Skuff Posted July 4, 2008 Report Share Posted July 4, 2008 How about "Why" by Yoko Ono? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted July 5, 2008 Report Share Posted July 5, 2008 I agree with Seeker that a bad lyric can be one that disrupts the storyline of an otherwise good song. I feel the same way about acting performances in certain movies. Now that A-Rod and Madonna are an item, how about this one to describe their love: "Romeo and Juliet, they never felt this way, I bet." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted June 2, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 This is possibly the best list of this sort I've ever seen: 50 worst pop lyrics (of all time) few standards, more surprises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 "I don't want to see a ghost, it's the sight that I fear most. I'd rather eat a piece of toast, and watch the evening news." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinkstones Posted June 2, 2009 Report Share Posted June 2, 2009 The entire song "Macarthur Park". Pee-yew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 The Ten Stupidest Lyrics Of All Time “Only time will tell if we stand the test of time.†Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I agree with their call for #1, that has to be the stupidest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 I actually like the "Love Hurts" lyric. #1 seems like too easy a target - it was like they were trying to write stupid lyrics. Anyone remember the SNL skit where the New Kids on the Block went on Arsenio Hall to debut their new single that they wrote themselves? The lyrics were something like: "Girl, you are so... awesome. You are so wicked... awesome." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted August 13, 2010 Report Share Posted August 13, 2010 One of my all time favorite sketches. "Whenever I buy my own clothes, I think of you girl." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ombre Vivante Posted August 17, 2010 Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 Those GTFO lyrics are retarded - like any other Puke Pop group Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted August 17, 2010 Report Share Posted August 17, 2010 Who's GTFO? I'm surprised Barenaked Ladies weren't on the list of stupidest lyrics, or at least an honorable mention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ombre Vivante Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 Who's GTFO? That was the top group who won as the top worst lyricists, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 just noticed nobody mentioned The Killers yet: are we human or are we dancer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted August 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 Totally did in the link I posted up there ^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted August 18, 2010 Report Share Posted August 18, 2010 ah, good - I was worried already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
serenecrue Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 (edited) Any offensive lyrics and bad words can be consider as worst. Edited August 20, 2010 by Guest Sam I am, Sam I am, I do not like green eggs and SPAM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 Any offensive lyrics and bad words can be consider as worst. Absolutely not. Consider this. "She said I was good-looking; I looked a bit like George Michael. But she didn't want a f*cking, She was on her menstrual cycle" from "God's Gift To Women" by The Macc Lads Genius, in anyone's book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blind-fitter Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 But moving onto the subjct of bad lyrics. I was in a shop today when Rod Stewart's "Maggie May" came on; a decent enough tune- a classic, even. Who could help but like it? Then there's that line: "you laughed at all my jokes, My love you didn't need to coax". Fer pity's sake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Levis Posted August 20, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 Never liked Maggie May. Don't like the name Maggie. Don't like the name May. Don't like Rod Stewart. DO like those lyrics up there because they ref George Michael and call him good looking. Yeahhhh I think so too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farin Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 Absolutely not. Consider this. Another example: The smokestack is spitting black soot into the sooty sky The load on the road brings a tear to the Indian's eye The elephant won't forget what it's like inside his cage The Ringmaster's Telecaster sings on an empty stage God d**n right it's a beautiful day Uh-huh God d**n right it's a beautiful day Uh-huh from Mr. E's Beautiful Blues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Batman Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 "In and around the lake, mountains come out of the sky and they stand there" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluesky Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 Wilco has a lyric that baffles me : "Take off your band-aid because I don't believe in touch downs." WTF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MindCrime Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 Sam I am, Sam I am, I do not like green eggs and SPAM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberjudge Posted August 20, 2010 Report Share Posted August 20, 2010 [From playonlyrics.com] Back in the day, one time Tonight Show host and hack musician Steve Allen used to read out lyrics from popular songs just to make fun of young musicians. That used to bug us. Taking lyrics out of context can be a distasteful and irrelevant exercise by the smug and untalented. After all, “The Doo Ron Ron†is a great song about nothing. But, sometimes lyrics are just so bad you just have to stop and ask the question “what were they on when they wrote that?†The lyric I remember Steve Allen famously mocking was this gem, also from Donna Summer: Donna Summer, "Hot Stuff" Sittin' here, eatin' my heart out waitin' waitin' for some lover to call dialed about a thousand numbers lately almost rang the phone off the wall Lookin' for some hot stuff baby this evenin' I need some hot stuff baby tonight I want some hot stuff baby this evenin' gotta have some hot stuff gotta have some lovin' tonight I need hot stuff I want some hot stuff I need hot stuff Lookin' for a lover who needs another don't want another night on my own wanna share my love with a warm blooded lover wanna bring a wild man back home Gotta have some hot love baby this evenin' I need some hot stuff baby tonight I want some hot stuff baby this evenin' gotta have some lovin' got to have a love tonight I need hot stuff hot love lookin' for hot love Hot, hot, hot, hot stuff hot, hot, hot hot, hot, hot, hot stuff hot, hot, hot How's that hot stuff baby this evenin' I need some hot stuff baby tonight gimme little hot stuff baby this evenin' hot stuff baby got to I need your love tonight I need hot stuff lookin' for hot stuff gotta have some hot stuff Sittin' here eatin' my heart out no reason won't spend another night on my own I dialed about hundred numbers baby I'm bound to find somebody home Gotta have some hot stuff baby this evenin' I need some hot stuff baby tonight lookin' for some hot stuff baby this evenin' I need your love baby don't need your love tonight Hot stuff baby this evening I need hot stuff baby tonight yes, yes, I want some hot stuff baby this evenin' I want some hot stuff baby tonight yes, yes, yes now hot stuff baby I need your hot stuff baby tonight I want some hot stuff baby this evenin' hot stuff baby got to I need your love tonight 16. Wang Chung, “Everybody Have Fun†Everybody have fun tonight Everybody have fun tonight Everybody wang chung tonight “Rats, what rhymes with fun? Er…wait a moment. Wang Chung! That rhymes. Hurrah! That was lucky.†Yes there was some good music in the 1980s. And then there was Wang Chung. And this song lyric provided the butt of a joke for a memorable scene from Kelsey Grammer in "Cheers" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanTurtle Posted August 21, 2010 Report Share Posted August 21, 2010 If the language seems a little archaic, 'tis because the lyric is a biblical quote. Someone more enlightened than me might even know the chapter and verse? Okay, so I'm responding about five years too late on this one . . . but anyway. If I remember right from my days as an alter boy, that would be the first line of The Song on Solomon, or "The Song of Songs" 1)The Song of Songs, which is Solomon's. Colloquy of Bride and Friends 2)Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine, 3)your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is perfume poured out; therefore your maidens love you And since this is a thread for terrible lyrics, here are some that make me cringe every time: Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz I wish that I could fly Into the sky So very high Just like a dragonfly I'd fly above the trees Over the seas in all degrees To anywhere I please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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