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re: Good songs with lyrics that bug you
Posted on 2/27/23 at 11:39 am to 88Wildcat
Posted on 2/27/23 at 11:39 am to 88Wildcat
quote:It kinda bugs me that Paul Weller seemed to actively avoid rhyme. That's Entertainment is a good example.
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Posted on 2/27/23 at 1:14 pm to 88Wildcat
I love "Philadelphia Freedom", but the following line is just strange. I know that Bernie Taupin wrote some abstract lyrics on a lot of songs, "Grey Seal" comes to mind also.
"I like livin' easy without family ties (Livin' easy)
'Til the whippoorwill of freedom zapped me
Right between the eyes".
"I like livin' easy without family ties (Livin' easy)
'Til the whippoorwill of freedom zapped me
Right between the eyes".
Posted on 2/27/23 at 1:36 pm to 88Wildcat
The Beatles - Mother Nature's Son
"Born a poor young country boy"
Eveyone is born young! I think about that every time I hear this song.
"Born a poor young country boy"
Eveyone is born young! I think about that every time I hear this song.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 2:53 pm to WG_Dawg
quote:
there's a Drake song that does this and it drives me crazy. All up in my phone lookin at pictures from the other night She gon be upset if she keep scrolling to the left WHY NOT JUST SAY TO THE RIGHT?!!? I guess you can say left and upset kinda go together, but damn it would just make so much more symmetrical sense to say right.
I’m with you, baw. I was an English/creative writing major at LSU. Wrong words bother me.
And when I play the Jerry version on guitar I definitely say land instead of world.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 3:55 pm to TFTC
quote:
As much as I love Bruce..
"He could throw that speedball by you.." in Glory Days is a head scratcher...
fastball fits the line too...
Bruce Springsteen wouldn't know a baseball from a rumball.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 4:27 pm to 88Wildcat
Take your pick from any Red Hot Chili Peppers song. Love them and grew up with them, but most of the lyrics are cringe teenage poetry
Posted on 2/27/23 at 7:10 pm to Ace Midnight
quote:
It's poetic license. If you emphasize "fastball" (which he definitely hits "speedball" with an emphasis as sung), all you hear is "f" and "s", which mostly disappears with little effect. Hitting "speed" in that line, you hear every letter. At least, I think that's why he did that word swap.
Fair enough explanation... again, I just had never heard that term in a baseball context..
FYI - Bruce's explanation from an interview with Mike Ryan
quote:
Alright, so … the question I’ve always wanted to ask Bruce Springsteen. And I’ve often searched the internet, looking to see if he’s ever answered this question and, for the life of me, I couldn’t find it. So, knowing this is the only time in my life I’ll ever have this opportunity, I decided to go for it:
In 1985, my grandfather took me to a St. Louis Cardinals baseball game, and the pitcher throws a strike and I’m like, “Oh yeah, got him with the great speedball!” And my grandfather says, “Speedball? Where are you coming up with that? It’s a fastball!” And I say, “Bruce Springsteen? That’s what he calls it in “Glory Days”?“ So, I have to know why do you say speedball instead of fastball?
Bruce starts laughing, “I don’t know, man! Speedball is a term from the ’50s, so it’s just an old term that I heard my grandparents use at different times. So, in the context of that, ‘Glory Days,’ I thought it was funny! I guess! I don’t know!”
Posted on 2/27/23 at 7:48 pm to TFTC
quote:
"He could throw that speedball by you.."
The lyric would make sense if he was talking about Dwight Gooden.
Posted on 2/27/23 at 9:37 pm to 88Wildcat
Nuthin’ but a G Thing
Never let me slip ‘cause if I slip then I’m slipping’
Never let me slip ‘cause if I slip then I’m slipping’
Posted on 2/27/23 at 9:57 pm to Kafka
Kafka
That line right there is the reason I always felt the song was supposed to be by a lying con-man. It's wrong on purpose. I like it for that reason.
He easily could have come up with something closer to right.
That line right there is the reason I always felt the song was supposed to be by a lying con-man. It's wrong on purpose. I like it for that reason.
He easily could have come up with something closer to right.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 7:06 am to TFTC
quote:
“I don’t know, man! Speedball is a term from the ’50s, so it’s just an old term that I heard my grandparents use at different times. So, in the context of that, ‘Glory Days,’ I thought it was funny! I guess! I don’t know!”
I suspected it might also be an archaic, regional term as well, so that would also feed into the clearly nostalgic vibe of the song.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 7:19 am to 88Wildcat
In Baby’s Gotten Good at Goodbye sung by George Strait it starts off with “What a rotten day this turned out to be”.
The word rotten is such a lame and weak lyric. Sounds like something a 6 year old would write. Great song though.
The word rotten is such a lame and weak lyric. Sounds like something a 6 year old would write. Great song though.
Posted on 2/28/23 at 4:11 pm to The Boat
Def Leppard - Photograph
I'm outta luck, outta love
Gotta photograph, picture of
So he has a photograph of a picture?
I'm outta luck, outta love
Gotta photograph, picture of
So he has a photograph of a picture?
Posted on 2/28/23 at 4:37 pm to WaltTeevens
"Fly away on my zephyr
I feel it more than ever
And in this perfect weather
We'll find a place together"
That's bad
I feel it more than ever
And in this perfect weather
We'll find a place together"
That's bad
Posted on 2/28/23 at 7:13 pm to 88Wildcat
You're so Vain by Carly Simon
"You're so vain (you're so vain)
I bet you think this song is about you
Don't you don't you?"
Of course he does, because it is.
"You're so vain (you're so vain)
I bet you think this song is about you
Don't you don't you?"
Of course he does, because it is.
This post was edited on 2/28/23 at 7:14 pm
Posted on 3/1/23 at 7:04 am to RedHawk
quote:
I'm outta luck, outta love
Gotta photograph, picture of
quote:
So he has a photograph of a picture?
No, he's repeating for emphasis. "[P]icture of" is another way to say photograph.
Do not question the lyrical genius of Joe Elliott (or Mutt Lange, whoever came up with that line).
I bet you're the guy who looks for flaws in the Mona Lisa or the Sistine Chapel, aren't you?
Posted on 3/1/23 at 7:32 am to 88Wildcat
Wildfire
What does a frost kill other than maybe small plants/shrubs? Seems out of place with the somber serious feel of the rest of the song
Aside: The signature guitar riff/fill on the record was played by Lafayette’s Sam Broussard
quote:
Oh, they say she died one winter When there came a killing frost
What does a frost kill other than maybe small plants/shrubs? Seems out of place with the somber serious feel of the rest of the song
Aside: The signature guitar riff/fill on the record was played by Lafayette’s Sam Broussard
This post was edited on 3/1/23 at 7:35 am
Posted on 3/1/23 at 8:03 am to BabysArmHoldingApple
Imagine
Great song with liberal lyrics
Great song with liberal lyrics
This post was edited on 3/3/23 at 7:28 am
Posted on 3/1/23 at 8:41 am to WaltTeevens
quote:
Love them and grew up with them, but most of the lyrics are cringe teenage poetry
You mean Bon Jovi right?
Posted on 3/1/23 at 10:12 am to 88Wildcat
Emerson, Lake, & Palmer Still.....You Turn Me On
I have to think Greg Lake was taking a piss when he wrote that lyric, but it is just so off-mode for the song as a whole.
quote:
Every day a little sadder
A little madder
Someone get me a ladder
I have to think Greg Lake was taking a piss when he wrote that lyric, but it is just so off-mode for the song as a whole.
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