Ya had a bad day..
Ya had a bad day..
Rage Against The Machine - "Bullet In Your Head"
"A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head
A bullet in ya head!
A bullet in ya head!
A bullet in ya head!
A bullet in ya head!
A bullet in ya head!
A bullet in ya head!
A bullet in ya head!
Ya gotta bullet in ya fuckin' head!"
Tom Morello's guitar skills ,while not very technical or difficult to emulate, are nonetheless badass, but Zachary de la Rocha really needs to take a songwriting lesson. If you haven't heard Morello's solo stuff, check it out.
when elvis moved from Tupelo to memphis and Sun records opened.Originally Posted by Kap'n
BUT... I AM from the MS Delta and I know which small towns gave birth to real delta blues.
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I think it's scheduled right after his singing lesson. I just don't get that band at all.
We're working for a big record comany so we can screw the man!
Then again, they did sell a lot of records, just like Britney.
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I'm guessing he was on stilts.
Perhaps drug induced euphoria?
Speaking of which:
Up, Up and Away - Fifth Dimension
One Tin Soldier - Coven
American Pie - Don McLean, especially: "Did you write the book of love", etc.
I was scarred by '70s radio hits.
DD
I sometimes like bad lyrics, or what a lot of people would probably define as "bad". IMHO, in some cases, non-sensical or character-breaking lyrics just add to the effect.
Take some of Modest Mouse's lyrics. I'm not familiar with their latest album as it doesn't really appeal to me, but their older stuff was badass. He (Issac Brock) will sometimes go from sounding like he's saying something poetic and profound in one song, to being a complete pessimist, to being cryptic, then obviously just rhyming for the sake of rhyming. But the part where he's just trying to rhyme (or where it sounds like he is) doesn't strike me as him just giving up and looking in a dictionary or whatever. More like he was starting to spill his guts, then just decided to be a smartass instead. Not sure how else to describe it, but here's an example:
Everyone's afraid of their own life
If you could be anything you want, I bet you'd be disappointed, am I right?
No one really knows the ones they love
If you knew everything they thought I bet you'd wish that they'd just shut up
Well you were the dull sound of sharp math when you were alive
No one's gonna play the harp when you die
and if I had a nickel for every damn dime, I'd have half the time, do you mind?
It doesn't really make any sense, but it sounds like it might to him, and maybe you just have to figure it out. Plus there seems to be a smart ass sense of humor in the nonsensical parts that I like for some reason.
So yeah, these aren't lyrics I don't like, but whatever...
In NOLA, dixieland music is very funky.
IMNSHO, if ya gotta hear dixieland, it had better be funky dixieland.
If it ain't it might as well be played by guys in red white blue striped shirts and styrofoam "straw hats"
I suppose I'll just go straight to the "nuclear option" here......
"Lovin' You" -- Minnie Riperton
"Jive Talkin'" -- The BeeGees
"Convoy" -- C. W. McCall
Anything by KC & The Sunshine Band
That's the way (UH HUH, UH HUH) I like it (UH HUH, UH HUH)!
Pass the Pepto!
The Stroke
My kinda Lover
The Big Log
Well, there's a fine line between stupid and clever.Tonight, I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight. Now THERE'S a dumb song.
There's a difference between intentionally dumb, and stuff that's not intended to be dumb, but is anyway.
Zappa could write as fine a lyric as anybody, but Dinah Moe Humm or Lonesome Cowboy Burt are meant to be written as dumb as the characters that inhabit the song. Or songs like Inca Roads, where the words just sort of exist as syllables that go with the rhythm of the song.
Modest Mouse, what I've heard, is great.
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+1... Our local radio station still plays that one and I hear it a lot at work (I don't listen to ANY radio when I'm not there!), and It seems that they play it more when I'm really am having a bad day
! If I had any say in the matter, there wouldn't be a radio within an earshot of our work area in the department (unless they get something like XM that has better choices)!!!!!
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...add these to my list too - UH HUH, UH HUHUH HUH, UH HUH
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Jes' a-trine ta be heppful heah, pard!
Hey, I like your website......lotsa kewl stuff there. You got a good eye for composition.
Yeah, Morello did some groundbreaking art-punk-noise guitar, but I hated the band because of that whiny, nasty, puling little nancy-boy Zach. Dude, get some therapy...I think it's scheduled right after his singing lesson. I just don't get that band at all.
We're working for a big record comany so we can screw the man!
Then again, they did sell a lot of records, just like Britney.
Wow, that wasn't nice of me! I must be needing my morning coffee.
I lump Zach in with Fred Durst. Those guys annoy me no end. [/rant]
"I'm gonna find myself a girl
that can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams..."
Yeah, well, Alvin and the Chipmunks rock that song pretty well. They take an ordinary, pedestrian lyric and breath new, chipmunk life into it!
"I'm gonna find myself a girl
that can show me what laughter means
And we'll fill in the missing colors
In each other's paint-by-number dreams..."
Knights in White Satin..EWWW!
You Must not Know bout me..
Where Corn don't Grow...WTF???
Oh I'm sure its the best version....Anything has gotta be better than the original..Yeah, well, Alvin and the Chipmunks rock that song pretty well. They take an ordinary, pedestrian lyric and breath new, chipmunk life into it!
"Baby, I'm-a want you
Baby, I'm-a need you
You're the only one I care enough to hurt about
Maybe I'm-a crazy
But I just can't live without..."
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
givin me direction
Maybe I'm a-picky, but that sure is a icky
bit of wordsmithing.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
"Direction" isn't the word I think of there.
givin me direction
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More like de'rection?
... if Cole Porter had written it.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
's wonderful
You ain't seen nothin' yet
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet
Here's something that you never gonna forget
B-B-B-Baby, you just ain't seen nothin' yet
*yawn*
Tone is in the fingers, eh? Let's hear your Vox, Marshall and Fender fingerings then...
Oh, it gets better, further in, when it goes
Here's somethin', here's somethin' that you're never gonna forget
y'know, y'know, y'know, y'know you ain't seen nuthin' yet.
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there's more:
you ain't seen nothing yet....b.b.b.baby you just ain't seen n.n.nothin yet
here's something, here's something your never gonna forget baby,
you know
you know
you know you just ain't seen n.n. nothin yet
Don't forget the "f-f-f-f-forget"
nuthin' yet, you ain't been around!
But, you know...as dumb as the lyrics are, it's a great song.
"I haven't slept for ten days...because that would be too long." -- Mitch Hedberg
LOL The BTO member that penned those lyrics would probably laugh his ass off if he read this thread.
Abra-abra-cadabra
I want to reach out and grab ya
Abra-abra-cadabra
Abracadabra
I still like Steve Miller though.
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All that Steve Miller stuff sounds like he found it at the bottom of a nickel bag.
Rhyming "Texas," "facts is," and "taxes" is some nevah-forgive action.
"But lately you live in the jungle
I never see you alone
But we need some definite answers
So I thought I would write you a poem
The question to everyones answer
Is usually asked from within
But the patterns of the rain
And the truth they contain
Have written my life on your skin
Jungle love its drivin me mad
Its makin me crazy
Jungle love its drivin me mad
Its makin me crazy"
I had a Steve Miller moment a week or two ago.
I heard this nuggett in a store, and thought
I like the guitar, the crispy way it jump out of the speaker, but not enough to like the song.
Then there's the whistled solo. ???
(I considered a "What The Hell Is Wrong With Steve Miller?" thread)
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
I think the word is assonine (did I just make that up?)
BTW, Steve Miller didn't write Jungle Love. Gregg Douglas and Lonnie Turner did.
So, I gather Steve heard it, and thought "what a cool song!"
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Wow.
Maybe he was creatively pooped after completing the epic "Swingtown."
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
"Here I am....rock you like a hurricane" the heavy German accent doesn't even redeem this gem.
also, I like Bad Company a lot ,but the song "Feel Like Makin' Love" always struck me as a bit pretentious..yeah, I'm sure you feel like it big guy, but what about her?
"If you're cool, you don't know nothin' about it. It just is...or you ain't." - Keith Richards
Oh, god. Abracadabra. And I had conveniently relegated that one to the trash heap of dead memory cells. Thanks a lot.
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And on another note...
Every time I hear "Na-na-na-na" lyrics, a little part of me dies inside.
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness".
-Dave Barry
Tallahassee Lassie is pretty much at the bottom of the dung heap, as far as lyrics are concerned.
It's not even so much the inane lyrics themselves, as the big "whooo"s that appear every seven sylables or so.
Whoo isn't a good song sound. In fact the mere appearance of one can destroy what would otherwise be a decent, or at least adequate song.
The only effective use of a "whoo" in a song is during the solo of Cinnamon Girl. It's still pretty bad.
On the other hand, it does add another note to the solo.
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