Stroopy121 Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 A thread for lyrical inconsistencies/utter baws in songs. Not dissimilar to the Pet Hates thread, but a little more specialist.I'll start with the most obvious: Another that irks me is Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak. Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in the town...The fucking Jail would be a reasonable place to start investigating, cunt.Anyone else get really annoyed by a particular lyric?xxEDIT: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MC Nice Andrew Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 The start of the B52's love shack.'If you see a faded sign by the side of the road that says 15 miles miles to the looooove Shack!'Then WHAT?!?!The chorus of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' Impression that I get.Is it:Never had to (referring to the situtation proposed in the verse); knock on wood (hoping that i never have to experience said situations).Or:Never had to knock on wood (I've never had to perform the action)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
french_disko Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 "Zombie" came on the radio at the weekend & I forgot how shit it was - "With their tanks and their bombs, And their bombs and their guns."Ok, Cranberries, we get it - they have bombs, right? However, the one I detest most is from Joan Osbourne (I had to google that) and is called "If God Was one of us" - What if God was one of usJust a slob like one of usJust a stranger on the busTrying to make his way homeHe's trying to make his way homeBack up to heaven all aloneNobody calling on the phoneExcept for the pope maybe in rome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaki Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Take yer pic....Richard Ashcroft LYRICS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOX Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 But you lied again, now you get to watch her leave out the windowGuess that's why they call it window pane... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 I only really noticed this one yesterday.Oasis - Up In The Sky"How does it feel, when you're inside me?"Just realised how odd that sounds. Is Noel talking about someone pumping him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 "Try to play me up like as if my name is Sega"Oh no wait, this isn't the REALLY AWESOME LYRICS thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Oasis - "Get on the bus and cause no fuss", from the self-titled "best songwriter of the 90's". Pish.Black Sabbath - "Generals gather in their masses, just like witches at black masses". Great song, shite lyric. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 EVERYTHING by Scouting For Girls Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Another that irks me is Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak. Tonight there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in the town...The fucking Jail would be a reasonable place to start investigating, cunt.Maybe the Irish rocksters had dug a tunnel in a random direction and weren't quite sure where it would come out?Far fetched?Can't be any worse than the idea of a hole in a jail cell wall that you could drive a Scania through going undetected for 30+ years in the Shawshank Redemption...or the entire plot of Prison Break Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Gold Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 I have a dislike of songs that reference the actual notes in the song (Leonard Cohen, Wilco and others). It's like the bastard sister of writing a song about not being able to write a song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 EVERYTHING by Scouting For GirlsThat doesn't count because they aren't lyrics as such. Just repeated phrases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craig9590 Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Everything by Autumn In Disguise and A Day To Remember 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 YouTube - Nicole 12 - BallerinaNot so much annoy. But disturb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Surfer_Rosa Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 I have a dislike of songs that reference the actual notes in the song (Leonard Cohen, Wilco and others). It's like the bastard sister of writing a song about not being able to write a song.YouTube - Natasha Bedingfield - These WordsAlso containing the line: "Read some Byron, Shelley and Keats; Recited it over a hip-hop beat" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 The Darkness - Growing On Me"I want to banish you from whence you came".Well you can't do that. You can banish something to whence it came (ie, get rid of it back to where it came from), but you can't banish it from whence it came. That means you don't want it to leave.I'm still not sure if this one of the Darkness' "joke" lyrics, or if they're just dumb. It annoys me anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 YouTube - Natasha Bedingfield - These WordsAlso containing the line: "Read some Byron, Shelley and Keats; Recited it over a hip-hop beat"Great shout. All her songs have really strange lyrics.Lahndan singers tend to have annoying lyrics too. Lille Allen, that 'you think i'm so bittah' quine, etc.I particularly hate 'Struggling with her bags from tesco' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monster Zero Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 "Slowly walking down the hall, faster than a cannon ball"Oasis - Champagne Supernova.Get yer velocity decisions made, Parker.Also, most songs by Travis post-'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?', repetition of one word does not a decent chorus make. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Oh Jesus. Natasha Bedingfield lyrics. I'd managed to forget about them until now.This:NATASHA BEDINGFIELD LYRICS - Singlefollowed by this:NATASHA BEDINGFIELD LYRICS - I Wanna Have Your Babiesis the worst progression of songs ever."I wanna have your babies, it's serious like crazy"Fuck off Natasha. Just fuck off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Not so much hate, but Leftfield, 'Release the Pressure' ..."I've got to stand and fight, in this creation" sounds like he is bemoaning the outfit in which he has to stand and fight, always.Shit, where is the great lyrics thread, I always remember more of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Hard Fi lyrics as well. Fuck right off.Something for the Weekend was bad, but then they released Cash Machine. Holy. Fuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Anything by The Enemy. Especially that one where they fucking namedrop Richard & Judy. Dreadful band. Just abysmal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 The Wombats too. That one where they namedrop Joy Division, and that other one where they namedrop Bridget Jones. Worst band in the universe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Owl PhD Posted May 3, 2011 Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Lots of my least favourite songs are so awful because of their lyrics. Bad lyrics make a bad song truly objectionable. I'm trying not to think about them though. There's that Lily Allen song where she rhymes Tesco with al fresco. Don't make me think about that song. I really hate that song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stroopy121 Posted May 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 3, 2011 Any song that rhymes 'love' and 'above'...xx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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