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    Probably says more about me than it does the content but that letter from Zappa to Varese really choked me up!
    I’d known about the infamous phone call and that a letter had been written but I’d never read it before.

    Frank has been gone now for so much longer than he was in my life, still drawing breath. I was at ‘peak Zappa’ when he left us and it broke my silly little heart. Reading that letter reminds me why.

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    Depends on how you judge lyrics:


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    ^^^ Never seen the video before, but I've always loved the song as a lovely bit of minimalism.

    Love how he snaps fingers instead of playing the last note of the Casio riff. Making fun of the lipsynching that's going on.
    Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kavus Torabi View Post
    Probably says more about me than it does the content but that letter from Zappa to Varese really choked me up!
    It may be accurate, it might be the real letter Frank sent to Edgard Varese. But it might also be -- knowing the shenanigans ZFT gets up to -- a total BS rewriting/elaboration of what really happened, in order to make little Frankie look more precocious than he really was. We'll never know. To me, it has more than a little whiff of revisionism.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sturgeon's Lawyer View Post
    ^^^ Never seen the video before, but I've always loved the song as a lovely bit of minimalism.

    Love how he snaps fingers instead of playing the last note of the Casio riff. Making fun of the lipsynching that's going on.
    yes, it's brillant.

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    When I say that rhythm is a dancer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeuhlmate View Post
    Depends on how you judge lyrics
    I think we can agree that lyrics that are dumb or silly or nonsensical on purpose are immune from criticism as "the worst lyrics ever."

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    I think we can agree that lyrics that are dumb or silly or nonsensical on purpose are immune from criticism as "the worst lyrics ever."
    Unless (of course) they fail even at that.
    Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rcarlberg View Post
    I think we can agree that lyrics that are dumb or silly or nonsensical on purpose are immune from criticism as "the worst lyrics ever."
    Like "I don't want a pickle...I just want to ride on my motor sickle. And I don't want to die...I just want to ride on my motor cy...cul."?

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    Not worst or Prog, and I like the song, but just realized the lyric to The Kinks’ “Celluloid Heroes” is pretty bad.

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    Intended parody - but 10cc's Worst Band In The World.
    What can this strange device be? When I touch it, it brings forth a sound (2112)

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    Not worst or Prog, and I like the song, but just realized the lyric to The Kinks’ “Celluloid Heroes” is pretty bad.
    What? I love that song and always thought the lyrics were clever.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JKL2000 View Post
    Not worst or Prog, and I like the song, but just realized the lyric to The Kinks’ “Celluloid Heroes” is pretty bad.
    Are you kidding? They're great. Maybe even exceptional.

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    Ted Nugent...not the best lyrist.
    Stranglehold


    Here I come again now baby
    Like a dog in heat
    You tell it's me by the clamor now, baby
    I like to tear up the street


    Now I've been smoking for so long
    You know I'm here to stay
    Got you in a stranglehold baby
    You best get out of the way

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    Sometimes late
    When things are real
    And people share the gift of gab
    Between themselves

    Some are quick
    To take the bait
    And catch the perfect prize
    That waits among the shelves

    But Oz never did give nothing to the Tin Man
    That he didn't, didn't already have
    And 'cause never was the reason for the evening
    Or the tropic of Sir Galahad

    So please believe in me
    When I say I'm spinning 'round, 'round, 'round, 'round
    Smoke glass stained bright colors
    Image going down, down, down, down
    Soapsud green like bubbles


    America "Tin Man"

    The lyrics are bad enough. But the grammar is even worse.
    "The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"

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    Quote Originally Posted by moecurlythanu View Post
    Are you kidding? They're great. Maybe even exceptional.
    Of all the song lyrics that could be singled out as nominations for a "worst" thread, picking that one's a head-scratcher.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Crawford Glissadevil View Post
    Ted Nugent...not the best lyrist.
    Stranglehold
    One of those tunes that's best enjoyed by not paying too close attention to the words.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave (in MA) View Post
    One of those tunes that's best enjoyed by not paying too close attention to the words.
    Yup

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    Even one of the greatest lyricists, Peter Hammill, can stumble. In an otherwise great lyric to "What's it Worth":

    Which way now... climb or coast?
    Will my eggs ever poach?
    I could throw myself in the frying pan
    For the sake of my name

    Even the coast/poach slant rhyme is kinda cringey. Still love the song, but that verse always bugged me. IMO of course.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave (in MA) View Post
    One of those tunes that's best enjoyed by not paying too close attention to the words.
    That's how approach most of Neil Morse's solo output.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zeuhlmate View Post
    Depends on how you judge lyrics:

    I loves me some Trio!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ronmac View Post
    America "Tin Man"

    The lyrics are bad enough. But the grammar is even worse.
    That's true of almost all of America's lyrics. Total gibberish, often with words lugged in for a rhyme, duct-taped together incoherently.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheLoony View Post
    It's hard for me to fathom what the songwriter was going for in this one. Such utter tripe that makes ones head hurt, badly. I suggest never listening to this.

    Here's a guess: This song is similar to "Friday" by Rebecca Black.

    More of that guess: Alison Gold is not really a singer or performer. She's a high-school girl who happens to have a rich dad. And that rich dad bought this song, this recording, and this video as a birthday present for her, from a small-time producer who paid the rent with a side business of putting together packages like this. It was all professionally done, but professionally low-rent. The song was knocked together fast, the video shot in the city park, the extras were friends of Alison and peoples' kids and so forth.

    In fact, notice the guy in the panda costume? The one who takes over in the middle of the song? "Friday" had something similar - a rapper in the middle who seemed to have nothing to do with the rest of the tune. He was the producer Rebecca Black's dad had hired to make that song for Rebecca. To publicize his rap career, he did a cameo in the middle of his own production.

    And I think it might be the same guy.

    So perhaps this isn't just similar to "Friday"; perhaps it's exactly the same thing.

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    In the 1980s the NME paper used to run a column titled 'Bismillah' that featured a lot of toe-curling lyrics.
    Many of which were penned by bands we know and love.
    Making Wikipedia marginally more interesting at:
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCul...PXchSo_vDxtcLg

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    Paul Weller's Style Council's Walls Come Tumbling Down:
    "Until the unity is threatened by
    Those who have and who have not
    Those who are with and those who are without
    And dangle jobs like a donkey's carrot "

    Anyone else ever rhymed 'not' with 'carrot'?

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