To get, some might say, far too irate with song lyrics that Make. No. Logical. Sense *screams with rage*

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Just for example, and it annoys me every time I hear it,

Both Nirvana and Malcolm in the Middle were not big when you were little.

Nirvana was big in the late 80's/early 90's

MitM started in 2000.

Rage

I've got soul but I'm not a soldier.

???

Oh Hall of Fame also makes my eyeball twitch.

You can throw your hands up
You can beat the clock
You can move mountains
You can break rocks

Isn't the last one a prison thing? Who wants to be famous for that ffs

I was born in 1988 and I don't count Nirvana as being big when I was little, in that by the time I was old enough to notice different kinds of music Kurt Cobain had been dead for about four years and none of the stations played Nirvana any more, it was all about the Spice Girls.

There's one which I can't remember but it goes something like "Now we're gonna leave the club by the exit" er, as opposed to the window?

Oh I can't stand that either. You can be a king kong banging on your chest. Why?

"Are we human or are we dancer?"

Er.... neither, you are wankers.

And who can forget:
"I'm serious as cancer
When I say rhythm is a dancer".

hmm

Two sets of lyrics annoy me

Thin Lizzy; Jailbreak - "Tonight there's going to be a Jailbreak, somewhere in this town" - simply because a jailbreak should be at the jail, not somewhere

and Counting Crows; Omaha - "Theres an old man threading his toes through a bucket of rain" - just huh?

Still there are more good than bad, and I still like both songs

I've got soul but I'm not a soldier

Was it Bill Bailey my secret little bearded husband who countered that with "I've got ham but I'm not a hamster"

Take that's "the flood" - WTF is that about?

You should follow @desree_life (parody account obviously) on twitter if you appreciate "Life" by Desree. AMAZING lyrics in the style of the song. It cheers me right up.

OH, and speaking of the killeres - Are we human, or are we dancers?

WHAT?!

"If there's sex in the air I don't care 'bout the smell"
About the what??? Can't be doing with her whingy voice but that annoys me.

And of course - "I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair".
And what next, Sandi Thom? I wish I was a Goth wearing a smiley face T-shirt?

MrsW I was thinking, ooh I've missed that bit where he says sheep, must listen out for it!

It's the rhymes that aren't that hurt me. To take one dreadful New Zealand example,

^Don't treat me bad
Don't you make me sad
Our love could be as deep as the ocean
If you can't be true
I got news for you
Just remember I can be poison.^

In whose fevered brain does /ˈəʊ.ʃən/ rhyme with /ˈpɔɪz(ə)n/?

It's distressing.

That bloody awful jar of hearts song, where the bloke is collecting a jar of them.

I just see some sort of shadowy bloke with a jar full of offal on his desk.

I like sheep beep

Nonsensical lyrics irritate me, but so do lyrics that aren't what I call right!! An example being Bowie's 'Changes' lines "Time may change me, But I can't trace time"

I ALWAYS want it to be "Time may change me, But I can't change time". Bloody Bowie!

Stop saying 'jar', Mimsy.

And the La's, I know it's about shooting up heroin and most of the lyrics make sense in that context but

"There she goes, there she goes again
She calls my name, pulls my train
No-one else could heal my pain"

I suspect, at that point they were just throwing in any word they could rhyme with again

A note to Mumsnet Towers: please enable the IPA (International Pheonetic Alphabet) in posts, lest you risk causing further distress to pedants such as myself.

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The 'Are we human or are we dancers' is taken from Hunter S Thompson who complained that America was raising a generation of dancers - people who just followed the tune and couldn't think for themselves.

I think.

That Robin Thicke song, Blurred Lines

"You wanna hug me
What rhymes with hug me?"

Erm..... Mug me? Certainly not what you're implying (which I believe is fuck me), so go and get a dictionary you illiterate goon

Me not working hard?
Yeah, right! Picture that with a Kodak
Or, better yet, go to Times Square
Take a picture of me with a Kodak

Tonight by pitbull. Crap.

Arf at jar of offal mimsy!

Oh, Vlad - you got there first with that bloody punk rocker with flowers in her hair. The number of shops I've walked out of because it was playing ...

Me and dh were talking about that ipswich and said he might have meant 'tug me'