[Music] What is, the best song with absolutely dreck lyrics?

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Prompted by this post (with apologies Tom Hark Preston Park):

You've let you school down, you've let your family down, but most of all you've let NSC down

Which in turn reminded me of this song:



What is the best song you can think of with the worst lyrics?

 

[SAC]

Sorry, I don't understand the question!

 

[Jesus Gul]

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Think we had a thread about this fairly recently. And the correct answer is still Insomnia

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Think we had a thread about this fairly recently. And the answer is still Insomnia

If you can't be bothered to actually dig it out, I'm not going to be worried about not checking.
To be honest, though I'm going to claim not to care anyway, I'll secretly be devestated.

 

[hart's shirt]

"I'm serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer."

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

All 80s dance music had to have terrible lyrics - it was almost obligatory. Kool and the Gang, Chic and related artists, Level 42 - dreadful, embarrassing words.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

"I'm serious as cancer when I say rhythm is a dancer."

I see you and raise you with "What's she gonna look like with a chimney on her?"

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

If you can't be bothered to actually dig it out, I'm not going to be worried about not checking.
To be honest, though I'm going to claim not to care anyway, I'll secretly be devestated.

You'll secretly be devastated with that spelling

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

You'll secretly be devastated with that spelling

Today just gets worse and worse.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

ABC - That Was Then But This is Now More "can't complain, mustn't grumble, Help yourself to another piece of apple crumble"

 

[sydney]

Think we had a thread about this fairly recently. And the correct answer is still Insomnia

wash your mouth out.

 

[sydney]

All 80s dance music had to have terrible lyrics - it was almost obligatory. Kool and the Gang, Chic and related artists, Level 42 - dreadful, embarrassing words.

white men cant dance....

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

Sorry, I don't understand the question!

Oh bollocks.
Best song with the worst lyrics?
Biggest gap between quality of music and words?
Favourite song who's lyrics you hate?
If that doesn't help, I think it's more fun if people answer without being sure if they understand.

 

[Stato]

Sky Arts showed the 1976 Beach Boys TV Special over Christmas and I sat through it again despite the cringe factor. The Beach Boys as people really are the epitome of uncool. Mike Love seems to be one of the worst human beings to have ever worked in popular music and dances like a geography teacher trying to paradoy Mick Jagger. The rest of them come across as fairly gauche, easily pliable, possibly even stupid. The special was made with Lorne Michaels. It shows Dennis Wilson randomly judging a beauty pageant and Al Jardine at a farm in the desert being harassed by goats. Worst of all is a skit where Dan Akroyd and John Belushi force Brian Wilson out of bed and down to the beach in his dressing gown, forcing him into the water to go surfing. Its horrible. Its supposed to be funny, but it just looks like bullying a mentally ill man for money. (Which if you read biographies, seems to sum up most of their post Smile career). They made arguably the greatest album of all time, yet their career is riddled with these awful concepts and embarrassing lyrics, usually when Love is allowed his way.

They are such a weird paradox. They are the greatest advert for not working with your family. The three brothers seem horribly damaged by their lunatic father. Most of them often seem to be utterly clueless about music, about culture and about the zeitgeist, but then they open their mouths and those harmonies come out, grown adults weep and Richard Dawkins wonders whether he has actually been right all along about this atheism lark.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

If you can't be bothered to actually dig it out, I'm not going to be worried about not checking.
To be honest, though I'm going to claim not to care anyway, I'll secretly be devestated.

Thread title was

Songs that make you think "...what's all that about then....."​

It's from November. Can't see any obvious way of doing a direct thread link due to new NSC format, but heigh-ho, that was the thread

 

[Stato]

In answer to the question:



Smokey Robinson wrote this! I should mention that some lyrics quoted on this video are wrong. Presumably the maker of the video couldn't believe that the man responsible for 'Tears of a Clown' and 'Shop Around' could have written the real couplet:

"The way you stole my heart, you know you could have been a cool crook,
And baby you're so smart, you know you could have been a school book."

I've posted previously on here that although the lyrics were obviously scrawled on the back of an envelope on the bus on the way to the studio, its still a fantastically infectious tune that makes me smile every time I hear it.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Just about every hit by The Police:

And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da

Or

I hope my legs don't break
Walking on the moon

(WTF?)

 

[TugWilson]

trawberry Letter 23
Song by The Brothers Johnson

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STRAWBERRY LETTER 23
The Brothers Johnson

Hello my love, I heard a kiss from you
Red magic satin playing near, too
All through the morning rain I gave, the sun doesn't shine
Rainbows and waterfalls run through my mind
In the garden, I see west purples shower bells and tea
Orange birds and river cousins dressed in green
Pretty music I hear so happy and loud
Blue flowers echo from a cherry cloud
Feel sunshine sparkle pink and blue, playgrounds will laugh
If you try to ask, well is it cool? Is it cool?
If you arrive and don't see me, I'm gonna be with my baby, yeah
I am free flying in her arms over the sea
Stained window yellow candy screen see speakers of kite
With velvet roses diggin' freedom flight
A present from you, strawberry letter 22
The music plays I sit in for a few
A present from you, strawberry letter 22
The music plays I sit in for a few
Source: Musixmatch

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Just about every hit by The Police:

And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and rapes me
De do do do, de da da da
Is all I want to say to you
De do do do, de da da da

Or

I hope my legs don't break
Walking on the moon

(WTF?)

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Sue Lawley!