Most Stupid Song Poll
 

the Ramones
Now I wanna sniff sum glue
Now I wanna have sumthin ta do
All the kids wanna sniff sum glue
All the kids wan sumt'in ta do
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Now I.....

Its a great song, but the lyrics are a bit thin.

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Kind of the point, don't you think?

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Puffy Nipples, Porn Stars, Etc...
 

and this is why you grew up to be you and Less grew up to be LEss.

WONKIN!

Other Flashback 70's crap
 

Yeah, I think I've got to throw my support behind Mc's Park as well. NB: The editorial comments are not mine, but come from here - http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?id=1377

Donna Summer - Macarthur Park

Buy this album!
Spring was never waiting for us, girl
It ran one step ahead
As we followed in the dance
Between the parted pages and were pressed,
In love's hot, fevered iron
Like a striped pair of pants

CHORUS
MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!

I recall the yellow cotton dress
Foaming like a wave
On the ground around your knees
The birds, like tender babies in your hands
And the old men playing checkers by the trees

CHORUS

<relatively brief instrumental interlude>

There will be another song for me
For I will sing it
There will be another dream for me
Someone will bring it
I will drink the wine while it is warm
And never let you catch me looking at the sun
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
You'll still be the one.

I will take my life into my hands and I will use it
I will win the worship in their eyes and I will lose it
I will have the things that I desire
And my passion flow like rivers through the sky.
And after all the loves of my life
After all the loves of my life
I'll be thinking of you
And wondering why.

<extended (1:24) up-tempo instrumental interlude that rivals anything done by
Chicago or even "Classical Gas" by Mason Williams>

MacArthur's Park is melting in the dark
All the sweet, green icing flowing down...
Someone left the cake out in the rain
I don't think that I can take it
'cause it took so long to bake it
And I'll never have that recipe again
Oh, no!
Oh, no
No, no
Oh NO!! (upon which Harris suffers an irreversible gender change)

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But so much more sophisticated than their ultimate: GIMME GIMME LABOTOMY LA-BO-TO-MY.

That was really great stuff...

Pablum Means Something
 

So what is MacArthur's Park about? Songwriter Jimmy Webb speaks:

All very edifying, Jimmy, - but the question that really needs to be asked here is, what are the lyrics to MacArthur Park about? I mean, "Someone left the cake out in the rain/I don't think that I can make it cos' it took too long to bake it and I'll never have that recipe again" - what's going on there? "I always think that whatever is art, need not and should not be explained, as someone once said. "But I'll tell you: MacArthur Park is clearly about a love affair ending, and the person singing it is using the cake and the rain as a metaphor for that. OK, it may be far out there, and a bit incomprehensible, but that is what I was trying to get at. I suppose the whole thing was that I wrote the song at a time in the late 1960s when surrealistic lyrics were the order of the day. It was written around about the same time as Strawberry Fields, so it probably seems a bigger deal now than it was back then. Still, the lyrics never stopped Richard Harris, Frank Sinatra, Donna Summer and any number of trash garage bands from doing it - and who else can say that about one of their songs"?

http://dav4is.8m.com/Music/macarthur.html

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Awesome. I'll be back in style.

I nominate the Alanis Ironic song for the stupid lyric poll, for reasons which I believe have been previously discussed.

On another note - I have an etiquette question I posted HERE and need help on, if anyone is so inclined.

-TL

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A tie between

I'm coming out so you better get this party started. (repeast 100 times and thats the song) and

I've Been to Paradise But Ive Never Been To Me

and
We Built This CIty on Rock N Roll

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You are my SP. The worst most cloying horrible song ever. It totally ruined fall 1985-winter 1986 for me.

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When I was a kid I thought the song said "we built this city on Rocket Road." Seriously. Keep in mind I grew up in Houston - NASA this, Space that - I thought they were talking about Houston so it made perfect sense. Sorta. I think I was in 4th or 5th grade at the time.

So - a secondary poll - what lyrics have you gotten wrong in the past and are embarrassed to admit?

-TL

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Did you think Toyota would leave in the full lyrics of the song in their ads, including:

"We'll be lookin flashy in my Mercedes Benz"

?

Speaking of good music
 

My eurofaggy mexican cooler than thou ex bf loved this band along with Sanchez, a Japanese band that has a cover on the greatest album ever, "If I were a carpenter" and who hates the Stones. I dont know what to do about this since you recommend them.

I was told I had to see Garage A Trois when they were in DC at the 930 Club. I didnt bc I forgot. ANyone else know them? This would have been my first foray into PLF cutting edgeness- knowing a great band noone else does, since Phish. SIGH.


And apropos of whatever, do I sound as condescending as PLF?

Speaking of good music
 

Nope. Not condescending.

Speaking of good music
 

Garage a Trois is excellent.

I am, however, nauseated by the proximity of Garage a Trois and that other band in your post.

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"Wrapped up like a douche in the middle of the night"

aV

Speaking of good music
 

You are a rank amateur. Do not even try.

Garage a Trois is a funk/jam band/dance music experiment by Charlie Hunter (guitar prodigy) and Stanton Moore (awesome Galactic drummer) and some other dude or dudes. You can go to their record label web site and check out some of their stuff. I did that when they came to town and, on that basis, decided to skip the show. Not terrible, just a little aimless. Probably better live, though.

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Wow, I have only heard that song on Ballys and Toyta commecials apprently bc I had no idea there were any other lyrics. Bizarre bc I feel like I hear that song all the time. I guess its bc I watch tv and then i see the commercial and it sticks lke glue.

THen lets go with this:
Charlene
I've Never Been To Me

Hey lady, you lady, cursing at your life
You're a discontented mother and a regimented wife
I've no doubt you dream about the things you'll never do
But, I wish someone had talked to me
Like I wanna talk to you.....
Oh, I've been to Georgia and California and anywhere I could run
I took the hand of a preacher man and we made love in the sun
But I ran out of places and friendly faces because I had to be free
I've been to paradise but I've never been to me

Please lady, please lady, don't just walk away
'Cause I have this need to tell you why I'm all alone today
I can see so much of me still living in your eyes
Won't you share a part of a weary heart that has lived million lies....

Oh, I've been to Nice and the Isle of Greece while I've sipped champagne on a yacht
I've moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed 'em what I've got
I've been undressed by kings and I've seen some things that a woman ain't s'posed to see
I've been to paradise, but I've never been to me

Hey, you know what paradise is?
It's a lie, a fantasy we create about people and places as we'd like them to be
But you know what truth is?
It's that little baby you're holding, it's that man you fought with this morning
The same one you're going to make love with tonight
That's truth, that's love......

Sometimes I've been to crying for unborn children that might have made me complete
But I took the sweet life, I never knew I'd be bitter from the sweet
I've spent my life exploring the subtle whoring that costs too much to be free
Hey lady......
I've been to paradise, (I've been to paradise)
But I've never been to me

(I've been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)
I've been to paradise, never been to me
(I've been to Neice and the isle of Greece while I've sipped champagne on a yacht)
I've been to paradise, never been to me
(I've been to cryin' for unborn children that might have made me complete)
I've been to paradise, never been to me
(I've been to Georgia and California, and anywhere I could run)
I've been to paradise, never been to me

Speaking of good music
 

I highly recommend Stanton Moore's album Flying the Koop. It's very interesting rhythmically.

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I think that's the best choice yet.

I do like when he sings it at the beginning of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert though.

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"Oh Lawd, sucking on old diaphrams."

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I didn't mishear this personally, but supposedly one of more famous misheard lyrics is from "Purple Haze":

"Excuse me, while I kiss this guy."

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What really pisses me off about that song is the whole "hey, I had a lotta fun doing glamorous shit that your fat suburban ass will never do, but now I wish that I had a guy with a nine-to-five job keeping me under his thumb with multiple brats at home" anti-independent woman subtext.

That being said, gwnc, I happen to *like* (in a non-ironic way, too) Janis Ian's incredibly depressing yet accurate "At Seventeen." You were one of those beauty queens with clear skinned smiles, you Miss Toronto Legs girl, you.

Edited to note that I was responding to two posts, yet only quoted one. I apologize for any confusion caused by my excessive consumption of wine at a lunch where I allegedly propositioned an "exotic-looking" yet married with kids associate.

malaise
 

Dear FB,

I returned to the FB today to read the crackling banter and stunning wit that I have come to expect with each visit.

What I found, however, is arguably the most uninspired thread ever woven through the FB (infirmation or lawtalkers): Most stupid song. The word "thread" applied here, however, is a misnomer and also an insult to the concept of an Internet forum thread. It is more like the clogging fibrous threads of asbestos, filling the reader's mind with toxic numbness and causing mental asphyxiation from the carcinogenic banality of it all.

Let me make this point clear: Nobody cares about your pick for stupid song. In fact, nobody cares about your favorite song. Nobody cares what song you listen to on your commute. Nobody cares what song was playing when you fucked for the first time. And nobody cares less about more than that - I am willing to wager that nobody cares about you at all. Especially yourself, as is evident by your self-degrading willingness to go on ad nauseum about how stupid songs are.

It is disappointing. It is amateur. It is hack: "Hey! Whaaat's the deal with these STUPID SONGS? I mean, come on! Where DO these songs come from? Who ARE these people? Are they on DRUGS? These SONGS are SOOOO STUPID!"

There are other groups of workers out there who have no Internet message board that have a million interesting things to say and would kill for the opportunity. A group of accountants somewhere could be chomping at the bit to anonymously discuss pube waxing with their peers. A gaggle of steel workers might be eager to have an online discourse about bad experiences with ass fucking. And perhaps - just perhaps - the rabbis of the world would enjoy some faceless bbs chat with other rabbis (and a cantor here and there) about snowballing.

And then there are the attorneys. We are given a free forum to discuss whatever you want. What happened to the sex talk? What happened to the excruciating trolling and flaming? Oh, I forgot. It suddenly became more important to discuss stupid songs. Did I say "discuss"? By "discuss", I meant "post lyrics to songs instead of engaging in any real discussion of them.

You used to be good, FB.

But now, you make me sick. Like a dog.

Fuck you.
_________________
Pushy the Puppy
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If you were hot and were wearing a thong, chef would have just splooged all over himself.

TM

malaise
 

I would kill or die to make love to you.

music
 

A friend of mine's computer was running a little slow, so he looked around on his files. Someone had hacked into it so they could host a movie for file sharing.

The worst part? The movie was Kangaroo Jack.

malaise
 

So . . . What's the stupidest song you've ever heard while having your pubes waxes by snoballing steelworkers? Personally, I nominate "Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" by Rupert Holmes.

http://users.cis.net/sammy/escape.htm

(Spree: Turn the sound down!)

malaise
 

Apropos of, oh, what the hell. It's my understanding that the Pina Colada is the new trendy drink among snowballing steelworkers with waxed pubes*, NTTAWWWT.

sf

*But only those on the East Coast, so it's not passe -- yet.

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You are a weird yet lovable drunkard, not Bob.

And not fair. I was very popular with boys when I was 17. But so was every other girl who put out as much as I did. Nothing to do with looks.

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My polls mean different things to different people. If you tailor it too narrowly, you chill participation.

TM

malaise
 

Ooh it's so good, it's so good
It's so good, it's so good
It's so good

Ooh I'm in love, I'm in love,
I'm in love, I'm in love
I'm in love

Ooh I feel love, I feel love
I feel love, I feel love
I feel love

I feel love
I feel love
I feel love

Ooh fall and free, fall and free
Fall and free, fall and free
Fall and free

Ooh you and me, you and me
You and me, you and me
You and me

Ooh I feel love, I feel love
I feel love, I feel love
I feel love

I feel love
I feel love
I feel love
I feel love

Less (I had no idea what the Go-Go's meant with their sucky song "I'm a shamile," but I still had a 14-year old backstage fantasy fuck thing going in my mind) inSF

malaise
 

1- pube waxing. Did that. That's sooo 2 weeks ago.
2- ass fucking. Did that. That's sooo 2 1/2 weeks ago.
3- Rabbis. Rabbis don't do the Internet.
4- Snowballing. What?
5- Go eat some grass.

malaise my ass
 

This is clearly a "woman on top" song.

sf

malaise
 

It's not time for another appointment yet, is it? :D

malaise
 

And didn't we agree not to discuss anal sex again until such time as I have actually, um, taken it up the pooper and thus have some perspective to draw upon in order to provide the FB with a more enlightening discourse then my last foray into the realm of ass fucking chatter? ;)

malaise
 

On occasion, someone comes along with such a profound statement of life, beautiful words that are to the ears as water is to the man struggling to get through the desert. Times when sentiments offered are so important, so strong, so awesome - in the true sense of the word - that you cannot possibly help but stop and think about them. Recognize that they will change your life and in fact require you to make changes in your life so you can become a better person.






And when I read the words of this fine dog, I cannot help but find myself thinking. This is not one of those times.

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Pagans.

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La Macarena

malaise
 

It sounds like someone needs some doggy yoga to mellow out:

NEW YORK, June 27 — New York City dog owners who worry that their furry friends need some stress management have a new option: yoga for dogs. “Ruff Yoga” — a so-called doga class aimed at relaxing the canine denizens of this often un-Zen city — is being offered once a month in a downtown city park.

HALF AN HOUR on the yoga mat makes Isaac, her cocker spaniel, a calmer dog, said doga devotee Sarah Klein.

“Usually when he’s in the park, he can’t focus,” said Klein, who was among nine New Yorkers and their dogs who attended a class Thursday night.


http://www.msnbc.com/news/932173.asp?0cv=CB20

malaise
 

It's legal in the south again. what'choo waiting for?