OT: 20 Worst Song Lyrics

[Blueskies]

and The Steve Miller Band~ The Joker..."Some people call me Maurice/ Cause I speak of the Pompatus of love. What the heck is pompatus???

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_065.html




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompatus

Thanks! That was a fun read We're talking not only bad lyrics but also some made up words in some songs. Hey, Susie.... how about Phil Collins with " Just say the word, ohh. Su-su-sudio" instead of Susie, Susan or something. It was allegedly said by someone in Collins crew who couldn't pronounce the word studio right. Ol' Phil thought it would be funny to use in a song, I guess.

[SusieP]

[quote="TVL [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompatus[/quote]Thanks! That was a fun read We're talking not only bad lyrics but also some made up words in some songs. Hey, Susie.... how about Phil Collins with " Just say the word, ohh. Su-su-sudio" instead of Susie, Susan or something. It was allegedly said by someone in Collins crew who couldn't pronounce the word studio right. Ol' Phil thought it would be funny to use in a song, I guess. [/quote]

Is that where it came from? I never knew that.

That Muskrat Love thing is going to take some beating, though.
I still can't believe it was a hit.

[Blueskies]

[quote="TVL [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompatus

Thanks! That was a fun read We're talking not only bad lyrics but also some made up words in some songs. Hey, Susie.... how about Phil Collins with " Just say the word, ohh. Su-su-sudio" instead of Susie, Susan or something. It was allegedly said by someone in Collins crew who couldn't pronounce the word studio right. Ol' Phil thought it would be funny to use in a song, I guess. [/quote]

Is that where it came from? I never knew that.

That Muskrat Love thing is going to take some beating, though.
I still can't believe it was a hit. [/quote].......Sorry about that, it is one of those mind stickers! but the thread asked for it. There are plenty of bad songs, that one is just gotta be up there as one of the worst, ever.

[SusieP]

[quote="TVL .......Sorry about that, it is one of those mind stickers! but the thread asked for it. There are plenty of bad songs, that one is just gotta be up there as one of the worst, ever.[/quote]


Maybe when this thread has run it's course we should pick out the best of the worst and do a poll.

This one is winning so far IMO.

[Rick]

Maybe when this thread has run it's course we should pick out the best of the worst and do a poll.

This one is winning so far IMO.

Great idea.

[Rick]

MacArthur Park by Richard Harris


Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'Cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh no!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0D-boeOCG0

[*Laura]

"Rock The Casbah" by The Clash.........


Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin to the top
The sheik he drove his cadillac
He went a cruisnin down the ville
The muezzin was a standing
On the radiator grille

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy casbah sound
But the bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

Now over at the temple
Oh! they really pack em in
The in crowd say its cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy casbah jive

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the casbah way

As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

He thinks its not kosher
Fundamentally he cant take it.
You know he really hates it.

[SusieP]

Here's another,

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blackeye ... humps.html

[Enigma869]

"Rock The Casbah" by The Clash.........


Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin to the top
The sheik he drove his cadillac
He went a cruisnin down the ville
The muezzin was a standing
On the radiator grille

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy casbah sound
But the bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

Now over at the temple
Oh! they really pack em in
The in crowd say its cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy casbah jive

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the casbah way

As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

He thinks its not kosher
Fundamentally he cant take it.
You know he really hates it.

That's a really good song, for dopey lyrics and a dopey title. I never quite got that song back in the early eighties, and as I recall, it was quite the hit! Shit, the opening line should have tipped everyone off that it was pretty ridiculous!


John from Boston

[ohsherrie]

Here's another,

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blackeye ... humps.html

OMG, that's just so totally bad. This gets my vote for worst. Why the hell is this band so popular?

[SusieP]

Here's another,

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blackeye ... humps.html

OMG, that's just so totally bad. This gets my vote for worst. Why the hell is this band so popular?

You got me.
This genre of music goes way over my head.

[ohsherrie]

Here's another,

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/blackeye ... humps.html

OMG, that's just so totally bad. This gets my vote for worst. Why the hell is this band so popular?

You got me.
This genre of music goes way over my head.

No Susie, it goes so far under our intelligence that we don't even recognize it as music.

[SusieP]

This has to be in with some of the worst, surely?
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/defleppa ... ronme.html

What about this one?
http://www.lyricsfreak.com/s/smiths/gir ... 26853.html. It has a jolly tune to it as well - here's a clip

htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tdF6ziim7E

Dunno whether to laugh or not.

[SusieP]

[quote="ohsherrie
No Susie, it goes so far under our intelligence that we don't even recognize it as music. [/quote]


That's good, can I quote that in future?

The singer, though, Fergie, is it? I think she has a good voice under all that crap "music" - I'd like to hear her sing a melodic song, just out of curiosity.

[ohsherrie]

No Susie, it goes so far under our intelligence that we don't even recognize it as music.

That's good, can I quote that in future?

The singer, though, Fergie, is it? I think she has a good voice under all that crap "music" - I'd like to hear her sing a melodic song, just out of curiosity.

Be my guest. I've never heard this group except on awards shows and such. I just don't like that kind of music so I don't listen to it.

You just answered one question for me though. Josh Duhamel, an actor on the tv show Vegas, was recently on a talk show and said he was dating Fergie. Well of course, the only Fergie I know of is Sarah. I thought she was still unofficially cohabiting with Andrew though, so I didn't think it could be her. Now I know who it is.

[Playitloudforme]

What made this safe?

I say, we can dance, we can dance
Everything out of control
We can dance, we can dance
We're doing it from wall to wall
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody takin' the cha-a-a-ance

Safety dance
Is it safe to dance
Is it safe to dance

S-s-s-s A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y
Safe, dance!

[SusieP]

[Be my guest. I've never heard this group except on awards shows and such. I just don't like that kind of music so I don't listen to it.

You just answered one question for me though. Josh Duhamel, an actor on the tv show Vegas, was recently on a talk show and said he was dating Fergie. Well of course, the only Fergie I know of is Sarah. I thought she was still unofficially cohabiting with Andrew though, so I didn't think it could be her. Now I know who it is.

For some reason the British tabloids and celebrity magazines make much of her. I think because one of her solo "songs" [ ] is called 'London Bridge.'

Sarah, the 'real' Fergie spends more time in the US these days, I think.
And His Royal Highness, Prince Andrew seems to spend much of his time on the golf courses of the world.

[SusieP]

What made this safe?

I say, we can dance, we can dance
Everything out of control
We can dance, we can dance
We're doing it from wall to wall
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody takin' the cha-a-a-ance

Safety dance
Is it safe to dance
Is it safe to dance

S-s-s-s A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y

Safe, dance!

OMG! I remember this!! Men Without Hats, right?
Didn't the video have a load of Dwarves dancing about???



EDIT - yep here it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkyPZ08YhNg



I read somewhere that this guy made enough money to retire from the worldwide sales of this song!!!!!!!!

[Just Mindy]

What made this safe?

I say, we can dance, we can dance
Everything out of control
We can dance, we can dance
We're doing it from wall to wall
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody takin' the cha-a-a-ance

Safety dance
Is it safe to dance
Is it safe to dance

S-s-s-s A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y
Safe, dance!

Thanks for sticking that song in my head.

[Playitloudforme]

my pleasure chica...

[Playitloudforme]

What made this safe?

I say, we can dance, we can dance
Everything out of control
We can dance, we can dance
We're doing it from wall to wall
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody takin' the cha-a-a-ance

Safety dance
Is it safe to dance
Is it safe to dance

S-s-s-s A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y

Safe, dance!

OMG! I remember this!! Men Without Hats, right?
Didn't the video have a load of Dwarves dancing about???



EDIT - yep here it is!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkyPZ08YhNg



I read somewhere that this guy made enough money to retire from the worldwide sales of this song!!!!!!!!

HAH...that's going on my myspace page now!

[Deb]

What made this safe?

I say, we can dance, we can dance
Everything out of control
We can dance, we can dance
We're doing it from wall to wall
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody takin' the cha-a-a-ance

Safety dance
Is it safe to dance
Is it safe to dance

S-s-s-s A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y
Safe, dance!

Thanks for sticking that song in my head.

Is this one better, Mindy? Has to be the worst.

Devo
Whip It

Crack that whip
Give the past the slip
Step on a crack
Break your momma's back

When a problem comes along
You must whip it
Before the cream sits out too long
You must whip it
When something's going wrong
You must whip it

now whip it
into shape
shape it up
get straight
go forward
move ahead
try to detect it
it's not too late
to whip it
whip it good

When a good time turns around
You must whip it
You will never live it down
Unless you whip it
No one gets their way
Until they whip it

I say whip it
Whip it good

[SusieP]

[quote="strungout
Is this one better, Mindy? Has to be the worst.

Devo
Whip It

Crack that whip
Give the past the slip
Step on a crack
Break your momma's back

When a problem comes along
You must whip it
Before the cream sits out too long
You must whip it
When something's going wrong
You must whip it

now whip it
into shape
shape it up
get straight
go forward
move ahead
try to detect it
it's not too late
to whip it
whip it good

When a good time turns around
You must whip it
You will never live it down
Unless you whip it
No one gets their way
Until they whip it

I say whip it
Whip it good[/quote]




NOW we're talkin!!!!


These guys did some worse than This I think Deb, I'll go and hunt in a minute but from memory wasn't there one [in very bad taste] about a mongoloid - 'one chromosome too many..',

and I think one about 'my baby's been killed by space junk' ???



this thread is FUN!!!!!!

[Just Mindy]

Now I've got like a combo of Safety Dance and Whip It going around in my mind.

I think this is what insanity must feel like.

[Deb]

Now I've got like a combo of Safety Dance and Whip It going around in my mind.

I think this is what insanity must feel like.

LMAO!

[SusieP]

Here we go, a couple more contenders from Devo...


http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/devo/space ... 39642.html

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/devo/mongo ... 39623.html


I have to say that Muskrat Love is still top of my list of the worst, though.

[Enigma869]

What made this safe?

I say, we can dance, we can dance
Everything out of control
We can dance, we can dance
We're doing it from wall to wall
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody look at your hands
We can dance, we can dance
Everybody takin' the cha-a-a-ance

Safety dance
Is it safe to dance
Is it safe to dance

S-s-s-s A-a-a-a F-f-f-f E-e-e-e T-t-t-t Y-y-y-y
Safe, dance!

Good Old Men Without Hats! If they're not the poster child for a one hit wonder, I'm not sure who is. I never quite got what the "Safety Dance" was. How about Eddy Grant rocking onto "Electric Avenue"...yet another one hit and gone dude! These guys must still be doing pretty well from royalties today (assuming they signed a smart contract, which most don't), because I still here many of these ridiculous songs on the radio!


John from Boston

[*Laura]

I have to say that Muskrat Love is still top of my list of the worst

I dunno,Susie...My vote is for that Black Eyed Shit *poem*.Horrendous stuff.


Now let's go deeper
"At the speed of Cheeba"...

I used to love this guy's music,but the lyrics just baffle me.



"Space Cowboy" (Jamiroquai)

Everything is good
And brown
On I'm here again
With a sunshine smile upon my face
My friends
Are close at hand
And all my inhibitions
Have disappeared without a trace
I'm glad
I found
Somebody who I can rely on.

This is the return
Of the space cowboy
Inter-planetary
Good vibe zone
At the speed of Cheeba
We'll go deeper
Maybe I'll have to get high
Just to get by.

Everything is good
And green
Oh, I'm red again
And I don't suppose I'm coming down
I can see clearly now,
High in the sky
A man with psychedelic picture frames
Of happiness to shade
His eyes
He's glad
That the found
Somebody who
He can rely on.

[Playitloudforme]

I think I've found one better... sigh. My son & his girlfriend torture me with this as often as they can. Fergie... oh Fergie...

"My Humps"

What you gon' do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I'ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps (Check it out)

And of course my son does this in a falsetto when he's torturing me. Evil rat bastard...

[*Laura]

I think I've found one better... sigh. My son & his girlfriend torture me with this as often as they can. Fergie... oh Fergie...

"My Humps"

What you gon' do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I'ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps (Check it out)

And of course my son does this in a falsetto when he's torturing me. Evil rat bastard...

Yep,those are the #1 sickest lyrics,song,band,singer,you name it.I would forever BAN that and the radios that play such a thing.