c'mon now.
its rock n roll.
we aint gonna be no smart people.
we just go and do all we know.
ROCK AND ROLL!

alexdamon wrote:c'mon now.
its rock n roll.
we aint gonna be no smart people.
we just go and do all we know.
ROCK AND ROLL!

yeah. what about iggy's horrible lyrics and rhymes? It's all in the fun, kids.

Know what I really LOVE? When Nico's accent sings "she's gonna smile to make you fron, what a clon" in "Femme Fatale" .....crucial...

there's a million guilty parties, and I love them all for letting us into their worlds... the most horrible crimes against music are the most fun.

Example - metallica: "You label me, I label You" I sing this at the top of my lungs eveytime it's within earshot. A piece of shit that can be devoured as entertainment, is, I guess, entertainment.

gmilner wrote:Steve Martin once had a good take on all this. He was on Letterman a long time ago, and Letterman said something like, "I hear you once wanted to be a singer-songwriter. Why didn't you pursue that?"

Martin replies, "Well, the great thing about writing songs is that you get to sing lines like"--adopts exaggerated singing voice--"'I've been through the desert on a horse with no name / It felt good to be out of the rain.' The bad thing is that you also have to sing lines like"--starts singing in an even more exaggerated voice, slowing down toward the end--"'In the desert, you can remember your name / 'Cause there ain't no one FOR TO GIVE YOU NO PAIN.'"
It was kinda genius...

America has written some of the most outstandingly bad rhymes of all time. Ventura Highway is an excellent example:


Ventura Highway in the sunshine
Where the days are longer
The nights are stronger than moonshine
You're gonna go I know

'Cause the free wind is blowin' through your hair
And the days surround your daylight there
Seasons crying no despair
Alligator lizards in the air, in the air

I love the emotional intensity that they able put into a line like "Alligator lizards in the air."

gmilner wrote:"'Cause there ain't no one FOR TO GIVE YOU NO PAIN."

I always thought that this line was even worse. I always thought that it was: "For there ain't no one for to give you no pain."

Anyway, America is a bad band (with a terrible band name).

But as far as pussy ass 70's AM radio goes, they are minor offenders. For instance, have you ever heard "American City Suite" by Cashman & West?

Holy crap. If you ever want to terrify yourself, then listen to this song. If you have the guts, then seek out the entire seven minute horror version.

Holy crap.

I really can't stand two things
These things I just can't stand

Being on the phone alone at home
and crying, dying and lying.

run joe, run wrote:I hate when someone writes a lyric for a song with the word "again", and then rhymes it with something like "pain", or "rain", or "train", but then when they come to SING the fucker they don't pronounce it like "a - GANE", they sing "a - GEN".

So you hate Dusty Springfield's version of "Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart" then? More fool you.

For instance, have you ever heard "American City Suite" by Cashman & West?

Holy crap. If you ever want to terrify yourself, then listen to this song. If you have the guts, then seek out the entire seven minute horror version.

Sweet merciful God.... Oh-hoh! Bradley, why must you drop bombs like this? And why do I always take the bait? Please tell me there isn't really a SEVEN MINUTE VERSION of this thing!

Two thoughts, as I listen to this gem on a loop:

1) If you "limeyed" it up a little bit, it would sound like Belle & Sebastian.

2) Could this Mr. Cashman possibly be the same Mr. Cashman who is responsible for that hideous "Talkin' Baseball" empire -- that fucker who recorded (and continues to record, if I'm not mistaken) versions of that truly terrible song for every team, for every 'classic' baseball lineup, and every new scenario that he can work into that bloodless tune?

Please advise.

Superking wrote:Could this Mr. Cashman possibly be the same Mr. Cashman who is responsible for that hideous "Talkin' Baseball" empire?

The one and the same.

johnnyshape wrote:

run joe, run wrote:I hate when someone writes a lyric for a song with the word "again", and then rhymes it with something like "pain", or "rain", or "train", but then when they come to SING the fucker they don't pronounce it like "a - GANE", they sing "a - GEN".

So you hate Dusty Springfield's version of "Take Another Little Piece Of My Heart" then? More fool you.

This offence crops up in far too many songs, some of which I love, some of which I hate. There are plenty of songs in which this stupid blunder happens but I still love the song. If I discounted all the songs that I liked due to this bastardly annoying habit I wouldn't be left with very many records. It really is everywhere. Once you become aware of it you notice it on lots of otherwise perfectly decent records. It's just something I have to live with.