The worst lyrics, post your best examples (Part 2)

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by PaulKTF, Feb 2, 2019.

  1. John22

    John22 Forum Resident

    Location:
    Northern Germany
    The German band "The Rainbows" with the song "(My Baby) Balla Balla) from the 60s:

    My baby baby, balla balla
    My baby baby, balla balla
    My baby baby, balla balla
    My baby baby, balla balla
    My baby baby, balla balla
    Ooh balla balla
    Balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla
    Balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla balla
    Aaaah
    ...


    Complete lyrics:

    Balla Balla Lyrics - Rainbows

    The video:



    Chubby Checker made an English version and he added the text with his own words:

    Chubby Checker & de Maskers - (Baby Baby) Balla Balla
     
  2. Made all the worse by the fact she was 29 when she recorded this. I mean, come on.
     
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  3. MarcS

    MarcS Forum Resident

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    New Jersey
    “The world is unkind as a penny” Wings Get in the Right Thing
     
  4. Brian Doherty

    Brian Doherty Forum Resident

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    Los Angeles CA
    re "live and let die" tho it has been long a beloved little joke at paul's expense among record store hanger-on types, and he media, in fact it's even better than some earlier in this thread have said and makes perfect sense; people mishear the FIRST word because they ignore the next line which is part of the same sentence, a perfectly cogent sentence which actually goes: "But if this ever-changing world in which we're living makes you give in and sigh....live and let die."
     
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  5. Devin

    Devin Time's Up

    Exactly as I believe it to be. A very soft r in the word "we're" makes it sound more like "we" and then he drops the g in "living" hence it becomes "livin".

    I think Sinatra was one of the earliest megastar singers to do this kind of stuff (g-dropping, streetwise slangy singing manner). But it's a bit more difficult to make out what Macca says since he tends to slur his words a helluva lot more than Frank.
     
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  6. JumpinJimF

    JumpinJimF Still perfecting ways of making sealing wax

    Location:
    Normal Island
    That’s what it’s supposed to be but I can’t believe that I am having to step in again, as a fully paid up member of the grammar police, and say what he actually sang was “in which we live in”. For which he can never be forgiven. Unless he fully renounces Mull Of Kintyre for all of time of course.
     
  7. JumpinJimF

    JumpinJimF Still perfecting ways of making sealing wax

    Location:
    Normal Island
    Look, I can’t rest until I’ve told every misguided “in which we’re living” aficionado that they are definitely wrong.
     
  8. WilliamWes

    WilliamWes Likes to sing along but he knows not what it means

    Location:
    New York
    This is hilarious! We gotta get this straight. LOL

    Live And Let Die
    (paulmccartney.com)
    Both are wrong - 'in which we live in' , and 'in which we're living' - you live life- you don't live an ever changing world.

    But IF this ever changing world...in which we're living - trying to be overly poetic by using a passive sentence and he can't manage.

    It's on Guns 'n' Roses lyric sheet as well Mac's site. So somebody is wrong either you guys or McCartney and we know Mick Cart Knee is never wrong. LOL

    He really screwed himself this time cause even if you change 'if' to 'in' then it's 2 'in's and one isn't necessary. Oooh I hear the sirens of the grammar police - :cop::cop::cop: - I hope he really quit the ganja cause they'll come for that too!

    Oh yeah, and there's only one world so what world is he differentiating it from? The one we don't live in?
     
    Last edited: Feb 8, 2019
  9. Devin

    Devin Time's Up

    This topic deserves its own thread. That's right people. I'm seriously considering starting such a thread right now!

    ...finger hovering over Post New Thread button...

    getting closer......

    closer.....................

    Damn! I just can't do it. I don't wanna be forever known around here as "that Live And Let Die nut."

    Great song btw!
     
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  10. Loup

    Loup Ancient Wool Unraveller

    Location:
    Motown
    Love The Police but…

    “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da is all I want to say to you”
     
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  11. Odysseus

    Odysseus Forum Resident

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    Los Angeles, CA
    I could post numerous Billy Corgan examples, but this one wins atm:

    From "Ava Adore"

    You'll always be my whore
    'Cause you're the one that I adore
    And you'll pull your crooked teeth
    You'll be perfect just like me
     
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  12. HfxBob

    HfxBob Forum Resident

    'This world in which we're living' is grammatically acceptable. We do live in a world. As for the differentiation part, I do see your point, but it could be argued that he's differentiating it from the world of the past - you know, the good old non-violent days (ha ha).
     
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  13. Loup

    Loup Ancient Wool Unraveller

    Location:
    Motown
    Wings “Getting Closer”
    “Say you don’t love him, my salamander”
    :shake:
     
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  14. HfxBob

    HfxBob Forum Resident

    Dear God. I had never heard that one before.
     
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  15. Black Magic Woman

    Black Magic Woman Forum Resident

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    Chile
    “There's a killer on the road
    His brain is squirmin' like a toad”

    Riders On The Storm - The Doors
     
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  16. Black Magic Woman

    Black Magic Woman Forum Resident

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    I dunno. At the time it was, and perhaps it still is, empowering.
     
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  17. Bungo

    Bungo Forum Resident

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    Madison, WI
    Finding bad Wings lyrics is like shooting fish in a barrel.

    Jet
    With the wind in your hair of a thousand laces
    Climb on the back and we'll go for a ride in the sky
    And Jet, I thought the major was a little lady suffragette
     
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  18. MikeM.

    MikeM. Forum Resident

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    Jacksonville, IL
    That's actually a bit of not so subtle old timey lasciviousness quoted from Robert Johnson's original version of Traveling Riverside Blues. Beyond criticism!
     
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  19. MilesTrane

    MilesTrane Forum Resident

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    Moon PA USA
    And in the end
    On dreams we will depend
    Cause that’s what love
    Is made of.
    VH Dreams.
     
  20. HfxBob

    HfxBob Forum Resident

    When I first heard this lyric I thought it was pretty bad. Now I don't know. It really sticks in your head with its ugliness. I think that section of the song has some real menace in it. The juxtaposition of the nice all-American family, and the twisted creeps out there...and then there's the man who's singing it, so obsessive about death that The End was at the beginning.
     
  21. applejam101

    applejam101 Humble Fan

    Location:
    NYC, NY, USA
    I love Talking Heads, but this song gets to me and not in a positive way.
    Who Is It?

    Who is it who
    Who is it who
    Who is it who
    Who is it
    What is it
    What is it
    What is it
    What is it
    Oh...Baby it's you!
    Who is it who
    Who is it who
    Who is it who
    Who is it
    What is it
    What is it
    What is it
    What is it
    Oh...Oh baby it's you!
    Watch out now baby 'cause I'm in love with you
    Watch out now baby 'cause I'm in love with you
    And if you don't love me I don't know what I'm going to do!
    Who, who, who is it
    Who...
     
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  22. Celebrated Summer

    Celebrated Summer Forum Resident

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    USA
    I actually love this lyric. Evokes teen-hood to my ears. I will say the part about "Her folks told me that she's lonely/And she wants me only" is ridiculous. What parents take a girl's boyfriend aside and say that? So, maybe you're right after all. I still like the lyrics and the song, though!
     
  23. Black Magic Woman

    Black Magic Woman Forum Resident

    Location:
    Chile
    I don’t know. I find it as bad as “Like a dog without a bone
    An actor out on loan”.
    Luckily, the instrumental work is so beautiful that saves the song from its bad high-school-quality lyrics.
    What sticks in your head is the intro and the repetition of Riders On the Storm - not the rest of the song really.
     
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  24. Drifter

    Drifter AAD survivor

    Location:
    Vancouver, BC, CA
    And yet when I use audio software to remove the side channels and slow it down a bit, I can clearly hear: "But if this ever changing world in which we're living", including the sound of the G at the end. :shrug:
     
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  25. Shaddam IV

    Shaddam IV Forum Resident

    Location:
    Ca
    They headed down to, ooh, old El Paso
    That's where they ran into a great big hassle...

    Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas
    You know he knows just exactly what the facts is...

    Go on take the money and run

    Etc
     

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