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I must be turning into my parents when they bemoaned young popular combo beats and their crazy songs.

Care to share your crazy song lyrics which have no meaning what so ever. Mr Collins and his sussudio springs to mind.

In reply to The Lemming:

Surely greatest of all time is 'I am the walrus' by the Beatles. ?

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

Yeah and what the f are semolina pilchards?

In reply to The Lemming:

I'm sure Tori Amos songs are all deeply meaningful and I'm just too thick to get the layered complexities and need to open my third eye to inner revelations.

But...

Hello Mr. Zebra.
Ran into some confusion with a Mrs. Croc-o-dile-dile-dile.
Furry mussels marching on, she thinks she's Kaiser Wilhelm.
Or a civilized syllabub to blow your mind.

In reply to The Lemming:

Anything by New Order.

Into the valley by the skids can't make head nor tail of any lyric in that song


cheers

Gaz

In reply to The Lemming:

Cocteau Twins. Properly beautiful genuine meaningless nonsense as opposed to obscure, hidden or playful.

In reply to The Lemming:

I'm a wobbly jelly, you're a pink blancmange
I'm a sherry trifle, you're a chocolate sponge
Your dad wears a paper hat, mine inflates balloons
Whoops! Boodly boop! Pop! Here comes a spoon!

In reply to The Lemming:

Surfin Bird by The Trashmen
youtube.com/watch?v=9Gc4QTqslN4&

Some Velvet Morning by Lee Hazlewood/Nancy Sinatra.
youtube.com/watch?v=Sb-SVPJM4L4&

I'd also go with I Am The Walrus.

Gaz I think Into The Valley is about the band's school pals joining the Army due to lack of jobs in Dunfermline... or it may be about the area nearby known as the Valley and the fights there. I think. It's a great song whatever it means.

In reply to The Lemming:

de do do do de da da da

By the Police

In reply to The Lemming:

I heard this sang once by spike... does this count?

On the Ning Nang Nong
Where the Cows go Bong!
and the monkeys all say BOO!
There's a Nong Nang Ning
Where the trees go Ping!
And the tea pots jibber jabber joo.
On the Nong Ning Nang
All the mice go Clang
And you just can't catch 'em when they do!
So its Ning Nang Nong
Cows go Bong!
Nong Nang Ning
Trees go ping
Nong Ning Nang
The mice go Clang
What a noisy place to belong
is the Ning Nang Ning Nang Nong!!

In reply to Gazlynn:


Rubbish. Try Love Vigilantes for starters.

In reply to drmarten:

Agreed mate it is a great song.

It's just the ahoy, ahoy and the la lal la bits I can make out though lol

cheers

Gaz

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:


One interpretation of that follows on from JB Priestley's contention that the Walrus represented capitalists.

So it's about the commercialisation of the Beatles, that's why he corrected himself later to say "here's another clue for you all—the walrus was Paul" because he felt that McCartney was driving the commercial maximisation.

In reply to The Lemming:

"Bohemian Rhapsody"


Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.

Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Anyway the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away.

Mama, ooh,
Didn't mean to make you cry,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.

Too late, my time has come,
Sent shivers down my spine,
Body's aching all the time.
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.

Mama, ooh (anyway the wind blows),
I don't wanna die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very, very frightening me.
(Galileo) Galileo.
(Galileo) Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico.

I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me.
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Never, never let you go
Never let me go, oh.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let me go.)
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here.

(Oh, yeah, oh yeah)

Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me.

Anyway the wind blows.

In reply to The Lemming:

Pretty much everything from "Future of the left".

In reply to Adam Long:


Or Subculture

Then again Crystal includes the line "Love...It's like honey...you can't buy it with money"

In reply to The Lemming:

Blur Song 2.

Got my head checked
By a jumbo jet
It wasn't easy
But nothing is
No

Oasis wasn't scared of a bit of gibberish as well

In reply to Adam Long:


Well said (and while you are it check out Laura Cantrell's cover of it)

In reply to winhill:



That's really interesting. Never heard that before.

In reply to Adam Long & Chris the Tall

"When I walked through the door
My wife she lay upon the floor"

"I like talking in my sleep
When people work so hard
They need what they can keep
A choice that leaves them scarred"


Great Songs don't get me wrong but rubbish lyrics


cheers

Gaz

In reply to Gazlynn:

I think you'd better post some examples of great lyrics then.

To me those are great lyrics in their context. Simple language, powerful message, great songs.

In reply to Adam Long:

Here's a couple of my favorites

"Well my friends are gone and my hair is grey
I ache in the places where I used to play
And I'm crazy for love but I'm not coming on
I'm just paying my rent every day
Oh in the Tower of Song
I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get?
Hank Williams hasn't answered yet
But I hear him coughing all night long
A hundred floors above me
In the Tower of Song"



Girl afraid
where does his intentions lay?
Or does he even have any?

She says:
"He never really looks at me
I give him every opportunity
in the room downstairs
he sat and stared
in the room downstairs
he sat and stared
I'll never make that mistake again!"

Boy afraid
prudence never pays
and everything she wants costs money

"But she doesn't even LIKE me!
and I know because she said so
in the room downstairs
she sat and stared
in the room downstairs
she sat and stared
I'll never make that mistake again!"


cheers

Gaz

In reply to Gazlynn:

Hard to argue with Leonard. Who's the second though, far from convinced it beats New Order?

In reply to Adam Long:

The 2nd is Morrisey (The Smiths)

I suppose it just goes to show how certain songs & lyrics mean a lot more to some people than others.

I remember being that 16 year old boy afraid when that song came out and it has stuck with me for life.

Seems wierd slagging New Order off I love them. It's just that my personal belief that Bernie isn't the greatest lyracist the world has ever seen.

I hope we both continue to enjoy New Order songs

cheers

Gaz

In reply to The Lemming:

Michael Jackson - Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa

In reply to higherclimbingwales:

Michael Jackson - Mama se mama sa ma ma coo sa

Might not make any sense to you, but it made perfect sense to his Chimpanzee Bubbles...

In reply to The Lemming:

A seasoned witch could call you from the depths of your disgrace
And rearrange your liver to the solid mental grace
And achieve it all with music that came quickly from afar
Then taste the fruit of man recorded losing all against the hour

And many more Yes lyrics!

In reply to Gazlynn:

A lot of Leaonard's songs were written under the influence of one of many drugs but they are almost always about something, some one or some experience and he took (takes) a very long time perfecting them.

So they almost always DO mean something.

In reply to The Lemming:

Yes 'roundabout'

I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

The music dance and sing
They make the children really ring
I spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see I'll be there with you

I will remember you
Your silhouette will charge the view
Of distance atmosphere
Call it morning driving thru the sound and even in the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see I'll be there with you

Along the drifting cloud the eagle searching down on the land
Catching the swirling wind the sailor sees the rim of the land
The eagle's dancing wings create as weather spins out of hand

Go closer hold the land feel partly no more than grains of sand
We stand to lose all time a thousand answers by in our hand
Next to your deeper fears we stand surrounded by a million years

I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out
I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
Twenty four before my love and I'll be there

I'll be the roundabout
The words will make you out 'n' out
You spend the day your way
Call it morning driving thru the sound and in and out the valley

In and around the lake
Mountains come out of the sky and they stand there
One mile over we'll be there and we'll see you
Ten true summers we'll be there and laughing too
Twenty four before my love you'll see I'll be there with you

In reply to Gazlynn:

OK, you win, Barney is no match for Len - but who is ? Jacques Brel perhaps, but certainly not Morrissey - vastly overrated IMHO. I think Adam's point is that Barney's lyrics aren't as bad as people try and make out. They convey a sense of alienation/loneliness whilst not being as dark as Curtis or as needy as Morrissey.

In reply to Removed User:

I think you could say that about most songs and songwriters though couldn't you?
I actually think that LC's early stuff is his best. His debut album is in my opinion one of his greatest.

Anyways going off topic sorry

Cheers

Gaz

In reply to Chris the Tall:

I've never rated Barney's lyrics or actually his singing live either to be honest plus maybe I was swayed when I met him in a trendy bar years ago called Dry in Manchester he told me to F*ck off


cheers

Gaz

In reply to Sl@te Head:
Has meaning and isn't gibberish its about a young man who is thinking of killing himself and imagens going to limbo and hell and his family trying to stop him going.

Now whiter shade of pale has odd lyrics

In reply to Gazlynn:

I think Dry was another Factory venture and they were probably losing money on each customer....

In reply to Chris the Tall:

Yes I think you're right Chris


cheers

Gaz

In reply to The Lemming:

Most stuff by Sigur Ros... Not the Icelandic but Volenska stuff which is meant to be deliberate gibberish.

In reply to The Lemming:

The most obvious one relly

youtube.com/watch?v=Nebe1zuEtbc&

ying tong ying tong ying tong ying tong ying tong ying tong ying tong ying tong

In reply to Duncan Bourne:

'tiddle I po'

still have this on a single ( - for our younger viewers that's a 7" vinyl disc with a groove on each side and a hole in the middle. It spins at 45rpm and a stylus picks up vibrations in the groove. Clever alchemy translates the vibrations into music). 'B' side is 'I'm walking backwards for Christmas'.

In reply to The Lemming:

"A spaceman came travelling
On his ship
From afar
It was light years of time
Since his mission did start
[...]"

No it wasn't you moron, it was just years of time. Would you say it takes half a furlong to boil an egg? Boils my p1ss every bloody Christmas that one does

In reply to The Lemming:

A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido

Deep, man.

In reply to The Lemming:

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom!

The original version made complete sense but was far too rude for White folks' sensibilities.

In reply to Hannah S:

Thanks. Never knew that. After all these years, a bit of context and the lyrics become much clearer.

In reply to Bellie:

your welcome, its one we sing in choir and my choir mistress likes to have back story to songs so we think about the words and how to convey them.

In reply to The Lemming:

Nine Cats by Porcupine Tree is one of my favourite songs (especially the acoustic version on the Signify album. Very random but beautiful lyrics.

In reply to Gordon Stainforth:


Yes, but that was deliberately written to be nonsensical, unlike other lyrics on here.

In reply to The Lemming:

Nick Kershaws The Riddle

In reply to The Lemming:

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"

- Bono

In reply to The Lemming:

Near a tree by a river there's a hole in the ground, where an old man of Aran goes around and around...
Everyone thought there was some hidden meaning, but he eventually admitted that he made up a load of tosh for a laugh.

In reply to Gazlynn:

I took my son to see Barney chatting to Dave Haslam at his book launch three weeks ago. He came across as extremely intelligent and sensitive. His lyrics may be bit flaky but the songs are classics. Hooky's book tells the story better, however.

In reply to BnB:

I'm sure he must of mellowed a little (like all of us) since he told me to F*ck Off it was about 25 years ago and I'd had a few


It's a great shame it's ended up them falling out and agree that their songs are classics.

cheers

Gaz

In reply to Gazlynn:

One test of a classic is how subsequent generations react and my son (who knows his modern tunes) names New Order as his favourite band. Singing along to Temptation with him at the Manchester Apollo is as good as parenting will ever get!!

In reply to BnB:

Yes Temptation is on of the best live tracks, I was bouncing around to that in Glasgow O2 a couple of years ago and and you're right it's good to see the younger generation appreciate good bands.


cheers

Gaz

In reply to The Lemming:

Pretty much everything by Echo & the Bunnymen sounds great but means less than nothing. The best example probably being Thorn of Crowns from the peerless Ocean Rain.
'c-c-c-cucumber, c-c-c-cabbage, c-c-c-cauliflower, mama's april showers'.

In reply to The Lemming:

Grroooss!

In reply to The Lemming:

i never really got steely dan's lyrics, but it's all about the tune for me.
love this mashup of 'do it again': youtube.com/watch?v=WdLXF0KDXoo&

In reply to malk:

Surely Cozy Powell has it.
" Nahnahnah nah nah nah"
For silly listen to a Revillos album