thoma@reed.UUCP (Ann Muir Thomas) (04/03/85)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Some local group up here in Rajneesh-land did a song called "Shut up, Sheela" about Anand Sheela, the Bhaggie-whan's "right hand" lady who was bantering insults about in the press for a while. It was pretty disgusting. Of the current songs, "Like a Virgin" by Madonna has to be pretty close to the worst. When I was in San Diego recently, the local "new music" station (91X) was playing a remake by The Lords of the New Church. It had basically the same instrumentals, but the vocals were hilarious; the lead singer "dressed up" exactly the same lyrics by making his voice sound ultra-sleazy (come to think of it, Madonna does that pretty well on her own, but this guy sounded like the usual drunken slob...) At Christmas time, 91X was playing an anonymous song with the lines "My girl is red-hot/ Your girl ain't diddley-squat," which sounded like a L.o.t.N.C. song, and it was mighty bad. Ann Muir-Thomas
DBarker%PCO@CISL-SERVICE-MULTICS.ARPA (Deryk Barker) (04/03/85)
Don't think I'd agree that it's even a contender but (and funnily enough
I was singing it to myself this very morning) the song you're searching
for is "Mercedes-Benz" off Janis Joplin's "Pearl". The first verse
(from memory):
"Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz,
My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends
Worked hard all my life, got no help from my friends,
Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz".
There are more verses during which Janis asks for other things including
a colour TV - can't remember them now - I haven't listened to it in
years. Also the song is sung a cappella I think.
"How can a poor man stand such times and live?"
deryk.pitzonka@daemen.UUCP (Bill Pitzonka) (04/26/85)
> Don't think I'd agree that it's even a contender but (and funnily enough > I was singing it to myself this very morning) the song you're searching > for is "Mercedes-Benz" off Janis Joplin's "Pearl". The first verse > (from memory): > > "Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz, > My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends > Worked hard all my life, got no help from my friends, > Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes-Benz". > > There are more verses during which Janis asks for other things including > a colour TV - can't remember them now - I haven't listened to it in > years. Also the song is sung a cappella I think. > > "How can a poor man stand such times and live?" > deryk. *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** Anybody got the words to the second verse which starts (or so it has been stated previously): Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a colour T.V. "Dialing For Dollars" is trying to reach me. etc., etc., etc. Please post them if you have them. Some of us have been looking for these lyrics for a long, long time (at least since they played this particularly bad song on "WKRP in Cincinnati" some years ago).
snewman.pa@XEROX.ARPA (04/29/85)
I THINK "OH LORD WON'T YOU BUY ME. . ." IS A FANTASTIC SONG, prefaced by Janis' comment: "Here's a song of great social and political import." The lyrics for verses two and three are: Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a color t.v. "Dialin' for Dollars" is trying to reach me. I wait for delivery each day until three. Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a color t.v. Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town. I'm countin' on you, Lord, please don't let me down. Prove that you love me, and buy the next round. Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a night on the town.
Anderson@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA (05/26/85)
I swear that I heard a verse of "mercedes benz" that went: Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Cray-1 Compiles right now are certainly no fun I need the speed to get my work done, Oh Lord won't you buy me a Cray-1. Cheers, Jay