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Post by Beatles4ever on Apr 11, 2006 17:17:14 GMT -5
Norwegian Wood whats the point of the song. She left to go to work so he lit a fire and kept sleeping??? One of my favorites from the period where the Beatles were starting to expand their sound and experiment.  |
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Post by njamateurguitar on Apr 12, 2006 9:18:00 GMT -5
Its good and I can play it on guitar! Beatles fave group but their lyrics are oh so confusing.
Octopus' Garden comes to mind!
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Apr 12, 2006 10:21:52 GMT -5
Its good and I can play it on guitar! Beatles fave group but their lyrics are oh so confusing. Octopus' Garden comes to mind! You gotta remember all the weird stuff they were probably on at the time. Lyrics probably sounded perfectly normal to them.  |
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Post by Triple J on Apr 19, 2006 15:31:36 GMT -5
I got one... My mom & I always laugh at this one line in Bruce Springsteen's "Brilliant Disguise..." We stood at the altar, the gypsy swore our future was bright... but come the wee-wee hours, maybe baby, the gypsy lied..."Wee-wee!" Heheheheheheeeeeee...  |
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Post by smittykins--70s pop RULES! on Apr 25, 2006 19:41:48 GMT -5
I've been debating for while whether to include this, so I decided, what the hail? ;D There's a song on Chicago X entitled "You Get It Up." There's only one verse, but the lyrics are absolutely cringe-worthy(and since this is a family board, I won't list them here  ), and to make things more interesting, someone had the bright idea to have the entire band sing it! The instrumental backing is actually quite good, with a funky feel, and I actually find myself turning down the sound when the vocals come on and cranking it back up when they're finished so I can groove to the track. Incidentally, I acquired this in 1979-80, when I was about 13, so I was "blissfully unaware" of the meaning of that title for several more years!  |
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Post by njamateurguitar on May 1, 2006 8:24:37 GMT -5
LOL about the weewee hours!
And thanks for enlightening me on the Wham tune, I always thought it was
Guilty feelings got no reason....
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 Dawn on Sept 7, 2006 10:31:08 GMT -5
There's a version of Just My Imagination by Gwyneth Paltrow and Baby Face that has a few lines in it that drive me crazy. The line "I say to myself, 'You're such a lucky guy'" in the original recording was changed to "I say to myself, I'm so lucky he's so fly" - that's just going to make this version of the song sound dated and silly in a few years. And to fit the female viewpoint, "Out of all the fellows in the world" was changed to "All the girlies in the world." Girlies??!! I can't say I've ever heard a woman refer to another woman as a girlie.
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Sept 7, 2006 10:45:15 GMT -5
There's a version of Just My Imagination by Gwyneth Paltrow and Baby Face that has a few lines in it that drive me crazy. The line "I say to myself, 'You're such a lucky guy'" in the original recording was changed to "I say to myself, I'm so lucky he's so fly" - that's just going to make this version of the song sound dated and silly in a few years. And to fit the female viewpoint, "Out of all the fellows in the world" was changed to "All the girlies in the world." Girlies??!! I can't say I've ever heard a woman refer to another woman as a girlie. I didn't know that song had been covered that way, Dawn. The original is such a great song, and those new lyrics sound stupid. Why didn't they just use "out of all the WOMEN in the world" ? Perfectly good two syllable word that conveys the correct meaning. I haven't anybody use "girlie" in 50 years or so.  In 1954, the Moonglows sang the original "Sincerely" which had the line "Oh lord, why don't you tell me why I love that girlie so" (changed to "fella" in the cover by the Mcguire Sisters") Even back then, at the age of ten, I was saying what's with this "GIRLIE" ? ? !! |
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Post by Dawn on Sept 7, 2006 10:55:42 GMT -5
There's a version of Just My Imagination by Gwyneth Paltrow and Baby Face that has a few lines in it that drive me crazy. The line "I say to myself, 'You're such a lucky guy'" in the original recording was changed to "I say to myself, I'm so lucky he's so fly" - that's just going to make this version of the song sound dated and silly in a few years. And to fit the female viewpoint, "Out of all the fellows in the world" was changed to "All the girlies in the world." Girlies??!! I can't say I've ever heard a woman refer to another woman as a girlie. I didn't know that song had been covered that way, Dawn. The original is such a great song, and those new lyrics sound stupid. Why didn't they just use "out of all the WOMEN in the world" ? Perfectly good two syllable word that conveys the correct meaning. I haven't anybody use "girlie" in 50 years or so. In 1954, the Moonglows sang the original "Sincerely" which had the line "Oh lord, why don't you tell me why I love that girlie so" (changed to "fella" in the cover by the Mcguire Sisters") Even back then, at the age of ten, I was saying what's with this "GIRLIE" ? ? !! I agree, Ed - that would have been a much better choice of words. Or "ladies" perhaps. But girlies?? That just sounds strange, especially from a female singer. Apart from those dumb lyric changes, it's actually not a bad version of the song, although the original is still the best. |
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Post by Laura--I wuv u all :) on Sept 8, 2006 18:41:32 GMT -5
Hey, speaking of strange lyrics: Shakira has a song called "Hips Don't Lie". It's an okay song, but how can you tell whether someone's hips are lying or not? If she's standing up, does that mean her hips don't lie? If she's lying down, does that mean her hips are lying? If she's reclining on one side, does that mean one hip is lying (while the other one is pointing straight up)? LOL, now I've given all the guys here something to fantasize about...  |
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Post by Camille Noire on Sept 9, 2006 0:26:43 GMT -5
Two immediately come to mind:
The part in the end of the Turtles' "Happy Together" when out of nowhere comes the line, "How is the weather?". What does that have to do with the song? Maybe there's a story behind that I just don't know or something.
Then there's the song in which Neil Diamond laments that "No one heard, not even the chair." I know he needed a rhyme, but isn't there a better one than that?
I am also not a big fan of the entire cake in the rain metaphor in "McArthur Park."
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Post by H2IZCOOL on Sept 9, 2006 9:56:13 GMT -5
Two immediately come to mind: The part in the end of the Turtles' "Happy Together" when out of nowhere comes the line, "How is the weather?". What does that have to do with the song? Maybe there's a story behind that I just don't know or something. Then there's the song in which Neil Diamond laments that "No one heard, not even the chair." I know he needed a rhyme, but isn't there a better one than that? I am also not a big fan of the entire cake in the rain metaphor in "McArthur Park." Hi Kim! Welcome back. I think that for both the Turtles and Neil Diamond songs it was nothing but needing a rhyme.  |
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Post by Jughead on Sept 10, 2006 12:39:38 GMT -5
Okay...everyone knows how big a fan I am of Kylie Minogue. She's drop dead gorgeous in all her incarnations, and actually, a lot of her best songs (the period from 1994-2001, after she left Stock, Aitken, Waterman) were never released outside of the UK.
Still, there's one song that absolutely qualifies...and rather than point out a snippet of it, I'll post the whole song...believe me...it qualifies.
Here's Kylie's song, "Loveboat", from her 2000 album, Light Years...
Come join the loveboat
We're anchored offshore
Martinis and bikinis
Oh, l'amour
Loved up in lame
Quest ce qu'on va faire
Live your love like Heaven
Sur la mer
We'll just float 'cause the beach is boring
Our loveboat is more alluring
We'll sail on with savoir faire
Sur la mer
Have an havanna
Pass me a peach
Rub on some lotion
The places l can't reach Cool down with cocktails
Lose all your cares
007 Heaven
Sur la mer
We'll just float 'cause the beach is boring
Our loveboat is more alluring
We'll sail on with savoir faire, Sur la mer
We're in a place where Heaven breathes
Making some love and shooting the breeze
Living out the memories we'll share
Sur la mer
WaItz in the wake, of the shore
I will be there
Marine sunset dream, I'm your cure
I will be there
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Post by Laura--I wuv u all :) on Sept 14, 2006 11:48:59 GMT -5
I thought of another one: "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John. (I heard a guy sing it last night at a karaoke place, so it came to mind for this list.) I've always loved the song, but--"till the whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes"  ?? Huh? ? If that's not a dumb lyric, I don't know what is! It's still a fun song to listen to, though, with a great production and a great beat. |
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Post by Dawn on Sept 14, 2006 22:18:49 GMT -5
I thought of another one: "Philadelphia Freedom" by Elton John. (I heard a guy sing it last night at a karaoke place, so it came to mind for this list.) I've always loved the song, but--"till the whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes" ?? Huh? ? If that's not a dumb lyric, I don't know what is! It's still a fun song to listen to, though, with a great production and a great beat. Great song, but that is a strange line, I agree. I think this has been mentioned before on the Click, but another odd one is from Neil Diamond's I Am, I Said: "And no one heard at all, not even the chair." |
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We still miss you,John......October 9,1940-December 8,1980
), and to make things more interesting, someone had the bright idea to have the entire band sing it! The instrumental backing is actually quite good, with a funky feel, and I actually find myself turning down the sound when the vocals come on and cranking it back up when they're finished so I can groove to the track.
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