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to get disproportionately angry when songs do not make sense

564 replies

WTAF · 14/12/2011 21:44

In the car today, radio on, and they start playing All Around The World by Lisa Stansfield. Instantly I felt the rage creeping up.

'Been around the world and I, I
I can't find my baby,
I don't know why, why he's gone away '

YES YOU FUCKING DO, LISA! Allow me to refer you to your own words, not 30 seconds ago, when you said (and I quote):

'We had a quarrel, and I let myself go
I said so many things, things he didn't know
And I was oh, oh so bad'

And then, and then, LISA, you go on to say

'I did too much lying, wasted too much time'

So you do know, you know exactly why he's gone away, so you should just STFU and concentrate on finding him to apologise. Not singing that bullshit trying to make us feel sorry for you, when clearly it is all YOUR FAULT.

I feel better for that. Anyone else?

OP posts:
LaCiccolina · 16/12/2011 12:36

Never got the song by Police "Ill be watching you" darned f-ing creepy. Friends had it as their wedding song. I had to leave the room....

cuteboots · 16/12/2011 12:38

Can anyone tell me wtf a G6 is ?? And does Slizzard mean pissed? Also Sizzurp is that another word for Alcohol? This song does my head in

Poppin bottles in the ice, like a blizzard
When we drink we do it right gettin slizzard
Sippin sizzurp in my ride, in my ride, like Three 6
Now I'm feelin so fly like a G6
Like a G6, Like a G6
Now now now now now now I'm feelin so fly like a G6
Like a G6, Like a G6
Now now now now now now I'm feelin so fly like a G6

WidowWadman · 16/12/2011 12:51

LaCiccolina People who choose a song about stalking as their wedding song are as stupid, as those who choose "You're gorgeous" by Baby Bird.

Snapespeare · 16/12/2011 12:54

particularly loving the righteous indignation at misheard lyrics. :)

'twisting my mellor refers to David mellor, ex Tory minister who had an affair with Antonia De Sancha, the twisting refers to a dubious sexual practise whilst wearing a chelsea top. Grin

Thumbinnapuddingwitch · 16/12/2011 12:55

WEll blow me, Manatee - I always thought that line was "cause I speak of the properties of love" - never realised it was pompatus - and here is the wiki entry on the word!

LaCiccolina - it took me ages to realise that that Police song was a stalker song; I used to love it because of the double bass playing in it, never crossed my mind how creepy it was until my drummer pointed it out to me one day Xmas Blush - then it instantly became obvious.

washngo · 16/12/2011 13:13

"playing with lightning", ah yes The wanted...that well known saying that you hear all the time.

DeckTheHugeWithBoughsOfManatee · 16/12/2011 13:20

cuteboots Indeed, that's been bothering me recently too Xmas Hmm

Thjumbs - It is indeed the pompatus of love. Whatever that is Xmas Grin

tabulahrasa · 16/12/2011 13:33

Isn't G6 a plane?

waterlego6064 · 16/12/2011 13:51

'Cheese' can also be a particularly strong strain of marijuana. Apparently. Perhaps that was the 'extra cheese' being referred to?

I agree re James Blunt: I too wondered what had become of the plan.

I really dislike this from Blue:
'The decision of the jury has not been spoken
Step in my house you find that your stuff has gone (gone)
But in reality to whom does the stuff belong'

I know it makes sense but I just don't think 'whom' and 'stuff' belong in a sentence together.

FoxyRevenger · 16/12/2011 14:06

WTF is that song that's on Radio 2 every ten minutes...

I'm sitting in the middle of nowhere
Standing here with nothing to do

Well are you sitting or standing, make up YOUR MIND!!!

PenguindreamsofDraco · 16/12/2011 14:15

Can I add my pet peeve of Club Tropicana please. Sorry if someone's already ranted mentioned it.

Chorus: All that's missing is the sea
Verse 2: Watch the waves break on the bay.

Why is the sea missing if there's a bay? Is Club Tropicana so amazing that even the laws of geography are reversed?

Littlepurpleprincess · 16/12/2011 14:16

"Boom Boom Boom,
Even brighter than the
Moon Moon Moon..."

What are you, 5 years old? F- for effort, katie.

dementedma · 16/12/2011 14:47

laughing so much. On the subject of song lyrics dsylexis DD thought some of the lyrics to "We didn't start the fire" were "touble in the sewage (Suez)" and - best one ever - "Belgians do the congo (Belgians in the Congo)"

babybaabaa · 16/12/2011 14:55

"When we collide we come together"

Really? Never knew that.

supermama212 · 16/12/2011 15:29

I love ironic by alanis morriset and hate a majorty of oasis songs wtf do nearly all the lyrics mean?

housemum · 16/12/2011 17:08

Don't think anyone has mentioned the ABC "That Was Then But this Is Now" classic line:

Can't complain, mustn't grumble
Help yourself to another slice of apple crumble
Woah woah yeah

Xmas Hmm

Agree with all posters above about DuranDuran. WTF was Le Bon on about?

Don't say you're easy on me
You're about as easy as a nuclear war

Spandau Ballet weren't much better:

Thank you for coming home
Sorry that the chairs are all wrong
Left them there I could have sworn (how can you rhyme wrong & sworn??)
...
These are our salad days
Slowly being eaten away
just another Play for Today

The 80s was a dire musical decade...

PercyFilth · 16/12/2011 17:14

To the DTKIC haters - I actually think that

Tonight thank God it's them instead of you

is the most powerful line in the song. It's deliberately cynical and intended to tug the guilt strings. Let's be honest, we are thankful when it's not us that bad things happen to.

As for Bob Geldof taking the credit, I thought it was common knowledge that Midge Ure wrote the song, I've always known it.

NonnoMum · 16/12/2011 17:15

Slightly off-track, but DD has misheard a Christmas lyric, but seems to have improved them.

Snow is falling
All around me
Children playing
Having fun

Tis the season
No one understands me
Merry Christmas
Everyone.

Thank you, darling girl. You're growing up just like your mummy.

HedleyLamarr · 16/12/2011 17:47

Lunatic it wasn't Diamond Life, it was Smooth Operator.

Perriwinkle · 16/12/2011 17:56

"I love ironic by alanis morriset and hate a majorty of oasis songs wtf do nearly all the lyrics mean?"

I agree about Oasis. Noel Gallagher is soooo overrated as a lyricist. He's crap.

hackmum · 16/12/2011 19:20

MrsPennyworth: "
"Well tonight thank GOD it's them, instead of you!"

Yeah, we're alright jack! Phew! Thank The lord Jesus Christ it's THOSE people starving and dying and not me!! "

I think that line's intended ironically, though, isn't it? It's meant to make you feel bad that you have a lovely comfortable life and these poor people are starving. Which is another reason I hate it. I don't want to be lectured to by a bunch of sanctimonious rich bastards who spend more in a week than I'll earn in a lifetime.

LunaticFringe · 16/12/2011 19:46

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Hatescolds · 16/12/2011 21:30

Have always been highly irritated by

' This morning at 4.50, I took her rather nifty , down to an incubator, where 30 minutes later, she gave birth to a daughter'

WTF did he take her to an incubator to give birth, has always annoyed me, although I suppose at least he used an instead of a.

mrsarmadillo · 16/12/2011 21:41

The ghost with the fucking piece of toast.
And the evening news is completely random. Am just sad I got beaten to it.

alemci · 16/12/2011 21:54

this Ole House has weird lyrics.

It is all happy and jolly but doesn't the person hang themselves.