Songs of dyspeptic pentameter

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Author: Justin_timberfake
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 3:33 pm
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What are some crazy song lyrics that make you go WTF?

Author: Skeptical
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 4:04 pm
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Stu stu studio . . . Phil Collins.

Author: Chickenjuggler
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 4:16 pm
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You know, as much as I was a fan of the band Live for their first two albums, some of those lyrics are simply silly. Forcing a way to incorporate the word " placenta ", with a straight face, reminds me of 5th grade poetry. And that's just ONE example. Trust me, they've got a lot of lyrics that make me cringe. I mean, " We all get the flu, we all get AIDS, we've got to stay together."

*shudder*

Then again, I could do no better and I still listen to Throwing Copper relatively often.

Author: Tdanner
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 7:24 pm
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"skinned our hearts and skinned our knees"


(We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.......arghhhhhhhhhhhh)

Author: Craig_adams
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 9:41 pm
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"I cooked your food, I cleaned your house, and this is how you pay me back for all my kind unselfish loving deeds.. Huh??
Well you just wait, they'll find you yet and when they do they'll put you in the ASPCA, you mangy mutt!"

Author: Semoochie
Saturday, October 25, 2008 - 10:55 pm
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Craig, I heard the flipside was the same song running backward.

Author: Stevethedj
Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 12:06 am
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Would allen o'days tune. undercover angle qualify for this thread?

Author: Randy_in_eugene
Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 12:32 am
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Yes.

Author: Littlesongs
Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 12:40 am
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Tdanner, that song bugs the hell outta me too. Rod McKuen murdered a brilliant tune.

(In the original version, Jacques Brel implied a set of knees, but the context was far different. "Le Moribond" is a dark and sarcastic number about a dying man saying goodbye to the people in his life. He confesses to his priest that he has no faith, rips into the fellow that sleeps with his wife, and snidely wishes his chronically cheating spouse farewell. Brel was equally cutting with "Au Suivant" and "Les Bigotes" -- the former is a raw expose about army whorehouses and militarism, while the latter paints a scathing portrait of bitter old church ladies. He was a prolific genius.)

Worst lyrics? I would add The Crystals single, "He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss)" -- a misguided social commentary that comes across like an ode to Stockholm syndrome. It was written by Gerry Goffin & Carole King with production and arrangement by infamous wife beater, Phil Spector. "He hit me and I knew he loved me... he hit me and I was glad... he hit me and I knew I loved him..."

Author: 1lossir
Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 7:49 am
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>>Craig, I heard the flipside was the same song running backward.<<

It was. Even the label was printed in backward type - including the Warner Brothers "WB" logo.

Author: Tdanner
Sunday, October 26, 2008 - 11:03 am
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100% agree Littlesongs. (But I was far to insecure to open the discussion to Brel. He's a passion I share with very few.)

To the Crystals I will add Hank Jr.s "Attitude Adjustment" ... wife won't cook - give her an attitude adjustment...won't clean - attitude adjustment, etc. Finally wife (and her sister if I recall) give him an attitude adjustment. The label sent out promotional tire irons with the Hank Jr phoenix logo and the song title printed on them. Talk about clueless!

(I traded my Shaun Cassidy and my Cher satin pillowcases for 4 mint original Filmore posters, including two GDead, but I've hung on to the tire iron!)

Author: Don_from_salem
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 9:34 am
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To Steve and Randy,

I always thought the "Undercover Angel" was about Farah-Fawcett Majors, as she starred on "Charlie's Angels" and both her name and the song's title have the same cadence: DA-da DA-da DA-da.

Author: Tha_frozen_one
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 11:39 am
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Nelly "It's getting Hot in Here"

the line is;

"Is that your ass or is your momma half reindeer"

I kid you not.

2 things leave me disturbed about this lyric.

A) I believe that it is meant as a compliment to a womans rear end. Meaning, Nelly finds SOMETHING no matter how big or how small attractive about a reindeers rear end.

B) That it is meant as a compliment at all.

Author: Lander
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 12:14 pm
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"Her Placenta Falls To The Floor"
-Live

Author: E_dawg
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 12:30 pm
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Why not physical MASTURBATION?

he...he.. just joking:-)

Author: Tha_frozen_one
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 2:06 pm
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Lander c'mon man, you can't REALLY be thrown for a loop on MOST rock lyrics...they are meant to be cryptic and vague...We could go on and on on strictly early to mid 90's music...

i.e.

"I wish I could eat her cancer, when she turns black."
-Nirvana

Author: Marianagy
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 4:41 pm
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I know a girl who thinks of ghosts
She'll make ya breakfast
She'll make ya toast
She don't use butter
She don't use cheese
She don't use jelly
Or any of these
She uses vaseline

Author: Skeptical
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 6:06 pm
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This is what my daughter sings in the car these days:

I am the eggman, they are the eggmen
I am the walrus, goo goo goo joob . . .

Author: Rsay777
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 6:23 pm
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The only Ring I gave you was the Ring around your tub. CW 1970's

Author: Mrs_merkin
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 8:51 pm
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Paul Anka? Havin' My Baby?

Author: Mrs_merkin
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 8:55 pm
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Skep,
it's not Stu, stu, studio

Author: Skeptical
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 9:26 pm
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Its not? Oh. Well, at least one person here is actually reading my posts! :-)

Author: Notalent
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 9:39 pm
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I used to love her but I had to kill her...

GNR

Author: Notalent
Monday, October 27, 2008 - 9:42 pm
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I used to love her but I had to kill her...

GNR

Author: Semoochie
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 12:57 am
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...but it's all over now! :-) ...and it's nice to know the Beatles are still having an impact on young America.

Author: Skeptical
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 1:34 am
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I had a hand in the exposure of the early Beatles when she was a toddler, but this later stuff, she picked up at middle school.

Author: Monkeyboy
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 1:56 am
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System Of A Down.
Lots of weird lyrics.

"Gonorrhea,Gorgonzola,Gonorrhea,Gorgonzola,"

Bananna,Bananna,Bananna,Bananna,Terra-cotta,Bananna,Bananna,Bananna Terra-cotta pie!!

My Cigaro is much bigger than yours. :-p

Author: Joe_russell
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 8:57 am
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For me in music and topic since Christmas music is soon my lyrics will come by a entertainers song titled Angel's Among Us All and another Hear the Angels Sing. Since I love to do it in the sin-bin every night and enjoy the findings of them in our self in music and more...

Joe

Author: Billmcf
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 10:39 am
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Almost any lyric by the B-52s.

"There's a moon in the sky. It's called THE MOON!"

Author: Darktemper
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 10:49 am
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Spinal Tap "Big Bottom" lyrics

Then again....Spinal Tap....nuff said

http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Big-Bottom-lyrics-Spinal-Tap/720EED439507 704B48256DCE002F4A41

Author: Bhone2000
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 11:57 am
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From "The Beat Goes On"...Sonny and Cher. Check out the 2 lines that end each verse. Wow.

Charleston was once the rage, uh huh
History has turned the page, uh huh
The mini skirts the current thing, uh huh
Teenybopper is our newborn king, uh huh

[Chorus]

The grocery store's the super mart, uh huh
Little girls still break their hearts, uh huh
And men still keep on marching off to war
Electrically they keep a baseball score

Author: Justin_timberfake
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 5:51 pm
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Freeze Said
Lander c'mon man, you can't REALLY be thrown for a loop on MOST rock lyrics...they are meant to be cryptic and vague...We could go on and on on strictly early to mid 90's music...

i.e.

"I wish I could eat her cancer, when she turns black."
-Nirvana


Hey Freeze, you do know that "Heart Shaped box" By Nirvana is all about Courtney Love's Vagina, Right??? Heart Shaped box= Vagina! (No joke)

Author: Alfredo_t
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 6:34 pm
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I get the first of the quoted verse above from "The Beat Goes On" but not the second. The first verse is about changing entertainment and pop culture. "Charleston" is the name of a dance associated with swing music. The song contrasts that against what were the current fashions in the 1960s: mini skirts and Top-40 (teenyboppers). The second verse I can follow until the last line: is that last line supposed to refer to broadcast media coverage of the war?

Author: Notalent
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 7:16 pm
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I once bought my son that system of a down cd and then heard the album version lyrics where the word is not actually "Cigaro" but more explicit.

Ouch, I hate when that happens.

he was about 13 at the time.

Author: Littlesongs
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 1:14 pm
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Tdanner, having confessed a mutual hankering for chanson, I think I love you.*

* In an entirely appropriate context, of course.

"I Think I Love You" -- now that is a tune with an abundance of dyspeptic pentameter. Scanning through the lyrics, there are only half a dozen actual rhymes and a whole bunch of clumsy stretches. "I think I love you... So what am I so afraid of? I'm afraid that I'm not sure of... A love there is no cure for..." Huh?

Justin_timberfake, that "Heart Shaped Box" you speak of is not a tribute Courtney Love's wedding vegetables. It refers to the candy box that she used for her stash and rig. The song is about her successful attempts to keep him addicted to heroin.

Author: Tadc
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 2:19 pm
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Alfredo- "Electrically they keep a baseball score" - I think it's just a reference to electric scoreboards... you know, instead of the manual kind with a guy behind it changing the numbers.

Author: Paulwalker
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 4:05 pm
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Saying I love you Is not the words I want to hear from you It's not that I want you Not to say, but if you only knew How easy it would be to show me how you feel More than words is all you have to do to make it real Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me Cos I'd already know What would you do if my heart was torn in two More than words to show you feel That your love for me is real What would you say if I took those words away Then you couldn't make things new Just by saying I love you More than words Now I've tried to talk to you and make you understand All you have to do is close your eyes And just reach out your hands and touch me Hold me close don't ever let me go More than words is all I ever needed you to show Then you wouldn't have to say that you love me Cos I'd already know What would you do if my heart was torn in two More than words to show you feel That your love for me is real What would you say if I took those words away Then you couldn't make things new Just by saying I love you More than words

This lyrical "masterpiece" brought to you by Extreme. (1991)

Author: Alfredo_t
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 5:33 pm
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> Alfredo- "Electrically they keep a baseball score" - I think it's just a reference to electric
> scoreboards... you know, instead of the manual kind with a guy behind it changing the numbers.

Yikes! I think of myself as a vintage technology guy, but I had totally forgotten that at one time electric scoreboards would have been considered "newfangled." :-0

Author: Beano
Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 5:53 pm
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This lyrical "masterpiece" brought to you by Extreme. (1991)

LMAO, I assume that was Sarcasm Right??

Extreme was the biggest pile of steaming dog turd!

Extreme is in the same class of crappy early 90's bands like Nelson, Winger, Damn Yankees, Firehouse. - AWFUL!!!!

Author: Mrs_merkin
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 12:24 am
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But, but, but what about that awesome mix tape you made me with all of the above "bands"?

You've changed, Beano. You've turned into Beano the Meano, and I want my Stephen Stills CD back ASAP. And also that teddy bear I gave you. You can keep the Billy Ray Cyrus CD. I know how much you love it.

Author: Paulwalker
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 9:18 am
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Beano, yes.

BTW, that Extreme POS was a #1 record. Why, is anyones guess.

Author: Motozak2
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 1:46 pm
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Hey, I like/d it.........

(F.Y.I. Muzak plays it *almost every day* on FM1. Lots to love andensum....... ;o)

Author: Alfredo_t
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 3:00 pm
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> BTW, that Extreme POS was a #1 record. Why, is anyones guess.

Maybe, people liked it?

Author: Missing_kskd
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 4:20 pm
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Ok, so how did the cool subject header get created?

Author: Alfredo_t
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 4:51 pm
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Ghosts and spooks in the pdxradio server??

Author: Justin_timberfake
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 5:32 pm
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So you can no longer say MENTAL MASTURBATION ON PDX RADIO??????? Come on Dan, that is pretty lame! What happend to "FREEDOM OF SPEECH"??

Author: Alfredo_t
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 5:57 pm
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You don't have absolute freedom of speech on Internet message boards, unless you happen to own and operate the server on which the board is hosted and your ISP is not monitoring the content of your message board. If you are on somebody else's message board, then you have to play by the rules that the owner or moderator of that board has established. I think it was Doug (Missing_KSKD) who brought up this point a while ago.

Author: Mrs_merkin
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 8:18 pm
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Sorry JT, but the new title is funny too.

Author: Randy_in_eugene
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 8:32 pm
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I wish I could add thread subtitles too. :-)

Author: Skeptical
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 9:01 pm
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Justin, if you plunk down a good wad of cash on the 'donate' page, you might have a bit of sway with the website owner.

Author: Justin_timberfake
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 9:13 pm
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Already have! Thats why I made such a stink!

Author: Randy_in_eugene
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 9:14 pm
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On the original topic, I nominate a song by T Rex called "Hot Love." It was released in the U.S. as a follow up to "Bang a Gong (Get it On), but it stiffed before hitting the Billboard Top 40 for reasons that will be obvious if you go to the link below.

The song starts with gems like "Well she ain't no witch and I love the way she twitch, uh huh,"
and "She's faster than most and she lives on the coast, uh huh."

Then the joke becomes complete about half way through when the song is hijacked by a group of really bad "La-La" singers.

http://www.divshare.com/download/5718607-240

Author: Shipwreck
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 10:53 pm
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The new title is relevant to the actual subject. "Mental masturbation" brings to mind an image you will thank me for not sharing.


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