Good Songs Spoiled By Just One Line

chrisj1602

Kilgore said:

OK, cards on the table. I've got a soft spot for Oasis anthemic pop rock.

Now Noel is dab hand at naff lyrics but,
Don't Look Back in Anger. 

"Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face."

Really winds me up. 

I’m sure I read that’s about his mum making them as kids stand by the fireplace for photos. I don’t think the song is about anything though to be fair. “So Sally can wait” is what Liam misheard the actual chorus lyric as…

P0wderF1nger

mart said:

lustycourtier said:

Cols said:

munckee said:

Bellycaster said:

Wanking on the Moon.



Ooops, that's the Change a Letter of a Song Thread I should be on.

  

Wanking in Memphis. 

Or the Page and Plant classic, Wanking Into Clarksdale.

Wank By Pantera has an amazing solo though. 

Wank this way ought to be added to the list

Gerry and the Pacemakers must get a mention with You'll Never Wank Alone - you have to do it with a kop full of scousers now

brojangles

Eminem's Stan would be more of a masterpiece without the "come to think of it, he was.... YOU?!?! (Damn)" bit at the end.

Sex Pistols mispronouncing "anarchist" and "Belsen" for the sake of weak rhymes is an edge case because I guess it's deliberate to be annoying. (It would have been funnier, maybe better if he'd pronounced "anarchist" normally and then made "antichrist" rhyme with it.) 

Philtre

Yeah, that national anthem thing where it goes "God save the Queen".

Bidley

Fried chicken.

rlw

And in this ever changing world in which we're living

Too many ins.........

Habanero

P0wderF1nger said:

mart said:

lustycourtier said:

Cols said:

munckee said:

Bellycaster said:

Wanking on the Moon.



Ooops, that's the Change a Letter of a Song Thread I should be on.

  

Wanking in Memphis. 

Or the Page and Plant classic, Wanking Into Clarksdale.

Wank By Pantera has an amazing solo though. 

Wank this way ought to be added to the list

Gerry and the Pacemakers must get a mention with You'll Never Wank Alone - you have to do it with a kop full of scousers now

Those same scousers would also like 'Wank Like An Egyptian'

rogd

Habanero said:

P0wderF1nger said:

mart said:

lustycourtier said:

Cols said:

munckee said:

Bellycaster said:

Wanking on the Moon.



Ooops, that's the Change a Letter of a Song Thread I should be on.

  

Wanking in Memphis. 

Or the Page and Plant classic, Wanking Into Clarksdale.

Wank By Pantera has an amazing solo though. 

Wank this way ought to be added to the list

Gerry and the Pacemakers must get a mention with You'll Never Wank Alone - you have to do it with a kop full of scousers now

Those same scousers would also like 'Wank Like An Egyptian'

I'm Wanking Backwards for Christmas.

JerkMoans

Grumpyrocker said:

darius said:

I think the real point of this thread is to answer that universal question from throughout the eons of time:

Are we human? Or are we dancer?

Or whether we've got a soul not but are not a soldier. 

I liked Bill Bailey's take on that: "I've got ham, but I'm not a hamster".

thecolourbox

rlw said:

And in this ever changing world in which we're living

Too many ins.........

Just change the second in to on and you're good.

Surely though the "you know you did you know you did you know you did" line is much worse

rivercider

CHRISB50 said:

I think I posted this in another similar thread in the past, but a lot of AC/DC lyrics are really shit.

I like a lot of their music, but listening to some bloke go on about sex isn't something I particularly want to listen to.

Nor me, especially when they wrote songs like 'Wank All Over You'.
Sounds really unpleasant.

hollywoodrox

Not an oasis fan but I actually enjoy  the lyrics like

”the sink is full of fishes and she’s got dirty dishes on the brain”  silverfish probably ???

“ she’s got a sister and on the palm of her hand there’s a blister” 

I find them jolly amusing and entertaining 

proggy

P0wderF1nger said:

mart said:

lustycourtier said:

Cols said:

munckee said:

Bellycaster said:

Wanking on the Moon.



Ooops, that's the Change a Letter of a Song Thread I should be on.

  

Wanking in Memphis. 

Or the Page and Plant classic, Wanking Into Clarksdale.

Wank By Pantera has an amazing solo though. 

Wank this way ought to be added to the list

Gerry and the Pacemakers must get a mention with You'll Never Wank Alone - you have to do it with a kop full of scousers now

You'll have to blame Rodgers and Hammerstein for that. Fucking Wankers.

Keiko

Fast Car by Tracy Chapman:

"You got a fa - ast car"

Aaaaaarrrrggghhhh!!!!! Pick a word with two syllables!

Funkfingers

Helen Shapiro - Wanking Back To Happiness

The Four Seasons - Wank Like A Man

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Popular clunkers include Jailbreak by Thin Lizzy.

"Tonight, there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town." Now, I wonder where in town that could possible occur?

LastMantra

thecolourbox said:

rlw said:

And in this ever changing world in which we're living

Too many ins.........

Just change the second in to on and you're good.

Surely though the "you know you did you know you did you know you did" line is much worse

I always thought it was "But if this...".
Would make more sense with the next line.

lustycourtier

darius said:

I think the real point of this thread is to answer that universal question from throughout the eons of time:

Are we human? Or are we dancer?

Its actually a Hunter S Thompson quote, and in that context, makes complete sense.

BillDL

Here's an oddball line that I find mildly disturbing because it has too many words in it compared with the first line of all the other verses, and it disrupts the strong meter of the song.

Nanci Griffith - Ford Econoline.  The line in question is that which leads into the last verse and is in the video at the 1:33 marker:

Chorus:

She's the salt of the earth,

Straight from the bosom of the Mormon church,

With a voice like wine,

Cruising along in that Ford Econoline.

Last Verse

Now she sings her songs around this country from Seattle to Montgomery,

Those kids are grown and that rounder knows you cannot cage your wife.

Along the back roads of our nation, she's become a living legend,

She drives a Coupe De Ville but her heart rides still in that Ford Econoline.

Grumpyrocker

Funkfingers said:

"Tonight, there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town." Now, I wonder where in town that could possible occur?

Ah that old chestnut. In the context of the song Jailbreak is being used as a metaphor rather than a literal escape from a prison. So it's location could be anywhere. There's nothing wrong with the lyric. 

Also even if it was a literal jailbreak many towns/cities have more than one prison or detention centre. 

EricTheWeary

Grumpyrocker said:

Funkfingers said:

"Tonight, there's gonna be a jailbreak, somewhere in this town." Now, I wonder where in town that could possible occur?

Ah that old chestnut. In the context of the song Jailbreak is being used as a metaphor rather than a literal escape from a prison. So it's location could be anywhere. There's nothing wrong with the lyric. 

Also even if it was a literal jailbreak many towns/cities have more than one prison or detention centre. 

All this^^^ and Phil could write some very smart lyrics so I'm sure he was aware that it may have be heard as a bit clunky and either thought that was funny, metaphorical or worth it for the sound of it.