Some songs have such stupid lyrics. For example:
1. Macarthur Park by Richard Harris: "Someone left the cake out in the rain". Seriously folks, who the hell leaves the cake out in the rain???
2. I am...I Said by Neil Diamond: "And no one heard at all, not even the chair". Since when can chairs hear anything and who talks to chairs???
What is your fav song with stupid lyrics?
Posted: Apr 21, 08 5:54pm
Oohhh.....I have the lps with both of those songs--not sure what that says about my taste in music but Richard Harris and Neil Diamond were both great in their day--in spite of the lyrics they sang!
Posted: Apr 22, 08 8:32am
"In their day"??? Ok, now that Richard Harris is deceased, that remark may be workable. But Neil Diamond is still alive. And, while I may have grown from where only his records (and sheet music) made up my music collection, he will *always* be my favorite.
And while Neil Diamond's "Stones" has always felt like the real parallel to my life, "I Am ... I Said" is just as easily understood. Talking to a chair is the same as talking to the walls. And name me one person who hasn't at some time been so lonely that they didn't talk to inanimate objects at some point.
BTW, wasn't it Jimmy Webb that actually wrote "MacArthur Park"?
Posted: Apr 28, 08 5:20pm
Neil's coming to my city in September... I think it's already sold out!
Posted: Apr 21, 08 8:38pm
I hope you don't mind expanding this from stupid song lyrics to ones that are infuriating. I love Bruce Springsteen. I mean, I adore the guy, have every song he's ever released, and have seen every tour since 1975, including a show two weeks ago, which was fantastic. But Ol' Bruce broke the heart of this longtime sex educator with his song, FIre, and the lyrics: "I hold you close. You just say no. You say you don't like it, but I know you're a liar. Cause when we kiss, oooh, fire." Songs that say no means yes are very very bad. No means no. Shame on you, Bruce.
Posted: Apr 28, 08 5:23pm
Michael, I'm with you on that one... what once was a really interesting story is now just creepy. Kind of like Neil DIamond's "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon"...
Posted: Apr 21, 08 8:53pm
Hmmm, this is where I risk it all and say I thought I was being so clever as to "understand" what Diamond and Jimmy Webb were actually trying to say. (No, not trying to be smug, cute or anything else here.) I liked those lyrics.
But, from that same era I loved the song "Wild Thing." Lyrics? HAHAHAHAHA! "You make everything...grooooovy." Even at sixteen in 1966 that was bad.
Posted: Apr 21, 08 8:56pm
Alligator lizards in the air? what?
Posted: Apr 22, 08 8:21am
I wondered about this to myself until I heard them. They make a distinct noise in the summer that fills the air. Until that time I had no idea what that meant.
Posted: Apr 22, 08 8:41am
:::chuckling:::
Joe, you're talking about alligator's mating season, aren't you. When they sound like bull frogs the size of Volkswagons, right? I grew up in FL. All you need to do is be near slightly uncivilized water...
Posted: Apr 28, 08 5:12pm
Im sure the sound is similar.
Kind of like frogs in the swamps during spring here in Illinois. Very loud but a soothing noise. I have some recorded from my old house on some tape somewhere. I was going to use it in a song but forgot all about where I put it.
Posted: Apr 21, 08 9:30pm
How about that Cream song that used to go:
I'm so glad.
I'm so glad.
I'm glad, I'm glad, I'm glad...
Worst thing is, it would get stuck in my head.
Posted: Apr 21, 08 9:37pm
And Pru, to go right along with all those "glads" how about the Isley Brothers getting their needle stuck with
"No-no, no, no, no, no-no-no, no, no-no, no, no-no
Na-no, no, na-no, no-no, na-no, no-no, no, no-no, no
Nobody can do the (Shing-a-ling) like I do
Posted: Apr 21, 08 9:38pm
great, now it's stuck in mine. real nice pru.
Posted: Apr 21, 08 9:43pm
Ooops.
Posted: Apr 22, 08 8:22am
The Skip James original version is a lot less sticky. Cream really did a great rock out job on that one. Originally it was recorded in a chair factory in Clifton Wisconsin.
I just love Skip James.
I'm so glad.
Posted: Apr 29, 08 7:42am
Hey, when you're happy and you know it.........
Those guys had to fill up an entire album in a hurry and I guess Jack bruce was really glad they got a record deal!
Posted: Apr 29, 08 10:25am
"I'm So Glad" was written and originally recorded by a delta blues dude - Skip James, in the 30s. (a little wikipedia info below). When I hear the original recording, the lyrics don't seem stupid 'cuz they're so true to the delta blues genre. But the Cream version sure seemed dumb when I was 13...
For example, "I'm So Glad" was derived from a 1927 song by Art Sizemore and George A. Little entitled "So Tired", which had been recorded in 1928 by both Gene Austin and Lonnie Johnson (the latter under the title "I'm So Tired of Livin' All Alone"). James changed the song's lyrics, transforming it with his virtuoso technique, moaning delivery, and keen sense of tone. Biographer Stephen Calt, echoing the opinion of several critics, considered the finished product totally original, "one of the most extraordinary examples of fingerpicking found in guitar music."
Posted: Apr 21, 08 9:55pm
don't remember who sang it but
"yummy, yummy, yummy i've got love in my tummy."
what was that about????
my fave was "it's raining men" by the pointer sisters
Posted: Apr 21, 08 11:11pm
"Yummy Yummy Yummy" by 1910 Fruitgum Company - probably the band that gave us the term "bubblegum music".
Posted: Apr 21, 08 10:03pm
I remember all my life
Raining down as cold as ice,
shadows of a man
A face through a window
Crying in the night
The night goes into
Morning, just another day...
I wish you'd sent her away a lot sooner!! (maybe several verses earlier!!)
Posted: Apr 21, 08 10:13pm
ws
forget barry manilow, give me barry white
jm1
Posted: Apr 21, 08 10:15pm
Any line from the song, "Loving you has made me bananas".
There were only eight lines to it.
Posted: Apr 21, 08 11:18pm
Written by Neal Adams, performed by Guy Marks - at least that's what Google says... and the full lyrics are:
Your red scarf matches your eyes
You’ve closed your cover before stri-i-iking
Your father had the ship fitter blues
And loving you has made me bananas.
You burned your finger last evening
While my back was turned.
I asked the waiter for I-o-dine
But I dined all alone
- (repeat first four lines) -
Posted: Apr 22, 08 7:56am
That's funny Dave,
I always thought it was the "ship-to-shore" blues... Hmm I wonder.
Posted: Apr 22, 08 8:45am
I remember seeing Tony Randall singing that on TV once when I was little!! Damn! I haven't thought of that one in a million years!! Wow!!
Posted: Apr 21, 08 10:56pm
Obla-di, obla-da, life goes on, bra...
WTF?
Posted: Apr 21, 08 11:23pm
Check this site, you'll love it - the archive of misheard song lyrics, KissThisGuy.com . It gets it's name from Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Haze", someone heard the line "S'cuse me, while I kiss the sky..." and thought it said "S'cuse me, while I kiss this guy...". The rest is history... http://kissthisguy.com/
Posted: Apr 22, 08 4:00pm
dave-
i bow down, you know all!!!
jm1
Posted: Apr 22, 08 3:18am
Maybe Lola.....L-O-L-A...lola! :) Or Gimme gimme good lovin! LOL
Posted: Apr 22, 08 7:57am
Oh, I love Lola and I don't think it is stupid at all - I think Coca cola's lawsuit was stupid, though!
Posted: Apr 22, 08 3:50am
How about "La La La means I love you?"
I know that line always worked for me - NOT!!!
Posted: Apr 22, 08 4:01pm
sorry about that!
Posted: Apr 22, 08 4:22am
Muskrat, muskrat candlelight
Doin' the town and doin' it right
Somebody was on some serious drugs in the '70's.
Posted: Apr 22, 08 7:58am
Pru,
You win!! That is the worst!!
Posted: Apr 22, 08 1:12pm
OMG! I forgot about muskrat love! Leave it to you to remember, Pru! :)
Posted: Apr 28, 08 5:17pm
Muskrat love is perhaps the worst song in the world. Both the Captain and Tenille and the group America did this bronx cheer. My brother used to put on the America version and I used to have to leave.
I tried cleansing his pallette with side three of Physical Grafitti, but for some reason he kept returning to that darn song.
Posted: Apr 22, 08 4:28am
Chelsea Dagger asks about "Someone left the cake out in the rain".
Bearing in mind it was written in the swinging 1960's, wasn't the "cake" referred to here some sort of hallucinatory drug rather than one baked by Mom?
I got absolutely smashed with Richard Harris in London in 1972 - but not on anything more than drink. For all my sins and transgressions, I never touched anything illegal. I've written about the experience somewhere.
Posted: Apr 22, 08 4:44am
Tell us what the cake means Britscot...and what's with the striped pants?
Posted: Apr 22, 08 5:19am
I was only venturing a suggestion that "cake" was a drug. I know nothing about drugs and even far less than striped pants - but in the 1960's - anybody wore anything. The more bizarre the better.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=414289&in_page_id=1770
Posted: Apr 22, 08 4:02pm
i love richard harris!
met him once in upstate new york
Posted: Apr 22, 08 4:34am
And speaking of being on drugs...
He bag big production, he got wal-rus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard, he one spinal cracker
He got feet down below his knee
Hold you in his armchair, you can feel his disease
Posted: Apr 22, 08 4:43am
I love that song, but the lyrics...well...yeah.
I see what you mean.
Posted: Apr 22, 08 5:06am
Somewhere I read that John originally wrote that song for Timothy Leary who was going to run for something and it was to be his campaign song since his motto was "Come Together." Then he got arrested and so John and Paul rewrote the verses...
Posted: Apr 22, 08 5:27am
I lost a 5 dollar bet with my nephew on this one. I bet the title was Kiss On My Lips.
What can I say
I don’t feel the need to give such secrets away
You think maybe I need help
No, I know that I’m right
I’m just better off not listening to friends’ advice
When they insist on knowing my bliss
I tell them this
When they want to know what the reason is
I only smile when I lie, then I tell them why
(because your kiss) your kiss is on my list
(because your kiss) your kiss is on my list
Because your kiss is on my list of the best things in life
(because your kiss) your kiss is on my list
(because your kiss) your kiss I can’t resist
I go crazy wondering what there is to really see
Did the night just take up your time
’cause it means more to me
Sometimes I forget what I’m doing
I don’t forget what I want
Regret what I’ve done, regret you?
I couldn’t go on
And if you insist on knowing my bliss
I’ll tell you this
If you want to know what the reason is
I’ll only smile when I lie, then I’ll tell you this
(because your kiss) your kiss is on my list
(because your kiss) your kiss is on my list
Because your kiss is on my list of the best things in life
(because your kiss) your kiss is on my list
(because your kiss) your kiss I can’t resist
"Kiss On My List" Song Lyrics
(Performed by Hall & Oates)
Posted: Apr 22, 08 8:01am
I thought it was walrus gumbo! We eat that everyday at my house!
Posted: Apr 22, 08 4:03pm
arky-
what's weird about that?
jm
Posted: Apr 28, 08 4:55pm
Come Together / The Beatles - I just heard something on the radio last week about that one... that Lennon wrote it for Timothy Leary's campaign when he ran for congress (then he got arrested for drugs, and that was that). They still used it on the album. Leary gave us the slogan "Tune in, turn on, drop out".
EDIT: Arkadash, i just saw your reply - GMTA!
Posted: Apr 29, 08 7:53am
It's "He bad production, he got walrus gumbo": as WS pointed out correctly and deliciously!
Posted: Apr 29, 08 8:17am
Hey SteveN, Thanks!! I love to hear I'm right!! Unfortunately old lyrics.com says:
He bag production, he got walrus gumboot
He got Ono sideboard...
http://www.oldielyrics.com/lyrics/the_beatles/come_together.html
I'd swear that's not what he says on the album, but I guess I don't speak English! Aerosmith evidently says Gumboat.
But the good news is, t