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« Reply #30 on: April 16, 2008, 07:56:51 PM »
I'll see your "Vertigo", and raise you "Elevation". Or "Sunday, Bloody Sunday" for that matter.
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« Reply #31 on: April 16, 2008, 08:35:55 PM »
Quote from: maverickf1jockey


EDIT: Just thought of 'Girlfriend' as sung by Avril Livine. Coming from a country where civilians are allowed to carry firearms you'd think she'd make an effort to be less annoying.

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Good job she's rather attractive  8)
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« Reply #32 on: April 16, 2008, 09:24:08 PM »
One of my favourite lyricists is Peter Gabriel. In particular a song called blood of eden:

I caught sight of my reflection
I caught it in the window
I saw the darkness in my heart
I saw the signs of my undoing
They had been there from the start
And the darkness still has work to do
The knotted chords untying
Theyre heated and theyre holy
Oh theyre sitting there on high
So secure with everything theyre buying

{chorus:}
In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
We wanted the union
Oh the union of the woman
The woman and the man

My grip is surely slipping
I think Ive lost my hold
Yes, I think Ive lost my hold
I cannot get insurance anymore
They dont take credit, only gold
Is that a dagger or a crucifix I see
You hold so tightly in your hand
And all the while the distance grows between you and me
I do not understand

[chorus]

At my request, you take me in
In that tenderness, I am floating away
No certainty, nothing to rely on
Holding still for a moment
What a moment this is
Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss
Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I can hear the distant thunder
Of a million unheard souls
Of a million unheard souls
Watch each one reach for creature comfort
For the filling of their holes

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
In the blood of eden
We wanted the union
Of the woman and the man

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of eden
Lie the woman and the man
I feel the man in the woman
And the woman in the man

In the blood of eden
We've done everything we can
In the blood of eden
Saw the end as we began
With the man in the woman
And the woman in the man
It was all for the union
Oh, the union of the woman, the woman and the man.

The blood of eden keeps running through me
Running through my veins
The blood of eden keeps rushing through me
When Im sure theres none that remains
The blood of eden keeps running through me
I can feel it in my bones
That blood of eden keeps rushing through me
Taking back what it owns

I have been playing this song endlessly today lol

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« Reply #33 on: April 16, 2008, 10:28:38 PM »
Quote from: sambo
Personally I think these are without doubt, THE worst lyrics that have been written, and will ever be written.

I give it you, 'Des'ree' : Life...


Ooh, Yeah
Oh yeah
Oh Life
Oh Life
I'm afraid of the dark
'Specially when I'm in a park
And there's no one
else around
Oh I get the shivers
I don't wanna see a ghost
It's the sight
that I fear most
I'd rather have a
piece of toast
Watch the evening news
Life, oh life
Oh life, oh life
Life, oh life
Oh life, oh life
I'm a superstitious girl
I'm the worst in the world
Never walk under ladders
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I keep a rabbits' tail
I'll take you up on a dare
Anytime, anywhere
Name the place, I'll be there
Bungee jumping, I don't care
Life, oh life
Oh life, oh life
Life, oh life
Oh life, oh life
Life
So after all's said and done
I know I'm not the only one
Life indeed can be fun
If you really want to
Sometimes living
out your dreams
Ain't as easy as it seems
You wanna fly
around the world
In a beautiful balloon
Life, oh life
Oh life, oh life
Life, oh life
Oh life, oh life
Life, oh life
Oh life, oh life
Life, oh life
Oh life, oh life
Oh life, oh life..


Sambo, gee, thanks for re-traumatising me.  I'd completely blocked this song out of conscious awareness due to the sheer awfulness of it.  It is so bad it borders on genius.  I really connect with it at an emotional level though, I would rather have a piece of toast than see a ghost.  

Now then, how about the following:

"My uncle Charlie is a cynical man
And his wife's a touch sceptical too
They've got one of those stickers in the back of their van that says "we've seen the prices at the zoo"
Well just the other day I knocked their door and said that I was passing
And Charlie launched a scathing attack
When I asked what I'd done he said "you stupid bar-steward"
We live in a cul-de-sac"

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« Reply #34 on: April 17, 2008, 01:20:58 AM »
Quote from: Simon D
My vote for some of the best: Alter Bridge - Wayward One

And they cry
And they call
As the wayward walk alone

City lights
Urban sprawl
In a place no one should know

Shown no grace
Shown no love
These mean streets are meant for none

Take them back to the start
Let the purest of heart
Know their worth is still spoken

As they fight to exist
We neglect and resist
Let this circle be broken

Broken homes
Broken lives
They repeat themselves in time

It's passed on
Down the line
Till we heal the wounds inside

It's not too late
To make things right
Dress wounds with loves pure light

They're still waiting
They still cry
They still want to know they'll be all right

All I'm saying
Can we try?
To bring the wayward ones back home tonight
Bring the wayward one back home tonight


I must agree with you; Alter Bridge has killer lyrics, to say the least.

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« Reply #35 on: April 17, 2008, 08:41:38 AM »
Just thought of the PERFECT combination of the best AND the worst...

Burning, shooting, raping and a-looting...

(repeat...)


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« Reply #36 on: April 17, 2008, 10:33:21 AM »
Quote from: MrBump
Just thought of the PERFECT combination of the best AND the worst...

Burning, shooting, raping and a-looting...

(repeat...)


Warrior of Ghengis Khan, Bad News.

:lol: I think that lyrics that are intended to be bad don't count.

Sadly, that also disqualifies one of my favourite lyrics:

You are drunk & you are surly in latino lover mode
We all know what's on your agenda, we have broken the code
I've got no right to lay claim to her frame, she's not my possession, you c***
Get you hands of my woman motherf*****


(I tried to get this played by the DJ at my wedding, but the wife vetoed it... :))
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« Reply #37 on: April 17, 2008, 05:16:38 PM »
Good one on that Desiree one Sambo, had me in fits!

What about Jennifer Lopez,
Don't look at the rocks that I've got, I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block.

Best for me is Ugly by The Stranglers. The phrasing of these lyrics isn't shouted as it's written!

I could have read a poem called Ozymandias to her
Instead I lived for the moment
It was a futile gesture anyway
I was here, and she was here
Ana being broad, of minds and hips
We did the only thing possible

I guess I shouldn't have strangled her to death
But I had to go to work and she had laced my coffee with acid

Normally I wouldn't have minded but I'm allergic to sulphuric acid
Besides she had acne, and if you've got acne, well, I apologise for
disliking it intensely, but it's understandable that ugly people have
got complexes I mean it seems to me that ugly people don't have a chance

It's Only the children of the #$%!& wealthy who tend to be good
looking An ugly fart attracts a good-looking chick if he's got money
(x3)

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mean rough looking, I mean hideous.

Don't tell me that aesthetics are subjective. You
Just know the truth when you see it, whatever it is

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« Reply #38 on: April 17, 2008, 05:26:30 PM »
Great idea for a thread!

I've refrained from posting because there are so many songs with both great and awful lyrics, I had a hard time deciding what to post.

In the Best Lyrics column, I submit the following:

Shake Your Rump, by the Beastie Boys:

Mike D
Yeah?
with your bad self running things
What's up with your bad breath onion rings?

Well I'm Mike D and I'm back from the dead
Chillin' at the beaches down at Club Med
Make another record 'cause the people they want more of this
Suckers they be saying they can take out Adam Horowitz

Hurricane you got clout
Other DJ's he'll take your head out
A puppet on a string I'm paid to sing or rhyme
Or do my thing I'm
In a
lava lamp
inside my brain hotel
I might be peakin' or freakin' but I rock well
The Patty Duke the wrench and then I bust the tango
Got more rhymes than Jamaica got mangos

I got the peg leg at the end of my stump
Shake your rump

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« Reply #39 on: April 18, 2008, 12:43:25 AM »
If there's ever been a better lyricist than Steve Earle then I havemn't heard them. Album after album of nothing but brilliance. Interspersed with the odd disposable love song admittedly.

Worst, well, nu-metal springs to mind. Korn, Papa Roach, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park., I feel embarrased for them all I really do, that many albums sold, folk just aren't gonna forget.

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« Reply #40 on: April 18, 2008, 12:45:04 AM »
Amazing lyrics?

Anything that comes from Bloodhound Gang.
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« Reply #41 on: April 18, 2008, 12:55:04 AM »
I love Neil Fallon's lyrics for Clutch.  Impossible to pick a favourite, though.
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« Reply #42 on: April 18, 2008, 12:57:55 AM »
What about these:
I'd sign - a contract with the devil
I've tried - for so very long
I'd die - to become immortal
that's why I sing this song
Am I a wannabe? - have I no dignity.
Who'd give up all my life.. to be
In the book of heavy metal.. metal!
In the book of heavy metal

In life - I have no religion
besides the heavy metal gods
wear nothing but black skin tight leather
My skin's clad with Metal studs
Am I a wannabe? - have I no dignity.
I give up all my life to be..
In the book of heavy metal.. metal!
In the book of heavy metal

Some twenty years ago, the goods put down there feet,
So firmly in to the ground that no man of sword nor pen,
could ever chains the rules upon which
The very fundament of metal was made.

Read all about it, in the book of heavy metal
Read all about it, in the manual
Read all about it, in the book of heavy metal
Read all about it
Don't need no flashy house, no kids/car or ugly wife
the only thing I want, is what my parents don't
need no widescreen TV, No in all honesty
the only thing I want to be (to be or not to be)

In the book of heavy metal - In life - metal!
In the book of heavy metal - to death - metal!

I've signed - a contract with the devil
I'd like to become a star
I'd die - to become immortal
That's why I play the guitar
 8)

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« Reply #43 on: April 18, 2008, 07:55:25 AM »
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What about these:
I'd sign - a contract with the devil
I've tried - for so very long
I'd die - to become immortal
that's why I sing this song
Am I a wannabe? - have I no dignity.
Who'd give up all my life.. to be
In the book of heavy metal.. metal!
In the book of heavy metal

In life - I have no religion
besides the heavy metal gods
wear nothing but black skin tight leather
My skin's clad with Metal studs
Am I a wannabe? - have I no dignity.
I give up all my life to be..
In the book of heavy metal.. metal!
In the book of heavy metal

Some twenty years ago, the goods put down there feet,
So firmly in to the ground that no man of sword nor pen,
could ever chains the rules upon which
The very fundament of metal was made.

Read all about it, in the book of heavy metal
Read all about it, in the manual
Read all about it, in the book of heavy metal
Read all about it
Don't need no flashy house, no kids/car or ugly wife
the only thing I want, is what my parents don't
need no widescreen TV, No in all honesty
the only thing I want to be (to be or not to be)

In the book of heavy metal - In life - metal!
In the book of heavy metal - to death - metal!

I've signed - a contract with the devil
I'd like to become a star
I'd die - to become immortal
That's why I play the guitar
 8)


I think that this has been posted on the wrong forum - there's already one about selling your soul for Rock 'n' Roll...

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« Reply #44 on: April 18, 2008, 07:58:24 AM »
Best and worst from Billy Bragg...  can you guess which is which?

Go find the young men never to fight again
Bring up the banners from the days gone by
Sweet moderation
Heart of this nation
Desert us not, we are
Between the wars


and...

I am the milkman of human kindness
I will leave an extra pint
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