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Lots of fun to be had here, kiddies. The Phoenix has come up with a list of 32 of the worst song lyrics of all time. This could not have been any simple task, but I applaud them for throwing in LFO’s “Summer Girls” (which, by the way, is also available in fantastic sarcastic cover version by yours truly). Actually, you could have thrown all of LFO’s songs in there, as they had to have written then book on bad lyrics. I’m also happy to see Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” make it in there. That song is a pure migraine any time I hear it. One of my own personal additions to the list would have been Billy Joel’s “You’re My Home” from his Piano Man LP. Now, I love Billy, but this song has always made me gag, not just for the cornball faux country nature of the tune, but also for such godawful lyrics as “You’re my castle, you’re my cabin and my instant pleasure dome / I need you in my house ’cause you’re my home”. It’s nice to know Billy got better at writing those love songs.
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I think that Rush lyric they’ve chosen is less to do with Geddy Lee and company than it is to do with Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/stc/Coleridge/poems/Kubla_Khan.html
Agreed. But then again, Billy Joel slsipped that whole “pleasure dome” crap into “You’re My Home.” Maybe they can switch ‘em out!
Xanadu is one huge riff of that poem. Surely there are other Rush songs they could have picked, right? I mean, I love Rush, but some of their lyrics are just silly.
The lyrics to that LFO song are so bad they’re almost funny. But not quite funny. That song was a hit, after all, which shows just how dumb we really are as a whole. But how did they forget Heart’s “All I Wanna Do Is Make Love to You”? Bad, bad, BAD.
“We used to be close but now we ain’t speakin’ / Michael J. Fox was Alex P. Keaton” — Socrates