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What are some phrases that are present in many different songs?

dynamic73

dynamic73

Audiophile in Progress
There seems to be a lot of phrases that you'll hear in a song, by some artist. That you hear used over and over though years. Usually by different artists in other songs. For example here's a phrase I've heard in a lot of different songs.
"Come What May"

Is there a phrase that you've heard before that pops up in other songs from time to time?
 
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Oh baby.
Yeah yeah yeah.
I love you.
I want you.
Will never die.
In my heart.
Only for you.
It (just) feels right.
Don't (ever) stop.
You're not alone.
I'm all alone.
When you're away.
When I'm away.
In the world.
Have a dream.
Close to me.
Close to you.
So far away.
 
"She was waiting for her mother at the station in Torino and you know I love you baby but it's getting too heavy to laugh...."

So cliché.
 
My 22"s (Wheel size)
My chain so bright that..... (Ability of their gold and diamond necklace and / or pendant to return light)
Wood Grain (referring to the interior of their highly over-priced automobile)
 
Electric pop star massage unit
Goo goo g’joob
Beats so big I’m stepping on leprechauns
Ma-ma-ma-my bologna
Jesus stole my girlfriend
Electrical banana is gonna be a sudden craze
There was aphids on the lettuce and I ate every one
Still just a rat in a cage
Faces look ugly when you're alone
If he wants you to snuff it, all he has to do is puff it
Tutti frutti, au- rutti
And I’ll never have that recipe again, oh noooooo
Your lipstick stains on the front lobe of my left side brains
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango
Yellow mother custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye
You see this one-eyed midget shouting the word "NOW"
I saw a lion he was standing alone, with a tadpole in a jar
Every day a little sadder, a little madder, someone fetch me a ladder
You've got that rainbow feel, but the rainbow has a beard
Have you ever seen a one legged dog makin his way down the street?
My feet don't hardly make no sound walking on the moon

Oh, wait ... wrong list ... sorry! :D
 
I listen to a lot of oldies on AM and I've grown to hate "baby" followed by "I don't mean maybe". How about something original like "You give me rabies"?
 
Yes there are alot of cliches
A lot of song writers use rhyming dictionaries.
Because there are only so many words that rhyme with love, hurt, sad,etc.

OH baby you gave me the blues down to my shoes ...
I should have know from the start you were bad news...
Blah.. blah ...blah.

Unfortunately the music business is very formulaic. Once something is successful they will run it into the ground.
But this is not anything new
If the Beatles work why not the Monkeeys,The Byrds. Hermits Hermits,The Turtles, The Yard Birds, The Animals.


It is why we have had disco, new wave, synth pop, hair bands, boy bands, corporate rock ,crossover country,grunge & now EDM.
Every song sounds the same until people get sick of it & move on to the next big thing that is then promptly run into the ground..


A lot of todays songs are built in the studio measure by measure track on top of track.
Poor musicianship is “Fixed in mix". Everything is recorded with click tracks ,drum loops ,virtual instruments with vocal and instrumental pitch correction on everything. Every note & beat is perfect yet lifeless and sterile.:thumbsdn:


One listen to modern pop, rock, hip hop or country and you will quickly hear a pattern. Producers & record labels encourage artist to be “commercial” and develop that “Hit or Radio sound” artists are discouraged from drifting to far from their “Signature sound"

The other thing that is hard not to do is to not repeat oneself or others.

The other night I was playing around with this great chord progression.
I was really excited until about 30 minuets of working on the “new song” I realized I was playing the Beatles “While My Guitar Gently Weeps in the “Wrong Key”. Damn George Harison beat me to it!:finger::D

How many Bob Dylan, Neil Young & other great writers songs after a few albums all start to sound the same?
Songwriting is a craft & it is hard to do.
If you don’t think so try writing a good song yet alone a “Hit song” trust me it is not easy.


When I 1st started writing a very experienced song writer gave me this advise.

“Man everything great has already been said before....
So the trick is to find a new way to say the same old thing in a clever or in new way that is fresh & no one has heard before”

“When you figure out how to do that then you will be on your way to becoming a real song writer"....:thmbsp:

30 years later I am still working on it.:smoke:


Cheers
PQ
 
Bluegrass/Old-time songs:

"...wouldn't even go my bail."


Pop ballads for the past century:

" all your charms" rhymed with " in my/your arms"
 
Axe Elf said:
Oh baby.
Yeah yeah yeah.
I love you.
I want you.
Will never die.
In my heart.
Only for you.
It (just) feels right.
Don't (ever) stop.
You're not alone.
I'm all alone.
When you're away.
When I'm away.
In the world.
Have a dream.
Close to me.
Close to you.
So far away.
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I just hurled all over my keyboard.....:puke:
 
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