The Museum of Embarassingly Bad Song Lyrics.

[pixiecrinkle]

Because I'm bored -- another post!

So last night automat76 and I were discussing things we have strong distaste for, and I brought up the idea of starting a list of horrific song lyrics.

My initial ideas of things to include were:

-"a mole, digging in a hole, digging in my soul" from U2's "Elevation"
-"your body is a wonderland" by john mayer (this song makes me gag, in a way it doesn't make most people, because I find it exceptionally sappy & trite)

automat brought up:
-The use of the word "moot" in an 80s song we heard recently (the name is escaping me -- what was that?)
-"All I wanna do is make love to you" by Heart

I have since decided to add:
-"Teenagers, Kick our Butts" by Dar Williams (and I *love* Dar Williams, but this was not a good song)

So else wants to play curator? Nominate the sappy, overly contrived, or just the bad stretches to make the rhyme....

Comments

[queensheba.livejournal.com]

My coworker Chris and his buddies have a fictional band that they talk about when they're drinking. They rewrite the lyrics of popular songs to be stupid and crude - they call themselves the Morning After:) They've revamped "Your Body Is A Wonderland" into "Your Body is a Wasteland."

Fwiw, I like the song:)

I think some of the stupidest songs ever have been written by Sheryl Crow (I cannot name just one song; I loathe almost all of them, and her stupid teenage-girl voice too), and by the new Top 40 band Train. I think Train should be banned from radio airplay - with their first song, "Meet Virginia," they kept rhyming the same word with itself, rather than thinking of a different word "life/life," "queen/queen" - neither of which are particularly hard words to rhyme with...and every subsequent song has been insipid and the kind of thing designed to appeal to housewives who think they're cool because they're listening to "current" music with "funky" lyrics. Gag.



Thanks! I feel better!

[automat76.livejournal.com]

MOOT = jessie's girl

[automat76.livejournal.com]

please also add the whole "rap" at the end of blondie's "rapture". although it's so bad that it's actually good, it should be on the list.

some lines from the above-mentioned:

"flash is fast, flash is cool
francois sez fas, flashe' no do"

"and you don't stop, you keep on eatin' cars
then, when there's no more cars
you go out at night and eat up bars where the people meet"

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

They've revamped "Your Body Is A Wonderland" into "Your Body is a Wasteland."

I have some friends with a home karaoke machine, and at one party there were three girls who performed Christina Aguilera's "Genie in a Bottle" as "Genie in your Butthole." Crass, but hilarious.

And I so agree with you on Train. They are also heinously guilty of filling in the ends of lines with a four or five syllable "yeah". Dude! That's not a word!

[pixiecrinkle.livejournal.com]

yeah, that Blondie song is a definite.


Along those lines, the entire rock opera "The Iron Man" by Pete Townsend goes in here. There's a song which has a very similar "eating up cars" theme (makes sense in the plot) called "I Eat Heavy Metal". It's sung by a giant robot. What?