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In my mind, there's no question what the worst is. "Rumours" is a beautiful album, mainly about breaking up by a band that had lovers who had broken up with/were breaking up with/were going to break up with each other. It was the best selling album of the 1970s, a rare merge of popular and critical acclaim. Which makes it ever more atrocious that the chorus to the very first song is as follows: "When times go bad And you can't get enough Won't you lay me down in the tall grass And let me do my stuff Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Pow! Doot doodly doo!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6Fdm3-dnr0&t=30s I don't think I've ever hear a more vulgar (or, frankly, inaccurate) depiction of sex noises. Horrendous So what's the second worst lyric? Dave Barry once had a contest, and overwhelmingly decided it was the second verse of "Take the Money and Run" by Steve Miller Band "Billy Mac is a detective down in texas You know he knows just exactly what the facts is. He's not gonna let those two escape justice He makes his living off of other people's taxes." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WCFUGCOLLU&t=70s Not only do none of those four words truly rhyme, the weird shift into the financial details of civics is just jarring. What's your least favorite song lyric? Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 03:11 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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"Real rappers are had to find/like a remote" Common, on "Get Em High" off Kanye West's The College Dropout
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skeemon posted:"Real rappers are had to find/like a remote" Wow, yeah... it's kinda funny but that doesn't even rhyme.
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you're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul i still get embarrassed for the singer every time i hear this.
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a classic gbs thread right here! boy i sure did miss this
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 03:12 |
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any pitbull song "hmhmmmmmhmhhhmmnnghgnhmmhmngmhngmnh"
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 03:13 |
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Generals gathered in their masses, just like witches at black masses.
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"I wish you would step back from that ledge my friend." Cause I don't really wanna step back from the ledge, ya know? Oh Adaira fucked around with this message at 03:17 on Sep 29, 2016 |
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"Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too." Yeah, I believe you that you hope that. So?
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 03:15 |
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"Eatin Asian pussy all I need is sweet and sour sauce" coincidentally it's also the best lyric of all time
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Tolkien minority posted:"Eatin Asian pussy all I need is sweet and sour sauce" My favorite best/worst lyric is: "hosed da pussy til it's orange like ernie and bert"
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# ? Sep 29, 2016 03:18 |
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I'ma get my chief on {chief on} While she suck my ding dong {ding dong} Eyes like a ching chong {ching chong} Hard on like king kong {king kong} - from the three 6 mafia classic Put Cha Dick In Her Mouth i lol every time
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I'm just gonna limit myself to critically-acclaimed songs with terrible lyrics. "If I was a sculptor, but then again, no." -Elton John "He got feet down below his knees" - The Beatles Also, the entire lyrics to the song "Tighten Up" (which, before you say it doesn't count, is listed as one of the greatest songs of all time by Rolling Stone): quote:"Hi everybody. I'm Archie Drell and the Drells from Houston, Texas. We don't Also this, from the classic "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang: quote:Well, I was walking home late one afternoon Now, before you say "Yeah, but there are tons of horrible rap lyrics", here's what Wikipedia says about this song: quote:"While it was not the first single to feature rapping, it is generally considered to be the song that introduced hip hop music to audiences in the United States and around the world. The song is ranked #251 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time and #2 on VH1's 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs. It is also included in NPR's list of the 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century. It was preserved into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress in 2011. Songs on the National Recording Registry are "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."" Yes. Superman's dick is "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant." Christ. When people ask me why I try to avoid rap music, I point out that this song is considered the pinnacle of all a rap song can be. Why the gently caress would I want to listen to rap when THIS is the genre's crowning achievement?
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Friginator posted:Also this, from the classic "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang: i've seen a lot of poo poo in my time but i never thought id see the day that somebody trolled rapper's delight.
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Plebian Parasite posted:My favorite best/worst lyric is: bert is yellow
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he's yellowish
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client posted:i've seen a lot of poo poo in my time but i never thought id see the day that somebody trolled rapper's delight. I think the phrase "super sperm" really kinda speaks for itself.
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"Coast to coast, LA to Chicago" "What else could I say? Everyone is gay." "Only time will tell if we stand the test of time." Oh, and here, for your enjoyment, are the complete lyrics to MacArthur Park: quote:Spring was never waiting for us, girl
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It's not the pinnacle of rap it's what introduced hip hop to white audiences, and if something is "the first time white people caught on to a thing" you can guarantee it's going to be some dumb poo poo.
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Tolkien minority posted:"Eatin Asian pussy all I need is sweet and sour sauce" "Black girl drinkin' white wine/put my fist in her like a civil rights sign" Kanye's entire catalogue is full of terrible/fantastic lines. It's his forté
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Giant steps are what you take Walking on the moon I hope my legs don't break Walking on the moon We could walk forever Walking on the moon We could be together Walking on, walking on the moon Some may say I'm wishing my days away No way And if it's the price I pay Some say Tomorrow's another day You stay I may as well play
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I assume no one has quoted it yet because it's so obvious, but "Miracles" by ICP never gets old. You'd think it would stop being funny after awhile, but it still makes me laugh, every time they get to this part:quote:I fed a fish to a pelican at Frisco bay That has nothing to do with the rest of the song. It's not claiming that anything is a miracle. It's not about anything. Everybody always quotes the bit about magnets (which is still funny), but this is the part that makes me laugh the hardest.
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Lil Wayne has pretty bad ones "Big house, long hallways Got 10 bathrooms I can poo poo all day." "Swagger tighter than a yeast infection Fly go hard like a geese erection"
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The first verse of Joni Mitchell's For Free is so forced it is unbelievable. The only song you will ever hear where "hotel" rhymes with "jewels" and "schools." Startlingly bad from someone considered one of the greatest songwriters of all time I slept last night in a good hotel I went shopping today for jewels The wind rushed around in the dirty town And the children let out from the schools I was standing on a noisy corner Waiting for the walking green Across the street he stood And he played real good On his clarinet, for free
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"Ride the snake To the lake The ancient lake The snake is old And his skin is cold"
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There were plants and birds and rocks and things
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You make me come. You make me complete. You make me completely miserable.
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Your sperm's in the gutter and your love's in the sink
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screamin and creamin posted:"Believe me when I say to you I hope the Russians love their children too." Sting and the Police have some real classics. My own vote would have to be "King of Pain" "There's a little black spot on the sun today...that's my soul up there" Followed by a long list of obviously morbid similies that Sting wants to tell us about.
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This one's full of gems. "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette:quote:An old man turned ninety-eight
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Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty, Peggy Sue I'm pretty sure there was a word shortage in the 50's due to the war, so they had to reuse the ones they had.
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Friginator posted:Oh, and here, for your enjoyment, are the complete lyrics to MacArthur Park: macarthur park owns and the donna summer 17 minute long disco version of it owns most of all
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I personally think popular music should be put under this sort of scrutiny again. I mean, if it's really a good song, you shouldn't have to fall back on excuses like "But it was so historically significant!"
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gently caress my enemies gently caress my foes drat these hoes You're stepping on my toes Puff Daddy - Come With Me
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Downloaded the ablum "Native To" but Is Tropical, an Indie band of no particular note who made a pretty sweet music video for one of the singles The Greeks. Anyhow most of the album is pretty decent, but one song towards the end features the line "I wish I could just eat your eyes/ So you could see through all my poo poo" Crooned amid otherwise fairly banal breakup song lyrics. That one always struck me as a particularly strong combination of terrible imagery, tortured metaphor, and complete out-of-placeness within the song.
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Isn't rappers delight blatantly plagiarized from some other song? Do blatantly that he even calls himself by the original artists name at some point in the song.
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"the" I hear that word in so many songs that it has lost meaning.
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BrigadierSensible posted:"the" "Heart" too
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song so bad it made multiple people commit suicide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUCyjDOlnPU
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I've always hated when rappers would change the pronunciation of a word in order to get it to rhyme with the rest of the lyrics. DMX was bad at this, actually most of his lyrics are beyond horrible. Eminem does it sometimes. Open like a window no more Indo look at a video Sayin' to myself that could've been yo
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