Stupid lines that ruin otherwise great songs..

[Ken]

pete70s said:

njamateurguitar said:

Norwegian Wood
whats the point of the song. She left to go to work so he lit a fire and kept sleeping???

I LOVE "Norwegian Wood", but I have a gripe myself:

Can someone explain to me why he was sleeping in the bathtub?

Hey Pete,
I was reading the lyrics and came to the line:

"I sat on a rug biding my time drinking her wine"

so my thought is that he had no choice but to sleep in the bathtub since she (for some reason) didn't buy a couch. I guess she didn't believe in buying furniture. LOL

[Laura--I wuv u all :)]

pete70s said:

Here's another one I've been meaning to post:

In "Too Late To Turn Back Now", where it says "I found myself phoning her at least 10 times a day". That's called a stalker, folks!

"Phoning her"? I thought it was "I find myself wanting her..."

I've got a live CD by Crawler and they have a song called "Muddy Waters"--I think someone else recorded it first. It's a nice song, but one of the lines was, "I was walking in the rain with my shoes untied." Why would anyone do that? And what's more, why would anyone sing about doing that?

Joni Mitchell has a song, which I don't remember the name of offhand, that contains the line "I wanna shampoo you." Yeah, whatever...I think she just sang that because it rhymed with whatever the line was that came before it.

[Pete70s]

laura said:

"Phoning her"? I thought it was "I find myself wanting her..."

You're right. I stand corrected. Still, usually when you're in love with someone you want them all the time, not "at least ten times a day"..

[Laura--I wuv u all :)]

I've got another one--Some time ago I reviewed Daryl Braithwaite's album "Higher than Hope" on this website, and I love all the songs, but it recently occured to me that a few lines of "Don't Hold Back Your Love" belong on this list. It's a nice little romantic song--but then we get to this part: "And when you think there is no place to run, just hold on to my hand and face the melting sun."

( Oh no! The sun's melting!!!!!! Sounds like something out of a cheesy sci-fi movie--no, not the song itself, just the part about the melting sun.)

[Dawn]

Here's another one from Macca I overlooked. I'm a big McCartney fan, and Getting Closer is a great song, but the references to "my salamander" are pretty strange. Why a salamander?

[Pete70s]

Here's the first verse of Grand Funk's "All The Girls in The World Beware":

I got tarter on my teeth, but i don't care.
I got dark brown stains, in my underwear.
I'm a crumb and a bum, i'm a slouch and a louse.
A crazy man who don't give a damn about his self.




EWWWWW!!!!

[alandhopewell]

I'd always thought he burnt her furniture...made of "Norwegian wood".

[alandhopewell]

"Take the Money and Run"...I mean, rhyming "Texas" with "facts is"

[daniel]

On "A Horse With No Name" I always was bugged by "Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain.." Where did that "For" come from???

[Railyn]

I love "Let Me Go" by Heaven 17, and I even used a part of it on the "lyrics I like" post, but it's got some strange grammar and word usage:

Once we were years ahead but now those thoughts are dead
Let me go

I just think this is a tad odd - can't explain how, it just is

All hopeless fantasies are making fools of me
Let me go

Gramatically incorrect - "foolS of me"?? Perhaps "Your hopeless fantasies make a fool of me" would be better.....

I walk alone and yet I never said goodbye
Let me go

If he's walking alone, there's no need to say goodbye......

I died a thousand times
Found guilty of no crime
Now everything is thunder

Thunder??? In fairness, they're trying to rhyme with "wonder" a line before the quoted part, but it's still strange....

[smittykins--70s pop RULES!]

I wouldn't exactly say this *ruins* the song, but it bugs me.

The entire third verse of the Beach Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun." Now, granted, I love this song, and sing it at the top of my lungs every time out, but:

Well you knew all along
That your dad was getting wise to you now
And since he took your set of keys
You've been thinking that your fun is all through now
But you can come along with me
'Cause we've got a lot of things to do now...

bothers me for the implication that she can still go out with her friends even though she's been banned from driving the parental vehicle. If I had tried to pull something like that, my butt would've been grounded!

[H2IZCOOL]

smittykins said:

I wouldn't exactly say this *ruins* the song, but it bugs me.

The entire third verse of the Beach Boys' "Fun, Fun, Fun." Now, granted, I love this song, and sing it at the top of my lungs every time out, but:

Well you knew all along
That your dad was getting wise to you now
And since he took your set of keys
You've been thinking that your fun is all through now
But you can come along with me
'Cause we've got a lot of things to do now...

bothers me for the implication that she can still go out with her friends even though she's been banned from driving the parental vehicle. If I had tried to pull something like that, my butt would've been grounded!

While those words are being sung, the rest of the Beach Boys are singing "You shouldn't have lied now, you shouldn't have lied." -- but it took me YEARS to realize that was what they were singing. I kept hearing "You're shootin' the line now, you're shootin' the line" which I figured was a California surfing or driving term. LOL!

[daniel]

One that used to drive the morning guy at the radio station crazy. On Johnny Rivers' "Summer Rain" the part that says the jukebox kept on playing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band would never fail to make him say "Sgt. Pepper was never a single! How could it be playing in a jukebox?!?!?!"

I would joke that they must've had the world's first CD jukebox.

[H2IZCOOL]

daniel said:

One that used to drive the morning guy at the radio station crazy. On Johnny Rivers' "Summer Rain" the part that says the junkebox kept on playing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band would never fail to make him say "Sgt. Pepper was never a single! How could it be playing in a jukebox?!?!?!"

I would joke that they must've had the world's first CD jukebox.

Y'know, I love that song, and the "no single" issue never even entered my mind until you just mentioned it, Daniel. That really IS funny.

[Pete70s]

daniel said:

One that used to drive the morning guy at the radio station crazy. On Johnny Rivers' "Summer Rain" the part that says the junkebox kept on playing Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band would never fail to make him say "Sgt. Pepper was never a single! How could it be playing in a jukebox?!?!?!"

I would joke that they must've had the world's first CD jukebox.

True, I guess the "Summer Rain" author did take some poetic license with that line. "Sgt. Pepper/With a Little Help..." WAS released as a single, although ten years after the Johnny Rivers single.

But, I do know that Jukeboxes during the 60's did have special 7" Jukebox records that would feature album cuts, like two or three songs per side. "Something New" had one, not sure if "Sgt. Pepper" did as well.

*UPDATE*
I just did some research and found out that NO jukebox record was made for Pepper, at least by Capitol.