Personally, I cant believe no one has yet mentioned my eternal example in shitty lyric writing: KIM GORDON.

Fuck, four of every five songs of hers are downright painful to listen to. What suprises me is that she actually has two or three good songs on the new record.

I really enjoy her standard rhyming structure:

A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme
(chorus which rhymes a word with same word in next line)
A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme

E! T! C!

garble wrote:Personally, I cant believe no one has yet mentioned my eternal example in shitty lyric writing: KIM GORDON.

Fuck, four of every five songs of hers are downright painful to listen to. What suprises me is that she actually has two or three good songs on the new record.

I really enjoy her standard rhyming structure:

A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme
(chorus which rhymes a word with same word in next line)
A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme, A rhyme

E! T! C!

Ugh. You are so right about this. I'd like Sonic Youth a lot more if they let Lee sing more and Kim sing less or never.

"Come on down to the store
You can buy some more more more more"

The lyrics to "Kool Thing" are also particularly irritating.

Brilliant stuff.

ginandtacos.com wrote:Secondly, "the hurting of you"? The hurting of you?

Si, the hurting of you! You were no aware, these Pantera, they have the mastery of the italiano falso?

placeholder wrote:I heard this song for the first time on the radio a year or two ago. I was embarrassed to be listening to it, and embarrassed for Rush for writing and playing it. This song is terrible enough to stand out as particularly bad in Rush's already uniformly laughable and terrible back catalogue. It may be the worst song I have ever heard in my life (maybe second to any song that involves Steven Tyler on vocals). I seem to recall there being a bunch of fruity wood-block kinda percussion in that song as well. Appalling.

You are correct sir, there is a fruity wood block thing in the middle. Theres also some gentle tinkling of windchimes during that part. Next to the lyrics, what is possibly most laughable about the song is the classical guitar intro. That's always a pompus move.

The thing that really hit me about hearing this song yesterday is remembering how totally fucking cool i thought it was when i was a teenage rock guitar player guy. I even thought the lyrics were interesting. I'm now a grown man nearing 40 and i, like you placeholder, felt the same embarassment for the band. That embarassment quickly gave way to the embarassment i felt when i recalled liking it so much as a kid.

Well, again...i still dig the guitar solo.

Linus Van Pelt wrote:Si, the hurting of you! You were no aware, these Pantera, they have the mastery of the italiano falso?

With-a name-a like-a Anselmo, he must-a be bellisimo.

Those are fucking ridiculous....

NELLY "hot in here"

Hot in.....
So hot in herre.....
So hot in.....

[Nelly]
I was like, good gracious ass bodacious
Flirtatcious, tryin to show patience
Lookin for the right time to shoot my steam (you know)
Lookin for the right time to flash them keys
Then um I'm leavin, please believin
Me and the rest of my heathens
Check it, got it locked at the top of the four seasons
Penthouse, roof top, birds I feedin
No deceivin, nothin up my sleeve, no teasin
I need you to get up up on the dance floor
Give that man what he askin for
Cuz I feel like bustin loose and I feel like touchin you
And cant nobody stop the juice so baby tell me whats the use

[Hook x2]
(I said)
Its gettin hot in here (so hot)
So take off all your clothes

I am gettin so hot, I wanna take my clothes off

[Nelly]
Why you at the bar if you aint poppin the bottles
What good is all the fame if you aint fuckin the models
I see you drivin, sportscar, aint hittin the throttle
And I be down, and do a hundred, top down and goggles
Get off the freeway, exit 106 and parked it
Ash tray, flip gate, time to spark it
Gucci collar for dollar, got out and walked it
I spit game cuz baby I cant talk it
Warm, sweatin its hot up in this joint
VOKAL tanktop, all on at this point
Your with a winner so baby you cant loose
I got secrets cant leave Cancun
So take it off like your home alone
You know dance in front your mirror while your on the phone
Checkin your reflection and tellin your best friend,
like "girl I think my butt gettin big"

placeholder wrote:Ugh. You are so right about this. I'd like Sonic Youth a lot more if they let Lee sing more and Kim sing less or never.

wow, i guess this just goes to show how differences of opinion come into play... i would say thurston slays, kim is fine, and lee sucks a dong. lee singing is the ultimate curse to a sonic youth song as far as i'm concerned. go figure.

toomanyhelicopters wrote:wow, i guess this just goes to show how differences of opinion come into play... i would say thurston slays, kim is fine, and lee sucks a dong. lee singing is the ultimate curse to a sonic youth song as far as i'm concerned. go figure.

I'm in agreement with you most of the way. I think Lee vocals are a curse, I think Thurston's are fine and personally love to hear Kim Gordon say pretty much anything because her voice to me is another instrument in the song rather than this "I'm such a singer" bullshit that seems to be rampant among (some more mainstream) women in rock.

I think Kim's vocals are a serious asset to their music and that she doesn't so much write lyrics as compose sounds to make with her mouth to complete the song.

Make of it what you will...

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Written by Dennis DeYoung
Lead vocals by James Young

All hail to the lords of the ring
To the magic and mystery they bring
To the music in their story
All hail to the lords of the ring
To the magic and mystery they bring
To the lands of ancient glory
In the year of the lords
The message came from above
The heavens opened with their mighty sound
That shook the people in the town
And so we came from everywhere
The young and old the rich and poor
To hear the legend of the magic ring
And of the powers it could bring, they sing
All hail to the lords of the ring
To the magic and mystery they bring
To the music in their story
All hail to the lords of the ring
To the magic and mystery it brings
May we someday wear it’s glory
And now the message is clear
For I became a lord this year
And though the legend was pure fantasy
We still need the hope it brings, so let’s sing
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To believe is a wonderous thing
May we always sing their glory
All hail to the lords of the ring
To the magic and mystery they bring
To the promise of their story