SanguinePar Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 Not just talking about people's favourite tunes or whatever, I specifically mean smart lyrics which involve fun wordplay or internal rhymes and rhythms. Inspired by listening to Hotwax by Beck this morning, which includes the epic line: Silver foxes looking for romance In the chain smoke Kansas flash dance ass pants I'll throw in another one, from My Shot from the musical Hamilton: I'm past patiently waiting, I'm passionately smashing every expectation, every action's an act of creation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartshaft Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 Love is evil, if you don't believe me spell it backwards Eminem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartshaft Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 Now you get to watch her leave,Out the window, guess that's why they call it window pane Also Eminem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piracy Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 The Specials song 'Pearls Cafe' When I first met you, I really thought you were a wet dream come true Now I know that you don't care, about somebody else's nightmare Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piracy Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 Bad Manners, Lorraine. Lorraine punched me on the nose, so I slapped her round the head,Then we talked the whole thing out, and went straight to bed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piracy Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 I could pick out loads of what I percieve to be funny or amusing lyrics. Load to choose from my youth, so many stuck in my head. Here's a random set of lyrics from a band called Leyton Buzzards and they released the great single 'Saturday night beneath the plastic plam trees' in 1979. Lyrics anyone of my age could relate to, leaving the youth centres behind and heading to local clubs and discos thinking you were 'Archie', thinking you had made it. New Burtons suit after a provie cheque had been approved, steaming on Red Stripe and Malibu n Pineapple, smoking Regal Kingsize, wearing out a pair of slip on Coaster shoes lapping the dance floor in Night Magic (Night Tragic, then shortened to Traj), trying your hand with the rows of woman dancing round mock leather handbags, getting knocked back, end up opening the front door of the disco with your head after the dinner suited apes on the door filled you in and threw your out. Back the next weekend. Oh the memories. Full set of lyrics below. '69 was a very fine year;You was a teenage rebel who knew no fear.Hanging around the flats at night,Drunk on cider - out of sight.Six months later, barnet's grown,I've got a mohair suit to call my own;Button-down shirt with a window-pane check,Brand new strides with a dog-tooth fleck.Growing up, I need much more,The youth club kids were such a bore.Me mate Neil said there's a place he knows,Where his elder sister and her mates all go. Saturday night beneath the plastic palm trees,Dancing to the rhythm of 'the Guns of Navarone'.Found my Mecca near Tottenham Hale Station,I discovered heaven in the Seven Sisters Road. Crews from Balham and Golder's Green,And loads of places I've never been.The stroke of ten,a fight breaks out;Hear the bouncers scream and shout.'Sling him out; he's wearing boots',Cry the gangsters dressed in dinner suits.They black his eyes, his nose gets bent,courtesy of the management. Saturday night beneath the plastic palm trees,Dancing to the rhythm of 'the Guns of Navarone'.Found my Mecca near Tottenham Hale Station,I discovered heaven in the Seven Sisters Road. Eddie Holman slows things down.You ask a girl to dance,But you get turned down.Maybe it's just not your day;What'd'ya want for five bob anyway.I was cool drinking rum and black,And then felt sick on the journey back.I got soaked through in the pouring rain,But next week, I'm going back again. Saturday night beneath the plastic palm trees,Dancing to the rhythm of 'the Guns of Navarone'.Found my Mecca near Tottenham Hale Station,I discovered heaven in the Seven Sisters Road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 Now the man in the back is ready to crackAs he raises his hands to the sky. And the girl in the corner is everyone's mournerShe could kill you with a wink of her eye. Chin/Chapman Sweet lyrics that hit me every time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teuchter Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 “Nero Fiddles while Gordon Burns” Half Man Half Biscuit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
average white par Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 "When I was a child I played Subbuteo on My table, then I graduate to Studio One" Massive Attack but I can't remember the bloody name of it.. I always found this lyric to be a masterclass in shamelessly brutal McGonagallesque poetic pap, and it continues to make me smile.. .splendid work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superally Posted January 29, 2019 Report Share Posted January 29, 2019 Always liked Queens "One Vision" with the end lyric "Gimie fried chicken" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teuchter Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 A microscopic cog, in his catastrophic plan Written and directed by his red right hand Nick Cave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DA-go Par Adonis Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 Five Man Army is where the Massive Attack lyrics are from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DougieDave Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 She’s a PhD in “I told you so” You’ve a Knighthood in “I’m not listening” Don’t marry her - Beautiful South Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
average white par Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 Thanks DA-go, that was driving me a tad batty and making me a little cross... Another favourite (I love music threads) is actually fairly relevant right now, and is this utter belter by Dr. Hook "If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me..?" Epic sauce... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyboy Posted January 30, 2019 Report Share Posted January 30, 2019 I don't matter, you don't matterNeither does this mindless clatterIt don't matter where you're fromWhat matters is your uniform Wear your braces round your seatDoctor Marten's on your feetKeep your barnet very neatFor credibility on street I am frightened, you are frightenedShould we get our trousers tightened?Where in Brighton is your normAnd wears enlightened uniform? On my parka is some bandI don't really understandPerry is my guiding handScooter polo sweeps the land. "Uniforms" P Townshend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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