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Post by Laura--I wuv u all :) on Jan 3, 2006 12:59:53 GMT -5
It's not all THAT bad--the really fast instrumental part is cool! Maynard Ferguson's version is my favorite (it's an instrumental--that's not necessarily why it's my favorite; I just like it the best).
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Post by kathyb on Jan 10, 2006 11:05:42 GMT -5
The song "Careless Whisper" contains the lyric "Guilty feet have got no rhythm". That line has always bugged me.
'Course, I'm a big Melissa Etheridge fan, but she has a song, "No Souvenirs", that contains some strange lyrics. The first lines of the song are "Hello hello. This is Romeo, calling from a jackpot telephone. Shame shame, but I love your name. And the way you make the buffalo roam". I never understood that last line. LOL!
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Post by Railyn on Jan 11, 2006 23:52:26 GMT -5
Although it's not amongst my favorites, this stanza by Cinderella just always used to make me chuckle....
Don't know what you got till it's gone
Don't know what it is I did so wrong
Now I know what I got
It's just this song
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Mar 13, 2006 14:03:22 GMT -5
JP's Lost Oldies post of a Jefferson song today, reminded me of the other minor hit Jefferson had, "The Colour of My Love" Great song that would probably be in my Top 250 or so if not for the words in the chorus: "Her hair was the colour of the sun Was the colour of her eyes Was the colour of my own true love." OK ... she's probable a blonde, to make her hair the color - uh - the colour of the sun. No problem there. "...was the colour of my own true love." That makes her yellow. I suppose he could mean Asian, but he should have a better way of saying it.  BUT "... was the colour of her eyes..."  Yellow eyes !! She's either a cat, an alien, or has liver disease.   |
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Post by KittyKat - RIP Luciano on Mar 13, 2006 15:24:00 GMT -5
Hey Ed, I always thought that Marty Balin was singing -
And all the chances that I had TO
Like he's regretting all of the chances that he wasted on telling her he loved her or whatever?
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Mar 13, 2006 15:28:38 GMT -5
Hey Ed, I always thought that Marty Balin was singing - And all the chances that I had TOLike he's regretting all of the chances that he wasted on telling her he loved her or whatever? That would work, Kitty, except that then the sentence would end with "to", and you should never use a preposition to end a sentence with. ;D ;D ;D  |
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Post by lora on Mar 14, 2006 0:44:44 GMT -5
Although it's not amongst my favorites, this stanza by Cinderella just always used to make me chuckle.... Don't know what you got till it's gone Don't know what it is I did so wrong Now I know what I got It's just this song I rather like that stanza myself. Funny. |
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Post by Fitz on Mar 16, 2006 20:54:36 GMT -5
Great song? Hell no. But very popular as far as these things are concerned. And where else will I get the opportunity to rant about something that has plagued me for decades?
In my youth, I was condemned to working in a shop where the radio was set to a "Country Music" station.(There was a time in my life I would have argued that "country music" is an oxymoron, but I like to think I have grown a little, and that good music exists in every genre, albeit quite scarce in some.) Anyone ever involved in a family business should understand this kind of sentencing.
I became immune to most of it. The "mainstream pop tunes reworked as country" were probably the worst to endure. But the song I now denounce has been proclaimed a "Country Classic." It revived Ray Price's career, even brought him closer to mainstream easy listening. If anyone today even remembers Ray Price, it is the result of this song, "For the Good Times."
Hey, I'm willing to say "whisper of the raindrops" is a truly classy bit of imagery. But "Hold your warm and tender body close to mine" appalled me the first time I heard it and it still does.
Words are tender. Feelings are tender. But if something physical is tender, like meat, this is usually a gage of how easily it can be eaten.
Flesh can be tender, but this is often to denote soreness or sensitivity. But the idea of actually telling someone they have a tender body strikes me as ghoulish.
One errant word. One word that made the song unique for its time, also ruined it.
Pass the Accent! This body isn't tender enough!
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Mar 17, 2006 10:41:19 GMT -5
Great song? Hell no. But very popular as far as these things are concerned. And where else will I get the opportunity to rant about something that has plagued me for decades? In my youth, I was condemned to working in a shop where the radio was set to a "Country Music" station.(There was a time in my life I would have argued that "country music" is an oxymoron, but I like to think I have grown a little, and that good music exists in every genre, albeit quite scarce in some.) Anyone ever involved in a family business should understand this kind of sentencing. I became immune to most of it. The "mainstream pop tunes reworked as country" were probably the worst to endure. But the song I now denounce has been proclaimed a "Country Classic." It revived Ray Price's career, even brought him closer to mainstream easy listening. If anyone today even remembers Ray Price, it is the result of this song, "For the Good Times." Hey, I'm willing to say "whisper of the raindrops" is a truly classy bit of imagery. But "Hold your warm and tender body close to mine" appalled me the first time I heard it and it still does. Words are tender. Feelings are tender. But if something physical is tender, like meat, this is usually a gage of how easily it can be eaten. Flesh can be tender, but this is often to denote soreness or sensitivity. But the idea of actually telling someone they have a tender body strikes me as ghoulish. One errant word. One word that made the song unique for its time, also ruined it. Pass the Accent! This body isn't tender enough! LOL! I remember that song well, Fitz. Probably the only other person who ever said "tender body" was the witch in Hansel and Gretel. |
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Post by Pete70s on Mar 17, 2006 19:24:11 GMT -5
Great song? Hell no. But very popular as far as these things are concerned. And where else will I get the opportunity to rant about something that has plagued me for decades? In my youth, I was condemned to working in a shop where the radio was set to a "Country Music" station.(There was a time in my life I would have argued that "country music" is an oxymoron, but I like to think I have grown a little, and that good music exists in every genre, albeit quite scarce in some.) Anyone ever involved in a family business should understand this kind of sentencing. I became immune to most of it. The "mainstream pop tunes reworked as country" were probably the worst to endure. But the song I now denounce has been proclaimed a "Country Classic." It revived Ray Price's career, even brought him closer to mainstream easy listening. If anyone today even remembers Ray Price, it is the result of this song, "For the Good Times." Hey, I'm willing to say "whisper of the raindrops" is a truly classy bit of imagery. But "Hold your warm and tender body close to mine" appalled me the first time I heard it and it still does. Words are tender. Feelings are tender. But if something physical is tender, like meat, this is usually a gage of how easily it can be eaten. Flesh can be tender, but this is often to denote soreness or sensitivity. But the idea of actually telling someone they have a tender body strikes me as ghoulish. One errant word. One word that made the song unique for its time, also ruined it. Pass the Accent! This body isn't tender enough! Point well taken, Fitz! For the same reasons I always hated the song "Fresh" by Kool & The Gang because they sounded like they were singing about a loaf of bread or something... "She's Fressssssh... Exciting..." |
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Post by Laura--I wuv u all :) on Mar 25, 2006 10:57:47 GMT -5
I thought of another one: "I've Got to See You Again" by Norah Jones. It's a good song, but some of the lyrics are pretty lame. "To not touch your skin is not why I sing." Huh? ? (I've got the CD, so I just looked at the lyric sheet to make sure I had it right...) |
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Post by Pete70s on Mar 28, 2006 12:28:49 GMT -5
I woudn't exactly call this a 'great" song, but there's a song out right now that I hear at work all the time that drives me NUTS.. It's that one that goes "You're beautiful, you're beautiful.."
Well, what I hate is that at the beginning, the first line is "My life is brilliant", but he actually sings the line, then pauses, and REPEATS it. WTF? If it's a mistake, they should have FIXED it, with all the editing technology they have today it would have taken like 2 seconds to fix!
WHY is your life so brilliant that you have to repeat the line twice? Have you won any Nobel prizes? All I can see that you've done is written a crappy song!
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Post by Railyn on Apr 1, 2006 21:34:31 GMT -5
That's kind of how I feel about two songs that were popular when I was in college: "Paranoid" by Green Day, and "Hey Jealousy" by the Gin Blossoms. Two songs that were greatly overplayed around here, and honestly aren't my cup of tea.
Anyway, they both open with annoying questions: "Do you have the time to listen to me whine?" and "Do you think it'd be all right if I could just crash here tonight?". My answer to both: NO.
I love the song "Here's Where The Story Ends" by The Sundays. However, there are two lines that just leave me scratching my head - they deal with the same subject:
1) "And it's the memories of the shed that make me turn red"
2) "And the devil in me said "go down to the shed"."
Um.....kay? What's up with the shed?
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Post by njamateurguitar on Apr 11, 2006 10:07:54 GMT -5
Norwegian Wood
whats the point of the song. She left to go to work so he lit a fire and kept sleeping???
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Apr 11, 2006 13:09:37 GMT -5
Norwegian Wood whats the point of the song. She left to go to work so he lit a fire and kept sleeping??? Exactly! Isn't it good? |
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