jon@qusavx.UUCP (Jon Lewis) (11/04/84)
Well, as long as folks are sending in contributions for best lyrics, you have to include virtually everything by the Buffalo Spring- field. That stuff still holds up, rings true, or however you want to put it. As a subcategory of most unintelligible lyrics, how about most mixed metaphors? I dearly love Mark Knopfler but "Tunnel of Love" is overladen with them, e.g. I put my hand upon the lever Said let it rock and let it roll I had the one-armed bandit fever There was an arrow through my heart and my soul. And the big wheel keeps on turnin' . . . 'Course, no one can touch him when it comes to one-armed bandit playing (not of the Las Vegas variety; I suppose the slang is different in Scotland), especially when there's an arrow through his heart and soul, nonetheless . . . And as long as I'm at it, I remember a radio station in Oregon holding a Greatest-Song-Of-All-Time call-in poll several years back. The winner? Nothing by Beethoven, or Lennon, but, get this, "You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" by Leo Sayer. I mean, I don't even consider that music!