Obsession is what I would rather call it. I may well be missing an attempt at humour, though. If so, fair enough.
I detected humor, albeit the sort of humor that comes from a person passionately pulling their hair about something that doesn’t really matter too much in the grand scheme of things
I’m 34, but being the obnoxious music snob I am is sort of like living in dog years, so I may as well have been born in the ‘60s.
Come-On-A-My House The first verse was cute “i’m a gonna give you candy” Then the rest of it is just stupid.
"Hey well I'm a friendly stranger in the black Sedan Won't you hop inside my car? I got pictures, got candy I'm a lovable man And I can take you to the nearest star" Vehicle by Chase Just heard this on the radio and noticed how out of step it was. The part about "Great God in Heaven you know I loooove you" always seemed vulgar to me, even at 11.
Almost as bad. At least there is no candy reference. Disclaimer-I love Cheap Trick "High Roller" Jump in my love car Don't have to go very far Just far enough to show you a thing or two I can really swing The best of everything And I want to have a thing with you High roller What I buy is mine And I always get the things that I choose My, my, my, such a high roller I know he's gone away and left you I'll take real good care of you I'm in the mood for love You're all I'm thinking of I'll make you feel alright when we're alone I can really swing The best of everything And I want to have a thing with you
AC/DC - Let Me Put My Love Into You With my artillery I'll be guided in We'll be ridin' Given what you got to me Don't you struggle Don't you fight Don't you worry 'Cause it's your turn tonight Let me put my love into you, babe Let me put my love on the line Let me put my love into you, babe Let me cut your cake with my knife
"If Coke is a mystery/Michael Jackson/History" -- U2 (Playboy Mansion) "Love love love love love Stand up, this is comedy The DNA lottery may have left you smart But can you stand up to beauty, dictator of the heart" -- U2 (Stand Up Comedy) I am talking U2 2 U!
I agree with your opinion of the lyrics....but the song is by The Ides of March, not Chase (the 2 bands are very similar musically)
Bob Dylan / Wiggle Wiggle...a song that consist of 167 words in the lyrics & 52 of those words are "wiggle" WTF was Bob (not)thinking?!?!
My apologies. They are both in that Tom Jones hairy chested late 60s genre that deserves to be a thing much more than say yacht rock.
Interesting. I just checked wiki. He was the leader but not the lead singer. Man you had me going. The register. I don't think Survivor is in my new genre.
Good call....I knew he started the band, and just assumed he sang.....not gonna lie, I like the Ides of March more than I like Survivor......despite the creepy lyrics to Vehicle.
Yeah I flagged out completely of that gen of pop rock. I just checked eye... as the only title I know by them. They seem a little like Journey. Ides and Chase seem in the BS&T mold.
Steve Kilbey is one of my favorite lyricists, and I've recently been taken with his side project/album Isidore. It's an incredible album filled with lots of evocative imagery... but there's one lyric in particular that really sticks out like a sore thumb. Tell you what - I'll make up a list of my favorite lyrics from this album and stick that one in there... let's see if you can find it! On Temple Street, the ambulance advances through the teeming night So medical in red and white And at your feet, the servants bow and scrape, seeking gratitude As you adjust your altitude Why does it always have to rhyme? What a waste of time I don't seem to learn my lesson I dash my hopes and stop my blessing I'll admit, I hate confessing Someone on the shore who you can never make out Calls out your name and waves, it's not worth thinking about Down the slow and lazy café in the seaweed breeze Romeo has just been born, unaware of his destinies The buses and the camera vans have all assembled here They're waiting for the morning that has failed to appear And you're dreaming if you think they're gonna sink like that again I'm out here drowning for you in the hypodermic rain We come from the frozen sun, sons of the chosen one And if I should fill the vacuum, we cannot leave We must remain, against the hopelessness and pain To plant the seed to start again All in a day, forcing us, moving us, changing us, soothing us And in a way, playing a scene right up on the screen like it's Yesterday, 'cause yesterday's gone and it's better that way She only comes for the consolation Striding like a hag with comfort inside Spreading through the population Oh my God, baby, I'm so f**king tired These days of Gomorrah are a tribulation I buckle to the ground, stagger 'neath the weight Silent like a lamb in transmigration One of these days, we're gonna go straight It's somebody else now, and they are not you The difference just burns me, but that's nothing new The better I make it, the worse that I do And it's so ancient, but that's nothing new The truth was a lie and the ointment was glue I was found missing, but that's nothing new The music was liquid, somehow it slipped through It all escapes me, but that's nothing new to you The shattered blizzard forest conceals more than you've even dreamed Against our premonitions, we hide among the wintergreen The tiny little flints produce tiny little sparks in the wolverine dark Well I don't give a fat baby's d!ck About how your husband gets his kicks 'Cause he sure ain't no Ben Affleck His treason... reasonable
I looked at the Survivor wiki even deeper. There is a pretty interesting and fateful Chase connection: "Drummer Gary Smith and bassist Dennis Keith Johnson had both been members of Bill Chase's jazz-rock fusion band Chase; Peterik had worked with Chase in 1974. One of the other inspirations for Peterik's choice of the new band's name was his narrow escape from death when he was unable to make a guest appearance at a Chase concert scheduled for Jackson, Minnesota on August 9, 1974. He ended up not being on the plane that crashed, killing Bill Chase and most of his band. In 1978 the Jim Peterik Band had broken up and Jim was considering going back to singing and producing jingles. After several days of pleading with Peterik, road manager/sound man Rick Weigand persuaded him to meet with guitarist Frankie Sullivan (ex-Mariah). Within an hour of that first meeting, the band Survivor was born. Johnson and Smith were recruited and Peterik brought in singer Dave Bickler(ex-Jamestown Massacre), who had worked with Peterik in Chicago on commercial jingles sessions." He was a latter day Waylon Jennings.
"Rattlesnake" by Live. I actually like the song (the music and performance), but the lyrics are pretty dismal. To quote the song itself: "we're they always this lame." Let's go hang out in a mall, or a morgue A smorgasboard Let's go hang out in a church We'll go find lurch Then we'll haul ass down through the abbey Is it money, is it fame What's in a name, shame? Is it money, is it fame Or were they always this lame? It's a crazy, crazy mixed up town But it's the rattlesnake I fear In another place, in another time I'd be drivin' trucks my dear Deer Let's go hang out in a bar It's not too far We'll take my car We'll lay flowers at the grave of Jesco white The sinner's saint The rack is full and so are we Of laughing gas and ennui It's a crazy, crazy mixed up town But it's the rattlesnake I fear In another place, in another time I'd be drivin' trucks my dear I'd be skinning hunted dear Deer It's a crazy, crazy mixed up town But it's the rattlesnake I fear In another place, in another time I'd be drivin' trucks my dear I'd be skinning hunted dear Deer
In spite of these lyrics, I find “On With The Show” by Motley Crue to be pretty enjoyable: “He was bad He was never good But one thing that he understood And she knew All those lies would come true” It probably helps that this is from the Too Fast For Love era, where raw punky energy outweighs a lot of lyrical sins. I mean, c’mon... “He was bad / he was NEVER GOOD”? That’s kinda inane, but the line afterward is just plain word salad.
