A gallant attempt has been made to try and compress that line in there to get something that almost rhymes with "solitary company" from two lines before, but there are too many syllables and it struggles to maintain the meter of the song". I find it quite disturbing to hear.
Another one for me is "I Can See Clearly Now". I just prefer the original Jimmy Cliff version to the Johnny Nash version, but it's close. One thing I find really aggravating is how long the airy, floating section of music lasts after "Look straight ahead, there's nothing but blue skies". I feel that it is twice as long as it needs to be and is too drawn out.
I'm not even going to discuss what the following lyrical ramblings do to me every time I am in Asda on my way home from work and I hear this music being played for the entertainment of the nightshift shelf stackers who seem to enjoy joining in:
A lovely day (lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)
(Lovely day, lovely day, lovely day, lovely day)
ad nauseum
OR
And I know, I know, I know, I know
I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
ad nauseum.
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'Only time will tell if we can stand the test of time'
Add to that any and all spurious injections of "oh yeah". Oh yeahs range from weak but largely unobjectionable all the way through to truly awful. Paul Rodgers, great singer that he is in other respects, is one of the worst offenders.
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Ooops, that's the Change a Letter of a Song Thread I should be on.
"My cock and Farmer Giles' prizewinning marrow"
I'm sure some will find that hilarious, I'm sure I overreacted, but I was already hugely disappointed with that second album and that line was so pathetic, so infantile... I'm still pissed off.
Wittingly or unwittingly.
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'Mephistopholes is not your name, I know what you're up to just the same'
'I'll be the flag to your nation, I'll be the crop to your rotation'
'Giant steps are what you take.... I hope my legs don't break'
'I face the day with my head caved in
Looking like something that the cat brought in'
OTOH I do like some of his work very much.
There's a gun in my truck
Oh thank God I'm still a guy
From I'm Still a Guy seemed to cross a line. I watched a concert he did for the BBC and he introduced the song saying he knew people in the UK didn't like the line about guns - I still didn't know how serious he was being. Although the song as a whole if taken seriously would be misogynist and homophobic.
My head said brake, but my heart cried never.
Now Noel is dab hand at naff lyrics but,
Don't Look Back in Anger.
"Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face."
Really winds me up.
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