"Good Enough" by Van Halen with Sammy Hagar also Poundcake and Black and Blue (and people say the intelligence went up with Sammy?!? what the...) Also various Misfits lyrics are absolutely terrible if thought about, one would just listen for that great voice of Glenn's (back then) going "woah-oh-oh!"
Sorry about the quality, but you do have John Hiatt (medicated?) sitting down with Guy Clark and John Prine: I feel lucky, I've seen them all several times.
I love Sabbath, but I always thought these lyrics were just goofy. Satan has his running shoes on ... get going because he's "coming 'round the bend". Is it the end, my friend? Satan's coming 'round the bend People running 'cause they're scared The people better go and beware! No, no, please, no!
Weir was famously frustrating to Robert Hunter when they attempted to collaborate. (Weir also added "Jumps like a Willys in four wheel drive" to Sugar Magnolia. Not a bad line, actually, given Willys being an old maker of jeeps.) When John Barlow came along Hunter happily said "You can have him."
Stuck in my head since late 80s: "Plastic fantastic lobster telephone, yeah" From the Electric album by The Cult. Love that album. My favorite band while teenager.
I think we could safely conclude that most rock and pop lyrics are a bit pish and that it is the ones which aren't which stand out.
Actually... what struck me when hearing it recently, are the lame lyrics of the Jagger/Richards classic As Tears Go by. My riches can't buy everything I want to hear the children sing All I hear is the sound Of rain falling on the ground I sit and watch As tears go by.
Oh, that reminded me of Midnight Oil's illiterate 'When the Generals Talk', whose chorus goes: When the Generals talk You better listen to him When the Generals talk You better do what he say This got a lot of airplay back in the day, and every single time the plural / singular mismatch drove me up the wall.
I love Joni Mitchell, but this lyric, on one of her best albums, always irritated the fk out of me: W. C. Handy, I'm rich and I'm fey And I'm not familiar with what you played
Gene Simmons is ******* revolting That video for Firestarter, featuring all those girls who are young enough to be his grandchildren, turns my stomach
"Don't know about your brain but you look all right". Charming Co-written by a female too! Great song though, of course.
I remember an interview in which Tom Jones described the session where he recorded the song "Thunderball" for the James Bond film of the same name. According to Jones, he looked at the lyrics and then asked (his manager I think) if he was kidding. The lyrics make no sense. He was told to sing it anyway and he did to great effect, but the lyrics? Still make no sense. He always runs while others walk, He acts while other men just talk, He looks at this world and wants it all, So he strikes like Thunderball. He knows the meaning of success, His needs are more so he gives less, They call him the winner who takes all, And he strikes like Thunderball. Any woman he wants he'll get He will break any heart without regret. His days of asking are all gone, His fight goes on and on and on, But he thinks that the fight is worth it all, So he strikes like Thunderball.
Neil Young - Change Your Mind The morning comes And there's an odor in the room The scent of love More than a million roses bloom I love Neil and I love this song, but the "odor" and "scent of love" lines make me cringe. When he says "odor in the room", I can only imagine a wicked fart. I'm sorry, but that's what I think every time. I sometimes laugh out loud at the badness of it. Then, with "the scent of love" line, I'm thinking of something even worse. Seems like there could've been a better way to convey the pleasant smells he is talking about here. There is nothing inherently negative about the word "odor" but, in common usage, it is usually used in conjunction with something negative.
Saltzman and Broccoli so desperate to repeat the 'winning formula' of Goldfinger that they even tried to replicate the theme song.
Reminds me of another one on the "Beach Boys Love You" album, you just know that a song called "Johnny Carson" is going to have idiotic lyrics, "He sits behind his microphone John-ny Car-son He speaks in such a manly tone John-ny Car-son Ed McMahon comes on and says "Here's Johhny" Every night at eleven thirty he's so funny"...
