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Post by jetsetwilly on Apr 18, 2007 8:32:21 GMT
Busted are the lyrical equivalent of serial killers. "Air Hostess" is quite astonishingly inane:
Air hostess I like the way you dress Though I hate to fly But I feel much better Occupied my mind Writing you a love letter I messed my pants When we flew over France Will I see you soon In my hotel room For a holiday romance? Air hostess
They also attempt to rhyme "terminal" with "beautiful", and "landed" with "standing".
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Post by al on Apr 18, 2007 11:42:48 GMT
I couldn't agree more. Busted's music - their lyrics in particular - was like having raw sewage piped into your ears.
What's worse was the fact you had an alarming number of serious music journos singing their praises and calling them ground-breaking. Well sure, if you discount the Dum Dums and Stamford Amp.
Went out/ to the back yard/ to find out If it was one of those rowdy boys Stood there/ was my neighbour/ called Peter
Shocking. Just shocking.
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Post by fused on Apr 18, 2007 13:10:29 GMT
I couldn't agree more. Busted's music - their lyrics in particular - was like having raw sewage piped into your ears. What's worse was the fact you had an alarming number of serious music journos singing their praises and calling them ground-breaking. Well sure, if you discount the Dum Dums and Stamford Amp. Went out/ to the back yard/ to find out If it was one of those rowdy boys Stood there/ was my neighbour/ called PeterShocking. Just shocking. I never understood why Busted got so much positive press. They were awful, and "Air Hostess" in particular was shite. I did like the Dum Dums, but that was mainly because of my adolescent crush on Josh Doyle. He was quite gorgeous back then. He grew a beard and moved to America last I heard. Anyway, back on topic, pretty much every lyric in Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps" is terrible, especially the My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps line. Alanis Morrisette's recent cover where you can hear the lyrics more clearly has certainly highlighted how rubbish those lyrics are. Then again, maybe in Alanis Morrisette's case people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Even if you ignore nothing in "Ironic" actually being ironic, she does tend to pepper her songs with bizarre self-help psychobabble. Edit- despite what this post may suggest, I actually like Alanis.
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Post by jode* on Apr 18, 2007 13:21:25 GMT
You cannot hate the Dum Dums! Or put them in the same category as Busted etc!
The Dum Dums actually had some credibility. They tended to play the mid-sized indie venues, and supported Bon Jovi on tour.
They may have been more Pop than Rock, but that's half the fun.
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Post by al on Apr 18, 2007 15:02:28 GMT
You cannot hate the Dum Dums! Or put them in the same category as Busted etc! Oh, I wouldn't dream of it. The Dum Dums were wicked. But clearly they were the blueprint for Busted, which is what riled me up when Busted were so often described as 'fresh' or 'important'. Getting the thread back on track, am I alone in thinking Mika's Grace Kelly carries some of the most inexcusably horrific lyrics of recent years?
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Post by pops on Apr 18, 2007 18:25:06 GMT
Pretty much every line in Phil Collins' Another Day In Paradise makes me die on the inside. I think the most tasteless casual reference to the homeless still has to be Sam Fox's Touch Me - "Like a tramp in the night I was begging for you."
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Post by pauliepoos on Apr 18, 2007 19:06:37 GMT
I think the most tasteless casual reference to the homeless still has to be Sam Fox's Touch Me - "Like a tramp in the night I was begging for you." How did Jordan and Andre miss when compiling their covers album?
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Post by Steven on Apr 19, 2007 22:59:56 GMT
Please never use this meaningless word again.
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Post by Steven on Apr 22, 2007 20:21:24 GMT
A new one I just remembered:
I'm as serious as cancer When I say rhythm is a dancer
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Post by Becky on Apr 22, 2007 20:39:48 GMT
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!
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Post by Lisa on Apr 25, 2007 12:11:56 GMT
Not so much calamitous lyrics but Natasha Bedingfield's new song really creeps me out. "There's a baby, oh there's another one, babies, babies, babies"; I think she must have written it outside a maternity ward with some crazy baby snatcher types.
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Post by Tacye Marley on Apr 26, 2007 14:14:03 GMT
The Natasha Bedingfield song unnerves me. But then, so do babies.
Does 'Love Machine' by Girls Aloud really contain the lyrics 'You're Cornflake/ Big mistake'? Cause that's... weird...
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Post by Becky on Apr 26, 2007 14:51:54 GMT
I think it's 'Your calls late/Big mistake'
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Post by pauliepoos on Apr 26, 2007 17:44:11 GMT
Your call's late, big mistake, you've gotta hang around limbo for as long as I take, next time, read my mind, and I'll be good to you.
Although some people dismiss Girls Aloud's lyrics as strange (jumping on my tutu), I find them refreshingly nouvelle vague.
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Post by Tacye Marley on Apr 26, 2007 18:25:04 GMT
Ah ok. I usually listen to the Arctic Monkey's version so it could just be their accent. That makes more sense.
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Post by jem on Apr 26, 2007 18:33:13 GMT
Also from love machine- 'let's go eskimo'.
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Post by Bridgey on Apr 27, 2007 22:30:27 GMT
And I met a girl, she asked me my name, I told her what it was.
Yeah, I totally went with the sheeplike herd who listen to 6music. I actually have never noticed these lyrics from Razorlight's 'Somewhere Else' before.
Oh, and 'Snow (Hey Oh)' is surely an example of why the 'guitar band = credible' notion can be/is wrong.
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Post by pauliepoos on May 5, 2007 19:33:41 GMT
Des'ree and Razorlight's poor lyricism has been rewarded! See here
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Post by SweatShop on May 8, 2007 19:01:45 GMT
At least these two aren't pretending to be credible but Leilani's Madness Thing and Alda's Girl Night Out, anyone? "When we're married and cooking an on-ion... YEAH!" And listen to them both for yourself. I'm a bit disappointed to find that i've lost the other version of "Madness Thing" I used to have. Madness Thing: download.yousendit.com/0EC608222D5E7F2FGirl's Night Out: download.yousendit.com/7D9B10D056D1A19DThey're both .m4a files, sorry. iTunes files basically. I couldn't think of another way of getting them onto my comp. I just bloody hope someone downloads them.
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Post by boxedjoy on May 9, 2007 21:18:09 GMT
MADNESS THING!!!!
Sorry, but wow, this is one the best songs ever*. I had it on a Smash Hits CD until my friend stole it and then snapped it. And I thought I would never hear the song again. Thank you so very very much, this has made me feel whole again.
*Not actually.
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Post by Nurse Dunkley on May 9, 2007 21:26:57 GMT
MADNESS THING!!!! Sorry, but wow, this is one the best songs ever*. I had it on a Smash Hits CD until my friend stole it and then snapped it. And I thought I would never hear the song again. Thank you so very very much, this has made me feel whole again. *Not actually. I second everything said here (I had the same cd, though I can't remember what happened to it). Thanks Mrs M! "When your boyfriend comes home early, to find you sucking on a Curly Wurly." Amazing. This is from memory, it hasn't downloaded yet.
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Post by WhiteNoiseMaker on Jun 9, 2007 17:14:38 GMT
Busted are the lyrical equivalent of serial killers. "Air Hostess" is quite astonishingly inane: Air hostess I like the way you dress Though I hate to fly But I feel much better Occupied my mind Writing you a love letter I messed my pants When we flew over France Will I see you soon In my hotel room For a holiday romance? Air hostessThey also attempt to rhyme "terminal" with "beautiful", and "landed" with "standing". Oh my gaaaawd! I feel like I've accidentally slipped onto the Kooks messageboard or something! I always took Air Hostess to be one of the best lyrics of any song ever. Very few bands have made me laugh as many times as Busted - 'I messed my pants as we flew over France' is one of my favourite couplets of all time. Of course it's nose-bleed-inducingly inane, but isn't that the point?
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Post by WhiteNoiseMaker on Jun 9, 2007 17:19:33 GMT
There are so many *properly* bad lyrics out there. Like:
And all that bleating about paper dreams, it makes me feel a little sick every time.
But the king of bad lyrics will always be Kelly Jones. Much like Emily on BB decided to use a racially offensive word on a programme world famous for being in a lot of shit about racism, the Stereophonics decided to release a song complaining about the critics who said they were very shit by writing the shittest words ever to accompany music:
I'm hoping that the website I got these off was wrong because even the stereophonics wouldn't have a line as nonsensical and shit as 'to meet me who loves you like me crashing to the ground' would they?
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Post by longsnakemoan on Jun 26, 2007 17:50:02 GMT
Surely Fiddy deserves a mention with 'I love you like a fat kid loves cake.' I'm certain not all fat kids love cakes. Some of them must love savoury stuff more.
Kayne West in Jesus walks came up with 'I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers, The way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way y’all need Jesus.' The love for the Lord is comparable to the education system and the enduring love of Regis and Lee.
I suppose the most stupid lyric of time would be 'Let me hear you say, this shit is bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S' because it's just rubbish.
'I've got no self control, Been living like a mole now, Going down, excavation'. Eh? I fucking hate Bono.
Britney's Email My Heart is another
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Post by orphanandy on Jun 27, 2007 21:44:23 GMT
Surely Fiddy deserves a mention with 'I love you like a fat kid loves cake.' I'm certain not all fat kids love cakes. Some of them must love savoury stuff more. I have to defend that line- he is saying that to his "gurl" to make her smile, its supposed to be a like a joke. Pick any lyric from Candy shop for real shit lyrics in the "my cock is a lollypop" stylee!
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