Bad song lyrics

[mimic]

This thread seems like an appropriate place to post this little video:

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_5i1wSO9qE[/yt]

 

[EnsignRicky]

Walk On The Wild Side by Lou Reed. That song just offends me on every level.

 

[scotpens]

I have a hard time forming an opinion of the Bee Gees 'cuz I can't bloody well understand Barry Gibb's voice!

That being said, as bad as most of the Bee Gees' lyrics were ("What you doin' on your back?" ), I do like this version of "Stayin' Alive" though.

Whenever I hear "New York Mining Disaster 1941," I feel like singing:

Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?
Yes, I've seen your wife, and she's ugly.

Walk On The Wild Side by Lou Reed. That song just offends me on every level.

Is that because it's about transvestite hookers, because of the outdated "colored girls" reference, or because Lou Reed can't sing worth shit?

 

[EnsignRicky]

/\ That pretty much covers it. Especially Holly, the graphically active transvestite hooker.

 

[DevilEyes]

The Caesars, "It's Not the Fall That Hurts":

But it's not the fall that hurts
it's when you hit the ground...

No shit, Sherlock!

Anything by Oasis.

Especially these masterpieces:

How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?
Where were you while we were getting high?
Slowly walking down the hall
Faster than a cannonball
Where were you while we were getting high?
("Champagne Supernova")

You gotta roll with it
You gotta take your time
You gotta say what you say
Don't let anybody get in your way
'Cause it's all too much for me to take
("Roll With It")

And of course, the absolute classic:

I need to be myself
I can't be no one else
I'm feeling supersonic
Give me gin and tonic
("Supersonic")

/\ That pretty much covers it. Especially Holly, the graphically active transvestite hooker.

How does your feeling of being offended make them bad lyrics? Those lyrics describe real people (Holly, Jackie, Candy, Little Joe, Sugar Plum Fairy), and I'm pretty sure that both the lyrics and Andy Warhol's The Factory to which those people belonged were always meant to shock and offend.

(BTW it's Candy Darling who is the graphically active hooker.)

 

[Nerys Myk]

/\ That pretty much covers it. Especially Holly, the graphically active transvestite hooker.

Only a problem if you frequent hookers or are easily offended.

 

[Geck]

Another one that makes me cringe whenever I hear it is "Brass in Pocket" by the Pretenders. The verses make absolutely no sense and are impossible to decipher, then the chorus is like a fill in the blank game of body parts: "Gonna use my ARMS. Gonna use my LEGS. Gonna use my FINGERS." and then she wails about how special she is. So special.

 

[EnsignRicky]

/\ That pretty much covers it. Especially Holly, the graphically active transvestite hooker.

Only a problem if you frequent hookers or are easily offended.

I'll have to go with the second one since I probably couldn't afford the first.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Another one that makes me cringe whenever I hear it is "Brass in Pocket" by the Pretenders. The verses make absolutely no sense and are impossible to decipher, then the chorus is like a fill in the blank game of body parts: "Gonna use my ARMS. Gonna use my LEGS. Gonna use my FINGERS." and then she wails about how special she is. So special.

Not a great song but I like it when Catherine Tate sings it out of context for no particular reason: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD4-rR1RFmc

And what about “Afternoon Delight”? That is another one that makes me wanna hurl.

Just reading it makes me feel like vomiting.

Funny thing is, the song sounds so mellow and syrupy-sweet, a lot of people heard it several times before they realized it was about grabbing some daytime nookie

Arrested Development had some great fun with this song when Lindsay & George Michael sang a karaoke version of it, only slowly starting to realize what it's actually about. And then Tobias chimes in, "That's my wife & my nephew. We have an open relationship."

And let's not forget ABBA. Dancing Queen is another disco song that I'd vote into my All Time Worst Song Ever Hall of Fame. In fact, Sweden ought to banned from the UN, just for letting this group out of their country and unleashing them on the rest of the world.

Worst of all, ABBA leads to Mama Mia! which leads to the horror of Pierce Brosnan singing!

 

[scotpens]

Another one that makes me cringe whenever I hear it is “Brass in Pocket” by the Pretenders. The verses make absolutely no sense and are impossible to decipher, then the chorus is like a fill in the blank game of body parts: “Gonna use my ARMS. Gonna use my LEGS. Gonna use my FINGERS.” and then she wails about how special she is. So special.

Actually I like that song. But when you put it that way, yeah, the chorus does sound like a game of anatomical Mad Libs.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

The last song I'll add is The Lion Sleeps Tonight:

I don't know all the words to this one, but the part where they tell their 'darling' to hush because the lion is sleeping, and then start screeching at the top of their lungs:

A weema-whip, A weema-whip

over and over really high-pitched and loud seems kind of contrary to the instructions given the 'darling'. More than sufficient, I would guess, than what would be required to wake said lion.

Still, this song led to some fun parody lyrics back when I was in middle school in the mid-1990s.

In the bedroom, the quiet bedroom
John Bobbit sleeps tonight
In the kitchen, the peaceful kitchen
Lorena gets a knife

A-wiener-whack, a wiener-whack....