Worst attempt at a rhyme in a pop tune?

[Washie]

Mind you ..

He thinks that I'm a cabbage
Cos I hate University Challenge

Excusable because it vaguely sort of rhymes in a Derry accent. Okay no it doesn't but it was from a bloody good song.

corrected for you, and i wasn't even alive when this song came out lmao

 

[CheeseRolls]

corrected for you, and i wasn't even alive when this song came out lmao

Cheers weird typo that is my only excuse.

 

[loz]

As much as I like them...T.Rex wrote a hell of a lot of tosh!!!

 

[boik]

Half Man Half Biscuit managed to rhyme "Marks and Spencer" with "Lech Welesa".

They also came up with the immortal....

"Dracula comes from Transylvania
Stevie Nicks books about kelptomania".

Take a bow Nigel!

 

[Rich Suvner]

Love Oasis to bits, but 'Supersonic' has lyrics to cringe for...

'I know a girl called Elsa
She's into Alka Seltzer'

Whatever

unless you consider that alka seltzer is a reference to another powdery drug

 

[Rich Suvner]

id suggest that the following by Feeder is pretty crap:

He's got a brand new car
Looks like a Jaguar
It's got leather seats
It's got a CD player (player, player, player...)

 

[Gwylan]

George Harrison's
"Bangladesh, Bangladesh
There's so many people dying there
The place looks like a mess"

Terrible rhyme, terrible imagery (and terrible grammar too)

 

[LadySeagull]

JLS in Love You More always makes me laugh to hear the inspired line:

'day three...was the same as day two'.

 

[matthew]

Shagger dagger

 

[Weststander]

Gonna write a classic
Gonna write it in an attic
Baby I'm an addict now
An addict for your love

Adrian Gurvitz take a bow........

Beat me to it. And it was a crap tune too.

 

[Norman Potting]

Empire State of Mind by Alicia Keys:-

"One hand in the air for the big city, Street lights, big dreams all looking pretty, No place in the World that can compare, Put your lighters in the air, everybody say yeah Come on, come".

For some unknown reason this song seems to have achieved "classic" status, I personally blame "Local music for the whole of the UK, Heart" for this - I personally think the song is cak.

...More music variety my arse.

 

[stupendor]

Nothing on earth can save us
When I fell in love with Uranus....

 

[BadFish]

Love Oasis to bits, but 'Supersonic' has lyrics to cringe for...

'I know a girl called Elsa
She's into Alka Seltzer'

Whatever

Supersonic actually

 

[BadFish]

I have a similar view with Children Of The Revolution. As much as I like Bolan, he did come up with some shockers, and the best example is "I drive a rolls royce 'cos it's good for my voice" completely pointless

Surely a comment on the excess of rock n roll.

 

[hart's shirt]

"Giant steps are what you take
Walking on the moon
I hope my legs don't break
Walking on the moon..."
- The Police

 

[life on mars 73]

Neil Diamond came up witha few shockers in his time. How about :

I am, I said
To no-one there
And no-one heard
Not even the chair

Shame really, cos I love the song otherwise, and that line in the chorus should be the high-point of the song, but it makes me cringe.

 

[smelly]

Spandau ballet:

She used to be a diplomat
Now she's down the laundromat.

Shocker

 

[NMH]

I have a similar view with Children Of The Revolution. As much as I like Bolan, he did come up with some shockers, and the best example is "I drive a rolls royce 'cos it's good for my voice" completely pointless

Completely pointed don't you mean? It's a classic lyric, and completely pertinant to the song as a whole!

Are we human or are we dancer? I never 'got' that lyric.
There is water at the bottom of the ocean, I wanne be your sledgehammer, and I am the walrus - those are dodgy lyrics.

 

[NMH]

Listening to Seahaven FM this morning, they played "Eleanor" by the Turtlles, the lyrics of which include an attempt to rhyme


"Etcetera" with

"Better"!

Doesn't even scan, what moron wrote that down and said "we've got a hit here boys!"

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One of the 'morons' is Mark Volman, who teaches music classes at Loyola Marymount University in Westchester, Los Angeles.
I went to one of his classes as a guest, incidentally.

 

[NMH]

A point to make about lyrics here - they don't need to be good (Dah Dah Dah) or understood (Smells Like Teen Spirit) to make a hit record.
Moreover, some of the top tracks in music history are basically indecipherable gibberish that possibly only meant something to the writer. Stairway To Heaven has been studied and theorised, but it's still gibberish as a story.