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Post by who throws a shoe?! on Aug 25, 2010 13:56:27 GMT -5
I think you misread the thread title, this is for awful lyrics, not awesome ones OKay, forgive me? Oh go on then, since you asked so nicely!
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Post by Alex Shelley on Aug 25, 2010 13:59:42 GMT -5
A single bad line in a song can literally ruin the entire thing for me. I'm so anal about lyrics. If they're badly written I have such a hard time getting into the song.
Off the top of my head the worst example I can think of as far as ruining a song is Woe Is Me by CKY. It's a great premise for a song but there's one part that just KILLS it for me.
"Everybody knows at least one Scoffing at the phony for fun Never knowing why or what for I'd love to see your face on the floor"
Particularly the second line. It's SO below CKY's normal standard of lyrics. It makes me cringe every time I hear it.
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Post by BRV on Aug 25, 2010 14:40:29 GMT -5
Now, I love Eminem and I get what he was going for, but this line is just awful. From "Love The Way You Lie", "now you get to watch her leave out the window guess that's why they call it window pain" That song also contains the following gem: "Like a f*** you for Christmas, his gift is a curse." "Love The Way You Lie" is not only the most overplayed song on the radio today, its lyrics are so off-the-wall awful that it single-handedly reinforces one of my friend's beliefs regarding Eminem: "As soon as he runs out of words that rhyme with 'Hayley', he'll have no choice but to retire." Allow me to nominate every lyric from Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire". Those aren't even lyrics, it's just Billy Joel listing historical references from the 1940s through the 1980s.
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Post by kingfeurio on Aug 25, 2010 14:44:05 GMT -5
“They’re only good for fruit, I mean bananas / Them boys so nuts, they’re drivin’ me bananas.” – “I Hate Boys” Christina Aguilera
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Aug 25, 2010 14:44:18 GMT -5
And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know
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Post by Soultastic on Aug 25, 2010 14:46:58 GMT -5
YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT
Seriously, I love Metallica, but if you wanna find crappy lyrics look no further than St. Anger.
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Post by shiranui on Aug 25, 2010 14:52:19 GMT -5
It's not just Fred Durst who rhymes words with themselves, Black Sabbath have done it too:
Generals gathered in their masses Just like witches at black masses
The original lyric was "Witches gathered at black masses / Bodies burning in red ashes" but when the song "Walpurgis" became "War Pigs", the lyric was changed into... that. Still a great song, though.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Aug 25, 2010 14:56:45 GMT -5
YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT Seriously, I love Metallica, but if you wanna find crappy lyrics look no further than St. Anger. Give them a break, they'd had a lot of chilli the night before.
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Post by Junkenstein on Aug 25, 2010 15:03:25 GMT -5
This starts and ends with The Cranberries, I Shot John Lennon.
It was the fearful night of December 8th. He was returning home from the studio late. He had perceptively known that it wouldn't be nice. Because in 1980, he paid the price.
Fearful night? It wouldn't be nice??? Get out. Then that's followed with JOHN LENNON DIED, JOHN LENNON DIED over and over again. I actually like the Cranberries, but those are truly bad lyrics.
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Post by Alucard on Aug 25, 2010 15:05:21 GMT -5
Disclaimer, I LOVE X-Japan and I love this song...but: ... WHAT? That's just an excerpt, that's not even the whole song, but it only gets more nonsensical.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2010 15:45:11 GMT -5
MacArthur Park. The whole thing. If you can make it all the way through without laughing you're some sort of cyborg, possibly. Hilariously bad.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Aug 25, 2010 15:47:51 GMT -5
MacArthur Park. The whole thing. If you can make it all the way through without laughing you're some sort of cyborg, possibly. Hilariously bad. I think I laugh at the original just as much, if not more, as at Weird Al's version.
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Post by Loud $ound Ziggy, or The $hady on Aug 25, 2010 15:50:33 GMT -5
Now, I love Eminem and I get what he was going for, but this line is just awful. From "Love The Way You Lie", "now you get to watch her leave out the window guess that's why they call it window pain" That song also contains the following gem: "Like a f*** you for Christmas, his gift is a curse." "Love The Way You Lie" is not only the most overplayed song on the radio today, its lyrics are so off-the-wall awful that it single-handedly reinforces one of my friend's beliefs regarding Eminem: "As soon as he runs out of words that rhyme with 'Hayley', he'll have no choice but to retire." Allow me to nominate every lyric from Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire". Those aren't even lyrics, it's just Billy Joel listing historical references from the 1940s through the 1980s. 2 different songs.
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Post by Long A, Short A on Aug 25, 2010 15:58:02 GMT -5
YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT YOU FLUSH IT OUT Seriously, I love Metallica, but if you wanna find crappy lyrics look no further than St. Anger. Maybe they had a run-in with SuperTiolet.
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Post by 4real on Aug 25, 2010 16:02:11 GMT -5
I'm a party and party and party and party and party and party and per and per and I'm a party and party and party and party and per and per I'm a party and party and party and party
Oh who am I kidding it's genius.
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Post by BRV on Aug 25, 2010 16:04:16 GMT -5
That song also contains the following gem: "Like a f*** you for Christmas, his gift is a curse." "Love The Way You Lie" is not only the most overplayed song on the radio today, its lyrics are so off-the-wall awful that it single-handedly reinforces one of my friend's beliefs regarding Eminem: "As soon as he runs out of words that rhyme with 'Hayley', he'll have no choice but to retire." Allow me to nominate every lyric from Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire". Those aren't even lyrics, it's just Billy Joel listing historical references from the 1940s through the 1980s. 2 different songs. You're right. I was thinking of "Not Afraid." Although that just upsets me even more, as it goes to show how analogous Eminem's music has become.
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Post by Crappler El 0 M on Aug 25, 2010 16:16:06 GMT -5
Kid Rock's "All Summer Long" is filled with lines that make me cringe but the worst is probably "We were trying different things and we were smoking funny things." I much prefer "Werewolves of London" and "Sweet Home Alabama."
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Post by "The Rated XXX Superstar" Jed on Aug 25, 2010 16:19:33 GMT -5
MacArthur Park. The whole thing. If you can make it all the way through without laughing you're some sort of cyborg, possibly. Hilariously bad. Spring was never waiting for us, girl it ran one step ahead as we followed in the dance. Between the parted pages we were pressed, in love's hot, fevered iron like a striped pair of pants. Mac Arthur Park is melting in the dark all the sweet green icing flowing down someone left the cake out in the rain I don't think that I can take it 'cause it took so long to bake it and I'll never have that recipe again Oh, nooo! I recall the yellow cotton dress foaming like a wave on the ground beneath your knees birds like tender babies in your hands and the old men playing Chinese checkers by the trees Mac Arthur Park is melting in the dark all the sweet green icing flowing down someone left the cake out in the rain I don't think that I can take it 'cause it took so long to bake it and I'll never have that recipe again Oh, nooo! There'll be another song for me and I will sing it there'll be another dream for me someone will bring it I will drink the wine while it is warm and never let you catch me looking at the sun, oh yeah and after all the loves of my life after all loves in my life you'll be the one I will take my life into my hands and I will use it I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it I will have the things that I desire and my passion flow like rivers through the sky oh and after all the loves in my life after all the loves in my life you'll still be the one and I'll ask myself why. Mac Arthur Park is melting in the dark all the sweet green icing flowing down someone left the cake out in the rain I don't think that I can take it 'cause it took so long to bake it and I'll never have that recipe again Oh, nooo!
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Aug 25, 2010 16:22:42 GMT -5
Not any particular song I guess, but I hate it when bands at concerts change the lyrics of their songs to match the city they are in. It's a nice gesture and all, but it's really cheezy. Unless they do it like Jerry Lee Lewis and deliberately name the wrong city and sometimes state. Then it's pretty funny.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2010 16:23:20 GMT -5
I'd be drivin' trucks, my dear I'd be skinnin' hunted deer
That's from Live's "Rattlesnake".
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