Worst song lyric...ever?

[BJH]

In the hit records category rather than nursery rhymes it's got to be Adrian Guervitz ( or his name was something like that)

Gonna write a classic
Gonna right it in an attic
Baby I'm an addict now
An addict for your love

 

[andytheflyer]

[QUOTE 2684057, member: 259"]I could have nominated anything on Tales from Topographic Oceans but I feared for the thread's sanity.[/quote]

Or anything by Yes, vintage early to mid 70's.............

And most of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway......

Or is it just me?

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Sorry thats a Classic song.

No more nights nappies smelling.

It's junk, bilge, turgid tosh.

 

[swee'pea99]

Or anything by Yes, vintage early to mid 70's.............

And most of The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway......

Or is it just me?

My sis once said to me in quiet earnest "I would have thought getting rid of all your Genesis albums would be kind of a priority."

 

[Flying_Monkey]

Some people really don't seem to get lyrics on this thread - there's no way you can say Roxy Music's lyrics were the worst ever or anywhere near - they were so arch, so conscious of what they were doing and friends with bands like Can, whose singers just made words up. You can not like it or not understand it, but the lyrics aren't 'bad'. Squeeze, like them or not, are in that great British tradition of kitchen-sink songwriting - see The Kinks, XTC (and Blur if you want okay copyists). No way near bad. And there's absolutely no way you can include all those fifties doo-wop influence numbers in which the voice is just another instrument (as someone already said). Oh, and McArthur Park is utter genius and hilarious with it - carefully crafted by one of the greatest songwriters ever (Jimmy Webb) to be that way and sung by a hamming it up actor backed by an orchestra. It's brilliant.

Pretentious public school wankery like Genesis, or Yes, or Rush et al., on the other hand... fire away!

 

[swee'pea99]

I once read somewhere that Ian Dury used to love coming up with rhyming couplets (Ally Pally, Bolshoi Bally...hyena, obcener....Mona Lisa, Italian geezer) and collecting them in notebooks. When he had enough, he'd sit down and assemble them into a song.

 

[Fnaar]

How about this one








(Sorry, I've given you side B, the instrumental version)

 

[MontyVeda]

What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?

Good shout... that beats ghost/toast hands down.

 

[The Horse's Mouth]

No more nights nappies smelling.

It's junk, bilge, turgid tosh.

Have to agree to Disagree. If you want to hear Bilge try Queen

 

[The Horse's Mouth]

Pretentious public school wankery like Genesis, or Yes, or Rush et al., on the other hand... fire away!

Couldnt agree more