jordan@greipa.UUCP (Jordan K. Hubbard) (03/21/85)
Ah, but who could forget the Captain & Tenneils(sp?) "Muskrat Love"?
Or that WINGS song, (I think it's called) "Someone's knockin' on the door"?
I'm almost sure that's not the title, but I think everyone will remember
that one.. Is anyone collecting a summary of these?
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- Tina Turingterryl@tekcrl.UUCP () (03/24/85)
>Ah, but who could forget the Captain & Tenneils(sp?) "Muskrat Love"? Ah, but remember that it was the group "America" who first did "Muskrar love", and I do believe they wrote it, also. >Or that WINGS song, (I think it's called) "Someone's knockin' on the door"? Well, I have to agree with you here that it "isn't very pretty", but my vote for worst song has to be Duran Duran's "Blue Moon on Monday". Actually, I can't stand anything by Duran Duran, but that's the worst!!!!
regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) (03/27/85)
This will make me lots of friends, but the worst song I've heard in recent memory, Emmys, Oscars and whatever-the-music-award-is-called bedamned, is Purple Rain. I mean to say, what stimulating lyrics: Purple Rain, Purple Rain, Purple Rain, Purple Rain. AUUGHGGH AUUAAAUUUGGHGH AUUUGHGHGHGHHH (sp?) Which is not to say that "Push, push in the bush" was poetry, but at least it wasn't pretentious. And I rather liked "Drop-kick me, Jesus, though the goal-posts of life", "I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart" and "I've got tears in my ears from crying in the night over you." They create such an immediate image, which is the function of poetry.
wab@reed.UUCP (William Baker) (04/02/85)
> > And I rather liked "Drop-kick me, Jesus, though the goal-posts of life", > "I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart" and "I've got tears > in my ears from crying in the night over you." They create such an > immediate image, which is the function of poetry. So, creating an immediate image is the function of poetry, is it? What a crock. That is the most glib, shallow, and generally foolish definition of poetry I have ever heard. I won't attempt to try to define it here. After all, scholars have been trying to do so since Aristotle (and probably before) wrote the Poetics. However, it's a cinch that the definition above would be laughed at by anyone. I'll admit that Tennyson would fit that definition, but would E.E. Cummings? How about Blake? I'm sorry that I am commenting in such a pejorative manner. It's just that my literary training rebels at such a comment. Really, I should be used to it by now. Such comments are forever dropping from the lips of tech-heads who know no better. Bill Baker
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