The Worst Lyrics

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You get such problems with subduction that way. Lotta sinkholes.

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I liked the lyrics to “We Built This City”…

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“I was singing mambo”

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If nothing else, the little ascending guitar figure under this line does make me chuckle every time. Although I enjoyed it more when I thought they were saying ‘who rides the wrecking ball into WILD guitars’.

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I mean, I love Rush–saw them twice–but . . .

Folks have got to make choices-
And choices got to have voices

. . .was not their finest hour. Or even third.

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Let’s face it, basically every line in that song is awful. But I still love that song. Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us too, even though that’s an objectively terrible song by any metric. But it was in Mannequin, so how can I hate it?

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Another gem from Men Without Hats:

One two three and four is five,
Everybody here is a friend of mine.
Whatever happened to the Duke of Earl?
Pop Goes The World.

Six seven eight and nine is ten,
Send Al Gunn to see the doctor (Ben)
Say what planet are we on? The third!
Pop Goes The World.

And Every time I wonder where the world went wrong,
End up lying on my face going ringy dingy ding dong

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I’m going to give this a try

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Doesn’t work (assuming it is meant to alter my mood)

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And I just discovered that Al Gunn was their bass player. I wonder why they wanted to send him to Ben the doctor?

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To ask him what planet they’re on?

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We all deal with it in our own way, Ivan.

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[Scooby-Doo villain voice]

And “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” would’ve gotten away with that Best Song Oscar if it wasn’t for Dirty Dancing and their meddling “I’ve Had the Time of My Life” song!

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That it was even nominated sort of proves my point.

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It’s an accounting problem at its heart, and when you come right down to it, you would need to consult not with the people who built this city on rock and roll, but with the comptroller of the city that was built on rock and roll.

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I dig the rap in “Rapture” just for the weirdness of it.

When it comes to Blondie - whom I love - the lyric that always made me shake my head is one from their song “Island Of Lost Souls” (which is a failed attempt to write another “The Tide Is High” - which they didn’t write)…

“Oh buccaneer
Can ya help me put my truck in gear?
Can ya take me far away from here?
Save my soul from sin?”

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I believe the answer is:
“Only time will tell if we stand the test of time”

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From “Why can’t we be friends”:

“Sometimes I don’t speak right
But yet I know what I’m talking about”

It does no good to know what you’re talking about if you don’t make yourself understood, and that’s the reason to “speak right”.
(And besides that, the song is absolutely terrible.)

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I give you Luskus Delph from the Procol Harum album Brokrn Barricades. If you want to confirm
the lyrics were what you thought you heard, go ahead. Keith Reid came a long way from writing the words to A Whiter Shade of Pale. Just saying.

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A dear friend and I have a twisted fascination with Charlene. The song’s term “subtle whoring” is an endless source of amusement. But Charlene really went next level with “Used To Be,” a very '80s litany of angst so melodramatic that it’s mesmerizing.

And somehow the great Stevie Wonder got roped into duetting with her on it.

“Superman was killed in Dallas
There’s no love left in the palace
Someone took the Beatles’ lead guitar
Have another Chivas Regal
You’re twelve years old
And sex is legal
Your parents don’t know where or who you are”

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I think I already covered mine in the Worst Song Ever thread. :grin:

I am highly allergic to MWH, though. Also Toni Basil and every damn thing ever uttered by Duran Duran.