Try reading them out loud as poetry. All are basically about the same thing (you know what). This is meant to be taken with a sense of humor and an understanding that I'm not putting down the music. In the next post I'll have some reflections on hard rock songs and why they're great even though some of them have embarrassingly bad lyrics.
Feel free to add your own selections to the comments section. Keep in mind, the song has to be good. For example, I didn't include my choice of song with the worst lyrics because I and many other fans of the band consider it a bad song:
"Baby, let's put the X in sex. Love's like a muscle and you make me wanna flex."
Way to go, Paul and Gene. You really made us Kiss fans proud with that one.
BRONZE:
BAND: Scorpions
SONG: "Rock You Like A Hurricane"
Lyric: "The bitch is hungry, she needs to tell, so give her inches, and feed her well...He's licking his lips, he's ready to win. On the hunt tonight for love at first sting"
SILVER:
BAND: AC/DC
SONG: "Let Me Put My Love Into You"
Lyric: "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."
GOLD:
BAND: Kiss
SONG: "Love Gun"
Lyric: "I really love you baby. I love what you've got. Let's get together we can get hot....No place for hiding baby, no place to run. You pull the trigger of my...love gun!"
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ROFLOL
As Annabel said: ROFLOL !!!
How about "Pour Some Sugar On Me" by Def Leppard ? That song was all over the place for at least 2 years non-stop, and the lyrics... Actually, all the "good songs" from Hysteria would be a great candidate for your awards.
Cheers !
Carole
Alice Cooper: Lost in America makes me cringe when i hear the lyrics:
I can't get a girl
cuz I ain't got a car
I can't get a car
cuz I ain't got a job
I can't get a job
cuz I ain't got a car
So I'm looking for a girl with a job and a car
Don't you know where you are
Lost in America
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH... Paul during the show explain about the lirics before the song began is better: "...im on hospital and the nurse saw me teased...she ask me: what´s up ? And I say: It´s my...LOVEGUN!"
Cherry Pie by Warrant. "She is my Cherry pie... Swingin to the drums, Swingin to guitar, Swingin to the bass, in the back of my car"
Pls, I want believe that when someone write this, he is only kidding. Not is serious. lol
I would like to nominate Led Zeppelin's "The Lemon Song".
Squeeze me baby, till the juice runs down my leg.
The way you squeeze my lemon, I'm gonna fall right out of bed.
I'm gonna leave my children down on this killing floor.
I never bothered to read the lyrics. For me, music is about melody, not words. In my opinions words are there only to keep the vocalist busy, otherwise there would be no lead singer in bands. Most of Classical music does not have lyrics but still some memorable melodies.
Even tough I don't care about the lyrics, I do pay the attention to the voice itself and I do appreciate good vocals. Have you ever heard of James LaBrie (of Dream Theater)?
Looking forward to your next post.
one of my favorite jamming songs ever ! so fun to play along and improvise on it's backing track...
Hendrix's (Voodoo Child)..
"Well, I stand up next to a mountain
And I chop it down with the edge of my hand
Yeah
Well, I pick up all the pieces and make an island
Might even raise a little sand"
but he's the best !
hahaha this made me laugh a lot.
I totally agree with the "Pour some sugar on me", "Cherry Pie" and "The Lemon song"
Although I am completely sick of Pour some sugar on me. Also, it took me a few times of hearing The Lemon Song to catch that... once I caught it I was laughing for a good while.
Love this post :D
These are some great choices. I've always enjoyed listening to classic Def Leppard. "Pour Some Sugar On Me," is a guilty pleasure. I'd forgotten about 'Lemon Song,' which is a classic example of 'Did they really say that?" but it's done in the classic sense, as a lot of early Delta blues had very risque lyrics. Didn't know that particular Alice Cooper tune, good find.
And it's true about Paul Stanley's song introductions. We all love Paul, but he's become such a caricature, it's hard not to laugh. I caught Kiss at MSG last Octobber, and he was going on about how at a Kiss show "You ain't gonna hear 'bout endin' world hunger, savin' the nukes, nukin' the whales, savin' the porpoises!"
No kidding. I've made a lot of friends laugh with my impression of this rap. Haven't found it on YouTube yet. I did manage to find another one from that night, which is pretty funny. Here he's talking about how he used to dream of playing MSG while driving a cab and taking people there to see... Elvis Presley (Boo!! Boo!!!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-v0Ppb4p3C8
o dear... yeah.. those are pretty lame..:) haha rhsc nycacre
Kiss is Kiss ! Animalize and their vids created a generation too, Heavens on Fire is an exemple. Questions: for the men: Who´s never would to be Paul for one night ? for the woman : Who´s never would sleep with Paul for one night ? This thing is so strong, that now, in 2010, you see some new rockers dresser as Glam 80 and their groups from L.A.
We also can´t forget of David Lee Roth and your "sensible shoes" ! - "Lost my soul when I walked out on you, I need some sensible shoes!"
;)
Almost forgot about "All We Are" by Warlock (Sorry Doro)-
"All we are. All we are, we are. We are all, all we need"
Apologies for any hummers I'm about to create, but Whitesnake's Slide in In has always made me roll my eyes:
I'm gonna slide it in
Right to the top,
Slide it in,
I ain't never gonna stop
Slide it in,
Right to the top,
I'm gonna slide it in, slide it in,
Slide it, in baby...
Based on the photographs you provided, I think that The Scorpions should get some more points. I mean how redonkulous is Herman Rarebell's black unitard? But if it were on shear crazy outfits period, Kiss still wins hands down. If I were Gene, Paul, Bruce, and Vinnie; I would burn every photo that exists from 1983-1989.
Interesting and funny Alex. Examples of current verses where lyrical license is taken and made into some bad, suggestive ones. And, reference to what started way back in musics early days,the beginnings of 'rock and roll'. The early implication in musics scene of the 20's and on in the Risque Blues - like Bullmoose Jacksons song" "He got out his Big Ten Inch"(remade by "Aerosmith") The Dirty Blues/ Vintage Sex songs that were forerunners, some titles like "Let me Squeeze Your Lemon" - by Charlie Pickett. Some other titles whose lyrics you can imagine or know;"It Ain't the Meat" "My Ding Aling" " Sugar in My Bowl"..."Leave my Kitten Alone"... Innovators of lyrical lines in code that eventually gave way to some pretty good and nasty stuff as mentioned here and much out there now. Not all musicians have a prolific lyrical sense but that's what sets them apart.
Hello Alex,
This is one of your funniest posts!
Loved it!
In the late 80's I would pay attention to some "glam rock" bands lyrics and always thought that they were all alike (and crap)- "baby I love you, you're so hot" etc..., just like this post's podium!
Nowadays, I tend to focus more on the music than on the lyrics, but if I have the CD booklet on my hands I always run my eyes through it. The silly lyrics, I usually don't take the time to explore it, but the most intricate and elaborate lyrics, I have a great time trying to understand what the lyricist wanted to get through to us listeners.
Kind regards
HAHAHA!! There are some good ones here! And God bless ACDC - I love them to death but I think they have several that could qualify.....What about "Givin the dog a bone" (repeat 200 times), or from Little Lover: "killed me when I saw the wet patch on your seat -it wasn't coca-cola" - (okay that one just makes me laugh)
And then there's the song I love to hate: Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly...
"I went to a party last Saturday night, I didn't get laid but I got in a fight, UH-HUH, it ain't no big thing....blah, blah, etc, etc....Kiss me once, kiss me twice, come on pretty baby, kiss me deadly.....
how about the most powerful lyrics you have ever heard in a song
that to me is more interesting because there are so many bad lyrics out there
As much as I love Iron Maiden, I always cringed at the lyrics in Charlotte the Harlot.. "Well Charlotte your drawers are off-colour too 'cause you're making love all day".... uuuugh.
But one of the worst examples ever is the MSG (McAuley Schenker Group) song Save Yourself. I absolutely love the song musically but the lyrics make me cringe.
"My little angel, spread your wings and fly me upside down" and the song ends with the extremely disturbing "Touch me little girl". Like, come on.
Hey Alex
Bronze:High heeled sneakers
Head to toe in lace
Such a dangerous body
With a little girls face
Little miss dangerous
Little miss danger --- tonight
Ted Nugent
silver:You get your balls to the wall man
Balls to the wall
Balls to the wall man
Balls to the wall
Accept
Gold:Smelly Nelly by Krokus
some of the lyrics go:Her skin is dry and spotty
But her a-- is just the best.
OOOhh Smelly Nelly
Your so divine
OOOhh Smelly Nelly
Baby be mine be mine be mine
As far as Kiss goes, if thats all they can write why bother?Cash is king thats why.They havent wrote anything worth listening to since the 70s.Sorry Kiss fans!
'Penetrating' words nonetheless- Like Kiss and other nominees here are Rock -song satirists,like nursery rhymes that were politcal satire - Jack & Jill(about naughty dalliances/ Ring Aroung the Rosy, the Plague) other words would ruin the song and may not suck and leave a mark.
------------------ten foot proverbial pole, poke poke--how could you forget--Ted Nugent..."GONNA BREAK YOUR FACE"
OOPS-you don't have a WTF award, so sorry "strangle hold" has this guitar that is practically hypnotic-but the worst lyrics hands down if you ask me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eISPP6zuNE&feature=related
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