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

Those removed posts were mine (yeah, I clicked one time too many). I just said I don't like the lyrics from the U2 song elevation. The whole High-sky-fly-high bit is pretty corny.

Yeah, the lyrics to Elevation didn't make much sense...the song was pretty good though...

"..you drive me crazy, up the wall,
Think you're Mister Know-It-All"



"Follow the leader leader leader..."

"When some loud bragger tries to put me down
and says his school is great
I say 'What's the matter buddy, aint you heard o' my school,
it's number one in the state'
Be true to your school
Like you would to your girl (or guy)..."

"Be true to your school" - The Beach Boys. Possibly the worst song of all time.

"and my dog's been itchin'
itchin' in the kitchin'
once again"

Some Might Say by Oasis. A pretty shocking lyric

The lyrics to Blink-182--The party song. Purely because you can't actually make out the words. It has the longest lyrics of the album yet it is the shortest track.

From the "so bad it's absolute genius" file: The Presidents Of The United States Of America...

"Peaches come from a can,
They were put there by a man."

I thank you.

...in a factory down town.

Top notch stuff there EV

Liam.

"... made him start to shake and cough,
just like that book by Nabakov..."

or some pretentious twaddle like it.

Good point - we haven't rounded on Sting yet.

"When their eloquence escapes you, their logic ties you up and rapes you."

Yyyyyyyyyyeesssss.........

"this doesn't bother me at all,
my rival is neandertal,
he makes me think,
perhaps I need a drink,"

Stiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing (Can't remember song - Seven Days, I think)

"In Septermber 1937 I bough my wife a new electric iron for eight and sixpence. She's still using it every day and it's never needed repair."

Rockaliser Baby = The Bonzo Dog (Doo Dah) Band

If not the worst, possibly the most irrelevant lyric ever.

In fact the song itself is full of them.

"Bessie and I went to Bournemouth on Saturday,
no-one was drownded so we went for a swim.
Spent an hour cleaning oil off the seagulls,
I don't think we'll be going again"

"rapes you?"

sorry, couldn't resist.

Actually, I can just about dump the entire wagonload of Sting lyrics here. But then I just don't like most of them.

And one that bugs me big time, from a grammar school boy too:

"... and in (or is it 'if'?) this everchanging world in which we live in..."

aaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Now maybe I'm turning into an old fuddy-duddy. Or maybe my hearing's going. But I'm astounded that "Our" Kelly's new song gets played so often, without censorship (something about something tasting like honey...)

Is it just here in Foreign-land, where they don't understand it?

And is it not ever so slightly inappropriate that the singer dedicates it to his niece in the opening rap?

*goes off for a nice cup of cocoa and a sit down with a tartan rug*

Who needs censorship anyway, it's not as if nobody knows the words yet, or what they stand for. And what damage could it do, worst case. None. Okay maybe some people would be upset because of the use of the words.

"this everchanging world in which we live in..."

Isn't it "in which we're living"?

Not much better, but at least it's grammatically correct.

See also: Space's "The female of the species is more deadlier than the male."

I thought that was just a dissembling accent, a la Leslie Phillips, "well, hair-lyair".

Since it seems this thread doesn't mind being a bit iconoclastic, my vote goes to...

"If there's a bustle in your hedgerow/
don't be alarmed now
It's just a sprinkling for the may queen."

WOT?

Which reminds me -

"He said 'Captain'!
I said 'Wot?'
He said 'Captain!'
I said 'Wot?'
He said 'Captain!'
I said 'Wot?'
He said 'Captain!'
I said 'What d'you want?'"

???????

H.

There's a German band called Gamma Ray. They used to be quite good, but their last 4 or 5 albums have all been about how nice aliens are. Musically I think they're still OK, but I literally can't listen to them any more because I cringe too much.

I won't paste 4 albums-worth of stuff here. Those with strong constitutions might like to do a Google search for 'Gamma Ray lyrics'.

Gif