h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Can't complain, mustn't grumble
Help yourself to another piece of apple crumble

Wise words from ABC's "How To Be A Millionaire"

WHAT? What were you thinking, man? Why are you crowbarring an apple crumble reference into a pop song? Was it a dare?

RF

Rhythm is a Dancer by Snap

Turbo B actually 'raps' the immortal couplet

'And you know that I'm as serious as cancer,
When I tell you that Rhythm is a Dancer'

Although that must also win some sort of award to be the only pop record ever to include the word Cancer.

Another incredibly pain in the buttock lyric is from the cranberries

'Did you have to let it linger?
You've got me wrapped around tyour finger'

finger, linger, finger, linger, linger, finger it rhymes, but *meh*

Taken from this wonderful article: A700958: Irony

"What Irony Is Not

Irony can be humorous, but most humour is not ironic. Some informative examples of what irony is not come, ironically, from the Alanis Morissette song 'Ironic'. Here are a few.

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An old man turned 98/He won the lottery and died the next day - Tragedy, not irony.
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It's a black fly in your chardonnay - Bummer but not ironic (although there is arguably some irony in the fly being black, however this does at least mean you don't ingest it with the drink).
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It's a death row pardon two minutes too late - Not irony, just another example of why the death penalty is fatally flawed.
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It's like rain on your wedding day - Not even close, unless you've gone from Manchester to Hawaii for your wedding and get the first rain in August for 30 years, while Manchester experiences glorious sunshine, and how likely is that?
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A traffic jam when you're already late - certainly fails the 'unexpected' criterion.
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A no-smoking sign on your cigarette break - more of a life-saver than an irony, that.
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It's like 10,000 spoons when all you need is a knife - Not unless you are in the Acme Knife Factory being approached by a mad axeman and reach behind you for a weapon, only to find that you're in the newly-opened spoon department."

McArthur's Park.

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 nooooo!


Oh nooooooo is right!


az

I think all those things can be put down to "sods law"

<<"Take your seaside arms and write the next line"
('True' - Spandau Ballet)>> (Danny B)


So *that's* what that line was - I could never make it out. Was probably better off not knowing.

Seaside arms?


az

The worst pronounced lyric has to be in REM's "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", where the apparent "Calling Chow Baker", repeated about 150 times, is actually "Call me when you try to wake her up".

I thought he was saying something about Jamaica

Blues Traveler

"Suck it in suck it in suck it in
If you're Rin Tin Tin or Anne Boleyn"

Re Post 22 - I refer you to "Sound of Silence" by Simon and Garfunkel

"Who said I did not know. Silence like a cancer grows"

And the REM and Spandau Ballet lyrics quoted above also solve long-standing mysteries for me, too.

There are lots of silly lyrics floating around on the edge of my consciousness, but I can't think of any to quote here.

The song "To Love a Woman" by Bryan Adams makes me - but that's the whole sentiment of the song, and not just one contrived rhyme.

... how about

And I'm sittin' on the toolbox
And I'm so glad I'm not in school boss

Although, come to think of it, all the words in that song are very cleverly rhymed....

This entire song has some of the gackiest lyrics ever - all of them.

Muskrat Love

Muskrat, muskrat candlelight
Doin' the town and doin' it right
In the evenin'
It's pretty pleasin'

Muskrat Susie, Muskrat Sam
Do the jitterbug out in muskrat land
And they shimmy
And Sammy's so skinny

And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jingin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like muskrat love

Nibbling on bacon, chewin' on cheese
Sammy says to Susie "Honey, would you please be my missus?"
And she say yes
With her kisses

And now he's ticklin' her fancy
Rubbin' her toes
Muzzle to muzzle, now anything goes
As they wriggle, and Sue starts to giggle

And they whirled and they twirled and they tangoed
Singin' and jingin' the jango
Floatin' like the heavens above
It looks like muskrat love

La da da da da ...



Like, what the . . .?


az

Oh - and REM seem to be experts at mispronuciation - I wince every time at "Im-eye-tation of life"

I figured it was Calling Chuck Yeager.

That muskrat song seems on a level with the "badger song".

No way, TC, at least "Badger Bagder Badger MUSHROOMS" is just silly, not gacky.


az

Re: 22 & 30

There's an entire song by Eels called "Cancer for the Cure" (Then again, that's got pretty good lyrics).

And "Ironic" by Alanis Morisette... I'm probably giving whoever wrote the song too much credit, but it always seemed to me as though the fact that *none* of the things described were ironic was the whole point of calling the song "Ironic" in the first place!

How about that old Country song:

"I don't care for colds nor freezes
As long as I got my plastic Jesus
Sittin' on the dashboard of my car"

Maybe this is blasphemous, but the one I really can't stand is 'Anarchy in the UK, by the Sex Pistols'...

"I am an anti-Christ
I am an anarchist"

I know it's a seminal track in the history of British music etc etc hugely influential and so on, but it just hurts me. Sorry.

Re post 30:

That'll be:
"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows."


What about Springstein's:
Yeah he was blinded by the light. cut loose like a deuce
Another runner in the night. blinded by the light
He got down but she never got tight, but he's gonna make it tonight



F

>>I am an anti-Christ
>>I am an anarchist

I would have thought that Christ himself was an anarchist.