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Really Bad Song Lyrics

I got a few more...some of these I'll admit are just bad songs without horrible lyrics...but generally there's something in there that'll ruin it entirely.

There was a song...who's artist and title escapes me, but I know it's on the music server somewhere....but it's essentially got no lyrics...except one...

"Hey!" and maybe "Huh!"

Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida : seriously...need I say anything else?

Three Dog Night - Joy To The World : maybe not quite that silly, but sill, I don't care if Jeramiah was a bullfrog and how good his wine was.

Melanie - Brand New Key : I don't care about her roller skates.

Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting : Everybody was Kung Fu Fighting...why'd you stick around?

Sammy Jones - Chevy Van : good, go get-her-done and stop singing about it

Bay City Rollers - Saturday Night : oh, look, they can spell!

Starland Vocal Band - Afternoon Delight: Skyrockets in flight...afternoon delight! Good, it's a song. *facepalm*

Alicia Bridges - I Love The Nightlife ('Disco Round): maybe not bad...but...really. how many times can you repeat yourself in a song....speaking of repeating

George Harrison - Got My Mind Set On You: if you've heard it, you know what I'm talking about.

I skipped most of the 80's because it's practically, pick a song and there you go.

Sir-Mix-A-Lot - Baby Got Back: and I Got Back...in my car and away from where this was playing. She's got a big butt and you like it Mix...we get it.

Kris Kross - Jump: I liked 'em when I was 10...now I wanna "Jump Jump"....out the window

Dada - Dizz Knee Land: ...."I just robbed a grocery store, I'm goin to Dizz Knee Land"

King Missile - Detatchable Peni$: ....there's a) no real singing...b) it's a monologue about a dude that lost something at a party...no joke.

Weezer - Buddy Holly: "oooo-weeee-oooo i loook just like buddy holly...ooo-ooo and you're mary tyler moore"...does that mean this song is going to go down in a plane crash? no? *facepalm*

The Remebrands - I'll Be There For You: I will be there for you, to help you pull the trigger when this song comes on.

Joan Osborne - One Of Us: ...what if he was, what if he wasn't, have you got to waste 3 minutes posing a hypothetical question...oh, i'm sorry, 5 minutes and 18 seconds

Deep Blue Something - Breakfast at Tiffany's: if that's the one thing you got...you got problems.

Ash - Kung Fu: "Last night Jackie Chan came around, we played pool and hung out. Mr Miagi and the XMen called in as well. I think it's friends with fu-manchu and thinks he knows you...uh-oh-oh-oh oh daniel san made in taiwan comon jackie chan" SERIOUSLY?

Hanson - mmmBop: do words even need to be written?

Len - Steal My Sunshine: I still don't know what they're saying

Smashmouth - Walking On The Sun: "So don't delay, act now, supplies are running out, but now if you're still alive, 6 to 8 years to arrive and if you follow there may, be a tomorrow but if, the offer's shunned you might as well be walking on the sun"

oh, and "Allstar"....hey now, you're an allstar, get your game on, go play. hey now, you're an allstar, get your show on, get paid...duh?

ok, that was all I could get from looking through my 70's and 90's Time-Life box-sets for those decades....but I'll add ANYTHING by the Spice Girls...and John Prine had some clever lyrics...some people might call bad...however, the man loves to play with words.. "Often Is A Word I Seldom Use"...yeah.
 
Good 'Uns, Dewdude... What about these ? "Rocky"-Austin Roberts, 1975. Sappy-ass psuedo tear-jerker. Kinda GLAD da biach died. "Run, Joey Run !" -David Geddes, another good 'un from '75. Rumor was this dude financed his way thru law school w/his earnings offa that record. Hopefully, he soon got disbarred. "Another Night/Be My Lover/What is Love?" Any of that ubiquitous, insipid "club" dance/yacketta-yacketta-yacketta "techno music" from that era. An' here's one most of you have never heard- "White Knight" by Cledus Maggard & the Citizen's Band, 1976. A CB/truck-driving mess-terpiece.
 
B Spears Gimme More

Gimme gimme more, gimme gimme, gimme gimme more

I do not get any further than the above, although it repeats over and over and over and over...(NO MORE!!!)
 
"Oh Yeah" by Yello

Oh yeah, Oh yeah, Oh yeah, Oh yeah,...beautiful...

Great beat but not a lyrical masterpeice.
 
i heard a dj say that inna gadda davida was actually the wasted writer trying to say "in the garden of eden" the rest is history
 
"Tubthumping" by Chumbawamba, 1997, "Rumors", Timex Social Club, 1986, "Summertime Girls", Y&T, 1986...There's others.
 
rvito said:
any song that repeats the same words over and over
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The police- message in a bottle

Sending out an SOS sending out an SOS Sending out an SOS sending out an SOS Sending out an SOS sending out an SOS Sending out an SOS sending out an SOS Sending out an SOS sending out an SOS ( have alot of free time) Sending out an SOS sending out an SOS Sending out an SOS sending out an SOS Sending out an SOS sending out an SOS .......+1000 more times....:sigh:
 
Richard Harris - MacArthur Park

MacArthurs park is melting in the dark
All the sweet green icing flowing down
Someone left the cake out in the rain.
I dont think that I can take it
Cause it took so long to bake it
And Ill never have that recipe again!
Oh, no-o-o-o!
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Complex '60s pop song with symbolism (or whatever it is) that quickly becomes a silly description. Gave me the idea of :wtf: when I first heard it.
 
I don't so much mind certain kinds of repetition... like message in a bottle; the repetition becomes another texture layered on the song for me. A lot of trance music is like that ... and I like trance music. :) I like Right Said Fred's Too Sexy ... judging by the rest of their album, the irony is intentional and therefore amusing.

But here's repetition I *hate* when the songwriter comes up with one halfway decent line but apparently can't think of ANYTHING ELSE to write so they have to repeat that one line a billion times -- Everything But The Girl - Missing

I step off the train
I'm walking down your street again and past your door
But you don't live there any more
It's years since you've been there
But now you've disappeared somewhere like outer space
You've found some better place
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
Could you be dead?
You always were two steps ahead of everyone
We'd walk behind while you would run
I look up at your house
And I can almost hear you shout down to me
Where I always used to be
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
Back on the train
I ask why did I come again?
Can I confess I've been hanging around your old address?
The years have proved to offer nothing since you moved
You're long gone
But I can't move on
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you
I step off the train
I'm walking down your street again and past your door
But you don't live there any more
It's years since you've been there
But now you've disappeared somewhere like outer space
You've found some better place
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you - like the deserts miss the rain
The deserts miss the rain - like the deserts miss the rain
The deserts miss the rain
like the deserts miss the rain

You couldn't come up with even ONE MORE phrase to write!? Good GRIEF. Could've been a good song... had potential... had to go and muck it up with stupid lyrics... <mumbling to self trails off ...>
 
Re: Da Da Da by Trio -- "Da" is a word in German and the band is from Austria.

The song lyric that always annoyed me was "Livin' on a Prayer" by Bon Jovi. It strikes me as nothing but a bunch of cliches strung together.
 
oh....oh...here's one.

Geggy Tah - Whoever You Are...

"All I wanna do is to thank you, even though I don't know who you are. You let me change lanes, while I was riding in my car."
 
When I listen to music, I listen to music. It helps to think of the voice as just another instrument. Sometimes I hear a lyric that adds to my appreciation of a song and sometimes a lyric will detract from it , but to be honest, most times I can't understand what they're saying anyway. I can usually pick up on the chorus, but the verses slide right on past. This is probably why my very religious girlfriend can say "I can't believe you are listening to that terrible song", and I say "this is a great song". How am I to know that guy is muttering about worshipping Satan or cheating on his wife or shooting people. If they enunciated they might lose a lot of popularity and sales. Besides, most of the lyrics are written by the singers and everyone knows that the singer isn't the brightest bulb in the band.
 
"I said 'let's not stand out here like this
what would the neighbors think
why don't we both just step inside
I'll fix us both a drink.'"
'My Girl, Bill' (Jim Stafford)

*a long way from 'we'll step outside and settle this man to man'.

(dis)honorable mention to the usually eloquent Alan Parsons Project for
'Abra...abracadabra...I wanna reach out and grab ya.'

ps; 'Druids worship trees'...how profound!!!
 
jedo1507r said:
Richard Harris - MacArthur Park



Complex '60s pop song with symbolism (or whatever it is) that quickly becomes a silly description. Gave me the idea of :wtf: when I first heard it.
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Actually most a Jimmy Webb's songs were that bad, although I kind of like "Witchita Lineman", although Webb wrote a sequel to it which Richard Harris performed.

Of course there was always "The Yard Goes On Forever":

There were blouses with print roses checkered shirts and white levi's
There was a frying pan and she would cook their dreams while they were dreaming
And later she would send them out to play
And the yard went on forever

Is everybody safe?
Has everybody got a place to hide?
Is everybody warm inside?

Hear them singing
All the women of Pompeii
Standing with the Nagasaki housewives in doorways
In eruptions and destructions on doomsday
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